#unraveled
Why must love be so difficult;
like trying to solve for x when the heart
keeps multiplying its ache by zero?
Every answer bleeds out of reach,
chalk dust clinging to my trembling hands,
the board streaked white with
unfinished equations of almost.
Your eyes were the problem set,
beautifully unsolvable;
your silence, a parenthesis
I could never close.
I tried to divide truth from tenderness,
but every fraction screamed your name.
Even the moon mocked me,
hung there like a lopsided question mark,
its light dissecting my want into fractions
of frost and fever.
And still, I keep writing proofs
with the ink of my pulse,
pretending the sum of us
might someday make sense.
So tell me,
why does love always require
so much work to remain
so beautifully broken?
Nov 1, 2025
Nov 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM UTC
When threads of someone's life have been tightly woven together with yours for so long
You will find that it is impossible to unravel them without at least one's world falling apart
Jan 27, 2021
Jan 27, 2021 at 11:46 AM UTC
I’ve discvoered
A strange pastime of mine
I like to look for flaws
Little things I am ashamed of
Then use poetry
To slowly unravel them
Bit by bit
Like the
Small intestine
We unraveled in our seventh
Grade fetal
Pig disection
Just like that
The ugly flaws
Are unraveled bit by bit
Left in all their original
Blunt grotesque
Glory
In my mind
To be analyzed
And on paper
-or a screen I suppose
Embeleshed,
Into something
Beautified and attractive
But,
Still honest despite
Holding back
To an extent
...
Meanwhile,
In my mind
The flaws are
Picked apart
With little probes
Occasionally,
A finite solution
And method to
Get rid of the
Flaw
Placed on
My never ending
Bucket list
But,
More often than not-
...
ERROR
NO SOLUTION
REQUIRES FURTHER STUDY
Sep 27, 2018
Sep 27, 2018 at 11:58 PM UTC
A love so fragile
That it hurts when I breathe
Shattered memories
Swept by the breeze
A love so scrambled
That it leaves me confused
My heart’s been abused
Black and blue bruised
A love so tangled
That it ends up in knots
A tied-up blood clot
Starting to rot
A love so unraveled
That it loses control
A physical toll
Burnt on my soul
A love so fragile
That is breaks when I try
Starting to know why
I do nothing but cry.
May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018 at 2:49 PM UTC
Famous or known, wise
or grown, gone or just zero?
Grained or unraveled?
May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 1:45 PM UTC
No matter how fast
or how far
she would run
her mind was coming
slowly undone
she tried to escape
from the pain
from the sorrow
fearing the promises
of tomorrow
knowing that everyday
was always the same
putting on a mask
trying to stay
sane
but faster and faster
unravled her mind
walls slowly cracking
waiting for
the time
she finally breaks
and lets it all out
the screams
the hatred
all of her doubts
and no one will know
where it all came from
the happy sweet girl
you knew was gone
and in her place
stands broken
stands torn
the girl that was inside
now showing
her horns
Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014 at 12:38 PM UTC
Time after time,
I might love you,
Until the time I let go:
Until I die.
Will it be OK when I can't feel my heart anymore?
Could I still love the harsh cries,
The deadly, lovely words
Meant for you?
Would you call it love
If I wrote you
A thousand poems?
Were we meant to be
Tonight,
Alone with only our thoughts
And the knowledge
We did it the same as yesterday?
I can't take anymore.
Jun 23, 2014
Jun 23, 2014 at 3:55 PM UTC
There is a picture of me.
Next to the word "unraveled" in the dictionary.
Dad likes to remind me.
Mom likes to confer.
I set goals to high.
I don't fit my own standards
May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014 at 8:39 PM UTC