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"distrustful" poems
I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Fourteen years old I love you, Called out, A promise of returned affection Timid, unsure A response to Insecurities. Not true. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Fifteen years old Distrustful Cynical Confused Emotions flapping about like lost geese Nothing like all the before’s So this is what must be True. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Sixteen years old, That feeling Tumultuous but calming Broken yet whole Lost but found Your deep, beautiful eyes Painful beyond belief, yet the best thing I’ve ever felt Simply, it's true I love you. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Seventeen years old, It’s true What is? That You’re my truth And I love you. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted yet True. Seventeen years old, I love you But… I ****** up I love you But… I kissed someone else We never set boundaries But…. I know I did wrong I love you But… I truly can’t be with you right now. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True.   Seventeen years old, You’re awesome We’re so similar So, I love you? No, I realize that belongs to someone else, But you think it's yours. And that isn't true. **** I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Seventeen years old, I hate myself Because I’ve hurt you Your pain is killing me Though really, it’s me Killing you I love you, It's true. But, How can you ever forgive me? I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old, I love you It’s true But you’re broken still And I wish I could heal the horror I caused For you. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True.   Eighteen years old, I love you Whispered gently Deeply Truly I want to kiss you I want to hold you I want to be with you Can we, please? I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old, Yes. We can. I love you too. I still truly do. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old, I love you But… Why are you doing this to me? Why can’t you talk to me instead of hiding behind the texts? What’s happening? Please. Don’t do it this way. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True.   Eighteen years old, Tears Broken Mind exploding with assumptions Intuition telling the worst of tales Distrustful Hurt Why this pain? I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True.   Eighteen years old, Bitter Am I jealous? This isn’t good… What’s happened to me? Helpless and Still true I love you But... Who knows why? I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old, And here come apologies A letter…. I love letters And I love you too Still, Somehow. It's true. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old I don’t know what’s wrong with me Sad Hurt Insecure Doubtful Distrustful Broken Beyond belief Empty. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old And I keep crying I cried because you were so caring towards to me the other day And it was so sweet. I cried because you hugged me and let me cry on you I cried because I love staring into your deep soulful eyes I cried because I feel so much, all the time, for you I cried because sometimes I truly hate how much I love you. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old, And goodnight dear one, I still really do love you.  And, I promise you  All of this is true.
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Feb 24, 2016
Feb 24, 2016 at 2:31 AM UTC
For Those I've Truly Loved
I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Fourteen years old I love you, Called out, A promise of returned affection Timid, unsure A response to Insecurities. Not true. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Fifteen years old Distrustful Cynical Confused Emotions flapping about like lost geese Nothing like all the before’s So this is what must be True. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Sixteen years old, That feeling Tumultuous but calming Broken yet whole Lost but found Your deep, beautiful eyes Painful beyond belief, yet the best thing I’ve ever felt Simply, it's true I love you. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Seventeen years old, It’s true What is? That You’re my truth And I love you. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted yet True. Seventeen years old, I love you But… I ****** up I love you But… I kissed someone else We never set boundaries But…. I know I did wrong I love you But… I truly can’t be with you right now. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True.   Seventeen years old, You’re awesome We’re so similar So, I love you? No, I realize that belongs to someone else, But you think it's yours. And that isn't true. **** I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Seventeen years old, I hate myself Because I’ve hurt you Your pain is killing me Though really, it’s me Killing you I love you, It's true. But, How can you ever forgive me? I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old, I love you It’s true But you’re broken still And I wish I could heal the horror I caused For you. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True.   Eighteen years old, I love you Whispered gently Deeply Truly I want to kiss you I want to hold you I want to be with you Can we, please? I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old, Yes. We can. I love you too. I still truly do. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old, I love you But… Why are you doing this to me? Why can’t you talk to me instead of hiding behind the texts? What’s happening? Please. Don’t do it this way. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True.   Eighteen years old, Tears Broken Mind exploding with assumptions Intuition telling the worst of tales Distrustful Hurt Why this pain? I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True.   Eighteen years old, Bitter Am I jealous? This isn’t good… What’s happened to me? Helpless and Still true I love you But... Who knows why? I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old, And here come apologies A letter…. I love letters And I love you too Still, Somehow. It's true. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old I don’t know what’s wrong with me Sad Hurt Insecure Doubtful Distrustful Broken Beyond belief Empty. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old And I keep crying I cried because you were so caring towards to me the other day And it was so sweet. I cried because you hugged me and let me cry on you I cried because I love staring into your deep soulful eyes I cried because I feel so much, all the time, for you I cried because sometimes I truly hate how much I love you. I love you, Goodnight Every night, since forever ago Rhythm Routine Family, friends Taken for granted, yet True. Eighteen years old, And goodnight dear one, I still really do love you.  And, I promise you  All of this is true.
