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k Feb 2016
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Time has a way of
sealing our fate before
we ever realize the
countdown began.
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k Nov 2014
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Step up your game,
you're shallow and weak,
with more shame behind
the words you speak.

A liar, a fake,
a backstabbing friend,
you're the person who's
masquerade never ends.

But really, you're just so
inside of yourself,
and you're feeble in
caring for anyone else

besides the inadequate
person you always see.
You're awful, dreadful:
a number of terrible things,
nothing close to what you
pretend to be.
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k Jan 2016
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Lips are some of the
fiercest gates to Hell
that I've ever seen.
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k Aug 2015
;
Defeat isn't a word
I care to hold in my
vocab, but alas,
here it is while I
contemplate what's
become of me.

My time runs short
and my patience stretch
thin to a wasted summer
of work and depression
while I envy those abroad
or soaking in the sun, while
I sulked in a desk chair
that I kept luke-warm until
someone else came to claim
their rightful throne.
.
k Jul 2015
.
Just another let down
with a quick lash to
ensure that spark on
your toungue hits
deep enough to leave
a scar.

Disappointment doesn't
follow surprise this time
because I expect no less
from the compassionless
and weak of heart.

Just business is the excuse;
the business of burning dreams
and absorbing the energy
from one to satiate another.

Never created or destroyed,
just stolen outright from
another to keep you going
from day to day.
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k Aug 2014
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Why do you borrow
someone else's lines
when you have some all
of your own, bottled up
inside your little head?

Everyone has the ability
to write and think and
speak their mind: even if
it's something of a topic
that's too risqué to tread.

Pain, ***, hurt, loss,
depressed...poetry screams
"Bring me your weary and I
will revive--reenergize--renew"
even if you'd rather be dead.
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k Oct 2014
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Counting and calculating
have always been my strong
suit; whether it's people who
dislike me, the hours of sleep I
lose or how many times I think
how nice it'd be to sleep away time.

You remind me that there are
better things to count: like the hours
until I get to see you, or the days
that we spend together. My most
favorite, though, is when you teach
me to forget.

I forget the pounds on the scale or
the extra bites of dinner I didn't need
or the ****** people in my life and
their negativity.

These are the things I deserve to lose,
and gain other things and fade into you.
#%^
k Sep 2014
#%^
One day,
I fear: I will be
way too much of a
burden for even you,
my love.

A year has come
and gone in two blinks
of the eye. Through torment,
sorrow and depression and ties.

Ties made of wire and some
made of string. That were cut
from my cast without
anything.

You've been my rock,
my sanity, a saving grace.
But I don't know what
I'd do if you ever left
this place.

My heart swells with
love and passion
and fire, with the scent
of your skin or touch
with desire.

Not for *** or money or
gifts or for gold. Rather,
your love is my drug
that keeps me consoled.
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k Sep 2015
1
It's easier to fall in empathy
than to fall in emotion.
It's all about the fall, isn't
it, after all?

Words are easy to rhyme
and stitch together for
what seems to be the best
of all intentions, however
do you feel any better?

I could spill blood and tears
and scribble the toils of my
troubled years and beating
a laundry list of my
inadequacies and over-
coming such consuming
emotion, but all that remains
is a vulnerable self, beat
senseless by society's cold
heart and the simple pain
of not giving a ****.
k Sep 2014
There's nothing that
breaks me more than the
things I think and the words
I allow to slip from my brain to
my tounge.

A war rages on and on
inside my mind, but I'm afraid
to share it with anyone but those
who are forced to keep it a secret.
But does it really help?

Apathy. Indifference. Unaffected.
That's not me. Not a single part of
that is in my blood. My brain forces
it into my heart until I swell up and
break down into embarrassing pieces.

I'm tired. Tired of the faux thoughts
and the restless nights and the stomach
pangs and aches that remind me of the
crashing emotional waves that roar inside.

I determine who I am. I determine what I ought to be. I matter, God ******. If everyone else can see it, why can't I?
You can change.
k Feb 2015
You cut like raw glass
against smooth skin on
a dry day: bitterly, with such
sharp precision it pulses
with the blood that spills out
my wound.

Safe in the belly of your beholder,
you spare nothing but hurt
and demand nothing of anyone,
but least off, yourself.

You complicated *****; you
horrible fiend: there's little that's
worse than words scorched
with your name.
k Mar 2014
Is this the story you want to be a part of?

