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 Apr 2014 Scott T
Jennifer Martin
It's 3 am and I hear the last trickle of rain fall from my roof
I take another inhale of my last cigarette as I try to force sleep upon my weary mind but I can't
it's churning with memories of the way you caressed my body
I allowed you to trail your fingers over every one of my imperfections because you whispered in my ear that I was breathtakingly beautiful
I can still feel the heat of your breath on my neck and the burning of your fingertips beneath my skin
And I wonder if the girl you're with now is burning alive
You lit me on fire and had the audacity to never put me out
I wish I could save her from your havoc
I hate you
 Apr 2014 Scott T
Willow Grierson
What the hell am I supposed to do?
With you used to be easy,
Meant for two.
Now it gets harder,
As the days drift by
We used to be so close together,
Why did you say goodbye?
She paints a pretty picture
But no one's there to see
She paints her tears on paper
And then she looks at me
I can't help her pain
I don't even try.
I just sit here crying,
As she dies inside.
I'm singing, "Oh, oh, oh"
I can feel her pain
To sacred to even stay
I tried to warn them all
But no one listened to me
They all ignored
While I had the key.
She paints a pretty picture
But no one's there to see
She paints her tears on paper
And then she looks at me
I can't help her pain
I don't even try.
I just sit here crying,
As she dies inside.
I'm singing, "Oh, oh, oh"
I can feel her pa-ain-ain
To scared to even stay
Too sacred to-
Save her life
Stop her tears,
They fell like waterfalls
That no one can hear.
Until they stopped-
She painted a pretty picture
But no one was there to see
She painted her tears on paper
And then she looked at me
I couldn't help her pain
I didn't even try.
I just sit here crying,
While she has gone to die.
Now that she is gone,
I hear her in the wind.
Endless cries of laughter,
Endless days of summer
Endless...days of...
Nothing to live for
Nothing to gain.
Now that she has gone away.
Nothing stays the same.
I paint a pretty picture.
No one's there to see,
I paint my grief on paper,
She cries down to me,
Tells me "Stop!"
As the paper turns red.
I see a figure
All dressed in white,
I see a figure,
Dancing through the night.
They paint a picture
of her and me
They turn around
And it's her I see and she's forgiven me.
Clouds of white
Blue skies below
I am with her.
Forever home.
I'm changing this poem into a song so ignore the minor changes
 Apr 2014 Scott T
Shiennina Marae
I
 Apr 2014 Scott T
Shiennina Marae
I
Imagining the girl frightened
Trembling somewhere up ahead
Talked to her as I went along
Doing my best
Reassuring her I meant no harm
My words came
Slapping back at me in a disorienting echo
She asked me to leave her alone
Finding her comfort in silences
Content with the routines, the usuals
Her holy place, very deceiving
The contrasts she loved
I stepped on her words
Said I cannot bear leaving her on her own
Now that I'm here
She didn't have to be
I gave her all that I had
Answered with only a shake of her head
Telling me she doesn't want me around
 Apr 2014 Scott T
Jessica Leigh
What would you do if I told you that I couldn't look you in the eyes today, not because of your hand on my leg or my tendency to be awkward, but for the fact that I saw your arm and I can't stand the idea that you hate your own skin that much to tear it open and it makes me a hypocrite, I know, but you deserve better than that and you need to get better and you told me that you did it once and you can do it again, but it doesn't seem like there is an effort, and if there is, it means you are worse, and I don't like your arm looking anything like mine and I wish I could take this pain away and I would do anything to convince you to try to stop, and I would be willing to lose everything I have just so you would stop causing yourself harm, or better yet, not feel the need to because if it is still an option, you are just resisting and not living and you need to do that and, no, we are not just put on this world for others because otherwise we wouldn't tear apart our flesh to feel something, anything, because we have trained ourselves not to feel, and I don't want to wait until August or January, because you will have moved on, or I will have, or one of us will be dead or so cut up that we cannot look at each other without weeping and it's funny if you think I can't cry because I have sobbed far too many times over you and the idea that the sickness that lives on me is still inside of you somewhere, and I just want us to be okay, and for us to not lie, and for you to smile and for me to smile back, no matter what, and for me to kiss you without it being insane?
 Apr 2014 Scott T
Meghan O'Neill
Shy girl
Hiding behind
Thick lenses
Dark frames

Shy girl
Hiding behind
Thick books
Long pages

A boy
Across the room
Fruitful glances
Stuttered glances

The boy
Across the room
Likes her back
 Apr 2014 Scott T
betterdays
crisp
 Apr 2014 Scott T
betterdays
the air so,
crisp this morning.
there will be
no early morning swim.

but i will trek to the beach,
to watch the surfers,
young and old.
continue their love affair
with the waves and the wind.
 Apr 2014 Scott T
Sarah
I'm drowning
in a mass of asphalt
blinking lights and broken buildings
Monotone voices, mindless drivers
woken up only by perceived interference
in their trip from point A to point B
The trip they make everyday
a life that rips their cares away
one by one we all fall down
underneath the weight of expectation, obligation
pushed and squeezed into a tight little box
I won't let this be me
I won't let you take every last shred of hope within me
I may be sad, I may be angry
but I will not become the mindless robot
that has multiplied within the bounds of this city
This city cannot take me
It will not eat me alive
 Apr 2014 Scott T
Vivian
I want to come home
to a bottle of red wine
and you
with a jazz record
and a summer breeze.

Breathing is such an amazing thing

When I hear your heart beat, I'm amazed

I think that's funny

Please, let's make salads
and steaks
and walk down the cobblestone
I want to draw our life
 Apr 2014 Scott T
Olivia Kent
A political party.
A chimps tea party.
Balloons and streamers.
Fantasy dreamers.
Stitched up firmly with red tape.
While as the lowly dregs, they ****.
Muppets and puppets, with tangled up strings.
Talk full on *******, 'bout all sorts of things.
Which ones are  the worst?
A political conundrum.
A chamber of Lords, full of bent swords.
Fanfare for the common man?
You'd like to think you flaming can.
Just a bunch of knobs and snobs!
(c) Livvi
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