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Aspen Jun 2015
it's been a few hours
and a few drinks
i miss you
Aspen Jan 2015
i'm trying to keep
my head above the
water but the waves
you've been creating
are brutal and i don't
know how to swim
Aspen Apr 2015
you could search for
the reasons your entire
life but truth be told
you're ****** up and
that's all there is to it
beautiful or not you
are a walking tragedy
there's nothing more
disappointing than
waking up on accident
taking all the pills that
should have killed you
but couldn't get the job
done this really *****
Aspen Nov 2014
we were sitting in your car
in the church parking lot
and you told me about your
dad and i told you about
mine and you said you really
liked me and all i could
think about was everyone that
left only minutes after
saying they never would
Aspen Apr 2015
under the light of about
three stars and a tiny
sliver of moon i caught
a glimpse of your face
you were tired and sad
and void of anything
else it's like you were
drained of all thought
and emotion and refilled
with tears and exhaustion
things were rough then
Aspen Mar 2015
i couldn't tell you when
i last smiled and i have
no clue when i laughed
genuinely but i can tell
you about all the nights
i held the pills in my
hand, ready to swallow
every last one and i can
remember exactly how
it felt to know i'm not
even strong enough
to finally set myself
free
Aspen Dec 2014
i'm ripping apart my body
at the seams trying to find
the parts you may have left
behind but so far i've come
up with nothing
i'm all alone here and i'm
only trying to find an escape
and i know i'm looking in
all of the wrong places but
i've got to look somewhere
right?
Aspen Nov 2014
you called
me so many
names i could
barely keep track
but i did and i can't
help but wonder how
i let you hurt me so often
or how i managed to stay sane
Aspen Dec 2014
i was trying so hard and
put everything on the
line just to see you
i did everything i could to
build you up while you
were too busy tearing
me down to notice
but now that i've given up
you want to see me more
than ever and you need
me in your life?
i refuse to be a doll
sitting on a shelf
in the back of
your mind
Aspen Nov 2014
you always asked me
why i sleep so much
but the truth is i don't
get more than a few
hours of sleep
i lay awake all night
waiting for someone
to notice i'm alone and
i'm scared and i can't
seem to find a reason
to live
i wanted you to notice
i was dropping hints
i was leaving clues
i was waiting
Aspen Jun 2015
i understand everyone
gets sad at one point or
another but god when
does it ******* end
Aspen Jan 2015
i know i'm sad most
of the time and also
usually hard to deal
with but you do it
and you make me
feel like i'm on top
of the world and i
don't think i've ever
been so thankful for
one person in my
entire life
Aspen Apr 2015
it's hard to look in the mirror
some days and sometimes it
gets too hard to connect with
people and i just can't force
myself to be interested
it feels like there's a blanket
covering me and it's comfortable
but i can't see anything and it's
getting hard to breathe and i'm
starting to miss the fresh air and
the people that care
i keep trying to crawl out from
under this small fortress but it
won't move so i guess i can't either
and i'm getting scared
i miss talking to my mom about
the sunny days and listening to
my sister ramble on about things
that happened at school
and it's messed up but most of all
i miss the way you would come home
and you'd be angry about work so
you'd rant for hours about how you
can't believe people are so stupid or
you wish you didn't have to sit at
that computer all day
i only wanted to help you and take
the stress away but you always
shunned me and pushed me away
like i was some kind of stranger
breaking into your home
you broke into my heart and left
a terrible mess then you left me
alone to clean it up but there's
blood on the walls and bits
of you in everything i do
i don't think this is going to work
Aspen Feb 2015
it's one of those nights
again where i can feel
my chest tightening up
at the thought of you
and my eyes are burning
fighting the tears that
you once promised to
never cause
Aspen Nov 2014
you always got frustrated
because i refused to use any
capital letters and hated
punctuation
you said everything looked
like one giant sentence and
it confused you
i never told you that i typed
only with these tiny letters and
spaces and apostrophes in
fear that if i didn't i'd never
get everything out in time
Aspen Dec 2014
drink, drink, drink
over and over again
and try to stop and
pick up the bottle
again
laugh at yourself in
the mirror and then
cry about how you
can't even take yourself
seriously
why can't i stop this
anymore?
