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128 · Apr 2021
it's me
Ruby Nemo Apr 2021
how blind was I to you

I'll say I wanted to be

you saw my color blue

when I thought I was shining

just like a movie on the screen,

my love for you just reflected what I wanted to love in me.

and realizing that,

I'm finally free.
04 . 28 . 21 . time passes slowly, but it heals.
128 · Aug 2018
Ghost Girl
Ruby Nemo Aug 2018
it's torture to remain silent
a pain to restrain what I feel
it's tempting and agonizing, in an attempt to deal
all I want is to speak
and to reach out to you
to create a buffer between this life and that
you blur the lines best
so while you're here,
I'll get this off my chest.
08-30-18
128 · Jan 2019
Let Down
Ruby Nemo Jan 2019
you're always drinking
when I need you
the very most,
I can't get through to you
even in the simplest
of times, reliability
falls short.
01-22-19
128 · Feb 2020
a man of twists and turns
Ruby Nemo Feb 2020
you have this secret life,
I've seen you there.
you do amazing things,
make adventures into memories,
and fantasies into pleasure.
in this little life of yours,
I've wanted to **** you:
to stand at the top of the stairs,
and watch you fall.
these portents are pointless,
and you're my biggest competitor.
february 10, 2020
128 · Mar 2019
Bubble Bound
Ruby Nemo Mar 2019
I wish I felt creative
in a world of rainbow lens
where friends are hard to come by
and promises left on open-end
I wish I had capacity
to choose what's right for me

I'm a catastrophe
and nothing is worth losing you
I wonder if I should even try
because I see the girls who are less than I
successfully catching your eye
2019
127 · Mar 2018
shorty
Ruby Nemo Mar 2018
don't change me cause I'm not looking at you
everyday offers chances that change
but just because I won't take them
sitting back to enjoy the view
or maybe too lazy to try
Ruby Nemo Aug 2020
a confident woman is only perceived as conceited by the insecure.

come with me,
together we'll run out the help

i'll put it all on myself
and we'll suffer long days together

we must make them want to leave
manipulate them into a shameful retreat

it's no coincidence that we coincide
lost in this tunnel of reality
when we'd much rather be
hanging from a tree
no   space   between you and me

there's a recipe for my love
it's not hard to memorize

build me up
let me down
come around,
adjust my crown.
put on some coffee
and take me outside
for our third cigarette break today.
bathe in the shame
until I say it's okay to come out.

when your face turns red,
i'll hold your head
and soften the blows
in a second.

when my brain leaks emotion,
you'll be my distraction
attentive yet reluctant and kind.

accepting the mystery of our own existence
there's nothing to prove
we'll find our own groove
just rest in me,
and i'll always help you
8-1
127 · Mar 2019
Blooms #2 (WIP)
Ruby Nemo Mar 2019
There's a riff that rips at the seams of my memories

Can you hurt yourself to remember

the heaven we gave up on?

