Savannah Charlish: Poems

Mar 2016 · 278

Foreshadowing

Savannah Charlish Mar 2016

Foreshadowing

I just keep reminding myself that someday it'll get better

It has to get better

One day I'll be better

Mar 2016 · 289

Hush

Savannah Charlish Mar 2016

Hush

If we never talk about it
Then I won't have to realize my greatest fear that

*You don't love me anymore

Mar 2016 · 253

One That Got Away

Savannah Charlish Mar 2016

One That Got Away

I will be the girl
Who'll you'll try to drown in whiskey
But the drunker you get, you'll only miss me more

I will be the lover
Who'll you'll try to erase
With kisses from strangers with pretty faces
But no matter how hard you try to get my taste from your mouth, I will always softly linger on your lips

I will the be the girl
You'll spend forever trying to forget
Who'll make you restless for the rest of your days
Because even the greatest, just won't quite compare

Mar 2016 · 543

Conqueror

Savannah Charlish Mar 2016

Conqueror

Screaming in my head
Are words that repeat over and over again
"You are so worthless"
"You are meant to be alone"
"You are fool for thinking anyone could love you"
"You are so stupid for thinking it would have worked out"
"You are not meant for fairytales"
"Maybe if you were simple and less broken people would stick around"

And I grab onto my heart
Piercing through the skin on my chest
To hear the faintest whisper of exhausted hope
"You are what heroes are made of, you are strong enough to conquer this"

And through eyes blurred with tears
I lift my head up and remind all the voices pounding in my ears
*I am a warrior, I was born to fight

Mar 2016 · 243

Leaving

Savannah Charlish Mar 2016

Leaving

The hardest thing I ever did was leave you

I knew I had to
But to this day,
It's still the only time I've ever doubted my own strength

Mar 2016 · 246

The Other Side

Savannah Charlish Mar 2016

The Other Side

How do you know when it's over?
I've never been on this side before
I've never fallen out of love
I've never been the first to give up

Mar 2016 · 279

The Beginning of the End

Savannah Charlish Mar 2016

The Beginning of the End

And maybe it does happen
Just
Like
That

You wake up and you're not in love anymore

Mar 2016 · 401

I'll Always Love You

Savannah Charlish Mar 2016

I'll Always Love You

As they sat silently next to one another
She delicately slipped her hand into her old lover's

She smiled faintly and let out a small laugh the sounded more like a sigh
*"Funny isn't it? After all this time, you're still the most familiar thing I'll ever know."

Mar 2016 · 1.0k

To Feel So Deeply or Not at All

Savannah Charlish Mar 2016

To Feel So Deeply or Not at All

I envy simple minded people
Ones whose hearts are not drowning in the sorrows of the world

I wonder what it's like to so easily feel joy
How easy it must be to breathe without the whole earth's pain wallowing in their hearts

Mar 2016 · 311

It's Just a Phase

Savannah Charlish Mar 2016

It's Just a Phase

I reread all the letters you wrote to me
And I tell myself that you still feel that way
As I pray that this newfound loneliness will subside
Because I used to be my happiest at your side

Mar 2016 · 604

Acquired Taste

Savannah Charlish Mar 2016

Acquired Taste

You're good with people
Polite and considerate
You filter to save the awkwardness that follows honesty
You're very likable and easy to be around

I'm blunt and too straight forward
I offend a lot of people and quite often
My opinions are matter of fact and I act like I know everything when I don't mean to

It's quite the miracle that you love me
Because most people don't

Feb 2016 · 308

Nevermind Then?

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Nevermind Then?

And it made sad
You didn't want to see the words
That I so delicately crafted
To express the beauty that occurs
When I am entwined with you

Feb 2016 · 614

Refuge

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Refuge

And that's what set you apart from all the other lovers
The fact that for the first time in my life I got to collapse into someone's arms
And I wasn't required to be the
strong, independent, fearless person the world saw

I simply got to unravel, unload
*And breathe

Feb 2016 · 639

Intimidating

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Intimidating

She made it really easy to forget
That behind all her confidence and hardness
Lay a broken heart that had been shattered one too many times

