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i kept my mouth shut
hiding your
novel of secrets
why couldn't you
just do the same
for me?

keep your lips zipped
it's not that hard.
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Robert Moe Sep 5
Ancient poems resurrected and recited
From the murky depths of history,
You hold, against your breast,
The fresh warmth you now perceive.

I tell you tales of my youth
Of day and night, dawn and twilight.
Alive still in my beating, aching heart,
And now held in my hands to reveal.

You ask me to start from within myself
As I recite these vivid scenes.
I feel still, loneliness when you don’t notice
I’ve shared my sacred dreams.
Have you ever shared the deepest, most recessed parts of your psyche with a partner and they do not receive what you are sharing?  Does that mean it is time to move on?
stop talking.
just stop.

you always run your mouth
too much.

it gives me physical stress.

what are you going to say next?

are you going to just
spill all my secrets?

the ones i trusted you with?

because you can't.
it's not fair.
i trusted you!

i trusted you,
but you took my word,
and ran.

you always run your mouth like this.

i should've known.
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i love you,
and i trust you
with my whole life.

but you can’t tell
a single soul
what i’ve done,
to myself,
to others,
to you.

you can’t tell
a single soul
what i’ve thought,
what i’ve heard,
what i’ve said,
what i’ve wrote.

i love you.

but you can’t.
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Urvashi Sep 17
Why adore?
Frightened by thought—
the one you cared for
betrayed you hard.

Where dark secret
cuts sharp,
a monster within thee,
a hunter in innocent robes.

Whom you protect now?
no more dolls—
it’s curse  that
hunting down in hills.
neth jones Sep 16
caught by surprise... flash !
your face   bleached by the camera
you look like your trying to halt          
                           some base emotion                      
something ticking fiercely                          
               behind that beached expression
a hesitant question molesting                        
           something you couldn't take back
once uttered

if uttered   a destructive spell ?                 
             would it turn us away from you
in revulsion ? would we feel                       
                   too deceived by this mystery
to maintain friendship ?                                
                           maybe we’d astound you
and bond with support and                        
                       understanding ? or maybe
behind it all you hide                                  
              simple disgust for the lot of us ?

 perhaps          i'm being silly                         
          and   you simply chose
                  a poor photo ?
aug 2025
Bekah Sep 1
When I was little,
I used to lay beside you,
ear pressed to your chest,
hoping one day
our hearts would beat the same.

Now I know better.
That was never love.
The man I called my father
was nothing but a monster,
hiding in plain sight.

I remember the day I learned your secrets—
your truth carved into me,
still etched beneath my skin.

That was the day I understood
not all monsters live under beds.
Some tuck you in at night,
and press a kiss to your head

Some of them build a home
only to haunt it
with their secrets.

But now I know the truth.
That our hearts never matched,
and I was so stupid
for ever wanting them to.
mysterie Aug 27
tell me --
who you are.
where you've been.
because i can't trust anymore.

i can't trust anyone.

between ai,
fake people
and old white lies --
im not sure what's real
and what's not.

maybe my brain
is too twisted
and is making
this all up...

im not sure
what's real
and what's not,
who i can trust
and who i can't --
it's all so confusing.

just leave me be,
maybe it'll spare me
the sympathy
when all my secrets
get dug up.
date wrote: 24/8
Marwan Baytie Aug 14
I am her *******, humble, soft, worn thin,
A silent witness to her hidden life.
I’ve known her body’s secrets, close and deep,
A second skin, I clung to flesh and bone.
I have tasted her sins, the bitter proof,
Felt the deep tremor, held the quake of thighs,
A vessel for unspoken, urgent needs,
The silent echoes of a hurried touch.
I have worn scents of nights that would shame saints,
Of raw desires and whispers in the dark,
The heavy perfume of a world unseen.
Each stain a story, etched into my cloth.
Now, press me closely to your patient ear,
And I will speak what only I have known.
My fabric holds the truth, a living scroll.
No hidden part of her escapes my grasp.
I will name every man, each grasping hand,
Every woman too, whose waiting lips did part,
And the precise hour, when they broke her open,
To spill her secrets, whispered in the night.
I hold the ledger of her pleasure, pain,
The hidden history within my weave,
and the very hour when her heart opened wide.
girlinflames Aug 20
Does he know
everything I’ve done?
Has he seen
that I am no longer
that lily flower?

And yet,
despite it all,
I still love him
just the same
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