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Jun 2021 · 129
10
DElizabeth Jun 2021
10
I don't feel strong enough to be apart from you
Jun 2021 · 75
ill
DElizabeth Jun 2021
ill
All I felt was
e v e r y t h i n g
and
n o t h i n g
simultaneously

And it was then
once I watched you leave
that oceans remembered
how to flood my cocoa eyes
and my lungs suddenly forgot
how to breathe.

"Come back..."
I whispered.

But you were too far.
Jun 2021 · 243
What You Don't Know.
DElizabeth Jun 2021
I hoped I wouldn't see you
because I knew I'd have to ignore you...
Jun 2021 · 83
Mistaken
DElizabeth Jun 2021
I could lay here and cry
and you'll never know why

I could finish writing
and hope that then you'll
understand

Never knowing if you'll
want to be my soft place to land.
As I'm falling, will I barely miss your hand?

Hoping maybe then
will you see.
Please, don't be too hard with me...
I'm hard enough on myself already...
DElizabeth Jun 2021
You forget that saying nothing can be more painful than saying something hurtful.
~~~
Will we do something we'll regret or
will we not do something & regret it?
Jun 2021 · 179
Cotton Candy Clouds
DElizabeth Jun 2021
What I would do
to have this dance
with you
beneath these
cotton candy clouds
sprawled across the
gold & blue
Jun 2021 · 119
Status
DElizabeth Jun 2021
Mental health took a dive into the deep end and I don't know how to swim.
DElizabeth Jun 2021
To know you
and the depths
that you are afraid to show.
To unbutton your shirt
and make love to your soul.
And see you
for everything and all that you truly are
and love your heart even more,
despite your scars.
Jun 2021 · 128
Static
DElizabeth Jun 2021
Lost connection.

No signal.

Bad reception.

Cut wires,
sparks flying & fizzling.

Cancelled wedding reception.

I scream into
the woods
for you.

All I hear is static.

Ocean waves thrashing.

Heart monitor crashing.

The moon is silent,
staring at me from
Earth's attic.

Awaiting a response.

Don't know what I expected
anymore...

Would you come for me?

Is there anything left of my heart
you adore?

I will always come back for more.

Just to see you wash up ashore...
Jun 2021 · 203
Soften The Blows
DElizabeth Jun 2021
If you knew the hurt
my heart knows,
maybe you would
think twice before...
Jun 2021 · 394
Happy For You
DElizabeth Jun 2021
I  h*te  that you've learned that
you can't make someone stay...

Because I want to feel
your hand reaching out for mine,
even when I'm falling down & apart walking away...
Jun 2021 · 129
Imagine
DElizabeth Jun 2021
"Your eyes give life a new meaning,
It's like I've found the North lights.

I never knew what I needed,
Until I found your hand holding mine.

You say I'm your hero,
But you are the one that saved me.

If I ever lost you,
I'd fall to my knees.

I can't imagine my life without you

If something happened,
I don't know what I'd do.
I can't imagine...
I can't imagine..."
Lyrics from "Imagine" by Ben Platt
Jun 2021 · 115
Tummy Ache
DElizabeth Jun 2021
Empty stomach.

The butterflies are hungry

Only by my eyes meeting you again
will they be fed.
[An excerpt from "Conveyance"]
Jun 2021 · 111
Conveyance
DElizabeth Jun 2021
Red car

& red-stained cheeks
from this fever love gave me.

Words I haven't yet spoken

Always there.

Who do you see that I am?

My glass heart aches

Pounding out of my chest for you.

We're not dead.

Could you love me (again)?

I will listen to your heart &
anything it has to say to me.

Press your ear against
the warmth of my bare skin
& listen to mine.

Would you hear the
o c e a n  waves thrashing
within my ivory gate?

Waiting & longing to
flood into you...

I want you to have the key
that unlocks it
but I can't give it away to you
that easily...

You would drown in my sea
of love & mess.

Empty stomach.

The butterflies are hungry

Only by my eyes meeting you again
will they be fed.
Jun 2021 · 88
Swimming Lessons III
DElizabeth Jun 2021
How can you save me from drowning
if you aren't sure how to swim either?

Will we drown in front of each other?

Will we learn to swim alone first?

Or will we learn to stay afloat together?
Jun 2021 · 87
Swimming Lessons II
DElizabeth Jun 2021
One cannot learn how to swim
Unless you are in the water.

Together, we can only
teach each other how to stay
a f l o a t.

We drown while we are
a p a r t.

We must learn how to swim
on our own, first.
Jun 2021 · 115
Unknown
DElizabeth Jun 2021
Take my hand
& let's run
towards what is
meant for us to find
together.
Jun 2021 · 132
Purpose
DElizabeth Jun 2021
