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Nov 2014 · 557
right There
Sophie Nov 2014
He is inches away

I try to reach out but my arm
Strains

I can't do it
I am too weak

I'm not like those other girls I'm just
Me

I am unsure though
If me is good enough

Because he is right
There

And I just can't bring myself
To do it
Nov 2014 · 301
painful
Sophie Nov 2014
i've felt it before

but not in this way

this way is painful

this way is hard

and i love it
Jul 2014 · 319
gone
Sophie Jul 2014
smoke
all i could see was smoke

and flashing lights

everything is gone
all gone

what surprised me most, though,
was the absence of pain

there was one thing
on my mind

my family standing beside me
could never be replaced

that "everything" isn't really gone

**my family, standing beside me,
could never be replaced
I wrote this for my best friend, who's house burned down today. Her family is okay, so thank god.
Jul 2014 · 294
lost at sea
Sophie Jul 2014
you know,
i've always had a fear
of being alone in the middle
of the wide open waters.

no one to turn to
and no one to save you.

yelling and crying,
gasping for air.

you keep kicking your feet
and waving your arms
telling yourself that
everything will be okay

but you know, deep down,
that the time will come when you can't
hold yourself up any longer.

you'll be
sinking and sinking
and sinking

as everything
gets darker and darker
and darker.

yet

your eyes
are as blue as the ocean

and i'm lost at sea.

help me,
*i think i'm drowning.
Jul 2014 · 379
"there's no such thing"
Sophie Jul 2014
perfection
is a matter of opinion

therefore, perfection
does exist
Jul 2014 · 477
want
Sophie Jul 2014
many people forget
that want isn't the same
as need

many people mix up
meanings like these

they just don't want to
admit the silly truth

oh

they just don't need to
admit the silly truth.
May 2014 · 1.4k
swimming pool
Sophie May 2014
life is a swimming pool.
it is
sometimes too cold,
but
the ground cooks my feet.

you just need to jump in
all at
once. before fear
and
doubt catches up with you.

and while all your friends are
going
in one step at a time,
you
get the whole pool to yourself.
May 2014 · 332
this is not a poem.
Sophie May 2014
this is not a poem.
it's the truth.

the truth is not the key
to happiness.

happiness is not always in
reach for everyone

and everyone is not always in
reach for happiness

and happiness is not the
key to the truth

for this is not the truth.
it's a poem.
May 2014 · 303
save
Sophie May 2014
i didn't fall in love with you.
i slipped.

**and you didn't save me.
May 2014 · 2.8k
A Magic Portal
Sophie May 2014
I close my eyes
as I climb my way
through a portal.

But not just any portal.
A magic portal.

I like to go alone
and keep it all to myself.

This is where I can be free
and hide from the monsters.

This is where I belong.
Why can't I stay here forever?

But when I'm ready to go back
I unplug my earbuds

and my beautiful magic portal

shuts down.
May 2014 · 363
billions and billions
Sophie May 2014
why me?
out of millions and millions
billions and billions
of all people
*it just had to be me.

— The End —