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293 · Aug 2022
Love in War
Shaylie Aug 2022
Beauty bore from pain
Like compromise from war
So many years of bloodshed
Before we can restore
291 · Jul 2023
Untitled
Shaylie Jul 2023
If you could see how starving I am
You would love me
285 · Feb 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Feb 2021
I don’t know
I don’t know if I can handle the loneliness
It sits inside of me
It breathes
And it aches
Of its own volition

When can I put my head above the water again
Why am I drowning myself
My muscles are heavy
I am heavy
Until I am not anymore
279 · Jun 2021
As long as it takes
Shaylie Jun 2021
How long
Do I
Lay in bed
At night


While you lay
Next
To her
270 · Sep 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Sep 2021
Don’t make me wait
Pick up the phone
Call me
I’ll answer
We can talk and talk
I just want to hear you
266 · Jan 2023
Untitled
Shaylie Jan 2023
We never have funerals for love
Love dies too
256 · Jul 2022
Breathe.
Shaylie Jul 2022
I miss walking in
the fire of your
Irrecoverable, inconceivable, consumable
Love
253 · Aug 2022
Untitled
Shaylie Aug 2022
I am mourning
Mourning that I won’t lay down
For you anymore
246 · Jan 2023
Untitled
Shaylie Jan 2023
I am not supposed to be here
I am supposed to be with you
So please make it quick
Take me with you
241 · Sep 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Sep 2021
It’s Saturday
And just like yesterday
I’m still thinking of you
Just like two weeks ago
Just like a month ago
Still thinking
Of you
240 · Nov 2019
23
Shaylie Nov 2019
23
23 years old
Today
Wonder why I feel this way
Should be proud
23, salaried
Everything is feeling pretty empty
23 years
Happy Birthday
240 · Mar 2019
My poetic language
Shaylie Mar 2019
You dont see
What I see
In between the trees
And the breeze
That is why you will never understand
What I mean
232 · Jun 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Jun 2021
Breathe
Grit your teeth
Move on
Try to not listen
To the sound
Of the nails
On the chalkboard
Breathe
232 · Jun 2023
Untitled
Shaylie Jun 2023
I can’t remember anymore
What is it like
When someone can not
Keep their lips from yours
I am lonely and it’s late
That’s the only reason I care
I am numb
Over and over
I feel nothing
231 · Jun 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Jun 2021
“That’s life
Why would
It change now”
- still woozy
Shaylie Jan 2019
I cant muster the energy to look
At myself in the mirror
But people still expect me
To lift my feet
To lift my head
And
Smile

I wont wash a dish,
I certainly dont look at the clothes,
I cancel my plans last minute when I should have just said no,
I think my friends are conspiring against me,
And I cant leave my husband alone, what if he finds someone else better equip for our home.

I cant muster the energy to look at myself in the mirror,
But I still get up,
I still get up and go to work,
I am just waiting for the time
Time to pass me by

I'm running out of energy for these cycles
Im running out of energy waiting on my energy
I am in deep water, with crashing waves
Everytime I stand
I am knocked back down
Gulping for air
Only getting more water
Waiting to tumble back to the surface

I cant muster the energy to look at myself in the ******* mirror.
Depression, BPD
225 · Apr 2019
Untitled
Shaylie Apr 2019
Have you ever
Laid in bed next to
someone you love

And prayed for
Your true love to
Fall out of the sky
221 · Apr 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Apr 2021
So you say
I have the moon
Well I simply dont believe
217 · Apr 2022
Untitled
Shaylie Apr 2022
We are
Just flesh and bone
But you
You are the sun on my skin
215 · Jul 2022
Untitled
Shaylie Jul 2022
The only time
Any man saw me
Was with
Eyes closed
Hands open
212 · Jan 2019
January 26
Shaylie Jan 2019
Things break
Just as carefully
As they were made
212 · Aug 2022
Profound Words
Shaylie Aug 2022
Write profoundly
You are an artist then
Neat little words and spaces
Bore from some kind of pain
And inspiration

Is there any kind of separation?
211 · Nov 2018
August 23, 2015.
Shaylie Nov 2018
I use to be a person
There is body
But no soul
I am a demon in a skin suit
Hate me
210 · Jan 2023
Untitled
Shaylie Jan 2023
Can I
Crawl inside that coffin with you
Can you
Take me down with you
I don’t
Like being here anymore
208 · Mar 2019
Untitled
Shaylie Mar 2019
Day in
Day out
Day in
Day out
Day in
Day out

