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Lenore Lux Dec 2014
Dance barefoot to the lowly beach
below a chorus of cars
singing sweetly as the set sun drifts
below, in purple, rolling the world to
a swirl of stars
Under it I hold truth in my arches
to find glass to bleed color into gray,
into black, just as in my hands I hold you
It's as if severance finds me over again
where I curl on the boulder I last saw your face
In bare footsteps I seep into ether the memories
of a bitterness, of a love that left,
in hopes that I wake up
here again, living with the comforting notion
that the endless sea and sands, surrounding this
beach will bring me back to the surface
as I suffocate.
I suffocate.
Inspired by the words of a new, mysterious acquaintance. Thank you, mystery woman.

"The sand goes on forever behind us, and the sea goes on forever ahead." -- Shrimoyee
It is much more...

Complicated. And still you believe me
When I say I'm okay.

Have you ever been told
How easy it is
For an honest person to pass
On a lie?

I know you aren't dense.

I haven't been "OK"
In my world I feel used and abused--
My trust broken by everyone.
I can't even tell you about a feeling
That makes me want to curl up in a dark room
And cry...

So boy, don't believe it when I say
I'll be fine.
Teratology: The study of monsters
Samantha Nov 2014
I have this chain around me
my hands are tied together
I cannot move so freely

I have this chain around me
my mouth is encrusted with power
I cannot shout so loud

I have this chain around me
my ears are full of order
I cannot hear so clear

I have these chains around me
so tight, so heavy
I cannot breathe so fully



(samber)
11/11/14
Sarah Oct 2014
Pretend my eyes are blue
to match my blood;
deprived of life
and breath
my lungs search for air,
but I drown.
I hold no love, no life
between the gasping cavities
of my cavernous chest.

Pools deep below my eyes
unseen
Deep into my body, endless depth
to drown in,
drown my heart in my lungs

Stifle my love in depravity

Death with no oxygen for my blood,
for my brain,
for my mind,
for my love.

Blue.
I cannot feel,
for a lack of life
suffocates me.
Poetic T Oct 2014
I was swimming in a sea
Of balloons
They were
Ocean
Blue
&
White
I tried to hold on but
Always slipping under
The white would slip off
the many blues
And hit like a
Feather
Shaped
Brick
Many more would fall
I tried to breath
But the latex water
Suffocating,
Asphyxiating,
Breathless,
As each rolled off my face.
I was in a ocean of
Balloons,
But they kept floating down
Knocking the air from my lungs,
I swam,
I drifted,
As the white wall faded
Sinking to the bottom
The weight too much,
To float as the blue,
I was swimming in balloons,
Now floating face down
Suffocated by the endless blue..
Sometimes I
Wake up terrified
Crying
Jumping
You
Creep up in my nightmares
Slither in a little bit further each time
Sneak in from behind and
Touch
My back with your finger
Get it away from me
Graze
The back of my neck
I break out in a sweat
Pet
The top of my head
The air escapes from my lungs and I suffocate
Rub
The length of my arm
I cannot breathe I am frozen
Kiss
All the way down my spine
My vision blurs, I wish I could collapse
Lick
The lobe of my ear
I heave and gag and I cannot-
Caress
With his words my tortured soul
Please
Please
Let me go
But
You crawl into
The only place you know I cannot shut you out
Push you away
You trap me
Make me remember I have no right to seek happiness when you took it away from me
But I am a fighter
You may visit and torment me every night but
I have a grip on reality
And with someone's hand to hold I anchor myself in a world where
You
No longer exist and
I
Allow myself to laugh and smile

Now people call me sunshine.
So **** it, brother.
Layla Thurman Sep 2014
I used to believe
you took my breath away
but now I've realized
all you did
was suffocate me
Life's a Beach Aug 2014
Sink my silence into
social starvation
and thaw me out
slowly


Throw me not
to Fire

Church me not on
a pyre of Destruction.

Instead

Suffocate my screams
Until I ******* of Society

Because at least then
you'll think I'm **fixed
Carley Aug 2014
I forgive you
For breaking my heart
I forgive you
For breaking my trust
I forgive you
For all of your wrongdoings
I forgive you* when I shouldn't
Because I love you
I need you
Like I need air
So I forgive you
Just please
Please**
Stop suffocating me.
-CsR
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