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175 · Apr 2021
Lightyears
Lexie Apr 2021
You called it grief
I will not name it differently
175 · Nov 2015
Your Memory
Lexie Nov 2015
I attributed my choice to your memory
I could of sent him the pictures
I knew the stranger wanted me
I almost let him have me
Inside of his mind
Let his body rule over mine
But I couldn't
I will never forget
What it was like
To be yours
I belonged to you
Inside and out
So I am sorry
For even the thought
Of betrayal to your memory
I will try to keep it sweet
Within me
Crazy how much you still affect me.
175 · Oct 2019
Separation
Lexie Oct 2019
Sleep when we're dead
I'll be tired then too
Lover come over
Lover I lost you
175 · Feb 2014
The Way
Lexie Feb 2014
I watch you pace in front of your window

The way you move when you walk

The way you float above the ground

Like an angle when you fly

Like a butterfly in the sky
175 · Dec 2019
Tired
Lexie Dec 2019
Are we done now
Are we dead
I am waiting
To put down my head
174 · Jan 2016
Change
Lexie Jan 2016
I've written you so many
words in my mind
Some of them harsh
and some more kind

I've printed on my heart
all the things I would say
But ripped them to shreds
the very next day

It would seem I compared
all the wrong things
The contrast of sounds
the way the bird sings

I left out the best parts
and how it made me feel
Locked it all up
and made it unreal

Because emotions are void
in a world so molded
Like every sheet in the house
must be perfectly folded

But I cannot conform
and neither will my words
They open your mind
so they must be heard

They will never be loud enough
not on their own
But them I endorse
and them I condone

These actions you speak of
louder than words
Funny your steps
are never even heard

As you walk to and fro
inside of my house
Creating the chaos
like elephant and mouse

I refuse to play
these games any longer
You say I am losing
but I feel so much stronger

So letters it is.
all strung together
Let's make some words
and then make them better

Think in our minds
how to change the world
Like a flag sewn
like a flag unfurled
174 · Aug 2018
A memoir
Lexie Aug 2018
you
spoke
so
ill
of
the
living
you
had
no
words
left
for
the
dead
174 · May 2014
How to Dance
Lexie May 2014
Step 1: Rise like the moon beams from under the clouds

Step 2: Lift your feet like gentle voices raised loud

Step 3: Rest your hands like soft gentle dreams

Step 4: Turn like the sun at its peak

Step 5: And whisk away the fear you seek
173 · Oct 2023
In the silent valley
Lexie Oct 2023
If I told you
I wanted to rip my skin off
I don’t know
How you would look at me
I can be naked
Not vulnerable
Know that when I say this
I have already
Been tearing myself into little pieces
It seems I have been trying
To get the words out
For a thousand years
My throat is full
Of all the things I did not say before
I sit here at the bottom
Of a hundred mountains
I will never climb
A hundred birds come and tell me
Of the beauty on the other side
I ache for something I will never see
I am too tired for the journey
My feet too weary for the path
My bones will not hollow themselves out
I am still empty
What a weight it is
173 · Sep 2015
Love
Lexie Sep 2015
It was my first chosen emotion
That I could not control

So I let into the light
And it got out of control

It saw the sun and so it hid
Inside my heart, within a rib

It was my only peace in life
And I would not let it go

I could never do it again
So I held to close, so it could not go

I held it down and bound it inside
So it could stay, and I could hid
173 · Oct 2015
Untitled
Lexie Oct 2015
For an hour I waited
And for an hour I died
Cursing the screen
That you chose to hide
Your face and emotions
Made me perplexed
And all of these words
Just served to vex
Don't be a child
But you don't have to grow up
Just speak to me tiger
So things can look up
173 · Dec 2015
dance.
Lexie Dec 2015
for though you my dearest friend
speak in riddles of ages long past
and talk in the tongues of angels
I do understand your ways

you my closest companion
have lived with me in my heart
through all these years and journeys
so many uncounted days

ever we dance under the sun
like branches we humbly bow
before the thrones of the stars
to please the moon, in her waking

a hushed whisper of wind
breathes into our very souls
a fire lighting a candle
a beautiful spirit in it's making

we don't need wings to fly
just feet to dance the earth
where it ever to shrivel up
become a husk and fade away

we would still dance
it's memory into the cosmos
set it in stone forever
never to crack or chip like clay

