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426 · Jan 2013
Lovely Night
Natalie Wood Jan 2013
The dark enfolds me like a warm blanket,
and the stars twinkle happily in unseen eyes.

This what I live for,
For it is happiness that lives in the dark.

There are no monsters here,
Nothing to be afraid of.

There is only me.
2013 © Natalie Wood
423 · Sep 2013
What She Is
Natalie Wood Sep 2013
She is beauty
She is pain
She is fire burning through veins
She is hope
She is hate
She is loveless, not believing in fate
She is heaven
She is hell
She is locked away, her mind is her cell
She is you
And she is me,
She is hero, begging to be free.
Natalie Wood Apr 2013
Why do words flow so smoothly on paper and ink,
But as soon as I open my mouth they fall flat and empty?

Why is it that I can think of a million things to say,
But as soon as I see you the words are misused?

I wish these word weren't so useless outside of my mind!
I wish these word were so much more kind!

Why do they never flow in the right way,
Getting jumble up in a word filter and coming out the wrong?

Why is it that even as I write this they aren't quite right,
Always falling short on emotion and long on time.

They always seem so right, so perfect in my head!
But when they come out, well, I'd rather feel dead!
401 · Jan 2013
Hope
Natalie Wood Jan 2013
Hope will spring from unlikely places,
It will look you in the eye with unlikely faces,
Sometimes it show up as a king, maybe aces,
Sometimes it will beat your heart with maces,
Without hope, you have all these empty spaces,
With it, you have so many graces,
It always leaves good little traces,
But it will always spring from unlikely places.
2013 © Natalie Wood
399 · Oct 2013
Defining Sadness
Natalie Wood Oct 2013
Sadness is just the lies we told,
It is damage upon our forgotten souls,

And it burn forever on their hearts of coal.
396 · Dec 2012
The Night to Live
Natalie Wood Dec 2012
Into the dark
the night
this is my favorite time of day
in the cover of dark
like a cloak around me
it hides me from the eye

the shadow of the trees
the wind wiping my face
the coyotes howling at the moon

the moon
the best thing in this night
full
light
peaceful

I can hear the soft footfalls of dear
the creek in the trees
this is my night
my night to
live
laugh

my senses
keen
sharp
I smell the moist moss
earthy
wild

I get up
I run
into the dark of my night to live
this is my night of forever
until the rising sun calls me
out of the night
Into the light.
2010 © Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood Mar 2013
I have all these words that mean something in my head,
Waiting to be picked through and cleaned into a sentence,
But they just end up a jumbled mess when spoken.
I have so much to not say,  that I wish I could,
It's an endless list of words, words, words,
That I wish could stay.
349 · Dec 2012
Forever is a lie.
Natalie Wood Dec 2012
If forever was the word you used,
Why is I feel so abused?
Forever seemed like eternity,
But us minus you is just me, me, me.
Well, whatever now, I guess I lose.
Our relationship was at the end of it's fuse.
2012 © Natalie Wood
348 · Dec 2012
We are the Monsters
Natalie Wood Dec 2012
We are the monsters,
We try to tell ourselves that we are not, but we are.
We destroy, we take, we want.
We are made of greed and anger and lust.
But we are mostly hate.
We are truly the monsters.
2012 © Natalie Wood
344 · Jan 2013
The Mountain Song
Natalie Wood Jan 2013
Mountain, sing me your song,
let me listen, let me sing along!

If I sing you my song, will you stay?
Will you never go away?

Mountain, I cannot not promise, but make no mistake,
I will stay here longer than I can stay awake.

My song is long and lonely,
As it is the one and only

I have lonely songs too,
I have one just for you.

Sing it to me,
Sing it, and be free

O, lonely mountain, can't you see?
You sing a song of great sadness, the same one as me.
2013 © Natalie Wood
333 · Dec 2012
People, People
Natalie Wood Dec 2012
People, people all around
Not a single one makes a sound.
People, people gather here
So you may be not far, but near.
People, people listen up
We’ve got everything and a cup.
People, people do not fear
For now, even they are here.
2013 © Natalie Wood
333 · Dec 2012
What a world!
Natalie Wood Dec 2012
I smell dew in the air
yet the sun is setting
I see green of new grass
though first snow has fallen
I feel the sharp chill in the air
but the sun still shines
it is a strange wold
we live in
today.
2013 © Natalie Wood
329 · Mar 2013
I Will Stay
Natalie Wood Mar 2013
I always talk about leaving,
But I know that I'm going to stay,
I love it just where I am,
I don't want to go away.

It scares me to think of it all,
The world is big and vast,
This sudden wave of difference,
Always leaving me aghast,

But how do I deal with the world,
If nothing near is right?
I will figure it out,
I'll try with all my might.
314 · Dec 2012
Empty
Natalie Wood Dec 2012
Empty
is     the
broken and frayed

sun      in      her     eyes
Like a empty cloudless sky
And  now  gone,  here  she  lies.

Disappearing with her own never lasting wind.
2012 © Natalie Wood
309 · Dec 2012
Beautiful
Natalie Wood Dec 2012
Hello Beautiful,
What do you see?
Do you see all the beauty in me?
Can you tell,
My life is great?
That there is nobody I can hate?
Goodbye Beautiful,
I saw what you see.
I saw that you can see the beauty in me.
2012 © Natalie Wood
294 · Jan 2013
That girl.
Natalie Wood Jan 2013
Look at that girl,
The one with the sad brown eyes,
Look at that girl,
Don't listen to her cries.

She is not strong,
but getting there is hard,
She won't stay long,
She just came to say goodbye.

Now look to the future,
and tell me, what do you see?
Look to the past,
Do you see she was me?

Look at that girl,
The one with the hair as long as a mile,
Look at her now,
I think she'll stay awhile.
2013 © Natalie Wood

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