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Lexie Jan 2014
Reaching up to the sky
Long arms miles high
Up to fairytales and clouds
Out of distance of barking hounds

Stretching tendrils thin and long
Caring not for right, nor wrong
To the sun in the sky
Hot and cold, wet and dry

Leaves and flowers
Sun and shade
And a place and that they have made

Dirt and water
Sky and fire
Out of reach, climbing higher
Lexie Mar 2016
Some days I won't have any words
But on days like these
It seems I have to many
I cannot even say them
For is not silence
Better than a storm
A storm I fear
For it I cannot weather
The flashbacks
And the tears
And these nights
Made of fears
So I will leave you
To do what you wish
With my heart
My mind
And my body
But you do not even
Come close
I cannot feel
Your heart beating
So I must question
If it is even there
But it is okay
I will close my eyes
And return to my world
Where I think
I am a mermaid
Or a unicorn
Sometimes a dragon
Or a fairy
Depending on the day
Either way
I will not
Have to worry
About boys
Or shoes or makeup
Or what to say
For I run free
Or swim
Somedays I can fly
Always I sing
But never alone
It would seem to me
The curtain fell
Before we even began
Our duet
I think
In my heart
That is a waste
Not of talent of gift
But of love and time
For I will always question
Yes
Was it?
A waste?
Of my time
I think not
But yet
I cannot help but wonder
If dreams do fade
Into the horizon
Because the sun
Is shining down
And as awake as I am
And as dead as I feel
I do not even know
The difference between
Alive
And unreal
These visions I create
They are not monsters
Nor are they friend
They simply exist
To help me along
These guides in my mind
Show me the way
For if
I stay
In one place
For to long
So many things
Will start to go wrong
And stuff I do
And stuff I say
Always seem to get in the way
You rocked the boat
And I fell over
And the waves claimed me
It was a chance
It was a dive
And I never thought
Dying
Could make me feel
So alive
But my vision is clouded
My judgement is poor
And all I hear
Is a knock at the door
You call me out
On everything that I am
And I cannot find the strength to stand
You were my crutch
Lifting me enough
But on my own
I am not nearly enough
I am wet and tired
Cold and afraid
And I am alone
In the darkest glade
I think in the dark
That I am an elf
But I took those feelings
And put them on a shelf
They do not belong
Inside of me
I do not need them
Oh let me be!
Alone.
Alone.
Alone.
Singular
And monotone
It is enough
To breathe in air
Even if
You never care
Emotions I hide
In visions so red
And keep them there
Inside of my head
They are strung up
Like Christmas lights
And they give me comfort
In the night
These green walls
They bleed so fast
And all to quickly
Then they pass
I lay here
Upon the floor
The carpet smells of vanilla
I sit here
In this room
My mind all a mess
And I dance in my head
And cry in my heart
And wonder where
It all went wrong
I cannot go back
Afraid to look ahead
And so I lay here
With my hand on my head
And I whisper promises
I cannot hold
But still I cling to them
As if they were gold
I will walk
The streets at night
And look to the moon
For a source of light
And as I raise
My tears to the expanse
I wonder if
This is my chance
I could soar
On wings of skin
And never feel
To fat or to thin
I could feel the wind
As it kissed my face
I would know
This was my place
But no,
It is not to be
I sit here
And start to bleed
As long as this marker
Stains me red
I will return
To your bed
I will crawl
Into your arms
Though you don't love
The girl who self harms
There are a few
Who have seen
The soul that was forged
But many yet
Who walk on by
And they will never learn
What it is
To see ice and fire
As they steam
Higher and higher
To fill the sky
With her love
So it reaches
Much further above
This world could not contain
All her love and all her pain
She never slept inside her mind
It was just a mask
That she hid behind
She says 'Goodnight'
And she whispers 'Goodbye'
And it is sad
That she might die
But still she clings to slivers
Of stabbing hope
A chance for a 'better'
A chance to cope
On a wire I stand
I might yet fall
In the noise I listen
And I hear you call
My name.
And the way you say it
Like a prayer
When my skin is asleep
And my heart is awake
And I wonder
How much more can I take?
So I crawl
Into my cage
To hide myself
From mine own rage
And I kiss my hands
And all their scars
I wonder a little
If I took it to far
So I breathe in
And let you out
Of my heart
It was not your place
Nor was it mine
It was not
The right time
I place my hand
Upon your cheek
And ask you
If in your memory
I could sleep?
Lexie Sep 2018
I call out
Not to disturb the quiet
But to give some substance
To the expanse
My voice.
She will return to me
Though not as she once was
And not the same as she left
For time will change her
Give her depth
Oh that she will teach me
All that has been sewn into her
Lexie Jun 2018
Shhhh!

          we are already much to quiet

IT doesn't matter.
Do what I say

                              bbbut

No.
              pl­ease, please just let me say
                              one thing


No. We don't want to listen.

