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905 · Feb 2014
Please
Please just don't love me.
Don't look past the flaws.
Don't tell me that I deserve better,
Or that you're not my past.
Don't tell me that you think I'm wonderful,
Or look at me with your intoxicating eyes.


Don't look past what I'm telling you.
Please don't see that I'm dying for you to love me.
880 · Jun 2014
Gypsy Soul
She was untamable
Nor did she ever belong to anybody
Her spirit was intoxicating
And flowed through too many people to ever remain in one place
She loved to explore
Moving with the sky
And swaying with the ocean

She was untamable
And all he hoped is that she'd let him tag along as she conquered the world with
Her lion heart
869 · Oct 2015
An Ocean, Blue as Can Be
"Why is the ocean blue?"

I took in a salty breath before I replied.

*Well, wouldn't you be crying all the time if the world expected you to carry all its sadness?
854 · Feb 2017
Shh... Just Kiss Me
It is so much easier for me to let you kiss me
And give you what's temporary

Than lay down my armor
And give you my forever
849 · Feb 2017
Ideal Type
Many men had whispered to her
That she was the kind of woman that men sat around wishing for
That she was the dream type

But as she opened her heart to the love they promised to fill her with
They realized that she didn't need them at all
847 · Jan 2017
"We're Just Friends"
I never thought I'd miss you this much.
---
I'm not allowed to miss you this much.
845 · Jul 2017
All I Ask
This is your last poem my love
You have taken enough of my words and I will now give them to someone else
Eternity will read of you but I no longer love you
I have let you go

So go
Chase your dreams and conquer your demons
Fill your soul with unimaginable joy
We are no longer tied together
I have cut the last string
There is nothing left of us

But if you ever get lost
And look back to the moments in which you loved me
Remember it always as time when you were so tenderly and unconditionally
*Loved
I'm going to uncover you. I'm going to unmask all the things that haunt you. I'm going to unlock your code and when I do, I'll pour out all of your pieces so I can see every last bit of everything you've kept so hidden.*
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See my dear, there is a reason why the moon keeps a part of herself hidden from the gazing eyes. There's a reason why some lovers leave certain words unsaid. There are reasons why some mysteries are better left unsolved.

While they seem hauntingly beautiful, what's hidden there is not beautiful at all; it will ruin you for the rest of your life.
827 · Nov 2016
Silent Warrior
They all knew she was strong
But none of them could really fathom all the strength that had been required of her
To survive what she had
826 · Sep 2017
I Think I've Changed Too
You were a good thing for a wonderful period of time
And then you were a terrible thing for a long period of time

And it was this
Watching you change and our tangled lives slowly unweaving themselves from each other
Which taught me the beginning of the complexities of human beings
10 months later
And people assume that I should be done healing
They forget to ask me how I'm doing
They seem somewhat annoyed when I mention you
And maybe it's because they've never had their hearts broken like this

But I?
I have to start all over everytime a holiday passes and it's the first time I'm not spending it with you
I have to start all over everytime something important happens and I have to remind myself that I can't call you to tell you

Every morning I have to start all over because even my dreams don't know how to let you go
798 · Sep 2015
Blindsided
And that's the worst part
When I wake up and remember what happened
All the memories flood back in
And I'm blinded by the fact that I've lost the most important thing to me

And I don't even know why
This is why you hurt

You lay yourself down as the foundation for people who are too tired to build their own
And wonder how they could’ve  forgotten about you
When they became strong enough to build a house on your bones
And for the first time
Someone wants to experience my mind
Not just the curves that draw eyes

So please
Be patient with me
Because everything that you are
Is so brand new
That I'm actually struggling
Not falling for you
777 · Aug 2015
Sad
Sad
The worst part about sadness
Is it convinces you no one understands your pain
It makes you forget
That sadness is company everybody knows
Very deeply and all too well
777 · May 2015
Black Sheep
I've spent my entire life being uninvited, ignored and never included

But now?
My loneliness is a choice
Because even though they're all begging for my attention

They are the ones who taught to me travel alone
773 · Dec 2016
Unkissed
Sometimes I wish you had left me unkissed
So I could have just spent forever imagining how you taste
The curves of your chest
How special you made me feel when you looked at me

