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149 · Feb 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Feb 2020
be yourself
even if
yourself
is just like
the others.
149 · Jul 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2017
they didn't have to be judged,
being together was punishment enough
147 · Jan 2018
choice
Shi Em Jan 2018
I didn't forget;
I just chose not to remember.
[an ode to my pending assignments and projects]
146 · Feb 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Feb 2020
healing hurts.
145 · 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.
144 · Apr 2019
Untitled
Shi Em Apr 2019
there are days where
i feel that i am lucky,
and there are days where
i feel that i am not;
there are also days
where i feel like everything is too much,
that all these feelings
are just a lot to take in,
and that i would just explode
considering everything that i am feeling;
but there are days,
no - there are more days
where i feel as though I feel nothing at all,
and that is the worst feeling of it all.
143 · Jan 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jan 2017
i wonder if someone ever
bothered to put back
the pieces of myself that
i've left behind.
143 · Mar 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Mar 2017
the words that are left unsaid
are the ones that mean the most
142 · Jul 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2020
but calm nights like tonight makes me fear what tomorrow might bring.
142 · Aug 2024
Untitled
Shi Em Aug 2024
but I am old enough now
to have my fears comfort me;
and have the things I love
chain me in fear -
141 · 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.
140 · Aug 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Aug 2020
it's 3am —
and the only demons alive
are those inside my mind
139 · Jan 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jan 2017
and so everytime I stare
at the mirror;
all i can see is a remnant
of who i ever was.
139 · Jan 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jan 2017
and i didn't realize how
destructive this love was;
until i found myself missing
all my parts just to make you
complete
138 · Aug 2020
04-26-20
Shi Em Aug 2020
i hate my mind sometimes,
most of the time,
and almost every time.
138 · 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.
138 · 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.
137 · 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.
136 · Jun 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Jun 2020
anxieties —
they keep me up,
and now they long
to wither me down
135 · Jul 2020
— 🌱 —
Shi Em Jul 2020
sometimes we
bloom
in places
we least expect
to grow.
134 · 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
132 · 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.
131 · 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.
130 · Jan 2019
Untitled
Shi Em Jan 2019
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it's hard to stop yourself
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°  .  even see the water nor the waves 
   you're supposed to be
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123 · 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
118 · 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.
117 · Jul 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2017
but love shouldn't feel like
cold brewed caffeine,
on a disastrous winter rain.
116 · 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.
116 · Sep 2018
oh and I hope you know that
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.
116 · Dec 2019
Untitled
Shi Em Dec 2019
and then the scars -
they fade away
in the morning.
but deep inside,
everything is still there.
115 · 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.
115 · 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.
114 · Aug 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Aug 2020
it's days like today that
makes me want
to crawl out
of my own skin.
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.
101 · 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.
97 · 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.
88 · Aug 2024
some love are habits
Shi Em Aug 2024
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.
08.27.14 / 12:47pm
77 · Jun 2021
last song syndrome.
Shi Em Jun 2021
my love has
faded into
e c h o e s -
voices
that
you
desperately
want
to
forget.

(but is it cruel
if i don't want you to?)
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lowkey inspired by
fleetwood mac's silver springs 🤍

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