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"promiscuity" poems
PTSD is not something you get over. It is when soldiers get tired of hearing their own shots fire Into a purple horizon of nothingness. It is when assault victims are scared of becoming a statistic And their brokenness is suffocating It is when fear compels the mind to change And it willingly obliges. PTSD is when the darkness of human nature becomes evident It is when it's stronghold is suddenly More prominent than the beauty in the world It's brash fingers create a vacuum That ***** the sanity from your mind Until you wake up in the middle of the night screaming "Don't shoot me!" "Don't **** her!" You see him and now he is with your little sister Taking her into his Jeep While you stand there, watching Tied up because you can do nothing about it. This has not happened And probably never will But you are crippled by paralyzing bouts of anxiety and guilt and fear From which your mind cannot console you You can no longer hide the loss That this event, this person, this illness Has placed strategically within you. It is when you will do anything to get these memories to stop playing on repeat An endless loop maybe ended by alcohol Check Cutting Check. Promiscuity Check Anything that will eliminate cycle of not knowing Of reliving If only for a short time Even pretending you believe in God Because it makes it seem like there is a reason for this confusion But then you begin to question why God would do this to his child So you digress into darkness once again Left feeling unsure. PTSD is when you stop repressing memories And they come back so forcefully that they knock you to the ground Leaving you bruised and ****** Leaving you lost. PTSD is different from other sicknesses Because you do not feel sick You feel there Like you are in his bed again And his room smells like mushrooms That is actually a field of grenades Waiting to explode throughout your small body You remember the tone of his words Slipping from his lips as though they are snakes Strangling me, leaving breath unable to escape This is not sick As you feel no symptoms But an altered state of consciousness You do not even realize you are disconnecting as it happens But this is Hell This is war You are broken And the worst part about it Is that you must understand your triggers Your dissociations Before you can get better.
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Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 10:59 PM UTC
PTSD
PTSD is not something you get over. It is when soldiers get tired of hearing their own shots fire Into a purple horizon of nothingness. It is when assault victims are scared of becoming a statistic And their brokenness is suffocating It is when fear compels the mind to change And it willingly obliges. PTSD is when the darkness of human nature becomes evident It is when it's stronghold is suddenly More prominent than the beauty in the world It's brash fingers create a vacuum That ***** the sanity from your mind Until you wake up in the middle of the night screaming "Don't shoot me!" "Don't **** her!" You see him and now he is with your little sister Taking her into his Jeep While you stand there, watching Tied up because you can do nothing about it. This has not happened And probably never will But you are crippled by paralyzing bouts of anxiety and guilt and fear From which your mind cannot console you You can no longer hide the loss That this event, this person, this illness Has placed strategically within you. It is when you will do anything to get these memories to stop playing on repeat An endless loop maybe ended by alcohol Check Cutting Check. Promiscuity Check Anything that will eliminate cycle of not knowing Of reliving If only for a short time Even pretending you believe in God Because it makes it seem like there is a reason for this confusion But then you begin to question why God would do this to his child So you digress into darkness once again Left feeling unsure. PTSD is when you stop repressing memories And they come back so forcefully that they knock you to the ground Leaving you bruised and ****** Leaving you lost. PTSD is different from other sicknesses Because you do not feel sick You feel there Like you are in his bed again And his room smells like mushrooms That is actually a field of grenades Waiting to explode throughout your small body You remember the tone of his words Slipping from his lips as though they are snakes Strangling me, leaving breath unable to escape This is not sick As you feel no symptoms But an altered state of consciousness You do not even realize you are disconnecting as it happens But this is Hell This is war You are broken And the worst part about it Is that you must understand your triggers Your dissociations Before you can get better.
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The future: Insecurities. Like a black chasm, (swallowing your absentees). Uncertainties, promiscuity, bewildering circumstances, you try to find present serenity. You never knew smoldering could happen underwater, until you see that later, always under the weather. Lost for words — train of thoughts, lost for sure, the battles fought. these insecurities eating me, (who would have known?): because I never let, it to be really, shown.
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Feb 27, 2013
Feb 27, 2013 at 2:26 AM UTC
Insecurities.
Let's get some sunlight Let's start a bar fight We'll take our problems and forget we have to solve them Let's take two tabs Let's start a **** lab We'll cover up insecurity with promiscuity Let's sleep 'til Sunday It's only Monday I have to work at 2 but I think I have the bird flu Let's call the drug store Ask for a couple more Insignificant reality crashes into banality   Let's make a hash pipe Out of Brite Lites We'll quote Pulp Fiction with Ezekiel's conviction Let's start a fight club Where we can make love Punch me in the ear and then I'll disappear Let's start a new life But after midnight There's a whole universe waiting to be uncovered first Let's make a difference Let's make new friends Let's go where the wind blows but first I have to put on clothes
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Aug 27, 2015
Aug 27, 2015 at 2:22 AM UTC
Let's
They say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder But sometimes I ask myself, how can this be? Cause when I look with my eyes, I only start to feel resent and I begin to despise, the things I realize like how my women of color have been simplified, and hypserxualized how the black woman's body has been used and abused and now It personifies, sexuality and promiscuity, out of all the things media feeds us these are some of the worst lies You see cause black women are queens, and when white culture saw their worth, they were rattled They couldn't help but try to minimize and de-legitimize, and put a guise over the eyes of all that viewed her She is not just a big *** big lips or hips She is the mother of humanity, in her essence from her hair, to lips to her fingertips she is a Queen, and she is to be respected. And I will die for her honor, We will not go back into slavery days, I will not stand here while she gets up on stage naked and her body is dissected, and her soul, her essence neglected, her heart, her mind infected. From these queens come the workers, the Kings, without the black woman we have no past and we have no future We must protect the black woman, for she is sacred like scripture.
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Mar 8, 2017
Mar 8, 2017 at 3:51 PM UTC
The Black Woman
to be young and beautiful is desperate and dumb! to have it all to get nothing, none! to need it bad anxiously wanting some. sleepless nights, dreams of *** pain is promiscuity at bedrest. angry abstinence shouts this is a cruel test! pretty doll face, glowing of grace. why have this body? and not share its joy why be a good ol' girl If you cannot love a handsome bad boy?