Flying high with eyes of green

King of the underground music scene

And me, in the woodwork

Desperate for a darker fix

A flawless fuse, but our love has been shorted.
03-20-19
126 · Jun 2020
An Eight-Ray Moon
Ruby Nemo Jun 2020
caught in a loop
I once was naive
healthy and happy
incapable of being deceived
but how can this world
turn colors and shapes?
how can the earth
seem to be erased?
how can the time
pass without care?
and I wouldn't dare
to keep track.
the questions that **** me
the ones that sting deep
are those of existence
and pressure, and soul
for how can everything that defines me,
the entirety of my soul,
the vastness of my being be confined?
I'm stuck in this body,
I'm no more than a beating heart.
how can I explain that to people?
so I lay here,
under the light of an eight-ray moon,
which glitters and sparkles,
challenging the sun.
i think of the leaves
on the tree in the woods
how they weren't dead, but dying...
not green yet not entirely black...
and it filled me with grief.
why can't this beauty last forever?
why am I contained in this temporary body,
with feelings and problems and false obligations?
wishing the tree's would carry me away
I mourn the temporality of appreciation
eternally
june 3, 2020
126 · Jul 2018
Leave me the fuck alone
Ruby Nemo Jul 2018
waking up to a million people
all dancing around,
begging for my attraction
craving a look
seeking attention.
I try to roll over
to ignore the pestering images
the thoughts that won't leave me to sleep
but as soon as my consciousness decides to break from this waking life
they've found me in my dreams
chase me and taunt
I'd like to be free now
07-11-18
Ruby Nemo May 2019
Today woke me up without my consent
How dreadful is a day over the day before?
How tedious are my thoughts?
My love clutters the lives of the simple
Boys in foreign homes,
And they wish they could unsee me at all.
The travels of man do not matter,
So long as they unravel golden dreams.
A dream made of gold,
Too far out of reach.
My hopes live in the sky.
My heart underground.
05-04-2019
126 · Jun 2020
pills & tabs
Ruby Nemo Jun 2020
i thought maybe the drugs would inspire me
but instead i think i'm just getting dumber
125 · Sep 2019
9
Ruby Nemo Sep 2019
9
And I would choose to suffer with you
than to be healthy with another.
Immersed in the reality of your decay
so long as I can still be your angel.
My heart isn't here,
my heart is with you.
My mind doesn't think,
my brain spins around you.
And I would choose to be darkened
than to light up with joy in your absence.
september 2019
125 · Jun 2018
too much time to waste
Ruby Nemo Jun 2018
what can you do? what can't you say?
when I ask you
but all you do is pray
and leave me here to toss and turn
not alone but feeling hollowed out
I'll pray for a different day
06-29-18
124 · Sep 2019
Willing to Endure
Ruby Nemo Sep 2019
Him
Holding back
From you
Somewhere in the shadow of doubt
Is that dream
I keep dreaming
I'm reminded of it
When I wake up
Not obvious
Enough to draw attention
I assume you'll assume
I'm being drawn
Near to you

You
I wish you were here .  .  .
We could show them
The real way to love
But you're held back
By the curious wonderings
Or maybe,
By me
Don't let me break your burden through

Something about the vision
Of us and the way
I knew it was you
Keeps me dragged on,
Keeps me unwell
All must end,
You're dying out,
My dear
09-03-19
124 · Feb 2018
it's cool as shit
Ruby Nemo Feb 2018
happiness feels immeasurable
days go slowly but us,
we make time speed past
jokes about misfortune
but it's all fun and games
your laughter fills the hall
it fills me up, too
I'd lie and say I don't know you
never a day passes,
car spoken dialogue.
take me there
just so you can
take me back.
every girl is jealous
every guy wants at least one.
but me and you have got something new
equal and dumb all rolled into one
every adult knows, laughter shows
accepting as you are, coming as I am
debating and fabricating
new ideas and old reasoning
I've never had a friend like you
Ruby Nemo Mar 2018
lacking knowledge of what I am here for
being arrested at the foot of someone else's door
124 · Feb 2020
my grace
Ruby Nemo Feb 2020
i sailed the swollen sea in search of a sign
a sign of redemption, of purpose, that the stars have realigned
i want to take everything from you
so that you can only crawl, only beg for freedom from pain
i love you from the deepest parts of me
february 28, 2020
123 · Feb 2018
word processing
Ruby Nemo Feb 2018
rage sounds throughout cottages
killer fists pass by
illusion of wrap-around porches
steps leading the blind

protecting profits
popping out of the armchair's left
morality looks like me

cartesian dances surround their eyes
cursing makes you credible
123 · Sep 2018
Fake Famous
Ruby Nemo Sep 2018
reasonable doubt uplifting my heavy head
a conscience too regulatory
it needs the freedom of a summer's way
reassure me of the death I hold dear

whisper, protect it, erase it, my dear...
to which I hold dear, we aren't stopping here
alone yet conceited, revenge in the air
step soft on this ground as you lighten the eyes
a hidden soul, that no one shall know
dead as a Hollywood lie

as you sing me to sleep I will plot the next step
for future days when you say that you'll stay
but leave it all without a word.