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ugly men burning their bay leaves in pots of static gardens underneath all this cement your past is looking at you indecently so change the words around you you can shift their meaning its all a game and no-one's winning your tired emotions accent your poetry umbrellas are scars that carry symphonies in their hearts you held my hand as we welcomed god back into our skylines her face is as familiar as the stars we originated from with ulcers open in quiet hurting your youth are wordless and distrustful of angst ridden authority in unsuspecting situations love’s vacation is ending her wedding gown got quite ***** since she literally spent her entire honeymoon wandering idly into banks of muddy water humanity is worthy of justice and sweaty romance i breathe your flesh into my bottle and we take boundless walks upon the clouds that straddle mountains, graveyards and cemeteries fresh from wading in the rice fields i peeled you a ripe banana under pressure your sweater came off and revealed a perfect metric for us to emulate your eye sockets are two umbilical chords and your voice is a curved sword that cuts through fear like the moon slices through the sky i have held all of this inside for far too long and now it comes shattering forth spilling itself over every page every letter an escapade almost as long as an Eskimo's pilgrimage to safety
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Feb 26, 2018
Feb 26, 2018 at 11:36 PM UTC
A perfect metric
**†           †           †     A quorum of biblical scholars turned their doubts into thousands of dollars. Armed with Document Q they revealed nothing new but the dirt neath’ the white of their collars. A proud “health & wealth” Oklahoman was renowned as a gospel-tent showman. While the scriptures he twisted, their tithing assisted his rise from poor hick to rich Roman. A sexually diverse professor (assured he was not a transgressor) spoke only of openness glossing sin’s brokenness; rainbows and tolerance—yes sir. A Mormon, who lost his own ephod Realized he was running quite slipshod and invoked Joseph Smith. (Yes, it may be a myth— but it’s not like misplacing your I-pod…) A Christian whose faith was prophetic held to views that were truly pathetic. This crazed Pentecostal, not quite an apostle, had taken an End-Times emetic. A sober and staid Presbyterian was distrustful of thoughts millenarian. After smoking some bud, he awoke with a thud; in his sleep he’d become Rastafarian. A preacher who fleeced his disciples overdrew his own balance of scruples. He was finally captured (defrocked and un-raptured) and rent by his destitute pupils. A sister who waxed Pentecostal, mistook herself for an apostle. Speaking pure glossolalia she sure could regale ya’ with prophecy; crazy—but docile.
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 8:12 AM UTC
Christian Types in Limerick
I will always think fondly Of the park bench Near the sad man’s statue Whose beard of stone Was sloppily painted By a bunch of overenthusiastic pigeons That silly park bench Where we first kissed And had our first public argument About nothing at all And at the same time About everything we thought we had At first our memories Turned the grass greener And the skies bluer And sometimes it seemed That sad man smiled Though it might have been an malevolent grin But soon it became tainted A symbol of fleeting love Of passion’s mortality Its habit of swiftly disappearing Like cagey, distrustful pigeons And illusions fuelled by sentimentality Now I understand the sad man And consider his faith to be cruel To want and crave and hope Yet to be sentenced His life writ in stone Near an empty, broken bench
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Oct 27, 2015
Oct 27, 2015 at 7:18 AM UTC
Park Bench #1
You have taught me so many things You taught me: how easily a stranger can become an acquaintance that brightens your day, a co-worker that makes work a little more exciting how abrupt that pang of disappointment can be when I didn't see your face how maddening it is to keep your feelings to yourself how rewarding it is to get those feelings off your chest, because you felt the same way how crazy butterflies can be - when my stomach would turn in anticipation of seeing you how childishly young I can feel, giddy with hopes of hanging out with you or getting a text how both electrifying, and paralyzing, a first kiss can be that love can grow seemingly overnight and that your whole life becomes consumed with thoughts of the other that hearing "I love you" whispered from your dear one's arms is what would probably be described as Heaven that I deserve to feel special, and beautiful, and wanted, and happy that holding someone's hand or cuddling can instantly make you forget a bad day how heart-wrenching leaving you miles away could be (even if we were only apart for two weeks) what the first hug and kiss after getting off the plane should feel like how nice it is to feel stable, comfortable, and make plans for the future How quickly everything can change that sometimes people won't include you, even if you're there for them and even if they love you how drifting apart can make time stand still how many tears a single person can cry that wondering what the other one is doing can drive you into a form of depression how realizing he's not ever going to be the perfect boyfriend again can hurt that doubting everything you ever did isn't healthy, because it's not your fault how not being a priority can make you the angriest you've ever felt how distrustful I become of believing those words...I love you that I still feel crazy about you how it's possible to be upset and mad at someone and still want to fix all their problems and give them everything they want how hard it is to let go that sitting at home isn't going to help anything that thinking about the golden days, when I knew you loved me so much that it was unbelievable even to me, isn't going to bring us back together that you have a lot of growing up to do and things to work on that my wonderful prince isn't always wonderful that I also have growing up to do, and much more to learn that a few months with you were some of the best of my life and I've never felt more special how a real relationship should feel - and even though it wasn't perfect, I still feel like it was And finally: you won't be the one I have that relationship with, but you taught me what to look for when I'm ready And for that I'll always be grateful
