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Amanda Kay Burke Mar 2018
The silence between us grows slightly larger
Every single time we talk
It's never uncomfortable for me
You are my dependable rock

Instead of awkward it's restful
A warm glow laced with unspoken words
We understand why hopes and dreams
Often fly away like little birds

Others think we can't keep the love
We have, look at us like we are crazy
Like we don't know the heartbreak ahead of us
We know. In our minds it is just sorta hazy

There won't be any hurt or heartache
As long as we unite together
There will always be doubters
Their opinions are all as light as a feather

Non-believers will scoff at our playful snow fights
The delight in my voice when I shriek
You always let me win even though
We both know I am unathletic and weak

They think they know about us
I assure you they don't have a clue what's within
This level of love is a mountain we climbed
They can't even begin to imagine
This is another super old one
Steven Gosling Mar 2018
Now I am gone; think of me and smile.
Think of all the good times we had;
how I made you laugh;
what fun we had;
and what love we shared.
You may cry at my funeral, but let it be brief.
For every time you think of me;
think of me and smile.
My sister recently died. I wrote this for the funeral service
Triciah Nadine Mar 2018
I can’t write what I wanted to write,
For my head is empty like a room painted in white
Or maybe it’s just so messy, that I can’t think.
I can’t even produce sentences that I can perfectly link.
Mar 2018
gorging through the sturdy built walls of persona
the piercing beak spares nothing of your emotion

unwelcomed but persistent it swoops down
filling your ecstatic mind withs its ferocious feathers of poor aura and corruption

malovent in its actions; its screeches reflect off of your deception
of things that you once loved and held with full appreciation

that’s the power of overthinking -
for it’s suspiciously secrete like the crow,
surviving off of adverse assumptions.
overthinking really does overpower us.
kyle dionysus Mar 2018
Do you know what I think about when I see a single butterfly flying in the air?

No, you’re wrong, I don’t think of you. I think of how that butterfly keeps flying in the air, landing on flowers, leaves and trees while being all alone. With what purpose does this mere butterfly have and why does it keep flying around in such a majestic way.
I guess I think of myself. I too like the butterfly am constantly flying around with no purpose yet I continue looking majestic as I land on some flower.

BUT, when I see two butterflies flying together, I think of you and I, and that for a moment in time, I was not alone. That I found someone I could ‘fly around with majestically’ while still having no purpose. But you flew away and left me on some flower.
So now when I look at two butterflies flying together, I also see that there’s a chance to find someone else that will join me in my (no purpose) life’s adventures.
Blossom Mar 2018
Confusion of the senses
I smell a burning lie
Listen to the color's leak
Fall out the endless sky
Danial John Mar 2018
I am all out of inspiration, my life a desolate hell.

I don't feel well, on a precipice might just end all my relations.

Desperation to make it cease, before I too am just a shell.

Maybe he fell, or maybe he was pushed by the temptation.




Either way, he knew something... A secret.

Couldn't tell anyone, there was no speaking.

Seeking an easier way to explain. Possibly with feelings?

Pealing faces away, shouldn't do any harm.




Never existed? That's wishful thinking.

A fistful of change, loaded and ready to meet the misfit's mesure.

Yet the virus was still there, slinking towards its next victim.

Another, and another, and yet another. It goes on forever and forever. No forgetting.
Liz Carlson Mar 2018
its a jungle up here,
full of "what-ifs" and expectations,
you'll always get lost in there,
i should know.
all roads lead to nowhere
and all happy thoughts
are turned to sad ones.
always thinking with
my heart,
which leads to pain.
it's a mad world,
my brain.
R Mar 2018
“Think before you speak”
You tell your impatient 5-year-old,
Who’s fighting to find her place.

“Think before you speak”
You tell your mad scientist 8-year-old,
Who’s fighting to make her own place.

“Think before you speak”
You don’t have to tell your sad 12-year-old,
Who’s place seems as mixed up and hidden from reality as hope.

“Think before you speak”
You might tell your 15-year-old on her way to a protest,
Who’s place in this world is to fight.

Or

“Think before you speak”
You might scold your 15-year-old on trial for violent protests,
Who thought her place in this world was to change everything.

Or

“Think before you speak”
You might croak out at your 15-year-old’s funeral,
Who thought it was too late to find a place,
Too late to be found.
Sorry if this is sad, but it's how I feel.
TeeCrush Mar 2018
Your eyes,
your smile,
your nose,
The way you laugh,
the way you talk,
the way you walk,
the way you think,
the joy you bring!
Should I not be able to see
or not be able to hear
I’d know when you come near:
You’re beyond perfect, the way you’re composed
You could make me fall in love with my eyes closed
A short poem from a book of poems I wrote for a girl last summer, 2017.
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