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  May 2018 Triste
Lydia
1.
Let's install some fail-safes
You have to convince yourself that this is really what you want
If you aren't gay, pretend you are
If you are gay, pretend you're not
I guarantee you will not fall in love

2.
Pick the sweetest person
Someone your parents will approve of
Someone who is so perfect for you that you just don't understand why you're sitting alone right now
If you're not voted cutest couple for the yearbook, you can't possibly be in love, right?
Too many people are watching

3.
Try to love them
Try to give yourself a textbook relationship
Go on dinner dates
And watch scary movies so you can cuddle up together
Argue about why you should definitely pay "because it's romantic"
Blow out the candle when she's not looking

4.
Stop taking off work on Friday nights
It was never going to work, anyway, so why bother getting attached?
When you realize that they love you,
And you are still sitting there alone, that's when your heart breaks
When you realize you can walk away and be unchanged
Because how could you possibly walk away from two entire years with another human being and not feel something
Your heart's going to break anyway, just because it didn't.
Please comment :)
  May 2018 Triste
Eric W
Consider me like an afterthought
and I will fade away.
Drifting
  May 2018 Triste
Micrography-Mike D


On the radio the other day
I heard that song, when it would play
We said it was “our song”

And even though try as I might
The lyrics just did not seem right
In fact, they were all wrong

My mind peered back into the past
'Eternal Flames' don't always last
Tides shift before too long

A smirk of sadness came to me
Best friend became my enemy
Lives built; Destroyed and gone

But fog erased; Think of today
and tell myself that it’s okay
Through pain I will be strong

Because the radio still plays
I hold out hope maybe someday
Again, I'll have ‘our song’

Written: May 8, 2018

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  May 2018 Triste
eileen
Its ten
should I sleep
I can hear you
I can't see you

I know you're around
never close enough

I want to be everyone's favorite
I want all the attention
    My heart begs to be loved

I'll always be little
I'll never be enough
to fill your expectations up

Good evening
I wish I had some meaning

I try to change the night before
waking up to restart

the moon keeps changing
she never waits for me
Triste May 2018
A book says,
"Read to get away."
A pen says,
"Write to be reminded."
The mind says,
"I live to reminisce."
And the heart says,
"I am always at stake."
Triste May 2018
My legs are made of jelly
I am weak and unsteady
My arms are like pink cotton candies
And I melt so easily
I have pretzel coated bones
And I am brittle and lonely
But my mind is a carnival
Carousels of many roundabouts
That spin incessantly
To a marshmallow heart
That often falls so fast and deliriously
Triste May 2018
I toss and turn
In this bed of feelings
I cannot discern
Pillow of your thoughts
Have kept me awake
And a blanket of your words
Have been playing in my head
I stare at the ceiling
A blank and empty space
Like my heart
A void that you can only fill in
I start to scribble your name
Hoping to find comfort in this game
But a lump in my throat started to sing
A grief-stricken ballad
Burning my skin
Bleeds my eyes
And I taste salt in my lips
Long have I been haunted by your absence
In between these sheets
But darling the night is long
A scarred morning I will mourn
That in her arms you belong
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