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126 · Nov 2021
Solvent
Lexie Nov 2021
When we are done here
I will save the parts of us
That make beautiful fiction
I do not always want to acknowledge
The unhealed parts of my self
That seep into my clear waters
I do not expect you
To kneel at my muddy banks
And drink
Know that I would see you quenched
Not thirst
How long will the threshing floor turn
While I wait hungry
For the grain to separate
From my sins
126 · Oct 2021
Tender One
Lexie Oct 2021
you are green now
changing color, healing
I am not the same
won't say I've changed
we named each other once
I think I am finding my light again
I pray you are not heavy hearted
125 · Dec 2019
Unwound
Lexie Dec 2019
I have no pride to swallow
Choke on my tongue
Larva in my mouth
These are not my hands
Is your spirit really here
Or simply passing through
Are you making fear
Pulling up hairs
On the back of my neck
Is that your presence I sense
Manifestation of nightmares

I told you
Not to come
Here you are
Here I am
The one who cannot leave

You knew of my binding
Spit in my face just the same
I can forgive anything
I dare not forget
Skies are open now
Stone tablets broken
You should have written
Promises on your hands
Then you would have kept them

I am not the string
Around your finger
A reminder of promises
A circulation of inconsistency
Set me free
125 · Nov 2015
Enough
Lexie Nov 2015
Will there be more words to come?
Or are these enough?
Will there be more heart break to come?
Because I think I have had enough.
125 · Jan 2019
Standards
Lexie Jan 2019
"You're not beautiful unless you are skinny"
"You're not beautiful unless you want to be skinny"
"You don't want to die looking like that"

Funny thing is, I don't want to die at all, you just want to ****** my waistline.
125 · Oct 2018
So Much
Lexie Oct 2018
It brings tears to my eyes
That you love the words of a broken heart so
So much
125 · Dec 2018
Humble to a Fault
Lexie Dec 2018
My vanity a cup
Not a drop in it
My pride will not let me pour that much of myself out
I lost to much before
To give up even a taste now
125 · Jun 2014
Untitled
Lexie Jun 2014
to much tomorrow to deal with today
125 · Nov 2017
Mom
Lexie Nov 2017
Mom
I used to take of you
When I was younger
Even when you didn't
Take care of me

Now that I don't live there
We don't have the same roof
All of your words
Land like slaps across my face

How can you ask me
If I wanted this
With the same mouth
That says "I love you"

Love isn't a grieving heart
Or every single day hurting
More than the last
It stings deep in my heart

Every time I look at my phone
And you accuse me
Of all the things you did
I die a little inside

Because it isn't love
To treat me like this
To **** me, with all your words
And all your stupid lies

How can you call yourself a mother
When you are so damm childish
How can you say it's all on me
When the ball lies in your court

There is a cost
That we all must pay
But I refuse, with all that I am
To pay a penny for you

Because you don't give me time of day
You didn't give me any worth
Or even just a kind word
To bad lies are worth nothing

So all the of the hurt
That you push upon me
Just pushes me further away
And I won't come back

I would do anything
For my family, that you know
Blood is so much thicker than water
Maybe that's why you choked

But, I need it to stop
Because there is more to life
Than all this foolish drama
And all of my heartache

So please, close your mouth
Shut your tongue behind your teeth
And let me life all that is life
While I still have time

For today is sleeping
With all of the yesterdays
And tomorrows sun rises
Behind the whites of mine eyes
- F. U. M. -
124 · Oct 2017
Lonely
Lexie Oct 2017
Do you ever isolate yourself?
And then wonder inside your heart
Why you feel so ******* alone?
And it hurts so much.
I can bear it but I don't want to.
124 · Nov 2014
Me.
Lexie Nov 2014
Me.
Add a dream to me and it will equal nothing
Except a depressed phsycomaniac  with beautiful eyes
124 · Dec 2017
Cold Hands
Lexie Dec 2017
I try to hide the trembling of my fingers
In the depth of my pockets
But they are to shallow