holes in the sky that allow for a dream
to creep out and hover when everything seems
to weigh down the night
don't grab her hand tight
'cause we'll faint and not understand why.
09-12-18
122 · Oct 2020
the secret of you
Ruby Nemo Oct 2020
you don't know this
i've kept it a secret
but i'm still with you,
you just never knew it.
when i'm alone, i dream us together
eyes closed, hands on my face,
holding each other so dearly.
i wish you could hear the music we make
all the duets i've created
oh, how our voices blend together so seamlessly...
i've told you things i'd never reveal
if you were standing in front of me,
if my image of you were real.
i hope you're never lonely,
but if you begin to feel you are,
simply dream me up and hold my hand,
for i am never truly far.
10-15-2020
122 · Feb 2018
me and u, in my dreams
Ruby Nemo Feb 2018
engaging lucidly to keep you with me
waking, working, no thinking
until dark night arrives
opening my consciousness to be with you
122 · Jun 2018
Prison of Princes
Ruby Nemo Jun 2018
to anticipate a short encounter
when a long absence is expected
to silently pray
and patiently wait
when you know it will never happen
a hot headed frontman
corrupting the nights

step into his castle
but ensure that you're sure
'cause once you catch sight
of the demons he hides
and disguises as pleasures
you're ****** in for life
there is no turning back
there is no moving on
because once you step foot
in the jail called a castle
he'll take over your thoughts
'til the very end of time.
06-13-18
122 · Apr 2019
maybe when I'm older
Ruby Nemo Apr 2019
my time is spent in funny ways
my love is spent on solemn Tuesdays
switch my ring, your words still sting
and I'm left to my own devices

you're a color I've never seen before
an act I cannot distinguish
though my love is spent in funny ways
your heart can never hold all of my rage

because what am I to do,
when I wake up with a headache and intent to enjoy
and it's evident in a heartbeat

my violets are withering
my eyes are glazing over
over, begin, what are we to do?
04-10-19.
122 · Jan 2020
The Peak of Fascination
Ruby Nemo Jan 2020
you caught me in the garden of earthly delights
do my words hurt you?
do I make your ears bleed?
well, pleasure is fragile as glass, my friend
cut me, hold me, gut me, woo me

I dreamt before dawn
that I was alive in the drug
and it saddened you
it saddened me, too

