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18.7k · Apr 2014
trust
Marly Apr 2014
I'd let you slice open my veins because I know you'd stitch them up.
15.0k · Apr 2014
beauty
Marly Apr 2014
i passed a woman walking her dog while on my evening stroll the other day.
her blonde hair curled at the ends, smile-lines appeared as if there were drawn in with a 2b pencil and her eyes shone like fresh uranium.
words like small, big, skinny, fat, ugly, and pretty shouldn't be used to describe beauty or lack of thereof.
******* it, people
11.8k · Apr 2014
touch
Marly Apr 2014
he reads the goosebumps on my skin like an old blind man reads braille.
7.7k · Apr 2014
psychology
Marly Apr 2014
understanding the human mind just teaches us how to manipulate it better.
a reason why i don't like shrinks.
6.3k · May 2014
fireworks
Marly May 2014
she expected
f  i  r  e  w  o  r  k  s
when she first kissed him.
little did she know that she was going to become the fireworks.

she was an easy target, and he had good aim.
as soon as she f
                         e
                           l
                             l  
into his grasp, he was quick to send her back from where she came.

crowds gathered.
fathers' hands silenced their children's mouths as his loaded her into the mortar.
mothers' hands covered their children's ears as his lit the fuse.

she was shot forward by a merciless puff of dragon's breath,
and as she looked over her shoulder,
she saw the ash leaking from his nostrils.

stars beckoned to her.
glimmering, shimmering, shining stars extended their fiery hands to her already outstretched ones.
she rose higher and higher,
filling her lungs with the last bit of oxygen that was left,
and screamed.

he screamed.
her flaming body parts rained down in the form of asteroids, striking him.
stars spelled out her name and pulsed weakly like his dying heartbeat.
they both went from "are" to "were" in a matter of seconds, and everyone knew that their chemical reaction was triggered by fireworks.
5.5k · May 2014
floating and sinking.
Marly May 2014
I'm too high and you're too low.
I miss the way we balanced each other out.
15w. Sigh.
5.2k · Apr 2014
a second reminder.
Marly Apr 2014
sweetheart,
the universe would bend to be in your favour because that's how amazing you are.
5.0k · Apr 2014
ruined
Marly Apr 2014
i want to take cocktail after cocktail of pills until my body represents the mess that is my mind.
4.3k · Apr 2014
addicted
Marly Apr 2014
there is
no such thing
as a good addiction.
i'll elaborate one day.
4.0k · Apr 2014
dropping incredibly
Marly Apr 2014
my grades have dropped from nineties to seventies and i am incredibly sad.
my heart has been dropped down countless flights of stairs and i am incredibly bruised.
my body has dropped off of a balcony from thirteen stories high and i am incredibly gone.
yeeeeup
3.4k · Apr 2014
good morning to you, too.
Marly Apr 2014
Ah yes.
Sobbing while brushing my teeth.
I never thought the day would come where I'd taste mint and salt together,
But here it is.
3.3k · Apr 2014
not really a secret, anymore
Marly Apr 2014
there are so many poems on this website that i secretly dedicate to you.
3.2k · Apr 2014
space travel
Marly Apr 2014
Maybe one day, you should take me to your planet. The atmosphere on mine is disappearing and I'm finding it hard to breathe.
3.1k · Apr 2014
crooked
Marly Apr 2014
I have braces on more than just my teeth.
The only difference is that they won't be coming off once things straighten out.
3.0k · Apr 2014
goddamn i try so hard
Marly Apr 2014
i try my best to take care of you but all you do is cry about how nobody cares
Marly Apr 2014
I want to be welded to you like the tongue of a curious child freezes to a poll when it's below zero outside.
it's still cold enough for this.. **** Canada.
2.8k · Jun 2014
Six feet
Marly Jun 2014
He's six feet above
And he's missing her because
She's six feet under.
2.8k · May 2014
11:54pm
Marly May 2014
I've known you for three years and I still don't know whether that is red lipstick or blood on your lips.
2.7k · Apr 2014
10w
Marly Apr 2014
10w
You are an exotic fruit that I've yet to taste.
Thought I'd try one of these.
It isn't really a story. Is it supposed to be? I don't know. Oh well.
Truth is I'm too tired to expand. Maybe I will one day.
2.7k · Apr 2014
off of my pills for today
Marly Apr 2014
a lot of things happen when i decide to avoid what's supposed to fix me.
i'm lost in a sea of beer and cigarette fish swim in the surrounding waters.
somehow, this whole concoction is aflame.
i wonder why i'm not being burned alive yet.
i seriously lack any sense of anything and i'm slouching and it hurts my back a lot
2.5k · May 2014
i am okay
Marly May 2014
i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay i am okay.
are you really
2.4k · Apr 2014
my throat is sore
Marly Apr 2014
it feels like the blood inside my veins is moving like quick dry cement does ten hours after it's poured
simultaneously a storm brews in them
similar to how mom once brewed soup that tasted of distanced family and bile
bile which still resides in a clump at the back of my throat from the last time i said your name
you are he-who-shall-not-be-named since saying your name is as dangerous as saying Voldemort’s
monochromatic colour schemes make up my world, each day either tinted or shaded
usually shaded because I was told that dark colours are slimming and that thought never left my mind
rain smudges all of the pigments together and even my glasses can't correct my vision
i love rain but my rainbows are always brown-black
like those karate belts you had when you lived
or how she used to mix all of her playdoh together
i used to believe that she created the world that way
god i wish i was right.
things would be better with you her
2.4k · Apr 2014
school thoughts
Marly Apr 2014
We are like fish in a tank.
We don't know that we're trapped until someone sets us free.
Tanks have boundaries.
IM IN SCHOOL BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE MY CLASS IS SO IM JUST IN THE HALL THIS IS BAD
2.2k · Apr 2014
a journey
Marly Apr 2014
I hate living in this spread out town where I have to drive ten miles just to get to a bus that will drive for twenty additional ones just to get to Walgreen's to buy ******* soap to wash my mother's back because she can't wash it herself.
No clue where this came from.
Marly Apr 2014
I would never undress my mind for you so why did I undress my body
2.1k · Apr 2014
What water can do.
Marly Apr 2014
When I was little, I refused to get out of the bathtub until the water cooled down completely and my skin resembled my grandmother's.
Now that I'm older, I take showers that seem to last forever.
I feel like the water is washing away all of the bad, all of what's wrong with me.
I'll go outside in the summer just to stand completely still in the torrents of rain, waiting for something to happen.
After all, I learned in school that water is the strongest force on Earth.
That water can conquer anything.
Water shaped the mountains.
Water shaped my bones.
Water will change my fate.
2.0k · Apr 2014
please be my copper penny.
Marly Apr 2014
I'm sick of being of led on why do you remind me of him why do you remind me of him am I just paranoid or are you just another Nick Nick Jr. second edition Nick so many Nicks I can't even breathe because the air is Ni2O I still have that ***** and disgusting nickel that I bent down in the middle of the road to pick up and which nearly got me killed please tell me you're a beautiful copper penny because those don't exist anymore in my country but I crave them more than anything.
Today has been one hell of a slap in the face.
1.9k · Mar 2014
cold.
Marly Mar 2014
my vision is black
no twinkling stars
to brighten my night
you never realize
how cold space is
until you're engulfed
in its darkness

