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 Dec 2014 Earthchild
ahmo
I'll always have this feeling on my shoulder
and this stench on my breath.
What you never knew
was just how bad it would get.

All I wanted was reciprocation-
eyes that actually cared,
hands that actually struggled,
and a laugh that rang genuine.

Something is just missing.
Always has.
Maybe my affinity to anything
was violently torn from me.
Or maybe it's just my fault.
 Dec 2014 Earthchild
Prodigy
You are like a theater
to which people flock
to witness your
complexity
profundity
vibrancy.
You are hilarious, a comedy,
but then the scenery changes,
and you become
serious
sensitive
thoughtful.
You are a stage, a blank slate
to which people run to escape,
and you help them
relax
forget
carry on.
You are a set, a façade,
which hides the real you,
and instead projects
happiness
confidence
bravado.
You are backstage as well,
a mess of darkened chaos,
the curtains hiding your
insecurities
sensitivity
fear.
You are an selfless actor,
ignoring what you feel inside,
to instead don the
makeup
costume
mask.
You raise the lights,
you feign a smile,
because the show
must
go
on.
The only promise is that final cry.
Time, itself, tells us each and every day.
No one, no thing in life can death defy.

When the dying springtime takes its last sigh,
Withering flowers themselves seem to say
The only promise is that final cry.

An object holds our exuberant high
Yet no sooner dulls, then passes away.
No one, no thing in life can death defy.

Certain is the fowl who will cease to fly,
Silenced by the springing of feathers’ gray.
The only promise is that final cry.

From first waking, the world presses our eye
solely to show what comes before decay.
No one, no thing in life can death defy.

Even God is unknown, yet still we try
To prove only what can be found in faith.
The only promise is that final cry.
No one, no thing in life can death defy.
even though he was the one who ended things
I was the one who chose not to be friends
because one day if he moved on it would crush me
I think that's why they say, all good things must end
I know I loved him more than my life
but is this life of mine worth giving
and now that he is gone and were not close
is this life that I have worth living
I made so many promises to him
we said forever and always when we dated
but now it seems there is no for ever
all these outcomes I hadn't even debated
but what do I do now that were done
do I try and live out my life
do I forget I ever loved you dearly
and let someone else become your wife?
I am death, breaker of men, rider of winds, shade in the glen, I am deep, I rise like tides, when owls call, another dies, for I am time, I crumble walls, I span the aether, and take whats mine
i long to relive the way my heart grew forests when you'd say hello.
now,
every word you speak is
nothing
but a lull to the
cobwebbed heartstrings
of which my
soul bears.
 Dec 2014 Earthchild
Caitlin
Be my guest
I write to remember that
I have emotion.
Its not my intention
to be liked at all.
Yeah I'd like to
be loved if its possible.

By: thebelljar*

This is me.
I could not have said it better.
I stay hidden,
But I'd like to be noticed.
This is my dream.
You are the last dandelion standing
in a garden on fire,
and all you have left
is to take the pills
and make love to the flames.
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