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 Mar 2018 Elaine
The Non-Poet
i know
everything
was in our way
i knew it would
be difficult
to be together

but i honestly thought
things would work out
cause if a love
between two people
is as strong and pure as ours
then the universe will help
the star-crossed lovers
to be together, right?

W R O N G

romeo
i know
you tried
to get their
approval
to make them
see that juliet was
who you wanted

i know all this
i know you tried
you’re best
and i’m sorry to see
it wasn’t enough

it breaks my heart
to know that
our visions of a future
are put on hold
possibly destroyed forever

but that does not mean
that i no longer care
that i will no longer
be there for you
when you need me

i wish more could be done
but i'm afraid maybe not
our love is a ticking time-bomb
it's just now that we see
we've been waiting for it to explode
i don't know how to feel
 Mar 2018 Elaine
Tom Leveille
kissing you was like swerving into oncoming traffic

i can never tell if i am more haunted by empty picture frames or the ashes of their contents

you taught me that the saying "pick your battles" meant not answering when love was at the door

sometimes when i drink whiskey i swear i can hear your voice in the creases of my bedsheets & i sleep on the floor

i still catch myself running my hands over things you touched the most, looking for the echoes of your fingertips

i practice things i'll never say to you

i remember the day you told me you didn't like poetry, how "everything's already been said" & how "nothing meaningful can be captured without being cliche" you know, i don't miss you like the sun and moon, i do not miss you like tide bent waves crashing on the shoreline, i miss you like a chernobyl  swingset misses children

rumor has it that drowning is a lot like coming home, that drinking bleach can **** the butterflies in your stomach

for your love of cigarettes, i would have been an ashtray

this halloween i want to dress up as the you when you loved yourself and show up on your doorstep

i never understood what you meant when you said i was an instrument, back when you would cup your hands around my chest and breathe through the holes in my heart, i still wonder if the sounds i made remind you of wind chimes

i never paid much attention to abandoned buildings until i became one

in my dreams all the flowers smell like your perfume

i am the only person who has ever wished for the same snowflake to fall twice

if i could go back, and rewrite the definition of audacity, it would be how when we lost the bet of love, you said "we never shook on it"

i love you, if the feeling is not mutual, please pretend this was a poem

the only apology i want from you, is to have you repeat the names of children we will never have in your parents living room until they *****

we are the same person if you find yourself up at 4am dry heaving promises, or if you are kept awake by the laughter of those who've abandoned you

nobody ever told you that goodbyes taste like the back of stamps

sometimes i'm convinced that the only reason we hug, is so you can check my back for exit wounds
 Mar 2018 Elaine
Rockwood
Beautiful things
come to mind
when i think of you.

Lovely colors in faded hues,
smiles, grass, skateboards,
sunlight, bike rides, sneakers,
memories of times
that have never happened.

You have caused me
fantasy beyond the extent
of my former imagination,

it is a mystery
shrouded by
the possible and the plausible.

How will we end?
Are you just my friend?

I don't know yet.
I'm not sure , but
I think i might...

I think i might...

... I think i may be capable
of loving you.
why can't i get you out of my head? there's homework i should be doing.
 Mar 2018 Elaine
skyler
you did nothing wrong

i broke my own heart
in believing
you’d be different this time
that you cared enough
to stay

s.s
I’ll be with someone who will
 Mar 2018 Elaine
Rubii ü
SHE
 Mar 2018 Elaine
Rubii ü
SHE
She's lonely, but she seems happy
She's tired, but she moves forward
She's down, but she doesn't drown
She's hopeless, but she's not careless

They say she's pretty,
but she feels ugly
They say she's smart,
but she feels dumb
They say she's talented,
but she feels incompetent
They say she's strong,
but she feels weak

She has no one, but she ain't gone
And that she,


**Is me.
 Mar 2018 Elaine
Arpan Rathod
"Their lips tremble,
Like the strings of his guitar,
She is his melody for life now."

~rpan™
Tried this one...
 Mar 2018 Elaine
trinity
muse
 Mar 2018 Elaine
trinity
why must sadness always be my muse?
why can i only use words
to fill my own emptiness?
i want to write about the sunbeams that dance on my wall
about how my baby sister laughs
about the stars and my passions
i want to get so carried away in the love and beauty i know that i forget how to write and my words become nonsense and my sentences run on and on and on until they overflow
i want kindness and joy to emanate from my work
i want my cheeks to ache from smiling
instead of my eyes burning from tears
i want to change
i want to heal
hey if anyone can explain what this even means you get uh bragging rights what a mess
 Mar 2018 Elaine
z
are we in love
 Mar 2018 Elaine
z
am i in love with you
or am i in love with the idea of being in love with you

are you in love with me
or are you just in love with the attention i give you

do i love you
or do you just make me feel a little less alone
and i haven't felt "together" in a long time so i think i love you

do you love me
or do i just make you feel like you're worth something
and you crave my validation so you think you love me too

are we in love
do we love each other
do we want each other

or do we just need each other
to patch up the holes other people left behind
i hope we're in love
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