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457 · Jan 2015
chapter three
Lottie Jan 2015
noose**
The necklace is pretty
These bindings about my neck
As strong as the ties of the family
Who keep me in line
Next chapter by libby
456 · Mar 2016
The Beautiful Boy. (1)
Lottie Mar 2016
You came into the kitchen with me after watching the good dinosaur. You stood behind me and said "oh my god I have a Grace." You looked so genuinely happy about it and I kissed you for a long moment. When we broke the kiss, you said "I just got the best kind of butterflies." And I didn't know how to respond because it made me so bubbly that I just held you and you held me. Until of course your dad came in and we had to stop being cute.
454 · Apr 2016
A rant to a friend.
Lottie Apr 2016
Your body tries so hard to make you function all the time even though you don't feed it enough and you cut it open and hit it and don't let it rest enough. Your body runs on instinct and its just breaking my heart cause your head blames your body and your body blames you head but they're not separate and it just not fair on either part of you.
Feed your body that it may feed your mind and let you live.
Lottie Aug 2015
My body shall decay
and worms will live in my eyes,
maggots in my nails,
and maybe a dog will eat my face.
But eventually, what I used to be
will become new;
my blood and bone
will be re-rooted into something:
a tree or a flower or a ****.
Me, in my little wooden box,
living my new life.
But not yet,
because this one
is awesome.
451 · Aug 2015
En français je meurs.
Lottie Aug 2015
Je voudrais etre content avec ma vie,
Mais tu n'es pas content, aussi.
Alors je fais moi-même miserable.
*Pour toi.
I quite like writing in French..
449 · Sep 2015
That poor, dead child.
Lottie Sep 2015
You're going to find me
So completely wretched.*
But why did we have to wait
For a cute little baby to die,
Before the media cared
About the millions who
Are already ******* dead.
please don't hate me but god's teeth, this world is a messed up one.
447 · May 2016
Terminally ill.
Lottie May 2016
Dear those who have been given that message,
From a doctor or from your lover who was told by a nurse.
I am so sorry that you have to end.
I am envious though, that you have a time frame;
I am scared of living and not knowing when I will die.
Will they find a lump in my lung,
Or me as the lump on the side of the road?
I fear not knowing that this breath, or the next is my last,
And though I am jealous that you know this,
I am so **** sorry that you do.
443 · Aug 2015
I tried.
Lottie Aug 2015
Its too early in the morning
But I'm breaking my own heart
Because I'm not good enough
*for you
442 · Dec 2015
Syria-sly?
Lottie Dec 2015
Shouldn't being the minority make you kinder?
You've known misery, at the hands of the big fish;
The small and unknown get crushed.
But you find your ground and burn your way out
With guns and bombs and *fear.
terrorism is so nice, ain't it?
442 · Jan 2015
chapter five
Lottie Jan 2015
noose**
One day the necklace broke,
Into a piece of chain and beaded memories
The memories shattered when they hit the floor
A mushroom cloud of dust, glass and pictures.

An image of me smiling here,
And a glimpse of long lost giggles there,
But the most occurring shard,
Is of my crying for the things I've lost.
Chapter six by libby
441 · Jan 2016
Suicide.
Lottie Jan 2016
People keep forgetting
About those who
Are left behind.
Stop glorifying something
That makes those
Who cared feel
Like they did
Something wrong by
Going to sleep
While their friend,
Or lover or
Parent or sibling
Took pills in
The bathroom or
Jumped and fled
From the only
Life they were
Going to get.
There's nothing and everything wrong.
441 · Feb 2016
N is for Neverwhere.
Lottie Feb 2016
We are crying into the
Echos of nothing,
Shattering things that
Were never whole.
Drink from your
Broken glass, my dear
And pray the shards
Don't cut.
440 · Apr 2016
The squeaky noise of chaos.
Lottie Apr 2016
The little whimper we give out,
Just before we cry;
Before we scream.
When we can no longer hold
The fear inside,
And it's got to find some way
Out.
437 · Jan 2016
L is for Love.
Lottie Jan 2016
Family,
Friends,
Lover,
Sister,
Mother and
Father,
My dear.

Christopher.
Bella.
Ross.
Jem.
Heather.
Ellen.
Alice.
436 · Jul 2018
Honesty.
Lottie Jul 2018
Live and laugh, broken people.
Your heart is yours to play with.
435 · Nov 2017
.
Lottie Nov 2017
.
The weight of a dead soul has settled above my chest, as though it was trying to crawl out of the cavity.

