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Apr 2013 · 618
i love.
Redshift Apr 2013
i love that i am getting
farther away from you.
if i wanted to be close to you
it would be easy...
i don't like anything
that is easy.
i love *******
this long
spacious
gap
i love stretching
testing
seeing how far i can reach
in the opposite
direction.
i love this
big
empty
space
between us
i love how it gets bigger and bigger
the more i pry my heart
out of yours.
i love
how much room there is
for dancing
for leaping
for doing all the things
there wasn't a spot for
before.
i love that i can take
huge
deep
breathes
and not breathe the same air
as you.
i love
that i am not so close to you
that i have to mimic
your every move
i love that my hair
doesn't get tangled
in your fingers
anymore...
you left my hair
in knots.
i love that if you reached for me
not even your fingertips
would brush me
i love that if you yelled for me
i would never
hear you
i love that if you wanted to kiss me
you would be
disappointed.

i love
that i am not
near
you.
Mar 2013 · 485
resurrection sunday
Redshift Mar 2013
purple splotches
on my
cold arms,
wrists...
thick
red
unfeeling
scars
that never fade
i'm waiting for the day
they turn
white
Mar 2013 · 362
maybe that's the point.
Redshift Mar 2013
you know,
i really don't need much to be happy
i don't get what the big deal is
give me a big tree
dirt
sunshine
a blanket
to lie on
a family
and i'd be set
why are the hardest things to get
also the easiest
and if they're so easy to get
why can't i have them
oh
frustration.
Redshift Mar 2013
it's a good thing
that someone always reminds me
to stick to what i know
otherwise
i would never try
anything
Mar 2013 · 4.3k
blossoms
Redshift Mar 2013
the kids
that you didn't know existed
all winter
have been jail-sprung
they litter the sidewalk
like snowdrops
riding miniature bikes
with training wheels
zipping up and down
the street
in their
shirtsleeves
the easter bunny
coaxed them out
into the park
to search for treats
but they decided to stay
Redshift Mar 2013
honestly,
i'm sick of faking it with you.
i deserve
reality
and i'm getting everything but
every night
i spend with you
i've always been so suspicious
of being used
people use me
all the time
because i'm good
for a laugh
i can keep things going
i make parties
fun
but that's the only reason
anyone wants me around
they use me
to keep things interesting...
i
am
worth
more
than
that.

so honestly
let's be honest
(something never are)
if you wanted me back
you should have said something
fifteen minutes ago
and not fifteen seconds
ago
because fifteen minutes
is long enough
to put fifteen thousand miles
between me and you...