But you did kiss me
And I still feel your fingers tracing my lips
How strong your hands were when they grabbed my hips
There's no imagining it because I felt it all

The scars on my heart prove that I felt it
My broken heart is the only proof I have left of us
770 · Apr 2017
Philosophy of Love
My heart and I have never been in sync

See, my brain has always known me best
It fulfills my desperate need for rational, logical, valid understandings
Any uncomfortable confusion gets swept away through reason

And because of this
I have been able to erase you from my mind
There are no traces left of you in my life
It seems to me
That I seem to be
Happy.
(But the metaphysical definition of "happy" is widely disputed so I'm not sure we even know what it means to be "happy")

But the real problem I keep running into is,
I cannot philosophize you away
My heart has this desperate need to hold onto
What I know makes no sense
You are the essence of all the things I am not good at
And I am the sum of a life you would rather forget




I once read that no true philosopher
Ever lives happily ever after
Instantly I thought of you
And agreed that the saying was true.
757 · Apr 2014
The Rain
Tonight the rain is more relatable
Than any song I know
So I'll let the thunder
Drown out my thoughts
And the lighting
Cushion my demons
753 · Feb 2017
Nasty Woman
I couldn't find a man
Man enough to love me
So instead I became
The man I wanted to marry
752 · Sep 2015
Sexual Tension
I can't tell if this stomach ache is due to the beer we drank
Or the regret that I didn't let you kiss me in that moment when we should've been wrapped up in each other
Men were constantly commenting on how complicated she was
And maybe she was just that complicated
But I wasn't convinced
Because if you listened to her at all
You'd know
That all she ever wanted
Was simply someone to take her
*Dancing
749 · Feb 2016
Whirlwind
She's the kind of girl
Hurricanes are named after
745 · Jun 2014
Untapped Potential
I wonder
How much less lonely we would be
If we didn't have a mindset
"That's all about me"

What if we all took
Just a little more time
To see past others lies

What if we forced each other
To expose ourselves
To be vulnerable

I wonder
How much more beautiful life could be
If we just let honesty
Be our strongest quality
744 · Nov 2016
I Forgive You
In an weird way
I owe you a thank you
Because when you broke my heart
I realized that there are still parts of me
That are soft enough to be broken
And that is a gift not many can give me
736 · Apr 2015
Unyoked
I'm tired of writing about a boy who doesn't even remember he loved me
My body is aching to write some words
That seem to fit together
And make sense
Because there's nothing in this world
That's making any sense right now
Maybe I'm just getting ahead of myself
Or maybe you're just what I've been looking for
719 · Feb 2014
Lingering
The feeling of your fingers still linger
On my chin where you tilted it upwards
To kiss my quivering lips
714 · Mar 2015
Lion Heart
I saw the strongest girl I know crumble to pieces today
I literally watched her body collaspe onto the floor as she buckled beneath the odious weight she had carried for so long
We all watched trembling
We became mute at the sight
No one realized she could ever break
Not even I
You* convinced me to give you a chance
That if I ever changed my mind you'd understand

I still remember the feeling of when you kissed me
I knew that whatever came next
You would be worth it

I felt that feeling every time we kissed
No matter what happened
All you had to do was kiss me and I would fall into the hopelessness of believing you were worth it  

But when I begged you to stay
To work things out
You asked me to accept that you had changed your mind
That our timing was no longer right

But if you kissed me right now
I would believe that you were worth it

*You have always been worth it
701 · Mar 2014
I Guess It's Official
You know you're a poet
When dictionaries
And thesauruses
Bring you more comfort
Than people
698 · Nov 2016
Equality
In all my time loving
I have learned
That men
Need love
Just as much as women
695 · Jan 2017
Maybe
Maybe my life is one of the ones
Dedicated to loving so tempestuously
Only to lose that love
So that my writing may always stay truthful
And my judgment never clouded with the lies of forever
685 · Aug 2017
Tempest
Little thunderstorm
Never worry whether you were too foreword
Or too much
Because this broken world has forgotten what it is like to love and be loved in wholes
It is not your fault that the world hides from you
Most people don't realize the goodness that comes with the tempest that you are
681 · Jan 2017
Last Time
Fine.

