{toxic role model}
I'm not great.
I've never taken the time
To make myself that way.
If you love someone,
Let them go.
'They're not worth it',
I should know.
My chest is light,
But my heart feels heavy.
I've started becoming someone
I never wanted to be.
You said we'd be forever,
And that's what I worked towards,
But words that come out of your mouth
Was just that.
Just words.
I've never taken the time to act,
You're taking control of my actions.
Though, I guess that is normal,
When love turns into aggression.
You have never said 'I love you',
Nor have you taken time to do so.
Is this how I wanted to live?
Have my standards stooped so low?
But I don't matter anymore.
If I did, you would say.
As time passes with another night,
Another day I wish I weren't awake.
I should start to face my problems,
But I can't seem to find
The courage left in me
For I have given it to a lie.
I want to hug you,
And I know that is wrong,
But this heart of mine doesn't lie.
And neither does the words on this tongue.
My eyes tell the truth,
And if my words were false,
I'd give my eyes to
The person that I lost.
{friendship forever}
’Good morning, love',
The same old thing.
Friendship sucks,
Especially when you're lying.
You ask for something once,
I give it to you twice,
But you forget all the words,
True feelings that are right.
I know you have issues,
To be honest,
All of us do.
But you don't have to hinder my mood,
In the solid way you do.
I honestly love you so much.
Gave all I had to give.
But there is no point in trying,
If these feelings are one-sided.
'Goodnight, love',
The saying after sunset.
The light that vanished.
The nothing I'll never forget.
And for another time,
It's not my last because
I don't want this to be our last time
Calling each other 'love'.
{my memorable affection}
I can't seem to find this light of mine.
He was 6 foot 3,
With dark brown eyes.
His voice was deep,
Large enough to go off scale—
Though quiet,
Softened just enough at his own will.
And his smile,
Two dimples—
One at each side.
His lips stretched in the most gorgeous of ways,
Making him seem more like a lie.
His skin not too perfect,
Appearing more real,
Although no one would believe me
Creating more wounds to heal.
He'd carry me gently,
Lift me as if I were a feather
Of a bird too delicate
To fly through this Spring weather.
As a poet in Summer,
His words were sharp enough to kill.
But as time goes on
The listener would go weak—
To these poems made from silk.
I can't seem to find my light,
Or so I seem to say.
As time races forward,
I'm suddenly faced with another day.
A night without him
Means a night all alone—
Why won't my light come back to me?
Why won't he pick up the phone?
When it all rushes to me
I seem to lose sight.
Reality is a pain
All without my light.
I miss the days we'd run in the rain—
For our jackets our only shelter,
Laughter and giggles filling our lungs
From being under cold water.
I remember touching warm skin,
My hand reaches to his face
I wish I spent more time with him,
And regret only fills up this May.
I remember Autumn skies
Where leaves fell delicately—
On blonde strands.
Where I would lean forward,
And soft hair would touch this hand.
In the chilly Winter he'd wear a hat
Only exposing frozen ears,
Ones that would turn so red
To some things he used to hear.
I can't seem to find this light,
And after months of searching,
Confusion lightens up—
I've almost stopped sorrowful grieving.
My light will never come back
With handsome figure and love,
I hope you're doing alright
In the skies up above.
A/N: More feely poems eNjoy
{follow your head, not your heart}
I'm getting tired of everything I know and love.
Don't ask me,
Nothing's not enough.
I hate the thought of love,
I'll never do it again.
All these attempts
Just leave me broken in the end.
The sweet essence of loneliness
Seems to engulf my mind
Though it's nothing compared
To the way I used to lie.
Lie about myself
Lie straight to my face.
'Though life is just not worth it',
I say, 'I'll just be replaced'.
And these are my true feelings
Even if I'd never admit,
But the sin of lie is nothing
Compared to the crime I want to commit.
'Your face is beautiful'
'Your eyes are crystal clear'—
I wish my eyes reflected my own soul
Showed these sudden urges I call rare.
Well,
Not everything can be normal.
Things can't be the way they used to be.
'I'm sorry', I said to my heart,
'Why did you have to leave me?'
And with a simple cry,
A whimper I've never heard before,
'You're hurt is just too much'
'I should be sorry- I'd just like more.'
'More?' I asked,
I'd never thought of so.
Giving is just not my style,
Not after two years ago.
'I've brought so much sorrow,
'Too much for you to bare',
As tears run down my cheeks,
My heart seems not to care.
With a final attempt,
I grasp onto what's right,
'Will you ever forgive me?'
'I know I lost sight—'
'Sight of what, God damn it??'
My heart retorts back,
'You let your mind make decisions,’
'And love is what you lack'.
It all hits me then—
What my heart says is true.
I've never once let my heart follow what it felt,
Let alone act on what I should do.
My heart then turns around,
'If I come back, I make decisions',
This organ smirked with a sinister plan,
'You're the one that's going to listen.'
But before I can agree,
My heart leaps out of my chest.
