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271 · May 4
She became a shell
And I wished I hadn't taught her to close off
Because now when I most needed to know what she felt
Her face was an empty canvas her eyes hollow
A hardened soldier
Do you understand me I ask
She nods
That's all
Not a flicker of emotion crossed her face
My heart never sank so fast
Real Name 2 0 Apr 16
In the end, it was just me
The fire had settled
The world as I knew it had burned
So, I used the ashes to paint my future
I used it to paint my walls
I showed the world
I beckoned with a crooked finger
This is where I came from i say gesturing with a broken hand
But like a museum, it's just to look at it
And I, the owner, the collector of my past's artifacts, rarely visit
My words repeat themselves
They shudder on my tongue
I hold them in my mouth and open to let them out
But all they do is hide like shy children behind their mothers
They settle at the bottom of my throat and set up camp
They build fires and burn my lungs
I feel like a broken car
Sputtering and huffing
And for the first time in a long while
I feel like the teenager I am
And I remember why I left that girl behind
158 · Mar 26
Only sometimes
Real Name 2 0 Mar 26
Sometimes i feel that jaw numbing pain
The one I used to feel when everything between us was
Well
What it is now
Sometimes I feel it
I feel it when you look at me and that spark is gone from your eyes
I feel it when I say hello and you do too but it's almost as if you're saying goodbye
But Sometimes I feel it
When the birds chirp the way they used to
The way they chirped when i was with you
Yes i know. Very cliche.
Real Name 2 0 Mar 27
Serenity was my enemy, who became my greatest friend
But Serenity flies through lovers like an unloyal cat eating the cream from every hand but mine
To think I thought this up to impress a poet I saw on Instagram. I wonder where she is in the world now.
85 · Mar 27
The edge of regret
Real Name 2 0 Mar 27
I’m at the edge of regret and relief
The thin lines are growing on its cliff
Do I let myself fall into despair
Or crawl back into the arms of peace
Her arms are cold, where they were once warm
And her eyes bottomless are red red red
Where is the anger
It’s in her eyes
Where is the frustration
It’s in her arms
She’s tired
I’m tired
So I let myself fall
And I hope I don’t regret that too
All this from a person whose never been in a relationship. Makes you wonder
Real Name 2 0 Mar 31
I think I’ll always be the one standing at the edge of the crowd laughing at the jokes people tell without me.
Real Name 2 0 Mar 29
And there I stood
This is what you made
This is what you did
Breaths are shallow
Hearts thundering
Stopping the battle only to lose the war
I wonder if I  write the first of your name my keyboard (my heart) will always assume the rest
Real Name 2 0 Mar 30
If my family must tell my story they will say I was a monster

They will tell tall tales of white white anger

Of how I never listened and pretended I was the master

They will say she was extravagant but hell if you could get her to say so

She lies through her teeth and pretended she was a Saint you know ?

If my family must tell my story they will proclaim what they say is the truth

They'll try their hardest to stain my already ruined reputation and say we're just looking out for you

If I was humble I would never have known for their tales of pride have convinced me

If I was sweet I would never know because they claim if I am it's an anomaly

All this I tell you
Making me look like a desperado
But your family are the ones who know you best too
I really don't have a defense
For if I were here to tell you the lies

I would have said

I am a Saint and my family thinks so too

I am a Saint
I am happy
And my family
My family

If my family were to tell my story they would tell my friends first
The friends I lied to the ones who said how could you be the worst
You're an angel and I'd say Hush
You're making me blush

I wasn't even flattered
I am a monster and my family knows it too

If my family were to tell my story
Listen
They are the ones who know what's true.
Real Name 2 0 Mar 27
Sometimes, I wonder
Am I those pretty girls who you want to smack cos you’re  so **** hot? Like bro Why can’t you see it
Or am I pretty bcos of my personality
Or am I just personality
Or maybe not even that
Self depreciation, love
It’s called self deprecation,genius

