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390 · Nov 2014
Sight
Liz And Lilacs Nov 2014
My eyes are melting.
I've forgotten how to see,
and it burns,
this searing pain.
It's because I cannot see.
For we see,
But we do not truly see.
No one truly sees anymore
I don't know.
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
I haven't slept in quite a few days.
A week maybe.
The occasional hour of nightmare ridden rest
has not done anything for me.

I've starting forgetting words,
Mixing them up or saying the wrong word.
Even mispronouncing them.
I barely have the energy to think

I spent an hour crying because I thought I had wrinkles under my eyes,
But they were only bags and shadows.
I'm too young for this.

It's hard to focus,
I sob and laugh for no reason.
I'm cracking
And I can't stop thinking about what you did.
I'm afraid to sleep.
This isn't very poetic, but I can't think.
388 · Dec 2014
A Day in my Life
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
5 am
get up
stumble around
go for a run
take a shower

8:30
go to class
stay in class
pay attention
be awake

12
eat lunch... or don't
does it matter? No.
Lie a little,
smile

2
more classes
more notes
blank stares
empty mind

6
eat dinner? no.
Can't deal with food.
watch some television
do some work

10
stare at a wall
take a shower
do some work
feel empty

1 am
stay awake
cry for a while
stop the bleeding
don't sleep until 3

4 am
wake from a nightmare
muffle the sobs
sleep for a half hour
repeat
a boring life
387 · Jan 2015
Her
Liz And Lilacs Jan 2015
Her
His hand up your skirt
isn't going to make you
feel any less dead inside.
Sweetheart, don't do this.
The money won't last,
The attention isn't worth it.
387 · Nov 2014
Pieces
Liz And Lilacs Nov 2014
Your distorted lies
On my mangled skin
With her bruised ego
and his disfigured face.

Maybe if we look hard enough, we'll find someone whole

Not with our impaired vision.
385 · Jan 2015
Double think
Liz And Lilacs Jan 2015
War is Peace
We wage this war,
it's the only way, they say,
to keep the peace.
War is the only solution,
they say, it's for the best.
This war is what keeps
the world at peace with each other.

Freedom is Slavery
They make the choices for us,
it gives us freedom
from the stress of independence.
We would fall to our own
weaknesses if we were free.
Freedom means to be enslaved
to the very choices some desire.

Ignorance is Strength*
We keep our eyes shut tight,
We needn't know the truth,
it only leads to weakness.
The world is a scary place
and it's easier to know that
black is white and up is down.
The paradoxes in the book "1984"
381 · Dec 2014
Hands
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
I hated going to piano lessons
at first
Because my hands are ugly and scarred.
But the teacher,
Her hands were gnarled with age
And she still played the most beautiful music.
379 · Jul 2015
Rache
Liz And Lilacs Jul 2015
If you had a soul,
I'd tear it to shreds
and tie it in a bow
as a gift for my
accursed companion.
I'm a friend of the devil.
Are you a friend of mine?
Revenge is so sweet.
379 · Nov 2014
To Love Oneself
Liz And Lilacs Nov 2014
To love oneself is the ultimate goal.
To smile at the reflection in the mirror;
I know that you hate what you see
with every shard of your  beautiful soul.

When I say shard, I do mean shard,
For your soul was shattered by the world,
And you broke it into tiny pieces
When you cut your fingers trying to fix it.

You loved yourself once,
Before you grew up in this cruel age.
Your smile was filled with sunshine,
And mirrors were things to marvel at.

You can love yourself again, if you try.
It won't be easy, it will take time.
But love can grow from the cracks in your soul
Like wildflowers in the pavement.

When you find how it feels to be happy,
Will you teach your children?
In the future, tell them your secret,
Share the secret of happiness with them.
Not sure what this is.
379 · Apr 2015
Writer's block
Liz And Lilacs Apr 2015
I don't want to write about
Love and the way you taste,
The gentle way your hands feel
when tangled in the curls of my hair.

I don't want to write about
The rain and the way it smells,
The calming pitter patter
beating against the window.

I don't want to write about
The monsters I know,
The way they haunt me
with their inescapable whispers.

