You pull over on the side of the highway,
This could be the moment where you cry because of the rock and the hard place
because your life is neither black nor white and
to see color means you're happy and that's not the right feeling either.
Your breath is thick and you're vaguely aware that you're choking on your choices,
But none of that matters here in this moment
where life is slipping past you because time goes on and it has no interest in waiting.
You cannot pick him nor her or them
No matter what you decide
They hurt and you hurt and she hurts and he hurts
Because she can't stand him and he can't be with her and their hearts
Today I bit off more than I could chew,
in this game associated with loving you.
I swallowed us whole and tried to
break it down.
The air is ripe and days are numbered.
You've clogged up my fingertips,
made home in my stomach.
I can't write you out.
Just a sec.
I almost forgot,
'bout when you explained she was
the tick to your tock.
How could I blame you?
The words, how they flowed so easily then.
Oh god, I hope you don't take offense.
I am a different person for every man that I've ever loved (or lusted after). It divides my life into chapters that only I know about. Perhaps people cannot see the difference, for I don't believe my outward appearance and personality change to such a severe degree when I am viewed by the outside world. I feel it inside, however. Like lightning in a cloudless, silent sky it seeps into my soul, only showing quick glimpses of the storm brewing underneath. Those who know me best see these brief flashes of danger and light, but even then they decide against recognizing the reality of what they've seen. My friends easily retreat with my quick smil
haven't been.
wouldn't be.
too many insecurities.
lack of smarts,
shot in the dark.
frankenstein face
a literal waste
of air we breathe.
I hate and cry and coke and seethe.
I'm sorry for what I
haven't been,
wouldn't be.
I've got a moral disorder.
(or perhaps a dilemma).
Take what's mine
give it to someone better.
I've got a haunting sense of I-don't-give-a-fuck
(or perhaps I just can't give enough).
Not looking for coins, but screaming for change;
my road map is broken and we're losing our way.
Condolences spewing from the mouths of my friends
but pity has no worth when it won't fix the end.
A mile a minute turned into a mile a year;
I'm not sorry to say I
couldn't,
wouldn't
make it here.
Roads of bile and streets of sin,
taunt me with my life and vodka stained grin.
Disgust and departure and romance and rapture.
You couldn't have made me leave any faster.
You pull over on the side of the highway,
This could be the moment where you cry because of the rock and the hard place
because your life is neither black nor white and
to see color means you're happy and that's not the right feeling either.
Your breath is thick and you're vaguely aware that you're choking on your choices,
But none of that matters here in this moment
where life is slipping past you because time goes on and it has no interest in waiting.
You cannot pick him nor her or them
No matter what you decide
They hurt and you hurt and she hurts and he hurts
Because she can't stand him and he can't be with her and their hearts
Today I bit off more than I could chew,
in this game associated with loving you.
I swallowed us whole and tried to
break it down.
The air is ripe and days are numbered.
You've clogged up my fingertips,
made home in my stomach.
I can't write you out.
Just a sec.
I almost forgot,
'bout when you explained she was
the tick to your tock.
How could I blame you?
The words, how they flowed so easily then.
Oh god, I hope you don't take offense.
I am a different person for every man that I've ever loved (or lusted after). It divides my life into chapters that only I know about. Perhaps people cannot see the difference, for I don't believe my outward appearance and personality change to such a severe degree when I am viewed by the outside world. I feel it inside, however. Like lightning in a cloudless, silent sky it seeps into my soul, only showing quick glimpses of the storm brewing underneath. Those who know me best see these brief flashes of danger and light, but even then they decide against recognizing the reality of what they've seen. My friends easily retreat with my quick smil
haven't been.
wouldn't be.
too many insecurities.
lack of smarts,
shot in the dark.
frankenstein face
a literal waste
of air we breathe.
I hate and cry and coke and seethe.
I'm sorry for what I
haven't been,
wouldn't be.
I've got a moral disorder.
(or perhaps a dilemma).
Take what's mine
give it to someone better.
I've got a haunting sense of I-don't-give-a-fuck
(or perhaps I just can't give enough).
Not looking for coins, but screaming for change;
my road map is broken and we're losing our way.