If you want simple, easy, and comfortable
Then I will walk away right now.

But you know that we're not made for easy
You and I were made for hard, complicated, and confusing.

I am a fighter
And if you let me I will fight for you
But love has taught me there is no winning someone who's already decided the battle is lost.

So tell me now
Because "goodbye" is said too often when I'm with you.
681 · May 2016
Masochist
Oh how you've humbled me
Before you I believed I was like Hercules
But now
I work desperately to forgive you
So I don't have to lose you
Even though you're the one killing me
680 · Jan 2014
I'm Used to Being Alone
There's something about him
That catches my eye
I don't know what it is
That makes me think about his smile
Every time I close my eyes
But all these feelings
I felt them once before
I'm so used to being alone
I don't think I could remember how to love someone
They way that they deserve
He really is something special
And I hope that he finds someone who will love him truly
With no restraints on their heart
Because even though I love him
I would tear him apart
679 · May 2016
Ruined
You ruined me
Before you,
I handed out kisses like candy
I was detached
Distant
Dispassionate

But you rooted yourself so deep into my heart
That I can't dig you out
And I hear your voice taunting,
"Him? Seriously?"
I see the hair on your neck rise in jealousy
But you don't get to be jealous
Because you left me

But what does matter?
Because I'm still hopelessly in love with all that we were
So if I can't have you
Then I'd rather have nothing at all
What if we run into each other
And you realize you miss me?

What if we run into each other
And you realize that you had made the right choice in leaving me behind?
675 · Feb 2014
Alone In Company
They sat at the big bay windows
Her head resting against it like a pillow
.
He watched her
While she watched the rain
..
He wished for the courage
To grab her hand and take her out to dance
...
She looked over at him
And knowingly smiled at his hopeful glance
....
She looked back to the rain
And slid her hand in his
.....
Because though she loved to dance
He did not know the songs she sung in her head
673 · Mar 2014
You Make Me Believe
Wrapped in your arms
Lying quietly to see all the stars
Your reached down
And kissed my head
And for the first time in years
I felt beautiful
672 · Dec 2013
Broken and Beautiful
"Nothing in this world can be broken and beautiful at the same time. It's either breath-taking or tragic." ...........
*But that is what poetry is. How something heart wrenching can be turned into a lullaby. How being alone can be turned into comfort with the right words. How you have so many cracks but love so fearlessly. There is so much beauty in that, that I cannot help but weep.
670 · Jan 2017
Apothic Red
Tonight
I held my pen
Like I once held you

And while I wept over the loss of you
A smile broke through my tears for all that my poetry had to gain
669 · 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
667 · Aug 2017
I Call Her Mama
Her arms felt like summer grass
And her body was as strong as mountains
She had oceans for eyes
And whispered like the wind

She was Mother Earth
Holding her precious ones close
Trying to show them the beauty of the world
And the grace in letting go
662 · 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
659 · Jan 2014
An Unmistakable Ache
These words that paint the paper
Ache with your memory
...
My body aches for your hands
While your ghost taunts me
659 · Jan 2017
Devilish Fun
They warned me to be careful
They told me I was playing with fire

But they don't know that I can't get burned
Because I am made of embers
The fire is already blazing in me
655 · May 2017
You're It
I am so terribly calculated and impulsive at the same time I am constantly causing my own meltdowns

I'm not sure if patience is a virtue but I am pretty sure good things don't come to those who wait because the early bird gets the worm and there's still movement in slow and steady because you can't win a race if you don't move

My mentality has always been "if you have to think about wanting me then you probably don't deserve me" and I will never wait around for a man to decide whether or not he loves me because he's only wasting both our time



But with you...
Well everything slows down
And the things that I never stop thinking about escape my mind when I sit next to you
And I hate waiting more than anything else in this world
But looking at you and wondering what my hand would feel like in yours and what it would be like to wake up next to you
For the first time in my life
I feel like I found something worth waiting for
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