#tied
It’s a strange kind of blessing,
feeling everything this deeply.
People say I fall too fast
but maybe I just love
without rationing my heart.
I feel the shifts, darling.
The quiet distance.
The way the air changes
before anyone admits it.
I wanted someone
who would walk me home.
Hold my hand
on the heavy nights.
Fight for me
in the soft ways
that matter.
Tongue tied whispers
made us tone deaf.
Two gentle hearts
losing each other
between the lines
we never said out loud.
Maybe that’s how it happens
love breaking slowly
in the spaces
we didn’t know
how to fill,
darling.
Nov 30, 2025
Nov 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM UTC
you held my hand as we were intertwined
drunk of alcohol and each other
I smiled with your lips against mine
your heart was beating so fast under my palm
your hands explored places not even I knew were there....
it tickled the way you'd pull me close by the waist
I wanted to stay tucked between your arms for eternity
but the sun started to rise
I pried myself out of your arms kissed your lips and said goodbye....
May 4, 2025
May 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC
I have frozen lake independence—
self-sufficiency stuck in a state of stasis,
waiting for spring or a better excuse.
I’m the last bud in the bag,
that lonely bit of green at the bottom—
each time you reach for me,
you know you’re running out.
I’m a scarf left outside,
stiff as a corpse, wrapped tight
around a post under the overpass.
Some do-gooder tied a note to me—
“Take me if you need me.”
but nobody needs me.
everybody’s got their own warmth,
their own coat, their own somebody.
so I stay there,
tied up, forgotten,
waiting for some cold *******
to come along and wrap me
around their neck.
Feb 9, 2025
Feb 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM UTC
I have a string of gold
It’s wrapped around me
Like a gentle whispers
Gliding upwards softly
Gold is malleable
Mar 20, 2024
Mar 20, 2024 at 2:59 AM UTC
Don't let go of me
I'm too young to feel this free.
Tie me up in memories
Shut the lock and hide the keys.
Make me close my eyes
And hear all your lies.
You don't care for my cries.
I've been straining for some time.
Close me down, pushed away
I wish I didn't wake up that day.
You don't listen to what I say.
Isn't there some way?
Break free of my cage!
I'm burning all the sage
Give me back my wage!
I'm tired of your stage.
-Cnwlry
Dec 13, 2021
Dec 13, 2021 at 11:11 PM UTC
Why?
Why do you have to make me feel like I’m tied down?
Tied down to your rules, your wants, and your needs.
I have choices too.
Opinions unheard, ignored, mocked.
I’m one of three daughters, yet you choose me.
The only time I’m chosen is so you can make your attempts at manipulating me,
taking any sense of freedom I should have over my future, my life, my needs.
Denying the chance to let me prove you wrong.
You may be right, I have called Wolf too many times but in this case, it’s different.
Give me the chance to prove you wrong,
to prove that I can do it.
That I can be free from this rope that holds me back from what I want.
Let me just be independent for once without the need for your so-called supervision and advice.
The advice that’s more like scolding and yelling.
Darkening my mood, deepening the depression.
Your words linger in my head for days upon days.
Have you ever taken a chance to stop and think that you may be the reason?
The reason I am so desperate to escape,
the reason I am dreaming of the day I can be independent.
Feb 24, 2021
Feb 24, 2021 at 7:37 AM UTC
We are tied together by space and time.
The earth stands still whenever we are together.
You have shockingly good vibes, they mesh
with the intensity of your touch.
The music stops, time is halted, we lay together,
and just be.
When you go back home and leave me behind,
I turn away so you can't see me cry.
I can feel your energy, though we are miles apart.
You are forever embedded in the chambers of my heart.
Jan 29, 2021
Jan 29, 2021 at 2:37 PM UTC
I just want somebody to call my own
Somebody who's not afraid of the darker side
Somebody who can take a shortage of breath, and loss of movement
Somebody who is not afraid to have their skin crawl
I want to learn somebody
Be able to pick apart their mind and body
Understand them as if they were my own
Memorize them
Understand them
Push them to their limits
Use them
Ruin them
Hold them
Love them
Nov 14, 2020
Nov 14, 2020 at 5:15 PM UTC
which cards will you draw today?
lethargy is a fickle friend sometimes
so i wish for moonlight within the clouds
of marble floors, rolling paddies that
commerce plows swiftly, masked
soldiers marching zigzag between
the glare of pink slips
and streams of granulated sugar
Aug 12, 2020
Aug 12, 2020 at 10:22 PM UTC
It's saturday night
May you tell me why
Do I feel tied in
To the fishing net
Of a nonexistent fisher?
Should we talk about that?
Jun 6, 2020
Jun 6, 2020 at 11:49 PM UTC
We all have chains,
Chains that bind us to different things,
For some,
That involves being chained to other people,
For others,
It involves being chained to your emotions,
For me,
It was being chained to those who were close,
But that’s okay,
Because over time,
I broke those chains, and moved forward,
So can you,
You can break your chains,
Either it be through the rust of time,
Or through the constant pounding of breaking it,
And once you break your chains,
You too can move forward with your life.
Feb 21, 2020
Feb 21, 2020 at 12:53 PM UTC
the crooked and
mishandled alleyways
of words to whisper
have always riddled
the backstreets of my mind...
i mapped them,
longer than enough
to see the ins and outs
i've known them,
more than enough...
like the palm of my hand
or the skin on my face.
it has always been
a palimpsest
of the maze i used to
be sealing myself in—
or perhaps seeping myself out.
there were promises,
there were poems,
and of course,
there was you.
and every single word,
or every single way,
i have always been
tongue tied and
waiting and just so
so long overdue—
stuck in the prison
of a misfortunate fate...
knowing the means
and never escaping
somehow still lost
afraid of ever stretching ways.