I don't want to write about it.
I can't write about it.
Not so much writer's block as it is anger?
378 · Jul 2015
Like a bucket with a hole
Liz And Lilacs Jul 2015
You called me empty,
but all the thoughts in my head
couldn't fill your heart.
I tried to fill it, I really did.
378 · Jul 2015
A stay of execution
Liz And Lilacs Jul 2015
Set me on fire already.
I've been waiting a long time.
Go ahead, just do it.
I won't scream anymore.
one last goodbye to end all goodbyes
378 · Jan 2015
Still human
Liz And Lilacs Jan 2015
Are we still human?
Maybe, we're too broken.
Too lost, too far gone,
to be considered human.
Are we still human?
After all that's said is done.
Maybe it's just not right.
It's not okay not to be okay.
Are we still human,
if at night, we forget how to feel?
Are we still human,
When we can't breathe anymore?
Are we still human,
When we've given up hope?
Are we still human?
Because I feel like an empty shell.
377 · Dec 2014
The Bully (part 1)
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
His laugh broke the silence.
I stared at the ground, closing my locker.
Looking up, he looks down at me.
His smirk darkens as I shrink away.
"Just leave me alone, please?"
The whisper falls from my tongue,
but I know he hears.
Another cruel laugh,
suddenly, i'm pinned against the lockers.
and he's talking low.
"Not in a million years."
He walks away,
leaving me with my fear.
More a story than a poem... an experience
375 · Oct 2015
A secret
Liz And Lilacs Oct 2015
She was my warm cup of tea
at midnight after a nightmare.
She was my fresh from the dryer blanket.
She was my favorite book,
a new glasses cleaning cloth.
She was sugar for my coffee.
She was beautiful,
But I could never say
I loved her.
373 · Dec 2014
I am the Raven
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
"Nevermore"

The Raven, I am
An ill omen,
Dark plumage,
Circling the sky,
Looking for flesh,
Already dead.

Listen for me in the dead of night,
I come bearing news,
The four horsemen shall come,
but only for you.
Death watches closely,
Looming in the shadows.

Call me the Raven,
For I bring only
Bad intentions
And ill will.
A demon, or a Raven?
I prophesied the end.

and it shall come.
I've been reading a lot of Poe. Inspired by "The Raven". What is the Raven, really? A silly bird, or something more?
371 · May 2015
Anonymity
Liz And Lilacs May 2015
This palace is made of glass
and I can see every wicked lie
and every injustice
as clear as day.

Think you can hide behind walls and a door?
Perhaps you shouldn't make them out of glass.
My dear friend
366 · Dec 2014
Dreams
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
Let me abandon my dreams for you.
It's not like they matter to me.
Goodbye Ivy League,
Goodbye law school.
I clearly have no need
for such things when
I have you.
It's not like my dreams
are the only thing
that keeps me alive.
Sarcasm.
365 · May 2015
To the muses: Come Back
Liz And Lilacs May 2015
I always loved the idea of a muse by my side, gifting me with inspiration. Maybe it made me feel less alone. Maybe that is why I feel so lonely and empty when I can't write.
Psychology tells me that authors and artists are commonly more unhappy than those whose jobs rely on logical black and white thinking.
But would we have it any other way?
What beauty is there in a world made of only black and white?
Where would we be without our words and pictures and our inspired sessions at four am when the thunder brings to mind an image that you mustn't forget?
The scrawled poems on napkins and foggy bathroom mirrors and the doodles of nightmares in the margins of my calculus notes,
I would be lost without it. I am lost without it.
So if a muse is what I'm lacking, please come back, muse.
I always feel strange when I can't write, so I started typing and this is the result. I wouldn't call it a poem, but it is what it is. I write to feel more... Or less... I don't really know... But I can't seem to get the words together.
363 · Nov 2014
Drinking
Liz And Lilacs Nov 2014
I always end up watching
As my friends lose themselves in liquor.
I don't drink because I see the way they change.
I don't want to get lost.
It makes me scared to see them change.
363 · Oct 2015
'Tis a pity
Liz And Lilacs Oct 2015
"Can a heart still break once
it's stopped beating?"
Will your breath turn to butterflies
and fly far away from here?
When will things stop feeling so empty
without your presence to fill the silence?
I miss you
I don't know what to do.
They keep saying it's a pity that you died so young.
But that doesn't do the loss of you justice.
359 · Dec 2014
Fear
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
He told her she had a beautiful scream.
She tried to be defiant, not to scream again,
But he did unspeakable things.
When he let her go,
She never spoke again.
A little scary, I hope,
358 · Dec 2014
When I'm gone...
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
Will you put lilacs on my grave?

