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Nov 2014 · 263
Smile
Lydia Nov 2014
I just want to smile for you to see
Every message you send makes me smile
And I wonder if you know that
I feel like I don't say it often enough
I've missed a lot of chances to tell you I love you
And you seem so sad all the time
You don't have to be sad all the time
At least,
Not alone
It seems to be hard for you to understand that you will always have me
You can't break me any worse than anyone else already has
Go ahead and kiss another girl
No matter what you do,
I'm not going anywhere
I've never had someone like you
And maybe you've never had anyone promise to stick around before
But that's me
That's what I'm going to do
I want you to be happy
And I want to see you *smile
Please comment :)
Nov 2014 · 477
Surrender
Lydia Nov 2014
Why is it bad to give up?
People make us feel guilty
About being tired
And torn
And broken
We can't stand anymore.
We can't form words or thoughts
And yet you want us to press on?
On for what?
Where is the light at the end of this tunnel?  
What are we even fighting for?
We all want something simple
Love,
Time,
Or family,
I just want to sleep
So don't you dare call us weak,
Because we don't want to give up but
It's not worth it anymore
We need to do some damage control
We're the casualties of the war that we're the only ones fighting so
Why not surrender?
Please comment :)
Nov 2014 · 208
Untitled
Lydia Nov 2014
I don't understand
I watch the way they talk
And laugh
I don't fit
I won't say that I don't fit in,
Because I don't want to fit in
I don't want to become them
And I really don't like the way they act
Or talk
Or laugh
But I'd still like to be included
Please comment :)
Nov 2014 · 247
Untitled
Lydia Nov 2014
Every part of me pulses with my heart beat
Faster than it should be
Louder
I've been up all night
Listening to it pound
I'm so sick of not sleeping
I'm so tired
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 263
Sometimes I Count
Lydia Oct 2014
The days that we cross paths
The days that you're there when I wake up
The days when I can hear your voice in my head
The days that you say something beautiful:
Sometimes I count them.
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 513
The Speed of Time
Lydia Oct 2014
Time went by so fast when you were here
Right now,
It feels like it should be December
December,
When you left
And time slowed down
I really like the way this flows. Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 1.8k
One More Minute
Lydia Oct 2014
I should have asked you to stay for one more minute
A second to explain your life to me
A second to remember what it was like when you were here
A second to remember what it was like when we were together
A second for your voice to be somewhere other than my head
A second to talk about where you've come from
A second to sit together
A second to hold hands (at least in spirit)
A second to love each other one last time
A second to dream together like we used to
A second to see the whole world, hand in hand
A second to be alone with someone else being there
A second to hear you breathing
A second to cherish forever, if this is our last chance
A second to count the colours in your eyes (They look like little galaxies)
A second to say goodbye, although I'm not very good at it
A second to run down the hall with you, one more time
A second to think about what would have happened if we had stayed together
A second to think about what would have happened if you had stayed
A second to smile at you. I think you might like that
A second to see you smile; I love seeing you smile
A second to sit in the grass together
A second for you to just be there
A second to sing that song that we used to love
A second to look forward to something
A second to hear you breathe
A second to watch the sunset
A second to listen to the birds outside
A second to see you when I turn around
A second to exist with you; we didn't have a lot of time to do that before
A second to watch the snow fall
A second to pick out shapes in the clouds
A second to count the craters on the moon
A second to walk in the rain, and
A second to just feel it
A second to read with you, and
A second to watch you read. I loved watching you read
A second to watch that show together
A second to show you Venus and Mars: we can see them without a telescope
A second to hear you say my name; I hate my name unless it's you saying it
A second to hear your heart beat instead of mine
A second to count the days I've known you for
A second to hear you play the clarinet
A second to watch your hair flop in your face
Can we just stare at each other for a second? A second to stare at each other
A second to show you the tree I used to climb
A second for you to meet my dog (you still haven't, but she still loves you)
A second to write together
A second to show you my old notebooks
A second to show you our old school
A second to show you my new one
A second for you to show me yours
A second for you to tell me about the places you've been
A second for you to tell me everything you've seen
A second to let you know how wonderful you are
Another second to make sure that you will absolutely never, ever forget it
A second to show you that you are not alone anymore, and
A second to prove to you that you will never be alone again, unless you want to be (I will always be here)
A second to wonder where you're going next
A second to wish you weren't going to go again
A second to watch time run out
Can we be together for one more minute?
You know I'd stay with you forever if I could, but
If we just have one more minute...
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 289
The Corner of my Eye
Lydia Oct 2014
I don't want to look up anymore
Because I know you won't be there
I've always known, I guess
But I've always hoped
Because it helped.
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 315
Ease of Mind
Lydia Oct 2014
I haven't been asleep to dream
I want to be asleep,
But I'm not in control anymore
I can listen to the airplanes outside
Or my own heartbeat and watch the stars
Am I always this scared?
Yes.
Why do I forget that?
It's easier not to think about
It's easier not to think how I won't sleep tonight
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 328
Crash and Burn
Lydia Oct 2014
They're different
They tell me I'm tired on days where I'm too frantic to notice
They tell me I'm sad when I'm smiling
Because they know
They dry the tears from my face before I even realize I'm crying
I don't pretend to be happy,
I just don't realize I'm sad.
They let me be angry
And kick and yell
And run myself down
Until it's safe to try and tell me it's alright
It's incredible that they know that
They know when to yell back
Sometimes,
I really need to be yelled at
Sometimes,
I just need to be detached and alone
And so they let me spin out
But they won't let me crash or burn
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 317
Your Name
Lydia Oct 2014
I barely remember the nights when I woke up saying your name
Your name is etched in stone in my head,
And the rock has weathered smooth
I loved the way your name looked when you wrote it
I loved how it felt to write it myself
I barely remember the dreams when I saw your face in my sleep
Where I saw your name in golden letters
Because dreams fade fast,
Just like you, sometimes.
Please comment :)
Lydia Oct 2014
We're all tired but we'll never sleep again
We'll stare at the ceiling and flip through the images of our mistakes in our heads
We'll make up problems to solve
Or think of things that could go wrong
We'll just be mad at people
Or we'll sit there and cry until we pass out at one in the morning
Or until we go to school at seven
We've all broken down before, and all my friends,
I think we're the ones they forgot to fix
Or we're the lost causes
Or maybe we're just invisible
But we're the only people who can resent our own hearts for beating
Our minds for thinking
Our feet for taking another step.
Maybe we strive for invisibility
And fall in love with every second that we aren't seen
Every second that we can't hear our own hearts race
Every second that we don't drown in our own thoughts
The happy thoughts always seemed to go too fast
The peaceful thoughts never seemed to exist
We constantly move and tremor
Even when we're sitting still
We think ourselves to the edge of the earth
And some of us have fallen off
Some of us just keep looking down
But no one is looking forward anymore
I'm sure that we could, if we tried
But we just don't want to anymore