I could never be better
and always be worse
I just want to dance with you
with you until I die

to be your waltz
and the beat in your heart
the melody you play
when you start to cry

when you long for amnesia
because you can't stand
can't stand to remember
I will be the love in your eyes

the dead, the sweetest stars
inside of your broken mind
don't worry my friend
I will sing you back alive

streets aren't made for everybody
that's why they built sidewalks
you don't have to like it
just move to the right

this isn't world is for everybody
but don't you dare leave
if you don't like it
just cry through the night

what inspired me in the beginning
what were you words?
I didn't have to hear them
they just had to be felt

it's not how you talk
or what you chose to wear
it's what you have inside
no matter how it's spelt

what matters will last
no matter what the cost
days and nights you know
but this life is to fast

we live for today
you dance in the present
it' about us, in the now
not about the past

the half of you on the inside
trying to break out
break out of the bars
without the keys

sustainable on your love
always enough, just keep me high
on your level I stay there
never on my knees

though I pray as I dance
and take every chance
to know you more
please let me in

though we fight many battles
and win many wars
don't question the past
of where I've been

I live in my casket
and I died on your lips
but I would dance the world
for just one kiss
173 · Sep 2014
sweet.
Lexie Sep 2014
the flowers crushed under foot
smell just as sweet
173 · Jul 2023
Drought
Lexie Jul 2023
Lover, it is just you and I
Way up here, in the sky
When I look at you
I am not afraid
Of how high we are
If you feel fear, my love
You do not show it
If you are sad darling, cry
They are praying for rain below
And we have found no gods here
173 · May 2014
I Choked (10w)
Lexie May 2014
The cold
Is unyielding
To heavy hearts
173 · Sep 2014
Time
Lexie Sep 2014
Maybe underneath the crust of the earth
It's heart is beating
Not a clock
173 · Jan 2016
Sand & Ashes
Lexie Jan 2016
what will be left but memories
that, like rocks on the shore
are slowly worn to sand
crumbling into the past
laying a foundation for the future
less and less and less they become
until like ashes thrown into the ocean
they are so separated
no one has even remembered
that they were ever once, one
a core slowly eroded
a past slowly erased
an essence faded
into tomorrow
and no one remembered to forget
and they walk upon the ashes
in the sand
they will never know
and so that my friend
is how life goes
173 · Mar 2016
Picking
Lexie Mar 2016
If it is one or the other,
I chose you <3
173 · Feb 1
In a day
Lexie Feb 1
Tomorrow, before the sun goes down
I will try to build Rome
172 · Oct 2015
Sleepless
Lexie Oct 2015
I'm a poet
I know not sleep

