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Ryan Cripps Mar 2020
Whisper me some words.
Lead me to your home.
Let me kiss your body
while we're all alone.

Show me that deep love.
Set my soul ablaze.
Make me forget my name;
make me quiver for days.

Love ain't so easy,
but with effort we can make it.
Love is quite a feeling;
it's best if we embrace it.
(c) Ryan Kane 2020
some mensa smart
Ms. Jones
you always seem
to land the same part
acting

play the mystery woman
that nobody's ever known
what is the time now praytell
in your locally tragic circus?

bullseye
you're hard to hit
while you are moving  
around and alone at night

carnival grounds flood with roosters
crowing and announcing first light

spinning target girl
eyes shut you cry while still hoping
that I don't miss with the knives
muteD Jan 2020
A mother’s touch is
suppose to be tender,
one you would lean into.
But, instead
I would flinch.
Not for fear of any physical pain
she could cause me
but only because
she never touches me.

“you are really damaged”
21 years of searching for
a mother’s love
will do that to you.
Searching for that missing piece
and hoping that if you do everything
she wants and everything
you can possibly do to help her
that maybe,
just maybe,
you’ll finish the puzzle and
she’ll love you.
Which is absurd because
she won’t
and she can’t.
How can a mother love her children
when she knows of no love herself?

Cat and mouse..
A game I’ve always hated
but a game I know all too well.
because she always flaunts
what she knows I want
right in my face.
She knows what I crave
and how to make me weak.
My one true weakness,
Family.
Well, the idea of one
because I have never had one before.
A family to call mine?
One that would love me unconditionally
and honestly?
The universe has
a sense of humor after all
and it’s Me.
My whole life I’ve been looking for the love only a mother can provide.. needless to say, that search is over and I have turned up empty handed.
Amanda Kay Burke Dec 2019
How do I change?
I want to give up
Things have been this way for so long
Tried before but I'm not strong enough
Maybe I've been doing it wrong

I am only human after all
The gutter for me is home
I get so used to the fall
Ground becomes a place unknown

Beautiful but don't know it
Mind not able to see
The sky from where I sit
Full of shame
Somehow still empty

When I watch loneliness take its toll
(It's quite a hefty amount)
Weak throughout my entire soul
Not one part without

Remember it is darkest right before dawn
If no light can be seen
Things that frighten in shadows on the lawn
Come morning will feel like a dream

Made it through most terrible storms
Because I survived
Witnessed Lucifer take on many different forms
Each time he dies
Another revived

Can tell the difference between right and wrong
The good and evil overlaps and combines
Can go forward but only for so long
I get lost cause I can't read the signs

I wanted to be much more
Felt I had the capability
There still is hope that it's not too late for
Me to blossom into the flower meant to be
Trying to channel my feelings into something productive but it's hard
Emily Dec 2019
playing
laughing
finding more
learning more
seeing more
hearing more
loving more
admire

fall slowly
for a person
who just wanted
to play
a game
Nicole Kennedy Oct 2019
i was taught love in a hard way
in words and actions,
that today will get you in trouble.

she blossomed into my life,
i was taught me give it your all,
you may wear your heart on your sleeve,
but what’s there left to lose.
tomorrow may never come,
just give it your all.

he then came into my life,
i did everything she taught me,
i gave it my all.
he left me unappreciated,
unloved in the end.

i built up my walls,
hiding my heart away,
not letting anyone hurt me,
never again…

then you came in,
bashing down the walls,
holding my heart in your hands.
you make me feel appreciated,
loved,
wanted…
everything i ever wanted,
is built up in one soul.

you’ve shown me how to love again,
not to hide away,
just give it my all.

and i am.

- finny
    i think i may be falling for you
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