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1.5k · Apr 2014
popcorn romance
Rachael Apr 2014
calms your nerves it does

gives you a little sugar when you're sad

it was a popcorn kernel romance
the ugly little kernel
not love at first sight

but then 'BAM' the explosion
full blown, her heart open and exposed

feelings pour out, once in a lifetime
she'll never be the same

he risks burning-
fingers, skin, scorched pulse and bone,
but hey you only live once

because a popcorn will make you happy
a popcorn will make you smile
and hey it may even fill your tummy for a little while




// inspired
1.1k · Sep 2013
Strangers
Rachael Sep 2013
Why are we strangers
When we can be friends

Why do we walk past each other
Both out eyes flickering with recognition
Yet no acknowledgement of any sort is made

Why do I feel like I know you
Then again all that had happened between us
Was simply a moment of acquaintance

A fraction of our time spent together
And then we go our separate ways
If we were strangers
Why would I feel the tinge of sadness

Fix it
Fix that gaping hole between our, our-
What are we again?

Remind me, because It feels so insignificant I seemed to have forgotten.
935 · Aug 2013
Paranoia
Rachael Aug 2013
Every man for himself
We stand alone
It's a game of survival
Survival of the fittest
In this dog-eat-dog world

The people you think you know
The ones whom you really trust
That eating feeling

A feeling tugging
At the base of your blouse

Are they really your friends?

Define it.
Define the term friends.

Because the line between
friends and strangers
is so fuzzy

Clearly defined? No.
Definitely not.

I wonder
Who will really be there for me
When the skies grow gloomy and
Dark clouds overshadow

Will those people we once trust
Stay by us
Forever?

This feeling of doubt
Paranoia

It's consuming me

And I can't do anything about it

I'm falling into a spiral
Of loneliness and depression

Because I can't find the strength
In me
To save myself

I can't
766 · Aug 2013
Help.
Rachael Aug 2013
Desperate pleas
Incessant moans

Where
Can I fit in

The more I cry
The more it seems
People point
Their fingers at me

The clock ticking and
My day is passing
Slowly
Painfully

But

Surely

The moments I dread
The tears I've shed
How is this possible

Numbness
Overwhelms me

Hope is dispersed

It feels
Like a gun to my head
The veins in my fingers
Pulsating
At the trigger

Ending it all
Is this my call?
670 · Aug 2013
Affairs of Magnitude
Rachael Aug 2013
At the ends
The ends of my wits
I am
But lost
Beyond help

The fear of the unknown
I do not know
What I don't know

And the knowledge
I possess
Gripes me

How much
Do I really need to know

What do I do
When everything and everyone points
But the directions

Are random

Assorted in multitudes of angles
The masses of things and the burning fear

Running through my mind
It confuses me

And consumes me whole
Like
A mouse

Walloped
By a snake

A pebble

Swallowed
By the tides

Day and night I think of what and how
To face this problem
The lack of knowledge
And destitute of time

I ain't sure
What the root
Or roots
Of this problem is

I simply know
I'm rooted to this ground
With no escape out

With the exception
Of pure hard work
617 · Aug 2013
Control.
Rachael Aug 2013
Life penetrates us
From our first breath

Life has taken something over
From us all
And we don't ever
Have an option

Feelings

The emotions that
We all experience

Someone. Anyone.
define it

We lose control
The moment we come alive

Hunger pangs kick in,
As well as the thirst, for love
Love from our parents
And our families
Friends.

Out first cry for warmth, for food and air,
As we desperately cling onto something, or someone

As newborns
We have no choice
But to feel something

We cannot force it
The devoid of emotions
Numbness of feelings
It is beyond us

It nurtures us
Into adults with yet
An even greater burning passion
To feel

This essential misery-fies us
An evil good necessity

But why
Can't we embrace it?
582 · Mar 2014
rotting
Rachael Mar 2014
Like leaves falling
People dying
An apple rotting
My life crumbling apart

Struggling not to drown
I pray
It'll all turn around

The minute hand
Round and round
My tears
I'm holding them down

But they fall
And touch the ground
506 · Aug 2013
Absolute.
Rachael Aug 2013
I cannot forgive you
For that very day you pushed me
Over the edge

My fingers wrapped tightly
Around those yellow pills

When you told me
You didn't need me
And you didn't care

The feeling of absolute sadness
Crying in vain

The day you scarred me
I will not forgive

When I am sober
You will see
How much you actually meant to me
399 · Apr 2014
yours
Rachael Apr 2014
your name leaves my lips with a smile
it teases my eyes
making them sparkle
a special gleam, there is

your fingers wrapped around mine
your arm against mine
the silence inbetween
somehow
strange, it doesn't seem

my head on your shoulder
my lip against yours

the moulding is perfect
my heart is now yours
392 · Aug 2013
You are the artist.
Rachael Aug 2013
Burning

I feel it

The passion in me

Unstoppable, an impeccable force
Every second
It tingles in my bones
Runs along my veins

With every thump, of my heart
With every pulse through my arteries

I crave

Dancing

Hair whipping
Feet pointing
Arms swinging
Body twisting
Free twirling

I can feel it

The thirst
The hunger

To dance
Express myself
Through body art
Movements
The only kind of art I understand

Relentlessly hoping
For one day
To be set free

Bounding off
To where I first started
A plain white paper
The times where I was able to be creative
Let my inner feelings flow

And paint
Paint my own story
With my body

And in time

I will look back and appreciate
My chest will swell
Pride

I will have accomplished
more than ever before

Because I know
For one

Passion brings you far
It takes you wherever you want
However you want

Because you are the artist
Of your own life story.
374 · Apr 2014
inhale
Rachael Apr 2014
when you draw near
it's as if
the air thins
and I forget my breathing mechanism

when you draw close
my breath sharpens
shallow inhalation taking over

my pupils dilate
heart accelerates
muscles contract and

my mouth twists into a crooked smile
not too big, to the point
you think I'm overly excited
because of your presence
but not so small
you think
you're nothing to me at all

that's the multitude of the effect
the effect you have on me
pathetic
isn't it

because  all I can do
is hope this incessant feeling fades
before it eats me
from the inside out
325 · Apr 2014
don't
Rachael Apr 2014
don't blame me when I walk away because you didn't treasure me when I was around
don't blame me for telling my friends about what a ****** personality you have when you hurt me because I ain't gonna bottle it up and feel upset over someone like you
don't blame me for being jealous when you hang out with others instead of me because you're the one who made me feel our friendship actually meant something to you at the start
don't blame me when our friendship comes to an end and we become total strangers one day
because you and I both know I've put in my best effort
so don't even try to point your nasty finger at me
274 · Jan 2017
sleepless
Rachael Jan 2017
It ate at her brain

The insomnia incessant

As the minute hand ticked

And the second hand clicked




Try as she might her eyes

Could not shut tight

Thinking of answers to questions which

Made her head and heart hurt




Cancerous overthinking

Perhaps it just might've been

The one that caused

All those sleepless nights

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