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158 · Mar 2020
in the sheets
Ruby Nemo Mar 2020
and with one look,

he stole the youth right from my eyes.
march 2020
158 · Sep 2019
8
Ruby Nemo Sep 2019
8
I'd lose myself forever, for you
if you would never leave
I'd become broken and bruised
if you'd hold me through it
I'd give up my life
to give you another day
Just one day without conflict
A glimpse of an easy life
I'd give up the rest of my days
for you to experience stable happiness
even without me.
september 2019
157 · Oct 2019
Handed Life to You
Ruby Nemo Oct 2019
Eyeballing the past
I can see us, tripping into love
Flowers in my hair
Music in the air
Hunger in your eyes,
We're alive!
October 2019
157 · Sep 2019
departing
Ruby Nemo Sep 2019
how can I make this . . . untrue ?
telling me to find a new boy . . .
but you were a perfectly good one
september 2019
155 · Sep 2019
6
Ruby Nemo Sep 2019
6
still the tongue of possibility slithers its way
into the corners of my lips, but I remember
how you told me to always stay away
be near me, love deeply
if I blow you a kiss, do not catch it
if I tell you I love you, believe me
run away when our time comes to an end, because
someday you will be happy you fled.
september 2019
155 · May 2018
Wigglin' Shapes
Ruby Nemo May 2018
balance in her mind
she's angry all the time

and she won't let him know why
looking through a new eye
same old stimuli

moves her arms in a way
he can't decipher it

blinking more than normal
voice too fast to comprehend it

you call me, you leave me!
my brain disagrees with me!

A deadly duel between love and logic
****** up from the inside out

she says she can reason through the time
sublime, a swine

leave the world that wants you
falling out, throw it up

maybe stealing is a depressant
friends too far to be seen
I'm here, alone and obscene

lock it at home and
fill
your
CUP!
05-11-18
154 · Apr 2021
goosebumps
Ruby Nemo Apr 2021
how do I see?
I'm free,
I'm free,
how shall I proceed?
I'm in deep, I'm in deep
how many letters would you read?
too many apologies
all of my apologies
did you ever really care about me?
let me think,
let me think,
I can't say right now,
I can't ever say.
4.29.21
Ruby Nemo Dec 2019
How terrible a feeling, but I can’t feel those pesky emotions! I have found a way around you devils, a shorter path, a detour. May be the cause of self-destructive behaviors? Please. All I’ve got may not be worth the chase, may be better if I strangled with lace? No, stop those thoughts, because sometimes the emotion knocks so hard that it reverberates into your brain, over and over, all day. It could possess the power to break the shield of your one last chance at your cheat, and then what will you do?
151 · Jan 2020
My dear cannibalistic son
Ruby Nemo Jan 2020
Why am I angry?
(if she's good to you)
You said you'd watch over me
Now I'm watching you watch her
Pulling beauty out of the boring
I'll turn into you, babe
I'll turn into you
I think I broke God's heart
I'm sorry I'm not strong enough to mend it
Get out of your house
Fall back into my arms
I believe that you love me
Why else would you leave?
January 2020
151 · Mar 2018
Come Here
Ruby Nemo Mar 2018
know me before it's late
feet hit the ground, but I feel up high
have you done this before?
this story feels different than the others I have read about
it's simpler
slower
thoughts circling too fast to rationally progress
acting on ambition and curiosity
sort through my heart like a music case
let's pretend we are comfortable
even if enjoyment comes from discomfort
intricate conversations, and I will try hard to concentrate
to digest the moment
like a distant movie that I barely recall
you overrate life, build it up to be more exciting than reality
admiration never felt this harsh
knowingly entering
the night where
futures change because of your delicate voice
I won't ever stop thinking
of the arcade where the last quarter rolled
under the bar, but you took my hand and said
let's walk, let's forget, let's live.
song by Kath Bloom
151 · Sep 2019
Burn Like Hell
Ruby Nemo Sep 2019
Knowing a little bit about a lot
I'm covered in remains
of dust from stars we had captured
Held tightly to my chest,
just something I cannot let go of.
Can't you recall,
the spirit of adventure,
prevalent
Prevalent
In everything you do
We left the memories behind us
but the light still resonates through you