lips numb and blue
cold sweat *******
the heat from my bones
muscles contracting
violent spasming
jaw chattering, clicking
noises echoing
in the emptiness

i have been reduced
to a pile of rubble
called 'bones'
if i was human
then where is
my soul?
1.8k · Apr 2014
wierd.
Marly Apr 2014
it's been an awfully long time...
i'm sitting in the wierdest position on my school bleachers.
i refused to do gym because i feel like **** and i can't stand the way you try to get a glimpse of my bare skin.
if i was dying right in front of you, you'd ask me what was wrong instead of taking care of me.
i love the silence between songs.
i don't write on the lines because i want all of my words to be between them.
when i very sad i only notice it afterwards as i survey all of the damage that has been done.
i haven't stopped shaking and i'm surprised i haven't started an earthquake but these tremors seem to only be native to my planet.
my doctor has managed to fit my entire being onto three pieces of paper.
scares me to death.
constantly i switch the song i'm listening to because i'm trying to feel one thousand things at once.
i'm glad that you met me in the winter because things just go uphill from here so you won't be disappointed.
although i can't say that they won't get worse again in the next winter.
even if you're here,
even though winter is my favourite season,
even though the snow cools down my fevered skin,
even though even though even though it's ******* winter and these ******* pills are supposed to make me ******* happy.
i haven't been writing the way i usually do, recently
1.8k · Apr 2014
queen street west
Marly Apr 2014
my stomach hurts a ton and the flowers on my skirt have been lying to me
ouch and ouch
1.7k · Dec 2015
Hannah
Marly Dec 2015
Can the soul be cremated? Is she still with me?
A once alive body turned into smoldering remains in a matter of moments, residing now on a shelf for all to simultaneously acknowledge and ignore.
Hannah, I miss you incredibly.
1.7k · May 2014
punctuation lesson number 1
Marly May 2014
a, comma, tells, us, when, to, momentarily, pause, or, when, things, don't, belong, together, because sometimes there are people like me who don't know when to pause who can't find the remote who are afraid to stop because what if they never start again?
please never put a comma between you and i.
i love commas
please don't abuse them like you abused me
1.7k · Apr 2014
4'11
Marly Apr 2014
yes,
i'm short,
and i know you can touch the sky while i can't.
why have you never offered me a seat on your shoulders, though?

