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5.4k · Sep 2013
Mermaid.
Sharlie Sep 2013
Feelings  fill my head. Insubstantial like water.
Unspeakable.
Occasionally forming waves. Crashing, submerging my vision.
I am under.  In a warped world.
Yet I breath.
Like a mermaid.
2.5k · Aug 2013
Upsidedown
Sharlie Aug 2013
I always did want to start at the end and work backwards.
Imagine being somewhere and not knowing how or why.
The suspense and mystery would be wonderful.
Would be, it would, altogether better than having the entire world before you.
Wondering where to go.
2.4k · Aug 2013
Candle
Sharlie Aug 2013
Hot and licking.
Clot and pricking
Jubilantly unrehearsed.
But cools. Now a curse.
Waning the soul.
Draining the whole.
Too much a tax.
Is this. This raining wax.
1.9k · Aug 2013
Sailor.
Sharlie Aug 2013
Crying is alright really,
For those who like salt.
Tears are salty.
So is the sea.
We are sailors.
Upon a pond Lilly.
1.1k · Sep 2013
Brainwashed.
Sharlie Sep 2013
It's not polite to be unhappy
We are conditioned to look pleased.
So as not to offend.
The lying unhappy person.
Walking in front of me.
807 · Aug 2013
Empty words
Sharlie Aug 2013
Empty words… Light enough to float far above one’s head.

I watch these words.
Some, the lighter ones, soar. Others drift.

All are meaningless, touching no one.

Always, eventually I forget they are there… accidentally crush them in my palms… for these words are fragile, are made after all, with just the ghost of substance.  

These words, I once despised. Oh, how I despised!
These words, *once upon a time.
699 · Sep 2013
Quite
Sharlie Sep 2013
I've only stopped talking for half an hour.
Already relief from this sour
drone of noise.
619 · Aug 2013
Light
Sharlie Aug 2013
The stars are suspended,
but never in suspense
because by the time
they meet your eyes
They are dead.
591 · Sep 2013
Start.
Sharlie Sep 2013
I always start at the middle.
Skip the beginning,
which is actually,
mostly the end.
Sharlie Sep 2013
You taint words.
My words.
Is there a bigger crime?
But i know
i am egocentric.
So, of course there is
and its not eating bananas
But you know i hate them too.
has too much hate
does an agitated mind.
550 · Sep 2013
What i never wanted
Sharlie Sep 2013
I never wanted to write angsty things.
But i don't find it humorous, or even beautiful
The way i used to.
Love is a verb.
And you obviously don't give a ****.
I delete you, your poisonous presence.
536 · Sep 2013
The Goodbye
Sharlie Sep 2013
A face flows with sadness.
I am powerless to the force.

The sadness disappears.
Briefly, I am lifted, held close
Like a rag doll, swung around.
All is as it should be.

Gently, I am placed back down.
I know that it was all a Goodbye.
I do not need or want to know why.

Though but a dream
This vision in equal measures,
haunts and comforts me.
531 · Oct 2013
Shards
Sharlie Oct 2013
All              I see
         
           is

fragmentation.
489 · Aug 2013
Smiles
Sharlie Aug 2013
Why I bothered, even at all, is because they had said with smiles that my future was in my hands. I didn’t understand their smiles. I desperately hoped, that it wasn’t, that it would be too big to fit there.
471 · Aug 2013
Freedom
Sharlie Aug 2013
My brain pulsates
My  heat breaks
I am free.
461 · Aug 2013
Gravity gone.
Sharlie Aug 2013
Like a shooting star.

I drifted further and farther away. To where it- whatever that is! Whatever that is, goes blurry...so blurry, so that the blurriness is moving, pulsating, as if to say, ‘I could be anything, I could mean anything.’

Like a star.

But.

When everything is possible, nothing is plausible.

It is a paradox. Oh but a paradox!
438 · Sep 2013
It's a pity.
Sharlie Sep 2013
Self-pity is addictive
I write so as to justify.
to give this pity, tangibility.
436 · Aug 2013
Sweet
Sharlie Aug 2013
He was the cause.
Not what it was.
The love was much too sweet.  
For a person to compete.
435 · Aug 2013
Dust
Sharlie Aug 2013
She collected dead moths.
Thought that their powdery wings were beautiful.
Eventually, the wings disintegrated.
And instead of dead moths.
She had dust.
366 · Sep 2013
Life
Sharlie Sep 2013
It moves on
                   moves on
                                  ON
                             BUT
                     today
                    it
          went
back
353 · Aug 2013
A thought.
Sharlie Aug 2013
Does innovation require a person to be more than their experiences, or just a new combination of them?
330 · Aug 2013
Found.
Sharlie Aug 2013
When you find the question
That is also the answer.
You have found, a kind obsession.
297 · Aug 2013
Becoming
Sharlie Aug 2013
Surely, i hear you say,
the beauty of
becoming
surpasses
the beauty of
Being. Being me.
293 · Aug 2013
Point Blank
Sharlie Aug 2013
Good is why and how.
283 · Aug 2013
The Bet
Sharlie Aug 2013
The trick is to find something.
That is both... worth living and dying for.
This way you can’t possibly lose.

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