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May 1, 2014
May 1, 2014 at 2:31 PM UTC
Inspired by Lana Del Rey
don’t tell me “I love you” ~by Roxanne, for Cyrano~ <> that’s a verse I’ve heard many too times before, that’s a curse of low majesty, a quatrain too plain, if that’s your best sally, retreat, say no more, too simp verses, or ungolden silences, agents of dissatisfying pain I need the best of your taste the finest visions that you eyelids occlude, make haste for my mouth grows exceedingly impatient for the other senses to do their tandem wooing slap only my face with the creature comforts others savor, words of diamonds and pink pearls mined from your breast, the bejeweled words that will decorate my evergreen, that never dies, lest, unless and until, you want my mortal affection suppressed give me your linguistic promiscuity, wake me from the stupor of ordinary, arouse me with thy tongue coiling, a bee sting delivery, a wet poem that makes all my orifices!|offices weep, your mouth, my souls recouper, your wizardry bewitching, answer my inquiry with unbounded festivity then and after all, the plain simplicity of an “I love you,” will be edged with sublimity, my mercies, your mercies our jointed, sharp pointy, introverting, interlocking, *our futures becoming our pasts* 11:07am 19-9-30 <> https://thenewgroup.org/production/cyrano/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwz8bsBRC6ARIsAEyNnvoENpdnWyqeUEwq0avNStgWCf4CocB1i239c2mHdNSFF8gOlWZtfjsaAls4EALw_wcB
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Oct 10, 2019
Oct 10, 2019 at 11:35 AM UTC
don’t tell me “I love you” ~ by Roxanne, for Cyrano~
childhoods are forgotten mere bonds simply left to rot bewildered and betrothed to the very idea of a more golden sun and glistening moon but not all the planets in the solar system are close and are in fact very far away words are to mean nothing nothing left with the wind blown away good bye! adieu! I shall miss my friend! and where is the blossom whom I met so long ago on Mars on Jupiter the promiscuity of proximity reminiscing within the shallow walls of the cave that drips drips drips to the past and history becomes bloated with subjectivity and a sepia undertone so how can we see what went wrong? how can we learn the implications of each movement made by our lips fingers each deep breath that coincides with the galaxy underneath a waning moon
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Apr 14, 2018
Apr 14, 2018 at 8:22 PM UTC
My Friend Left
Her only vice was that of ****** promiscuity You couldn’t blame her—the girl had daddy issues, Body issues, the blood red American  bit her lip, and hit a rip, then 
flicked the tip 
Don’t blame her she blamed herself enough, she Popped, snapped, snorted, puffed, ****** squirted A sweet escape hypodermically inserted Straight to the               heart of Texas  She had her lo               ng list of exes Vices collect                   their dues.
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Aug 21, 2017
Aug 21, 2017 at 12:14 PM UTC
Only Vice
1. Her thick brow, Is only her choice. A stance against norms. 2. Ribbons and flowers, All tangled in her hair. A decorative crown, But beauty is not defined here. 3. She had many lovers, Of many kinds. But promiscuity, Does not define worth. 4. Drink more than the men. To dance with a love, They can never have. 5. Politics are unimportant, Only the ideas in your mind. Of equality and charity, But it will leave somebody dead. 6. Be bold and smart. Follow your own direction, Maybe dress like a man 7. When a trolley crashes, Leaving you wishing for death, Draw on your bandage. Don’t let your broken column Break your strength. 8. Don’t fall in love with artists, They drink too much, Cheat too much. And will break your heart 9. Fall in love with artists, A musician, maybe a painter. You’ll never be bored, You’ll always be drunk. 10. Just don’t let them break you, Don’t stop painting because you’re hurt. Don’t give them the satisfaction, Of breaking your wings. 11. You don’t need anyone, When you have wigs to fly. Don’t need feet, Or anyone else. 12. You probably feel like a freak, Like the weirdest person you’ve ever known. But as long as you’re weird with me, You’ll never be weird alone. 13. Make friends with the past, With people you’ve never known. It’ll always be a source of security, No one can leave that’s already gone. I look at Frida through her paint, through her words, through the story of her life she has taught me not to be afraid.
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Jan 25, 2015
Jan 25, 2015 at 10:45 PM UTC
Thirteen ways to look at Frida
1. Her thick brow, Is only her choice. A stance against norms. 2. Ribbons and flowers, All tangled in her hair. A decorative crown, But beauty is not defined here. 3. She had many lovers, Of many kinds. But promiscuity, Does not define worth. 4. Drink more than the men. To dance with a love, They can never have. 5. Politics are unimportant, Only the ideas in your mind. Of equality and charity, But it will leave somebody dead. 6. Be bold and smart. Follow your own direction, Maybe dress like a man 7. When a trolley crashes, Leaving you wishing for death, Draw on your bandage. Don’t let your broken column Break your strength. 8. Don’t fall in love with artists, They drink too much, Cheat too much. And will break your heart 9. Fall in love with artists, A musician, maybe a painter. You’ll never be bored, You’ll always be drunk. 10. Just don’t let them break you, Don’t stop painting because you’re hurt. Don’t give them the satisfaction, Of breaking your wings. 11. You don’t need anyone, When you have wigs to fly. Don’t need feet, Or anyone else. 12. You probably feel like a freak, Like the weirdest person you’ve ever known. But as long as you’re weird with me, You’ll never be weird alone. 13. Make friends with the past, With people you’ve never known. It’ll always be a source of security, No one can leave that’s already gone. I look at Frida through her paint, through her words, through the story of her life she has taught me not to be afraid.
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There goes Lady Fate, donned in solar sparks and her lace corset whose  overt promiscuity catches the attention of one unsuspecting astronaut– his helm fogs as he exhales, his breath crude and lascivious. Even Neptune’s eyes themselves glitter wetly with passion as she struts towards Polaris in her pinprick stilettos. She adjusts her stance accordingly: I. Purse lips into a smoulder (might as well look pretty while ya get the job done.) II. Aim for the desired target (that there’s the bull’s eye.) III. Wreak havoc just as any Fate is meant to do. (But, of course.) She picks up her staff and fires. The universe tremors in an unbridled spiral of colour and chaos as the planets d    a    r    t about like billiards, * * *                           colliding/|\with/|\ the/|\ stars who,  in the midst of the madness, d i v e r g e and c* r* o* s s for fear of being vanquished. A cluster of mismatched constellations and forsaken cosmic particles settle into a state of mutual negligence and destruction. And, together, they liquefy into a festering pool of molten silver. Lady Fate grins– yes, she has the stars right where she wants them now– and, in a final act of defiance, she strikes against the earth and watches with satisfaction as it hurtles towards the silver and sinks down into the molten like an eight ball. (And everyone knows it’s Game Over once you’ve sunk the eight ball). From where she stands– bent over Polaris in seductive pretentiousness — she relishes in the screams of some wretched lover– the first to ever be betrayed by the stars.