a needle through the flesh
just the peak of fascination
January 2020
122 · Oct 2019
Memo 004
Ruby Nemo Oct 2019
Collapse into me and I'll fall down
Beneath you, so you don't hit the ground.
October 2019
Ruby Nemo Mar 2018
you can throw your hands up
I wouldn't care
you can bounce through the hallways
fingers in your hair
I won't look away
rather focus upon
the light leaving the day
why should you care?
your gaze shifts on me
like I should have the answer
upon the seam of my sleeve
you can dance in three colors
I could make it four
but you're in your own world
not a foot on the floor
121 · May 2018
The Typeless Type
Ruby Nemo May 2018
retreat to beat the heat
returning to those who hurt
reliving a past of misery
to escape a future of pain
one more sad feeling to gain
happiness is in the arms of the lover
but to me, focusing my gaze on the corner of a window
in balance, in trust, careful hover
stand back as the payment is made
confusion beyond thought
at a loss, but I'm grounded
locomotion, no emotion
a stare and a laugh, oh please!
only a con... a tease.
05-13-18
121 · May 2018
Desperate Housing Grief
Ruby Nemo May 2018
In the general I am abiding
Recording scenarios of importance
Scheming with the nobles
To hire a switching head
It’s unsafe to continue into tomorrow
Implode before you try
A trial worth a single coin
Flares can’t cause immense pain upon
A swath of amenities foregoing change
Bringing a forceful bond.
Sometime will be worthwhile
Though not today, another mile
Will do to aid in your indoctrination, darling
The experience of a lifetime
Hopeless admiration runs deeply
Seeping into uneducated minds
Representation becomes toxic and all I want is
To see you strive for one more nod
It’s unusual to not want you
But my mind weaves mysterious trails
Through the broken lifetime - reality…
Coding your brain to the desires of a higher party
Dominate the status and ride this new wave
I’ll be stuck in a cave, resolving a memory
You have no influence on me
Boredom overflows from the outside in
I’m sick, I’m disgusted, I am injured within
Let the girl sleep, she’s lost in her dreams
Taking the drive
One image at a time
Making an accidental stop
At the house of your mother
Uneasy like no other
Fighting to be free, run away with me
Or from me, depending on
Desperate grievances that conduct an old light
Of the movement, I am fond.
Tripping on feedback
Hesitant to paint your head black
So sick of the stacks
Piling up on the table, advances unable
Common brainchilds I may lack.
A swampy movie to preoccupy
Tearing everything down
05-01-18
121 · Oct 2020
canopies of insecurities
Ruby Nemo Oct 2020
we were strings of light, glittering and sparkling and blinding the eyes of the ones on the outside
strung up together, side by side
we were gusts of air, breathing the same breath
flying over every beautiful place we could see
we drew faces in the mud
I had so much fun
we were large strokes of blue paint,
swirling around each other until we touched, bleeding into the page as one
we were canopies of insecurities
covering each other and hiding embarrassment
i'm ashamed of what we have become
10-15-2020
Ruby Nemo Jun 2018
get out of his dreams and get off of his phone
stabilized thoughts that are hard to grab hold of
a secret you know he'd like to take back
breaking the rules so he could be your man
not safe at night cause you're in his mind
not safe in the day cause your name will come up, anyway
a glorious estate filled with rubies and pearls
show him you're alone so he can feel at home
I guess it's okay, this life that's forced on him
for when he gets back, you'll be waiting wholeheartedly
not saying he wants you, not saying he can
but he's sick and delusional
bad vibrations, it's personal
can your ghost only leave him alone?
06-20-18
121 · Jul 2019
Paying Dues
Ruby Nemo Jul 2019
frustrating like a man who is smoother than you
I wander through these corridors
looking for a wing

I can picture you in this setting
between an officer and I
quietly sitting

something tells me you've said this before
when all this originality
turns to ash

I'll give you the benefit
if you'll give me incentive
to leave behind my greatest dues
07-01-19
121 · Dec 2019
Harder to Handle
Ruby Nemo Dec 2019
maybe the world will heal when I'm gone
another excuse for my absence
aren't I sick of this constant repression?
where am I supposed to be?
would you come back if you knew I was different?
I can hardly take the pain now
I'll start dealing with the pain
just like I was taught
and maybe soon my name will be forgotten
12-03-19
120 · Jun 2019
I am polluted.
Ruby Nemo Jun 2019
gutting old women and feeding the homeless
stepping in flies to feel the disgust
scalping a man and without second thought,
she devoured his skin and with the money she bought
a considerable amount of paint to be used
on her town, to cover the crimes and abuse
dreams
120 · Mar 2019
I Snooze in Your Arms
Ruby Nemo Mar 2019
which night out would best suppress
the draining, helpless, high unrest?
your word beckons a solemn walk
up to your damning throne.

give the girl the last of you
the hardships that they've put you through
for today's the bitter end
to an endless raining sky.

