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 Jun 2013 Anna
Tim Knight
your thoughts are being passed along
at mail train speeds,
no pauses or restraints
no clauses or complaints,
all with a face that would make tear gas cry.
This is a present to you,
it's everything I want to say:

*stop wanting every moment to be music video magic
because it’s something you'll never achieve,
what you say isn’t MTV,
so go head-
disagree.
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 Jun 2013 Anna
Vincent J Comeau
This is how my heart was broken.
This is how my heart was broken.
Not with the bang of slammed doors
But with a whimper of defeat.
There was no sudden impact and
Like Icarus in the Field
I swam to dry land only to be alone
With my wax wings,
Melted and useless and heavy.

This is how my heart was broken.
This is how my heart was broken.
Not with a bang but a whimper
And a cry and nights spent alone
Waiting for a text or call or
A sign of life where there is none.
I am no Lazarus; I will not return
From the worms and the dirt.
I am transformed forever, dear Jesus.

This is how my heart was broken.
This is how my heart was broken.
This is how my heart was broken.
 Jun 2013 Anna
Layla Jane Johnson
Joy
I feel like I
Could touch the sky
And hold it in my hand.

It swirls along
My very palm
And slips into the sand.
 Jun 2013 Anna
hellohappytori13
Ones quality of life is not determined by a tangible, measurable, comparable, product of worth
But what we are can be determined by what we accomplish
Not by a certificate, title or position, but by the triumph over reservation and mastery of ourselves
Our minds naturally welcome doubt, embrace it like an old friend
Lingering on what we want but can’t have, while the disbelief in ourselves further saturates our core
Staying here, comfortably covered by a blanket of indifference, we wither into only the shell of something real
Our worth defined by a certificate, title and position, averaged out because of our passive influence on this perpetual world
We must petrify the thoughts, take away their voice, keep them still
For each moment of disbelief is a stolen moment of action
All we need is a miracle, some inspirational idea, word, event, to spark, shock and jumble our thoughts to recover that passion within us and activate our true strength
We can fight, you and I, send that permeating doubt into a fleeting panic back into the dark site it bread from
As we triumph over our own reservations and master each intricate part of ourselves.
 Jun 2013 Anna
Nuala Woods
Lies
 Jun 2013 Anna
Nuala Woods
Tell me as many times as you would like.
Tell me you don't love me.
I won't pretend to be alright.
Because this feeling deep in the pit of my stomach,
This feeling is there shining bright.
And you may not love me and that may or may not be alright.
Because maybe if I love you enough you will love me.
But all of these thoughts racing through my mind, are all lies.
Just lies there to say that I'm okay.
But in the end they are just lies,
And I am left alone with my thoughts to die.
I don't even know if this is a poem. Whatever.
 Jun 2013 Anna
Burnout
I've been "strong" lately
no contact
for a painful amount of time
excruciating, wonderful memories make their returns every night
each moment alone I'm sick to my stomach
love's acids burning my tissues
strengthening my regrets
i need more than your presence in my unconscious world
stories that awaken me with hope and leave me disappointed
love me back
spend one night in my dreams and you'll fall in love again
at night the truth eats away at happiness
my confident school girl act doesn't cut it with the darkness
i clasp my sheets for stability
but hell knows my place when the sun goes down
 Jun 2013 Anna
Burnout
But you're totally worth it
You're worth life
You're living for a reason
Maybe you're not the funniest or the skinniest
But I know for sure that you're ******* awesome
So don't cut yourself
Don't **** yourself
I know how it feels
I've been in the hospitals
Don't surrender; don't give up
It gets easier
Thanks for being amazing
Please continue to bless this world with your presence
 Jun 2013 Anna
Eavan Boland
Anorexic
 Jun 2013 Anna
Eavan Boland
Flesh is heretic.
My body is a witch.
I am burning it.

Yes I am torching
ber curves and paps and wiles.
They scorch in my self denials.

How she meshed my head
in the half-truths
of her fevers

till I renounced
milk and honey
and the taste of lunch.

I vomited
her hungers.
Now the ***** is burning.

I am starved and curveless.
I am skin and bone.
She has learned her lesson.

Thin as a rib
I turn in sleep.
My dreams probe

a claustrophobia
a sensuous enclosure.
How warm it was and wide

once by a warm drum,
once by the song of his breath
and in his sleeping side.

Only a little more,
only a few more days
sinless, foodless,

I will slip
back into him again
as if I had never been away.

Caged so
I will grow
angular and holy

past pain,
keeping his heart
such company

as will make me forget
in a small space
the fall

into forked dark,
into python needs
heaving to hips and *******
and lips and heat
and sweat and fat and greed.
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