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She hurts herself, it's all she knows                                                            ­                                                                                              ­                                                   
the pain inside grows & grows                                                            ­           
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It runs too deep from head to toe                                                              ­      
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How do you stop the wind that blows?                                                           ­ 
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Self-inflicted wounds, no relief in sight                                                            ­                                                                 ­                                           
Light the fuse on the dynamite                                                         ­                                                                 ­                                  
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She scars herself, but can't release the knife                                                            ­                                                
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Can't see the sun, it's always night                                                            ­                                           
 She cries & cradles her legs with her arms                             
                
Knows the enemy who does the most harm                                                      
                                                                ­                                                          You'd think that would set off alarms                                                           ­   
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Can't someone save her with their charms?                                                          ­                                                      
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  She has never known the feeling of love                                          
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Noone has held her high enough                                                           ­ 
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Is there some way she can rise above                                                            ­                                                                 ­                                                                 ­                                
  The self-destruction she's proof of
I wrote this in 2010, after a serious breakdown
Debbie Apr 3
Her skin was smooth like butter cream.  
Luscious entry to his dream.  
Begging, pleading to be tasted.  
To be pasted,
all over the walls of his thoughts.  
Her heart's city of inhibition crumbles and falls
Her black lined eyes, alive and iridescent with haunting desire.
With a slow ache and burn like torches of fire.  
His breath through the soft dark.
Was a gentle gale into her farthest parts.
His whispers ferociously and sweetly
swarm her heart.
Lips taste like destiny, remembering eternity.
I combined two poems to create this one.
Hex Mar 23
My heart may ache, but so does bone,
A weight too deep, a pain unknown.
Not just sorrow, my body knows,
It wilts, it bends, it breaks, it shows.
kn Mar 21
I’ve known some peace, but not this kind—
The kind that quiets heart and mind.
You didn’t speak in grand displays,
You showed your love in steady ways.

You never tried to fix the ache,
Just stayed through every small heartbreak.
And somehow in your calm and truth,
I found a softer kind of proof.

It wasn’t sparks or skies so blue—
It was the way you simply knew.
No need for signs or something new...
It was, it is,
it’s always you.
Adam Tørch Mar 19
As long as you're here,
as long as this works in its own way,
I'll keep taking
the hits,
the sips,
the bites.

Because you're the kind of substance
that makes me want to write,
contemplate life,
and feel the ache.
Thomas Castle Mar 19
you were once the air i breathed,
when did i become polluted, too?
Maryann I Mar 17
I miss you like the moon misses the tide—
drawn toward you in quiet gravity,
yet left to glow alone in the hush
of a sky too wide, too still, too far.

I miss you like wind through a field of lilies,
brushing soft petals that don’t respond.
Like a ghost breeze sighing through curtains,
hoping you might return through the door.

You are the fog in my early mornings,
the warmth my coffee fails to mimic,
the soft indentation in my pillow
where your dreams used to rest beside mine.

I miss you in colors—
in the pale peach of sunset clouds,
in the silver hush of midnight rain,
in the gold that glimmers through memory’s lace.

I miss you in textures—
in velvet air after thunder,
in the silk of whispered goodnights,
in the ache behind every slow breath.

You echo in the spaces between stars,
your name hidden in stardust trails,
your touch a distant hum in my bones—
faint, but ever pulsing beneath my skin.

Even time seems to unravel without you—
hours stretch like candle wax down my spine,
and every clock tick is a heartbeat
that forgets how to beat right without yours.

I find you in the oddest places—
a song half-heard on a street corner,
the scent of rain on a stranger’s coat,
a poem I didn’t mean to write, but did.

I miss you in ways I don’t know how to explain—
with a love that doesn’t settle,
a yearning that spills past language,
a soul ache that dreams of you in petals and tidepools.

And still,
somehow,
I keep missing you more.
Juliana Mar 16
Can you love somebody
But never want to talk to them again
Because their word are filled with such lies
And such hatred
That they can rip you apart
With one syllable

Can you love somebody
But never want to stare into their eyes again
Because their eyes are so empty
Like vast pits
That are never able to see anything real
Never able to see you

Can you love somebody
But never want to hold their hand again
Because nothing is permanent
Give it a couple weeks
And that hand won’t be holding yours
But rather another girls

Can you love someone
But know that you’ll never be loved back
Despite the rejection
Despite the pain
Can you still love him?
Gideon Mar 8
I would describe this feeling as pain,
but it doesn’t quite hurt like being burned.
And it doesn’t feel like being completely incinerated either.
No, it’s a dull ache. A deep feeling of loss.
Even my body doesn’t know how to process it.
Not that my body knows how to process most things.
My stomach is bad at digesting dairy and anger .
My ears don’t interpret conversations very well,
And my tongue can’t stand spice.
Spice burns. A pain I can identify, but can’t tolerate.
Heartbreak aches like a black hole. Cold. Empty.
What was once a burning star has been changed,
Rendered into an all-consuming, lifeless nothing.
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