You open your mouth
And my breath comes out
My heart spilled on your chest
I know what happens next
Fingers intertwine
I’ll let you blur the line
We’ve synced our hand watches, our breathes,
Our time and upward motions
Our souls whisper and kiss
Linguistics meet their stand in
Looks and tells, a longing, dripping cheeks
A hum, a nod, a wink to God
Publicly known words replaced with privately-owned sounds
So as not to water down
What’s already been found
‘For the message is foolishness to those who are perishing’
All valuable things are done in secret
Secret tongues, intertwine
I’ll let you blur the line
We’re getting by,
year by moment
Unblinded and defiant, I asked you to carve your name into my skin
I’m under the covers, inside your chest
Blood pumps and beats,
Whispering vows breath-soft in morse code
You’re always running a beat behind mine
i get shown time and time again by broken men
red flags and warning signs
i think they will change
but in reality the only person changing is me
the sweet loving girl i once was
is being turned into someone cold and harsh
a girl who once had brown glistening eyes
and shiny brown hair
now her eyes are black and blank
her hair black dull and dead
he never changed
only i
I’ve been listening to your eyes
The way they smile the way they cry
Pulling for miles red heart’s insides
Little crows feet forming thin lines
Telling what tickle’s mahogany mind
Or what pickles in memory’s teal time
You’ve got hearts on a string
Obedient like art got them trained
Glance from you like calling name
Love is a Lion and so we roar
Walking the tightrope high above floor
Fearing only the one we adore
For if you abandoned us
We’d be lost and scandalous
Preferring tough love not lust
Serve us like plates of soul food
For amethyst audience to consume
Each heartbreak an amber art bloom
Will you tire of the balancing act
Do you desire playing with fact
Unconditional love you wear like hat
Even a broken clock can be right
Once a day once a neon night
Is it time to say green goodbye
To a love that is so strong
Despite dilemma life long
Heart holds on to you like a song
Love of a toxic parent is wild
Makes us licorice laugh makes us smile
Makes us mad facing facts despite denial
Sacrified everything she had, yet it remained the same.
Ceased expecting anything, indifferent she became.
Ceased expressing preferences, feeling it is pointless.
Silence born from exhaustion and hopelesness.
Unaware of what was evil.
His tainted soul being deceitful.
Destroying everything alive, planting seeds of grief.
As she became someone she barely recognizes, a reflection of his needs.
Never ending feeling of emptiness.
Fate whispering to loneliness.
Dreams abandoned, laughter, flowers fade.
Remembering who she is, knowing she will never be the same.
Detachment turning into contempt.
Finally allowing her to recognize his true scent.
*S.Ü*
Betwixt our deceptive connection
Lies told, to always end in
I’ll never have a profound perspective
As my skepticism results in your grin
When our paths crossed
Like two sailboats in a panoramic sea
I believed you were mannerly
Though, sprouted unexpectedly was your immorality
My standpoint was already set
My conception was that you’d abet
To all the curves, bumps, and facets of me
Though you’d never devote to me
You’d only break me to debris
Every word transmitted from your “soul”
Carried no true sentimental worth
Yet I believed you, over my mind you had control
Desiring for your concealed lies to rebirth
Lies and gas-lighting were brought upon me
Despite your affectionate expressions
I thought truth be told, that I was free
But I’m now trapped under your early impressions
Doubting and doubting your false affection
Perhaps you don’t know how to express emotion?
But deep inside, I know that’s untrue
That I’m just someone to be used, at least to you
Though acceptance is quite challenging for me
I’m unsure of why I still trust you
As you treat me like nobody
Though these lies will forever pursue.
Demoralizing
Love is an addiction, I
Cannot escape you.
Despise my love, for I am a masochist,
Don't restrain on your hatred for me,
Instead abuse me with your words,
Because the love I possess, is not of your world.
My love is ambivalent,
Although very apathetic,
So don't tell me you love me,
don't tell me you care.
Love is just a figment of our imagination
And being loved is my fear.
The pain gratifies me,
put scars on my soul.
Love me how you hate me,
hate me how I love you
Paint me with insults,
But don't tell me that you love me.
Pure negative spit.
Energy drive acid breath.
Return -love toxic.
Fell for the beauty of an oleander
My feelings were in an emotion blender
They told me that you were bitter
But you always made me feel better
You altered my heartbeat to a new rhythm
It's okay for me, so why should I listen
When with you, my body goes numb
It's a feeling I can't overcome
They said that I was poisoned
But with them, I somehow reasoned
In the end when I woke up
There were no flowers, but the shrub
It's not like I can tell you I love you
How would I even say it?
Those three words?
They don't mean anything anymore
We've all heard them so many times (in some way or another), that it's practically an old cliché
As true as it might be, we'll never imbibe the meaning
Not as long as poets like me exist
We have ruined the impact
Thinking to much is not good.
Good for you Heart.
Heart envolve in Flames.
Flames from the Fire.
Fire of our Heart.
Heart that beats much.
It's not enough good.
Good day's are Tiny.
Tiny when you want more.
More than just one day.
Day of Wonders.
Wonders like you.
You are the Wonder that my eyes see.
See you around me.
Put me in Flames.
Flames that envolve me.
Me and You.
You are Toxic for me.
Because no matter the cost,
I loved you through the storm,
But you gave me nothing but pain.
My eyes hazy with unshed tears for you,
And my heart heavy with hurt by you,
I walked away.
I didn’t know it then, but I know it now.
That you were the reason my soul never seemed to smile,
And you were the cause my heart never truly felt at peace.
I was at war with myself.
Should I battle my love for you,
Should I battle myself for loving you?
I never knew,
Because at the end of the day,
I didn’t matter, not for you anyway,
Neither did what I held for you.
I let you break me,
Thinking that you will put me back together,
But you broke me in such a way that even the angels could do nothing but watch.
So, I left you.
I left you and I walked away,
And I have never felt such an immense calm before.
I don’t regret it, leaving you that is.
And now I know that love never comes without consequences,
Some we are willing to take, some we are not.
Because life is not a fairytale.
Alive within my soul, toxic as can be
His words remove the stitches, that kept my heart a beat
True love was once the claim, if ever that were true
Sewing broken pieces was all he had to do
I've cried for you I've lied for you
To this day i'd lay down my life and die for you
You could smile watching me bleed out on the floor, you could hit me in the face and i'd blame it in the door
You are my favorite type of misery the best method of self destruction I've ever had
you are the one I love you are the one I hate
my forever and always
A large shard seems to missing,
A large part of who I am has changed,
A piece of me that makes up a whole.
It All came tumbling down it didn't take time.
It took a few words, a hurtful Malicious word.
To bring my pain, my agony of existing.
I no longer feel joy.
I no longer feel that tingling excitment.
I feel a sense of loss.
Something broken...something Not whole...
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