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Nov 20, 2013
Nov 20, 2013 at 12:03 AM UTC
What You Taught Me
You have taught me so many things You taught me: how easily a stranger can become an acquaintance that brightens your day, a co-worker that makes work a little more exciting how abrupt that pang of disappointment can be when I didn't see your face how maddening it is to keep your feelings to yourself how rewarding it is to get those feelings off your chest, because you felt the same way how crazy butterflies can be - when my stomach would turn in anticipation of seeing you how childishly young I can feel, giddy with hopes of hanging out with you or getting a text how both electrifying, and paralyzing, a first kiss can be that love can grow seemingly overnight and that your whole life becomes consumed with thoughts of the other that hearing "I love you" whispered from your dear one's arms is what would probably be described as Heaven that I deserve to feel special, and beautiful, and wanted, and happy that holding someone's hand or cuddling can instantly make you forget a bad day how heart-wrenching leaving you miles away could be (even if we were only apart for two weeks) what the first hug and kiss after getting off the plane should feel like how nice it is to feel stable, comfortable, and make plans for the future How quickly everything can change that sometimes people won't include you, even if you're there for them and even if they love you how drifting apart can make time stand still how many tears a single person can cry that wondering what the other one is doing can drive you into a form of depression how realizing he's not ever going to be the perfect boyfriend again can hurt that doubting everything you ever did isn't healthy, because it's not your fault how not being a priority can make you the angriest you've ever felt how distrustful I become of believing those words...I love you that I still feel crazy about you how it's possible to be upset and mad at someone and still want to fix all their problems and give them everything they want how hard it is to let go that sitting at home isn't going to help anything that thinking about the golden days, when I knew you loved me so much that it was unbelievable even to me, isn't going to bring us back together that you have a lot of growing up to do and things to work on that my wonderful prince isn't always wonderful that I also have growing up to do, and much more to learn that a few months with you were some of the best of my life and I've never felt more special how a real relationship should feel - and even though it wasn't perfect, I still feel like it was And finally: you won't be the one I have that relationship with, but you taught me what to look for when I'm ready And for that I'll always be grateful
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Once upon a time, a princess small and fair sat in a simple wooden tower. She spent her days surrounded by stories and songs, and let the whispers of tales sing her softly to sleep. But, one day, a curse fell across her mind, sent by an unknown spellcrafter. The curse shrouded the princess’s thoughts in darkness. The princess grew fearful of every passing day, distrustful of the ones she loved, and her stories and songs became her only remaining comfort. The princess spent many years tormented by this terrible curse, a foul spell that forced her to doubt her life and draw her own blood. She was trapped, frightened and alone, in her cold wooden tower, and her only company was the monsters who came to feed on her fear. One dark and rainy day, the princess was startled to see a pair of warm, brown eyes peering through her window. She gazed into those eyes, and suddenly felt something stir in her chest. It was a feeling that she hadn’t experienced since the days before her curse: Love, and trust. The princess opened the window and let the eyes’ owner climb in out of the rain. The boy standing before her saw the monsters in the princess’s room, and he drew his sword. The princess cried out, startled. The young knight looked at her and said, “Never fear, princess. I will always protect you, no matter the cost. Your monsters cannot drive me away.” To prove his point, he ran his sword through the beasts one by one. One monster managed to escape, scurrying out the window, but the rest turned to dust on the knight’s shining blade. The knight turned to the princess and fell to his knees, taking her small, soft hand in his. “My fair princess, I have been watching you, lonely in your tower, and I have seen the curse’s power. If you would allow it, I would like to stay by your side, to protect you from any monsters that may come your way, and help you find a way to break the curse.” The princess gazed down at the knight with shining eyes, then knelt so her eyes were level with his. “I will let you stay, knight, for I see loyalty and truth in your eyes...and I also see hope. I feel that you will help me break the foul curse that has been placed upon me.” The knight lifted a hand and gently rested it on her cheek. “Then I vow to protect you until my dying breath, princess. I swear I will never leave your side.” The knight leaned in and sealed his vow with a gentle kiss, and the princess gasped as the world around them suddenly brightened, the tower’s icy chill faded into a pleasant warmth, and the princess’s darkest thoughts faded away. She knew that the curse was not broken, but something had been changed, and the change was wrought by the knight’s kiss. She looked at the knight kneeling before her with wide eyes. “You are meant to be my savior,” she whispered.