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 2:44 PM UTC
Lady Fate (The Invention of the Star Crossed Lover)
There goes Lady Fate, donned in solar sparks and her lace corset whose  overt promiscuity catches the attention of one unsuspecting astronaut– his helm fogs as he exhales, his breath crude and lascivious. Even Neptune’s eyes themselves glitter wetly with passion as she struts towards Polaris in her pinprick stilettos. She adjusts her stance accordingly: I. Purse lips into a smoulder (might as well look pretty while ya get the job done.) II. Aim for the desired target (that there’s the bull’s eye.) III. Wreak havoc just as any Fate is meant to do. (But, of course.) She picks up her staff and fires. The universe tremors in an unbridled spiral of colour and chaos as the planets d    a    r    t about like billiards, * * *                           colliding/|\with/|\ the/|\ stars who,  in the midst of the madness, d i v e r g e and c* r* o* s s for fear of being vanquished. A cluster of mismatched constellations and forsaken cosmic particles settle into a state of mutual negligence and destruction. And, together, they liquefy into a festering pool of molten silver. Lady Fate grins– yes, she has the stars right where she wants them now– and, in a final act of defiance, she strikes against the earth and watches with satisfaction as it hurtles towards the silver and sinks down into the molten like an eight ball. (And everyone knows it’s Game Over once you’ve sunk the eight ball). From where she stands– bent over Polaris in seductive pretentiousness — she relishes in the screams of some wretched lover– the first to ever be betrayed by the stars.
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People regard *** differently: Some see *** as a commodity; to be exchanged for favors and things. Some see *** as a medium for emotive and spiritual expression. Some see *** as merely a means to a purely biological end. Some see *** as a good time and not much else. Some see *** as a set of diminishing returns. Some see *** as an escape from themselves. Some see *** with a keyboard and mouse. Some see *** as a communion of Temples. Some see *** as something not to discuss. Some see *** as just another thing to do. Some see *** as a battleground for Lust. Some see *** as an extra long shower. Some see *** as profane and obscene. Some see *** an personal preference. Some see *** as ages-old Dogma. Some see *** as Heterosexuality. Some see *** as all that there is. Some see *** as uncomfortable. Some see *** philosophically. Some see *** as a distraction. Some see *** as meaningless. Some see *** as a way of life. Some see *** as a good time. Some see *** as metaphor. Some see *** as necessity. Some see *** as a luxury. Some see *** as a game. Some see *** as Mythic. Some see *** as a drug. Some see *** as Virtue. Some see *** as Logic. Some see *** as Good. Some see *** as Love. Some see *** as Lust. Some see *** as Evil. Some see *** as Sin. Few see *** the same way: How do you see *** The only right answers for you are yours. How do you see *** From the first person, or perhaps third? Is *** a vicarious thing, or is it personal? How do you see *** Is promiscuity absurd? How do you see *** Can your ****** life affect others? How do you see *** Does it matter who it's with? Does it matter with how many? Does it matter how rapidly? Does it matter why? It sure does to me. Does it matter for how long? Does it matter how often? Does it matter where? Does it matter when? Not with the right person.*
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Jul 3, 2013
Jul 3, 2013 at 8:50 AM UTC
***
People regard *** differently: Some see *** as a commodity; to be exchanged for favors and things. Some see *** as a medium for emotive and spiritual expression. Some see *** as merely a means to a purely biological end. Some see *** as a good time and not much else. Some see *** as a set of diminishing returns. Some see *** as an escape from themselves. Some see *** with a keyboard and mouse. Some see *** as a communion of Temples. Some see *** as something not to discuss. Some see *** as just another thing to do. Some see *** as a battleground for Lust. Some see *** as an extra long shower. Some see *** as profane and obscene. Some see *** an personal preference. Some see *** as ages-old Dogma. Some see *** as Heterosexuality. Some see *** as all that there is. Some see *** as uncomfortable. Some see *** philosophically. Some see *** as a distraction. Some see *** as meaningless. Some see *** as a way of life. Some see *** as a good time. Some see *** as metaphor. Some see *** as necessity. Some see *** as a luxury. Some see *** as a game. Some see *** as Mythic. Some see *** as a drug. Some see *** as Virtue. Some see *** as Logic. Some see *** as Good. Some see *** as Love. Some see *** as Lust. Some see *** as Evil. Some see *** as Sin. Few see *** the same way: How do you see *** The only right answers for you are yours. How do you see *** From the first person, or perhaps third? Is *** a vicarious thing, or is it personal? How do you see *** Is promiscuity absurd? How do you see *** Can your ****** life affect others? How do you see *** Does it matter who it's with? Does it matter with how many? Does it matter how rapidly? Does it matter why? It sure does to me. Does it matter for how long? Does it matter how often? Does it matter where? Does it matter when? Not with the right person.*
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I will not forget you. Would I like to forget you? Or what you did to me? Perhaps. But I will not. Do not. Cannot. Have not. I do not forget you. Certain places, touches, people Remind me of you, of us, of that fateful day. I did not forget you. I have not forgotten you. I cannot be near a farm without a memory Invading my mind and my heart. I cannot eat or smell a mushroom without flashbacks flooding through my head. You put them there. I cannot forget you. I did not choose promiscuity, abusive relationships, or self-harm. You chose them for me. I did not choose to give it all away to some devilish boy cooing in my ear, "I love you, Sarah." But that was my new normal. It is not normal. And it is not now. I once had hoped to forget you. To block out the pain associated with your name. I did not want anything to do with you. I did not want to believe you hurt me. I did not want to deal with the mess you left behind While you gave into your own selfish impulses. Now I do not choose to forget you. I allow myself to feel the hurt when I need to. I allow myself to mourn the loss of my innocence. I allow myself to acknowledge that I am not completely "moved on" And I let you be my motivation to help others. I do not have to forget you. I chose a life for myself in order to deal with it Feminism, activism, writing. And frankly, That is quite okay with me.