I won't tell you how the sun shines on my skin in the morning
Or make beautiful exaggerations of the whispers of the wind while I'm walking
I won't pretend that every conversation is poem potential
Because since you, words burn like Hell
september 2019
151 · Aug 2019
Good Deeds Follow Goodness
Ruby Nemo Aug 2019
no preference in particular
writing A's into E's
slipping past you with ease
please, gentle lover
I said it in jest!
it's hard to digest, I know, I know.
ride the wave of passion
take me past this disease
force me to make use of my time
help me, I'm crumbling
I don't think I can stand anymore
roll the die, let me die
can't handle your radiant eyes
can't deal with your selfish delusion
I was swimming by myself
you were too scared to join me
can I say I told you so?
is that a lie for a virtuous soul?
because good deeds follow goodness
green trees above the bushes
08-14-19
150 · Jan 2019
As Long As We Stay
Ruby Nemo Jan 2019
someday we will be able to uncover all the hopeless needs of our deeper selves, as one... together, we fall into a sea of curiosity. I don't know for sure what lies underneath, but as long as our hands are intertwined and thoughts aligned, I'll trust. we're living a double life, as innocent and sacred behavior masks the reprehensible scandals. but as long as we stay, keep secrets far away, take this one day by day, together we will pray we can last as long as time.
12-25-18
Ruby Nemo Apr 2021
and to think
on one side, pure infatuation
but more, real love, deep, dark, painful love
genuine care and heart-sinking worry
on another, carefully timed and rehearsed
seducing on the outside, scheming on the inside
with a need to hurt the other person...
4.28.21
148 · Sep 2019
Pride Like A Pill
Ruby Nemo Sep 2019
consistent
embarkment
delusional me
oh, delusion
closed up
refined
taken over, taken away
proportions
taken advantage of
believe in the devil
focus
hurt yourself
underground
taken under your wing
I suffocated there
laugh at me
be delusional
with me

does it go on?
days unnumbered
feelings undiscovered
telling me to refrain
refinement is Hell
design and intell-
igent ones with their hands on their guns
a sucker for mental abuse
an ally to the cuts and bruise
purple cloud of sound
frozen moments
heat of the disease
disaster
swallowing pride like a pill
the millions
the unease that accompanies
inner securities
delighted in your fragmented attention
stung
by a swarm of bees
they whisper pleas
goodbyes
sept. 22, 2019
147 · Aug 2019
Aristotle is my Bitch
Ruby Nemo Aug 2019
Beautiful and Deliberate
Such a faint little hope
Contrary Things
Taken back to infinity
No One Can Be Happy Unwillingly
Applying punishment for ignorance
Living Carelessly
You're pushing me off the deep end.
Vice Of The Soul
Corruptions Of The Body
Beyond a human being
Is where I lie...
Undaunted.
07-31-19
146 · Nov 2018
spooked
Ruby Nemo Nov 2018
wavelengths rehearse their dance for me
a meek and assuming afternoon
no lover has lost their remorse
and no mistress was ever dethroned
absorbed by the power and blindly submitting
so sing to me, let it be me for today
and each day after this
can be swiped from our grasp
but, honey, I'm still so obsessed!
as ashes emerge from a raging hot storm
I inhale and am deliberately consumed
she's no witch, but you'll burn
she's no god, but you won't be absolved
the screech of your voice takes me ten levels deep
love, I fear I can still sketch your face from my brain
each indent and curve, it's permanently burned
into a chamber of connection
a connection never experienced
break the ice, break a woman
lay all your affections to rest.
11-17-2018
145 · May 2019
Fifty sEVEN ->>
Ruby Nemo May 2019
a number             minuses a single! number
matrices in \
                                                          your first year
CRY
with me - in the - bathroom\

nobody asked but she told
t'w'o minutes above this charm, your CharM

a cycle that lasts 172 days

com-mit! you are im-mature!
citing your source among

smarty
                   smart
smart . . .