yes,
i'm short,
however, i could do without you reminding me that nobody wants to draw the short straw.

yes,
i'm short,
but that doesn't mean you should absorb all of the sun as i shrivel up in your shadow.

yes,
i'm short,
yet i still like to feel like i am not.
so i've kinda lost my ability to write again and i wish i knew why
1.6k · Apr 2014
spacers
Marly Apr 2014
I told him that the holes in his ears were individual universes that I'd love to explore,
So he plugged them up.
I should have left you right then and there.
1.4k · Apr 2014
Untitled
Marly Apr 2014
She thought nobody loved her when she was surrounded by those who did.
But the empty feeling inside persisted.
She was commiserated
By those
Who cared
But somehow managed to evade the love
She took a path that helped her circumvent all of the wrong things
And ended up sprinting off of the edge of a cliff.
1.4k · Apr 2014
precocious
Marly Apr 2014
i found a home in your eyes
long before i needed to find a new home
you see, growing up in a family like mine hasn't been easy.
mother began calling me mature when i began calling her "mother" instead of mommy
i stopped being daddy's little girl the day after i was born
i lost the twinkle in my eye too early; my grandmother had hers until the day she died.
maybe i'm dead.
that would explain why all my teachers say that i'm so ******* precocious.
1.3k · Apr 2014
how to be a shrink
Marly Apr 2014
Reverse psychology.
You are a word weaver, use this power to bind people to what they say.
Tighten the ropes every so often so that they know there is no escape.

2. Knead and mould your patients like playdoh, mixing the colours together to create a condensed grey mass of matter.

3. Make your patients believe that they are crazy.
The more issues they have, the more you get paid.

4. Shove biased thoughts and opinions into their ears as if PUTTING IN EAR PLUGS MAKES THEM HEAR BETTER.

5. Smile and nod when they pour themselves out to you like you actually give a ****.

6. Scold them for not telling you their deepest thoughts.
Then, make them your personal mine and take as much gold as you desire.