the pounding headache
and the hangovers are
almost too much and
i don't know if i can
handle this sadness
Aspen Dec 2014
i'm crossing oceans
and i'm making waves
and i'm becoming a tsunami
i'm causing a *******
scene because *******
it i miss you so much tonight
Aspen Mar 2015
i'm trying to forget
how it felt when you
ran your fingertips
across my skin and
the sound you made
when i kissed your
collarbones but god
i can't help it i can't
erase you from my
mind and you know
i'd still drink your
******* bathwater
Aspen Jun 2015
it's almost like some
kind of terrible joke
like
you are paper
i am glue
i'm so *******
stuck on you
Aspen Dec 2014
i hate when you don't respond
late at night and i know you're
getting much needed rest i'm
sorry for being so selfish and
needy but i don't think i've
ever been anything else
Aspen Apr 2015
everything's gone to hell but
i'm still clinging on to the hope
that i will wake up one morning,
finally feeling at peace,
and turn everything around.
but, until then, i'm muddling
through the storms and
crawling through the barbed
wires and that's okay with
me because i know this, like
everything else, will pass.
in time.
Aspen Jan 2015
i think i'm forgetting
how to talk i'm losing
my words in all of the
tears and blood and its
getting a little harder to
stand up without falling
over i don't know if i can
be saved at this point but
it would be nice if someone
tried to pull me above water
Aspen Jun 2015
i can't control
my emotions but
**** it they
******* control me
Aspen Jun 2015
i've seen you missing
her and her missing you
and i feel like i'm in the way
of something better but i can't
make myself leave you're under
my skin
Aspen Mar 2015
i've got friends and they
follow me around and
they whisper secrets
in my ears but they
mostly just make
me cry and hide
and i can't see
them very well
but i know they're
there and sometimes
i wish i could shake
them off my back but
i know i'm not strong
enough and their names
are Loneliness, Self-Doubt,
and Hopelessness and they
wanted to play today but
i couldn't find Confidence
Aspen Nov 2014
these poems are so
short but so was our
time and so was the
moment on christmas
eve when you looked
at me and promised
you'd never say
anything to hurt me
Aspen Apr 2015
i've been slipping in and out
of consciousness and i wish
i could pick one because this
back and forth is almost as
terrible as what you did to me
Aspen Nov 2014
i eat alone and sleep
alone and i go out alone
and stay home alone
and ******* it i'm so
tired of being alone
Aspen Apr 2015
it was nice of you to
say you loved me but
it would have been
nicer if you meant it
it was kind of you to
tell me you cared but
it would have been
kinder if you had been
there when i needed you
it was sweet of you to
say i was yours but
it would have been sweeter
if you had kept me
Aspen Nov 2014
i'll tear my skin away
down to the bone
will you see me then?
will you notice my pain?
will you see how hard i'm
trying?
or will you ignore me as
though i don't exist?
******* it.
you are the whole *******
solar system
and i'm a piece of satellite
debris,
floating around you,
never really meaning
anything.
solar system angry ignored alone lonely sad
Aspen Jun 2015
it's almost 4am now and i keep
having small flashbacks to the
first time we hung out and how
you kept saying you were sorry
for where we ended up but i didn't
care i was just happy you were around
i've never wanted someone to stay
so terribly my entire life and that
day still makes me smile
Aspen Mar 2015
the woman in white will tell you
"you shouldn't be doing that" and
she'll give you a slap on your other
wrist as not to stain her gown and
you'll look at her and then at the
man in grey and he'll wink and tell
you it's okay and that she's not upset
and he'll encourage you to do it again
so you will because you don't know
why but you want to impress him and
defy her so you keep going and ignore
the woman and slowly pull away from
the man because you want to be on your
own now and then you're alone and you're
playing that risky game again but the blood's
coming out too fast this time and you can't
stop it on your own and you can't find
those old friends anywhere and you're
completely alone now and you know
it's your fault but you're still looking
for someone else to blame or help or
hold on to but this is it this is the ending
you thought for so long you wanted and
it's beautiful and it's ugly and you hate it
and you miss the slaps on the wrist because
she cared and you hate the wink and smile
because he made you this way but he didn't
because you did this and you're dizzy now
and everything's getting fuzzy and you
can't get up and she comes back not to
slap your wrist but to tell you to go home
with her and you do and it's peaceful
you're finally happy and that was all it took
Aspen Apr 2015
i'm so tired of trying to make
other people feel better when
i can't even drag myself out of
bed half the time
i wish i could take my friends'
pain away so they'd all be ok
or at least better than me
maybe then i could focus on
myself but that's a distant
dream i couldn't reach with
fifty-foot arms
sometimes i feel doomed to
lay in bed alone and scream
at my reflection every time
i pass the mirror
this is mostly just rambling
Aspen Jan 2015
it's three-thirty AM and
i'm trying to pull myself
together and i'm putting