Like the water we walk in
I am still so unsure
Just as the tide is untamed
Each wave has a pull
To bring me under
Only to push me away
Just like the rest of the world

I know rejection for it is part of me
Some say that blood is thicker than water
I must insist though the contrary
That saltwater flows through my veins
What else to give me such a spirit

And still I try to hide
The tremble of my fingers
The cold of my heart pulls all warmth from my limbs
I am anxious and filled with sorrow Rather than the heat of a heart
124 · Jun 2021
Flaking
Lexie Jun 2021
here we are again
face to sky
with a full wolf moon

i don't know this road
the journey all to familiar
as the grains of sand under your nails
after a day clawing at the ocean

do you hear the depths roar
or does she whisper to you
i faintly remember her voice

when i am high in the mountains
call out to me
like i wish you would

i have only now
learned of my brokenness
i have only now learned
of things beyond my knowledge

how many times
must i admit my fault
how many times
must i pull my foot
out of my mouth
i do not relish the taste of soil
you know i am a foolish fool
i cannot speak for you bitterness

my truth is different now
though unlived, uncovered, unbound
all but unrelinquished

i am swept under the rug of your past life
the splinters of the floor flaking away from the boards
we too will turn to dust
124 · Aug 2018
Angry
Lexie Aug 2018
You can be the angel this time
I'm done playing games
124 · Nov 2018
Lies
Lexie Nov 2018
You told me you knew what love was
Yet even the bones of your house are cold
You lie with your tongue between your teeth
I cannot wonder how you sleep at night
124 · Dec 2020
Shame
Lexie Dec 2020
We
       s
          p
       i
          r
       a
           l

down
           d
             o
               w
                  n

back to our first beginning

   we were little more than f l i g h t l e s s birds then

so utterly humble
so infamously bleak
so lost in shambles
so unbearably weak

               did you name me then
with paper and ink words

               did you find joy sparking
in the solitude you heard

              are we no longer secrets
              sealed with the stamp of burdens
              we call names
              bringing each other up
              from the depths of ourselves
              that remain unfathomed

              why do you recoil at a certain name

     as if, when you you hear it, you've touched

                             a
                          l    m
      an open  f           e

     as if, when you say it,
     it's the first you've experienced shame
123 · Jul 2019
Sith
Lexie Jul 2019
We grow
We change
There are more blessings
Beyond today
Sith is Gaelic for Peace
123 · Aug 2019
Depth
Lexie Aug 2019
The world will see me
She will not know me
123 · Jun 2019
Moving On
Lexie Jun 2019
Forgiveness is a powerful thing
123 · Oct 2022
Scripted
Lexie Oct 2022
My subconscious hangs in the atmosphere
Betting, pondering
If in time you will shed your layers
If your gentleness will slip
Like a mask
This would not be the first time
I perceive chaos for calmness
I prayed for it
Perhaps I should have begged
Whispered my barters to God
Leaned into his ears and pleaded
My pride will not be my downfall again
I am not too wise
I have played the fool before
I know the role well
I wrote it
123 · May 2018
Im.Sorry
Lexie May 2018
im.sorry
That this world you were brought into
So easily rejects you
It should not have been this way
Remember you are better than this
I love you
123 · Oct 2018
Restless
Lexie Oct 2018
The rustle of leaves
Makes me restless
Sleep, you tell me, will soon be here
I say I cannot stay to wait
Running is my jacket
And leaving my footsteps
The door is swinging in the wind
I will follow the feathers the birds leave as they journey south
A way to go
Is a way made by those gone before
123 · Oct 2018
Grave
Lexie Oct 2018
To hold hands with your mind
As time gave a kiss to your cheek
Everything
Even the beginning of the end of the world
It's just
-so cold
Yet we don't try to light fires
We just
-break hearts
Break ourselves
And try to walk around with casts around our chests
And gauze falling out our ears
Because people say things that make our eyes cry
But oh do they make our minds weep
-and wail
Somehow through all of this
-this everything
The "so much"
We are just so ****** empty
-so ******
So so empty
It eats us out from the core
To the husk of our words
Biting into the back of our throat
Just to get
- a taste
Of soul

Having a soul
And acting so ******* soulless
That's your favorite pastime
It really does
- pass time
Unfortunately its past time

My feet will walk me through the iron wrought gates
I'll lay in my own grave
My desperation lowering me into the earth

Finally.