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Jan 26, 2016
Jan 26, 2016 at 9:14 PM UTC
The Cursed Princess
Once upon a time, a princess small and fair sat in a simple wooden tower. She spent her days surrounded by stories and songs, and let the whispers of tales sing her softly to sleep. But, one day, a curse fell across her mind, sent by an unknown spellcrafter. The curse shrouded the princess’s thoughts in darkness. The princess grew fearful of every passing day, distrustful of the ones she loved, and her stories and songs became her only remaining comfort. The princess spent many years tormented by this terrible curse, a foul spell that forced her to doubt her life and draw her own blood. She was trapped, frightened and alone, in her cold wooden tower, and her only company was the monsters who came to feed on her fear. One dark and rainy day, the princess was startled to see a pair of warm, brown eyes peering through her window. She gazed into those eyes, and suddenly felt something stir in her chest. It was a feeling that she hadn’t experienced since the days before her curse: Love, and trust. The princess opened the window and let the eyes’ owner climb in out of the rain. The boy standing before her saw the monsters in the princess’s room, and he drew his sword. The princess cried out, startled. The young knight looked at her and said, “Never fear, princess. I will always protect you, no matter the cost. Your monsters cannot drive me away.” To prove his point, he ran his sword through the beasts one by one. One monster managed to escape, scurrying out the window, but the rest turned to dust on the knight’s shining blade. The knight turned to the princess and fell to his knees, taking her small, soft hand in his. “My fair princess, I have been watching you, lonely in your tower, and I have seen the curse’s power. If you would allow it, I would like to stay by your side, to protect you from any monsters that may come your way, and help you find a way to break the curse.” The princess gazed down at the knight with shining eyes, then knelt so her eyes were level with his. “I will let you stay, knight, for I see loyalty and truth in your eyes...and I also see hope. I feel that you will help me break the foul curse that has been placed upon me.” The knight lifted a hand and gently rested it on her cheek. “Then I vow to protect you until my dying breath, princess. I swear I will never leave your side.” The knight leaned in and sealed his vow with a gentle kiss, and the princess gasped as the world around them suddenly brightened, the tower’s icy chill faded into a pleasant warmth, and the princess’s darkest thoughts faded away. She knew that the curse was not broken, but something had been changed, and the change was wrought by the knight’s kiss. She looked at the knight kneeling before her with wide eyes. “You are meant to be my savior,” she whispered.
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You say I'm running from myself I guess you're right Maybe I am All I know is that the reason I hear my heartbeat so clearly Is because my chest is hollow I am made up of layers Too many layers As if my skin Was preparing to survive Out in dead winter at the South Pole I'm annoying   I'm distrustful     I'm stubborn        And I'm doubtful            And secretive Maybe downright manipulative    But most of all I'm exhausted Exhausted of the nothingness    That I float around in Exhausted of everything   That comes and goes     Ensuring chaos Exhausted of everything and nothing   And all things in between          Exhausted of                      living
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Aug 12, 2017
Aug 12, 2017 at 7:10 PM UTC
Exhausted.
BECAUSE there is safety in derision I talked about an apparition, I took no trouble to convince, Or seem plausible to a man of sense. Distrustful of thar popular eye Whether it be bold or sly. Fifteen apparitions have I seen; The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger. I have found nothing half so good As my long-planned half solitude, Where I can sit up half the night With some friend that has the wit Not to allow his looks to tell When I am unintelligible. Fifteen apparitions have I seen; The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger. When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length, But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright. Fifteen apparitions have I seen; The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.