                        please, help me

You're words
aren't important.

                           I'm sorry ... I'll just
                                 stop now


You're never
going to be enough.

                            *I'm sorry
Lexie Feb 2014
The message you left me on the wall
It changed my life and my whole world crumbled

I am trapped
I tripped I stumbled
Oh the angry words I mumbled

In between the worlds a blur
Spinning silent in orbit

My head is not my own
Controlled by demons in a rage
Take my book rip the page

Your soul stands and it you fly
To empty barren immortal skies

Reach it stop before the end
It will pull you into its embrace
One last sodden face
Lexie Oct 2022
Darling
Do you feel
Naked, vulnerable
I will dress you
In my love
Clothe you
There is no need
To be ashamed
Lexie May 2019
The woman in white was wailing at the gate
Her whisps wrapped around the iron bars
As though she was shackled in the earth
I asked her why
She did not hear me over the wind carrying her cries to my unfortunate ears

Is it the coins tinkling in death's pocket I hear
Is he coming or does he only watch whispering no words of caution

Broken glass is no good for bare feet
I find myself
Where I have not tread before
This road winds longer on the way down
The way up was so steep, yet not as eerie

I felt the push and I ignored the pull
Before I even arrived
My pulse will thrum and my chest struggle to fill itself with air
If only my wisdom ran as deep as my fear

The other woman will come, stand in the window
A man will stand beside her, blood on his hands
The lights may never stop playing tricks on my eyes
They will find in my dreams tonight
Let this be the extent of my worries
The mutterings of my prayers will not be in vain
A few thoughts from last night's experience
Lexie Dec 2018
everything is temporary
Lexie Feb 2018
Such as the sun
Clings to the sky
At the end of the day
So am I
Trying to hold to you
You are my light
Like no other
I am not afraid
Of the darkness
Nor any that she holds
It is the time I fear
I am so impatient
To see you again
Lexie May 2014
That one fleeting wish taking its time
The stars glow as they slowly aline
Celestial beings carved by a creator
Outer space and its fickle nature

Empty poems that carry dreams
So far away, as it seems
Drop of water and the sun that doth shine
Spinning around on a clock set by time

Oh free choice and captive rings
And many untold secret thing
A moon seen by two different sets of eyes
Each wondering if the shines

Oh wolf howlers midnight friend
And earthy showers that you send
The patient night bringing morning dusk
But in the stars who can you trust?
Lexie Jul 2019
I send
Emotional
Hey girls
To
Emotional
**** boys
For
Emotional let downs
Kindered too
Emotional heartbreak
I'm not
Home
Right now
In my head
Standing
At the door
Knocking
Please
Someone let me
In
Lexie Aug 2022
Time is peeling back our layers
Age will yield softer versions of ourselves
Dive deep into the self
There is nothing there

Beg the wanderers for freedom
As if we could not hold our own
Bare your teeth to the silver dollar moon
No one is coming now

Not the wolves I see in my dreams
Not the shadow man clothed in leather
Not the rally I prayed
Not the soldiers I spilt blood for

Age will yield a softer version
Of my own person
Fight, tooth and nail for a bitter end
These are still waters

Dive deep into the self
There is nothing there
No God, no colors, no sound
It is the cold flame of humanity
Only consciousness persists
Lexie Jan 2016
Will these walls ever come down?
I freak out every time they crack!
The windows are nice
A little light is okay.

But please I need them up
Surrounding me, to feel safe.
I could never have a guard
To take the walls out of place
Lexie Aug 2016
How can I say words
When I do not even know myself
This sunshine is wasted
On the frailness of my body

Crystals in my eyes
Scrape across my cheeks
Dragging me down
To be set in stone

So many whispers
Dancing in my head
And the secrets
Scream to be free

I cough, and my soul
Jumps through the fabric
Of the world
It is bound unto

Slaves in my bones
Work through the night
They will not die
Without cracking my heart

Shards, embedded in my hands
Hands clasped around my ankles
Ankles covered in scars of gold
Gold burned, into flames of death

Into the night they rise
Screaming for their life
As it falls to earth
To be shadowed in lies

