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Best Poems Written by Mary M-K

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Autopsy of Someone I Used To Know

Autopsy of someone I used to know 

Im staring at the figure of someone I have forgotten to know 
She wears her hair down
And her wide eyes stare at mine. 
She looks a lot like me, she has the same grimace, the same gaze. 
Even our facial expressions are the exact same. 
But there’s something different about this woman staring at me, 
her smile only escapes occasionally. 
The light within her doesn’t shine bright anymore. 
It’s like the more she gives away, the more she begins to fade. 
Captivated am I,  how she can remain so calm, so selfless. 
In the face of such dismay. 
She tries to hide her pain with what’s left of her smile.
Her laughter covers the darkness that lingers in her mind. 
The dark brusies hidden so carefully under her sweatshirt
show her strength, and her ability to move on to another day. 
Underneath the bruises lies a beautiful, small framed body. 
Blood flows within her bones, and freckles trace from the tip of her nose down to her toes.
She’s beautiful in her own way, 
You wouldn’t have any idea
That she had any troubles or pain.
I look back at the girl and I realize she’s not standing there anymore. 
All that’s left of her is a reflection in the mirror, she’s gone; disappeared.

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Shining Like a Burnt Out Sun

Shining like a burnout sun 
The sun gets dimmer every time I wake up.
I wish I could turn the brightness  off all together 
If I was selfish I wouldn’t care 
I’d take my pills until the day was gone. 
Truthfully Somedays I’d rather be alone than here all together 
Pretty crappy thing to say I know. 
But what’s the point. 
I get tired of the trying  
I wish I didn’t have people who gave a crap
I wish I could push them away and it be easy 
Honestly though the sun will still keep shining 
And I’ll keep waking up. 
Waiting for the sunset.

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Axe Me How

I can only slightly breathe again 
The strength of your oxygen chokes the air from in me.
I can only slightly defend
Myself from you and you won’t let me be. 
I keep trying to run but my feet are concrete. 
My legs can’t seem to keep up and my mind won’t shut off.
I keep replaying the nightmare in my mind 
And I can’t seem to stop asking how you were that guy. 
My hands are tied in knots 
I keep trying to get out,  
but it hurts a lot. 
And I finally feel like I can get free. 
And you pull me back in and say 
“You can’t live without me. “
I twist my arm free of the rope and out of your grasp. 
And I see that 
There is this axe 
that can set me free. 
All it requires is a little reach. 
I try to grab it in my hands 
And I try to swing  
but I honestly don’t know 
how to cut down the darn tree.

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Wardrobe Crisis

Clothes don’t make me feel any less naked 
I still feel exposed 
No amount of sweaters or sweatshirts can mask the humiliation that I know 
Even when I’m fully naked
My skin doesn’t cover what I need it too
I wish that I could feel pretty 
I wish I liked 
the clothes I wear on my body 
I wish my body 
Was desired for more than sex
I want someone to run their fingers down my spine and kiss the imperfections 
And say I like you just like this
But the men don’t come that way
They come ready to sweep through you
To put there hands on you and push you on the bed
To tell you, you’re beautiful 
without knowing the meaning of it.
Knowing that beautiful is more than two people having sex 
Beautiful is the broken parts of you
That someone’s willing to try and not fix 
But just holding all the parts of you 
Until you’re ready to put yourself back together again. 
Beauty is more than the clothes, 
The eyeshadow and lipstick
It’s waking up everyday and getting out of bed 
Even though you feel like s***
It’s taking a moment 
And enjoying the things you may not do or see again
Beauty is finding the parts of you that you love and admiring it. 
I wanna know this beauty, I want to hold onto it. 
But I can’t, the clothes don’t fit.

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I Am Only But Dreaming

I am only but dreaming 
I am sinking, 
into the deep,crisp,blue ocean.
I am falling
underneath  the salty ocean.
I don’t want to come up 
for air.
I like being under; feeling and seeing,
the green seaweed and clear jellyfish pass my feet.
I don’t mind,
the sand rushing up from underneath
It’s all calm and quiet 
beneath the sound of the waves, and the sound of the seagulls cries.
I am running, 
out of air.
I can’t breathe, but it’s so pretty down here, the fish passing by me.
I am drowning , no oxygen leaving my frail body. 
I like the calmness of death,
the gentle ease of saying goodbye...
To the green seaweed, to the sound of the seagulls cries.
I like this feeling as I lie on the sandy ocean floor.
It’s so peaceful.