Feb 2016 · 300

Fantasies

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Fantasies

My imagination won tonight
I guess there's no escaping you

Feb 2016 · 276

Tease

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Tease

You'll find me intriguing
You'll find yourself always wondering about me

My eyes will make you think that I already know everything about you
(And I do)
My smile will lie and tell you I'm too innocent to do any harm

I'll make you dizzy with mixed signals
I'll manipulate your lustful desires so you drool at my feet
While I feed you small facts about a tragic past so you can't just be in love with my body

And I'll let you kiss me
Whisper sweet nothings in my ear
I'll hold you close and let our hearts beat in rhythm
And then I'll disappear
You'll wonder forever if I loved you the way you loved me

And the truth is, I did
But I'll never say it out loud

Feb 2016 · 196

Timing

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Timing

We were an inevitable looking for the right timing
An indefinite but not quite yet

Feb 2016 · 709

Whirlwind

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Whirlwind

She's the kind of girl
Hurricanes are named after

Feb 2016 · 279

Fork in the Road

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Fork in the Road

I'm not sure how our story will end

But I'll always be your first
And no matter how hard you try
I will never be washed completely from your skin

No matter what happens to us
I find peace in knowing that
However many women might get the privilege of kissing you after me
You'll still have the faintest taste of me on your lips

Feb 2016 · 301

Lonely

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Lonely

And when I find myself alone

I remind myself that I am dangerous
And fierce
And strong

That I am the accumulation of things that most people don't know how to love

And that is not at all my fault

Feb 2016 · 277

Decisions

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Decisions

I cannot decide which is worse:

The emptiness that love leaves behind
Or the loneliness of never loving again

Feb 2016 · 334

I Can't Let Go

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

I Can't Let Go

You let me see the most wonderful parts of you
And even when that person ceased to exist
I couldn't let go
Because the hope that he might return chained itself around my heart

Feb 2016 · 568

Isn't it Ironic?

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Isn't it Ironic?

I spent my entire life trying to escape
Only to find that my soul finds healing
In the very place I refused to call home

Feb 2016 · 208

You Always Taste Good

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

You Always Taste Good

I feel like I'm repeating the words
Of the bliss I feel when I'm wrapped safely in your arms
But I can't help
Falling in love with the way your fingers entwine with mine
Like it's the first time someone has ever held my hand

Feb 2016 · 219

Excuses

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Excuses

I am not aware your intentions
Only your lack of actions

Feb 2016 · 265

Paradox

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Paradox

How wonderfully tragic
To experience the beauty of a broken soul

Feb 2016 · 246

Dancing with Monsters

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

Dancing with Monsters

Most girls want to be kissed until they feel beautiful
And that's all well and good

But I want to be held so tightly
That I have no need for fear of the dark

Feb 2016 · 242

The Mountain

Savannah Charlish Feb 2016

The Mountain

The air was thin
And my hands were numb

The ground was cold
And the rain clung too tightly to my body

I looked over at you
And for the first time in a very long time

*I felt safe

Jan 2016 · 321

6 Word Story

Savannah Charlish Jan 2016

6 Word Story

The heartbreak
When "Is"
becomes
"Was"

Jan 2016 · 251

Insanity

Savannah Charlish Jan 2016

Insanity

Maybe being this lonely
Isn't a bad thing

Maybe that's what being a poet it all about
The greatest writers were always alone and crazy anyway

Jan 2016 · 247

Tonight

Savannah Charlish Jan 2016

Tonight

I sit alone in the dark
And reminisce the essence of your touch
Feel your whisper across my skin
Let my memory intoxicate me with your smell

I wonder if you're holding another woman tonight
If she notices the softness of your eyes
And gentleness of your touch
The kindness of your kiss

I hold onto the fews pieces of you I still own
"I'll alway's be your first"
I mumble to the emptiness of the room
And the feeling of missing you takes over

Jan 2016 · 322

Hope

Savannah Charlish Jan 2016

Hope

Sometimes poetry can be
Finding the right word
In the worst time

Jan 2016 · 294

Alice

Savannah Charlish Jan 2016

Alice

My mind is worse than wonderland

If you fall in
There's no getting out

Jan 2016 · 261

Internal Conflict

Savannah Charlish Jan 2016

Internal Conflict

Oh restless heart of mine
What must I do
To quench your greedy lips?