I planned this speech for a book in the bathroom

I like it

I think best in the bathroom

Tmi, I know
Sometimes you never know what might come out of your mouth. And sometimes you do and it's things like this. And you just think
Wow
You are a ***** do you know that
60 · Mar 25
Red sharp and bleeding
Real Name 2 0 Mar 25
You’re worried about your pyjamas
I’m worried that when you stab my heart
You’ll see only you are in it
Or when you slit my throat
You’ll see praises in your name waiting in it
I’m worried that even though you are ripping my soul from me
I will still look in your eyes and say :
“Take what is urs”
I’m worried that I’ll hand over my mutilated heart and still trust you to protect it even as your teeth clamp over my jugular
I’m worried you’ll feel the thrumming of my heart the trembling of my bones because you chose to lay your hands on me
Your worry is for yourself
My worry is for yourself
But my biggest worry is that my love, when handed to you, will be a burden that you’ll have to live with
Knowing instead of my voice telling you I love you
You’ll have my blood telling you
That even in death, I will never stop
I sometimes think of it
U standing In ur pyjamas blood all over you,
I think of it and know without a doubt,
My love cost you my death
My pain has ended
But yours has just begun
Starting from the bouquet of roses you never gave me
The amount of times you never defended me
My revenge is my love
I die and leave this pain
And you
You will spend ur days in its cage
I wrote this as a joke to my best friend one day and well now it's my best artwork

I created a backstory and basically in my mind the character here is Elizabeth Bennetts sister Lydia after marrying that man
She's so in love but she s knows he doesn't love her back but she'd rather die than leave because even if he kills her to her it's his own form of love.
So she writes poetry and hopes that one day he'll find it and remember what they used to be but he never does and she dies
The only thing her children learn is that love kills
57 · Apr 2
This is my lies
I am a creature strange
I seek help but get confused when they help me
I seek approval but get confused when they approve me
These eyes
They see, but they are dry
This heart
It beats, but silence echoes in its chambers
I pity the one who tries
Have I seduced you with my false pleas?
Shame has sworn himself to me
It begs to show itself one last time
All the time
I want to dig myself a hole
And just lie in it until it stops
Let the comfort of the soil make me grow
Till I sprout
Earth
Let your earthworms work to cultivate
Because I'm coming home
I feel it
I just don't  want to be at my hands

"I want to be somebody to someone
I just wanna be someone "
It wraps around my thoughts
Wrapping them in chains
I'm locked in myself
"YOURE the problem "
Am I?

Maybe
If she could just LET me grow...
If she could just LET me breathe...
"But she is you and you is I
We're entwined together forever
You
and I "
Maybe I am selfish just let me be let me hold your hand while it's still warm listen to me listen to me listen to me my stories my tales witness my life let me be selfish by wanting you to see my life
To see my life even when I don't want to see yours
47 · Apr 8
She has potential
Don't bet your money on me
I show promise sure
But all the world's a stage
And I am it's greatest actor
34 · May 27
Act 7 scene 4 fin.
Real Name 2 0 May 27
​Something I'll always remember is the relief of letting go

And the panic of falling after

All I had was holding on

And now it's just air wind, and it whistles

It whistles in my ears, making my thoughts seem louder

Did I time it right

Should I have

I'll never know now will I

The ground rushes from below and  I'm not sure if it's soft enough will someone catch me will someone see me hello it seems I'm on my own I can scream but the wind takes my voice and puts it in its pocket pats it and that's when I realise I am screaming

