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20.7k · May 2019
Why
Alaska Young May 2019
Why
Why do you push people away?

"I want them to be happy."
1.1k · Apr 2017
Toughness
Alaska Young Apr 2017
"You're tough", she said.
And I thought.
Am I tough because I really am
Or I'm tough because I've got no choice but to be one?
I hope I'm the former.
844 · May 2017
I Meet the Dead End
Alaska Young May 2017
I turn my back
Without glaring
Heartbroken
Half-crying
Knowing that I will never be called back.
It's painful.
But I know it's the right thing to do.
I meet the end.
The finish line of madness.
I hope I wouldn't meet you again halfway.
Thank you.
728 · Jul 2021
not my call
Alaska Young Jul 2021
if the choice to die
was mine to make
i'd probably dead by now
699 · Jul 2019
don't look at me that way
Alaska Young Jul 2019
your drunken eyes
keep telling me
a different story
638 · Jul 2021
bring me back
Alaska Young Jul 2021
at times
I wish I could live backwards
hoping that I could meet
the happy version of me
577 · Sep 2019
Adult-View of Life
Alaska Young Sep 2019
life is a never ending series of
"I'll figure it out."
550 · Jul 2019
what if vs. why does
Alaska Young Jul 2019
which weighs heavier?
the regrets of what did not happen
or
the memories of what had happened
527 · Jun 2019
Go on, girl
Alaska Young Jun 2019
People die
              and feelings change

       Feelings die
              and people change

                    but from the start,
                                              in between,
                                                           and in the end....
                                                                                                  life always,
                                                                                          always goes on..
and so do you.
525 · Jul 2021
i speak ill feelings
Alaska Young Jul 2021
I wish
I could be a good writer
the one that could give light thru poetry
but when I started to type
my heart only whispers broken words
524 · Apr 2017
Why Write?
Alaska Young Apr 2017
Because people ruin trust
and papers don't.
519 · May 2019
A little less
Alaska Young May 2019
Everyone wanted to be happy.

Me, I just want to be a little less sad.
512 · Jul 2021
the agony
Alaska Young Jul 2021
when you miss someone
the happy memories
hurt the most
i wish heaven has visiting hours
424 · Feb 2022
hurt?
Alaska Young Feb 2022
the thing is
i don't know if it's my ego hurting
or my heart?

how do you know if someone's indifference
really hurts you?
424 · Feb 2022
love
Alaska Young Feb 2022
if there is one thing I owe to love
that is poetry

whether I'm loving or hurting
it made a poet out of me
and I couldn't be thankful for
having to weave these feelings
into words
and gave it to the world
Alaska Young Mar 2017
Read between it.
No answer lies.
Not even a hint could survive.
Madness.
Hit the dead end.
Comfort yourself.
Pain is part of the game.
And you can never win.
Acceptance.
Not even acceptable.
Insanity.
I could wait.
Forever if you want.
Even I hate waiting.
Even if you don't come.
I'll still wait.
For the nth time.
Madness and insanity.
Both at once.
Because when it comes to you,
everything happens at once.
Like being danger and being saved.
Like my favorite almost and my biggest what if.
Like living and dying.
Like loving and hating.
And between those paradoxes,
is a thin line
A thin line that sets the limit.
A stop.
A big NO in my world of yeses.
A boundary in what I thought is a never ending madness.
A wake up call.
And the thin line tries so hard to limit my madness.
But it cannot contain my insanity.
It overflows.
Like diffusion.
So passive that it didn't require any aid to flow.
Like it destined to spill and divulge everything I hid.
403 · Feb 2022
pledge
Alaska Young Feb 2022
i promise
the next time i write here
it'll be a happy poetry
not a broken one

:)
388 · Jul 2019
slowly
Alaska Young Jul 2019
i'm slowly learning that most people
want only my attention
not my heart

i
guess
it was too hard to handle
381 · Jan 2019
Untitled
Alaska Young Jan 2019
why do we become so much of what we're afraid to be?
378 · Jun 2017
Her Horcrux
Alaska Young Jun 2017
I love your stories.
Happy. Sad. Confusing.
Secrets. Fairy tales. Tell-all.
Drunk or not.
Truth or lies.
I don't care.
I love hearing your stories.
I love looking into your eyes and sees the fire slowly burning.
With a flame that ignites the moment your mouth started to utter.
I love how you look for my gasps when your words fall.
I love hearing your stories.
It's like being your horcrux.
Like some part of your soul is hidden on me.
Dark maybe, but something treasured.