a shadow that faded to skylines of pink
05-02-19
145 · Feb 2018
Shockwaves
Ruby Nemo Feb 2018
spoken illiteracy through twisted tongues
asinine anticipation within myself
synthesizes her through her sides
sends shockwaves to her chest

hit the floor, screeching adore
offbeat stomps, sync my heart
feeling the beat
singing in my head
clapping away my dreams
welcoming the imp
crimp! crimp! shrimpy swine
electricity without a touch

smells like flickers
eat the blood, sprawled out in awe!
it's wonderful, it's faint
sticking to my tongue like spoiled paint
145 · May 2018
Danger on my Mind
Ruby Nemo May 2018
instead of an armed attack: a small-minded runaway
think "break;" you'll never miss
ready for an action or two
I'm drowning in this pool    without you
abandoned with false intentions
misled by a graceful pretension
stuck in a coma, all efforts to break loose
felt like this a thousand times
05-22-18
Ruby Nemo Jan 2024
reflections of street lamps on the water


the tangled seaweed below this wooden dock


I am comfortable with the distance...


but under the surface, I am lightly holding out for you
2023
144 · Jun 2019
Death Will Bind You To Me
Ruby Nemo Jun 2019
Madness wrapped itself around me
Like twisted branches on a forest tree.
Wind whistles through leaves on a dark Halloween
as my mind falls through hollow bodies.
Hollow bodies are picking at bark -
Pricking their fingers -
Awakening hummers from gentle unrest.

Leave the madness to me,
And a sacrifice will be made,
To the woman who stayed, and
Death will bind you to me.
06-12-19
143 · Feb 2020
ecstasy
Ruby Nemo Feb 2020
come to me,
let our bodies touch each other
under green light and happy haze
like a firework of epiphanies exploding for us

look into my eyes,
and you'll never look away
beg for a small taste
maybe later, I'll say

let the blankets that hug you
wrap around me, too
let the music fill your head
not with worries, drama, apathy
but pretty pictures instead

let your flesh bleed into mine,
like a lover in repose
I'll bathe in your love until I drown
"higher than a *******,
dreaming of you as my lover"
so our song goes

this is exactly where I am supposed to be,
in arms of the people who love me
it's where I was always meant to end up
and it took me this long to realize
feb. 2020
143 · Sep 2019
1
Ruby Nemo Sep 2019
1
I am distracted from sadness,
but it is still there,
always.
I want to be with other people
to take away the physical hurt I feel
from not being with you.
It's a crushing feeling,
feeling you gone.
I don't want it to be like this.
But I also know what I deserve,
and I know you cannot give that to me.
I am not sure that anyone can.
All my life I have been
a hopeless romantic,
always seeing the beautiful sides of things
and ignoring the ugly.
But maybe there's just
too much ugly,
and there's no way I can
avoid or escape it anymore.
I want to be with you,
forever,
even still.
I miss the darkness.
Maybe I am not destined to be happy,
to be satisfied.
I still know that I am meant
to be with you,
and I long for you to be next to me.
I think I should call you.
I think I shouldn't,
I think I will.
september 2019
Ruby Nemo Dec 2019
Lulled to rest in the darkness hiding your treasures
I will make the world obey
Some seven days
Modestly virtuous, but not without illustrious intellect
Take this pouring vessel with eyes still dazed
Fill the vacant place, there
And suddenly, of a free woman comes a bond-slave
Accepting the sickness that must overtake us
Only then
Can these rituals remain
Whether they help or harm
No one knows
november 2019
143 · Jul 2021
where'd you fly to?
Ruby Nemo Jul 2021
my honey, where'd you go?
I never could have known
and might I just say, just one sorry little pry,
would it have been better to lie?
in that faint yellow dress, tassel necklace, look your best
and you rest, shirt is pressed, but your faded green tie...
it reminds me of the greed, that little twinkle in your eye
honey, honey, where'd you go this time?
time again, hone your skills, just to have a good time
drive your car, hands up high
you are looking very sly, my little mystery boy in that sleek black tie...
I'm your girl, hair in curls, plum dress draped along my sides
we never stuttered, we just dove in with closed eyes
you and I, rocking chair silences, we cannot lie to each other
between these honey-flavored cherries and your big blue eyes
honey, honey, where'd you fly to this time?
honey, where'd you go?
7/6/21
143 · Jul 2018
the ultimate challenge
Ruby Nemo Jul 2018
riding high and wondering why
every time you look my way
I'm frozen outside of this hall where you played
it's a mess to be made
and I'm unsure of the way this will go if I try
and rely on your style to keep me off the ground
I'll see you around
maybe next year or next
or the next after that
and while I'm quite skilled
at keeping days short
my life occupied
I'll come back for a ride
nowhere left to turn
you're alone and you heard
me say what I want
is what you want as well
so follow me here
I'll walk you through hell
07-06-18
141 · Feb 2018
(HIS) stages
Ruby Nemo Feb 2018
Stage 1
barely noticed
consumed in habits
all work, some play
he came for pennies, not love.