to be honest:
i'm tired of being used
i'm
leaving
Mar 2013 · 347
fine isn't good.
Redshift Mar 2013
the bone-crushing
weight
of being late
for everything
is suffocating me
it's been two days
since i could breathe
normally
i'm not even kidding...
projects
undone
papers
unwritten
tests
not taken
money
owed...
you're going to lose
everything
but you've lost it before
you'll be
fine
Redshift Mar 2013
my stomach
is punishing me
for every bite
every swallow
i wonder if
it's supposed to
hurt this much
Redshift Mar 2013
didn't eat
a single thing
all day
if being
a size 0
doesn't make you happy
what
will
Mar 2013 · 685
push ups
Redshift Mar 2013
temples pounding
shoulder-blades burning
eyes sore
frustrated...
why can't i stay mad at you
you
*******
Redshift Mar 2013
so uhm
this is awkward
....
i spent four months
writing poetry
about some ***
i've been sort of in love with
(hell, i dunno)
and then suddenly
that guy
who i proposed to
in a mall
with a
fuzzy
cat
collar
is looking pretty good
he wanted to hold my hand
tonight
well,
skye,
you snooze
you lose
Redshift Mar 2013
if when you take
an afternoon stroll
in the fresh spring air
to the library
down the street
and you spend your time
not listening to the birds
or examining the new buds
but wishing that every car
that passed
would run you over
you probably
should rethink
a couple things
Mar 2013 · 4.2k
pink sneaker wanderings
Redshift Mar 2013
"yeah i had a good break...was smashed the whole week...apparently i ****** on some dude's xbox"
"yeah mine does that too. they were ******* so hard the bed was squeaking"
"*** there she is! the one with the ears....hah check the sneakers! who the **** does she think she is"
"i'm glad my hair doesn't look like that"
"i think i was *****"
"did you get it in, man? hahahhh"
"it's cuz his **** is smaller than his brain"
"got a D...i'mma go shoot myself. i ******* hate this lady"
"hah! I like HER skirt. notttt! what the ****, she looks like a hippo"
"yeah we're kind of a thing now. he texts me like, 24/7...my parents were so ****** over break"
"oh my god i have this test in an hour...i was way too ****** last night to study"
"wow i didn't get **** on my midterms, hello mcdonald's"
"*******"
"hey *****, you're lookin' ******"
"check my ***. good? good."
"yeaaahhh man! we make this punch...it's crazy. half a solo cup and you're gonneeee. tuesday, man. be there or be a little **** for the rest of your life, hahahhahh"
"duude we were dropping ecstasy like crazy! everything looked like pink marshmallow fluff...some poor ******* jumped off the garage roof, thought he could fly or some ****...you want some? i can get you some, bro. no prob."
"i couldn't even sleep last night, my roommate was banging her boyfriend and the moaning was sicking me out"
"yeah bathsalts are some ****...my cousin tried to rip out his kid's eyeball one time...it was ******* hilarious"
"did you get in her pants?"
"homerun?"
"i was so drunk man, i don't remember anythingggg hahahhhh"
"honey...i was drunk. i don't even remember sleeping with her, you can't blame me"
"i was drunk...surprise buttsex!!"
"dude she had her hands in my pants for half of the class"
"can you believe she posted that? i mean come on"
"yeah! then write ***** on it!"
"hahah i wrote this note on her door with my number...saying that i was a lesbian and thought she was hot....then the ******* ****** called me and me and my roommates basically pranked **** out of her for like, two hours"
"dad, i know. i get it. yeah. yeah. ALRIGHT! i just need a couple hundred. i'll pay you back. it's just to help me get by. yeah, this one professor wants me to do some extra reading. i need it for a book..."
"yeah he likes you! he texted me! text him back. COME ON! i'm telling you...you're gonna end up 22 and STILL not have boyfriend. just do it already...jess!"
"yeah we didn't even have enough gas to get here. had to borrow money from my dad...ohmygodd...this app won't load..."
"it wasn't ****...it was more like...******* a dead fish...hahahhh!!!"


"i'm gonna fail"
"don't worry about it, it's the professor's fault. she's a ******."
Mar 2013 · 642
cmon, we all float on.
Redshift Mar 2013
take
three bites of cereal
to calm the burn
in the pit
of your stomach
float
on
Mar 2013 · 492
expert over-looker
Redshift Mar 2013
see around
oh,
forty thousand people
you know
talk to none of them
because
well,
talking...

...ugh
Mar 2013 · 424
dropping the ball
Redshift Mar 2013
i didn't place the blame on you
gently
like a folded
napkin
i dropped it on you
like a boulder
why can't you just
take it
for once
Mar 2013 · 2.7k
dj-douchebag
Redshift Mar 2013
so you tell the entire world
what a great night
we had together
last night
and then you delete it
in the morning
after everyone's already seen it
what the **** is wrong with you
how could you think
i would miss that
or see it
and feel
fine
Redshift Mar 2013
i lay on this bed
like a daisy
smashed by a rubber tire
limply
peaceful
but crushed
all the same.
Mar 2013 · 503
decisions (10w)
Redshift Mar 2013
i have more split ends
than i have thoughts

****
Mar 2013 · 927
save the drama for yo mama
Redshift Mar 2013
oh
the drama
of 4am
i never knew how lucky i was
to be asleep
at such an
atrocious hour.
Mar 2013 · 2.0k
friend...zone?
Redshift Mar 2013
ugh.