All of the mess
the upsets
the tears and tissues
the irrationalities
the humanness and flaws
that stitch together
this imperfect person.

I am me.
Unfortunately.
But it is who
I will always be.

I'm hoping you're okay
with this humanness of me.
The awful and beautiful things
that make me the girl I was
and the woman I hope to be.
k Jul 2014
Today, I'm going to try.
Try and renew a broken bond
between heart, mind and the
belief I have in myself.

Some days, I have so much
to offer the world: care, love,
compassion, hope and joy.
Other days, I sink into my
blankets & sheets, praying for
some sweet release.

My heart feels like it's clutched
between loathing and defeat, but
light keeps pouring through. It
desperately pleads for unclenching
to offer more of what I have inside me.

Feeling hopeless, lost and alone...
these feelings, I don't desire. I feel
like my lungs are filled with smoke:
elusive and toxic...but inescapably
dooming. But I seek the wind. The
clear, fresh breakage from the dark.

I seek hope and promise. I seek self
love and not shame. For the skin I'm in
is entirely my own. And I should be
happy for it and for me...because no
shallow appearance change will make
me a better person. Only drive, goal reaching and love will heal what I pray for.
k Apr 2014
Life is a perpetual state
of confusion, along with
a few other ingredients.

It's hard to nail down
what my personal recipe
is missing at the moment.

I feel as though if I were to
enter into the oven as is,
I would be the throw away batch.

You know, of course:
the brownie pan with the sunken
warm goo center.

Not bad, just ill formed
and underdeveloped
like myself.

But each day, I walk
and take one step
like mom always says.

It seems as though those things
I took for granted so much before
are the things I miss the most now.

Like waking up next to you
for nearly a week straight,
hair a mess, but heart in place.

Or you. Your stupid, ******* humor
which made me feel just a little more special than anyone else here.

I could write lines and lines
about different yous and she's,
but then it would lose track.

It's about me, finding my place
somewhere other than in sadness
or work or in being busy.

Because there's so much more
than that to this story.
Just letting it flow tonight.
k Oct 2014
Beautifully tragic:
warm, but smothering.
Home-like, but woeing.
The sight of the bed that
swallows his hopes and
dreams.

Each day, I lose glimpse of
his fight: his endless struggle
of heart, mind and body and the
15 inch foam coffin that holds him
hostage to the world inside his head.

"You're worthless. You don't matter..."
Screams uttered by the supposed
"supporting team." Who the hell are they to you anyway? Flesh and blood
mean little when his financial value
is higher dead than alive.

The greatest fear, sitting in the hearts
of viewers (idle victims of the scene
unfolding), is the penultimate event.
The second to the end: for it is the one we will never see coming. The last "good" one before the worst one.

The last night that the bed holds him tight before the bullet squeezes him tighter.
k Sep 2014
"It's my birthday and
I'll cry if I want to" seems
like a good enough excuse
to me. My heart is bleeding
and my pulse is throbbing, so
I scream them away with my
misery.

Unintentional emotion
and fears so set, that I'd rather
be alone than rejected.
A heart made of gold, encased
in glass, surely to be shattered.

There's no where to turn, no place
to hide...sooner or later you'll be
unearthed. Across the hall or the
campus, you're never alone and
that's both a blessing and a curse.

What a smile hides is tired eyes,
and even more serious, emotional
lies. But at the end of the week,
there's no one to see. Besides, who's
really going to miss me?

Packed away for a few days,
but praying for weeks are my
feeble attempts at some lasting peace.
But often I've found, with anxiety
abound, there's only so much time
before the next roaring beast.

Around the corner or under my bed,
my dad used to check to assure my
small head. With heart and body still
in check then, it's hard to explain
where it began. A story to unfold to
a sincere heart and listener, not just
a fake societal prisoner.

But then again, there's therapy too:
paying for advice from someone who
"understands you" and where you are
going and where you'll end up.
But the truth that's really it?
We're all eternally ******.
k Oct 2014
There's something rather
destructive than the placement
of net worth on an item.
Or in worse cases,
a person.

Your value determined,
at basic level, on those
around you--friend,
family and foe.

Typically, the first two
outweigh the negative
enemy: one's own mind
and those that fuel self
doubt.

But what happens when
it doesn't? When the
familial effort is less
than ideal and you're seen
worthless, or near so,
to them too?