Condolences spewing from the mouths of my friends
but pity has no worth when it won't fix the end.
A mile a minute turned into a mile a year;
I'm not sorry to say I
couldn't,
wouldn't
make it here.
Roads of bile and streets of sin,
taunt me with my life and vodka stained grin.
Disgust and departure and romance and rapture.
You couldn't have made me leave any faster.
I don't love you
or you
or you
or any of you to whom
I have sworn undying devotion
(there's your hint
but I am a chameleon)
I have never loved
nor will I
I am in love with
the idea of love
but even then it's not
real love
so many believed me
and still do
I am a master
I am a player with a pen
and my words feed your souls
heavenly meals
laced with a slow-acting poison
(after all I'm the one
who ends all things
when attentions run dry)
blue ink colored lies
even convince me for awhile
then the ink dries up
and the journals are full
and I'm alone with only myself
to write about
Bu
house of the rising sun by WanderingHere, literature
Literature
house of the rising sun
it's 4 in the morning.
it's not getting any later.
it's 4:01 and when i get up in 2 hours, i won't regret anything more than this, but
it's 4:02, and i am restless.
it's 4:03, and i'll never be as young as i am tonight, because now
it's 4:04 and there will never ever be a 4:04 like this, because soon
soon it's 4:05.
it's 4:05, and the moon is silent tonight.
it's 4:06 and the internet is dead in this part of town, anyway.
it's 4:07 and i have nothing left to lose, so here goes everything:
love may or may not exist.
but you do.
and for right now,
that's enough.
it's 4:08 and i'm suddenly more tired than i e
I want our first kiss to be wrong.
With penalties
where our lungs blacken
and cities
send us to exile.
Milestones
strapped to our backs,
Climbing
Mt. Vesuvius barefoot
as Pompeii smolders.
I want our lips to touch like sinners do.
In backlit rooms,
between whispers.
Spines curled over crumpled bed sheets
In the form
of ignorant prayer.
He wants our hands to lock
like prison gates
to feel defined
like death penalty.
Fingers strapped to our palms
And senses electric
like the dropping of the lever.
He wants to caress my collarbone
like a shotgun
Caress me like a murder scene
Tracing white
outlines on the concrete
and you say the world
tastes of cigarettes and satellites
when i pull these words
from my cracking bones
and place them in your hands.
and maybe it's true
that we're just creatures
and chemical reactions,
but i'm thinking maybe
if you could steal my breath,
i could steal your heartbeat
from whereever it's hidden
beneath your fragile skin.
and then maybe i'd have
so much more to hold
than the borderlines
and broken lines
i've drawn and given
to define this life.
sometimes
it helps to think that we're made of the same things.
but in that split second
that i remember how much we aren't
it rips apart my chest and sinks all my organs to
the bottom of the ocean to be
florished in by
starfish
and crabs
and to shine next to the pearls
that would seemingly cost
more than my home in
another thousand years
you're so different now
to think how much i would have
given up for you and
how much you hurt me and how much
i want to punch you in the face right now
what i would give to
run into your arms and
kiss you on the mouth
how much i would pay in sea pearls
to watch you peri
Shes The Girl Nobody Notices by NOTHINandEVERYTHING, literature
Literature
Shes The Girl Nobody Notices
i.
She was the girl with the burnt orange skin and blonde highlights. Her skin emitted UV rays from too many trips to the tanning bed and she changed her hair color more often than the calendar changed months. She only wanted to fit in but it just made her stand out even more.
ii.
She was the girl who would always use cherry lip-balm because she knew it was his favorite flavor. Her kisses made his knees weak and her will power too so one kiss would turn to two, three, and four. Then a week later she was pregnant and everyone was calling her a whore.
iii.
She was the girl with wings made of scotch-tape and printer paper. She tried to fly
I am unsure as to what is better; silence or song? Both ache my heart like arthritis in a brittle bone. White knuckles clutch the steering wheel as each passing telephone poll causes temptation. My end (the end), could be so easy. I'd be a mash of skin and metal – a modern day machine. Brain waves would cease and organs would bleed and I'd sit there on the pavement, less than a fetus.