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Jan 1, 2014
Jan 1, 2014 at 12:55 PM UTC
The Art of Forgetting
"I love you." My fingers froze: dark eyes on a list as long nails clacked on gray keys which stuck with age and use. I dreamed of love, sweet hordes of doves escorting me to my desire of love, love, love. Such dreaming flags floated in my mind, wishing to be a hot *** body made of rag, a delicious mess of hearty gags. I wanted promiscuity, in all its forms, shed of all its innuendo and flimsy disguises. I wanted hard action, man on man, cheap rides and cheaper thrills. I wanted to be a little pornographic princess, a tiny-dicked seductress, big ***** conductress of all his passions. My flag flew up as a hormonal reaction, attraction, smooth bodied and tight lipped action running up and down my jaded cadaver. He wanted a **** ***** a promiscuous witch, casting love spells and **** glances to make him itch. He entered my love nest, the back seat of a car, to destroy my frame, to rid me of my childishness. My folly melted away in sexyhot sways of my hips as my lips would say lust filled nothings that would be filled by empty sighs and ****** filled "I love you's." My fingers froze: as brown turned to white, my body turned to snow and rained down around his swollen flagpole. He was incompetent, inept at the deed and unable to satisfy, but it was my ego that needed this gratification, not my libido. I laid in the aftermath of the attack, calm, demure, sad but ultimately relieved Finally, I am ravaged. I have soiled my nation and salted my own fields, laying waste to my youth, my innocence. I wanted to be conquered and so did I receive, being taken and yet somewhat untaken. I remember his voice, that dumb accent. I remember his preconceptions of what this was supposed to be. "I love you." My fingers froze: as lungs filled with air, and brain filled with contempt, my jaded body grew to desire-- God, I really wish I had a cigarette. I remember how he thought I cared, how he though that anybody did. I remember how, I thought I had, too. "I love you." No, you don't.
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Sep 14, 2012
Sep 14, 2012 at 12:23 PM UTC
I had wanted promiscuity
"I love you." My fingers froze: dark eyes on a list as long nails clacked on gray keys which stuck with age and use. I dreamed of love, sweet hordes of doves escorting me to my desire of love, love, love. Such dreaming flags floated in my mind, wishing to be a hot *** body made of rag, a delicious mess of hearty gags. I wanted promiscuity, in all its forms, shed of all its innuendo and flimsy disguises. I wanted hard action, man on man, cheap rides and cheaper thrills. I wanted to be a little pornographic princess, a tiny-dicked seductress, big ***** conductress of all his passions. My flag flew up as a hormonal reaction, attraction, smooth bodied and tight lipped action running up and down my jaded cadaver. He wanted a **** ***** a promiscuous witch, casting love spells and **** glances to make him itch. He entered my love nest, the back seat of a car, to destroy my frame, to rid me of my childishness. My folly melted away in sexyhot sways of my hips as my lips would say lust filled nothings that would be filled by empty sighs and ****** filled "I love you's." My fingers froze: as brown turned to white, my body turned to snow and rained down around his swollen flagpole. He was incompetent, inept at the deed and unable to satisfy, but it was my ego that needed this gratification, not my libido. I laid in the aftermath of the attack, calm, demure, sad but ultimately relieved Finally, I am ravaged. I have soiled my nation and salted my own fields, laying waste to my youth, my innocence. I wanted to be conquered and so did I receive, being taken and yet somewhat untaken. I remember his voice, that dumb accent. I remember his preconceptions of what this was supposed to be. "I love you." My fingers froze: as lungs filled with air, and brain filled with contempt, my jaded body grew to desire-- God, I really wish I had a cigarette. I remember how he thought I cared, how he though that anybody did. I remember how, I thought I had, too. "I love you." No, you don't.
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Hold your breath, girl. Don't feel. As he places his shallow love inside of you Every breath feels like a brick Pressed against your stomach Collapsing the walls of your lungs Until you feel yourself gagging. Let him talk to you But your words have become rather expensive As he plays with your hair As he touches your waist As you turn away Because his fingers cannot feel the rivets in your rib bones. Your eating disorder makes casual *** a little harder As does your history with assault. Sometimes, your PTSD and bulimia want to have an **** They are the extra lovers you never invited But as you mount on top of him Trying to make him forget he doesn't love you And that you don't love him It seems they are whispering in your ear *Why would any man want to **** you?*                          He's all you have. Stop pretending to be good enough. Try to let these thoughts slip out of your mind As you slip out of your clothes Shedding your snake skin. You kneel there now His eyes are resting on each inch of your body But your skin begins to crawl Your heart begins to shake You unravel before him Every end of you is fraying And he doesn't even know. What happened to never doing this again? What happened to getting over it? Promiscuity smells like stale cigarettes and *** In the back of a car With an older man. Promiscuity tastes like an empty transparent bottle You can see through it like everyone sees through you. Like ice cubes On your fire slinging tongue From that shot of whiskey a few minutes ago. How many minutes ago? Two hours ago. Yesterday. Wake up, girl Detach Stop holding on to the shards of glass That break the delicate flesh On your fingertips. Put on a mask Don't let him know you're dead inside. Your job here is to Make him believe you're still alive.
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Dec 21, 2014
Dec 21, 2014 at 11:24 AM UTC
On One Night Stands
Hold your breath, girl. Don't feel. As he places his shallow love inside of you Every breath feels like a brick Pressed against your stomach Collapsing the walls of your lungs Until you feel yourself gagging. Let him talk to you But your words have become rather expensive As he plays with your hair As he touches your waist As you turn away Because his fingers cannot feel the rivets in your rib bones. Your eating disorder makes casual *** a little harder As does your history with assault. Sometimes, your PTSD and bulimia want to have an **** They are the extra lovers you never invited But as you mount on top of him Trying to make him forget he doesn't love you And that you don't love him It seems they are whispering in your ear *Why would any man want to **** you?*                          He's all you have. Stop pretending to be good enough. Try to let these thoughts slip out of your mind As you slip out of your clothes Shedding your snake skin. You kneel there now His eyes are resting on each inch of your body But your skin begins to crawl Your heart begins to shake You unravel before him Every end of you is fraying And he doesn't even know. What happened to never doing this again? What happened to getting over it? Promiscuity smells like stale cigarettes and *** In the back of a car With an older man. Promiscuity tastes like an empty transparent bottle You can see through it like everyone sees through you. Like ice cubes On your fire slinging tongue From that shot of whiskey a few minutes ago. How many minutes ago? Two hours ago. Yesterday. Wake up, girl Detach Stop holding on to the shards of glass That break the delicate flesh On your fingertips. Put on a mask Don't let him know you're dead inside. Your job here is to Make him believe you're still alive.