At least, that's how they
treat you anyway.
k Jul 2014
There are few things
that compare to the
crippling, pounding
defeat of feeling so
irrevocably broken.

Who wants to try
and fix her this time?
k Aug 2015
Maybe it's my soft self
or nature's cruel way of
putting me in my cosmic
place, but being cut down
regularly and thoroughly is
an experience I can't forgive.
k Aug 2014
Every day I wake up,
I wonder when I will break.
One day, it will all be too much:
all the effort, all the time.
I'll just run out.

It's what they call burning
out. The losers , fakes and
wannabes. Those who've
failed themselves and the
ones they love.

Is that who you wanna be?
It scares the **** out of me.
I want to conserve, hold in,
but never give someone who
needs less. So I decide to give.

I will keep passing on pieces
of me to whomever needs love.
I will burn out brightly and hope
for the very best that will come
on the days that are to follow.
k Jun 2014
When I think of her,
I travel back to the age
of precisely 14. Five years
pathetic from my current
life place, but I almost can't
help myself. Almost.

After all this time, it's not
you I don't trust. Really. I'd
be able to admit that. But it's
her. It's the thought and feeling
of knowing she once danced across
your skin, breathed you in and held
you so close like I desperately do.

I never want to lose this. Never want
to lose you, in my arms and I in yours.
It's inconsequential, but then again,
so were a lot of things.
k Jan 2015
I hate reading about diet attempts
and people pushing half-assed
remedies to fix an already fractured
view of reality that says fat is failure.

"Fat is ugly. Fat is wrong. Rolling
curves on any body screams lazy,
inadequate, unacceptable and
less."

Sometimes that toxic seed of thought
taints the soul resting in my ribcage.
It quakes the muscles entwined masterfully in my bones. It makes me feel hatred. For myself, not others.

It's easier to throw up your dinner than to push up your esteem. Besides, lying on a cold bathroom floor is more refreshing than any gym I've ever encountered.

I'm stronger than a stereotype. I'm stronger than another disorder. I'm stronger than I get credit for and than the people that push me down for who I am.
This is a ******* mess of thoughts that I probably won't ever try to untangle.
k Feb 2016
Killing my dreams is
something you never
planned on. It's just
collateral damage from
your inability to get
your ******* **** together.
k Aug 2015
The world seems to
fall apart so fluidly after
one breath.

One single moment in space
and time that allows my tightly
wound ribbon to curl and fall
below my feet.

I look down as it sinks to the
dust and mess that lay below;
a once imaginary place for this
neatly kept masterpiece.
k Jun 2014
Two level heads aware of the other,
chasing round and round with voices.
Things said back and forth, yet nothing
different when making choices.

All for one and one for me,
inclined on being right before 12:30.
Fighting isn't new, just a shuffled voice in place of the last feud.

It comes too easy, the chase, that is.
Preying back and forth for another
opportunity rather than miss.

That's the true difference between
you and I, you see. I look for
truth: bitter and cold, while you look for sympathy.
k Jun 2014
I'm addicted.
Hot. Rushing. Yearning.
Every weekend is my fix.
Monday through Friday
are a mere blur.
Days & nights I
pray for, are the ones
I spend in your company.
k Nov 2014
Lost are the ways
of respect and love,
people just searching
for lust and other drugs.

It's easy to lose yourself
in the world,
so many moving pieces--
easy to sway a girl.

But I will continue to
root myself in faith,
and search for who I
am in this crazy place.
k Mar 2014
Cliche and unimportant:
the worries of a perpetual
spaz who cannot let go
of "her control" of the world.

Because, for her,
reality has a firm place
in her calloused palm,
while she truly plays
puppeteer to the hand dealt
to her each day.

With every interaction,
emotion, situation and the like,
she's pushed farther.
Farther away from "the plan"
and closer to where
she should be.

Why, then, is it so bad?
Why, then, does anxiety creep?
When control, fickle like the weather,
escapes so easily from her grasp.
k Oct 2014
Nothing churns harder
than the negative feelings
locked inside a chest of
regret and depression.

If you can't face the
demons inside, it makes
it near impossible
to face the present.
k Apr 2014
Tonight, I poured my
emotional mess on the sidewalks.
I watched it splatter onto the brick
walls next to me and into the cool
cement below my feet.