on a pretty good act but
it's getting harder and
my skin is only getting
thinner
Aspen Nov 2014
look at me god
**** it look at
me and tell me
i matter and tell
me your parents
don't hate the
thought of us
loving each other
and make your
eyebrows do that
silly thing they
did at 2am that
one time in your
basement and
tell me this isn't
happening
Aspen Nov 2014
i still find it so
strange that as
soon as i was
gone you went
right back to
everyone you
said you never
would
Aspen Mar 2015
you can feel flooding your
chest like a tsunami
you can hear in the pauses
on your rainy-days playlist
you can see in the cracks in
the pavement
you can smell in the blown
out candles
you can taste in the bitterness
of your lonely morning coffee
Aspen Apr 2015
staying up all night
getting high to forget my problems
judging everyone i see
watching too many movies
ignoring everyone
constantly overthinking
drinking until i pass out
sleeping all day
paying bills late
biting my nails
screaming into pillows
missing old friends
smoking
overdrafting
not taking any advice
avoiding social opportunities
pocketing candy at the market
(this isn't even everything)
Aspen Dec 2014
coffee helps keep me awake
but nothing keeps me up quite
like the thought of you loving
someone else
Aspen Nov 2014
i was walking for miles
and you asked me why
i was out so late
it was freezing cold and
the rain was picking up
i thought no one would
notice me but you did
you picked me up and
asked me where i was
going and why i wasn't
home and if i knew how
to make a fire without a
lighter or matches
you made sure there
wasn't a moment of silence
during the whole car ride
and i never noticed you were
driving me home until you
pulled into my drive way
i asked you how you knew
where i lived and you said
remember that time in
elementary school you
invited me over after school
because you heard my mom
left us?

i said yes, i didn't say i
thought about it for years
wondering if you remembered
how when you were going
home that night i told you i
loved you
Aspen Nov 2014
you never understood why
i always wanted to stay in
every night and neither did
i but you forced me to go out
and expected me to be grateful
but you were hurting me and
i couldn't breathe and i tried
to tell you over and over it's
not helping but you never
listened and now you're angry
with me for cutting off the one
person that never really wanted
me to get better
Aspen Jun 2015
it's late at night it's
the middle of the day
it's early in the morning
it's all evening it's every time
i'm alone it's when i try to
hangout with other
people it's when
you're busy
i miss you
this with you / without you ratio is killing me
Aspen Feb 2015
sometimes i'm not even sad
i just lose all motivation
and then people think i'm
ignoring them and i guess
i am and in my head i'm like
"respond to them get up do
something anything stop just
staring at nothing" and the
entire rest of me is like "sit
back down it's easier to withdraw
yourself when you're completely
mentally detached"
i'll probably delete this later
Aspen Nov 2014
they'll say you're too
young and you have
no experience and you
don't know what you're
doing and it's impossible
at your age but *******
it you know what you
feel and you're not about
to let that go for anyone or
anything and that's all that
matters
Aspen Nov 2014
i don't know what
to do and i'm shaking
and i can't stand up
and i'm falling apart
here and will i ever
stop crying and will
you ever start
caring
Aspen Nov 2014
my birthday is coming up
faster than ever and i've
been waiting for you to ask
me what i want or do i
feel older yet or what i'm
going to do but you
haven't said a word and i
guess i'm just getting
used to that
Aspen Mar 2015
lately i've been doing more
staring at the pages than
actually reading
and i've been doing more
smoking than quitting
and i've been doing more
laying in bed wishing i was
anywhere else than sleeping
and i've been doing more
binge drinking than trying
to sober up
but mostly i've been doing
more missing you than
forgetting you and that might
be the biggest problem here
Aspen Feb 2015
you cast me away like
it was nothing
like i was nothing
i hit rock bottom and
then some
i pulled myself up and
over all of your harsh
words and too-tight
grips on my arms
i'm ******* soaring
so when you come
knocking on my door
asking for the compassion
and understanding i once
wasted on you
don't be surprised when i
launch you out to sea
Aspen Dec 2014
all i really have right now
are these old photos and
memories of everything
that happened and that
recurring dream about
the night you said you
don't love me anymore
i'm trying to just forget
it but it's engraved in my
mind and there's nothing i
can do about the tears tonight
Aspen Nov 2014
time's going by slower and
slower and it's getting hard
to look at myself in the
mirror but i did this to myself
and i know i did and i can feel
the regret creeping up behind
me and i can feel it crawling
on my skin and into my pores
and sinking it's teeth into my
bones
the pain is taking over and it's
getting hard to breathe and i
can't tell reality from nightmare
and maybe that's what i've been
after all along
why didn't you stop me why
would you ever let this happen
to me you let me tear the flesh
from my bones just for the show
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