But I know
Your face

The way it looks
In my mind

In the early hours
Before the dawn

I can hear you call
My name in anger

You are my love
And I your stranger

Hello I whisper
To the stars

And I know they
Hear me

Even though
They are so far

I couldn't wait
For you to smile

I want to dance
To the music in your eyes

I want you
To know

My kisses are yours
And every breathe I breath

Is a gift you receive
I will not rest

While you wake
And since I am not

With you now
I cannot sleep

So your memory
Awake

I will keep
172 · Nov 2015
Dimensions
Lexie Nov 2015
If I asked you to join me
In gravitating towards a
Parallel universe of love
Where we would be the
Opposite of ourselves
But it would be okay my
Most affectionate love
Because we would be
Together in this world
And every other world
So let is journey to our
Other worldly home so
Let us go to never be
Apart and never be alone
Just in each of the known
Dimensions we thrive
To kiss your lips always
So you can stay alive <3
172 · Nov 2015
yearn
Lexie Nov 2015
the best pain
is the worst pain
the kind that drives me insane
the kind you can let out
only to return
and for the blood in my veins
it will ever year
172 · Oct 2022
Moulting
Lexie Oct 2022
I have shed this carcass a thousand times
When I dig my nails into my skin
It is thicker than before
I tear away at her
Until I am raw
Open me up
So that I may pour out
It is the only way
172 · Aug 2018
Wise
Lexie Aug 2018
I firmly believe
That to become wise
You must experience new foolishness
Everyday
Like you feed yourself
Food from hand to mouth
Fresh fruit
Plucked from the vine
So is wisdom
Thus is life
172 · Dec 2018
Paper Dolls
Lexie Dec 2018
She was an origami girl
Something you could fold in the palm of your hands
Slip into your pocket
And just forget about

She was a paper mache girl
Someone you could wrap in layers and layers
Until you couldn't tell what was truly underneath
You would leave her out to dry
But the sun warmth never touched her center

She was a paper airplane girl
Something you set free to the air
Falling again and again
Until you lost interest

She was a paper doll girl
Lacking depth and emotion
Pressed flat between pages
Just an open book
For you to tell a story you thought was fitting

She was not paper
And she was not string
She was a just girl
Oh what a beautiful thing
Love yourself, even if it is just for today
172 · Jun 2015
Underneath You
Lexie Jun 2015
Could I hold your weight?
Could I compare?

Baby would you notice I was there?

Love me gentle
Love me right
But don't crush me with the weight of the night

When the lights go out
And the music raises our temperature

Clothes hit the floor
Under you
You will find
What you are looking for
172 · Aug 2016
Dark Nights
Lexie Aug 2016
when you cry yourself to sleep
because you don't know what else to do
when you cry yourself to sleep
just to make it through

when tears are your rocks
and cheeks your cliff
and you run over the edge
into the abyss

when you cry yourself to sleep
in the dark of night
when you cry yourself to sleep
with not a soul in sight

when dreams are your ship
and your body an anchor
lost in the water
drowning in danger
172 · Jan 2016
Kept
Lexie Jan 2016
Secrets** should be kept
By those who hath forged them
171 · Oct 2015
Less
Lexie Oct 2015
Eighteen days.
Eighteen hours.
Eighteen minutes.
Eighteen flowers.

Some for now.
Some for later.
Some for love.
Some for haters.

Days to begin.
Days to finish.
Days to win.
Days to diminish.

Less than lies.
Less than before.
Less than true.
Less than more.

Eighteen days some less nights
Each a star in its own right
171 · Dec 2015
Chase
Lexie Dec 2015
I run until I can't breathe
Why won't you chase me?
171 · Mar 2016
Sweet Sorrow
Lexie Mar 2016
You have to push me
Or I will never move

You have to carry me
So I can learn to walk

Each of these past days
I have crawled back further into my shell

And if you do not reach
For me right now
I may never see the sun again

So kiss me once
For it may very well be my last

And say goodnight
To the heart you love more than you know

For the darkness comes
And I have not the strength to hide

Sweet sorrow
And oh so much fear
And every night is like a tear
171 · Nov 2015
Back
Lexie Nov 2015
the demons
are back
and stronger than ever
they brought their friends
darker and deeper
they command
again
and again
inside of my brain
and so quickly they control
I think I am insane
171 · Nov 2019
Froze Over
Lexie Nov 2019
Your love
Embodies
The spirit of spring
171 · Jan 2024
Climate Change
Lexie Jan 2024
The flowers blooming in Antarctica
Will be on our graves
We have loved the earth
The way most men love women
Not much at all
Not willing to listen or change
We **** her
With greed
For our short satisfaction
171 · Oct 2022
Nightmare in First Person
Lexie Oct 2022
Lay next to me
While I go
To the bottom of my mind
Breathe in helium, oxygen, moonlight
Consciousness, floating to the ceiling
I am dreaming, lucid
I am watching the world
In third person, in black and gray
Small matters of the mind
Busy bodies following patterns
Mouths reciting scripts
It is mundane
When I looking through, glass
Panel of my own mind
First person
That is when I see, horrors
Technicolor
I bare it badly as it were gospel
These nightmares an unholy conquest
Against my consciousness
171 · Mar 2018
A sliver of hope
Lexie Mar 2018
This is almost what I wanted
I am so sure
But still uncertain
I want to walk with you
See where the road goes
Hold my hand?
171 · Feb 2014
No
Lexie Feb 2014
No
You say yes
I say no
You say stay
I say go

