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Melanie Jackson Sep 2021
the sky seems grey
almost taunting me
bringing me down in its misty plumes
pushing me down
forcing me back into bed
forcing me to feel worthless
as memories crash against the walls of my mind
dragging me back down into my
seasonal depression
Melanie Jackson Apr 2020
sometimes i couldn't hear myself
S C R E A M I N G
couldn't feel the pain you were
I N F L I C T I N G
like i had put myself away

and sometimes i catch myself
D R E A M I N G
couldn't stop the flashbacks from
C O M I N G   O N
like i wanted to feel something other than pain

everytime i look back on my
C H I L D H O O D
i see your face in the
B A C K G R O U N D
like out of the corner of my eye
i see your face lingering still
and know i know what to call it
just a little
S E C O N D H A N D    S M O K E
Melanie Jackson Dec 2020
like a cloud
it fills he room
i sit in a daze
caught to in this smog
but i guess i will always smell your
S E C O N D H A N D - S M O K E
Melanie Jackson Mar 2020
the clock keep moving
but it feels as if time is
F R O Z E N
because when
i was younger
i that that
I S
how time worked
freezing sometimes
bt i learned that wasn't how the
T I M E
we are so used to works
Melanie Jackson Feb 2020
you keep them
you tell them
but what kind of
S E C R E T S
do you try and keep
are they
C R U E L
do they hurt the person
or are they the kind that
the two of you
S H A R E
Melanie Jackson Oct 2021
when you feel it the first time
you wont have a clue
what your even feeling
is it love is it lust
you will ask yourself if you are okay
and of course you arent
why would you be
your shattered your broken
your body seems lifeless
and yet you will want it again
because its the only way he shows love
I wanted to give you me in full
Except I cant
Because I was born to be just a
Silhouette
Tried to find me
But lost it in the writing
Now im nothing but
The Silhouette
of what others have made me
Melanie Jackson Aug 2020
like a ***
Just before the water
B O I L S
Or a person
Just before they
E X P L O D E
It feels like
My brain is about to
E M P L O D E
Because I'm expected
To smile like nothing is
W R O N G
But I have to
Sit in the living room and try not to
S I M M E R
Melanie Jackson Apr 2020
i have been told that
D I S T A N C E
is relative,
and relative
if you asked me right know
i would say that your relatively
F A R
and if you asked me just yesterday
i would have told you im relatively
C L O S E
to breaking down
because for now i feel so alone
i have missed all the elements
wishing they weren't so
D I S T A N T
from me now
i guess its to say
that i miss you most
at six feet
A P A R T
when i see you at my window
but cant drive you in my car
it feels like miles
with you six feet
A P A R T
sky
Melanie Jackson Aug 2020
sky
like the blue summer
S K Y
your eyes gleamed in the
S U N L I G H T
but when the sun began to set the
M O O N
did not reflect the person you actually
W E R E
Melanie Jackson Jan 2021
slowly i fall into your arms
allowing you to take over my mind
slowly i fall into your heart
allowing you to hold me close
slowly i fall for a person
allowing myself to fall in love with you
slowly i fall for a man
allowing myself to finally marry
Melanie Jackson Mar 2020
S M I L E
it makes you look more
P R E T T Y
S M I L E
it makes you look more
Y O U N G
S M I L E
it makes you seem
H A P P I E R
remember to
S M I L E
Smoke me out
I'm begging you
Let me feel that high
Know what its like
Even just for a moment
To escape my mind
Taking hits off ivory buds
The smoke stuck in my lungs
Holding tight
As if that will make it last a little longer
But I just need some silence
And maybe an escape
From my relentless mind
Melanie Jackson Jan 2021
his heart is snowflake
to some hes as cold as snow
icy and reserved
but if you look closely you see how special he is
because he is
and he is beautiful
and he is kind
but he is fragile
and easily broken
and i have promised him
to always take care not to ruin
his snowflake heart
Melanie Jackson Jan 2021
all i want is nothing more
then to hold your hand forever more
cause your the one i love the most
and if you love me
will you leave me
i hope you want me