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I Am Only But Awakening

I am only but awakening
My tired eyes are failing to open
I try so hard but they are sealed shut 
The nightmares of the ocean keep me choking
 on my own sleep-filled thoughts 
My mind is my worst enemy 
I am a prisoner that cannot escape
The drowsiness of my dreams, of reality 
It seems to only haunt me 
Reality grabs ahold of me and scrapes at me until it consumes every piece of my sanity 
No bandages seem to cover the scars 
And no amount of glue can fix me
Awakening up from this nightmare seems far 
from reach, 
all I can try to do is 
breathe.

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A Locked Mind

A locked mind 
No one told me how to turn off your mind
 after a mentally exhausting day. 
No one told me how you can lay there
 all night in doubt. 
No feelings really figured out. 
I could ramble all day & act fine and okay 
Truthfully you’d know no better. 
You’d never know I still cry myself to sleep 
You’d never know the thoughts are killing me
I wandered when I can find the off key 
I wonder what it’d be like for my mind to be blank. 
Honestly, I know I’m not the only one out there struggling. 
I know I’m not the only one out there 
just trying to find the courage to breathe. 
I know I’m not the only one haunted by the past 
too afraid for the future. 
I wish I could meet them, and say hello 
I wish I could tell them it gets better 
That you don’t always feel alone. 
I wish I could convince them that the next breathe doesn’t hurt so bad. 
I would tell them the off switch is inside of your head 
The off switch is right there all along 
You just have to be courageous & strong
Truthfully I wish I could say that in all honesty. 
But I haven’t found the off switch, 
no I haven’t found the key.

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Electrify Me Baby

When we met everything was on fire
Electricity bleed through our veins
Our bodies rushed with desire 
My body could not restrain
Your silky brown hair or your deep blue eyes 
I’d tell you to stop but 
I couldn’t resist the way our bodies intertwined 
You melted into me, and I into you
Each time better than the last
Finishing me off way too soon
I couldn’t get enough 
Truthfully you felt better than the feelings I couldn’t shake
You made me believe in myself 
For longer than I could take
I appreciate the way you made me feel 
You made me feel alive 
Even though no feelings between us were real
You would give me your body,  but you deprived me of your soul
The person I lie next to, I do not know
However I give credit where it’s due 
You don’t know me and I don’t know you 
So electrify me baby, melt into me 
Let this feeling be 
No questions, no strings 
Just you and just me 
Two strangers becoming one

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Learning How To Say Goodbye

Two weeks 
Left to say I love you
14 days left
To hold you 
336 hours 
Left to watch as you sleep 
20,160 minutes 
Left to breathe in the air that fills my lungs and enjoy the smallest moments 
Do you ever think about the way the wind hits your face? 
The way the laughter sounds from the bellies of the kids you created? 
The most beautiful moments in the silence of a stillfull night 
The sounds of people you love sleeping 
Watching them as they drift into a sleepful  peace 
Wondering how you could ever leave? 
Do you ever think about the touch of their skin/face and the little details of their eyes, chin, nose? 
How you long to watch them smile
Hear them talk and listen to their wonderful voice? 
How do you measure every single precious moment you have lived up too? 
If you had two weeks left to live, how would you celebrate/cherish the time you were given. 
How would you enjoy every second knowing that death awaits 
How do you say I never want to leave you, but I have to. 
Our time comes eventually, it’s easy to think, this will never happen to me. 
But your time comes, rather slowly or in a quick moment. 
No time should pass without the given opportunity to say I love you & hold your love ones closely. 
Slow the busy- slow down for one moment
Breathe one deep breathe
Be thankful, that you don’t have only two weeks left to live.

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Roses Are Not Red

Blood stains cover the person you use to be
Each drop is a memory gone
I know you loved me 
And that’s what helps me move on. 
You’re stuff still lays here 
I can’t seem to throw it away  
But I can’t bear to have it near.
Every time I look at it, I think of you and how you disappeared. 
You vanished from my life, a ghost of your former self stayed. 
The person I once knew was gone.  
Since then, I haven’t seen your face.  
A glimpse of you shows up in my mind, 
On repeat, the only thing keeping you alive. 
A part of me still misses you 
Another part of me wonders what for? 
I think I miss the parts of you 
that were good for my soul. 
The parts of you that didn’t have me crying on my bedroom floor. 
And I try to remember everything,  the way our bodies interlaced
I try to think of the way you felt, 
The gentleness of your touch, your endless embrace. 
But the feeling is gone
And is now erased.