my heart beats like hurried footsteps
upon a chest of grief,
but when they follow you around
and scurry through your hollow traps.
03-30-19
120 · Apr 2018
Hard Ass, I Ain't No Bitch
Ruby Nemo Apr 2018
soft spoken murmurs slide in
to invoke horror or darling,
a song
to smear untrue stories or to resist
didn't catch that, honey,
creating a face to match an unfamiliar voice
common issues haunt you
a tack in the side, along for the ride
you get it, I get it, let's get up and go
sleeping late and forgetting your tea I promised so long ago
04-26-18
120 · Jul 2019
Visibility is a Luxury
Ruby Nemo Jul 2019
I've been a shadow for too long.
I know all your feelings, the thoughts that you have.
It's time for the day to notice the way
I've lingered and want to be heard.
You're lucky to live in the realm of the real
and dress in the warmest of dregs.
How those ******* are like flowers
and curves like a road,
Oh, I laid with you when you thought you were alone.
I'm your honey, sweet darling
that you've never yet seen.
And I'd die over seven, a million times
Just to feel you, the warmest of skins.
07-02-19
120 · Oct 2019
Spirit Guide
Ruby Nemo Oct 2019
I need to know myself better. It's never known, always a mystery. A manuscript detailing the destruction of the ego. Alive and well. Alive and well. Believe me, I've been there. I've lived in your shoes. That's the life of a variable. A varying entity. You'll never know for sure, that I can promise. This circular reasoning has been driving me mad, and I can't wait to spend an entire night in your arms. More or less, we're stationed in a flawed system of haptics, no desire to break free, no, I never felt the need. Remember when you stabbed me with a sword? And I let it happen, because I thought it was good for you.
October 2019
119 · Jul 2019
Are we alone ? ? ?
Ruby Nemo Jul 2019
I want to find where your happiness grows

familiar stories and trivial sleep

forgetting the feeling of falling too deep

let's soak up the fear that they know what we know

I'll dry all your tears and soften the blows

invited by fire, we're drawn to the heat

attracted to twilight

the dawn blooms in your eyes

eyes dart behind me, but are we alone?

there might be a creeper way, way down below

baby, show me your love, make me weep

show the moon your big horns and the secrets we keep

let's make this a good night

air trapped in blue waters, we flow

never question, we can't miss this fight
2019
119 · Jan 2018
forgotten moments
Ruby Nemo Jan 2018
sass me don't ask me
everything you do I let pass me
every excuse I hear twists me
never returning to you

composing ideas of significance
at least to you, I watched
never nervous but always critical
can hear your small heart pumping

doesn't matter how you treated
my head feels ever heated, constantly
hot heart and a chilled breath
I can't remember any of it
I wouldn't want to
118 · Aug 2018
Unexpected
Ruby Nemo Aug 2018
wrap me in decay
just so I can waste away
in the chill of an embrace
swaddled in forgotten pieces
a memory too gruesome to keep
08-10-18
118 · Sep 2019
Physical Sense
Ruby Nemo Sep 2019
Remember the arguments
I love watching you cry
I've wanted to touch you, oh, I'd never try
Impulse to cause pain, I cannot deny
All these loving chemicals
Recording a slow dive
I bought death at a carnival stand
I cannot wait to die
september 2019
117 · Sep 2020
the stables
Ruby Nemo Sep 2020
that night, we smelled of cigarettes and incense
comfortable in last night's clothes
tied around each other like twine
9-26-20
117 · Feb 2018
curious
Ruby Nemo Feb 2018
whip that head out shape
out of style and comfort
lurking
sneering in halls
on your toes, spirits roam
something on your shoulder?

ratty hair, like a horse tail
standing on my hospital chair
melting her FACE OFF
one attaches, two, eight
any more and you'll be hurled out of this place

sending nightmares to space
bye-bye! come see me again
****** like a castle wall
inside is where they hide
lay on my lap?
THERE's tOO MANY oF THEM

trapped by the web
hiding from the
police in a prison
tears freeze before they hit the floor
you'll be here for eternity or more
more time to BOND!
117 · May 2019
I'm Not Suicidal
Ruby Nemo May 2019
And the sun went cold,
The day you left me alive.