7. Prescribe pills. All of them.
Your patients will become more beautiful with necklaces made of these colourful beads.

8. Most importantly, make sure none of your patients know each other.
The world need not know that the milk man has schizophrenia and the librarian is bipolar, because everything looks more beautiful when it's glazed and then fired in a kiln.
I just can't fathom this chaos.
1.3k · Apr 2014
Untitled
Marly Apr 2014
I will brand you like a farmer brands his cattle.
My lips will burn marks on your flesh, claiming you as mine.
1.3k · Apr 2014
23:59
Marly Apr 2014
Thinking of you sleeping by my side rouses new feelings deep within me. Leftover makeup melts off my face and I sink lower and lower into the mattress. I remind myself that I can't fall any lower than the floor, although it feels like the opposite.
Sigh
1.2k · Apr 2014
1.
Marly Apr 2014
1.
just go away.
i'm only doing my job and you know that.
these pills that you make me take clean me out of everything that you are convinced is wrong with me
i am not a ******* garbage can.
you can't just rid me of my insides every time you see something you don't like.
if anything, you are the cause of this newly formed rot on my exterior.
developed from some of the 309 words of my friend, Ariella.
this is the first of many poems like this to come.
1.2k · Jun 2014
IN CASE YOU FORGOT..
Marly Jun 2014
i am not a slave to your uncontrollable emotion.
(you forgot.)
Marly May 2014
you?
made of pixels?
hah, if i wanted pixels i would have played nintendo 64 with my neighbour down the street and angrily whispered "h-e-double hockey sticks" under my breath as one of my pixelated hearts faded away.
you are anything but intangible; i can feel your pulse across two countries.
our hearts are undeniably made of flesh.
i know that word grosses you out,
but the blood pumping, orifice-filled organs in our chests constantly beat with the ferocity of 109 percussionists drumming on the queen's birthday.
hearts are not meant for beautification; one cannot get a cosmetic surgery on their heart to impress the girl next door.
it's up to you to pair with your just-as-ugly brain to prove how beautiful love can be.
...to prove how beautiful our love can be. ❤
1.2k · Apr 2014
not really a poem but
Marly Apr 2014
The day I learned that there's no boundary between how I feel emotionally and physically scared me.
I felt like I needed to post something. Poetry is becoming a distant memory.
Marly Mar 2014
death would be easier than dealing with this.
or would it?
i can't be trusted with this decision.
it'd be comforting to know for sure that my life is being controlled by something else.
my veins are aching, leaking out through tiny holes you poked with your teeth
my once full energy supply is now depleting,
battery life draining down to 5%
warning, warning. connect to charger.
1%.
i'll shut down, soon.
hopefully in your arms.
how difficult is it to understand
that people like me never sleep soundly?
i'm sick of you(r) people
and your UPPERCASE letters
UPPERCASE standards
UPPERCASE expectations
you, better than me?
hah.
please.
whispers drawn from scratchy throats,
whispers being the loudest they get,
coated in alcohol and ash.
you try to scream
but your voice is muffled by
the weight of your decisions
i told you to stay with me forever
no way to say no
you're stuck heading in one direction
promises are promises, dear.
you told me you'd rather die.
i'm feeling cold
no shivering, waves of frost wash over instead.
they're much worse.
i keep on tucking my hair behind my ear
it won't stop falling from the perfectly made groove
curved to perfection
signed and dated.
it falls how my best friend "accidentally" fell off of a balcony
mom always warned me about balconies.
why do you think i always walk with one hand against the opposite wall?
it's reminder that you can stay away from the gravitational force that is Earth.
at least, for a bit.
why do spaces matter, anyway
jus ta wayt odi st ance
things that should be,
that belong,
together.
the boy who sits behind me in class
plays with my curls, and then
one day,
he cut them off.
i trusted him.
kinda still do.
trust is a weird thing.
trusting someone not to look when you change is hard,
they could turn around and you'd never know.
somehow,
trusting someone not to tell everyone that you want to die is easy.
i'd trust you even if you held a gun to my temple.
i remember this day. lots of paper.
this day is every day.
1.1k · Apr 2014
god's ashen angel.
Marly Apr 2014
(there was an indent on his lower lip that was certainly made by god for every cigarette that he would expertly smoke)
did i mention that i hate smoking but i love the smell of smoke
Marly Apr 2014
Dreaming keeps you from seeing what's right there in front of you.
Marly Apr 2014
i want to call you up,
and cry into the receiver,
drowning your thoughts with my tears.
all you need to do listen.

i told you that i hope drugs are loving you the way i never will.
drugs don't love, though. (not the way i can, at least.)
drugs constantly consume.
they take your mind,
your body,
your rationality,
your love,
yourself,
and they also took me away from you.

drugs are parasitic, my dear.
sick, twisted, soul-******* beings.
they make you believe that you want them,
that you need them,
and they also lie about their destructive aftermath.
they don't tell you how your nose will slowly disintegrate,
how your lungs will make suitable charcoal mines,
how your brain will only think about drugs,
only drugs,
maybe *******,
but you'd only indulge in that after you popped a molly.

i was your withdrawal.
i made you scream.
you knew i wholeheartedly cared about you;
having that new support was scary.
i made you cry.
i sent you letters and poems late at night,
when your stars aligned with mine and created unbelievable wonders.

now your withdrawal symptoms consist of lonely nights alone,
pounding headaches,
sweaty palms,
a heart plagued with convulsions,
and a body that hates you for what you've done to it.
even though you still appear as a bright star,
you have long since burned out,
and soon people on earth will be able to see this.
oh my oh my oh my oh my oh my oh my oh my.
1.0k · Apr 2014
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE
Marly Apr 2014
i'm incapable of following through with human nature
i feel like a broken bone that never set properly
i am knuckles that never stop cracking
since when did the lunch lady begin switching my apple juice with mercury?
there was a code blue at the hospital today which mean that someone was either in cardiac or respiratory arrest
it reminded me of how i feel every time i talk to you
planted on my seat, i picked at the fabric of my shirt and wondered if you would come visit me if i was at the hospital
i hope to a god that i don't believe in that i actually care about you the way i think i do
because my heart is too drunk to love properly and
my brain is too sober to accept that you care
this poem was bad but it's too cold to focus properly and this lighting is all wrong and you're not here
999 · Mar 2014
Winters in Toronto
Marly Mar 2014
I trudged through the snow in the middle of the road to get home today. If you had voicemail on your phone, I'd probably leave never ending messages.
This is a little bit late. Better late than never, though.
Marly Apr 2014
all these wires around my bed
connecting me to this house and to people
where's the one i can use to charge myself?
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