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girlinflames Aug 28
Living love is hard—
when you least expect it,
it sweeps your legs from behind,
leaves you sprawled on the ground,
bleeding out until you die.

There’s no one to save you.

I could say much more,
but I think only those who’ve lived it
know.
girlinflames Aug 11
I hate you
Don’t be alarmed
They’re strong words
But what I feel inside me
is unbearable
The truth is, I’m afraid
Afraid to say goodbye
and end up in the arms of another
who might hurt me
Not you—you’re good
But still
you’re hurting me
My heart races
because it knows what it wants
Freedom
Yet I keep it
caged
Esther Aug 11
i got addicted to the emotional roller coaster

now i can't find my balance on steady ground

high hopes and low blows

love bombed me like the fireworks on your birthday

and you convinced me that wasn't the case

but who talks rings and cradles

when my hands have barely touched your soul?

we were still strangers

i should've known

i showed you the demons from my past

you swore you wouldn't hurt me like that

but you went on and did exactly just that

you left me high and dry

abandoned me without a trace

never any rhyme or reason

i made peace without closure

you tucked your tail between your legs

and ran like a scared little boy at the first sign of danger

then of course

just like clockwork

you came crawling back

begging for forgiveness

begging for my hand again

begging for love

but i've already given it to someone else

and unlike you

i have no regrets

because i would rather sit by a warm log fire on a winter's eve

than to shiver at explosive fireworks in the night sky

on any given day
𝘪 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘪 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘯-𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 // 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭
Look at my actions, see what I’ve done,
How I wasted my life just for your fun.
A laughable man, a pathetic shadow,
One blade of grass in your vast meadow.

To let you shine, I refused to bloom,
On my own life, I cast certain doom.
Love and loyalty, that’s all I sought,
You said you cared and needed space, I thought.

You kept me close, my fire still burned,
Then you left, became cold, I never turned.
I should’ve known you weren’t my fate,
But that truth arrived far too late.

Now I see clearly, finally free,
You were never really interested in me.
My feelings were toys you’d break to feel whole,
Just to ease the ache inside your soul.

I won’t stop loving, I’ll always care,
But I can’t stay trapped in your snare.
No longer a tool for your selfish need,
You’ll never love me back, now I’m freed.

Enough years waiting, now I’m done,
If you want me back, I’ll be gone.
Enough tears spilled in a cold bed,
I’m no longer the heart you shred.
Oriental Bittersweet,
her arms full of swans
never meant, no really never
meant you any harm.

Oriental Bittersweet
cuts her body with a blade
and never sees, no never really
sees the mess she's made.

Oriental Bittersweet
has horse blanket hair--
blacktop eyes and blackstrap tongue
and promises she cares.

Oriental Bittersweet
knows EMT's by name--
she'll take you with her, with her taken
here she comes again.
Oriental Bittersweet is a woody invasive vine that, given a chance, will take over, crowd out and **** anything else nearby.
Millee Jul 31
The winds of change swirl in my life, leaving new breath in my lungs. Is this me? Am I truly free from all your negativity?
My chest burns with something new, love?
Not for you, but for me.
I'm finally free.
Lance Remir Jul 30
I refused
To listen to friends and family
Who warned me what will come
I refused
To look at the signs and flags
That told me to go back
I refused
To make boundaries and lines
Out of self-respect
I refused
To stand tall and put my foot down
When I kept getting hurt
I refused
To give up what we have
Even though you were long gone
I refused
To allow myself to process
To let myself break down
I refused
Even though time has passed
And the pain settled in
I refused
Despite all the heartbreak and pain
To stop loving you
Lyra Callen Jul 27
Who the hell you think you are?
to take my spark
you were meant to light it
not dim it
now it just flickers
barely alive

Who the hell you think you are?
to make my eyes
lose their sight
with the very tears
that once searched for your smile

Who the hell you think you are?
to make the hand
that reached for you
bleed

Who the hell you think you are?
to scar the skin
that once stayed soft for you

Who the hell you think you are?
to shatter the heart
that only beat your name

Who the hell you think you are?
to make a body
live like it’s dying
just because
it loved you

WHO THE HELL YOU THINK YOU ARE!!!?

________________

Who the hell you think you are?
to give your spark away
to someone who dimmed it

Who the hell you think you are?
to let your tears fall
until your vision faded

Who the hell you think you are?
to let your fingers bleed
for someone who never reached back

Who the hell you think you are?
to let them write pain
onto your skin

Who the hell you think you are?
to hand your heart over
only to watch it break

Who the hell you think you are?
to let someone
bury you in silence
while you're still breathing

Who the hell you think you are?
to let them hurt you
and call it love

WHO THE HELL YOU THINK YOU ARE!!!?

Who the hell you think you are ?
to make me hate my self
to make angry on myself
to make me regret the choices I made

WHO THE HELL YOU THINK YOU ARE!!!?
fish-sama Jul 26
8th grade I read you—
suicidal Plath—

in front of my class.
"Edge" was the poem.
"Lady Lazarus" would've fit you better.

Funny, how when you unraveled,
blonde hair, hazel-eye, stripes on your thighs,

I heard the same cry and turned away, because
I hated the color red.

Clinical depression,
                                  what a joke.

Pills, razors, approaching finale.
And I, merciless beast, ignorer of tears

covered my eyes.
Ignorance is ****:

it's real warm,
and hey,

You gave me a bracelet last year
(I've given you nothing.)
Don't die on me now, okay?
A lot of stories have been told about people that cry out. People that are kind-hearted, empathetic, sensitive, beautiful in all their scars. She's still here today, beautiful in every way. She's still alive, but I'm not sure for how long. I really messed up. I'm really messed up. This is a poem about that, from my perspective as a horrible friend.
Reece Jul 25
Russel was given the nickname ‘Knowsy’,
Because he knew just about anything.
If the signs weren’t apparent, like the glasses on his nose,
Russel was a nerd, and believe me, Russel knows.
Whenever someone needed help on a test,
“Russel knows,” and he dealt with the rest.
When the **** needed to finish his homework,
“Russel knows,” and then the **** forced him to work.
Oh, the curse of knowledge,
How the nerd turns from a laughing stock to a precious commodity.
Reduced from a human,
To a know-it-all without an identity beyond his brain.
Russel hated how he knew this pain.
Haley needed a favor,
An assignment was due,
And she couldn’t afford to fail.
So she went to Russel,
Not knowing about his crush,
Would his heart prevail?
He was skeptical,
Why was the prettiest girl in the world talking to him?
He had envisioned this in his head,
But it was only hypothetical.
Russel knew that it was too good to be true,
When the first words she said were,
“What did you get on number two?”
He was being used…again.
Russel knows how it feels to have your smarts be used against you.
Russel knows how knowledge can wound you.
Russel knows these things to be true.
Can't say I haven't felt like Russel before.
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