so i remembered today
that one of the first things
i ever said
when i met you
was
"dating is boring. i prefer
bestfriending"
and i've realized
that we're now bestfriends
and we say
"i love you,
bestfriend"
all the time
what does this
meaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
are we secretly
in a relationship?
is that why
you keep getting sulky
when i talk to other guys
and then skype me
facebook me
text me
if you can't get a hold of me
every single night?

i mean
i could just
yknow
ASK YOU
but if we're not
then it'll be all weird
and if we are
i'll lose
my bestfriend
i guess i lose him
either way
best to stay
silent

ugh.
Mar 2013 · 313
42
Redshift Mar 2013
42
today someone told me
that they don't like my work
because it doesn't rhyme
poetry is supposed to rhyme
they said
that's what makes it
poetry
i looked at him
and said

                                                life


­doesn't


                                                               ­                                           **rhyme
“The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.”
Mar 2013 · 592
survival tactics
Redshift Mar 2013
stack all the dishes
in neat little piles
to make them look
smaller
pretend that you spent your time
washing the dishes
instead of in the bathroom
your head hung
over the rim
of the toilet
Redshift Mar 2013
my stomach
trips
stumbles
fumbles
turns
over everything i just ate
which was really
two bites
of something i didn't even taste
is the reward of
losing weight
worth dying
for
Mar 2013 · 805
premeditated accident
Redshift Mar 2013
four thousand
different dreams about you
last night
you stalked through them
like you owned the place
(...maybe you do...)
so many different places
positions
smiles
back-drops
all because
you held me last night
on accident
just to see
how it felt
Redshift Mar 2013
wow
i'm really good
at ending up in the same place
4,000 times over...
all that ****
about lightning not striking twice
is a myth
Mar 2013 · 663
preventative measures
Redshift Mar 2013
the two amigos
standing through constant ****
since 2011
fell asleep
i on the couch
he in the armchair
trying to ward off
the oncoming
despair
Mar 2013 · 365
how low can you go
Redshift Mar 2013
i'm still debating
whether or not
to give my mother
all these poems.
i guess because
i know
how much it hurts
to be told
exactly how someone hates you
in verse
Mar 2013 · 1.7k
incarceration
Redshift Mar 2013
if i had a dream for you
a dream for anyone
anything
i'd catch it up
in my hands
kidnap it
from the air
keep it
to look at
when i'm sad
like a bitter
dandelion
i once imprisioned
Mar 2013 · 608
de-fine-ing
Redshift Mar 2013
try to steal warmth
from the dry
cup of coffee
in your hands
shiver
quake

contain

contain

contain.
Mar 2013 · 355
paint me as i am not
Redshift Mar 2013
and when these tears
find a pathway out
i will not let you see them,
daddy
i will not shout
i will not scream
with the pain
of this last
twist of the knife
i will be here for you
without tears
i will paint myself
brave
i will be
as i am not
i will be
ok
this i promise
you
Mar 2013 · 1.0k
matryoshka daughter
Redshift Mar 2013
i would cry a lot
right now
if i had any tears
left
after these
two years.
you ****** me dry
but you haven't stopped there
you want the empty shell,
too.
i hope that she'll
keep a smile
on your
gravestone face
put some sort of light
back into your
chopping-block
eyes
i hope that shell of me
will keep you warm
on the freezing nights
you are alone
that you have inflicted
upon yourself
i hope this hollow girl
that used to be
your daughter
will make you happy
finally
i might just have lost it once and for all.
Redshift Mar 2013
i watch as
worry
fear
the promise of
incarceration
skips across me
and then settles
into dad's wrinkly
face.

thirteen
thousand
dollars

a
sixty-two year old
man
who's worked
his whole life
for a family
stuck with a bill
by a cup of coffee
with yellow teeth
and diamond earrings
on a leather couch

thirteen  
thousand
dollars

people are always asking
how much am i worth to you
how much money
would you give
to be with
me

thirteen
thousand
dollars

is the cost of
one whole year
that threw your entire life
into shadow
doubt
complete and utter
chaos
fear
despair

thirteen
thousand -

- pieces of paper
that we have put worth upon
now decide
your fate
you will lose your
house
your family
everything
you own
if you do not pay
but let's be real
you've lost it all
before
can once more
hurt
any less

thirteen
thousand
*******
dollars

in arrear
fees
this is how much
one year
of complete horror
is worth
and no,
no one pays the ones who suffered
we pay
those that won...

