The stars never shine quiet the way I want them too,
for when they shine now they remind me of your eyes.
The celestial beings danced in those gorgeous pools,
and I found myself trapped, entranced.
I loved her like barbed wire,
With careful neglect of her thorns,
Palms sliced open and bloody because
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Scared palms and wrists,
Telling yourself it's just for her kiss.
Don't worry about tetanus,
Cause she l o v e s to watch you b l e e d
For her and her alone.
i.
we fell in love in the winter,
and it only makes sense that it's dying now.
we were the snow and the heat of spring is killing us,
bringing blossoms of new romance.
it's just...i fell for her in the course of a night,
and i figured that 'hey, she's across the nation.
she can't hurt me'.
well i was fucking wrong,
and you know what?
she did it unintentionally.
ii.
now i can't blame her, okay?
i mean i come with a shit ton of baggage,
and i am an ocean of problems.
oh, and i didn't let her know that i cared so much.
so basically curiosity killed the cat,
because i was dying to know.
come on cass, what are we?
were we ever anything
i can still smell your rose perfume,
and hear the hum of your voice,
when i close my eyes and
attempt to drown the world in dreams.
i can still feel the curl of your lips against mine,
the gentle touch of your fingers on my cheek.
i can still hear your voice as you tell me you love me.
and dear god, woman, i love you too.
we're like fireworks,
and symphonies lighting up the sky.
we make the world a little brighter,
and take everyone's breath away.
my poet fingers twined with your typist fingers,
my ink veins and your ink finger tips.
you left black finger smudges on my shirt.
a permanent stain of an almost love.
i can still hear
i'm getting really tired
of wiping tears off your mascara stained cheeks.
i'm getting really tired because i never get a genuine thank you.
i get a quick kiss on the cheek,
as you plunge the knife into my back,
as if i were a wind up doll and the knife were my key.
i am not a wind up doll,
looking pretty in the shop windows of your heart.
and i never quiet understood why i meant so little...
why i meant so much.
i am your friend,
i am not your concealer.
i will not conceal the parts of you that you dislike.
i will not hide you from the world.
my heart may be big but it is already stretched too thin,
tearing at the center.
i deci
i.
i really hate my anxiety,
it makes me hate doing the things i love.
my anxiety is a homewrecker.
my anxiety prevents me from asking my dad to drive,
because my throat swells shut as i start to speak.
my anxiety prevents my kisses from being complete.
my anxiety prevents me from being the Marilyn Monroe this Aubrey Hepburn body is.
my anxiety....my anxiety....my anxiety,
did not matter to you.
ii.
my anxiety did not matter to you,
which was a first. everything about me mattered to you in some way...
but not my anxiety. you brushed it off.
and i can't tell if that is a complement
or if you're rubbing salt in the wound.
though,
i.
when your kissing him,
check for razors hidden on the underside of his tongue.
and when his fingers are in your hair,
check and make sure his nails are not jagged blades.
he seems like an apple,
sweet and sturdy and just the cure for a cold,
but remember snow white. he is a poison laced apple.
ii.
i'd spend every warm june morning,
plucking petals off of flowers wondering,
he loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me not, he loves me.
because a now dead flower told me to believe, i did.
and when he kissed me, it was like the first time. it was like the last time.
it was a promise.
just not a promise of forever.
beca
Dear Ohio teen,
This poem is nearly a year late.
I've been meaning to write it,
since the night I read about you.
I felt my heart break because,
even though I didn't know you,
nobody deserves to die feeling alone.
~California teen
Dear 'Josh' Alcorn,
I feel wrong addressing you as Josh,
but at one point in time a 'Josh Alcorn' existed.
I'm sorry that you aren't what people wanted of you.
I'm sorry that this name was assigned to the wrong body.
I'm sorry that the real you didn't want you.
~ Echoriver
Dear Lazer Princess,
This is the you I read about,
I began to get to
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i.
Her eyes are the most beautiful shade of sadness,
and she's rain on a summer day.
She has her heart on her sleeve,
breathing sonnets in her every word.
She is the kind of person,
that makes you wonder,
how the hell are you single?
She's beautiful and kind,
and hella funny.
ii.
She's like the kind of book
that gets so good you have to put it down
or reread that sentence,
once, twice, a third time,
before the words sink in.
The kind of beautiful,
that hurts, and her touch,
on ivory keys, reaches a hand into your chest
and leaves nothing but a gaping wound and an empty chest cavity.
She's going places.
iii.
She knows how to play Music
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Shakespeare has always been their thing,
he asked her to be his Juliet,
and she called him her dearest Romeo.
But in the course of a night,
they killed two people and committed Suicide.
I guess I should start where it began.
They just met,
15 and 18,
She's fresh into highschool,
got big dreams,
never been kissed, hesitant. Innocence.
He's almost outta that hell hole,
got big dreams,
going far it seams.
They started talking,
music, games, books, people, you name it.
She's falling faster than a star,
but soon summer turns to fall,
and the chill starts setting in.
She's not answering his messages,
her feelings finally settlin'.
Her conv