I gave up today.
I stood up and I walked off.
I didn't even look behind myself.
I didn't speak.
I didn't cry.
I gave up,
And I walked off.
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 312
Absolutely
Lydia Oct 2014
You are a wonderful, beautiful thing
I don't know why I was just sitting here thinking about how flawless you are
You are radiant and incredible
And I think about you all the time
It's kind of crazy but right now,
I don't care if you hate me
Because I love you
Because you are so perfect
**Absolutely perfect
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 217
Perfection
Lydia Oct 2014
I've seen all of these people in the hallways at school
Holding hands
And even kissing
And I thought,
"Wow, that could have been us."
But now I think,
"That'll be you and some other girl."

You're still the only perfect person I know.
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 243
One More Minute
Lydia Oct 2014
This wasn't finish but the website won't let me change the privacy or delete it while I'm on my phone  so I will finish it and post it later.
Oct 2014 · 242
Looking Forward
Lydia Oct 2014
I'm slowly building up my life around things to looks forward to
Dreams that are suddenly real
And aspirations I didn't know I had.
Days to live for
I've found so many thing to look forward to,
But why won't you be one of them?
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 205
It's Okay Now
Lydia Oct 2014
I noticed it was midnight
Funny how nothing really penetrated my thoughts until now
Funny how I almost remembered I have a test to study for
And people I should have emailed
It's like when you walk into a room and forget why you're there
Except I've been sitting here for hours, staring at the wall
I'm starting to think you won't come back
And usually, that single thought takes over me
It ruins me and all my other ideas
But today,
It unlocked the box I've been living you
I'm trying to let you be gone
And it's okay,
It's actually okay, right now.
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 180
Would You?
Lydia Oct 2014
Someone laughed at me again today
I think I'll start counting.
I don't quite get it,
I was trying to be serious and get my work done
And they thought it was funny

I know that I don't really get along with the other kids very well
But that doesn't mean they're better than I am,
Does it?
I get better marks than they do.