i pray you want me
and all my dreams are
and all my wishes
go to you
because i think that i need you
Melanie Jackson Jan 2020
somewhere in america
there's a girl
being felt up in the subway
shes still in her uniform
that's part of the appeal
its hard to
R U  N
in a skirt and mary janes
and her teachers know it is too
somewhere in america
a girls trying to find
the perfect prom
D R E S S
well im looking in the
lost & found
cause winter's coming
and that's the only coat
i have
cause mommas working
for the government
momma only gets paid once a
M O N T H
somewhere in america
Melanie Jackson Feb 2021
At first when we met
I danced to my own beat
To my own toon
That whistled in my ears
But then as we kept talking
Kept growing closer
You became the song
That was evermore stuck
Dancing on the walls
Of my head
Melanie Jackson May 2020
i miss your calls
for months it seems
i forget that to you
i never have to be mean
i will never forget you
or your mother that i promise
but im
S O R R Y
to my forgotten lover
S O R R Y
im not good enough
S O R R Y
i just cant believe that anyone could love
my broken and damaged heart
my forgotten and lost soul
S O R R Y
to my unknowing lover
Melanie Jackson Jul 2020
Here we sit
Tangled in
C H A I N S
Forever stuck
In this never ending
N I G H T M I R E
For our lives are wrapped
And our souls are
B O U N D
Melanie Jackson Dec 2020
His eyes are the stars
Shining an guiding me through the darkest night
His lips are the waves
Pulling me in and crashing into my embrace
His hands are the sun
Reaching me warming me through the day
His love is the breeze
Blowing through my hair dancing lightly against my skin
His smile is a fox
Coning and brilliant as he zips his way through the trees
His happiness is a river
Flowing through me like its an addition of my soul
Melanie Jackson Aug 2020
your not a person your a
S O U L   R I D E R
you ride so ******* a
H A P P Y
soul, until its so drained,
so broken, that the person is
L O S T
inside of there minds
but i will not let you ride my soul into
O B L I V I O N
Melanie Jackson Dec 2024
These woes are my canvas baby
Do you get what I means
These words have built my army
Filled with my colors and dreams
I try to rest easy
But they wake me up early
They bounce around me restless
Till they feel like there honest
Even when there spiraling out of control
Melanie Jackson Oct 2020
i am here because i chose to
and so i will chose to stand by you
i know we can make it through
even if we both breakdown
we will rise from our ashes
because we can break through
and even if we cant find heaven
i want to walk through hell with you
and you will never be alone
because i swear to stand by you
Melanie Jackson Mar 2020
like a
S T A R
i shine so brite
up in the sky
on completely clear
not cloudy
N I G H T S
Melanie Jackson Jun 2020
when you were younger
you were my
R E D G I A N T
and as you got older you became my
S U P E R N O V A
but as we met our teen years you became my
B L A C K H O L E
stealing my light
and leaveing me in darkness
Melanie Jackson Feb 2021
His eyes hold oceans
His lips hold seas
His heart holds a kindness
That I'm so happy he shares with me
His laugh holds dreams
His words hold wisdom
Some of which I could never speak
I'm just so glad he shares
that wisdom with me
I'm so in love with him
I just hope he knows
I'm here till the end of time
I will stay in his life
Melanie Jackson Jan 2020
my father
i remember his eyes
they weren't kind
they were dark
like a rats
i cant use words
he stole from me
things that i didn't know
could be taken fro me  
at the age of five
i had seen more
pain and destruction
than many would see
in there lifetime
yet you stole the only thing
i was holding onto
something i wanted to save
for the man
who would oneday
fall in love with me
i wanted to wait till marriage
but know i may
not ever be able to
because of what was
stolen
from me
by you
Melanie Jackson Dec 2019
wait a minute
can we just stop
the clock from
ticking
on and on
the hands turn
you hold me close
but you will soon
be gone
so can time stop
so you can
hold me
just for a few minutes
can we please
stop the clock
Melanie Jackson May 2019
you say your full
of all your strength