Mysteries clouded in poor judgement
Peace shattered to pieces
Broken, like the silence
That echoes in my cage

Because all who wander
Wander alone
And not all who wander are found
Before it's to late
Lexie Oct 2018
I know naught of your ways
Such as your gods know nothing of me
Lexie Dec 2018
You would of wanted me
If you had needed something good in your life
You just wanted flowers with thorns
Because you were sold on the idea that roses were the most beautiful of flowers
You had never taken the time to smell sunflowers
Too busy plucking petals that can't even talk
She loves me
She loves me not
Crushing life with your hands
She loves me
She loves me not
Lexie Oct 2018
I just want to write something beautiful
Give my trembling hands some purpose
I guess what I see
Does not always mean inspiration
What I feel
Does not always find a place on my tongue
It just courses through me
Like a river wild
Like a river free
But there is no freedom in me
Lexie Dec 2021
Open air hangs between us
A bitter cloud
Your hands could slice through
Fingers, freshly sharpened blades
Your words cut
As they are spoken
I cried once
You said you had never seen
Eyes so blue with ice
So bright with fire
So void of hope
I tell you I am drained
I pour my waters
Over the cliffs of time
Into your cupped hands
Are you waiting for me
Or waiting for me to leave
I prayed to my old gods
For you before
I fear they did not give me
Wisdom or strength
Shutting my third eye
To the appearance of truth
The glass of transparency
Is not a mirror
The shadow that is your name
Written in the sky
Casting it's hollows down
These are not stratocumulus
Not nimbus
Not shapes we know
Not the silver lining
We prayed for you
I went to the well to draw water
Why do I still know thirst
Lexie Nov 2018
Let the sun go down with your anger
They can fight over who will keep the other warm
Lexie Jul 2019
We are empty souls
Screaming in the abyss
Do you remember me
Voices thought buried
Dig themselves up
Unearthed again
A haunting
Cheap as ****** in the street
Cobblestone streets
Holding liquor penance
Splicing together
The history of our remnance
Ghosts thinner than walls
Lighting up lanterns
In the street
Moaning
This is the way
Will you follow me
Do you remember me
Am I nothing to you
Only paper towns and matches
Dry kindling to memory
Flames waltzing
To tunes older than love
Ivory keys remember
Being elephants
When they were younger
And the world
Not so at sorts
Children in the street
Recognizing more tongues
Than their own
Witches singing in an alley
Do you know me
When I held you on my knee
Do you remember
Spells whispered into water
Washing away sorrow
Sins
And memory
Lexie Oct 2015
No matter how close together our hearts are
There will always be two cages between
Some of them weaved in bone and tissue
Others are the kind that cannot be seen

As close as you are to me
Closer still I want to be


If I could touch your hand and know your skin
Would find a way to let me in?

So many walls that you have put up
Some barriers broken by your mind
Physically in our own little domain
Some barriers of a different kind

You remain in sand buried in a beach
Letting the waves take their toll
I would dig you out my love
But in this life it is just a role

*Send me your waves
So when the world ends
And the oceans rage
We will still drink deep
Of each others love
Lexie Jan 2014
Far out at sea
With waves
Wet
Wild
The ocean is free
The waves there own master
The foamy horses race towards shore
Seeking to win to break the ties
Drawing back to the water
The daughter of the rocky depths
Wreathed in seaweed
Bleeding water
Wax
Lexie Oct 2018
Wax
You were melting
It made me wax
Like the moon
You were wick
And wicked
I could be nothing to you
But I was only yours
Lexie Nov 2014
Chinese food on Saturday
and bulimia nervosa on Sunday
anorexic pancakes on Monday
and cold syrup on Tuesday
camels from **** day Wednesday
and a dessert of sand for Thursday
a week of weakness for Friday

when will it end
the voices in my head
Lexie Dec 2019
Matches for fingers
What are your flames
Not comfortable with anger
Or revenge
Where are your flames
Don't know how they burn
Only who lit them
Lexie Sep 2020
We are poets
All we know
Is cigarettes and regret

We are poets
We know of heartbreak and all her words
The size of each of her veins
Asking to much of a broken heart

We are poets
We slip into the madness
Because it's more comfortable

We are poets
We observe
Saying nothing
Preferring to write our words

We are poets
And each of our lengths of love
Are our most beautiful works
Lexie Sep 2017
Nevertheless she persisted.
Lexie Oct 2021
Where do the gentle go
When they are weary
I have been here far too long
Lexie Jan 2018
I cling to you
As though you were
The edge of a cliff
And all below me
Such a great distance
If I were to fall