It gave everything it had, and yet it was not enough to release it.

And now it lies still, invisible to the naked eye but rotting when I close my eyes.
433 · Jan 2015
the circus and cells
Lottie Jan 2015
Look above, look below
Look at how I fly.
Through the hoops and loops you gave

Look in the corridors, the halls,
The prison I'm kept in,
Set me free from the walls you gave

Look in the classes, the rooms
Filled with knowledge and desperation
Set me free from the books you gave

Look at the tears, the flush
Of the girl you've destroyed
Set me free from the shackles you gave
For chris
433 · Feb 2016
O is for Owed.
Lottie Feb 2016
There are things I owe to people,
Which I will never repay,
So I will do my best by you,
And settle this debt each day.
Lottie Aug 2016
I am strolling.
Walking,
Waiting.
Standing,
Watching,
Waaaaiiiting.
I am sleeping,
Suspended in the glow,
Of my absolute inability
To use words.
well that was a shocking waste of time, but it feels nice when I read it alloud
427 · Aug 2015
topic: clouds.
Lottie Aug 2015
High above us, unreachable until they choose to fall
are the words we crave to write, in this moment.
In a few minutes, we'll want to write another tale,
another heart wrenching emotion.
We will want to show the world that we can feel,
but soon, I wont know why I wrote this,
because the clouds will have shifted,
and so goes my inspiration.
424 · Feb 2017
And all of a sudden,
Lottie Feb 2017
It was snowing,
And all I wanted
Was to warm my toes
On your tummy.
424 · Feb 2016
R is for Remember.
Lottie Feb 2016
Never forget the days you're surrounded by happy people,
They matter as much as the days you're surrounded by the sad.
423 · Jun 2015
Jetlag
Lottie Jun 2015
To be awake for thirty six hours and it not be strange
421 · Jan 2015
chapter one
Lottie Jan 2015
noose**
Do you like my necklace?
I don't know what it is yet,
Is it rope?
Chain?
Bruises?
All I know is that it weighs me down
A prison cell around my throat
Keeping the bad words in.
Look for a girl called libby, she's doing the next chapter
418 · Jan 2017
Careless.
Lottie Jan 2017
We cooked our dinner,
And we sat by one another,
Grinning,
Because what else was there to say?
In candlelight,
We were humming silently
To the tune of the other,
At peace.
412 · Oct 2015
Autism.
Lottie Oct 2015
I don't understand how people
Can be afraid of mental illness,
When you are so sweet,
And try so hard to be
that tragic type
Of accepted normal.
405 · May 2015
Who do you think you are?
Lottie May 2015
How's about, with all this preaching
Of acceptance and forgiveness,
We learn to respect conflicting politics
Because in the same way that
A Muslim and a Jew will hold alternative
Views, a tory and labour do too.
Why is it fair to rip apart a communist
For believing in equality or a
Capitalist for believing they should keep
What they earn. We're all out
For what makes our life easier so just
**Back the *******.
Angry rave no. 479274632
405 · Apr 2016
Pissing into the wind.
Lottie Apr 2016
I am tidying my room,
Because it will get messy again.

My dad is cooking us dinner,
Because we will get hungry again.

Mother earns some money,
To replace that which we spent,
Again.

