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115 · Jul 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2020
there are happy endings,
and endings that stand
as beginnings,
but sometimes
there are simply just —
endings.
115 · Jun 2018
the irony, i guess.
Shi Em Jun 2018
i write short poetries,
because I am so tired
of keeping these feelings for so long.
108 · Jul 2020
Shi Em Jul 2020
your love bled
just like the pen did
everytime it tried
to fill in the empty pages;
and just like that
it ended just the same.
for all that was
left now were stories.
and only the stories remained.
107 · Aug 2020
04-26-20
Shi Em Aug 2020
i hate my mind sometimes,
most of the time,
and almost every time.
107 · Jul 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2020
i have a terrible habit
of ruining the things
i don't want to ruin.
107 · Apr 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Apr 2020
you are love
and chaos
at the same time
106 · Jun 2019
Untitled
Shi Em Jun 2019
Please don't lie to me,
cause I'll know -
and I will still end up believing you.
105 · Jul 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2017
blood drips around his lips,
as he bleeds out the words,
boy, don't you even try;
I know that it's all a lie
103 · Mar 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Mar 2020
loud thoughts -
silent tears.
102 · Feb 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Feb 2020
be yourself
even if
yourself
is just like
the others.
102 · Feb 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Feb 2020
healing hurts.
102 · Jul 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2017
but love shouldn't feel like
cold brewed caffeine,
on a disastrous winter rain.
102 · Feb 2020
02-22-2020
Shi Em Feb 2020
at this point,
i just want
to sleep,
and never
wake up.

but life
is an insomnia
that i can never cure,
so i wake up -
barely alive,
but awake.
100 · Mar 2020
i n s o m n i a
Shi Em Mar 2020
and thus i welcome
another morning
without bidding
the night
goodbye.
100 · Jun 2019
Untitled
Shi Em Jun 2019
sometimes in a day -
it's fun just to enjoy the simple things in life without seeing the gray areas that surrounds it.
100 · Aug 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Aug 2020
it's 3am —
and the only demons alive
are those inside my mind
99 · Jan 2019
Untitled
Shi Em Jan 2019
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99 · Mar 2018
Untitled
Shi Em Mar 2018
but honey,
i knew that I was nothing
more than just your trophy
yet I let myself yearn for something more.
i deserve better than this.
97 · Jan 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Jan 2020
but you didn't have to love me,
i just wanted you
to at least respect me enough
to stop pretending that you do.
97 · Jul 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2017
People talking,
people coming,
people leaving,
and yet here I am,
stuck in the same place,
still unmoving.
Shi Em Sep 2018
i never truly minded having
these aches
if it were to mean that my
heart was still beating.
i would still prefer this over
most days where I feel like
my soul has been ****** out
of everything.

so at the very least -
thank you for reminding me that
my soul still resides
in this body that you've left
hanging with nothing to bleed
out but words.
95 · Jul 2020
— 🌱 —
Shi Em Jul 2020
sometimes we
bloom
in places
we least expect
to grow.
95 · May 2020
Untitled
Shi Em May 2020
but you have a terrible habit
of glancing up at the sky
then looking down fast
as if you were telling yourself
that you had no right
to admire its beauty
95 · Oct 2018
Untitled
Shi Em Oct 2018
There will be better days
and everything will turn out
to be okay.
Someday.
Yes, soon it will be.
I know that for sure.

-but for the meantime, it is going to be a very long and painful wait.
Just hold on a little while longer.
93 · Jun 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Jun 2020
anxieties —
they keep me up,
and now they long
to wither me down
91 · Jul 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2017
THE MARKINGS you left on the wall,
still burns out strong,
yet here I am,
staring at it all alone.
91 · Jan 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Jan 2020
but you have found a home
in someone else's arms,
and I was nothing but a stopover -
before you found your way back to her.
Shi Em Oct 2018
is that no matter how much you wish for it to become a lie, it never will be.
and no, there is not going to be a part two, it is just what it is and what it will forever be, a part of a poetry unfinished.
86 · Jul 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2020
but calm nights like tonight makes me fear what tomorrow might bring.
83 · Jan 2018
Untitled
Shi Em Jan 2018
do not be deceived with the illusion that I've painted;
you'd think I'd be the calm after the storm;
but inside this ball of sunshine,
I am nothing but a raging storm.
83 · Dec 2019
Untitled
Shi Em Dec 2019
and then the scars -
they fade away
in the morning.
but deep inside,
everything is still there.
80 · Aug 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Aug 2020
it's days like today that
makes me want
to crawl out
of my own skin.
77 · Jan 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Jan 2020
and i shall live today
with a more grateful heart,
so that every moment
may turn out to be
the best part.
Inspired from a song called Best Part by one of my favorite band - DAY6.
68 · Aug 4
Untitled
Shi Em Aug 4
but I am old enough now
to have my fears comfort me;
and have the things I love
chain me in fear -
29 · Aug 26
some love are habits
Shi Em Aug 26
some love are habits
you try your best to unlearn —
you try your hardest to break away from them
but they end up breaking you in return.
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