Stage 2
experiencing a feeling, too hard explaining
mysterious woman
reappearing in the outskirts of his brain
thinking nothing of it

Stage 3
recognizes her stares
acknowledges her interest.
'how can I twist?'
he begins to play the game.

Stage 4
she is a beauty, will give her that
is it worth it? she has a man
wants to chase
but she isn't the one

Stage 5
keeps her hanging
straight answers are foreign
some day, 'I could have her.'
putting himself first
keeping his image
can't fall off this tower now.
140 · Apr 2018
Keep 'Em Low
Ruby Nemo Apr 2018
seize my heart and take the rest away
frazzled on a sunny day
I hope to God you're here to stay
04-23-18
139 · Jul 2019
I Am More Sold Than Bought
Ruby Nemo Jul 2019
I'm working towards numbness
and there's nothing you can do.
Darling, don't you see?
There is nothing you can do.
Nothing to lose.

Their cares are misplaced
and nobody sees it.
How long can I sink,
till I'm nothing at all?

Let's make this a challenge
I'll play this same game.
Wishing my life away
I am wishing my whole life away . . .
Desperate for change
and a new circuit home.
Desperate to change before heart turns to stone.

There's nothing they'll miss,
and no words to stand out.
My dear friend, I've become instant.
A fleeting feeling of well-deserved fame,
gone like a lighter . . .
The fire won't stay.

Secluding myself,
inducing my Hell.
The feeling of touch leaves my hands,
I'm thinking alone,
I'll choose to here stand.
No stories to tell,
and the ends of my skin pull numbness whole through.

There's something in the way you ignore me.
I'm craving a rainbow of thought.
Attention is mildly overrated.
Something tells me I am more sold than bought.

Slowing,
slowing,
your voice kills my soul.
Pretending to listen.
07-16-19
139 · Mar 2019
A Little While
Ruby Nemo Mar 2019
I know I am acting strange
but you asked for all of me
So here I am, in dirt and grit
Do with me what you will
Fulfillment's overrated
and now I'm seeing stars
Disoriented on a train track
I'm working myself to the bone
a war I've already won
Though they see me as weak,
I could do this for hours . . .
I'll staple your notes to the ceiling
Just to fall asleep to you
I'm stealing satisfaction
as you steal your parent's car
for a stolen moment with me
We'll sink too deeply, I don't know why
I'm still so inclined
to leave family behind
Because if you ask me,
Your love is all blind
I laugh when they say bind
No matter what, you'll be forever for me
03-23-19
139 · Mar 2020
to you, to him
Ruby Nemo Mar 2020
thank you for teaching me
that love is not pain
i don't need to hurt
to be close to you

i've spent my time
rebuilding what i thought was mine
and destroying what i've gathered
from you

you waited for me
in anxiety and ease
knowing that the world
would bring us together, if it should

the things i picked up
were hard to erase
the belief that real love felt like
i was never the one who gained