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I am a ***** of the very worst kind Not of *** and promiscuity A ***** of my own Creation You come up on my radar Latch Seek Destroy And you will never know Each and every one of my Dead lovers Never loved me back Tear them up Spit them out Abandoned Just like me But I hurt I feel emotion Like clods of dirt Inside my chest Rip it open Scream at each Small thing Wrong thing I want only this That I can never have Curses Plagues Dead Ex-lovers Stars in their eyes That look past my Efforts Hints Advances I am invisible Invincible Or so I like to think The invisible ***** You never saw me coming Till I cry these three tears Drop Drop Drop Two from the right One from the left Just like the rest So many to name That wouldn’t even know my Hurt Abandonment What have you done to me? Nothing It is I Only I Want so desperately To touch To be touched 3 little tears come from Within this cold hard Clenched fist Wetting my palm Trying to escape Flung at your calm Silent face. I want to be empty I want to not feel this Gift. Emotion. In the pit of my stomach Back of my throat Behind these eyes Sick And they fall One Two Three The time it takes to Break Die Latch Seek Destroy I am on a rampage To eat each man up Bone by bone Flesh and blood Thoughts and loves Till I spew it all back out To every person I meet I am a ***** of the very worst kind I’ve been everywhere Nowhere Inside everyone No One You cannot pay for me. I’m too cheap. You do not want me I am curse Brought on by Liars Abusers Molesters I am the product of A past Mistakes And I want you to Make me better But I become Worse Liken me please To those on the street Full of disease Because I am worth Nothing Of your time Energy Nothing And I expect Nothing more Than this Agonizingly Painful You Are just like Everyone else That I never wanted you To be So much more than Dead Ex-lovers Death from their lips In long streams of wire Attached at my wrists Ankles Binding me Cutting deep Blood Red Stains like my shirt Cutting me Scarring me Until I feel so much Nothing And uncountable tears Flood cities Destroy taverns Come knocking Breaking free Again And again And again And you are The same As those Starry-eyed, wire binding Dead Ex-Lovers So much alive Reminding me of every Failure Each scar on my wrist In the form of a name And now you join the rest In this shallow unmarked grave You are alone With them And I will Consume this hurt Like a breakfast Of nails and tacks Each bite will puncture The last remaining composure Till I am nothing once again Radar Radar Detecting Latch Seek Destroy All over again The very worst kind
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Aug 13, 2011
Aug 13, 2011 at 6:58 PM UTC
*****
I am a ***** of the very worst kind Not of *** and promiscuity A ***** of my own Creation You come up on my radar Latch Seek Destroy And you will never know Each and every one of my Dead lovers Never loved me back Tear them up Spit them out Abandoned Just like me But I hurt I feel emotion Like clods of dirt Inside my chest Rip it open Scream at each Small thing Wrong thing I want only this That I can never have Curses Plagues Dead Ex-lovers Stars in their eyes That look past my Efforts Hints Advances I am invisible Invincible Or so I like to think The invisible ***** You never saw me coming Till I cry these three tears Drop Drop Drop Two from the right One from the left Just like the rest So many to name That wouldn’t even know my Hurt Abandonment What have you done to me? Nothing It is I Only I Want so desperately To touch To be touched 3 little tears come from Within this cold hard Clenched fist Wetting my palm Trying to escape Flung at your calm Silent face. I want to be empty I want to not feel this Gift. Emotion. In the pit of my stomach Back of my throat Behind these eyes Sick And they fall One Two Three The time it takes to Break Die Latch Seek Destroy I am on a rampage To eat each man up Bone by bone Flesh and blood Thoughts and loves Till I spew it all back out To every person I meet I am a ***** of the very worst kind I’ve been everywhere Nowhere Inside everyone No One You cannot pay for me. I’m too cheap. You do not want me I am curse Brought on by Liars Abusers Molesters I am the product of A past Mistakes And I want you to Make me better But I become Worse Liken me please To those on the street Full of disease Because I am worth Nothing Of your time Energy Nothing And I expect Nothing more Than this Agonizingly Painful You Are just like Everyone else That I never wanted you To be So much more than Dead Ex-lovers Death from their lips In long streams of wire Attached at my wrists Ankles Binding me Cutting deep Blood Red Stains like my shirt Cutting me Scarring me Until I feel so much Nothing And uncountable tears Flood cities Destroy taverns Come knocking Breaking free Again And again And again And you are The same As those Starry-eyed, wire binding Dead Ex-Lovers So much alive Reminding me of every Failure Each scar on my wrist In the form of a name And now you join the rest In this shallow unmarked grave You are alone With them And I will Consume this hurt Like a breakfast Of nails and tacks Each bite will puncture The last remaining composure Till I am nothing once again Radar Radar Detecting Latch Seek Destroy All over again The very worst kind
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An unexpected betrayal Lurks dormant in her manipulative mind Feelings of no remorse Leaving all who loved her behind A superficial glibness and charm My Soulmate I thought I had met Lies with no shame or guilt Hurting others with no conscience or regret A empty soul lacking a heart Stone cold personality Using people only for self gain A target until she gets what she needs Sadly incapable of love Only a projection to hide her true self Now moving on to the next victim A sickness that cannot be helped Hopeless with no cure Lack of empathy a disordered brain One day to find herself all alone Her shallow emotions had caused only pain Oblivious to the devastation she caused Out to pacify her own selfish needs Unreliable with irresponsible promiscuity Never concerned about wrecking others lives and dreams… © P.I. 2010
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Nov 17, 2014
Nov 17, 2014 at 12:34 PM UTC
Broken Angel
You are drinking yourself red-eyed and crumpled on an unmade bed meanwhile I am hating the world’s promiscuity and signing autographs that serve no alternate purpose subsequent to their ink-blotted conceptions and silently my heart scratches and claws and penetrates bone, muscle, and choked fat to get to you How will we know when we’re no longer young enough to inconsequentially rot our bodies from the inside out? If I could I would search for a space impenetrable by ants molecules and medium-sized atoms that exists between my pale finger tips and your freckled bare back moving slowly up and down If I could I would be somewhere where nothing is the tarnished byproduct of anything where no one will remind anyone not to clog their throats or minds or eyes when they shiver and choke on scarlet inkblots and chug gasoline and wipe away dirt stains and drink each other’s shame and form cuts on the soles of their feet after rushing barefoot through beds of sharp stones to reach other
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Dec 24, 2012
Dec 24, 2012 at 11:53 PM UTC
We The Hate Generation
The way your porcelain skin touches light Your waterfall curls provocatively grace the wind Those brown eyes take away my virginity That scent you carry with such promiscuity You want my intellect You want my drive You want me to want you Don't you...? I am yours. The way your jeans caress your curves Your voice sings to my every being And the sky delights at the sight of your smile The celestial sway of each step you take Each gaze my way, an attribution to my euphoria My mind wipes clean and thinks solely of you How I yearn to be get so deep into your imagination I'll find you beautiful girl And I'll take your darling breath away.
