I'm a hurricane,
A whirlwind of excitement and passion.
Yet once someone catches a glimpse of my center,
It's the start of the end.
I've left devastated dreams in my wake;
Hopes crumbled down to the foundations
& Lives irrevocably changed.
My name drips reverently from the lips those I've tormented.
The pain. The hopelessness. The loss.
I'm not proud of what I've done.
Drowning someone in love still causes asphyxiation.
I was enchanted by you from the moment we first spoke.
You burned my walls down to the ground in an explosion of brilliant light.
The flood of my emotions forced me downstream
& into your fiery embrace.
The pull, the stea
My first mistake was falling in love with the sound of your voice;
Smooth, deep, and rich like top-shelf whisky.
Boy, I was hooked after just a taste.
Fire & Water,
You have me reaching boiling temperatures
With a single glance; a single word.
I'm an enigma, shrouded in mystery.
The sounds off my lips and the curves of my body draw you closer to me.
Babe, all I feel is pure electricity.
There's this pull-this magnetism;
A deeper understanding than I can voice,
A familiar presence that I already adore.
Unexpected, unpredictable.
Wild & beautiful-
I can't wait to see what the adventure of you and me holds.
They say the stars are too far.
Hundreds of thousands of suns
burning billions of light-years away.
Unreachable.
Through hazy eyes he smirks at me and takes another drag.
Sitting in his car at two AM on a warm summer night,
he's billions of light-years away.
Unreachable.
They say that the stars are too far.
But that's never stopped me before.
I'm a poet & a dreamer, I long for the
unreachable.
Through hazy eyes he smirks at me and takes another drag.
I feel him slipping away from me.
But that's never stopped me before.
I long for the unobtainable.
They say that the stars are too far.
I make wishes on them anyway.
Hoping that the hundre
Old habits die hard,
& My favorite one smells like cigarettes and sex.
He hurts me, & I can't get enough.
Fist in my hair, bruises on my body.
I ask him for more until I'm hoarse.
Old habits die hard,
& My worst one is the way I use my body.
Baby, I don't need you to love me.
I just want you to touch right there.
& Once it's done you can leave.
Old habits die hard,
& My favorite one smells like cigarettes and sex.
He hurts me & I can't get enough.
Scars all over, ink scribbled on paper.
He's the one I'm always complaining about.
Old habits die hard,
& My worst one is the way I use my body.
Baby, I don't need you to love me.
I know you thin
You're a bad idea,
But I never care in the moment.
I've sung the same song about you over & over:
The Lover I can never have-
Unless it's for a rough roll between the sheets.
I've never been the woman to get caught up.
I've always been the one who loves & leaves before they've realized what I've done.
I'm far from innocent, a trail of scorned lovers mark my path.
Are you my damnation?
My punishment for all the hearts I've broken?
{including yours, on occasion}
You're my favorite mistake.
Your hands in my hair, hot breath on my neck.
Baby, you know just what I need.
Your fist clenched around my windpipe; your husky voice in my ear.
To the bright eyed girl I once was;
I'm sorry.
All you wanted was to love & to be loved.
So sweet at sixteen, you thought you were ready for the one.
Baby, I'm sorry.
I failed you. I hate to tell you that you'd be disappointed in who you've become.
You were filled with innocence and wonder,
Life was looking up.
Leaving home was going to happen, soon;
You felt so grown up.
You made some mistakes darling,
They've altered your life forever.
You know that boy you've been talking to?
The one you can't believe loves you?
He changes you baby, you change for him,
& Not in ways you should.
You're still a baby and you had a baby.
I know y
I didn’t become a mother when I saw the two pink lines,
But something changed.
What I had suspected for weeks was true,
& in a moment of fear, I realized my life was forever changed.
I didn’t become a mother when I saw you on the ultrasound for the first time,
But something changed.
I saw you wiggling around, only about the size of a peanut,
& I fell in love.
That was the first time I realized how much I wanted you,
You were mine, and that was never going to change.
I didn’t become a mother when I felt your first kick,
But something changed.
You wiggled and kicked me at least a dozen times that first night,
I was complete
Sometimes, I wish I could forget.
Forget about how we would sit up in your bedroom and giggle in hushed voices,
Or forget how when you'd come over to my house we'd share secrets and wishes.
I wish I could forget how you'd tell me that I was beautiful, when really the beauty was always in you.
Sometimes, I wish I could forget.
Forget about all of our inside jokes, and how we spoke.
Or forget how I told you all my secrets and let you see everything in me.
I wish I could forget how much you knew.
Sometimes I wish I could forget.
Forget about how you'd always tell me that you wished you were better.
Or forget about how I always said t
You invoke feelings of complexities,
Provoking desperation, longing and all my insecurities.