thank you for making me feel
like i am someone, already
march 2020
138 · Feb 2019
Mentor
Ruby Nemo Feb 2019
when the words don't come easy,
an effortless attempt to allow a creative mind to wander,
the minutes drag on, the flavor flies by,
all alone is the woman you wore to the bone
02-25-19
138 · Mar 2021
going out without a fight
Ruby Nemo Mar 2021
I've been a fleeting passerby
an image on the street
a sideways glimpse, no promise
you'll see this face again
I've been a falling leaf
floating far away
without direction, pleads
only to see the light of day
I've been a piece of broken sky
shattered and removed
picked apart, looked through, and
I've been feeling used
I've been an empty storyline
no past to say I've seen it all
no future to realign
3.9.21
138 · Jul 2018
festival uprising
Ruby Nemo Jul 2018
promulgate my spoken justifications
misinterpreting the way of the world
don't force me

creating the shape of you
all along, you cry, you do
I'm in the few
right next to who?
aloud it sounds
you can't undo

another word from all their lips
another slip right off her hips
another dream I've yet to live
it's over. it's over with

missing a hand
missing a face
don't touch me, darling
I'll fall right back
with ease to you
I know I do
I'm in your view
the color blue
taking over you
lonely and sorry
I'm busy now
don't you worry
we'll figure out how.
07-05-18
137 · Aug 2019
Flowering
Ruby Nemo Aug 2019
flowering
came to life on the opposite side of discretion
the air as ashy as before
crawled into skin like a puppet with force
inhabit a mold, show how much you were told
08-12-19
137 · Apr 2018
Circus Show
Ruby Nemo Apr 2018
behind a roadblock standstill
no one I meet could ever fulfill
take your thoughts, your actions, your words
and lay to rest at the foot of God
the future is approaching slowly
I arrive with caution
a wary understanding
and a repeatedly broken heart
this time shall be the last
as ever to gasp for air
above and below, it's a circus show
and I am the center stage.
with eyes glossed over and a malicious intent
goodbye to all the years I've spent
in doubt, in service, in pride
I'll travel alone for this ride.
04-18-18
135 · Jan 2019
blowing o's
Ruby Nemo Jan 2019
careless energy

cautious words

fed up with realism

feed me new life

a stare

seven smiles

tell me I can't write a poem

interpret deception

help me in any way you can

wilting away

as dreams all stay

promise me forever

take me out of this mess

untangle

relieve.
01-16-19
135 · May 2018
Cold Sun
Ruby Nemo May 2018
Take cover, take me with you
Words with actions unmatched
Take me under, take it away
I'll scream until the rise of a new sun
A flowing harmony retracts
Running around, blowing stacks
Spotting her under a different canopy
With eyes unknown
A smile at ease
Killing time to watch it drain away
Underground to childless brains
I'm right where you left me
05-09-18
135 · May 2018
Favorite Delusion
Ruby Nemo May 2018
not your choice, I'm stuck in the middle
is it perfect or is it going to ruin me?
a well known face without a clue
give me those puppy dog eyes, you do
singled out and high above
anyone else you're thinking of

I'm stolen, I am wrecked
under a sheet of electric slurs
one tap with two strokes
heart clenches and I'm at a loss
but I want nothing more than to be yours
bad place, hollow face, mind floating in another space??
too much for me to hold on to

opening one eye at a time
thinking it will all be a dream
but I see you, you're there
and everything is real

it's irreversible, I'm already roped in
recalling memories with a grin.
this could be my favorite delusion
convincing myself that we will work
when I know
we are destined
to fall.
05-27-18
135 · Feb 2018
(HER) stages
Ruby Nemo Feb 2018
Stage 1
eyes land on you
can't afford to fall now
jokes cracked and feelings suctioned
must be a coincidental circumstance.

Stage 2
dreams being occupied.
vulnerable heart.
guilt takes over.
she longs to stop thinking of him.

Stage 3
maybe she looked
maybe she will wonder
but she has love, can't get hooked.
an undercover feeling seems no harm.