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Sep 25, 2012
Sep 25, 2012 at 7:03 PM UTC
Beautiful Girl
i must be the only one who finds sparrows amusing outside my window filled with song, the same in me trying to imitate their song with a range of onomatopoeias never written (thankfully, poets who write sparrows' song, may you be disgraced, chirp chirp, beat-box that **** elsewhere, where you're welcome by admirers), the same in me laughing at the kangaroo hops unable to use both feet to walk in the guttering of the carcass plateau of crows... but there my laugh, like the last whims of a pope when a robin presides over the ritual outside the window on the sill... i find pronouns unable to capture timing, a class of words for standing still, they just can't capture timing, they're space orientated, a man of 70 will say the same of a man aged 20 about a woman, but both will be idiotic about the size of her earrings concerning her promiscuity: bigger the earring, the bigger the need to feed her juiced up genitalia lips... warm **** and cold mouth, some say in reverse: getting ****** off is like ice-cream being eaten... and cold in reverse would give you circumcision defined lawfully as **** a cold genital assertion of womanhood will peel the skin right off... ask for a cake you''ll be welcome away from the bony **** of your hand's embrace... perhaps marriage... and that cold mouth that encompasses all hidden glaciers; still, the **** is about sparrows in rain rain gutters hopping along to the orchestra playing only one tune that's ha ha ha. all in all, when aroused, one hole warms up the other cools down... the third? don't know, don't care, apparently it's exhilarating, trying to turn men onto all three and away from homosexuality, with the fourth (woman's ego) being missed... could never equate that to a phallus and a hole... i always felt ***** by that thing, the fourth dimension once the **** was explored... it's all Dostoevsky after that... everything is permitted, no deity exists, i guess a the end is required of such a poem as this.
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Feb 14, 2016
Feb 14, 2016 at 10:20 AM UTC
sparrows outside my window do tell
i must be the only one who finds sparrows amusing outside my window filled with song, the same in me trying to imitate their song with a range of onomatopoeias never written (thankfully, poets who write sparrows' song, may you be disgraced, chirp chirp, beat-box that **** elsewhere, where you're welcome by admirers), the same in me laughing at the kangaroo hops unable to use both feet to walk in the guttering of the carcass plateau of crows... but there my laugh, like the last whims of a pope when a robin presides over the ritual outside the window on the sill... i find pronouns unable to capture timing, a class of words for standing still, they just can't capture timing, they're space orientated, a man of 70 will say the same of a man aged 20 about a woman, but both will be idiotic about the size of her earrings concerning her promiscuity: bigger the earring, the bigger the need to feed her juiced up genitalia lips... warm **** and cold mouth, some say in reverse: getting ****** off is like ice-cream being eaten... and cold in reverse would give you circumcision defined lawfully as **** a cold genital assertion of womanhood will peel the skin right off... ask for a cake you''ll be welcome away from the bony **** of your hand's embrace... perhaps marriage... and that cold mouth that encompasses all hidden glaciers; still, the **** is about sparrows in rain rain gutters hopping along to the orchestra playing only one tune that's ha ha ha. all in all, when aroused, one hole warms up the other cools down... the third? don't know, don't care, apparently it's exhilarating, trying to turn men onto all three and away from homosexuality, with the fourth (woman's ego) being missed... could never equate that to a phallus and a hole... i always felt ***** by that thing, the fourth dimension once the **** was explored... it's all Dostoevsky after that... everything is permitted, no deity exists, i guess a the end is required of such a poem as this.
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Her lips scream " KISS ME " Then whisper " kiss me now " At once a thousand nerve-ends wake electricity rampant beneath tender sweet candyfloss skin Anticipating contact her inner rhythms quicken from ‘ bump-n-grind ’ to ‘ swing-beat ’ Hearts play along to the new tune now She smiles with those eyes the message of her mouth Delight I understand at once Replying without reaching for a word No second thoughts invade the privacy of spontaneity I just move to accept this luscious invite In a flash ecstatic urges awaken erotica in our minds as we close our telltale eyes a split second before the precious perfect impact Seems magnetically heads tilt Moving closer till our silently screaming half-opened mouths knowingly meet in once vacant space Intentions projected instantly accepted Mouths express new feeling Tongues take on new meaning Suggestions of intensity requesting passions yet to be fulfilled The warm silk snake of temptation reacts to vibration Twisting Rolling Curling ******* Chewing Playfully biting Unspoken promises Exciting She plays a sensual game Active / Passive Strong / Soft Control / Yield Secrets revealed Releasing for a moment our mesmeric communion Poised in breathlessness we stare as we subtly swallow the essence of our watery endeavour Eyes smile that insatiable smile Still thirsting chemical reactions conceived by our emotions Speed of light sensations send shivers down our spine Time sleeps for a moment Lost in a fragment of dreamscape we too escape “ Mmmmmmm ” The gentle sigh waves through the air We lose contact with our unwelcome surrounds as once again we entwine to re-enact the passage of our bliss A repeat of erogenous stimulation replays the symphony of desire in a higher vibration Mouths in motion mirror dancing Automatic reactions assume control Whilst my mind Is with her mind my Soul is with her Soul Her grip tightens Wanting more wanton more Red-hot lava in the veins seeking to surface in a fiery eruption Our watery essence Seems to feed the flames Yearning I hear her Burning I feel her Softening Stiffening Pulsing I'm in her.