I let the anxiety take control, again.
I let it feast on my sadness and spew
out manifestations of angst and pain that only a mind such as mine could. But I suppose that's not the worst thing.

I feel like I'm failing again. I feel like I'm losing a piece of myself. I'm losing grip with what I need to be doing.

But who the **** even knows what that is anyway?
**** ******* poem for a **** ******* night.
k Aug 2014
Blood is pumping down
to his toes, but rushing faster
and further to his head.

The room is spinning, his
lungs are burning...he's sure
this is the closest he's ever been to feeling physically dead.

Drugs, *** and another fix:
anything at all to get by. A
fire in his heart, extinguished,
compares not to the tears in his eyes.

Without anyone in the world, he
readies one last hit. He'd rather
clutch onto a syringe that admit
the pain he feels inside.
k Aug 2014
I would rather escape
than sit in the prison
I call "my room."

Your words are
the nails that force me
into my tomb.
k Apr 2014
I sometimes wish
I could simply light my
life on fire...a bursting,
roaring eruption of power.

I search for strength and
opportunity, naturally. But
it doesn't feel like enough
anymore. Not for me.

Maybe it's depression, they
say. It's a phase, a bad day,
a road bump in the path.
But what if it's not?

What if it's perpetual?
A continuing state of on
and off...slowing coming and
going from emotion to emotion.

I guess, in a way, that's
life, right? Uncertainty.  
Madness. Destruction and then
rebuilding from what once was.
k Jul 2014
Tearing yourself down
is so much easier than
getting up, standing your
ground and accepting
everything that you are.

Why is it that it's so natural
to push someone away
who can do that for you
when you can't even do it
for yourself?

Walls. 100 feet high that
people slam around themselves
to protect everyone from
the monsters that we
think we are inside.

With each good thing comes
ten bad and what type
of sick *******
wants to expose you to that?

I guess I do.
k Apr 2014
Here's to the ones that deal
with the annoyances of every
day life. To all who choke down
the pounding alarm of morning
and avoid falling asleep on the
highway to another day of mindless
"living life." No questions, please.

No interruptions in the routine. No
radical injections of new ideas or change...but most importantly, no criticism of the daily dose of life here, in the Valley of average and desemated.

To those who fall in line with the rest, hoping that this morning's coffee is the last they'll ever sip. Or to the paper man driving and praying today's the day his car will finally slide off into a ditch of peace. Some type of homicidal heaven to escape the suffocating grip reality seems to hold...to break free of the fleeting expectation of greatness, when all you have to offer is yourself.
k Oct 2014
Postmarked today,
return to sender.
Package contained:
older, no better.
Letter inside read
"keep your own 'treasure.'"
k Jun 2014
Near 20, I was hoping for
too much, too fast. Praying for
hopes and dreams and glorious
memories that I was sure would
last.

What I've got is more than most,
I will admit unapologetically. I
guess that's just the American inside me.

I expect what I have and I'm grateful
for it, if that makes any sense at all.
I have food on my plate and a roof over head, but somehow I yearn for more...a greater call.

Near rhymes are nice, but symphonies of melodic rejoice are more my speed. Things that go together and mesh and generally agree.

I'm looking for a greater self and purpose: things not easily found. I thought I always knew what I wanted, but perhaps I'm not that profound.

I take pride in what I know and love all I can, but is that enough to save a soul? This life is only a short time coming and already partially gone; maybe there's more to this life story than racing towards worldly goals.
k Feb 2016
My poems never made
much sense while they
float around my head.
Just useless words stitched
together to dig deep
at some inner beast
that roars in my soul.
k Jun 2014
Who the **** wants to hear
another sob story of a girl all alone,
bored with her thoughts or the
agony of being home?

How the light of the sun casts
out all her faults, or simply
pretending that long, hot
June days are soon to be lost.

Summer is choking in more
ways than one, forcing relations
with those whom you'd rather
be done.

Lost friends we call them, those
from your past. But truth be told,
everyone knew we'd never last.

**** foundations split sooner
than hoped, but what was lost
to her then was more than just most...

Most of what she clung to from
days of old, where the glory of
embroidered polos signified gold.

But here, two years later from the
grim summer of '12, she closes old
books and shoves them back to their shelves.

Banished are the memories of these
days from the past, and cut are the ties from "friends" who'd never last.
Old memories creeping in as familiar faces pass me by while home.
k Jul 2014
Her grip on him was iron
and long. Kisses locked on
necks and arms wrapped so
strong.