I want to lay down in between blades of grass
I want to be as small
I dont want to see spend my life
Working
Working
Living in between

Day in
Day out
Day in
Day out
Day in
Day out
Day in
Day out
Shaylie Nov 2018
Ironic

Small tokens

How many times

You quit

You gave in

You took it back
205 · Feb 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Feb 2021
He does not care
If he makes you lay there
Say okay,
Until you can breathe again
203 · Sep 2023
Untitled
Shaylie Sep 2023
We love nostalgia
It’s why you
Read these poems
So you can feel despair again
195 · Jan 2
Untitled
Shaylie Jan 2
In my memories
You belong to me
And we belong to each other
It’s a sacred place
195 · Jan 2019
Untitled
Shaylie Jan 2019
Though the setting may change

The background remains the same
191 · Jun 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Jun 2021
All I can
Think
About is you
And how I must see you
Shaylie Jul 2022
Being suicidal is like a form of cancer
It is harder over time
To stay alive
My bones are weak
They crumble and crack
Because the sorrow
Eats away at my fragile structure
I can barely stand up during the day
———————————
I am tired
Please let me die
191 · Aug 2023
Untitled
Shaylie Aug 2023
I am lonely
But I melt into that
I melt into the sunset
And the silence
189 · Aug 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Aug 2021
Give me one day of peace
One day where you don’t
Cross my mind
Shaylie Jan 2019
I just want to
Lay in bed
All day
Sleep, sleep, sleep
Away
188 · Apr 2023
Mirror
Shaylie Apr 2023
My eyes meet my own eyes
Not for a long time
I question the girl in the pictures
That have my name written on the back
I wish that was me again
And if you snapped a photo of this moment
Tomorrow
I'd wish that was me again
I don't know what I think of myself
Or my skin
Who would say
I only want someone to love
The flesh on my bones
I want someone to love my dusty corners
and things that were out of place
without saying things like "you are too much"
Versions of myself from days before,
they are always better than now,
and I would never ever see myself,
the way I needed too,
Ironically for myself,
I was never enough.
186 · Sep 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Sep 2021
Thinking of you
Always thinking of you
When I close my eyes
I can feel you close yours too
And for a moment
We are together
Missing each other
185 · Dec 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Dec 2021
I don’t feel like
I have a seat on any bus
There is no slot
For me to fit into
Where do I go?
What do I do?
183 · Aug 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Aug 2021
I miss you more
Than
The day before
182 · Nov 2018
Untitled
Shaylie Nov 2018
I remember your cinnamon smelling bed
And your computer desk right in front of it
Blue light illuminated the four white walls around us
I miss you
182 · Dec 2018
Untitled
Shaylie Dec 2018
Heavy is how you sit on my mind

Tearing through every notion

That I ever gave you up

I love you

I love you still
181 · Jul 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Jul 2021
You are a
liar, coward, cheat

Why did you speak to me?
181 · Jul 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Jul 2021
You are lucky.
Lucky I’m willing to crawl back into my safety
Away from you.
Lucky I haven’t told her everything again.
You are lucky.
177 · Jul 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Jul 2021
I cry so deep
I feel the river flowing through
My chest
Deep, white water, ripping through me

I can’t believe you did this
You did this again
Shaylie Jan 5
Everyone keeps calling me strong
I’m tired of being a house
Built by bricks
173 · Apr 2019
Untitled
Shaylie Apr 2019
Time still
Changes everything

Even if you choose
To stay still
173 · Aug 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Aug 2021
She spelled suppose
As
Sappost
I hope you’re happy with that
172 · Apr 2019
Untitled
Shaylie Apr 2019
Here we are
Trying to love each other
The way the people in the
Picture inserts
Looked like
They loved each other

When would we admit it to ourselves
When will you let me be free?
171 · Dec 2023
The end of our time
Shaylie Dec 2023
I continue talking about you in the past tense
Why do you keep talking about him like he’s dead
They ask me
Because to me he is
I reply
Everyone keeps moving about their tasks
170 · Aug 2021
Untitled
Shaylie Aug 2021
I want to forget April
I want to erase May
June can also go away
I knew it
I knew it Dillan
I knew you’d never ever
Stay
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