I know that I'm doing the right thing
I know what will be more important in the future
I know that I should ignore them, but be honest with yourself for a minute.
Would you?
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 368
Let's Write a Love Story
Lydia Oct 2014
I've got this great idea for a love story.
It takes place in far away places
It's a little bit odd
And very complicated
And difficult, to an extreme,
But I love you,
So
**Let's write it together
Please comment :)

And because I know you're reading this, I'm really glad I lied.
Oct 2014 · 287
Expectations
Lydia Oct 2014
I don't expect you to come around anymore
Every morning when I wake up,
It feels like you're a little farther gone
More like a memory-
Or a daydream-
Than an actual person
Now, every night
I wish on those tiny little far-out stars
That you could just talk to me for a second,
Kiss me once
Or hold my hand for a minute
I want to hear you tell me you love me
In your real-live voice
I want to hear you breathe one more time
Once you leave, I'm all alone again
Why did you leave again?
It's getting cold back here,
But you never minded winter
I always forget that you aren't standing next to me.
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 280
Happy
Lydia Oct 2014
Mathew always tells me to do what makes me happy
On days where I'm afraid to step under the rain
Or speak my mind out loud
And coming from everyone else, I would ignore them
But when Mathew says it,
I know that he knows how to be happy.
A lot of us forget to do that sometimes.
To do what we love,
And love what we do.
Please comment :)
Oct 2014 · 235
So Much Fun
Lydia Oct 2014
I can hear my heart pushing blood through my veins
I can't believe you let me talk
I'm scared to fall asleep and face the nightmares
But I won't talk about that.
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 211
Say Something
Lydia Sep 2014
I hang on every word you say so please say something.
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 232
Timing
Lydia Sep 2014
I look at the clock and always think,
"By now, you're already asleep."
Considering you go to school before I wake up,
That's not unreasonable.
I just makes timing a little bit difficult.
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 495
Out of Sight
Lydia Sep 2014
He told me to just be positive about it.
It can't be that bad, it never really is...
I don't know how to be positive when I'm walking away in tears,
I walked out of that room biting my lip so hard it was bleeding.
How could he not see my hands trembling, or hear my broken voice?
Out of sight, out of mind, right?
When I can't see cars, they can't crash into me.
If I can't see the ground, I can't hit it when I jump.
If you can't see me burning, then I must not be.
He's taken a beautifully aimed shot in the dark.
How can I fall so far when I haven't left the ground?
When I walked out of that room, I wished I could run, disappear, anything,
But I couldn't stay there anymore.
I do not endorse suicide in any way, nor am I considering commiting it. In the words of Neil Hilborn, "******* Yourself Without Hurting Anyone; Don't."  

Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 281
Surrender
Lydia Sep 2014
I don't blame you.
I think it was more of a mutual surrender,
And that's okay, isn't it?
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 293
Broken Little Talks
Lydia Sep 2014
Oh how I love our broken little talks
I almost want to mention the great proverbial elephant in the room that we aren't even in together
It's interesting how everything sort of fell apart like a house of cards with one single breath
You were supposed to be the light at the end of my tunnel, but you blew out the candle
And I'm walking down a street that just falls off of the earth
We've all wondered if heaven was real, but you were my heaven when I was with you, and every god was on our side so in the end,
It didn't have to be
And I would tell you again that it's going to be okay, but we both know I'm lying, so
If we're going to be sad, miserable people, can we at least go back to doing it together?
Stating the obvious back and forth isn't what we do because * we are best friends
We were *lovers

But all we have left are these broken little talks
This is one of my favourite things that I have ever written. Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 232
Tell Me You Love Me
Lydia Sep 2014
Can you just tell me you love me?
One more time
Before you leave today
Tell me you love me,
Please
Tell me you love me.
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 166
Untitled
Lydia Sep 2014
Oh how I love our broken little talks
I almost want to mention the great proverbial elephant in the room that we aren't even in together
It's interesting how everything sort of fell apart like a house of cards with one single breath
You were supposed to be the light at the end of my tunnel, but you blew out the candle
And I'm walking down a street that just falls off of the earth
We've all wondered if heaven was real, but you were my heaven when I was with you, and every god was on our side so in the end,
*It didn't have to be
Unfinished,

Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 191
Distance
Lydia Sep 2014
If you showed up tomorrow,
I don't know what I would tell you
You've been gone for a little to long

If you showed up tomorrow,
I probably wouldn't recognize you
You always looked different in the pictures

