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  • Aug 14, 2014

    You were ten years older but lacked the life experience I expected and truthfully, it was wrong of me for expecting.

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  • Aug 13, 2014

    intoxicated thoughts

    i often wonder if you ever understood the way our grace phased
    if the words upon my face left you in daze upon days
    how little the world meant and how bent out of shape you left
    maybe the grace was just a taste that left a fuzz for your buzz

    yet i skip, think back and ahead of things that meant nothing to you
    the sky, the utter death and screams of despair you left there
    thoughtless of you to leave, the heave at your knees
    i’m not foolish or stupid, not cupid or abusive

    your lucid dreams meant nothing while mine were forever
    i think about the weather and if it was supposed to be never
    if maybe we moved east while we were west
    that possibly we were supposed to go north while dancing in south

    i still think about your mouth and my lips and the way we kissed
    a drunken love would always miss
    “what’s in your glass,” i said
    the things in my head while we rolled in your bed

    generally mine, my mind, the fan, the pace and your face
    your thoughts always opaque while mine sat transparent
    like we sat at the tavern and talked about our future
    sometime last august, right before autumn and prior to the ending where you just left me hanging

  • Aug 12, 2014

    I was never scared that you were dying. I was scared that you wouldn’t be here when I needed you, but you were – I just couldn’t touch you.

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  • Aug 11, 2014

    diary of a dead girl

    underneath the stars as the moon shines bright
    she lies on the balcony with words of fright
    they say the diary was written in horror with a satirical tale of love
    but in return, the dove was black and the cracks upon leather meant nothing but age and truth

    the blue turns black and the stars twinkle their tune
    the used believe their truth while the others believe the smooth
    spoken with such confidence the neighbors play in their unconsciousness
    a sad tune for her, the girl that always knew

    the way she licked her cracks and said that all would lapse
    but never understood the concern for her future where death would eventually swoon
    a singer for blues, the used and her bruise
    she looked her killer in the eye and asked a second time

    yet her throat was slit before she sang her tune
    the way she mouthed and passed as her spirit lost its groove
    although the radio plays and her balcony fills with red
    her passion will always linger and the creak you hear in the night is just the tune she always longed to play
    just for you

  • Aug 10, 2014

    People believe that soulmates are two people that were made for one another. I believe that we were made for someone, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they were made for us.

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  • Aug 9, 2014

    I don’t know where I am or where I’m going, but I just want to be right here.

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  • Aug 8, 2014

    a conversation

    it wasn’t the last page, our words or even the saddest day
    the way you said stranger, my mixed up feelings of yesterday
    i wake with the day and fight to obtain what once was
    sleep with night hoping one day i might survive
    i realize time, eyes and might vs. fright, cross notions and mix like emotions

    he was never a poet or had a way with words, but surely became the poem
    even if hope seemed lost, it was never gone
    you could drop every bomb, but somehow the calm will always rise
    the nights will always find — even the wind that was you, the breeze will always know from dark to blue

    i wade with the ocean and float with knees toward
    hopefully you find, hopefully you lift from the grind and sleep with ease
    i know bee’s love their honey like music needs its tune
    but the bruise i push, the hurt — it feels like you

    i know gone, the feeling of a brush, the tingle of lust
    we’re still here, floating near in a parallel world where lives are swapped
    how you hop on one and feel the stun of what once was
    we run, lift and dance with truth that burns like fuel

    our hue, back to the aura that lingered at eleven
    your wish was my command and even our darkest was grand
    my pen brightens with you, i write because of you
    “even though our hands only grasped and never held, i love you from here to the moon, to pluto and back”
    as i kiss your hand and hope one day you’ll understand that i never planned and it was just because

  • Aug 7, 2014

    I’d rather be oblivious and ignorant in regards to him. I don’t want to know if and when he dies because honestly, there’s a chance I will follow him.

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  • Aug 6, 2014

    his velvet touch

    i play in this and that, then and now, past and present
    sometimes there are moments i’d rather not miss
    i love you – but not now, not then and not ever again
    but i do promise that i don’t regret

    i listen to the silence of the night
    sit back, grasp a pillow tight and call forth the light
    grind my teeth with might and reminisce with time
    i roll my eyes, but if only i could stick a needle

    i feel and it’s soft and strung with madness that feels like velvet
    feels like heaven and burns like hell
    i welcome the felon, his selfish and seven without an edit
    tastes like magic and his touch makes me helpless

    i pick the petal and everything turns yellow
    the rhythm flows — he feels like elvis
    his engine makes me melt and he can’t even tell
    never knew the gentle touch of perfect would hurt him

    he laughs with neglect and his eyes project
    but the accent of perplex could never exit
    the direction never changed as i stood with grace
    always in range, forever remember the day
    the way sadness graced his face on that hot summer day
    as we walked the boardwalk near venice way

  • Aug 5, 2014

    Even though we’re no longer dating and haven’t spoken in awhile, I still look him up to make sure he’s doing alright.

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