you say your full
of all your hope

you say your full
of all your joy

but when you find a self conscious girl
you brake them down and take advantage

of what they are and who they where
you take away there innocence

leaving them in one crazy
messed up ball

you take away all of there strength
replacing it with strength your own
Melanie Jackson May 2020
the summer sun
beats on my head
my shoulders burn
my arms sweat
but all i focus on
is the thought of losing
Y O U
because to me
the only way
i felt the summer breeze
was in your arms
you were my mountain
in the valley
and you will always be my
S U M M E R
Melanie Jackson Jan 2021
the summer before high school
after we had met
i knew id never tell you
cause we weren't even friends
but then when i turned sixteen
we got matching schedules
and now i know that i can call you
at like 2am
talk about our weird dreams
and the places we'd go
and i wished i told you before
i wish i said it before
but now you are my life
i know you will stay
we'll keep all our promises
the world in our own hands
Melanie Jackson Aug 2020
my skin was
B U R N T
in the bright summer
S U N
and it amazed me how yours
T A N N E D
but i suppose you were just a tad more
S U N    K I S S E D
than i would ever get
Melanie Jackson Feb 2020
i just i can feel it
i can feel his hands
i can feel his nails digging deep into my skin
the bruises that rose to the surface still hurt
my lungs burn because im gasping for air so sharply
that it almost feels like he is still there
like his grip is still around my neck
like my mother's voice still laughs in the corner
like i'm still focusing on the black fuzz that stains that mattress
trying not to focus on the pain in  my stomach
and i hear people
they say not to blame myself
but i can't help feeling that's maybe if i had just put up stronger defenses
maybe if i had done something to protect myself
i would never have been in this situation
like if i could have screamed a little louder
pulled my wrists from his grip a little harder
maybe i could have saved myself from being broken
but instead i feel
like my body is in a slaughterhouse
and like a pig i was cut  open and savaged for any man who
could pay the right price
i shake like a small dog and barry the truth
and i get what they say i get i cant blame myself
but i don't see anywhere in any place where this isn't my
fault
and all i want to do is cry
but us survivors we are supposed to be strong aren't we
but when does that kick in
when does the sour feeling
that is stuck in my stomach leave
i still feel like my body isn't mine
Melanie Jackson Sep 2021
the hardest thing i ever did
was take a shower
its easy to let them **** me
its easy to fade
its easy to slide into the back of my mind
like i was never there
like that wasnt me
but it was me
and i know its not my fault
but how can i not blame myself
when i was three years old
my mother said she needed me to do it
that i was the only money she had
and when i was six i watched her do so many drugs
that it stole her from me
and i wasnt sure how to live
because what do you do
after youve been ***** ten times a day
for three years straight
when thats all youve ever been good for
when your convinced thats all you will ever be good for
it took my father ten years
to finally learn the truth
learn why i was so scared to open up
why i locked the door when i showered
why i checked the lock four times
why i constantly peered out of the shower
and washed myself as quickly as possible
often not bothering to rinse the soap from my hair
because if you took to long
you where joined
or worse she would yell
tell me how much of a waste i am
my dad always wondered why i hated showering
and it was always because
the hardest thing i ever did
was take a shower
Melanie Jackson Jan 2022
it was never the right time
so i broke my heart
by staying with you and refusing to let us fizzle out
i knew you would break me
knew this would hurt
so why did i let you make me take the fall
Melanie Jackson Feb 2020
a
perfect
pearl upon
my cheek a spa
rkling gem sits just
under my light grey
eyes
Melanie Jackson Mar 2020
form on my cheeks
just like
D I M O N D S
i shouldn't cry for you
but i cant help when i do
is when your words hurt the
M O S T
like when you finally said
G O O D B Y E
like to you i meant nothing
but these are not your
T E A R S
Melanie Jackson Aug 2020
tell me the truth
were you ever
H A P P Y
or was i the cause
of so much
P A I N
of so much
A N G U I S H
that even the smile i loved so much
soon became just as
F A K E
as your idea of parenting
Melanie Jackson Jul 2020
Tell me your name
And I'll tell you my
D R E A M S
Tell me your aspersions
And I'll search for your
H E A R T
Tell me your happiest moments
And I will work to
R E C R E A T E
all of them
Melanie Jackson Oct 2021
im all alone
with my thoughts
my broken dreams
my tears
except for when im
with the people who barely know me
who cant even tell my story
Melanie Jackson Aug 2020
have you ever been in a house wit so much
T E N S I O N
that you feel like the ceiling is
C A V I N G     I N
like the walls are resting on your
S H O U L D E R S
and you cant just
L E T   I T    G O
even though everyone wants you to
and you feel like your on the verge of
E X P L O D I N G
Melanie Jackson Nov 2024
I wish this time
Didn't feel like a memory
Like your hours of lectures
Because I'd never be good enough
Never be thankful enough
But what could I tell you
How could I thank you
When you provided the bare minimum
And used gifts as manipulation
Just to take them away before they derived any joy
How could the isolated child
That never asked for you
To take your trauma out on them
To be thankful
Melanie Jackson Nov 2020
welcome to thanksgiving
lets sit around the table
and pretend we don't know that your not about to
E L O P E
the marriage that you've had for seven years
and lets pretend your not about to blame it on
M E