I wish to let go
Of this ledge
At the same time
I grasp at it
For all that I am

These thoughts run
Through my head
Like sirens in the night
But never reaching me in time

I have no sure footing
Not a single leg
That I can stand upon
Oh how weak I am
In spirit and in stamina

What is this life
That I hold on
Why even try to stay
In such a ethereal existence
I am but a fool

My mind is filled
With everything that I loath
These memories that trace
Their stupid scars across my mind
Over and over
Like a beaten path

Only thorns.
You cannot claim roses
In this garden of rocks
In this garden of thoughts.
And oh the weeds
That you would pull them up
By their stubborn roots

Such a tangle is this
My life
My head
My heart
Like a sweater cast off the needles
I unravel
I am undone
All my efforts in vain
Again I say
I am but a fool
But a wise one at that

If I could make stars
I would not put them
In the northern sky
I would hold them in my hands,
For you to see such thing
Because if I cannot give it to you
I do not want such a thing

If you are not part of it
I want no part

Still as a small child
Oh though,
she had the biggest of hearts
To match her wide eyes
And to her
All the earth was wondrous
Yet appearances have great deception

Now she cannot,
Even see the same light
Her heart was touched
By cold, dark hands
Her body broken
By those sworn to protect it

And lies
So many lies
She them keeps woven in her hair
And under her fingernails

She sleeps with both eyes open
Or not at all

She walks with both feet
Upon the ground
But never with her head
In the clouds

And a knife strapped to her fear
To stab at her thoughts
As they try to run away

But into the night
She whispers,
"Do you know what it is like?
To watch yourself die?
To have little pieces of yourself  broken off and throw away?
And still make everyone believe that you are, okay.

I'm fine.

Have you ever felt like the whole world was sitting upon your shoulders? Because those who are meant to carry the weight, pushed it off, onto the frail shoulders of a child.

Have you seen it?

Have you felt it?
The hollowness inside, when everything that brought you fires of joy ... dims like a candle to long in it's burning."

Because I have.
I know many secrets.
I have traced them into my skin
Which is why,
Now.
I cannot forget them.

They are a part of me
This is why
I cry every night to sleep
Such a salty sentiment

But there is no rest for the weary
Lexie Nov 2014
I told you my dreams were made of glass
But you ripped them to shreds like paper
You knew my heart was on a string
And yet you let me go
Flown away like a kite in the wind
You dropped me down stairs
And left me in my nightmares
No rescue from a lonely soul
My heart was strong but it knew no love
Until I saw you, we had a romance
Of the summer and sunsets and butterfly kind
You watched me learn to love
Like a baby learns to walk
Simple steps, hesitant at first
But then all at once
Yet when I fell, you would always catch me
The tears I cried for you, you wiped away
With gentle midnight kisses
But a dream in the day
So quickly turns to night
And sleep did not come
Only howls of the wolves
Like a vampire you bit
Into my soft skin
And I let you bite
So I could feel you within
I gave you my all and whatever was left
But you had already taken some
Now you took what was left
There is nothing for the next
No new tomorrow
Only pain and a sad sorrow
A gentle cry a long scream
The anguish of a broken heart
From the one who played its part
Lexie Mar 2016
you laid me to rest forever
under the light of the moon
you put me in my own box
and buried me under the willows

and you and the trees wept alike
Lexie Dec 2018
Relationships can be an anchor or your wings
It all depends if you are learning to float or fly
It be one with ocean
Or to touch the sky
Lexie Oct 2018
The centre; will not hold
We bear the weight
On the back of our shoulders
The beams they groan
The floorboards no longer creak
I am falling
Lexie Oct 2018
I carry this weight
As if it were the whole world
Lexie Jan 2019
Heavy thoughts
For such a light pen
Lexie Oct 2020
I know I look
Like I carry
Nothing on my shoulders
But I like to think
Even Atlas gets used to
The weight of the sky
Lexie Feb 2023
Here I am
Standing on the edge
This thought
Binds my feet to the ledge

If I jump
The pain won’t fall with me
And, somehow the heaviest
Weight on my shoulders
Is weightless

I know
If I took that step
It’s not right
To leave you what’s left

I can’t burden you with it
There’s no where
In your soft body
To hold my hurt
I can’t burden you with it
There’s no where
In your soft body
To hold my hurt

The space you made to love me
I could never let my pain
Take its place
So when I think of fast falling
When the edge is calling
I see your face