Each day is a new beginning. Each day is graciously gifted to us. Each day we are born anew, with each breath that He breathes through us. An opportunity of new life. Beautiful, abundant life. Abundance. We are given so many opportunities to become who He created us to be. And there is no end goal...there is no set 'person' we were meant to become, so that once we become that person, the growing & changing ends...no...think of it from an artistic view...we are perpetually a masterwork in progress, yet simultaneously a masterpiece...HIS masterpiece. His beautiful creation. His perfectly imperfect human made in His image...and we are meant to grow & change through our mistakes & our sin...He knows us deeply and best before anyone. Let every second be full of our efforts to strive to be who we are created to be. That doesn't mean strive to be someone you aren't...allow yourself to be who you presently are, because who you are then was who you were meant to be & who you are now is who you are meant to be, so who you will be is also who you are meant to be...Keep striving to be a channel of Peace, a vessel of the Truth & Life, & an instrument of Love. I hope that you enjoy the journey & are patient with yourself in the process of finding what purpose & individual gifts you were given to bring to the table in this world. And I hope that once you find them, you hold onto them closely, & courageously embrace them as bits of inspiration, motivation, & encouragement for others to do the same. We will fall. And no matter how hard we fall, how far we stray, He will always be there to lift you up. Every time. Let every moment become a memory full of abundant life & love...nothing but Love.
Jun 2021 · 1.3k
I'll Be There
DElizabeth Jun 2021
I want to have your back
just as you want to have mine,
so let's just have each other's
always & beyond the end of time
Jun 2021 · 110
Protect You
DElizabeth Jun 2021
I promise
I will always
want to protect
your heart from
the hurt of this world.
Even if that means from myself...
Jun 2021 · 87
Excuse
DElizabeth Jun 2021
Hurt
comes
with
loving
someone,
but don't
let that
become
an excuse
to allow
them
to continually
hurt you.
Jun 2021 · 1.1k
A Blackout Poem
DElizabeth Jun 2021
Humanity
in
poetry.

Surely
nature
seemed to know me.

Far from home,
they run.

I am safe.
DElizabeth Jun 2021
Feet
resumed
their
discipline
shaking
fearfully
for
Free
rights
A blackout poem
Jun 2021 · 164
11/22/16
DElizabeth Jun 2021
Restless.

Tossing & turning...

Thick, suffocating sheets
clinging to my pale skin.

Reaching out into the dark
for anything
to hold...

For any kind of comfort
that you never gave.
May 2021 · 111
You Can Walk Away
DElizabeth May 2021
Never feel like you have to
go through with something
just because you felt something once.
DElizabeth May 2021
I'll wear my heart on my sleeve, unafraid, for you.
May 2021 · 186
.
DElizabeth May 2021
.
A few hours
& a few dried out flowers
and I still can't seem to
get words out

You break my heart
down with ease,
now I'm picking up every piece

I can't be that hard to love?
May 2021 · 138
Pretense
DElizabeth May 2021
Don't say one thing
then do another

Don't tell me
you never want to
hurt me
while you carve your
name onto my heart
with your knife
then say you didn't know
May 2021 · 163
Untitled
DElizabeth May 2021
"Nothing lasts forever"
but they haven't seen us
together
May 2021 · 116
Would You
DElizabeth May 2021
Would you still love me
if you knew
what it's like within the
sea of my mind?

The loud thoughts
crowding this small space
all at once.

My cold fingertips
searching for pen & paper
to purge it all onto.

Sticky notes scattered across
the caramel carpet
mapping out my
madness.

Even I have trouble
navigating my way
around my own
home sometimes.

Would you still love me
if you knew
what keeps my heart from
beating the way it used to?

Would you be there
to love it back to life?

Would you be more
gentle with my heart
if you knew how easily
you could cause it to
rupture?
May 2021 · 620
Words Running
DElizabeth May 2021
I notice
the way
you look at
my lips
~
but not
in the way
you want to
kiss me
but
in the way
you want me to
say something
~
Your eyes
meet mine
& I glance
away
because
I don't know
what to say
when my heart
is seconds from
from breaking
May 2021 · 114
Empathy
DElizabeth May 2021
You only put yourself
in your own shoes

You only pretend
to know what it's like
to be in mine
May 2021 · 993
Aflame
DElizabeth May 2021
I want to say
it happened around
December.

It was more like
mid-November.

Everything that's happened
swirling within,
I don't remember.

All of these
'-embers'

Embers
& ashes
drifting through the wind
from the fire
that burned our love.

Is adding flames to love
a good thing?

Does it fuel us?

Or does it extinguish
everything we thought
