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On November 19, 1998, I attended my first concert at The Opera House in Toronto. That night, a Midwest emo band from Kansas City, The Get Up Kids, took the stage as the second act. Little did I know, that performance would mark the beginning of a lasting relationship with the band that would shape my musical identity. From that day forward, The Get Up Kids became my favorite band, and I’ve made it a point to see them every time they’ve toured here since.

In 1999, they released Something to Write Home About, an album that, for me, became much more than just music—it became the soundtrack to my youth. In many ways, it’s continued to be the soundtrack to my life. While it may sound cliché, this album has seen me through countless challenges and moments of growth. Every track holds a memory, and some of those memories carry significant weight. This record remains a deeply personal and important part of my journey.

——————

I was in my youth,
A former 90s cool kid,
And I found love,
Through music.
And now,
An aging emo kid,
Holding onto his youth,
Through each song,
He fell in love with.


— Sincerely, Boris
Hello Daisies Sep 14
The little girl within me
The five year old that's crying
The ten year old that's star gazing
The fourteen year old trying to run away
They never let me go
Not for one day
My soul always knows
But my heart has gotten cold

I've felt the entire galaxy of emotions
I was too young
I  had to be so strong
It was never fair
To let me wear
Every single
Piece of despair

I ran away
So to say
Lived my life
In every way
That would cause you
Shame
I became
The person to blame
I never wanted to tame
My name

The world broke me
Again
They hurt me
More than a friend
I became
Lost again
Broken and at
an end
Never to open

That little girl hiding
Me running
Never confiding
With her
I concur
She became such a blur

Empty with hints
stars and light
Soulless with a touch
love and fight
Searching for the spirit
That gave me flight

I fell so hard
Never wanting to feel
The pain that hurt her
The shame that killed her
The blame
The names
The broken and bruised
Lonely cursed
Hues

Without her
I was again
A blur
Everyday
Waking up afraid.
I didn't know
She still runs the show
She'll never let go
She's fighting
residing within
never dying
That girl who was always
Whining
Is still shining 🌟

The stars are blinding
Only to others
To me it's like love
Filled with the deepest of wonders
Wonderstruck
Wonderful
I feel her soul
In the simplest of times
She's fighting for her crimes

Never letting her dreams die
letting her hopes come true
And every time they do
I feel her heal
I feel her warmth
I feel the brightest smile
For galaxies and miles
Looking down on me
I twirl around the entire galaxy
Never a frown to be found
When her biggest dreams finally touch the ground
The last few years I felt really empty again but I found a spark of joy I didn't know I could feel so strong a few times and it's enough to keep fighting
brynna Feb 29
the loveless glance that you placed into my hands
felt like running them through shattered glass hidden in sand

in 24 hours, your love for me fell
in 24 hours, you fell under a spell

the dark closet felt like a dark endless void
they way you left me there made me feel like a broken toy

in 24 hours, you were in her bed
in 24 hours, a decision I wished you could dread