If you showed up tomorrow,
I might just walk away because
I needed you to show up,
*Yesterday
If you showed up tomorrow,
You wouldn't
Because you're just too **** far away










Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 382
I Really Messed This Up
Lydia Sep 2014
I'll listen to the end of my favorite poem
While I undo my hair
And get ready to sleep
And then it's over
But I do it back up again
Because I'm not ready to go to sleep
I am so afraid of the nightmares and no one will listen anymore
I think I lost some friend today
Three or four
Out of seven
Seven people who I know
But who don't know me
Seven people who I'm not afraid to talk to
Because I don't think I'll ***** it up
But I think I ******* it up today
Why don't you just throw my efforts off a cliff?
I'm not ready to go to sleep and face todays mistakes
I'm not ready to start making mistakes tomorrow
Before most people are even awake
I want you to show up right now so I can apologize and maybe be asleep a few seconds sooner
Maybe I won't sleep at all tonight
Because I don't want to wake up with no friends
I really messed this up.
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 231
I'm Sorry
Lydia Sep 2014
I really messed up today
It's like that nightmare
Where I end up with no friends
Except it's real
And I am terrified
I feel like I'm in a room
And I just did a terrible thing
And everyone is just staring at me
Waiting for me to say something
But instead I just run out of the room
I ran out of a classroom crying the other day
But it wasn't the same
It wasn't this bad
I wasn't this scared
You all keep staring
Would you cut that out?
I don't eve know what I did wrong!
I'm sorry, okay?
I'm sorry!
I'M SORRY!
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 253
Dreams
Lydia Sep 2014
Isn't it funny how we all have the same dreams
At one point or another
As children or adults
We've all wanted to fly
We've all wanted to travel the world
We've all wanted to discover something new
We weren’t born as astronauts
Or rock stars
Or doctors
We were all the same, once
We aren't anymore
But I was looking at a picture today and I realized
Someone else drew my dreams
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 244
I Won't Write for You
Lydia Sep 2014
I don't write you love letters anymore
Remember the back and forth between us?
I hate that that has to end:
I wonder why it had to end
But I won't write you poems
Or loves letters
I won't write for you anymore
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 165
Untitled
Lydia Sep 2014
I don't think that teenagers are supposed to know that the world isn't light as a feather
Not yet
Aren't we supposed to see things through the looking glass?
College is when that image is supposed to fade-
Slowly
Into reality
It isn't supposed to be bitter
And biting
Not yet
We're supposed to have a chance
Or at least to think we do,
Even if we never will
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 285
Thoughts on a Rainy Day
Lydia Sep 2014
I don't miss the cold winter mornings
Walking to school all by myself
I miss the days that smelled of fall
When I knew that you would be there, too
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 216
Whispered Across the Table
Lydia Sep 2014
We told each other things like we were standing in a lighthouse
I told him what I was thinking
And he did the same
It was all very blunt and concise
But I think at some point,
We whispered to each other across a candle lit table
That everything would be alright
And maybe we were lying,
But for a second,
Just a second, everything was okay.
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 191
I Told Him
Lydia Sep 2014
He asked me if talking to him about you made me feel better.
I told him that I didn't know, because I don't know what better feels like.
He told me that it would feel like a weight coming off my shoulders
I told him that I didn't know.
I told him that I think about you all the time
I told him that I write about you
I told him that everything helps a little,
I guess
And I may not know it now,
But maybe it does
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 256
Coming Back Again
Lydia Sep 2014
Because he is the most human person I know
I look at all of these people
Trying to be gods
Or trying to appease them and yet here is
Crossing every line and coming back again
He knows where he stands
He is exactly face value and he knows that
So he embodies it
And it's fascinating
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 229
Listening
Lydia Sep 2014
When I first met him
He told me that I had a lot to say
And that no one would listen
But he would

He pinned me so flawlessly
As if he had thrown a thumbtack at a mosquito wing
I'm not in love with him
Far from it, in fact
But he interests me.
He's the sort of person you only meet once
He doesn't fit into a type
Because he's every kind of different
And I love talking to him
Because I don't already know what he's going to say before he says it
He's got such a ******* up life
But he is one of the best people I know
It's fascinating, really
He could be incredible, if given a better chance
But he isn't
And he doesn't complain
And yet he still lets me talk

When I first met him
He told me that I had a lot to say
And that no one would listen
But he would
And he has never broken that promise.
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 254
Names
Lydia Sep 2014
I love it when he says my name
And not my middle name
I always like my middle name because it was pretty
But he makes my first name sound beautiful
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 266
Why You Left
Lydia Sep 2014
I must be doing something wrong