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Jul 7, 2010
Jul 7, 2010 at 3:49 PM UTC
PROMISING PROMISCUITY
Her lips scream " KISS ME " Then whisper " kiss me now " At once a thousand nerve-ends wake electricity rampant beneath tender sweet candyfloss skin Anticipating contact her inner rhythms quicken from ‘ bump-n-grind ’ to ‘ swing-beat ’ Hearts play along to the new tune now She smiles with those eyes the message of her mouth Delight I understand at once Replying without reaching for a word No second thoughts invade the privacy of spontaneity I just move to accept this luscious invite In a flash ecstatic urges awaken erotica in our minds as we close our telltale eyes a split second before the precious perfect impact Seems magnetically heads tilt Moving closer till our silently screaming half-opened mouths knowingly meet in once vacant space Intentions projected instantly accepted Mouths express new feeling Tongues take on new meaning Suggestions of intensity requesting passions yet to be fulfilled The warm silk snake of temptation reacts to vibration Twisting Rolling Curling ******* Chewing Playfully biting Unspoken promises Exciting She plays a sensual game Active / Passive Strong / Soft Control / Yield Secrets revealed Releasing for a moment our mesmeric communion Poised in breathlessness we stare as we subtly swallow the essence of our watery endeavour Eyes smile that insatiable smile Still thirsting chemical reactions conceived by our emotions Speed of light sensations send shivers down our spine Time sleeps for a moment Lost in a fragment of dreamscape we too escape “ Mmmmmmm ” The gentle sigh waves through the air We lose contact with our unwelcome surrounds as once again we entwine to re-enact the passage of our bliss A repeat of erogenous stimulation replays the symphony of desire in a higher vibration Mouths in motion mirror dancing Automatic reactions assume control Whilst my mind Is with her mind my Soul is with her Soul Her grip tightens Wanting more wanton more Red-hot lava in the veins seeking to surface in a fiery eruption Our watery essence Seems to feed the flames Yearning I hear her Burning I feel her Softening Stiffening Pulsing I'm in her.
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I used to hurl myself at the idea                                   that your body is a craving,                                         a fire to be stroked.                                                       Never did I feel that heat,                                             the heat of skin on skin,maybe, but the "fire in your ***** "passion in the rippling bodies" never. Were my screw's a little loose? They all spoke another language with their hips and lips and the fingers grasping at the hem of my skirt. I flicked them away. Sent them dancing in reverse down my leg and back to the party. Forced myself to play into the ****** game of who done who. But I never lost a round. And I never lost my ******* either. Because once I felt the walls come down I was a ghost. I was water, slipping through your fingers left nothing but a wet spot on your trousers and a little annoyance at your dumb luck. Keeping my flowers on their stems. I let the hands find me, call it peer-pressure. I let Lewis and Clark explore my terrain. They both left positive feedback and told everyone about their grand adventures in my mountains and valleys and swift, coursing rivers. I was busy playing hide and seek in the closet with the boys and girls and forgot to mention that all I wanted were a few kind words and a hand to hold. Busy keeping pace with the promiscuity of my youth and losing track of those sweet little wisps of lovers, fleeting. Eluding my fingers, slipping through them like water, leaving my eyes a little wet and the rest of me damp with a dark shade of gray. Maybe I am just afraid. of what? Of everything.
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Jan 21, 2014
Jan 21, 2014 at 3:27 AM UTC
Karma in a sexually charged temple.
I used to hurl myself at the idea                                   that your body is a craving,                                         a fire to be stroked.                                                       Never did I feel that heat,                                             the heat of skin on skin,maybe, but the "fire in your ***** "passion in the rippling bodies" never. Were my screw's a little loose? They all spoke another language with their hips and lips and the fingers grasping at the hem of my skirt. I flicked them away. Sent them dancing in reverse down my leg and back to the party. Forced myself to play into the ****** game of who done who. But I never lost a round. And I never lost my ******* either. Because once I felt the walls come down I was a ghost. I was water, slipping through your fingers left nothing but a wet spot on your trousers and a little annoyance at your dumb luck. Keeping my flowers on their stems. I let the hands find me, call it peer-pressure. I let Lewis and Clark explore my terrain. They both left positive feedback and told everyone about their grand adventures in my mountains and valleys and swift, coursing rivers. I was busy playing hide and seek in the closet with the boys and girls and forgot to mention that all I wanted were a few kind words and a hand to hold. Busy keeping pace with the promiscuity of my youth and losing track of those sweet little wisps of lovers, fleeting. Eluding my fingers, slipping through them like water, leaving my eyes a little wet and the rest of me damp with a dark shade of gray. Maybe I am just afraid. of what? Of everything.
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Incontinence of Pseudo-emotion has engulfed us from the 3rd grade. It festered dormant for a little under a decade before it’s vessel popped. A pore filled with ***** media which dehumanizes and objectives human beings While making a spectacle and esteem of being promiscuous. All that Dirt Lathered in an oil of misdirection. A misunderstanding of affection, empathy and apathy. Those who contrive the most emotion are perceived as actually possessing the most emotion. Nothing can be farther from the truth. This is the death of morality. A birth of Nihilism. The miasma of the rotting corpse of ethos and emotional connection. Is one that sits in the stomach and contracts illness not curable due to our understanding. We have been taught that promiscuity will bring us happiness, and yet it is the most depressing. Without understanding of that we are incurable from this ugly affliction. Momentary bursts of relief chafe the most sensitive areas of our skin. Without treatment. We will be encased in our handmade carapace which will indefinitely block us from emotion. Luckily someone invented lotion, soft tissues, and silicone.
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Mar 11, 2019
Mar 11, 2019 at 11:29 PM UTC
Rubbed Rawng
All that money, and yet, still so cheap.
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Aug 1, 2019
Aug 1, 2019 at 2:17 AM UTC
Promiscuity
my buddy keeps me chained to the bed he's like a dark shadow, consuming and- and my pal, the one that's there when i look into the past, thinks that he can be a good friend; they double team me, pin me down, choke me 'til i feel sick 'til tears leak from shadowed eyes. it's one hell of a ********* let me tell you i barely leave the bedroom i've barely left the house in months see my last lover cheated on me so i'm sticking to friends with benefits now— they don't mind sharing me and sometimes they invite more chums along. i'd give their names but you'd lose interest; nobody wants to talk about my love life once they can put faces to my promiscuity all this company and i'm alone as can be did you know it's been over three months since anybody touched me? since i touched anybody else? "what about your lovers" they're teases, really—what else could drive me to tears? i shed three today i think they call that growing but i could still see his shadow behind my eyelids hear his voice inside my mind and then i was three years old again, no lovers, no threesomes, no gang bangs just screaming and tears and "big boys don't cry" 'daddy, i'm three' his new girlfriend washes me clean 'why is daddy angry?' "let me shampoo your hair, there's sick everywhere" back in the moment and i'm eighteen years old i taste acid in my throat. there's a broken bowl. another lover━this one cool and callous and uncaring━ she comes and sweeps me back to bed; she's efficient like that, i no longer care if i'm living or dead. i still feel sick but- i'm fine. all these friends slash lovers it's okay because they're mine. you don't know how much it means to a lonely child to have something he can hold onto, to say, "i'm gonna live with these guys for the rest of my life."