What I say does it really matter
Do my words ever reach your brain

Or do they float in empty air
Void of meaning
Void of care

I want the truth without deception
But all I get is
170 · Oct 2015
Random
Lexie Oct 2015
Those cheekbones though :p
170 · Aug 2018
Rage
Lexie Aug 2018
I have set out to destroy myself
In a lifetime of desperate moments
Let the festering oceans
Rage againt the cliffs
As I rage through
This farce - of peacefulness in life
170 · Sep 2022
Rhythm
Lexie Sep 2022
I knock on your chest
Asking you
To open up your ribs
So I can climb inside
It is warm here
Next to your beating heart
And the rhythm
Lulls me to sleep
169 · Oct 2015
Culture
Lexie Oct 2015
"Oh, what a sweet culture," you spoke as I entered the room.

And I did not know if you meant a country
or the kind of culture in yogurt.
169 · Dec 2019
Vibin
Lexie Dec 2019
These things take time
I am a heart breaker
With a broken heart
I know your energy
Before you open
Your ******* mouth
169 · Oct 2018
Remorse
Lexie Oct 2018
You would rather pick the petals to put on my casket
Than take back a word you have said
169 · May 2014
The Girl I am Today
Lexie May 2014
Ever know a girl?
Beautiful and happy
But she tells a story
That is really sappy
It seems kinda fake
And you just shake
Your sorry head
And go alone instead
Its cause she's lying
But her head is trying
To keep above the waves
And away from the pain
And she cant tell you
Whats really making her blue
Cause if she did you would cry
And she wouldn't make it bye
169 · Sep 2014
Love You Safely
Lexie Sep 2014
my dreams are the safest place to love you
168 · Feb 2019
Honest
Lexie Feb 2019
You know, even in all my honesty, I couldn't tell you if I do this **** right
I'm just trying
168 · Sep 2015
What happens next?
Lexie Sep 2015
New old feelings
Dug up from the ground
They had been buried in

They saw the sun
And grew into their wings
Flying to their home

Inside my heart
Light as butterflies
Like sunset in a soul

And I cannot help
But begin to wonder
What will happen

Next.

As I reach for
The glowing embers
In this sky

The one you call the sun
And as it falls within my grasp
Like the best colors

The gold in your green eyes
The dark in mine
But they both burn

Two flames are brighter
Than one fire
And the smoke

Wreaths us in mystery
Look at us now
Who would have thought

That we would breathe
The same air
Out of different lungs

That we could both know
The same song
To a new tune

I will play your heart strings
If you will pluck mine
But as we create a harmony

Don't let anyone know
Our own melody
For they will darken

The light and eclipse us
Into a unknown shadow
168 · May 2014
The Worst Word I Ever Heard
Lexie May 2014
The worst word I ever heard was goodbye
The day you walked away and all I did was cry
The emotions boiled over loaded
But this love was sugar coated
The worst word I ever heard was goodbye
The words I knew from your lips were lies
And I felt inside like it was over
The worst word I ever heard was goodbye
168 · Feb 2018
Burnt Out
Lexie Feb 2018
I survived the fire
And the flames
The embers are still warm
But soon
I will burn out like the stars
168 · Jan 2016
Goodbye <3
Lexie Jan 2016
I will always want one more:
Hug
Moment
Goodbye

But I will only ever need:
One of you
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