I want to do something,
For the first time,

Again.
403 · Jun 2016
.
Lottie Jun 2016
.
You were tapping out my heartbeat
On my knee,
And I was so tired that all I could do was smile,
But that was okay, because the silence
Made you warmer, safer;
The beautiful boy protecting me from the world.
403 · Sep 2016
Ambition.
Lottie Sep 2016
Aren't we all so close to the end
And the beginning of things?
I am so close to the end of this day,
The beginning of my coursework,
Which I should've started three weeks ago,
And I  so close
To my next kiss
With you.
*happy wiggle*
401 · Oct 2015
I don't remember that.
Lottie Oct 2015
Tiny little half moons,
four of them
in the palm of my hand.
400 · Mar 2015
smash
Lottie Mar 2015
Let's drop a glass on the floor, shall we?
Watch it fall.
Focusing on it, the deliberate loosening
Of your hand.
Did the wine inside catch the light?
Did it reflect?
Did you see your eyes, your face?
That small smile.
The smile that shows you know how loud
This will be.
Do you see the base of the glass kiss
The marbled ground?
The first splinter moves up the stem; your
Smile gets bigger.
Splinters spread and the wine blooms
From the cracks.
But no one looks around to see what
The noise was.
They carry on their lives while you
Expect to be
The centre of something for once in
A long while.
You want to turn heads in a room
While you smash.
399 · Mar 2016
.
Lottie Mar 2016
.
You are the ink splash that fell from my eye,
As I started to cry,
For all I lost and would never find,
Or all that I simply left behind.
You are the door I slammed shut,
The punch in my gut,
As I realised I'd never
Love you again.
392 · Sep 2016
Christopher.
Lottie Sep 2016
We are perfectionists content with one-another's imperfections, and I am thankful.
Lottie Sep 2015
We're going to see the world through each other's eyes as well as our own and we are going to be just swell. :)
392 · Nov 2015
No more.
Lottie Nov 2015
I would very much not like to breathe air,
That doesn't carry the scent of your skin.
Lottie Mar 2016
I am reading the title of this,
And I am crying.

It'd be so nice, for my mother
To look at me

And think of how amazing
I am to be.

But instead, she looks at me
Like this.
Lottie Sep 2015
The whole point
Of living and dying,
Of hurting and crying
Is to grow and change as a person.

If something I do
Doesn't alter who
I am and was and will be,
I will consider it a waste of my mind.
391 · Dec 2016
Jigsaw.
Lottie Dec 2016
Here was me,
Hoping that I'd find the rest of my pieces
In you.
It took me a while,
To realise that you don't complete me,
But I think I like my edges curvy.
:3
388 · Jan 2016
K is for Killers.
Lottie Jan 2016
We stand on ants,
We pinch and punch in the playground,
We kick and claw in alleyways,
Slap and bite in the bedroom.
Guns and bombs and knives,
We're all killers,
We're all cursed.
377 · Mar 2015
Eternity.
Lottie Mar 2015
Fullstop is the name of this poem,
Fullstop is the last word, too.
For isn't that the way life is?
You can't have a capital letter
Sans a fullstop.
376 · Oct 2015
Label me some more.
Lottie Oct 2015
So, everyone in the world must
Have a gender identity. right?

I am coming out as human.
You going to choose how you
Treat me based off that, too?
this world is built by ignorant *******.
375 · Feb 2015
bent and twisted
Lottie Feb 2015
so why are we called bent?
our love is as straight and true as yours.
we love in the same way you do,
even if the one we love is also a girl.

you get to be called straight,
lucky you- you dont get the ridicule.
you wont find 'benders' hating on you,
only those on the 'straight' and narrow.

the ones who think their love
is so much purer than ours
375 · Mar 2016
Promise.
Lottie Mar 2016
I promise,
That I will do my best
In all that I do.
Whether it is you,
My work or my sanity.
Starting from tomorrow,
I will not do anything that
Hurts me.
I will help only those I care
For and love only those
Who are deserving.
Starting with you,
My darling boy.
374 · Jun 2015
Bad dreams.
Lottie Jun 2015
Forgive me my nightmares,
And forgive me my fear.
373 · Jan 2016
.
Lottie Jan 2016
.
With all this obsession about
Protecting youths from the world,
We forget that they too can hold
Guns and blades
Up to their own throats.
Bella.
371 · Feb 2016
Z is for Zero.
Lottie Feb 2016
Imagine if instead of counting up,
We counted down.

We counted down, were
Issued a number of days.

And it would start in the thousands,
Until one day you noticed.

It was in the hundreds,
Where have the days gone?

You thought you had so many;
Now there's only one.
369 · Feb 2016
X is for Xenophile.
Lottie Feb 2016
I will walk down a road someday,
In a city, or a village, or some country lane,
And I will no longer look behind me.
I will know the brick colour,
Of my house and the one next door,
But I will remember, that this place,
This home of mine, was new to me
And you, once.
Once, we were travellers.
A love of foreigners and foreign things.
369 · Jun 2016
.
Lottie Jun 2016
.
Love as hard as you hate, broken people.
Just because it hurts doesn't mean
It should become bigger, more consuming
Than kissing, laughing, smiling.
367 · Nov 2015
Ohgod.
Lottie Nov 2015
I don't feel real.
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