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The Apparitions
U gave me that leaf, & said u were never gonna leave, Cause we were meant to live, now I have to Outlive & conceive the pain of grieve, Who are u to tell me when to meditate? Please go your way and don't dictate, I have been born to innovate, Learn from me and don't aggravate, Why dig into my past just to excavate things and deliberate , Yet you imitate and commentate and say it irritates, Never hesitate to prostate, Cause it elevate and motivates my innovative. Even if your silences grieve so loud in my ears, I will never freeze, I will always leave, Because I never lived, I am never relief, I can't be pleased, Even when u sneeze. It only aggravates my pain when I eat, Dats the reason I refused to breath. How can you call me fake When that's what you are, What you are is what I say , What I have seen is what am saying.. Fake, fake, fake, Fake u are like fanta Colorful yet distrustful Great pleasure Hidden smile, Full of Fantasy, deceitful u are. You said u were my friend, then why stab me twice and expect me to talk once, U have twined &twisted; me, Enough of the Glossy bossy, mischievous in motivation, Malicious in thought, Why judge when you can settle to be a judge in a jungle Stop been unjustly, & learn to be justifiable, Now it's time for u to leave , superstitiously I have lived suspicious u have been, Dangerous you have become, Unpredictable you are , You're definitely a ********* You're never my friend
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Jul 14, 2013
Jul 14, 2013 at 7:24 AM UTC
FAKE FRIENDS
20 Distrustful of the Gentian— And just to turn away, The fluttering of her fringes Child my perfidy— Weary for my————— I will singing go— I shall not feel the sleet—then— I shall not fear the snow. Flees so the phantom meadow Before the breathless Bee— So bubble brooks in deserts On Ears that dying lie— Burn so the Evening Spires To Eyes that Closing go— Hangs so distant Heaven— To a hand below.
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Distrustful of the Gentian
For years I’ve had marbles tucked in my mouth, Different colored weights that pulled on my glands, on secret saliva. For years I’ve had marbles in my mouth and I forgot to spit them out or hide them away so I let them become permanent placements in my always-cavities; soon they even slipped so easy into my bloodstream. The black ones made me say yes too often. The reds made me want to bleed. The blues made me cry, obviously. They stood guard on my tear ducts, deciding when and how to show emotion. They didn’t let me cry that night. They didn’t let me cry for months. Now I am crying almost everyday, and I am shooting those blue marbles straight to the moon; I’ve had it with avoiding emotion every day of my life. The yellows made me want to forgive you, made me want to **** on sunshine, made me want to clamber into your mother’s arms, let her know that it wasn’t your fault. The yellows are ******** The cat eyes have me avoiding eyes with every man on the street, so sure they will spit out words that they expect me to lap up like milk with an easy grin, tail twitching for attention. The cat eyes have me distrustful, have me always knowing it could happen again. The rainbows loosened my tongue, had me admit secret sexualities, let me march in parades and kiss girls, had me falling over myself tripping into love. I’m not sure who this poem is for anymore, or what it’s even about. The doctors say I have the cleanest bloodwork they’ve seen in a while, I don’t ask them about the marbles. They refer to some of them as disordered. I’m not sure if they’re marbles anymore, I think they’re just me, and I’m sorry I’m getting off-track, the marble in my hand right now is glitter and sparkle and confusion and I’m trying so hard to stay put. Give me the orange ones, the fire, ones that looks like Mars or Jupiter. Give me two moons, or maybe sixty-six. Give me a giant ladder. This is about running away. This is about playing with your marbles and learning everything about them and staying put.
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Sep 23, 2012
Sep 23, 2012 at 5:11 AM UTC
Untitled #72
For years I’ve had marbles tucked in my mouth, Different colored weights that pulled on my glands, on secret saliva. For years I’ve had marbles in my mouth and I forgot to spit them out or hide them away so I let them become permanent placements in my always-cavities; soon they even slipped so easy into my bloodstream. The black ones made me say yes too often. The reds made me want to bleed. The blues made me cry, obviously. They stood guard on my tear ducts, deciding when and how to show emotion. They didn’t let me cry that night. They didn’t let me cry for months. Now I am crying almost everyday, and I am shooting those blue marbles straight to the moon; I’ve had it with avoiding emotion every day of my life. The yellows made me want to forgive you, made me want to **** on sunshine, made me want to clamber into your mother’s arms, let her know that it wasn’t your fault. The yellows are ******** The cat eyes have me avoiding eyes with every man on the street, so sure they will spit out words that they expect me to lap up like milk with an easy grin, tail twitching for attention. The cat eyes have me distrustful, have me always knowing it could happen again. The rainbows loosened my tongue, had me admit secret sexualities, let me march in parades and kiss girls, had me falling over myself tripping into love. I’m not sure who this poem is for anymore, or what it’s even about. The doctors say I have the cleanest bloodwork they’ve seen in a while, I don’t ask them about the marbles. They refer to some of them as disordered. I’m not sure if they’re marbles anymore, I think they’re just me, and I’m sorry I’m getting off-track, the marble in my hand right now is glitter and sparkle and confusion and I’m trying so hard to stay put. Give me the orange ones, the fire, ones that looks like Mars or Jupiter. Give me two moons, or maybe sixty-six. Give me a giant ladder. This is about running away. This is about playing with your marbles and learning everything about them and staying put.
