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 Jan 2019 Grace E
Eryck
When she says she hears voices rattling and battling in the deepest recesses of her mind, then it's time to beware, take care, and make choices saddling you and leave her behind.

     Shes a case study of its kind. That even Freud would throw up his hands, make a grand stand in his frustrations and demand a vacation to unwind.

She's all that and more.

She'll wrap a man around her fingers  make him putty in her hands,
leave him babbling in his mirror
trying so much to understand.
He should feel something, but just can't comprehend,
left a mute, numb, mumbling...
carcass, of a man.

She's like an itch that becomes a
scratch that's becomes a pestering,
festering ****, till you look down
horror bound as the ****** swollen
thing has taken on a life of its own...

then it starts maxing out your cards,
throwing your clothes out on the yard,
yelling hard. Snooping on your phone. Won't go home. Won't leave you alone.
Is it a wound or a woman or a woman or a wound or both  simultaneously, concurrently?  Yes and no.
Oh the trials and tribulations I've known!


You can really pick em.
Daddy used to say, in his haphazard way, and really lay it on me in the harshest of phrases,  meant to dazzle and daze me, rile and faze me, knock me a kilter off my normal day.


Son, you stimulate and exhilarate  the
spirit of an untamed, pained, wild
child woman and it'll be the same, and here this,
as an insane drain on the brain most personally and certainly and most notably and you can quote me.  It'll leave you feeling like the beach storming at Normandy.
Yes, this is about the same girl I wrote about in my last poem called "the end ..of a girlfriend" (give it a read for more tidbits of wacky insights). There's nothing like a heated breakup to stimulate the poetic juices.
 Jan 2019 Grace E
Hailey
Maybe you don't understand.
Maybe you do
I really can't tell any longer.

It's not easy to do this.
Not easy to push you away.
Not easy to try and keep myself from becoming attached.

You ask why.
Why push you away?
Can't you see
Why?!

You will only leave when the battle is over!
I'm not useful
I'm not any sort of advantage
And if I was I'm not a big enough advantage for you to stay

So why do I push you away?
Because I don't need the delusion of someone I never had.
Someone who left when I was young.

I've kept myself alive since I was 12 with no one to help me.
So why would I ever need you now?!

". . ."

Heh..
Nothing to say?
That's what I thought-

"Your right"

"You don't need me."

I-
...
There is a profound difference between 'Need'
And 'Want'

"When you get what you need, you don't need it anymore"

When you get what you want
You want to keep it as long as you can.

"why are you telling me this?"

Because I don't need you here.
. . .
I /want/ you here.
This isn't about a romantic relationship. It's supposed to be about a young 20-year-old pushing away a 45 or so year old who's playing a father role in his life.
 Jan 2019 Grace E
V
Pain
 Jan 2019 Grace E
V
Hurt people,
Hurt people.
I often spend hours at night reflecting or having memories of past abuse and trauma. I am the type to see the level of pain in my abusers than evil. It makes me sad and often...
Has made me look crazy for giving them forgiveness and empathy from a lot of people.
No one is born evil, be it an illness, pain, or even trauma themselves...
I at least try to see some reality in it all.

I don't know, that's just me.
 Jan 2019 Grace E
JL Smith
Concealed
 Jan 2019 Grace E
JL Smith
Loves casts a shadow
Through your glance
While concealing its confession
Behind lips
Fleetingly blinding my world
As the moon masks the sun
By eclipse

© JL Smith
 Jan 2019 Grace E
Ashari Ty

Skies are beautiful
They have clouds
But they still cry

Why wouldn't you?

You are beautiful
You have poems
You can cry too
Because crying is honesty to your emotions, and honesty is beautiful ;)
 Jan 2019 Grace E
Wanderer
Artists are often
broken people
using the fragments of themselves
to create something new
and although
being healed
feels so complete
sometimes i want to be broken again
sometimes i want open wounds
so i can use the blood
to paint sunsets
so i can use the torn off pieces of skin as a canvas
so i can carve
masterpieces with the jagged bones left behind
but I can't bring myself to break my own heart in the name of Art

— The End —