L: Poems

10w

L Nov 2014

10w

Forgive me for questioning
your muddled definition of
*honesty.

Just a thought.

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

You've made a home in the space between my ribs

**
Leigh

10w

L Aug 2015

10w

This house is built
on suicidal thoughts
and words unsaid

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2014

10w

My eyes follow like slaves forced to follow their master.

and they only follow
you

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2014

10w

Sleeping next to you
was an
unattainable dream
come true...

Feeling loving and loved.
R, I love love love you.
And if I forgot to tell you again,
you amaze me.

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

Please don't take
this feeling
I have found at last

This Feeling // Alabama Shakes

10w

L Sep 2015

10w

When this world upsets me,
this music sets me free

Gary Clark Jr.
"The Healing"

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

I can taste death in the back of my throat

10w

L Aug 2015

10w

Your silence speaks volumes - you are worried it's about you.

It probably is

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

Through it all, my heart continues to ache for you.

You've hurt so many, yet I still feel the need to defend you.

**
Leigh

10w

L Aug 2014

10w

The stars are a mirror,
reflecting the
beauty of
*you.

For my love,
who doesn't know how gorgeous she truly is...
Good thing I'm always there to remind her.

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

If you can't treat her like royalty,
let someone else.

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

I have been encompassed by the warmth of your existence

**
Leigh

10w

L Dec 2015

10w

I wanted you and you...
you needed to be wanted.

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

I'm not fragile,
so don't be afraid
to
break
me.

I still feel your hands on my hips and your lips on my ribs

**
Leigh

10w

L Jul 2015

10w

I've forgotten what your voice tastes like in the night

Sorry I haven't been writing much this summer
Once school starts, I'll be posting almost daily
Thanks for sticking around

**
Leigh

10w

L Sep 2015

10w

My smile reaches your ears and your words smile back

There's always you

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

How lucky am I to know love so many times?

I'm taking a moment to appreciate the fact that I've been loved by more than one person and at such a young age.
Hopefully, there will be more to come.

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

Do not turn my bleeding heart into one oozing poison.

I'm not trying to ruin anything, ******.

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2014

10w

Your love
is a gift
I am not worthy of.

Another for R.
I miss my love.

**
Leigh

10w

L Oct 2015

10w

I am slowly (but surely)
   stumbling
      crashing
         falling
            for you...

A repost, but now for someone worthy

**
Leigh

10w

L Oct 2014

10w

Kiss me quick
before all of this
becomes another dream.

Not that I'd mind another dream of you, R <3

**
Leigh

10w

L Sep 2015

10w

Yours are the eyes I see when I close mine

Eh

**
Leigh

10w

L Dec 2015

10w

Your bleeding heart can only bear so many puncture wounds

I thought you were smarter than to fall into her manipulation
Guess I was wrong

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

You have my healing heart singing to the heavens above

For B, with so much adoration

**
Leigh

10w

L Nov 2015

10w

It's beaten
It's over
It's done
I have finally *won

Now I can
and I don't expect you to understand

**
Leigh

10w

L Sep 2014

10w

Oh,
what relief does
a blade
bring that
love
cannot?

For Ash and others.

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

And you, so blinded by your lust, forget to love.

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2014

10w

My poetry is the product of a fool
in love.

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

We're flawed and miserable and sleepless,
but we are alive.

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

There's power behind your touch
Strength hiding in your kiss

**
Leigh

10w

L Feb 2014

10w

Don't you realize I'm the happiest I've been in years?

...so why are you trying to ruin it?

10w

L May 2015

10w

What did I do
to deserve a love
this pure?

I don't deserve him at all

**
Leigh

10w

L Dec 2015

10w

What life is lost
without countless others
going with it?

For Oscar Juliuss Grant III
Wherever you are now

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2014

10w

Who do I cry for anymore?
Myself or lack thereof?

**
Leigh

10w

L Feb 2016

10w

Will it take your breath?
Will it make you burn?

Leigh

10w

L Dec 2015

10w

Broke my heart in July
Broke my body in August

But you won't break my mind.

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2014

10w

I can't promise you tomorrow,
but I can promise today.

Oh my love...
Stop worrying about what our future holds.
Think of now, now is where you have me.

**
Leigh

10w

L Jan 2016

10w

You constantly push buttons
But when will the bomb detonate?

Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

Are you absolutely sure you could love someone like me?

I can't say the words, not yet
I'm sorry

**
Leigh

10w

L Aug 2015

10w

Life is an exile, a journey to a nonexsistent home

EC

**
Leigh

10w

L Nov 2015

10w

Don't seek solace in me, my arms protect myself only

You may be, but I am not.

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

We move against each other,
dancing to inner complementary melodies

**
Leigh

10w

L Aug 2015

10w

Here, we build walls.
There, we can tear them down.

Dreaming of you and Ruston

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

Baby,
be the one that I lose my mind for.

**
Leigh

10w

L Mar 2014

10w

You look like a poem that I would read forever.

10w

L Jul 2015

10w

Without your hand in mine,
I feel loneliness seep in.

**

Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

Take me in your arms
Keep me safe from harm

**
Leigh

10w

L Aug 2015

10w

It was so real.
Do you remember?
Don't you see?

**
Leigh

10w

L Mar 2014

10w

I believe that all the strength you possess is enough.

sorry for all the 10w poems lately.
short and not-so-sweet

** Leigh