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It's quite odd how the average man will not commit to run With any issues challenging his personal smoking gun. With issues that confound in discomfort’s naked face Or adopt a stance of reticence when confronted here apace. Won’t lend a ready helping hand for fear of being held Accountable for consequence imagined or dispelled, Distrustful of the outcome in involvement’s disrepair Would much prefer retreat to accountability there. A quotient disappointment to the greater human race Are the spineless who refuse to look directly to my face. Marshalg 9 October 2013
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Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 1:25 AM UTC
The Reticence...
the castillo alhambra            a watchful brown ***** on  the hill smiling crenellated un                                        der grey-silk skirts of cloud & in wicker chairs mouths —open (talkin’ bout last night’s walk home from vogue) —close (swallow morsels of tapas: paella)                                                                               & lips shut ‘round cigarettes.           …           … past inactive fountain where children play their various jeugos next to the riverwall and distrustful, rail-thin cats peer from brickwall dens to watch flitting finches bounce on vines & budding branches. it is very warm; the air is heavy as is the ground. man is stuck between like a roach ‘twixt two ***** mattresses // three girls looking at me writing smoking drinking beer eating that paella don’t know what to think.
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Apr 11, 2012
Apr 11, 2012 at 5:58 PM UTC
plaza nueva sabado blues
| |~| | Thru the fiction Of High school corridors Ghost-like children Stumble in their solitude • Older than their elders are Stripped of their innocence Hardly even human anymore • Images of dying Images of stunted growth Distrustful of the reality Of truth's essential Powers Merely vague appearance Lost in worlds unseemly Stumbling down the corridors Lost in nightmare's dreaming •• Poetry of lovelessness Disguised as love •• Thus the world created Is truly dying The world created Is surely dying • In the loveless madness Of the high school corridors Where the demons of society Control human destiny And we just stumble on Thru the corridors A bursting Into flames
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Mar 11, 2014
Mar 11, 2014 at 5:06 PM UTC
High school corridors
Oh the irony When we're young and innocent Find someone we like and filled with joy Next, everything falls and crashes Years later, we meet others But this time we question Not them, not others, but We question ourselves Can never trust our own minds Is it nothing more than an infatuation? We will never know Oh, the irony
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Apr 8, 2015
Apr 8, 2015 at 6:27 AM UTC
Distrustful
Looking in the mirror tonight I am 24 years old I don't know what to make of myself Pointed chin, seashell ears, hair wet and arcing forwards from my shower I'm wondering about my 25th year; will it be a year of wonders, a golden year? My left eye says no It's distrustful, mirrored and shuttered so all you get back is yourself endlessly There's a siren and a dog howling counterpoint: seems omenish My right eye looks more hopeful, like it'll wink conspirationally at any moment Better to have a star for an eye than the moon, anyday.
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Dec 13, 2013
Dec 13, 2013 at 6:54 AM UTC
Turning 25/Why I shouldn't read sci-fi/Thankyou Cloud Atlas
I am a disappointment to my mother. I don’t call when I’ll be coming home late. My room is wreck. I’m not in school, and I work two dead end jobs at places that don’t matter one iota to anyone in my family. I curse. I smoke. I drink. I’m a foul mouthed little child that can’t lose weight and sleeps around and never does what she’s told. I’m a disappointment to my mother, Despite the years of good behaviour. The good grades, the chaste life, the driven nature that took me half way around the world just to see if I could do it. I stand in front of her today, still 6 inches shorter. Still rounder, still brunette. Still foul mouthed and still rebellious. I still hug her tightly as if she’s all I’ve ever had. As if she is the only stability I’ve ever known. As if all those boyfriends who claimed they’d never leave either of us, as if all of those friends she had that I grew to love, and the pets we abandoned, and the apartments we called home, as if all of those things never mattered, or shaped me to be the distrustful little being I am today. I still look at her like she’s all I have left. I never talk to her about stuff like that because I know it will only make her mad. Her hormonal short temper and her distrust of my judgement. I know I’m young, Mom, that’s why you should let me make my mistakes now, instead of in ten years when I’m married with children and never got to taste what being wrong in every way felt like. I’m a disappointment to my mother. I want to have bad times. And hard times. I want to be knocked on my *** by life and barely able to get back up. She doesn’t get it. She never will. I love her. With all that I am I will always love her but that trust that was once only reserved the only person who never left me, never deserted me and never gave up on me, that trust needs to be placed in me. I am a disappointment to my mother because I grew up, and now I need to be a disappointment to me.