'hey, long time no see—'
'happy birthday! want to talk—'
'happy new year hope we still get together!'
everything just comes out in clicks...
'backspace'.
Jan 22, 2020
Jan 22, 2020 at 12:11 PM UTC
I feel so ******* ungrateful
Doesn't matter what I have
No one wants to know me
Dying
All they see is a mask
Four walls keep building higher
I haven't touched one brick
My pain has done the labor for me
I am just too sick
Depression has got my hands tied
It can pull me around
Warmth diminishing each step
Heart I no longer want to successfully pound
My thoughts slow when I go speak
I can't scream for help
Just for once let me find my voice
When not just by myself
Dec 26, 2019
Dec 26, 2019 at 5:29 AM UTC
Tiedä mä en
Haluanko jatkaa.
Mä en tiedä
Haluanko enempää?
Minua sattuu ja
Minua haittaa.
Haluun pois
Tästä maailmasta.
Oct 27, 2019
Oct 27, 2019 at 1:28 AM UTC
I’ll bring you the moon
and the stars will come down for you tonight.
I hope that you will show up soon,
but I don’t see one trace of light.
I’m at dead end ruin,
I guess I should’ve made a right.
Bound to pop just like a balloon,
no need to apply strength or might.
So don’t try to stray
it will never be through,
you can’t run away,
she’s not done with you.
Climb out from the dark,
but take a break before you tire.
I thought that I did feel a spark
but realized that I’m on fire.
I’m ash; my body is an urn,
I beg to be spread and to be set free.
So blindingly bright you burn
but there’s no complaints from me.
So don’t try to stray,
it’s something you can’t do,
you can’t run away,
she’s not done with you.
Every night and day,
one thing rings true,
sidelined and kept at bay,
it’s just déjà vu.
You know I have nothing left to lose
but I’d still give all of my nothing over to you.
Out of options but there’s only one thing that I’d choose,
the only thing I know, but still a mystery lacking a clue.
Think of how beautiful life could be
and all of the colours that could come from grey.
Just take a single step towards me
and I’ll carry us both the rest of the way.
I won’t try to stray,
you know I’m stuck like glue,
I’ll never run away,
I’ll follow it through.
There’s nothing else to say,
one divided by two,
and come what may,
it’s all déjà vu.
I’ll keep my distance
but dream of you nightly.
But in this instance
you just shine so brightly.
Oct 7, 2019
Oct 7, 2019 at 9:29 AM UTC
It’s on the tip of my tongue,
I know it I swear, the words aren’t missing,
they’re just not there, on the tip of my tongue,
I believe I know where,
I'll find them in the dark skies or in my blank stare.
Please send up a light or some kind of flare,
end this cycle of searching,
searching for what is rare.
Words that I’ll be searching for for a while,
Surprised that I’m locked in, like juvenile,
I’ll be Stuck in a constant rewind,
until we've left this topic behind.
Then I'll remember and say remember that time,
Eventually, Ill be able to speak effortlessly again
of course it'll happen after this conversation ends.
Jan 19, 2019
Jan 19, 2019 at 5:03 PM UTC
When the boneless have no soul
You eat the sympathy it uncovers
Guilt is your only friend, the only real goal
Your mind and the actions are lovers
Bleeding temptations that do not sink lust
Carving the wishes in skin, for an always reminder
Not even your own being gives the clenching trust
You said no evil but lost connection, loss of a binder
Love was a questionable quench, but never a surviving light
Making dreams live in a vivid historic moment
And the morning and disgrace is such a bite
The death looks so pleasing, so delightfully foment
Being in the same mind space, just never felt right
Oct 29, 2018
Oct 29, 2018 at 9:55 PM UTC
Sometimes,
I catch sight of the me
The me behind self consciousness
doubt
social anxiety
always
The me behind my tied up hair
prim and propper
glasses
always
The me behind silence
Choosing my own thoughts
to the company of others
always
Now, I'm not saying
Being this way is wrong
...
But in my case
It's
always
I'm trapped
in a cage of my own making
and I only get to peer inside
At the me that could be
...
Sometimes
Sep 14, 2018
Sep 14, 2018 at 7:26 PM UTC
Beneath a wave
as it rolls overhead
there's a moment of fright
in missing the crest
but it comes again
and goes off
no end
Though crashing now
in the tumult of water
eventually resurfacing
beginning to grow
and rolling over
the peaks
of once before
Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 11:07 AM UTC
Prisoner without a cage
Soul forever trapped
Confined to a lifeless shell
Devoid of emotion
Slowly I waste away
Endless nights dreaming of escape
For this is not the life I chose
I don't believe in that higher power
For who would trap me here
Like a caged bird
Doing tricks for crackers
I'd rather be exploring Astral Plains
And wander lusting for knowledge
Than stay here another moment
Around people sippin the Devils potion
For this brew is awfully potent
One sip fills you with wrath and rage
As you begin to rattle my cage
All their minds filled with green
As they do anything to fulfill their greed
And begin to gorge themselves
Like glutinous giants grilling in Grenada
Never getting their fill
Lusting after thick thighs
And supple ******* doing
Anything for that 2 piece meal
Envious eyes eying everything in sight
Boasting that selfish pride, as your
Inner voice says that can't be me
He's talking about
You yes YOU
As you sit smug with your
Body shaped like a circle
Due to years of sloth like behavior
Don't worry about me I know
I'm different, I don't belong here
I know that
We are nothing more
Than temporary beings
Gone in an instant
Seeking the meaning of
Our existence
What is my purpose?
I guess I'll never
Know why I'm on this craft.
Jun 30, 2018
Jun 30, 2018 at 10:24 PM UTC