I know you’d go with me
On the way down, down
Told me once
I’d never feel alone, alone
But, I know at the bottom
We’d go our separate ways, way
Because heaven is for angels
And those who know how to pray, pray

I stop to think
Sway a little in the wind
Kick some gravel from the edge
My ancestors are dust
My hopes are ashes
I think of you
Of the flowers we picked
In the summer fields
Every memory of you
Fills the honeycombs of my mind
With sweet, sweet syrup

I can’t burden you with it
There’s no where
In your soft body
To hold my hurt
I can’t burden you with it
There’s no where
In your soft body
To hold my hurt

And I turn away from the edge
Light as pollen in the wind
Weightless
Weightless
Lexie Feb 2014
You idiot
You thought I love you
You stupid boy
You thought I cared
Why would I love you
There is nothing there to love

Just leave me alone
Cant you see I am trying to ignore you
Stop getting in my you
You fool
How could I care about a nobody
Why would I care about you

Oh please give me a break
Get out of my face
For goodness sake
Please just move you are in my way

Stupid child
Just use your brain
Silly boy
Just think about it for a moment

Why would I care about you
Do you really think my world could revolve around you
Well to be honest it does my dear
And I will always be here have no fear
<3
Lexie Feb 2014
Hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahah­ahahahahahahahaha

What are this
What are this
What are this
What are this

It is a silver unicorn!
#EvilLaugh
Like if you know what 'What Are This' is from.
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
Lexie Feb 2014
What if
I saw you
With another girl
What if
You held her hand
Will you make her laugh
Like you did with me
What if she smiles
Is she prettier than me
Will you hold onto this one

What if you introduce her to me
Do I smile and shake her hand
And say I am pleased to meet her
What if I haven't let go
What if I still feel the same
Maybe I still give a ****
But maybe I am not in your plan

What if
You buy her flowers
What if
She kisses your cheek
What if
I wish I was her
What if
I want your arms around me
What if
I want to breathe the same air you do
What if
I need you
What if
I had a second chance
What if
You made a different choice
Maybe you would still love you

What if my heart still wants you
What if I still love you
Please comment on what you like and don't like.
Lexie May 2019
I strain my eyes
Still I cannot look beyond where the light reaches
I am so afraid
My mind tells me
That such awful things
I have seen by the light of day
Worse would it not be
That the cloak of night wraps in her darkness
Lexie Aug 2015
As the world of your dreams lays shattered on the floor
Will you dig its grave into my broken heart?
So that our broken, imperfect pieces,
*Will never be far apart
Lexie Nov 2014
Alex Parker had, split personality
Was sick with asthma
And struck by lightning
Split by authority
And full of love
But the he of she
Knew it couldn't last
But the she of he
Wouldn't stop looking back
Lexie May 2018
you brought warmth
to the trembling of my unsteady hands
and the shake in my voice

you brought joy
to the cracks in my eyes
and the laugh in my throat

you brought light
to the shadows in my heart
and the abyss of scars in my skin

you brought hope
to the smiles hidden in the lines of my cheeks
and the treading of my feet

you brought love
to the air rushing through my lungs
and the words falling out of my mouth
please don't leave me
Lexie May 2019
I would love, for once
To go gentle
Into the night
Lexie Dec 2017
I truly was a lover of life
Until my heart was broken
And my soul was weary and spent
Lexie Jan 2023
I close my eyes
The devils choir is humming
They will drown out
The swell of the storm
Tune out
The crash of the oceans
Clear through it all
I hear your voice
Lexie Feb 2019
I was the last flower blooming in spring
Until your teaching
I knew not what leaving was
I boarded our boat
Set sail upon a sea of dreams
Darkness fell quickly
Our sea of dreams became nightmares
Our boat, stitched together with trust
Fell away, as we fell apart
Swimming in nightmares
Was not something I was prepared for
These are not the apple juice box memories of my childhood
This is a grown me, trying to find the right band aids
For the right wounds, always with the wrong people
Holding hands is warmth, I needed treading water
Holding my breath, for hours at a time
While the people who said they loved me, loved each other, and loved God
Screamed their ignorance into the walls of our house
Words fasten themselves to the studs of the walls, slip into the cracks of the floor
Ghosts you wanted in the middle of the night never sounded like this
Love is screaming.
A vibration engrained so deeply into me
Another layer in the crust of the earth
Love is screaming.

So, when you whispered your love to me in the water
I did not hear it
I did not learn listening
I did not think it was meant for me
Lexie Oct 2019
Turn the key
Locking my teeth shut
The only way to keep secrets
Is to **** them
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