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Kayla Jul 2014
I carried you the way you care for a child who scrapped his knees.

I loved you as tenderly as a giant walks through a Forrest of stain glass tree branches.

I fell for you as hard as an atomic bomb hits the head of a needle, only to rest dormant in  anticipation of further destruction.

And some nights, some nights I laid awake gripping the air wishing the game of Russian roulette in my chest would finally end.

Other nights I would sleep so deeply I thought I could sleep through my own death, some nights I wished I did.

And Every morning I would wake up with desolation and longing soaked deep into my sheets.
Kayla Jul 2014
Write poetry with me, and describe the constellations that plague your  tattered, broken  memory.
Kayla May 2014
You're the most enthralling phenomenon since a solar eclipse.
Kayla May 2014
I  don't like the way you treat my body like a cemetery for the things you can no longer feel
  May 2014 Kayla
Lilith Reid Brown
Steal a glance my way,
Darling,
You'll never look too long.

And take my missing sleep,
My love,
It'll only make me strong

You can keep a shirt or two
Love of mine,
Just swipe one from my drawer

Rob me of my books,
My pet,
For I can read no more

Take my ridiculous social constructs,
Baby,
They're useless anyhow.

And you can have my money,
My dear,
Don't pay me back, now.

Steal a kiss or two,
Dear love,
But never kiss and tell.

But never steal my heart,
Lover,
I'll never want it back.
Kayla May 2014
I waited for you.
I waited so long frost kissed the ground.
Tear drops evaporated and fell back rhythmically to the earth.
I waited so long I wrote 36 letters and never mailed a single one.
I waited so long seasons became reasons to wrap hopes fragile neck in the noose you gave me when you left.
But still I waited.
A message to the old me.
  May 2014 Kayla
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I'm still trying to understand the fact that no baby is born hating itself and yet as life goes on people will love you but they might also hurt you or leave you or any number of horrible things, and all you can do is let them leave with pieces of you and try to fill the holes back in with something else or else try to forget that the hole is there (or at least try to forget the person that caused it) and as life goes on all of those holes make us grow in different ways than we were headed (like when people make cuts in trees and manipulate to make them grow knotted together -- people put holes in us and we try to grow around them or away from them) and we just get more and more ****** up each time until there are things we don't like about ourselves and then we expect someone else to love our insecurities when all we do is complain about them and how empty we feel (we're all full of holes) and if someone had just told us to keep loving ourselves from the start and to remember that we're all flawed humans maybe it wouldn't hurt so much when I am lying awake at three in the morning because you didn't text me back when you said you would and I'm starting to see all of the imperfections in my face and my personality and I can't sleep because I'm trying to remember just one reason that I ever thought you could love me.
Sorry, this isn't really a poem, it just kind of started as a thought and then  kept going until I imagined the kind of person who would be thinking about this (if that makes any sense). It's supposed to be a kind of stream of consciousness.
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