I don't need to hear of your annoyance:
It's caused by your own incompetence.
You can't expect to be able to comprehend me,
I'm trapped in the tangled web of insecurity.
Your invocation of intense emotion has done nothing for you,
All it's done is make me confused too.
You've always able to confuse me easily,
Though now you ache with feelings of inadequacy.
I saw the way you shivered when you shifted your eyes to my trembling lips,
I actually caught a glimpse-
I caught a glimpse of how you really feel.
Oh darling, we're such fools to thin
Dramatic stories told by half-open hazy eyes,
Words slowly turning into simple light lies.
Don’t-
I don’t want to hear what you have to say,
Please, give me a reason to stay.
I remember once, not too long ago you and I stood underneath the light of a full blue moon.
You brushed my hair back, told me that you were in love with me and gave me a single flower, the color of noon.
I smiled, but the moment you placed it delicately in my hand, I felt the flower die.
I kissed you, saying I felt that way too, but that moment was the end of the hello and the beginning of goodbye.
Tell me, could you ever tell that my words weren’
I'm a hurricane,
A whirlwind of excitement and passion.
Yet once someone catches a glimpse of my center,
It's the start of the end.
I've left devastated dreams in my wake;
Hopes crumbled down to the foundations
& Lives irrevocably changed.
My name drips reverently from the lips those I've tormented.
The pain. The hopelessness. The loss.
I'm not proud of what I've done.
Drowning someone in love still causes asphyxiation.
I was enchanted by you from the moment we first spoke.
You burned my walls down to the ground in an explosion of brilliant light.
The flood of my emotions forced me downstream
& into your fiery embrace.
The pull, the stea
My first mistake was falling in love with the sound of your voice;
Smooth, deep, and rich like top-shelf whisky.
Boy, I was hooked after just a taste.
Fire & Water,
You have me reaching boiling temperatures
With a single glance; a single word.
I'm an enigma, shrouded in mystery.
The sounds off my lips and the curves of my body draw you closer to me.
Babe, all I feel is pure electricity.
There's this pull-this magnetism;
A deeper understanding than I can voice,
A familiar presence that I already adore.
Unexpected, unpredictable.
Wild & beautiful-
I can't wait to see what the adventure of you and me holds.
They say the stars are too far.
Hundreds of thousands of suns
burning billions of light-years away.
Unreachable.
Through hazy eyes he smirks at me and takes another drag.
Sitting in his car at two AM on a warm summer night,
he's billions of light-years away.
Unreachable.
They say that the stars are too far.
But that's never stopped me before.
I'm a poet & a dreamer, I long for the
unreachable.
Through hazy eyes he smirks at me and takes another drag.
I feel him slipping away from me.
But that's never stopped me before.
I long for the unobtainable.
They say that the stars are too far.
I make wishes on them anyway.
Hoping that the hundre
Old habits die hard,
& My favorite one smells like cigarettes and sex.
He hurts me, & I can't get enough.
Fist in my hair, bruises on my body.
I ask him for more until I'm hoarse.
Old habits die hard,
& My worst one is the way I use my body.
Baby, I don't need you to love me.
I just want you to touch right there.
& Once it's done you can leave.
Old habits die hard,
& My favorite one smells like cigarettes and sex.
He hurts me & I can't get enough.
Scars all over, ink scribbled on paper.
He's the one I'm always complaining about.
Old habits die hard,
& My worst one is the way I use my body.
Baby, I don't need you to love me.
I know you thin
You're a bad idea,
But I never care in the moment.
I've sung the same song about you over & over:
The Lover I can never have-
Unless it's for a rough roll between the sheets.
I've never been the woman to get caught up.
I've always been the one who loves & leaves before they've realized what I've done.
I'm far from innocent, a trail of scorned lovers mark my path.
Are you my damnation?
My punishment for all the hearts I've broken?
{including yours, on occasion}
You're my favorite mistake.
Your hands in my hair, hot breath on my neck.
Baby, you know just what I need.
Your fist clenched around my windpipe; your husky voice in my ear.
To the bright eyed girl I once was;
I'm sorry.
All you wanted was to love & to be loved.
So sweet at sixteen, you thought you were ready for the one.
Baby, I'm sorry.
I failed you. I hate to tell you that you'd be disappointed in who you've become.
You were filled with innocence and wonder,
Life was looking up.
Leaving home was going to happen, soon;
You felt so grown up.
You made some mistakes darling,
They've altered your life forever.
You know that boy you've been talking to?
The one you can't believe loves you?
He changes you baby, you change for him,
& Not in ways you should.
You're still a baby and you had a baby.
I know y
I didn’t become a mother when I saw the two pink lines,
But something changed.