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May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013 at 7:18 PM UTC
Mother's Day
I am a disappointment to my mother. I don’t call when I’ll be coming home late. My room is wreck. I’m not in school, and I work two dead end jobs at places that don’t matter one iota to anyone in my family. I curse. I smoke. I drink. I’m a foul mouthed little child that can’t lose weight and sleeps around and never does what she’s told. I’m a disappointment to my mother, Despite the years of good behaviour. The good grades, the chaste life, the driven nature that took me half way around the world just to see if I could do it. I stand in front of her today, still 6 inches shorter. Still rounder, still brunette. Still foul mouthed and still rebellious. I still hug her tightly as if she’s all I’ve ever had. As if she is the only stability I’ve ever known. As if all those boyfriends who claimed they’d never leave either of us, as if all of those friends she had that I grew to love, and the pets we abandoned, and the apartments we called home, as if all of those things never mattered, or shaped me to be the distrustful little being I am today. I still look at her like she’s all I have left. I never talk to her about stuff like that because I know it will only make her mad. Her hormonal short temper and her distrust of my judgement. I know I’m young, Mom, that’s why you should let me make my mistakes now, instead of in ten years when I’m married with children and never got to taste what being wrong in every way felt like. I’m a disappointment to my mother. I want to have bad times. And hard times. I want to be knocked on my *** by life and barely able to get back up. She doesn’t get it. She never will. I love her. With all that I am I will always love her but that trust that was once only reserved the only person who never left me, never deserted me and never gave up on me, that trust needs to be placed in me. I am a disappointment to my mother because I grew up, and now I need to be a disappointment to me.
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A girl with an eating disorder With a monster trapped inside her Drowning in a world of Scales Diet Pills Alcohol And perfection Trying to reach out And find the help that she so desperately needs But instead she is met with Disbelieving, supportive parents Distrustful, but sometimes helpful staff And anorexic, bulimic girls Just like her Girls along the same journey she is On the road to recovery Some get better Some give up Because you can not help a person who does not want to be helped It is not easy Will never be easy But she must push through the pain and suffering Just like you and I have to
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Oct 14, 2017
Oct 14, 2017 at 4:22 PM UTC
Believarexic
For it was in your love you taught me to love. and wrap my branches around another human's body and heart. and let my tense and distrustful roots breathe out a sigh and relax their muscles. The gentleness of your love made me smile, blush, and feel planted just where the heavens made me to be. Your softness whispered to me. and told me I am brave and strong and beautiful. And your fingers Would lightly brush my leaves, making my eyes close and see the most beautiful future before us. For it was in your love that came a stirring inside my heart to love, too. It opened my pores and made me believe that love can cause any creature in our world to come to life.
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Feb 2, 2014
Feb 2, 2014 at 1:43 AM UTC
For it was in your love
pry it open       clan of lies    libido            and lily lunged persuaders                etching wounds                   ills upon those you itched after         letching tightly in patterns                            then blooming out          in a ring of your 'brothers'                         again tightening                      breaths oppress breathing                              a clenching jellyfish action                          offends the natural      teaming in a derangement                                 a loyalty of cowards    each one initiation edgy                             paid up members     linked in ceremony                                  a skeleton grid channeling away responsibility                           thick distaste of the unsightly      and abrasive scent                               of your speeching spatters                         it's unmother worldly                              a clutch of an abusive family thing                       that psychology      that bonds for life                          and spans love       in all its distrustful ******                  violence                      not a truth              to mould in his raspy mouth                 this is a reputation              repeated sellings      this is not a truth        this is just repetition  persistently boomed      into adjustable history      dying over and again each hand that takes up the stylus        muster evidence    of our mad insistences          the 'sharing' game      snaring the population bulk            and lording over it with        your repulsating power on display
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Apr 23, 2022
Apr 23, 2022 at 12:19 PM UTC
spatter-rant
pry it open       clan of lies    libido            and lily lunged persuaders                etching wounds                   ills upon those you itched after         letching tightly in patterns                            then blooming out          in a ring of your 'brothers'                         again tightening                      breaths oppress breathing                              a clenching jellyfish action                          offends the natural      teaming in a derangement                                 a loyalty of cowards    each one initiation edgy                             paid up members     linked in ceremony                                  a skeleton grid channeling away responsibility                           thick distaste of the unsightly      and abrasive scent                               of your speeching spatters                         it's unmother worldly                              a clutch of an abusive family thing                       that psychology      that bonds for life                          and spans love       in all its distrustful ******                  violence                      not a truth              to mould in his raspy mouth                 this is a reputation              repeated sellings      this is not a truth        this is just repetition  persistently boomed      into adjustable history      dying over and again each hand that takes up the stylus        muster evidence    of our mad insistences          the 'sharing' game      snaring the population bulk            and lording over it with        your repulsating power on display
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your eyelashes showed interest, your lips showed courage, with a little bit of lust outlining the curve. they've always been distrustful. but nothing was more dishonest than the snow that frosted and layed on the trees, each branch looking like a frozen chocolate Popsicle. (the branches were dismembered fingers that always reached for something. love, hope, I don't know. they cracked and crumbled, to their death, to the ground, whatever in reach falling with them.) I loved talking to you. you didn't think like me, which was good. you gave a reason to your point of view, always (which was quite annoying in some ways and some adorably lovely in others.) having to say your opinion.