Because I don't think you hear me whispering
I don't think you see me standing in front of you
I don't think you realize that you're on the wrong side of the window
Or maybe I am,
But I'm screaming for you
And you can't hear me
You keep on staring through me
And I'm slipping down the glass wall
So please break it down
And catch me before I fall
I never got to hold your hand
I still write your name on stick notes because I love the way it looks
I loved you before you left
And I don't know how to not
Because you made me
So
Freaking
Happy
So
Freaking
Happy

And I thought you were happy, too,
On the days that you weren't sad
We both had bad days but I thought we were happy together
Because when I talked to you, my mind was quiet
And I can handle the noise
But I need the quiet,
No one's ever made me feel like that
And you never told me how you could just walk away
I mean, I know life ***** sometimes
But it's easier to handle with you
All the times that you didn't get mad,
And I never forgot
The first time I cried after you left
I just told you that I hated that you were gone.
I sat up alone until midnight
Until I realized why I was crying
I count the minutes in my head and watch the paint peel off the wall
But I'll never understand
Why you left
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 176
Whispers
Lydia Sep 2014
I wonder if you think about me
Because you are always on my mind
And I know we broke up,
But I still wonder what you're doing when you wake up.
I wonder if you think of me
And I've stopped checking to see if you've talked to me
Because I know you haven't
I mean,
It was a pretty clean break
(With razor-sharp edges)
But I don't know what happened.
We were talking on Friday and for a second, I thought it would be okay
But as soon as you were gone, it wasn't anymore,
so please,
I know we're not together anymore,
but *please
talk to me...











Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 222
Nightmares and Daydreams
Lydia Sep 2014
Today,
My nightmares leaked into my daydream
I was so tired,
I don't even know if I was awake
The world was warm and welcoming
Until I could imagine a hand that wasn't there
It isn't real, it isn't real
This is what it's like to want to wake up
When you're not even asleep
Reaching out to something that isn't tangible
Feeling the ghost you saw last night
Nightmares during the day
And when it was finally over,
I sat there,
Terrified to fall asleep again
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 177
Words
Lydia Sep 2014
I hang on every word you say
Even when you say nothing at all
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Sep 2014 · 463
Hiding
Lydia Sep 2014
I've never been very articulate
I talk a lot,
But I say very little
But it doesn't mean I'm hiding
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 1.6k
Willful Hostage
Lydia Sep 2014
I don't know what to think of you,
In all your wild mystery
And insanity
And yet
I'm captivated
Your willful hostage
Staring at your bright eyes when you look away
This is different
Definitely odd
And a little bit off center
But exactly on pointe
Yeah,
I don't know what to think of you
But I am definitely going to find out!
And so it begins...


Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 252
Then and Now
Lydia Sep 2014
I don't know what to tell you,
I mean,
I don't even know what happened
I thought you loved me
And that all you were was perfect
And now it's like you're walking away
All over again
It's like a flash back,
Then and now,
Then and now
Trying to remember all the details
I don't want you to be a memory
I never got to hold your hand
I thought you would be my first kiss,
Someday
Someday
And I don't know if you gave up on me,
I mean,
You wouldn't be the first
And maybe I'm crazy
And it was just too much for you,
I
I know
But,
I thought you didn't love me any less

I want to ask you how your first day of school was, but
I'm not going to
I'm not ready to talk to you,
Not quite yet
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 257
But Now
Lydia Sep 2014
I don't know how to feel about you,
I mean,
I'm not mad, that wouldn't be fair
I don't understand how you loved me on Monday,
But yesterday,
You regretted it
You regret me
And that hurts like hell
The thought that you didn't love me is like a bullet through my heart
And you didn't have to say that
You could have just said that it was over
And it would have ******,
But it would have been okay
I would have been okay
But instead
You
Crushed
Me
And I don't know what to say anymore
I mean,
How do you look your shooter in the eyes?
I can't remember a day that I didn't wake up
And hope for a message from you
I hoped for one today until I realized you left
Every morning
Before I left for school
All the days that you stayed up late, waiting for me to come home
Every night,
I would say something
Just so that you knew I was there for you
We were invincible
And you were incredible
But now,
You're gone.
Please comment :)
Sep 2014 · 701
Close Enough
Lydia Sep 2014
You're the best big brother
That I never got to have
But,
You know,
Close enough.
Please Comment :)
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