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Tolani Agoro May 2016
Take me back to the good old days
Where the music had meaning
And the people were happy
Take me back to the days of electropop
And florescent lights
Take me back to the days I should have spent my youth
The days my soul would have found the truth
Take me back to good old days
With 90's fashion and grunge style
Take me back to the good old days
For that is where my heart belongs
Cried the girl born in the wrong time
As she cradled relics that were long gone
From sunset till dawn
The glorious good old days
Tolani Agoro May 2016
Don't love me for my picture perfect days
For that is not who I truly am
Don't love me for the days my hair looks flawless
For that isn't really me
Don't crave me for the days my makeup is done perfectly
For I am full of flaws
Love me for me
Love the me that has acne on her skin
And face wrinkles when she grins
And struggles to grow eyebrows
Love the me who's face goes puffy when she cries
And the me who has stretch marks on her thighs
Love the me that gets too emotional about her favourite films
Love the me that rolls out of bed in the morning, tired eyed, scattered hair and all
Love that me
For I am not my picture perfect days
I am a girl who's full of flaws
Love me that way and I will love you without pause
For I am perfect in my imperfect way
I hope you see my flaws and decide to stay
Tolani Agoro May 2016
I want to drown myself in a bottle of whiskey
Or maybe a lot of scotch
Or a pound of leaves
Or a little blue pill
Something, anything
I don't care
I just want something strong enough to let me forget
I just want something strong enough to let me pretend
I just want something strong enough to allow me to go on
I can't look myself in the mirror anymore
Hearing "I love you" feels like a hundred knives
I guess there's still a little of me left inside
I guess I'm not so lost after all
But oh how I'd love to drown me away
Oh how I'd love to make these feelings go away
Tolani Agoro May 2016
How do you still tell me you love me
How can you be so selfless
How do you forgive without even thinking
This is what unconditional love is like
But baby don't love me that way
I don't deserve it
No, I'm not worth it
I can't say it was a mistake because I was aware
I can't say I didn't know it'd hurt you because that was so clear
I can't pretend like I'm blameless because this blame I cannot share
You betrayed my trust but I had something to hide
I made you crazy
I made you cry
But you didn't walk away
You didn't even try
This is what unconditional love is
But baby don't love me that way
I can blame it on the fact that I'm only human
But that wouldn't hold
Because I'll do it again
And leave you out in the cold
This is not who I am
This is not who I wanted to be
But that's what love does
Love unconditionally
I will try my hardest to do right by you this time
I'll try to be who I used to be
I will stick by you this time
I hope I don't waver
Maybe if I try hard enough I'll be worth your love
Love makes you stupid.
No I didn't cheat but I could have
I would have
  May 2016 Tolani Agoro
WickedHope
here's to the kids who skip school
not to drink
not to smoke
not for ***
not as a joke
here's to the kids who skip school
to take care of a sibling
to take care of a parent
to help pay the bills
to feed empty mouths
:/
Tolani Agoro May 2016
Too many people are too quick to wish 'forever' with a person. I'm not saying planning a future with someone is a bad thing, all I'm saying is know the person, really know the person, know who they actually are on the inside, when all the doors are closed and all the weight of the world is gone, know who they are at that moment. Don't plan a future with someone you don't know because if it doesn't work out then you set yourself up for heartbreak. If it ends, not only did you lose the person you love but you also lost your future, your plans, who you thought you'd be and you become lost. Again, I'm not saying don't plan a future with someone you love because it's a beautiful thing and you really should, all I'm saying is don't plan a future with someone who you don't know their views of life, their intentions (especially towards you), their beliefs, what they'd die for, who they'd cry for, who they want to be and how they invision their life. Everyone is wishing for fairytales and happily ever after but you are not Cinderella and one night and a glass slipper won't guarantee forever (or happiness). Happily ever after is earned, you know the person and you love the person and you have gone through **** with the person and you would pick them on their bad days and their good. You would pick them on cheerful days and on days where they're curled up in a ball, crying and feeling like their whole life is falling apart. If you aren't willing to go through hell for a person, no questions asked then save yourself the heartbreak and don't plan anything. Some people are meant to be in your life short term, they're only there to help you learn and grow into the person you're meant to become, they're there to help mold your heart into the perfect shape so it fits just right into your happily ever after's. Not everyone should and would be in your life forever. Learn the difference and prioritise appropriately.
Just my 2 cents
  Mar 2016 Tolani Agoro
Stefan Michener
I am my sober side
Not the one you see
Drinking a slow suicide
I am not really me

I am my sorrier side
Not the one you hear shout
Deserving some soap inside
A foul insincere mouth

I am my somber side
Not the one laughing
Ignorant and amused
living In worlds of nothing

I am my depressed side
Not the one you feel
Tickling your fancy down the slide
I hide my face and kneel

I am my repressed side
Not the one you sense
Has hope in Hell on the outside
Of my lily-white fence
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