-E.T.E-
Feel free to tell me everything. I'm more than be willing to listen.
377 · Jul 2021
dead poet
Alaska Young Jul 2021
no thoughts,
just me
missing the
writer me
366 · Jul 2021
a poet's foreword
Alaska Young Jul 2021
STOP
romanticizing my poetry
to fit your narratives
this isn't about you
348 · May 2019
save me
Alaska Young May 2019
save me
from my thoughts

save me
from my demons

save me
from these pains

but most of all,

save me from you
329 · Feb 2022
-_-
Alaska Young Feb 2022
-_-
part of choosing me
is letting go of you
327 · Oct 2019
Untitled
Alaska Young Oct 2019
i wish
"sorry"
can make
the pain
stops
326 · May 2019
.
Alaska Young May 2019
.
I wanna hear you saying
"I love you"
But when you utter the word
I heard
"I'm sorry".
283 · Aug 2019
i lost me
Alaska Young Aug 2019
i lost count of sheep
on waiting for you to tell me something
i want to hear

i lost track of time
on waiting for you to catch me
in this falling game

but above all

i lost myself
trying to be someone
you want me to be
279 · May 2019
Writing
Alaska Young May 2019
Perhaps that's the thing about writing
It demands sadness.
273 · Mar 2017
Before After
Alaska Young Mar 2017
Before the sun sets on west
Before it rises again on somewhere’s east
Before the dusk and dawn came
I want to hear you again calling my name
Before the words of goodbye fall
Before the parting demand its toll
Before we reach the finish line
I want to ask, have you ever been mine?

And after all the before has been done
After all the memories had gone
After the ending had finally come
I want to tell myself hey lady you’ve got this one.
269 · Apr 2017
Faking It
Alaska Young Apr 2017
They asked me who's the lucky guy.
And I faked a nearly broken laugh.
#FakenessIsReal
261 · Apr 2017
How To Fall Out of Love?
Alaska Young Apr 2017
Instead of going with the flow,
why not stop the flow?
Instead of letting it grow,
why not let go?
Instead of drowning in to your feelings,
why not swim out of it?
And most of all,
instead of dreaming,
why not wake up?
Face the reality
Stop the false hopes
Forget the half-wishes
And save your yourself.
That's how I fell out of love.
252 · Sep 2017
The End Begins Here
Alaska Young Sep 2017
This is it.
The final end.
The finish line.
The destination.
Call it whatever you want.
But this is it.
This is where the ending begins.
This is when I decided to stop.
I don't wanna fool myself again.
This time this is real.
It'll be a slow fade.
No traces of pain.
No amount of rancor.
No turning back.
I will end it here.
Here, where I became happy.
Where I learn how to look forward on mornings.
Where you told me all those pretty lies.
And where I was fooled to believe
It was a great stay here.
magical to be honest
But pretty lies are for kids who believe on fairy tales
on prince and princess
on happily ever after
And I realized I'm all grown-up.
Old enough for bedtime stories and fairy tales.
I know ours wasn't an enchanted one
No fairy godmothers who will grant my wishes
No frogs that will turn into prince
No knight in shining armor who'll save me

We don't exist in reality.
And I lived happily never after.
249 · Jul 2019
unspoken
Alaska Young Jul 2019
i hope the things we never speak of
aren't the same things we'll regret someday
249 · Apr 2017
Awakening
Alaska Young Apr 2017
We gave up
knowing that no amount of courage
will win the fight  we're fighting
We gave up
not because we're  coward
but because we are brave enough to let go of what we're fighting for the longest time
And then we realize
we don't have to fight for somebody
who don't even know the war we're facing.
#bravery
243 · Apr 2017
Eyes Don't Lie
Alaska Young Apr 2017
I hate when people  look me in the eyes
I'm afraid
they might know the truth.
#truth
236 · Apr 2017
Dear Abe,
Alaska Young Apr 2017
You left me hanging on a cliff where in any second
I will fall and break
together with my false hopes and half-wishes I made for both of us.
P.S.
Truth already slapped me, hard actually.
Please comfort me with a lie.