It's near criminal, the feelings
she possesses for him--a man
with great prowess who'd go
out on a limb.

A limb for her happiness, her
long running love. Forever, just
maybe, for this couple so strong.
k Jul 2014
I stare into the half length,
double wide vanity that sits
poised in my two bathroom home.

It's reflection of me, naked and
unrefined, are often and unmistakingly
disappointing. But, no longer.

I will embrace my scars of battle. I
will soak in the curves and crevices
of the weight I carry with me.

Counting carbs and chasing carrots
with salad day after day were never
really even my style.

Health. Happiness. Heart. Those
are what matter. Cliche, yes. But true:
A number on a scale is nothing.

I clutch my sides and embrace the
mountains that ridge and peak
laterally on my canvas.

I embrace my full bust and curvy
thighs with earnest demeanor. I
am an image of me. Nearly 20.

No longer will I hold my head low
at a passing glance. I refuse to hide
in clothes too large to disguise my shape.

Beauty is who you are. It's not what
you look like according to the golden
ratios or whatever the hell "they" say.
Time for a change. It's time to be better.
k Jul 2014
When did hugging a
porcelain crown make
you the beautiful person
you've always been?

When did returning all
a day's calories make things
a bit better for you to deal
with?

Control. Power. Devestation.
All you're doing is losing.
Losing inches and pounds to
illness and frowns...ones that
are noticed more than you think.
k Jul 2014
There's nothing more luxurious
than tossing and turning with conversation between my head
and the pillow it rests on.

Sleep is a desperate cry away,
between the anxieties of the night
and causal analysis of the last
thirteen hours of existence.
k Aug 2014
My perfect happy place
is somewhere in between
your inner arm and chest:
a place I call my pocket.

Here, I tuck away all the
bad thoughts, insecurities,
tears and restlessness and
am relaxed by the scent of
you, so close to me.
k Oct 2014
A plant can't grow
without sunshine,
rain or the proper
tenderness and care
that few with green
thumbs, of the highest
regard, can provide.

These seeds, babes in
their own right, need
soil and space and air to
breathe...a balance
tricky to obtain. Mother
Nature, the Provider of
goodness and grace,
fills the Earth with
endless opportunities--

Places for seedlings to
root and stretch their
stalks and leaves. The
soil, precise and sweet,
must enrich the vulnerability
it encases--a new being
so slight, that the swift
stamp of a foot will
obliterate it's existence.
k Aug 2014
Hold your head higher,
thighs closer together,
tail bone just aligned.

Beauty is not a
classic thing, just
another poor design.

If the skin isn't flawless,
if the hair isn't just right,
it will simply be denied.

Plastic culture and plastic people
are what we've evolved into,
simply aching for a fix.

We see attractive as a
*** thing; changing ultimately
for the perfect mix.

Proportions sent from heaven,
a golden trio will do.
But when our expectations fail,
all that's left is imperfect "you."
k Jul 2014
It's been far too long since
I picked up a hymnal, or
endulged in the physical
flesh and blood of God.

I pray for peace: among
others: friend or foe and for
me. So that I can be ok with
myself and sleep soundly.

Why am I so afraid to go back
into a place that gave me solice
in times where I needed it most?
Distance. Laziness. Excuses. All
signs that point me in the opposite
direction of where I need to be...

But if I know this and I know how
to solve it, why don't I? Why don't
I reconnect with faith? Why don't I
motivate myself to do it.

I don't really know.
k Dec 2014
I tear away at my skin
as a coping mechanism
for many things. It's tragic,
really...tearing away at the
vessel that carries me through
my attempts to save myself
from the world I live in.
k Dec 2014
It's easier to whisper
the thoughts from the
caverns of your mind
into the cheap cotton
strands of my pillow case
than it is to face the world
at a college where people
care more about what I can
offer them instead of the soul
behind the skin they see.
k Sep 2014
Sleepless nights and tired eyes
ring in the morning sun.
There's not much feeling inside,
just another lonely night for one.

It's easy to cry in the dark,
with air so cold it cuts deep.
With the pain you feel inside
so intense, the AM light just bleeds.

Ambien, NyQuil, Benadryl, Lunesta:
name a drug you haven't tried.
Nothing you swallow or choke down
can help you escape your mind.
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