What I had suspected for weeks was true,
& in a moment of fear, I realized my life was forever changed.
I didn’t become a mother when I saw you on the ultrasound for the first time,
But something changed.
I saw you wiggling around, only about the size of a peanut,
& I fell in love.
That was the first time I realized how much I wanted you,
You were mine, and that was never going to change.
I didn’t become a mother when I felt your first kick,
But something changed.
You wiggled and kicked me at least a dozen times that first night,
I was complete
Sometimes, I wish I could forget.
Forget about how we would sit up in your bedroom and giggle in hushed voices,
Or forget how when you'd come over to my house we'd share secrets and wishes.
I wish I could forget how you'd tell me that I was beautiful, when really the beauty was always in you.
Sometimes, I wish I could forget.
Forget about all of our inside jokes, and how we spoke.
Or forget how I told you all my secrets and let you see everything in me.
I wish I could forget how much you knew.
Sometimes I wish I could forget.
Forget about how you'd always tell me that you wished you were better.
Or forget about how I always said t
You invoke feelings of complexities,
Provoking desperation, longing and all my insecurities.
I don't need to hear of your annoyance:
It's caused by your own incompetence.
You can't expect to be able to comprehend me,
I'm trapped in the tangled web of insecurity.
Your invocation of intense emotion has done nothing for you,
All it's done is make me confused too.
You've always able to confuse me easily,
Though now you ache with feelings of inadequacy.
I saw the way you shivered when you shifted your eyes to my trembling lips,
I actually caught a glimpse-
I caught a glimpse of how you really feel.
Oh darling, we're such fools to thin
Dramatic stories told by half-open hazy eyes,
Words slowly turning into simple light lies.
Don’t-
I don’t want to hear what you have to say,
Please, give me a reason to stay.
I remember once, not too long ago you and I stood underneath the light of a full blue moon.
You brushed my hair back, told me that you were in love with me and gave me a single flower, the color of noon.
I smiled, but the moment you placed it delicately in my hand, I felt the flower die.
I kissed you, saying I felt that way too, but that moment was the end of the hello and the beginning of goodbye.
Tell me, could you ever tell that my words weren’
my lover crushed the budding fruit in me
which ran from out my legs like currant wine –
that sweet unwelcome blood of atrophy
sat red upon her tongue as muscadine.
her cup full up she turns her gaze to flesh
to take from me her pound, then two, then five;
to rake thin fingers cross the scalp and thresh
my hair, like wheat, to pay some holy tithe
and clutch me like a candle through the night.
at morning light she pinches out the wick:
she spends me, bends me down as acolyte
to altars where her ash has settled thick
in lungs and throat and shallow-thrumming heart,
where all my lover’s love rends me apart.
Reformation of The Heart by PoeticAlpha, literature
Literature
Reformation of The Heart
Never would I ever
Have made that brave endeavor
Had I known, for absolute truth,
That we would not embark together.
So, come to the stars
After all, you've made it past scars.
The tissue welted, casting shade
Upon your skin thus far.
Majesty and majestic.
his name was August... by EmaciatedandEpitaphs, literature
Literature
his name was August...
But you never really know. Sometimes you might feign indifference, shrug your shoulders, jut your chin, but it is always an illusion. A magic trick except
-
He always smells of sunscreen and salt water. I sprawl languidly across a sun-bleached beach towel, fixated on his algae eyes alight with photosynthesis. A staccato sentence spills from his lips, something about sandy toes and driftwood bones, but I couldn't pay attention. The sun spooled through his disheveled tendrils at a peculiar angle and I caught myself captivated by those honeycomb curls.
-
Whisper-light flickers skitter on my skin; sunlight emblazoning textures deep within.
dear god,
i planted no tulips in autumn
and no tulips came in spring.
how silly of me, then
to mourn the empty garden,
to long for fields of amsterdam,
to kneel at night in cold dirt,
hands folded.
i’ve learned there is
a certain ache in lacking
a thing never had, that small itch
whose relief is two seasons past –
so god, if you can hear me,
know that i am homesick
for amsterdam,
whose name, like yours, i know
but whose flowers i cannot see.
You're a bad idea,
But I never care in the moment.
I've sung the same song about you over & over:
The Lover I can never have-
Unless it's for a rough roll between the sheets.
I've never been the woman to get caught up.
I've always been the one who loves & leaves before they've realized what I've done.
I'm far from innocent, a trail of scorned lovers mark my path.
Are you my damnation?
My punishment for all the hearts I've broken?
{including yours, on occasion}
You're my favorite mistake.
Your hands in my hair, hot breath on my neck.
Baby, you know just what I need.
Your fist clenched around my windpipe; your husky voice in my ear.