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julie Aug 2017
you once told me you would care for me,
and hold me close to your heart.
you also told me that you would love me,
like a painter loves his art.
i was careless and foolish, and fell for such pleasures.
slightly unsure of all the unmistakable measures.
clearly, you were lustful and unsatisfied with whom i was;
your true colours, they showed, eventually, through fuss.
we fought, and we fought; i cried, and i wept.
it never mattered to you, and so you snored and you slept.
i felt alone, and i felt unsure,
but my love for you continued to grow.
a flower blossomed within my heart,
but sadly only my tears kept it alive.
within days, the flower slowly wilted;
i felt my life, it kind of shifted.
from seeing the sun when i held your hand,
to feeling a storm destroying my land.
i felt its presence cry out to me,
that my love was pure,
but yours was a poisonous tea.
waiting to slither down my throat, until it reaches my heart,
where it targets every inch and every part.
you truly deflowered what was once so beautiful,
but how can i blame you, when i was the one with the illusion.
my heart break in a few lines.
julie Feb 2017
let me explain to you how my love story went.
it was nothing to brag of, yet something to vent.
i was young, and i was free,
thinking of today, and tomorrow just a dream.
you brought to me sunshine on my brightest days,
filling me with an extreme happiness, all through your ways.
yet, during the storm, you would begin to rage.
questioning why i would act this way at my age.
questioning my maturity, questioning my love,
questioning why i would never put you above.
you saw yourself to be mighty, and worthy,
placing me under your flooding sea.
day by day, sun by rain,
i felt less love, and more so pain.
less kisses, more fights,
more secrets, less sights.
we went from so close to opposite poles,
with our relationship deteriorating by holes.
hello's spoken only at audible measures,
now both dust, and once both treasures.
i seek to understand just where we went wrong,
and if we could together, to ever belong.
julie Feb 2017
who am I?
I am who?*
when asked such a question,
the first thing one may think of
is the place where they were given life,
as culture is linked to identity.
however, it is not the case,
nor does it involve one's namesake.
instead, it focuses on the person
as a whole
their value and their purpose
for this time being
life involuntarily places us
in positions that lead to questioning
the self.
yet,
it is through such inquiries
that we learn to answer this question.
julie Dec 2016
I was in love,
it was first sight.
I was in love,
it felt so right.
I fell for him,
I placed him above.
I fell for him,
nothing but love.
He made me feel,
all these emotions.
Swift feet,
sudden notions.
Words like sugar,
hands so strong.
Eyes like honey,
could it be wrong?
He had sung lullabies,
soft words spoken.
He had sung poetry,
humble yet broken
Baby love, why are you so down?
Baby love, let me hold you now.
I was in love,
but it was all a dream.
Soon enough,
we had reached the seam.
Calls went unanswered,
texts left unspoken.
The days became colder,
I became more broken.
He said, I love you,
he said it to me.
One day, I opened my eyes,
to an empty space, nothing to see.
julie Oct 2016
ideal eyes paralyze my body
scornful lies make me realize my sin
tearful cries stream down the river
unforgettable ties finally break ends.
julie Oct 2016
my sweet, undivided love
has travelled, for endless days and nights on end.
searching for the oasis that lies
between the sky scraping palm trees and the hard-glowing sun.
casting a beautiful, iridescent glow among
the soft rolling sand dunes.

the thirst begins to cause pain within my throat,
causing my body to shut itself out.

running is provocatively appropriate,
due to the desperation of quenching this heavy drought.

I begin to fall on the soft sand, drowning with it,
in the same way I drown with my sorrows.

years after years, my body sore, my body practically nothing,
I find the sky scraping palm trees.

I feel the hard-glowing sun.

yet,
there is no iridescent cast.

the oasis is gone.

and the only thing remaining,
is you.
how you interpret things is way different then how others will.
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