we had?
May 2021 · 125
I Can't Make You Want To
DElizabeth May 2021
All of these things
you want to say
I want to hear you say
and you never say them.
May 2021 · 80
Silence
DElizabeth May 2021
I noticed my smile was real.

But why can't the words come out?

I noticed you looking at me.

Why can't my words
fall off of my tongue
in the exact order that I think them?

I notice your eyes look
greener in the sun.

Why can't I tell you to run?

I notice the soft wispy hairs
gently grazing my face
instead of your hand.

Why can't you understand
the pain that's lived within my chest
& thrived within my mind?

You pretend not to know.

I notice the way you fall silent
when you're waiting for me to say
something to break the silence
between us.

Have you run out of things to say?

Why can't I say something?
Anything...

I notice I thought I didn't have to, before.
May 2021 · 172
Happiness Is
DElizabeth May 2021
I never knew
something as simple as
walking next to someone
would make me feel
as if my heart is overflowing
with the light of
all the stars in the universe
until I met you.
May 2021 · 140
No One But Myself
DElizabeth May 2021
****** if we do
****** if we don't.

It didn't take long
for you to realize
this has been a breath
of fresh air.

Deprived of reassurance,
while you know that's what I need.

I've felt everything
I need to feel to know
how much I mean.

How foolish of me.
It won't be long...

Don't look for me
when all you've taught me
is how to rely on no one but myself
when I needed you most.
May 2021 · 172
Again
DElizabeth May 2021
To hear your voice
say my name
again

To see your eyes
glance at me from across the room
again

To say to you
everything will be okay
again

To smile ear-to-ear
laughing about absolutely nothing &
being goofy together
again

To listen to our favorite songs
in complete comfortable silence
again

To have pure intentions & hopes
for the future
again

To feel your lips
pressed against my neck,
goosebumps raising,
pulling each other close

To talk for hours with you
about anything & everything
again

To feel your protective touch
standing next to me
again

To breathe jubilant life & unconditional love
into each other
again...
May 2021 · 5.3k
You Are Welcome Here
DElizabeth May 2021
There are cracks in the mask
because there are cracks in the foundation.

Hazy,
what was it all like before we divvied our nation?

Mother's and children
helpless in separation.

Give me the good news
when all I see is complication.

Who decided what's ours isn't theirs?

Crossing, drowning, they're running out of flares.
May 2021 · 104
Different Side of the Story
DElizabeth May 2021
You

amused me

suffused me

misused me

refused me

confused me

rebruised me

accused me

abused me
May 2021 · 171
Untitled
DElizabeth May 2021
You
said
you
love
me
but
do
you
?
I fear you only think you love me...
do you know who I am?
Apr 2021 · 131
Scattered Self
DElizabeth Apr 2021
I'm thriving!

Aren't I?

I'm
happy
excited
radiant
& shinning brighter than the sun.

I think I am okay & well...

I f e e l  I am low & dull

I never feel like me...
I miss me.

I see her smile for no reason in particular with a spring in her step, buzzed on jubilance & confidence...

Where did she go?
I miss her.

I'm surviving

I am strong, but strength is not enough to pull me out from under these tidal waves of life if I don't know how to swim.

Self scattered
across the glass floor.

I have everything I need within myself.

Only scattered, never shattered.
Apr 2021 · 197
Untitled
DElizabeth Apr 2021
What can we bring to the table if we don't even have a table?
Apr 2021 · 169
Us
DElizabeth Apr 2021
Us
The sun sets
orange & pink
across our eyes,
blue & brown.

We talk like always,
although we know
it will be the last time.

I think of the moment
I felt safest with you
& loved by you.

We smile in silence.

I give you a song
while we leave
each other,
never truly left.

Overwhelmed, I unexpectedly cry.

"Who needs a tissue?"
I playfully ask, tossing aside my pain,
when I have your hand
wiping away the tears with gentle care?

Never enough...

Unable to walk away,
"I believe in us"
you say.

You watch as I walk away,
I look back over my shoulder
& the music fades...

I never want to leave you again...
Apr 2021 · 179
I Miss You
DElizabeth Apr 2021
I miss you
though you're standing
right next to me.

I miss you
in ways you
will never fully know.

I miss you
in ways I
feel I will never be able to
accurately explain.

I miss you
in ways I
will fastidiously express with you.
Apr 2021 · 261
9 Word Story
DElizabeth Apr 2021
You are also waiting to be loved by you.
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