More or less it didn't leave me,
I fell for another person I met.
A/N : What’s better than some old edgy poetry lmao
[Self-inflicted Conflict]
"Cold," a last and final whisper came from the direction of the lifeless, mangled body. Life left her almost too peacefully for a victim who faced the slighty more... gruesome resolve. Standing up from the ground, I faced forward. This was exactly what I wanted- no, this is exactly what I needed.
A warm, crimson colour covered my limbs, my torso. It was the only blanket engulfing my figure on this chilly night, another 11:11 pm that won't stick in anyone's head. I suddenly recalled the time's my mother would tell my stupid younger brother and I to make wish. "Why isn't it coming true, mom?" A small child with my voice asked, a little frustrated at the fact that no matter how hard she tried to get some type of response, no one said a single thing. Shaking my head in a panicked jerk, visualizing nostalgia fading away with every gesture. Though, this time it's different. My wish came true.
"Should I look back?" I questioned hesitantly in my mind, wondering if I wanted to see my only murder one more time. Continuing through the familiar house, I held the kitchen blade diligently in my right hand. I'd drop the weapon in attempt to take a forensic counter measure, but if someone bothered to look at the crime, the answer would lie on the surface. It was pretty obvious that I did it.
I'm not exactly proud of what I accomplished, but the person I hated most- the person that didn't matter was finally gone. If she did, anybody would have taken the time to tell her so. Including me.
I glanced back at the dead person lying in their kitchen, forever gone on the floor. Restful eyes stared back into soulless ones. My gaze trailed down to the cause of death, a single stab wound to the throat. "Aren't I great? I'm great, right?" I thought, "who else would take full control and stab someone-?" But my self talk was interrupted by the blood spreading out more and more, creating something I didn't want to see.
I saw myself in the puddle, and to reassure myself, I had to repeat the words, "she's gone" and "I'm a different person now". 11:37pm now, and I'm still lingering in the lavender scented house. I have my reasons, and what's done has been done. I can't go back now... So why am I suddenly having impulses similar to regret?
"It's the smell," I thought, taking another deep breath. "Definitely the smell." I remember an almost uncanny scent, one that would hug me when I knew no one else would. My father would have vases full of lavender flowers set up around our small residence. Sometimes my sibling and I would run around the house, playing tag or actually- any game we could think of, really. So much so, we would break majority of the small cases that held the plants. Even if I did, my father wouldn't get angry.
The muscles in my face unconsciously formed a smile, but after realizing I had made this expression, I immediately furrowed my eyebrows. My mother removed every flower in this house, and wanted absolutely no memory of my dad. Even if my younger brother doesn't remember much about him, shouldn't he at least ask? Show some sort of interest in our father figure?
"What a jerk," I clicked my tongue, gripping on to the messy weapon tighter than usual. Well, with this unholy crime committed, I don't ever have to see him again. His stupud eyes that slanted, his slightly crooked teeth, or even his laugh- the one that resembled a donkey's neigh.
My mind then caught a thought, "what time is it anyway?" 11:46pm. Her family should be here soon, and I didn't want to stick around much longer to see how things go down. As I headed to the rather large, white back door lingering with familiarity, something caught my attention. No, someone... someone caught my attention.
Memories flooded one by one; how my mother would use any way possile to escape reality. The reality my father was not in- mom didn't want to remember any part of him. Yet, she could't.
My brother would work hard and focus on his studies. Even if he got invited here or there, a good book would be better than spending time with his own sister. I was the one who had to make sure things were in check. That my mother did not go out drunk again, that she made it home safe and sound from her multiple part time jobs.
It was a picture of the girl's father, seemingly posted up and framed on the wall by someone other than her. "No, that isn't right," I clenched my teeth, a little noise being created from the excessive friction. "They were supposed to forget. Why is he up there-?"
"Honey, Matthew and I are home," a female in her early 40's declared, before dropping what sounded like a plastic bag holding glass. I slowly made my way back to the foot of the kitchen, slightly horrified. "Stella!" The mother exclaimed, sudden cries being more evident by the second. "Mom, what's..." But as Matthew moved further into the kitchen, he realized the situation and frantically pulled out his phone.
"Calling 9-1-1 is useless," I swallowed hard, not expecting a reply back. I should have left when I had the chance. I don't need to see this.
So why can't I look away? "Matthew, you can't save her," my voice raised its tone, "just put the phone dow-"
"M-My sister- she's..." Before he could finish what he was saying, tears ran down his cheeks like he maybe... even... cared. With the sudden movement of the brother raising his hand to cover his mouth, a small piece of paper fell on to the floor and into the puddle of red.
As I moved in closer to see the remaining two members of the family, I noticed what remained of a vase and lavender flowers spread out on the cold, hardwood floor. Mixtures of emotions started to fill my chest, as I realized what I have done. What I would be missing for the rest of what could have been my life.
11:11, I made a wish to see my father a day before his birthday.
Suicide is not the answer, please call 1-800-273-TALK because things do get better.