                                 *I've always loved them so.
355 · Sep 2015
<3
Liz And Lilacs Sep 2015
<3
I hope you don't mind
that I love you.
Liz And Lilacs Jul 2015
Today I learned,
that I am useless,
that I will be alone,
forever.

All because I told
a man that I am
not interested in ***.

I'm sorry that I cannot
fulfill my purpose in life.
Because clearly,
all that matters is
my ability to please
others.
355 · Dec 2014
_
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
_
I wanted to be wanted....



                                                             *...but not like this.
I guess being wanted wasn't what I was looking for.
Liz And Lilacs Mar 2015
You're a monster.*
He looked at me for a moment
and muttered,
I know.
Without a thought,
He went back to his beastly ways.
354 · Dec 2014
...
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
...
It makes me angry,
When other people hurt each other.
I couldn't give a ****
about what you do to me,
but please don't hurt others.

I've long since stopped caring
About my own feelings.
If I can protect someone else,
I'll take the beating.
I can't write today.
351 · Dec 2014
Chance
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
While fate is cruel,
Chance is graceful,
Desperately trying to grant us
a reprieve from fate's cruel ways.
351 · Dec 2014
Faith
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
Did you think this was Romeo and Juliet?
Did you think I'd give up everything for you?
I have not known men to be kind
or love to be lasting,
So I think it's better I stay alone.
At least I know that loneliness is lasting.

I have never believed in love,
But I believed in you,
Until you asked me for all I had.
You know I can't give it.
Lately my poems aren't right. Something's missing.
349 · Mar 2015
Questions
Liz And Lilacs Mar 2015
Do you think that
Adam and Eve's
betrayal made god
sorry he created them?

When you see a plane,
What do you think?
Do you wonder where
it is returning from?

Does the rain remind you
of the other nights it rained?

What does it mean to love?
What does it mean to live?

*Just who are you?
349 · Dec 2014
Lie to me
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
Please just lie to me.
Tell me everything is going to be okay.
Tell me that you don't know I'm broken.
Tell me that you understand.
Tell me that it's okay to not be okay.
Tell me to believe in people.
Tell me that the world is lovely.
Tell me that I haven't misplaced my trust.
Tell me that humanity is beautiful.
Tell me that life is worth it.
Tell me that you love me.
Please, just lie.
348 · Oct 2015
Close enough
Liz And Lilacs Oct 2015
My friends often say it was close enough
But close enough is just like almost
and close enough...
wasn't enough
348 · Nov 2014
Falling Apart
Liz And Lilacs Nov 2014
Lately, she sighs with the passing hour.
Time crawls by at a snail's pace,
and yet it is a whirlwind of activity.
She watches as the day passes her by
and her limbs move slowly
through the heavy fog of exhaustion.
Dark circles hang heavily,
shadowing her eyes from the world.
Her jagged nails are her only source of comfort
as her nervous habit of biting them has returned.
The world is cruel to the innocent,
and only ceases when
it has broken those who least deserve it.
In Fate's spiteful eyes, she is sufficiently broken.
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
You can't breathe.
Gasping for air.
The panic as your lungs  fill with water.
You'd never think  water could burn so much.
The cacophony of your mind, screaming at you.
The disbelief that you are drowning.
The mind and body do not know how to die gracefully
The very process of drowning makes it harder and harder
Not to drown.
348 · Oct 2014
Don't look
Liz And Lilacs Oct 2014
I feel so exposed,
as if I am a flower with the petals
ripped off and thrown to the ground.

Delicate, I once was.
Virtuous and dignified.

Exposed, all I feel is shame.
I do not feel delicate and beautiful and wanted.
I feel abused and torn and *****.

All I can ask is:
*please don't look at me.
347 · Dec 2014
Losing her voice
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
She used to talk, and talk,
A story teller for the ages.
She would chatter and smile,
It enchanted people.

But slowly, she fell silent.
One day she noticed, no one listened.
So why should she talk,
When no one cared what she has to say?

She stopped speaking all together,
Yet no one seemed to notice.
The silence killed her, the stories choked her,
And when they found her hanging, they didn't understand.