I'm not falling and I'm actually just in the meadow dreaming about letting go

and the flowers wave from side to side their whispers reaching me

Crazy that one she is

My heart was racing but now it has stopped, and I realize

I realize I've just made a fool, and the fool is me

My cheeks redden and I bow my head

The curtains close

Acta est fabula
I feel like a fraud
I feel like ive been playing a character
is it myself
This person who I see in the mirror
whats her name
do I know her
or am I trying to remember
shes smiling at me so why are her eyes
why are they so
shes talking its a buzz
maybe shes a bee?
am I pretending to be a bee?
do I know any bees?
she looks sheep
those eyes
maybe shes a goat
why would I pretend to be an animal?
who
am I
15 · May 30
She's not mine to keep
Real Name 2 0 May 30
It's not that she's sunlight
She is moon
She shines brightly she's not calm or elegant or anything but there's something soft about her
She is moon
There's craters no one asks about but I see them and I'm too afraid to ask
Does it hurt
Of course it does
Do you remember how you got them
I want to soothe them

She doesn't make me feel whole or complete
She isn't my other half
I don't want to be her other half but I can keep her whole when no one else can
She's not the missing piece and neither am I and maybe that's how it's meant to be
We fill the seats others will take
Just for the ride for now until we find the lost parts of ourselves and we realise
We won't find ourselves with each other but we can warm the seats of the ones who will find us
I love romantically I'm afraid. Because this isn't about a lover. It's about a friend.
If I had to show you what you did to me , I’d have to open my chest and dip my hands inside
They’d come out stained with the purples and blues of my emotions
Like paint it colours everything inside me
And it layers itself over my rationality, steaming up my ability to think

My heart is like a pomegranate tree, and you just plucked all the fruits
The tree is bare, and all fruits lay scattered around me
They are many to count, so I look at them from the corner of my eye
What do I do with all of them
Do I taste them and let them besmirch my lips
Do I leave them and let them rot

Either way the fruit is bitter
Whether I leave it or taste it the result is the same

It doesn’t hurt when others do it because they’re not as close as u r to my heart
When you move I feel it
And when you leave I feel that too like red string it tugs my heart
And there only so many tugs I can take before I cut the strings myself even though they are veins
I'd rather bleed than let my heart be torn apart

I love like I’m in love
I fall like how I  trip
Small details are what capture me
The things you don’t say the things you try to hide
Love is sometimes too soft of a word for the feelings I feel
It’s exactly like حب
Love a seed
And I feel it’s roots
Is that what makes it hurt?

This all that I said is to say I love dramatically, but dw it’s extremely platonic. If I had a husband, I think my love would be borderline obsession, which is why I’d rather die an old maid
"So, I woke up"

You're telling me about your day as usual
I wonder if you realize the love you give me

(Did anyone ever tell you if angels could laugh
They'd sound like you)

I let it become me
I let it color me on the inside
The outside

"So, she said"

I wonder if I love the way you love me, will the people who know you
Love you
Will they find you?

(You're asking if I'm listening, but sometimes I just get so lost in the beautiful person that is you)

The small things you say

(I greet like how you greet Did you notice)

The way you laugh

(Sometimes I laugh, and I sound like you)

My skin reflects the sun

(I talk like you sometimes)

You are the sun

(I wonder if the people you love realize)

"Alright, i have some things to do"


(I wonder if you do)
"See you later?"

(Of course)

The love you give me
I let it hold me
It is the paint I use
It is the poems I write
The yellow of your laugh
The golden twinkle in your eyes
The small pieces of yourself that you give to me

(If you ever leave, i might die)

The love you give to me
I carry it
In a basket like a flower girl
I sprinkle it
I wonder if you recognize the parts you left of yourself
The parts that are now me

(Sometimes, I try to imagine what would happen if I hadn't met you)

your love that carries me

(and I honestly couldn't see another future without you in it)
(Maybe because I couldn't bear the thought of it)

I love romantically I've always said
but you my friend your simple love is one to change worlds
I swear I'm not waiting here for you to reply like I was 7 moons ago when all I could do was cry because the stars had left the sky to taunt me
Taunt me?
I laugh
The sky doesn't taunt it just is
I sigh
Because i understand
The sky is my taunt
My taunt
The taunt my schizophrenic eyes taught me

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