thirteen
thousand
dollars.
Mar 2013 · 507
friday morning
Redshift Mar 2013
i don't want to
get up this morning
dad
i'm sorry
but i have everything
that is the opposite
of ambition
sitting on my
chest
keeping me
from getting up
i love you
but leave me
alone
Mar 2013 · 1.2k
chasm of meaningfulness-less
Redshift Mar 2013
i wait
and i
wait
and i
wait
for you to respond
and i watch you
and i think
wow
is he going
to say something
that he means
for once?
then you open your
meaningless
chasm
smile
shakily
tell me
goodnight
and that you love me
as an after thought...
sometimes i think our life consists of
the antics
of
an after-thought
theatre troupe
oh well
i guess i love you too
in a meaningless
sort of way
Mar 2013 · 1.7k
freckles.
Redshift Mar 2013
sometimes
i get so frustrated with my dad
i yell at him
accuse him
blame him
i refuse to eat
whatever he's spent
so much time
and effort cooking for me...
and all of the above
is the result of
hating that he has to do it
in the first place
and it's absolutely idiotic
and horrible of me
to do this to him
but i can't translate
the pain
in a healthy way
i can't articulate
that some minuscule
dead
part of me
misses mom
even
after everything
every time
she tries to talk to me
it's like she pushes
this reset button
and i am back
with my old friends
panic attack,
despair,
hatred
and the tears slip out of me
so easily
i no longer feel them
they have become
so natural
like the freckles
on my face
my life is freckled
with tears
Mar 2013 · 451
a fault justly served
Redshift Mar 2013
there are some people
that you know
you should feel sorry for
like your mother
who's cleaning out
your old room
in the house
she kicked you out of
and crying
but i can't feel sorry for you,
mom
you've made it
impossible.
what i lived through
then
was nothing
compared to what i had to live through
when you left
the worst part is
i didn't live through it
i'm a ghost
a shadow
a short lived
glinting
ray
of what i used to be
and it's all
your
fault.
Redshift Mar 2013
you know what they say
you've heard it
forever
"the separation
gets easier
as time goes
on"
yeah
that's what every
single
person
who has never
ever
come close
to your situation
says
like the concept that
people will like bread more
if it's toasted
or that
cheese
is better
when you give it time
to mould
those are the kind of people
who are trying to tell me
it's going to be ok
someday
shut the **** up
drink your expensive wine
and leave me
alone
Mar 2013 · 302
checking out
Redshift Mar 2013
you know that moment
when someone begs you to stay
but you leave
as awkwardly
and quickly
as you can
just because
you can't
emotionally
physically
handle them
anymore?
sometimes i feel like
that's my life
every single
day.
Mar 2013 · 353
at least facebook misses me
Redshift Mar 2013
well apparently
your facebook
has gone into mourning
glad to know you miss me
on the internet
lawrd,
you're tactful
Mar 2013 · 558
would have's
Redshift Mar 2013
i just remembered the day
you let me borrow
your R.E.M. cd
rip it onto
my ancient desktop
i think it was
thanksgiving
or something
the cd was
cold
and moisture
beaded on it
from the warmth
of our old yellow house
(love)
and i sat up there
for so long
in the office
that smelt like
burnt vacuum
thinking how much
that one boy i liked
who liked
R.E.M.
would like
the fact
that i had their cd
on my computer
i didn't really stop
and imagine
you listening to it
in your car
nightswimming
blaring
sweetly
i think i still have that
cd
somewhere...
i wish i had kept it
safe
somewhere...
if i had known
that some july
you'd be gone
forever
if i had known
that the day
you stopped us
in our car
on your
red motorcycle
and hugged me
told me
that you loved me
was the
last time
forever
i would have
lingered.
Redshift Mar 2013
there are some people
in this world
who have no right
to occupy
your every thought.
not everyone
is
entitled
to a piece of you...
remember that.
be more careful
with who you give
yourself to
some people just
take
you
and do whatever
the ****
they want;
don't let them
it's not their
right.
some people will
ask for your
heart
then take it
look through it
like a piece of nothing
toss it
aside
they have no
right.
give yourself
to no one
but yourself
change for no one
but yourself
be no one
but yourself
trust no one
not even
you
because you,
dear red
always give yourself away
to murderers
and you die
over
and
over
again
Redshift Mar 2013
****.