How could you not take me with you?

How could you leave me to fight this alone?

How selfish an act,
To welcome death alone,
In secret.
04-2019
117 · Jan 2019
empty heartache
Ruby Nemo Jan 2019
everyone assures that I don't understand
but I sure as hell miss you
and I am as sure of us as I could be

I'll wait for you forever
until your plan falls through
and we are forced to face the music

I want you, I need you
I am ready for you and all that you carry
our love looks like a masquerade
but feels overwhelmingly real

to where can I turn, when you're roped off from me?
how can my heart hold on, when you're so far away?
keep me close to your every new thought
if it takes too long, love, forget me not
01-10-19
117 · Feb 2018
Fool's Errand
Ruby Nemo Feb 2018
The Eye of Horus taunts
I keep within my walls...
Upon his mistress, he calls
Gory bloodlust haunts.

Secretive sanctions underground
Disguised in white-
Hold me tight-
Every passing brake light...
Keeps her highness spellbound.
116 · May 2019
Men Ripened With Time
Ruby Nemo May 2019
help, this man is oppressing me!
reducing me to a liver-lobe!
love me, a lobe,
like you've loved your own home.
and retract all your selfish impulses!

oh, hopeless irritation,
comfort the soles of these long-burdened feet
and ****** me in the way of a grown!

mind of an eagle, heart of a rat
confine me and wreck me in the midst of your wrath!
one early bird morning, I lightened the load
I gravitate to the older, the bold...

men ripened with time,
stole the youth from his eyes,
allow me to bring you back down...

all bruised up but I love how it looks
reminds me! rebukes me!
a shattered childhood home that consumed me!

and all along I was searching
for a dampened fantasy,
a boy you cannot dream up -
I'm clenching inside 'cause of arrogant eyes!
I'm surprised, oh,
I am so pleasantly surprised.

how would you feel,
if I brought a girl home,
a talented, young, and beautiful lady
with vicious departments and plain suffocation?
she plays the fiddle,
the fiddle plays her,
cries of discomfort muffled by dreams.

the thing that carries the children through days -
are these deadbeat and techno lovey dance tunes,
they fill painful hours of deprecating division!

help a woman!
help a needer!
fend off the crazy,
come to save the block!

I'll prepare for destruction
a semi-mutual destruction
a love worth a dollar, but that's more than I have!

alternative controls, let's delete this black hole.
let's consider confinement in this earth that we stole.

and firetrucks keep passing us,
eager to fade
fade into danger! I will keep you warm.
warm like a fire,

a blazing house fire.
05-29-19
115 · Jun 2018
Doin' Time
Ruby Nemo Jun 2018
tiptoe out of the basement
leave me alone, no question
I have nothing to be sorry for
you're stuck in a locked mind
unsteady and ready to be let free
I never want to see you again
dancing lines twisting into a word...
what does it say? what do I say?

closing her eyes and imagine
a violet hazy sky
approaching a foggy pavement
ears covered but the sounds still scream
beckoning and inviting
sounds so tempting... but
as the road curves, she follows
as the words become unfamiliar
keeping her eyes closed

burn proudly, like a cleanse
fill me up with another sense
found another one, a better one
it's all a set-up
I'd like to take the chance for a time
confused even when aware
not enough for me to bear
Sublime. 06-06-18
114 · Apr 2020
capricorn angels
Ruby Nemo Apr 2020
i can't express in words
what i feel when the sun wakes me up
and i am left in silence, to weep, to be real
i can't think of a good way to say
how i long for an end to each day
to lie in the grass,
cup hot in my hand,
and love far on a whim out at bay
be real to me, darling
i want nothing more
than to sing, to move slowly, to dance in the leaves
something more than a star-glittered floor
and water to bathe in, just warm
i want nothing more than this feeling down deep
in a spot where we keep
the mind-kids, the memories, and every thought lost
secrets leak
4-6-2020
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