staring out the tinted window in a hospital gown at 3am
wondering if you were ever going to do it again.
This is part of a mini little series of poems I wrote while in a psychiatric hospital earlier this year. Enjoy :)
Hunger May 2023
Hot
Hot tears stream down my face and burn my skin,
Hot flames consume me is i burn for my sin,
Living itself should be i crime,
Just barely scraping by on the dime,
I guess hell would be better then being alive,
In this world how do so many survive,
Suicide rates have never been higher,
As peoples need for help becomes more dire,
But so many screams will never be heard,
So many people ignored every word,
Mind like a cage that keeps me inside,
Id ask to be free but I already died.
Hunger May 2023
O' what I would not do to live in my dreams,
My mind is filled with voices and screams,
My head it feels as thought it will burst,
When I try to be happier it hurts the worst,
I try to be silent and sit in the dark,
But my brain just shorts and continues to spark,
The fire it lights consumes all it can see,
My mind is a prison and I will never be free,
It hurts like hell is only in my head,
Most time it flares up I wish I was dead,
The things they say it makes no sense,
I can be completely alone yet feel so tense,
I used to be loud and crazy,
Now I am sad and lazy,
Why cannot my mind be
Bella Isaacs Feb 2023
So, what's your downfall, he asked?
And I tell him, I'm not tasked
With losing my hopes in a flask,
Or tangled sheets, or to bask
In false lights of powders foreign,
Though it would seem my creed, I know,
By much my brethren showed and show;
I am an artist, I plead guilty to the crime,
Of being here to ask you to waste your time
To try to understand my ramblings on my pain
And then to waste and waste your time again
Hoping you can see something more
Of everything that comes before
Your eyes when you're not wasting time
Upon this crazy pantomime
I place before you: I bleed, yes,
And hope to give you life in all this mess.
I told an acquaintance of mine "I'm doing well, enjoying writing my novel." And after approving he asked, "What's your downfall?". I think he thinks writers are like Hemingway. I'm mostly OK, I think.
Bella Isaacs Feb 2023
A quiet getaway for two, a co(a)st,
Yeah, but how about, we skip the other?
And, if you "love", why don't I let you roast
With the other marshmallows, and wither
In your blissful lack, blind lust, busy life
Of red velvet and dollars? In my chair,
All the "love" I need to know is the strife
Of strings and sticks and synth and sliding air;
Give me Skull Candy, and my own fiddle,
Give me my view across the painted sky,
Give me my freedom to be a riddle,
Give me the chance to dance and still defy.
I'm not your pretty girl, nor femme fatale,
And if you fall, know you will really fall.
Bella Isaacs Oct 2022
Why should I seek to redeem myself through
Redeeming you?
I'm arrogant enough to know that it's true
And believe me you, please
That teaching the plainly obvious
To the incorrigible ignoramus
Is a labour for Hercules.
And I deserve champagne for my effort
And a smack in the face by reality for desert
The more fool me
The poor fool me
For thinking that my contraption to make fish climb would actually
Work, and it's thankless, you know you should offer
The scribblings you make to the dead lover's altar
Do you think you could live this long
Beating your heart out, crucified and strung,
For the irredeemable,
And polyphemable,
People you thought weren't wrong?
But revenge is no answer, I'm too bold
To make cold
The lie once again that keeps being told
And believe me you, please
That fabled coldness or sweetness
And that cannot-be-beat-ness
Comes along with yet more guarantees.
And I'm a decorated casualty
For my all-too-late good memory that mortality
Is too for me
Not new for me
The cause-and-far-reaching-effect has no good reason to set me free
From the darkness, you know you should offer
The vows that you make on the dead duellist's altar
Did you think you could live this long
Beating your brains out, sanguified and hung,
For the irredeemable,
And polyphemable,
People you thought weren't wrong?
You have a greater capacity to no give no d*mns to this
You have a greater rapacity than to make dams for this
Injustice.
From where I sit, I know I should offer
My wisdom and fears into the dead ******'s coffer
Did you think you could live this long
Beating your soul out, petrified and wrung,
For the irredeemable,
And polyphemable,
People you thought weren't wrong?
A reflection and reasoning written in an emo style on unrequited regard, letting how other people treat you or think of you determine your self-worth, and why trying to prove yourself and revenge are not options.
Bella Isaacs Sep 2022
It is literally only the cold now that bothers me:
I can hug my knees, feel warmth of the bowl of curry
That I warmed up for me and my girls. You fall in love
And I fall behind, I fall back. Move on and move
In and marry, sweet and twenty as you are, sweet and loving
As you are, who don't listen to Infinity on High shoving
The irony into the backseat, gazing at the lyrics' memories
Like a postcard collection on a corkboard. Ryan Ross could have cursed at me,
And I could have cursed like Kellin Quinn, but these are dead times now
To beat down with a combat boot in moving, as I row
With my personal indifference to the candles and the wedding bouquets,
To the political matches passing me by, the parties of croquet
That I decline to program, combat boots ever on the road,
On the road to being Her, a still concept without a goad
Towards what the fairytales say I should be - I'm a pop punk song:
I take no prisoners: Your definition's wrong.
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