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Kiernan Norman Nov 2012
swim until you can’t see land

until names etched deep in cardiac tissue blur

and fade, scored over with seasalt and creases of a million maps,

a secret stash of maps. absurd and hoarded and crumpled under carseats and

rolled neat

and boastful in umbrella holders or worse, framed and hung

Maps jotted freehand on napkins stained with tea and mustard and left

to be bused with the crusts and pocketful of change.

swim until you can’t read the maps.

the lines to here from there are arteries

on your fresh, clean heart.
Helena Feb 2013
Nobody respects a liar.

I just want to know if they chose, or just learned to cool down quicker than me.

Im not learning anything about

the riddles I gave myself years ago.

Cardboard sleeves and my truth explodes

When I fall like the last leaf.

What is one thing I have always been?

I have always been an apologist.

What else?

because everyone, you already know that.

I hate female vocalists. unless they sound like they cant stand themselves.

Unless they sound as disinterested in their own voice as I am in mine, I cant stand them.

I only respect female singers who play their own **** instruments.

And I will never have the guts to ask if you're wearing your heart on your sleeve

Or if it's just me and my wearing my heart as my sleeve.

Sometime ago I asked myself if I could see ahead, and I laughed, and hit my ****.

Ive suffered,

and Ive sang it off.

Even when I couldnt sing a note to save my pathetic life.

No one respects a liar.

im not a liar.

Im not different at all.

In fact, im exactly what I've been grown around.

Im half alive and I'm nothing but sacrifice and I feel worthy when my worth is measured in something else.


There is not one thing I can stand less than people who do not underdstand their own language.

for gods sake, it's they're, not there. it's here. not heir. it's i BEFORE e.

but im a hypocrite,

because half the time...most the time i dont capitalize any I's that i'm using to explain about myself.


i think it's because it's not worth the stretch to hit the shift bar.

for myself I'm lazy.

I have an eleven key hand span on the piano, and i cannot even type properly.

thats an octave and a half almost.

I was born to be a woman that pays her taxes and has a checking account.

And a four door sedan with two carseats.

And a ring around my finger, a two bedroom house and bedtime stories all over the bookshelves.

I want to teach my partner how to play the ukulele,

i want to show my children that faith is real,

even if god isnt.

I want a family that will have me for the rest of their lives,

through good or bad.

Through tradgedy, illness,

thinness, gain, loss, stress, sobriety,

through debt and through retirement.

I was made to give,

and I feel selfish for writing this.

Because its all about me.

I want to give myself to something.

I want to be the best fiance I can be.

I want to be the best student I can be.

The best daughter.

The best owner to my pets.

The best aunt, neice, cousin.

I want to the best wife

and mother I can be.







I'm not lying.
Cypher Jul 2017
You're the foundation of my love
With a hallway to my youth
The ceiling is caving in
You deserve to know the truth
No running water
Taking showers with bottled water
Shovel in my hand
  Im digging myself farther
Inhale then exhale
Before the bell rings
I never knew this was the type
of drama commitment brings
A dagger to the heart
Your look of disgust
Like im a first round pick
Turning out to be a bust
Now it's the middle of the summer
And my actions getting dummer
Now im feeling buried alive
Promises i couldnt keep
And the only time i get to see you is when i go to sleep
Woah
The sky never seemed so low
Im looking at her like you never seemed so close
Everything is perfect you know i love you the most
Forever here with open arms you know how i feel
I love when you meet me in my dreams
Everything's so real
Everything's so real
Baby i can hear your heartbeat
Everything's so real
We got babies sitting in the carseats
Everything's so real
Everything's so real
Everything's so real



Leave Me In Reality
Man i wish i could live in our fantasy forever
And **** reality cause then we'll never be together
In reality everyday is another battle
My mind and my hearts in a trance steadily taking collateral
Not searching for sympathy
Not trying to play victim
I keep my feelings locked in a basement
Praying the demons stay with em
In reality im lost, searching without a clue
In reality im lowkey always thinking about you
But in reality i highkey can never let you know
Cause in reality we threw everything out the window
In reality lord ive gone blind
In reality im too comfortable with not trying
In reality ive came a custom to lust another curse of mankind
And in reality two nickles dont add up to a dime
But in reality the perfect girl never gets enough time
Take a shot in the dark
Its tearing us apart
"Smite me with madness, blindness, and astonishment of heart"
Deuteronomy 28:28
Go to sleep
Wake up
Playing a game of give and take

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