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amber Jul 2018
why was it so hard
to cut ties with you
why do i still struggle
with keeping my life
sanitized
so you can no longer
infest it
Marisol Quiroz Jul 2018
you can dip your words in honey and sugarcoat your wicked tongue,
but nothing can change your rotten heart or change what you have done.

― poetry doesn't make what you did pretty
Marisol Quiroz Jul 2018
i turned around and shut the door but you still had the key.
so i changed the locks and hoped again
you wouldn't find your way back to me.

but you'd pick the locks and burn down the door
until there was nothing left anymore,
so this time i'll leave no door
for you to open and get to me.

― this is no longer your home, stay out
you don't get to come back when you were the one who broke this heart and left
Marisol Quiroz Jul 2018
your hebenon heart with blood of black ink
of loxotic lies and twisted truths sink
deep in your body you make yourself home
seep in your poison to blood and to bone
make yourself see the truth you believe
not the truth that truly would be.


― a mirage of your own manipulation
Marisol Quiroz Jul 2018
because that's exactly who you are, you'd crash your car and blame the road, hang yourself then blame the rope.


― victim complex
Marisol Quiroz Jun 2018
you cut the ties with silver scissors and burnt the bridge with fictitious fires but you still insist you're the one who fell and scraped your knees with ****** fists on broken glass and sharp white teeth.

things have changed and the past is dead. these bridges you burnt are not meant to mend.

give up. go away. that's it―
the end.


― you're not the victim, you never were
A-McIntyre May 2018
We never had enough when we were young.
We never needed much, but the exact amount was unknown.
We never got enough; toys food or clothes.
We didn't need that much, so "barely" was the most.

We never got enough of your time.
We didn't understand, the eldest not yet nine.
We didn't get enough, affection or warmth.
We never took for granted, but your time spent was short.

We didn't want more than enough, somehow understanding all you had.
We never asked for much: to play or share or cuddle.
We never got that, you liked to stay in your bubble.
We didn't ask for this, to be born, or brought into your life.

We didn't choose the love, or the lack thereof.
We didn't need the money, you hid away from us.
We had enough for us four, your greed was just because.
We had enough, We had enough, We had enough.

We had enough time, to learn proper affection.
We had enough vocabulary for simple conversation.
We had enough feelings, to know you didn't care.
We were not selfish, so why didn't you share?

Was it that we weren't enough, you needed a new man?
Was it that we weren't calm enough, it got out of hand?
Was it that you didn't have enough, of the finer things in life?
Was it that you didn't think enough, before becoming an underage wife?

Now we live out our lives, believing we aren't enough.
Now we live out our lives, always trying to be more, never being enough.
Now we live out our lives, working hard at enough.
Now we live out our lives, still not understanding the problem wasn't us.
the song of my existance.
amber Mar 2018
You wear a mask,
Perfectly painted,
Seemingly realistic,
But I see the chips:
The flaws in its craftsmanship,
Where your skin peeks through.
And I see you for what you are:
A coward.
Em Faith Mar 2018
Drowning in your eyes,
Burning with your smile,
How many hours spent with your silhouette burned across my lips.
This is not a love poem,
This is a poem for those hopeless enough to tie themselves to hearts they will never grasp.
Sinking ships, and anchors falling,
Holding onto you is getting rope burns,
Chainlinks bounding my wrists,
Why is it that once I get too close, I find myself backing away.
This is not a poem about love,
Because loving you was walking over hot coal,
Your love was a bed of nails,
Laid down so artfully that the feathers you slept on looked uncomfortable.
Your love was a calamitous forest fire that burned my every muscle.
Twisted words and heaved breaths,
This love made madness look easy.
This is not a love poem,
It is a poem about a love that shredded sanity.
This love wasn't what everyone said it would be,
It was lusting over a heart that didn't understand mercy.
Loving you was as easy as plunging a shaky hand into a pile of broken glass.
Just to wait, watching the crimson velvet dripping into your savage mouth.
Mouth filled with lies that intoxicate my mind,
Lies about a love you have no intention to keep.
Your compassion stifled by your burning need to push everyone away,
But still, I held on as if you were a missing piece of my heart.
Yet the only piece that was lost was the piece that loved you.
Gesia Nava Mar 2018
I hate you
I hate you
I hate you
I hate you
I hate you
I hate you
I hate you
I hate you



                                                          ­                                                          But
   ­                                                                 ­                                           I don't.
This one goes out to the man that I fell in love with.
The one that uncaringly left me tossed aside and broken.
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