Her note asked them why,
Why had they stopped listening?
She would never speak again,
And their care came too late.
347 · Feb 2015
Falling awake
Liz And Lilacs Feb 2015
You told me you want
to go back to sleep.
I'm sorry you fell awake.
Go back to sleep,
With your dreams
and your hopes,
Where reality cannot reach,
Go back to sleep,
It'll be okay,
You don't need to fall awake.
Go back to sleep,
Where life is okay,
And pain is bearable,
and brokenness is nonexistent.
Sorry
346 · Nov 2014
A Thought
Liz And Lilacs Nov 2014
How long did it take you to break me?
For it takes a second to break,
And years to fix.
345 · Mar 2015
Look away
Liz And Lilacs Mar 2015
Every time you sent me
one of your fake smiles,
I clenched my fists
and covered my eyes,
pretending I knew nothing.
Turn away and keep quiet,
Isn't that how the world works?
344 · Feb 2015
Nothing
Liz And Lilacs Feb 2015
Please
Make me feel like
I'm worth something,
Anything at all.
Don't just walk away,
Don't just ignore me.
Don't leave me all alone,
to be nothing in this nothing world.
342 · Oct 2014
Innocence
Liz And Lilacs Oct 2014
It's a gift,
To be innocent, that is.
I would give anything
just to have it back.

But I can't have it back.
He took my innocence
in the harshest way.
Taking advange of a naive girl.

He pinned my arms
ignored my pleading
And took my dignity
And my hope
And my innocence.
I just want it back.
342 · Nov 2014
Paper Killer
Liz And Lilacs Nov 2014
I tried to write a horror story
But the paper bled crimson with each stroke of my pen.
I swear I could hear it scream as I marred it's snowy white skin.
It crumbled in my hands and blew away in the wind,
Its blood curdling howl echoed in my mind,
I never wrote again.
340 · May 2015
Wings
Liz And Lilacs May 2015
I had a nightmare
where I had the wings
of which I'd always dreamed,
But they claimed it broke laws
so they tore my freedom
from my back
and I swear that
I could feel
The tendons stretch and snap
And the delicate bones shatter.
And it was agony
as they ripped my limbs
and stole my freedom.
338 · Oct 2015
Take care of the world
Liz And Lilacs Oct 2015
The truth is
God is five years old.
She was born in 2010.
She's never known a world
without computers,
without constant war,
without the fear of terrorists,
without news everyday of another shooting.
Today, she looked at me
and asked why her world
is falling to pieces in our hands.
I couldn't answer her.
338 · Nov 2014
Death is a Person, too
Liz And Lilacs Nov 2014
He smirked at me, surprised by my sass, even in death.
Death wore a suit, looking every bit the striking businessman.
He held a heavy tome as he read my name, telling me it was not my time.
Leaning in the crook of his arm was the sharp scythe, glimmering faintly.
Death touched my face with his cold hands, his fingers brushing across my delicate lips, and under my chin.
He made me look into his eyes and spoke gently,
"It is not your time. I will see you again, but today is not the day."
A tear ran down my cheek and his icy fingers wiped it away.
Death leaned forward, his presence bringing cold and dread.
With his frosty lips, he tenderly kissed my forehead.
He kissed down my face, leaving a chill with each touch.
Death's mouth met mine as he breathed life back into me.
Everything went dark, and I sat up with a start, alone in my cold bed.
337 · Mar 2015
Bad wolf
Liz And Lilacs Mar 2015
"I can see everything,
All that was,
All that is,
And all that ever could be."

You are a speck,
A tiny spot
in all of time.
I just want you to be safe.

I know you feel big,
Like you can save everyone,
and everything,
But you cannot.

You are so small,
So insignificant,
But you are mine,
And I want you to be safe.

You may be a speck
In the eyes of time,
But to the bad wolf,
You are everything.
336 · Dec 2014
I closed my eyes
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
I closed my eyes
and made the decision.
This was the end.
I found the pills,
and wrote my note.
My tears smudged the ink.
Pill after pill,
I began to feel light headed.
I closed my eyes.
336 · Oct 2014
Life
Liz And Lilacs Oct 2014
Hands held too tight
Eyes too damp
Voices too loud
Happiness too great
Sadness too strong
Music too beautiful
Words too long
Fear too strong
Ambition too high
By the time you read this,
I'm too far gone.
This is what we call life.
A world of too many's
That make something beautiful
And something terrible.
It's times like these that make me hope I didn't forget English.
335 · Dec 2014
He
Liz And Lilacs Dec 2014
He
He called me his lion,
even though I told him
female lions are lionesses.
I opened my eyes
and he held my hand.

but then I swallowed the pills
and he saved me life.
I sobbed, disgusted by myself,
that I was still alive.
He simply held me and let me cry.

He stopped the bleeding
and took care of me.
He dealt with my mess and
loved me anyway.
I just don't understand why.
but i love him back
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