Sometimes when I look at a person and stare into their eyes, I'm really just looking at their eyes.

easy friendship, risky romance ( Read more... )

I have never seen
structures crumble in real life -
first hand, anyway.

I have never felt
the wrong end of a weapon
pressing against me.

I can only hope
that I should be so lucky
for the rest of it.

I have felt the lack
of weight in my arms
and the smell of plastic corrupting
the sweet scent of youth.

I have swept hundreds of goat heads ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about love lately ( Read more... )

Springtime breeze, all flower-scented like a box of dryer sheets. It swept me away, I was floating on the breeze like in some happy love song. Now the summer heat is pounding me down into the ground, like a sledgehammer on my head as I step into the quicksand. It's a heady, intoxicated feeling...not euphoric, just dragging. The conflicts brought on ( Read more... )

I'm not an emo poem
I'm not broken down
cracked
dying
bleeding
or drowning.
I'm not fine either.
I'm just a girl
just thinking thoughts
just speaking words
just crying tears
just dwelling on the past
just loving all I've lost
just taking things for granted
I'm just a human being
a faulty creation
a fragile thing
a strong thing
I am only this.

I want to carry you without shame

I shall carry you in my heart instead

It's shameful to ever want to end life

to be weak

to be poor

to be weary before old age sets in

to want to change the world

to be apathetic

to want at all

to need ( Read more... )

she never comes back
I never find myself
he just throws me away
forever is a lie

what if

I die tomorrow
I live to be a failure
the world ends
nothing good comes of this

if

I will have lived today.

I thought that space-time could only readily be transgressed ( Read more... )

How is it
That a jumble of words
From someone incapacitated
Can shake the earth?

You're drunk
Everything you say
Is a ruse,
Is not credible.

You're drunk
but you hit the nail
right on the head
my head hurts