welcome to thanksgiving
lets sit around the table
and pretend we arent trying to ignore the ever growing
A N X I E T Y
that has been banging in my chest
and lets not talk about the trauma i hide
U N D E R N E A T H

welcome to thanksgiving
lets sit around the table
and pretend that we are all so overly
H A P P Y
as we eat food to avoid the conversation
and lets not talk about the people who have caused us
P A I N

but i promise i will sit around your table
and play nice and be a part of this
F A M I L Y
Melanie Jackson May 2020
loving him was as
B L U E
as the ocean
even more
G R E E N
than the tree tops
more sunny then the brightest shade of
Y E L L O W

loving him was as
P U R P L E
as the flower petals
even more
O R A N G E
then the citrus fruit
more deep then the deepest shades of
R E D
Melanie Jackson May 2020
you kissed me like
F I R E
i cleansed  you like
W A T E R
but you crushed me like
E A R T H
and i blew you away like
W I N D
Melanie Jackson Oct 2021
the lights flicker on
the lights flicker out
i can still hear her voice bouncing off these empty walls
can still see her shadows on the walls
can still smell her

The lights flicker on
The lights flicker out
im almost forgetting the doctors words
she cant be dead that cant be true
He lied the doctor had to
Shes going to see me soon walk through that door laughing

The lights flicker on
The lights flicker out
But she is dead i know she is
Why would she do that
Why would she drink
Why would she drive
Didn't she know how much that would hurt me
She had to why couldn't she just called someone
Why did she have to die
I hate her for that

The lights flicker on
The lights flicker out
I don't even care honestly
I have not showered for five days
have not been able to leave my bed for 10
But i don't care abut her
I don't need her
And i'm fine
I don't need anyone not even myself

The lights flicker on
The lights flicker out
Why couldnt have been me
I would have rathered it be me
Why couldn't i have ran in the car
I would trade my life to go back
To tell her not to go
Its all my fault why didn't i warn her
I could've please trade my life

The lights flicker on
The lights flicker out
Its been two months now
I'm okay
Shes gone i cant change that
No one can change that
Its not my fault
I'm not mad
I will find love again
It still hurts when i think of her
Still breaks me down
But i'm okay
But i'm moving forward
because i have too
Melanie Jackson Feb 2022
i want to trust that we are okay
but then you cut them with your words
they are my parents
and yes i argue with them
and yes i cry over them
and yes they do alot i dont agree with
but no you cant cuss them out
no you cant threaten her
no you cant yell at him
and no you cant take your leader position into this relationship
if you want me we are equals
i hope you understand that
if not i worry we will be morning the loss of each other
Melanie Jackson Jan 2020
goodbye
see you later
I  LOVE  YOU
bye
see ya
o the many ways we said goodbye
I  MISS  YOU
i wish you
were near me now
the tears that stream down
o the many ways we said goodbye
I  H A T E  Y O U
i never want to see you again
your words sting
how could you say that
when just a month ago
you loved me
but know your gone
o the many ways we said goodbye
i hated the last one the most
Melanie Jackson Dec 2021
she was the moon
shining bright in the darkness
and he was always there
to make sure she shined bright
but he wasn't the  sun
no, he was far from that
he was the darkness
that makes sure she shines all around him
Melanie Jackson Oct 2020
a flutter in my chest
ive never felt this before
ive never felt such love
never been so close to a person
never felt myself give my heart so quickly
it used to scare me to dive in the ocean we call
L O V E
i thought i would drown
but you showed me that its easier
to survive the waves from deep within
the waters burning depths
of the ocean we call
L O V E
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