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Dec 27, 2013
Dec 27, 2013 at 12:30 PM UTC
because everyone has veins
As I coughed up the Ash that was Once Love, Commitment, Trust, My lips black with Charcoal embers My throat raw as Burning Suffocating Texture Like acid, as I expelled The remnants of my Heart, You had spilt liquid Then lit the flame Unto my love, It didn't need words In his embrace, Then the kiss in front of my eyes, My love had been built In time, I loved you so much But with not even a word, You burnt away my heart Ignited, Stoked, Burnt, Away in moments That was built off love. Your tears fell Many hit upon the ground, But they were like acid Scorching the ground, Fake emotions Distrustful touch I love you so much But know my heart is but embers, That I expel with each breath, My lips now black with the charcoal of love..
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Oct 1, 2014
Oct 1, 2014 at 10:47 AM UTC
Embers Of The Heart
I can't apologize anymore, for who I am, who I've come to be, who I was and will be. I cannot. If my person offends you when I do not speak my thoughts, and also when I do, I cannot help you. I have spoken far too much, and far too little, for far too long not to know what I should hide and what I should show. I have wrestled my thoughts for years until I've found I cannot, but instead must observe them with an objective eye, cut them open with an inquisitive mind, searching for something, but only to find -- that it is best to let them pass without consequence, without permanence, only resonance. And if you cannot take seriously the things I know seriously of people, the world, the pain, then you deserve manipulation, exploitation, desecration. For I do not speak lies, and if so, by mere mistake, when I speak of what I see, and what I see is fake. Too many false words have fallen on my ears not to be distrustful for the rest of all my years, and not to know and read and see what people would have come of things. And I cannot blame them, no. For we are all full of ***** tactics, shadowy motives, and schemes. It is everyone's duty to see this in themselves, and to know it must be in others as well. And when I try to take responsibility for not or for voicing passing thoughts, and their effects, only to be met with more wrongs, and rejects, I cannot. For if I am to believe my responsibility towards you is meaningless, then I should seek responsibility elsewhere. I know. I know there is much to learn, and much I do not know, because I know what I know, and I know how little that is. What I know are things about myself, and therefore others, that I will always improve upon myself, or at the very least, I will try. So I will not apologize anymore. For to do so means apologizing for learning, of myself and of others, for improving, of myself and of others, and for trying, for myself and for others, and I cannot. I cannot apologize.
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Apr 17, 2015
Apr 17, 2015 at 12:01 AM UTC
Apologies
I can't apologize anymore, for who I am, who I've come to be, who I was and will be. I cannot. If my person offends you when I do not speak my thoughts, and also when I do, I cannot help you. I have spoken far too much, and far too little, for far too long not to know what I should hide and what I should show. I have wrestled my thoughts for years until I've found I cannot, but instead must observe them with an objective eye, cut them open with an inquisitive mind, searching for something, but only to find -- that it is best to let them pass without consequence, without permanence, only resonance. And if you cannot take seriously the things I know seriously of people, the world, the pain, then you deserve manipulation, exploitation, desecration. For I do not speak lies, and if so, by mere mistake, when I speak of what I see, and what I see is fake. Too many false words have fallen on my ears not to be distrustful for the rest of all my years, and not to know and read and see what people would have come of things. And I cannot blame them, no. For we are all full of ***** tactics, shadowy motives, and schemes. It is everyone's duty to see this in themselves, and to know it must be in others as well. And when I try to take responsibility for not or for voicing passing thoughts, and their effects, only to be met with more wrongs, and rejects, I cannot. For if I am to believe my responsibility towards you is meaningless, then I should seek responsibility elsewhere. I know. I know there is much to learn, and much I do not know, because I know what I know, and I know how little that is. What I know are things about myself, and therefore others, that I will always improve upon myself, or at the very least, I will try. So I will not apologize anymore. For to do so means apologizing for learning, of myself and of others, for improving, of myself and of others, and for trying, for myself and for others, and I cannot. I cannot apologize.
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