Always,
A
235 · May 2017
Don't.
Alaska Young May 2017
You broke my heart
and asked me if I'm fine?
How dare you!
235 · Jun 2019
Untitled
Alaska Young Jun 2019
can you make this one loud?

let's learn to listen with understanding
not to prepare for our replies
234 · May 2017
Gravity
Alaska Young May 2017
They say gravity is the sole responsible for everything that falls
But I guess, gravity has nothing to do with
falling in love
Because when I fall for you
You don't pull me towards you
No force was exerted to draw me closer
I willingly fall
I let myself break
I let myself get hurt
Perhaps you're more than gravity.
231 · Aug 2019
the first
Alaska Young Aug 2019
no one warns us
on the amount of pain
we'll endure for the first heartbreak

it'll either be
too much
or
too less

and in between is getting worse everyday
228 · Apr 2017
Memories
Alaska Young Apr 2017
(noun)
-a place in the past where falling inlove is just as easy as obeying gravity and heartache was never a choice.
#memories
228 · May 2017
How to fix a broken trust?
225 · Jun 2019
Hit and Bounce
Alaska Young Jun 2019
The harder you hit the bottom,
the higher you can bounce.
225 · May 2017
Dear You
Alaska Young May 2017
My thoughts were corrupted and all I can sense were the inkling of some vividly fresh memories I kept from the days I've known you. These fresh memories that reminds me that somehow for the first time in the longest time I could actually fall in love into someone. I can feel the butterflies flutter in my stomach. I can managed a flirty gasps when your message popped up. I can feel the reddening of my ear when your name resounds somewhere else. It's a good beginning for a fresh love. Isn't it?
But darling, I choose to end this beginning sooner than I thought. I didn't want to, I HAVE TO. This madness I think is too beautiful that it should end up sooner than it begins. Sooner before I drown myself on my own-self made pool. As they say, all good things must come to an end. It's just ours ended sooner than I expected. Better than I expected, I guessed. This is the end and I can't still figure it out if it ended too tragic or too beautiful. I hope it's the latter. Dear, I want you to know that it was never my intent to fall as much as getting hurt. I was lured by false hopes and forget that possibility don't exist in a world like ours. But don't worry I'm on my way to renounce all the love I have for you. Again, I didn't want to, I HAVE TO. It's for myself. For me to begin again. Half-hoping that I will never meet you again halfway. If I do I might trip off again and fall. So please honey, I'm letting you go now hoping that this is the best for both of us. And if we will meet again at some point, I'm begging you choose the other way. The way that will lead you somewhere else, not on me. I guess I have the right on that favor knowing that I do the sacrifice now. At least do me that favor. Thank you. I know you will. And if someday time permits me to tell all this, I will be brave enough to tell you that yes, I do fall in love with you in the shortest span of time.

Always,
Potato
223 · Sep 2019
hericane
Alaska Young Sep 2019
they say they will like you
until the storm within you starts stirring up
and blew them all away

and you were left alone
because
no one
no one
survived your storm
214 · Jul 2017
Stars, Flowers and Rain
Alaska Young Jul 2017
We could have been.
We could be the most beautiful collision.
But we are stars from different galaxies.
We don't collide.
We are flowers.
Wild and beautiful.
We are virga rain.
But some flowers are not meant to bloom.
And some rain are not meant to fall.
Our infinities are limited.
And some love are unrequited.
#akire
213 · Jun 2019
3 types of day
Alaska Young Jun 2019
Best days
Ok days
Worst days

Which day are you living on?
204 · Jul 2019
what i want to ask you
Alaska Young Jul 2019
why do you look at me
like i'm an easy thing to let go?
201 · Nov 2019
what overthinking did
Alaska Young Nov 2019
you started it with a nick
and end it
with a twinge
but it's my overthinking that
tore it apart
and broke my own heart
200 · May 2019
PAIN
Alaska Young May 2019
it can either make you fearful or fearless

choose wisely.
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