Something to claim me
-hold me
It won't let go
123 · Aug 2022
Sparks
Lexie Aug 2022
I have questions for you
Wondering where you keep
Small fireworks
That jump between our skin
When we are not one

You are not Fourth of July
You are not Christmas
Or birthdays or holiday
You are the first day after a long winter
When I turn my face to the sun
Remembering her warmth
Remembering there is comfort

Keep your name
It is gentle
The way it rolls off my tongue
Soft summer rain on glass
No one will say it like I do
But I will beg them to try

If you knew me once
You will never be lonely again
I am with you
I am part of you
The pieces of you in me
I will keep company
I will speak to them
I will cherish

When our souls danced
It was small magic
Big lights
Burning up the sky
I do not care
That one day
All the stars will fall to the earth
They will not burn as brightly as you and I
123 · Aug 2017
Maybe
Lexie Aug 2017
In the end
The maybes never matter
122 · Dec 2018
Dreams
Lexie Dec 2018
We just let the days run through
Marking them good and bad
We wait, crossed legged on the floor
For the next opportunity
As it peeks in shyly through the window
Waiting for us to fall asleep
So it can slip into out dreams
Just to give us a taste of tomorrow
In it's impatience to find us
122 · Jan 2019
Gates
Lexie Jan 2019
The gates care nothing for your regrets
And I care to much
If only I was as iron in my retribution
As the doors between us
122 · Oct 2020
Delicate
Lexie Oct 2020
Self care is a gift
To your future self
122 · Jul 2018
Aspirations
Lexie Jul 2018
I am a foolish one
To chase after things
That I am not even supposed to have
Things I only desire
Because they are withheld from me
122 · Jun 2018
I felt, I feel
Lexie Jun 2018
if i felt a thing
would you still love me as i am

if i felt a thing
please don't run like i think you will

if i felt a thing
would i even admit how raw it was

if i felt a thing
would i even tell you how real it is

i cling to this
with as much of myself as i could dare

i am a heart that has been broken
every day of its life

and i feel to much
to say nothing at all

i am a poet
married to my words and woes and the wonders of the world

so please love me just as i am
the willow that weeps by the stream

I Love You
I'm so scared.
122 · Sep 2015
Untitled
Lexie Sep 2015
I handed over my scars and my blades
One at a time

I told you to be careful
Knowing me is like walking on crushed glass

You bleed and survive
But you won't be the same kind of alive

Don't want to be clingy
But so infused in your words

I can't get enough
Just let me go now

I'll get over it
Move on, cry out my heart

And as always I will leave behind
The best part
122 · Jun 2018
living outside the lines
Lexie Jun 2018
i could live my whole life outside of the lines
i could run as far and as fast as i can
inside the double yellow
racing to catch up with the sun
122 · Jun 2024
Stale
Lexie Jun 2024
You seek for your spirit to be fed
I seek your satisfaction
We sit here at a stone table
Both hungry

Tell me you are a child
I will not ask for how long
I am tomorrows memory
And you, todays

This body has tricked me
I am easily deceived
To think I am
The brain beneath the crown

Another man wore thorns
I am naked
As a newborn lamb
Only half as pure

Snowflakes sit in your dark hair
Star crystals in an auburn sky
They drip, melt, run, dry
I change much quicker

I am not patient
For even a moment
I am the rainbow
Waiting behind the storm

Are you ready
For something beautiful
You will not see me
Beginning or ending

I will only remember you
Look at me
The way you did
After the flood

We are in the mountains again
We made our sacrifice here
The stone is split
A perfect half, how unholy