Oh anguished soul of mine
What must I do
For you to stop plaguing my helpless mind?

Jan 2016 · 186

Pity Party

Savannah Charlish Jan 2016

Pity Party

Wow you look so shocked
It's as if you expected me to give a ****

Jan 2016 · 582

Terrified

Savannah Charlish Jan 2016

Terrified

My greatest fear
Is becoming a woman that needs a man to survive

My greatest fear
Is that you'll wake up one day and you won't need me anymore

Jan 2016 · 310

Caged

Savannah Charlish Jan 2016

Caged

I am always sad
Even in the moments I am overfilled with joy
I am quickly reminded that it will end
Everyone will go separate directions
And I must try to find a new moment

I am always sad
Like a bird in a cage
Who keeps singing a
beautiful song anyways

Jan 2016 · 312

Romantically Hopeless

Savannah Charlish Jan 2016

Romantically Hopeless

I used to love,
Love
Now I just write about
And the little it left me

Dec 2015 · 292

Exquisite

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

Exquisite

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."*

"But I think you're absolutely exquisite and I tell you all the time."

*"I know."

Dec 2015 · 304

Red

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

Red

I'm often asked
Where my inspiration comes from
And to be frank with you
My writing is simply a lost girl
Trying to grasp onto something steady
In the midst of war
With the blood spilled in battle
I put together words that sound enchanting together

Where the world sees beauty
I just see red

Dec 2015 · 268

Her List

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

Her List

"I've been through worse."* She stated so blankly. "It's not that big of deal."

"He laid his hands on you. It is a big deal."

"Not compared to everything else. On my list, he's one of the kinder ones."

And it hit me, she has seen darkness that I could never understand. There will be pieces of her I'll never know, and that was heartbreaking
all on its own.

Dec 2015 · 340

Begin Again

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

Begin Again

I fell apart
Not in someone's arms
Not because someone broke me
But for me
Because I needed to collapse
To start over again

Dec 2015 · 274

Her

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

Her

You see a girl who is...
Horribly honest
Provocative
Obnoxiously opinionated
Provoking

What you don't see
Is every man who stole my voice
Every person who made me feel small
Every encounter that belittled me
Made me believe I was nothing
That took away something that didn't belong to them
Who made me feel unsafe

I've been burned by countless people
And what you see now
Is who I've built with the ashes
So I will never apologize for who I am
Because I am fearfully and wonderfully
HER

Dec 2015 · 292

Who's Fault Was It?

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

Who's Fault Was It?

You asked if I was scared
I said no
They asked if I was okay
I said yes

But I'm trembling
Because the feeling of your fingers on my neck
Are still burning

Dec 2015 · 326

Childish Dreaming

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

Childish Dreaming

All I ever wanted was for someone to fight for me

You wonder how girls like me get so messed up?
Well it's because the only person who has ever fought for me
Is me
And that fight
Is the most exhausting battle I'll never escape

I push you away to see if you're like all the others
And you are
I was the fool for thinking you weren't

Dec 2015 · 282

Perfect Timing

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

Perfect Timing

I was happy until I met you
And you showed me all the things I never admitted I was missing
And now I'm left just missing you
Cause timing is more of a ***** than karma ever was
And she loves to play with the hopelessly devoted

Dec 2015 · 256

You Know You Can't Forget

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

You Know You Can't Forget

Go ahead
Stand me up
Look at me all smug
You and I both know
You're just bitter with rejection
And it's not that I don't want to love you
We're just not ready yet
But, maybe now?
We never will be

Dec 2015 · 286

Rebound

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

Rebound

Oh , wow
That's seriously who you're rebounding me with?
No wonder we didn't work out

Dec 2015 · 305

War

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

War

I would have been yours
So easily
All I needed
Was for you to fight me
But obviously that was too much to ask
Because now I hardly mention your name
And all I ever hoped for
You ran away with
And you never looked back

Dec 2015 · 271

Words I Never Heard

Savannah Charlish Dec 2015

Words I Never Heard

You whispered so close that your breath tickled my lips

"I'm sorry. I get the feeling that you've had to do things on your own. A lot. And I'm sorry that you've been taught to believe that's the way life works. I'm truly sorry. Because you deserved more."

And that kiss you placed on my cheek?
Still burns as if you were next to me right now