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167 · Sep 2018
06/08/18; 11:51am
Shi Em Sep 2018
i want to be
the kind of poetry
that ignites a flame
in other people's heart,
like the way you did mine
166 · Jul 2020
Shi Em Jul 2020
your love bled
just like the pen did
everytime it tried
to fill in the empty pages;
and just like that
it ended just the same.
for all that was
left now were stories.
and only the stories remained.
166 · Aug 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Aug 2020
it's 3am —
and the only demons alive
are those inside my mind
165 · Feb 2020
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Shi Em Feb 2020
healing hurts.
165 · Jul 2020
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Shi Em Jul 2020
but calm nights like tonight makes me fear what tomorrow might bring.
164 · Jul 2017
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Shi Em Jul 2017
they didn't have to be judged,
being together was punishment enough
164 · Feb 2020
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Shi Em Feb 2020
be yourself
even if
yourself
is just like
the others.
163 · Jan 2020
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Shi Em Jan 2020
but you didn't have to love me,
i just wanted you
to at least respect me enough
to stop pretending that you do.
163 · Aug 2020
04-26-20
Shi Em Aug 2020
i hate my mind sometimes,
most of the time,
and almost every time.
Shi Em Dec 2018
sometimes i find myself
slipping into the brink of insanity,
it feels like all it takes
is one last push
before I break completely.
help me.
162 · Apr 2019
Untitled
Shi Em Apr 2019
there are days where
i feel that i am lucky,
and there are days where
i feel that i am not;
there are also days
where i feel like everything is too much,
that all these feelings
are just a lot to take in,
and that i would just explode
considering everything that i am feeling;
but there are days,
no - there are more days
where i feel as though I feel nothing at all,
and that is the worst feeling of it all.
162 · Jun 2019
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Shi Em Jun 2019
Please don't lie to me,
cause I'll know -
and I will still end up believing you.
158 · Mar 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Mar 2017
the words that are left unsaid
are the ones that mean the most
158 · Jun 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Jun 2020
anxieties —
they keep me up,
and now they long
to wither me down
157 · Jan 2020
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Shi Em Jan 2020
but you have found a home
in someone else's arms,
and I was nothing but a stopover -
before you found your way back to her.
157 · May 2020
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Shi Em May 2020
but you have a terrible habit
of glancing up at the sky
then looking down fast
as if you were telling yourself
that you had no right
to admire its beauty
156 · Feb 2020
02-22-2020
Shi Em Feb 2020
at this point,
i just want
to sleep,
and never
wake up.

but life
is an insomnia
that i can never cure,
so i wake up -
barely alive,
but awake.
154 · Jan 2017
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Shi Em Jan 2017
i wonder if someone ever
bothered to put back
the pieces of myself that
i've left behind.
154 · Jan 2017
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Shi Em Jan 2017
and so everytime I stare
at the mirror;
all i can see is a remnant
of who i ever was.
152 · Jul 2020
— 🌱 —
Shi Em Jul 2020
sometimes we
bloom
in places
we least expect
to grow.
152 · Jun 2019
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Shi Em Jun 2019
sometimes in a day -
it's fun just to enjoy the simple things in life without seeing the gray areas that surrounds it.
149 · Jan 2017
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Shi Em Jan 2017
and i didn't realize how
destructive this love was;
until i found myself missing
all my parts just to make you
complete
145 · Jun 2018
the irony, i guess.
Shi Em Jun 2018
i write short poetries,
because I am so tired
of keeping these feelings for so long.
144 · Jan 2019
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Shi Em Jan 2019
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it's hard to stop yourself
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°  .  even see the water nor the waves 
   you're supposed to be
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136 · Dec 2019
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Shi Em Dec 2019
and then the scars -
they fade away
in the morning.
but deep inside,
everything is still there.
133 · Jul 2017
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Shi Em Jul 2017
but love shouldn't feel like
cold brewed caffeine,
on a disastrous winter rain.
Shi Em 3d
sometimes i wish you'd visit me
in my dreams too.
i could take even a nightmare,
if it meant my nightmares had you.

but that would be selfish of me
wouldn't it?
to wish you peace,
but pray you'd at least
haunt me in mine
just so i could see you again.

i miss you, i'm sorry
132 · Jul 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2017
blood drips around his lips,
as he bleeds out the words,
boy, don't you even try;
I know that it's all a lie
Shi Em Oct 2018
is that no matter how much you wish for it to become a lie, it never will be.
and no, there is not going to be a part two, it is just what it is and what it will forever be, a part of a poetry unfinished.
132 · Jan 2020
Untitled
Shi Em Jan 2020
and i shall live today
with a more grateful heart,
so that every moment
may turn out to be
the best part.
Inspired from a song called Best Part by one of my favorite band - DAY6.
131 · Oct 2018
Untitled
Shi Em Oct 2018
There will be better days
and everything will turn out
to be okay.
Someday.
Yes, soon it will be.
I know that for sure.

-but for the meantime, it is going to be a very long and painful wait.
Just hold on a little while longer.
130 · Sep 2018
oh and I hope you know that
Shi Em Sep 2018
i never truly minded having
these aches
if it were to mean that my
heart was still beating.
i would still prefer this over
most days where I feel like
my soul has been ****** out
of everything.

so at the very least -
thank you for reminding me that
my soul still resides
in this body that you've left
hanging with nothing to bleed
out but words.
129 · Mar 2018
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Shi Em Mar 2018
but honey,
i knew that I was nothing
more than just your trophy
yet I let myself yearn for something more.
i deserve better than this.
126 · Aug 2020
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Shi Em Aug 2020
it's days like today that
makes me want
to crawl out
of my own skin.
126 · Jul 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2017
People talking,
people coming,
people leaving,
and yet here I am,
stuck in the same place,
still unmoving.
118 · Aug 2024
some love are habits
Shi Em Aug 2024
some love are habits
you try your best to unlearn —
you try your hardest to break away from them
but they end up breaking you in return.
08.27.24 / 12:47pm
117 · Jul 2017
Untitled
Shi Em Jul 2017
THE MARKINGS you left on the wall,
still burns out strong,
yet here I am,
staring at it all alone.
108 · Jan 2018
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Shi Em Jan 2018
do not be deceived with the illusion that I've painted;
you'd think I'd be the calm after the storm;
but inside this ball of sunshine,
I am nothing but a raging storm.
96 · Jun 2021
last song syndrome.
Shi Em Jun 2021
my love has
faded into
e c h o e s -
voices
that
you
desperately
want
to
forget.

(but is it cruel
if i don't want you to?)
---

lowkey inspired by
fleetwood mac's silver springs 🤍
29 · 3d
9.30.25
Shi Em 3d
time and death
are cunning
(cruel) thieves,
and i hate them,
i hate them,
i hate them so much
for taking you away

— The End —