Feast your eyes
Your body will still hunger
I will break
Like bread.
122 · Jan 2018
Hollow Spot
Lexie Jan 2018
The only thing that I really remember about love is the ache of how much it hurts when they take theirs back and leave you alone.
121 · Dec 2018
Torn
Lexie Dec 2018
I always wanted more
Just to give you more
Yet I am torn
There is nothing to me
That I would not give
If I knew you needed it
121 · Jul 2014
Untitled
Lexie Jul 2014
I am a ship that set sail
Who knows if I will ever see shore again
121 · Jul 2019
Stupid Maybe
Lexie Jul 2019
I die
Every day
To live
With you
Again
121 · Dec 2018
Flavor
Lexie Dec 2018
I just become little granules of sugar and salt as the days go by
Is this is the spice of life
Am I a pleasant flavour
That I would linger apon your lips
So that I may die in your stomache
That I would be tasted as a kiss
For but one breath of your life
121 · Jul 2018
Of myself:
Lexie Jul 2018
I give so much of myself to a world that asks for so little of me
121 · Apr 2019
Sleepless
Lexie Apr 2019
Sleep is not a gift given to me tonight
120 · Apr 2019
Maybe
Lexie Apr 2019
Maybe
Maybe I was dazed and confused
Or maybe
Just maybe
Maybe it was love


Maybe
120 · Dec 2017
Society
Lexie Dec 2017
We are so eager to **** ourselves just to be enough



...for a world that doesn't even deserve us
120 · Jun 2018
Note to Self:
Lexie Jun 2018
Stop staying in abusive relationships and situations, just stop.
They need help, but you are not the one to give it to them.
120 · Jun 2018
Pure Poetry
Lexie Jun 2018
These words in the marrow of my bones climb their way out my fingertips
To dance their life-song out on paper
Rather than dying like a kiss on my lips
120 · Mar 2014
Untitled
Lexie Mar 2014
Thank you for hurting me so I could see
Thank you for waiting on the corner
Thank you for knowing when to say goodbye

You are welcome for the love
But I wish it wasn't over
120 · May 2019
A Storm is Brewing
Lexie May 2019
The meadows of my mind are still and quiet
Morning, she has come and gone
Sweet and melancholy in her awakening
The frolicking of my thoughts
Does naught to ease the tempest that brews behind the whites of my eyes
My temperament is made only of sea foam today
120 · Sep 2014
This Happened To My Heart
Lexie Sep 2014
there once was an earthquake
across a red land
it split the surface in two
and the blood poured out
over the broken place
like tears lost in an ocean
was the hope of healing
120 · Sep 2015
Untitled
Lexie Sep 2015
where I was born

where you made me
come
alive

where you
brought me
into life

into
light

to gaze in wonder
at the sun

but
I
would never fear
to be burned

by the heat of the day
or
to

sleep
eternally

in the cool of the night

I just want to stay awake
and see you make the light
120 · Dec 2021
Current
Lexie Dec 2021
I allow nothing in my life to be shallow
I cannot help but wonder
If you are honest with yourself
Are we not aligned
We eclipse, spin into orbit
Ships in the night
Are you in the deep now
Is it too much for you
I will tread with you
I am the current
I am not the shore
I am the mover, the taker, the unfathomable
You are there when I draw near
Though it seems there are places in you
I will never reach, untouchable
Hold your kingdoms as what they are
People and places
Nothing more
I drew in to you
My streams among your surfaces
Nothing more
You have turned me back to the shores
We are nothing more
119 · Aug 2018
Sunrise
Lexie Aug 2018
I want quicksand love
That you sink into
A grave for my past
It is dug
Now bury all things
How else will I find a place
To plant flowers
To grow
I am coming up from the earth
Relinquish the wind unto my soul
Let her breath into me
Every memory she has carried in her wings
I want this
And it is nothing to the world but grains of sand
Still in its little
It is everything to me
Light me now
Like the edge of the horizon
As the sun falls into a lake of fire
To pass into tomorrow
A birth shadowed only by all I see in you
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