Stage 4
whole body pounding
it's real, happening
guilt turned to justification
her eyes find him once more.
once more, she falls.
once more, he is there.
a simple stare
a short word
she wouldn't dare

Stage 5
her time
perfect schemes, a flawless manipulation
optimism consumes her
but the train screeches
trying harder than before
confused
always worked before!
sometimes it hurts to get used
134 · Oct 2019
Is This Too Obvious For You
Ruby Nemo Oct 2019
I wasn't choosing to live in pain
But choosing to experience the most vibrant love possible,
despite the problems I knew would arise
I've never felt more complete
Than when I am beside you
I've never felt a warmth like your body pressed up against mine,
under the covers in the morning after you snuck me into your house the night before
October 2019
134 · Sep 2019
3 Love, to me
Ruby Nemo Sep 2019
Love is no feeling

Not a gradual acceptance of something

Love is a state of being,

a pure form of the human psyche

Not changing, or wary, or broken

Never established nor did it come into being.

And I love you to death,

It will never ripple, never shift.

Love is not warmth,

not ******,
nor selfish,

nor is it active.

It is already within us,

already within me when I found you.

Love can't die out,

Can't tarnish or take away,

Can't hurt and it always stays the same.
september 2019
133 · Feb 2020
faultless form
Ruby Nemo Feb 2020
acknowledging superiority with a peculiar sense of awe
so that you can rest totally in very simple things
cracks are appearing, you're under pressure
with bad humor, you made the deepest mark
jan. 2020
132 · Mar 2018
Hidden in Plain Sight
Ruby Nemo Mar 2018
don't be fooled by the majority
your people are right in front
they're hiding behind
louder voices and
****** languages
the quiet ones really know
take it at face value
if you don't want an answer
when they're called out
that's when
you'll know who's for real
131 · Dec 2019
Sitting Outside the Venue
Ruby Nemo Dec 2019
my lungs hurt when i sing
oh, my lungs burn when i sing
is that a sign?
i think you’ll be able to tell me
the issues that boggle my mind
the cars cant stop me now
and the busses passing by
i found a new way to breathe
11-24-2019
131 · Feb 2019
it's not like that
Ruby Nemo Feb 2019
the world is dark
lay your troubles on me
I'll take them, I promise
no reason to be
so afraid to embark
on a journey so fragile
just listen to me breathe
and I'll nod as you speak
in vulnerable tones
feeling like you've lost
something I can replace.

come to understand
you hold my happiness in your hand
for the rest of my life
eyes locked on a dream
feed me hope, overflow
and I'll give you a break
always making it known
that I'm your buffer for pain
look at me crazy,
I've seen it before
all the fears and dark fantasies
scattered on tile floors

the rhythm of your breath
keeps me awake
I slip into dependency
so save me from your tired temptations
apart however long,
I'll still sing your songs
meet with me in the night
a sweet tangerine
a daydream less understood
by the people who killed us.
they killed our last song

to me, hear me out,
your radiant eyes
holding love like a light
gazing strong into mine
provide a sensible lover,
too kind not to love
sinking too deep to take lightly
we'll fall into forever-care
delusion to them, but
euphoria to you, and a miracle to me.
02-03-19
131 · Aug 2018
sea glasses
Ruby Nemo Aug 2018
missed and dismissed
they're getting too close
digging for kicks
and staring at an empty horizon
but I'm here and I'm calmed
by the snicker of your words
pull back on the blade
scare them away
and laugh at their trade
salty and sinister
another, I need ya
you remind me of something I've had
creating a better first meet
stand up with my hands on the ground
07-31-18
131 · Mar 2018
White Demon
Ruby Nemo Mar 2018
Shockingly bright skin
Black wrinkles and long flowing
Hair, and taking a
Purely unfailing grip on the
Window where I can't rest
I can't seem to be still
Nervous until
His fingers without nails
Eyes without depth
A touch as cold as his every breath
Reaches out to instill fear
Hopeful thoughts until he
Leaves you here
Dream 02-28-18
129 · May 2018
Friendly Reminder:
Ruby Nemo May 2018
you're getting way too excited, you need to ******* chill.
05-23-18
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