the guilt
that inevitably
tosses me into
the air
catches me in it's jaws
and swallows me whole
has just entered
the scene
that **** uncle kracker song
is kicking my brain
repeatedly
hard enough
to feel the pangs
in my chest
*******
why can't i ever
do something
and feel nothing
or at least feel
jubilant
why must i always feel
guilty
why must i always
revisit
something that hurt me
a papoose
will touch fire
get burned
and learn
not to return
i guess i am
too ignorant
to even be
a papoose
or maybe getting burned
doesn't hurt as much
as it should
i've been hurt by bigger things
my capacity for pain
is off the charts
is it my fault
that i've been built
on a foundation
of broken hearts
Mar 2013 · 616
mixed up anyway
Redshift Mar 2013
wow
you actually did
care.
though i'm still
at a loss
as to why...
not because i don't think i'm worth
someone
caring
for me
or caring
that i exist
i'm at a loss
because i can't tell
how you feel
and it's
******* me
off.
you said you're not
sad
you're
ticked off
but what are you
ticked off
about...
that i left?
why do you think i left?
i want to know
but i won't ask you
i don't want to
get mixed up
again
you always
mix me
up,
skyler.
Mar 2013 · 504
smile.
Redshift Mar 2013
*******.

i woke up this morning
rejoicing
in the strength with which
i slammed the door
in your face
and i was entirely fine
i even almost slept
ok
last night
didn't have to puzzle
over all the useless words
you ever said to me
(...maybe they weren't useless...)
and of course
i ***** myself once again
i managed to forget
to remove all the songs
we sang together
from my playlist
and as i stand here,
a hair-straightener tangled
in my hair
'smile' comes on
**** you
uncle
kracker

i
smiled
Mar 2013 · 1.7k
eraser
Redshift Mar 2013
you forgot about me
so quickly
i'm starting to think
i was never there
at all
i've got all these
grungy little
rubber marks
on my
chest
tire tracks
on my legs
you were never there
at
all
Mar 2013 · 183
you're always with me (10w)
Redshift Mar 2013
this cut on my arm has your name
oh,
pain.
Mar 2013 · 329
cut-out hearts
Redshift Mar 2013
hearts should be
cut out
before they start to break
because once broken
i can never find all the little pieces
to dig out
they get lost
in my chest
in his pocket
and i can't ever
get rid of
it all
Mar 2013 · 1.8k
a punchline
Redshift Mar 2013
oh
would you look at
that
his true colors
bursting forth
in glorious array
just pretty enough
to be the ugliest
thing
i've ever
seen
he didn't care about you
you were a small
insignificant
distraction
attraction
comedic
act
you were a joke
he liked to
laugh at
and once a joke is told
the punch line
come and gone
the laughter faded
there is emptiness
for just a second
before it is filled
with another
you're
always
going
to be
a joke
get used to it,
red
you're only good
for a smile
every now and then
when it comes down to it
you're just another piece of dust
that departs
to float forever
until it lands somewhere else
it's not wanted
Mar 2013 · 387
a reminder
Redshift Mar 2013
never forget
that people aren't your friends
he wasn't your friend
she wasn't your friend
even you aren't your friend.
you can't trust people,
you can't trust him
you can't even trust yourself.
you must learn
to live without
everything
because everything
will ******* up
over
down
around
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