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Mar 18, 2017
Mar 18, 2017 at 6:46 AM UTC
friends
my buddy keeps me chained to the bed he's like a dark shadow, consuming and- and my pal, the one that's there when i look into the past, thinks that he can be a good friend; they double team me, pin me down, choke me 'til i feel sick 'til tears leak from shadowed eyes. it's one hell of a ********* let me tell you i barely leave the bedroom i've barely left the house in months see my last lover cheated on me so i'm sticking to friends with benefits now— they don't mind sharing me and sometimes they invite more chums along. i'd give their names but you'd lose interest; nobody wants to talk about my love life once they can put faces to my promiscuity all this company and i'm alone as can be did you know it's been over three months since anybody touched me? since i touched anybody else? "what about your lovers" they're teases, really—what else could drive me to tears? i shed three today i think they call that growing but i could still see his shadow behind my eyelids hear his voice inside my mind and then i was three years old again, no lovers, no threesomes, no gang bangs just screaming and tears and "big boys don't cry" 'daddy, i'm three' his new girlfriend washes me clean 'why is daddy angry?' "let me shampoo your hair, there's sick everywhere" back in the moment and i'm eighteen years old i taste acid in my throat. there's a broken bowl. another lover━this one cool and callous and uncaring━ she comes and sweeps me back to bed; she's efficient like that, i no longer care if i'm living or dead. i still feel sick but- i'm fine. all these friends slash lovers it's okay because they're mine. you don't know how much it means to a lonely child to have something he can hold onto, to say, "i'm gonna live with these guys for the rest of my life."
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"I got down on my knees because he said I would 
if I loved him. 
And what did I know then? 
when I first betrayed my body. 
Sold it for a kiss and a smile, 
thought to please at any cause, 
left to fight for independence in the backseat of cars.
On stained leather interior dank with the smell of expectations 
I traded integrity for security and called it love, leaving pieces of an empty shell falling behind my mother patting my head and saying 
“What happened to that nice boy you were dating? ”. 
Well, I pushed memories farther down 
buried beneath piercing sunlight, 
dreams my night would come to save 
and prayed 
scraping already skinned knees 
while I cried myself to sleep. 
So I bit the apple in confusion, 
abandoned my innocence 
beneath the tree of knowledge 
and became as bitter as the fruit 
I couldn’t refuse. 
Time and again, 
giving in, 
giving up, 
waiting, 
always wanting something more than pick-up lines, 
promising more than promiscuity, 
clothing myself in false hopes, 
enclosing my weariness in frail arms for years… Cars turning into bars with one lamp, 
and piles of discarded clothing, 
and I heard myself say “no” over and over. 
But he didn’t hear me, 
wouldn’t listen when he called me a ***** bringing me down and took the only innocence I had left. 
And I was searching still for purity, 
lurking in hidden corners, 
hips swinging, lips pouting, 
trading and shattered innocence 
for bared and braised and offerings 
I learned how to control 
and three years of vengeance passed 
while I was that woman despised. 
Well, they begged for plastic perfection 
found in the temptation inches from their faces and I could feel the longing, 
the lies when they said “You’re so beautiful” 
And it wasn’t enough
And so he loved music more than me, 
loved work more than me, 
loved money more than me, 
loved her more than me. 
And I loved him more than me. 
And I gave in 
to where I thought love hid; 
to the times I thought it was real. 
We give in to what men want, 
we paint ourselves with what we think are the colors of the rainbow, 
when we’re really cloaked in hips and lips, 
the brutal realities that leave us grasping 
tatters of the illusions of love and longing 
and the shattered threads of innocence. 
Until we wear our own colors 
and part the curtains we draped over our mirrors in mourning 
and look ourselves in and say 
“With you I feel like Isis and I am beautiful”.
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Jan 28, 2014
Jan 28, 2014 at 3:03 AM UTC
When I was 14
"I got down on my knees because he said I would 
if I loved him. 
And what did I know then? 
when I first betrayed my body. 
Sold it for a kiss and a smile, 
thought to please at any cause, 
left to fight for independence in the backseat of cars.
On stained leather interior dank with the smell of expectations 
I traded integrity for security and called it love, leaving pieces of an empty shell falling behind my mother patting my head and saying 
“What happened to that nice boy you were dating? ”. 
Well, I pushed memories farther down 
buried beneath piercing sunlight, 
dreams my night would come to save 
and prayed 
scraping already skinned knees 
while I cried myself to sleep. 
So I bit the apple in confusion, 
abandoned my innocence 
beneath the tree of knowledge 
and became as bitter as the fruit 
I couldn’t refuse. 
Time and again, 
giving in, 
giving up, 
waiting, 
always wanting something more than pick-up lines, 
promising more than promiscuity, 
clothing myself in false hopes, 
enclosing my weariness in frail arms for years… Cars turning into bars with one lamp, 
and piles of discarded clothing, 
and I heard myself say “no” over and over. 
But he didn’t hear me, 
wouldn’t listen when he called me a ***** bringing me down and took the only innocence I had left. 
And I was searching still for purity, 
lurking in hidden corners, 
hips swinging, lips pouting, 
trading and shattered innocence 
for bared and braised and offerings 
I learned how to control 
and three years of vengeance passed 
while I was that woman despised. 
Well, they begged for plastic perfection 
found in the temptation inches from their faces and I could feel the longing, 
the lies when they said “You’re so beautiful” 
And it wasn’t enough
And so he loved music more than me, 
loved work more than me, 
loved money more than me, 
loved her more than me. 
And I loved him more than me. 
And I gave in 
to where I thought love hid; 
to the times I thought it was real. 
We give in to what men want, 
we paint ourselves with what we think are the colors of the rainbow, 
when we’re really cloaked in hips and lips, 
the brutal realities that leave us grasping 
tatters of the illusions of love and longing 
and the shattered threads of innocence. 
Until we wear our own colors 
and part the curtains we draped over our mirrors in mourning 
and look ourselves in and say 
“With you I feel like Isis and I am beautiful”.
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