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Shiloh May 2022
The irony of the day and the age when we met doesn't escape me.
I can't foresee this bringing happiness at least for a while.
Now being on the far side of this avalanche, I am aware.
What this experience bubbled up inside me, I needed.
I am not what happened to me.
Shiloh May 2022
Shadows cast upon me in the moonlight
The cold is friendly and chills me to the bone
Adventure is always calling me
But I will stay right here
Shiloh May 2022
I actually danced tonight
like nobody was watching
because that is where I am
in the shadows, kept secret.

But I am my own and I prefer it that way
I feel lighter now that I know the truth
I choose now not to look back
for if I slow down I just might drown.
Shiloh May 2022
I keep having them
in which you appear,
more vindictive
more spiteful
than before.
It somehow feels
stale
you can sense the distance
but you desire to shove that in my face
keep trying to show me
how you can hurt me
as if that proves something

But all it does is show
how strongly you hold tight
to your anger
and it bores me.

Even though you probably saved my life
and at the time were chilled fresh air
when I was suffocating
too much time has passed but I learned
that even he was better than you.

That finally tells me more about myself
which is something I've been looking for
for so long.
Shiloh Dec 2021
I am lonely.
Solitary, confined, empty.
Alive, warm, home.
I am lucky.
This I know.

But this endless middle ground
habitual uncertainty
all I want is to be found
will he or won't he
and I sink beneath the ground
sickening to say the least
somewhere inside I have a voice
but not one soul is around
no one left to ask me.

Once again I'm drawn within
I see with blurry eyes
their plane crashed and I die inside
for a love I have never known
and maybe never will.

I observe as he gets mad
not knowing what to say
it makes me laugh because I know
he loves her every day
as time passes they will grow
while being side by side
and I am left just by myself
swimming against the tide.

There was a time their life was threatened
and they could have lost it all
but now it seems she's lost to us
so our hearts will take the fall.
The love they share is like no other
holding onto what is real
I dream about it on the daily
pink and blue is what I feel.

My mind hangs on by a thread.
As each day comes to an end.
Going over what was said.
People care, but aren't aware.
Avoid and swerve, as if I care,
I'm reaching out, but nothing's there.
J&J & Flight
Shiloh Sep 2021
It wasn't me
can be hard to remember
sometimes when even comparing
sideways the things that are better
than other toxic hard to reach folks
but now I know.

There was nothing I could do
it didn't take much
I could have been sweet
given in, broken down
agreed with what you thought you had to say
I now know it wouldn't have changed a thing
you would have found a way.

This whole entire time
I have always been better than you
and you have known it
which is sadly why
you retaliated the only way
you could figure out
and it has finally caught up to you.

Good Riddance.
I'm Free.
Shiloh Sep 2021
I live in the past
romanticizing the ways
when people hurt
and inevitably
left
I thought I understood
I thought it was just a matter of time
missing them terribly
but somehow never
asking myself why

I found some old forgotten pictures
of myself in moments previously
entirely lost and hard to hold onto
sneaky smiles
optimism or hope
some pain as if
asking my future self
to stop before it was too late
(spoiler I didn't)

then I caught one
where my most honest form
shone through everything else
yes I wasted time
indeed I made mistakes
but how have I gone this long
without knowing
I am in fact worthy
I belong here
I am good
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