healthy relationships
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Do you know how much I love you?
I argue because I love you
I apologize when I am wrong
I miss you because I love you
But I am still strong when you are gone
I kiss you becuase I love you
Do you know how much I love you?
I argue because I love you
I apologize when I am wrong
I miss you because I love you
But I am still strong when you are gone
I kiss you becuase I love you
I was the shattered glass laying on the floor,
until you swept me up and built me into something more.
I was a hole in the knee of your favorite blue jeans,
and you stitched me up along the seams.
I was the shattered glass laying on the floor,
until you swept me up and built me into something more.
I was a hole in the knee of your favorite blue jeans,
and you stitched me up along the seams.
i’ve spent
hours on others
i can’t
make them do anything
still
i type
declare what you’re going to do
Finding someone who is caring, careful, conscientious is far more difficult than I’d like it to be.When I found you I felt at peace, I felt like the world finally had meaning, motive, mind.When I met you my anxiety emerged its way back out of the
Starts with a blade
Of grass, sticking
Straight up, knifing
Through the filth.
A gentle hand grabs
At it, to ignore
The other weeds.
Replanting at the break
Of dawn, to carve
Like sisters we were inseparable
I thought being best friends forever was inevitable
Never thought we would end so catastrophic
Until I learned that you were toxic
We deteriorated slowly
Ask me why I love you,
And I shall tell you what I love most about you.
No lies spill passed my parted lips,
Only truths that swell from my heart and fall out my mouth.
Ask me what makes our love healthy,
The heart is a rich, oak door
Locked from the inside out
Love is a living, passionate wind
Touching the door but lacking the key
You see, I locked the door before to keep from the robbers and rain
Because I love you
I have no fear
To be me.
No matter how far I wander,
I have a place to be.
You and me
What is love?
Is it just a word to say?
Is it a belief I can use just to get my way?
Is it the voice inside your head that says, “Because of me, the verbal abuse is okay."?
Love is stubborn:
it digs its roots into the pit of your stomach
and winds around your ribs
and blooms within your heart.
Love is difficult to get rid of,
and so it must be taken care of,
There's a lot of thingsYou should do in life;Things that you can doFor someoneJust because of the words "I love you."I know where this goes,
Because I love you…
I don’t make you feel stupid.
I don’t make you do things unwanted.
I don’t keep you from your friends.
Because I love you…
We were deep into the winter season.
The weather was as cold as ice.
We shivered with all reason.
Our warmth was our price.
Do you remember that one night,
when we first got together?
Pure and innocent
Beautiful yet risky
I wanted to be with you too.
I Love You
I "Love" You
I'll support you
I'll control you
I'll love all of you
I'll love all of you except for your "health"
I'll be there through every fight
I'll be there but leave for fights
I want to hold your hand
As we walk on our different roads.
I offer you my heart,
But not my life.
Support me,
Believe in me,
Care for me,
But don't live solely for me.
Trust me,
Because I love you
I listen when you speak to me.
Because I love you
I hug you and cuddle you to show you that I am here.
Because I love you
I can tell you my fears and feelings,
There is no explanation for a love like this, honestly, it just feels right.
I'm overwhelmed with happiness and peace thanks to you. Your love is like a light.
A world where there is a perfect you,
Is on our Earth,
On the soil you would step,
And the ground would beg to be touched once more,
I love you
You love me
But I’m not you
And you’re not me
That’s how it should be.
You are you
Love is not sadness
Love is not being ignored
being rejected
or being belittled
Love is not crying
every night,
because you don't feel like enough
Love is not constantly wondering
Love is hated,
Love is craved.
A man wants the hold of a woman.
A woman wants the kindness of a man.
A man wants to hold with powerful hands a small neck,
Are you willing to wait for me?
I don’t know if it’s right to abuse you like this
This is my fault
Retching at pictures at everything you do the moment we kiss
Healthy Relationships
“To understand a Healthy Relationship you must first understand what it is not”.
I started out alone, down the school hallway.
No friends. Nothing but my thoughts in my own mind.
I had low self-esteem; didn’t know how to speak.
No one noticed me. Nothing but my thoughts, and you.
Because I Love You
because I Love you
wear your seatbelt
study for your test
get some rest
meet my family
because I Love you
because I Dont Love you
leave your friends
On a quiet eveningas I touch my pen to this padI can hear a guitar strumDespite an absence of wordsyou can feel an overwhelming warmth
It can be a struggle
To communicate.
To let the words stuck
in your throat
take a life of their own.
"You hurt me"
"I'm sorry"
"Can we try something new?"
Because I love you
The weird smell your feet give off,
your inability to answer messages (in a timely manner),
the twitch you get before you sleep (that wakes me up),
and your love of country music
Empowered by the essence of longing,
Controlled by the thoughts of searching,
Understanding the definitive feelings and reasonings of the soul,
Because I love you, I know you want someone else.And I want you to find them--you'll be happier then.I was an outline and instead of being my lover,Instead of being my color, you gave me the pen.
The first day we met
You asked if you could sit beside me
You didn't move 'till I said yes
A few months later
You asked if we could study
You didn't get out books 'till I said yes
Because I love you
I will uplift you everyday
Because I love you
You will throw any negative connotations about yourself away
You are beYOUtiful
Yes in your own way.
Friends are your soulmates too.
He called me Baby,
said that I was beautiful.
That I was smart.
strong.
That he loved me.
So I was in love,
Because I love you, I will prove it through my caring actions.Every day I will tell you I love you and hope that this will make some impactions.Capability of expressing our feelings, while hearing
Feeling that warm
Fuzzy feeling
That stays with you
Throughout the whole slow song
When their eyes glisten
Brown and green
Like the earth
Pure and innocent
You’re far away
too far away,
and still you’re my best friend.
And thoughts of you don’t go away,
but I don’t want them to end.
And as times progress,
with every breath
This morning I woke up beside him
He kissed me ‘till I was awake
We laid there for hours, limbs knotted around each other
Until I rose to cook breakfast
The night before, I came home, exhausted
because i love you
i will stay by your side
because i love you
i'll wipe your tears when you cry
because i love you
i will comfort you in your sorrow
because i love you
Today I found a flower
It was wilted and brown and alone
So I took it and nourished it
I gave it water, food, and company
I gave it time and space
Why?
You forgive
Even when I don't deserve it
You give
When I need it
You hold me
But never things against me
When I am mad
You are calm
I wonder why
So every gesture
You choose to make
And the response it elicits in me
Could we keep it up
Throughout time and endlessly?
Lest we base a love on nothingness
That fades with the seasons
In this life, we are taught to feel as though
we need to be filled to continue to flow.
The words of our loved ones can
encourage our growth,
but what happens when that
isn't necessarily so?
A crash course in love for those with little time and no experience:
Welcome
You may not be sure why you’re here
After all, ever since we’re young we’re taught love
The love of one and one will soon transpire,
into what feels like time can never alter.
But what can result from such a desire,
we hope a friend who shall never falter.
We fight
And make up
Because we care
And we want to be heard
But in the end
All that matters
Is I’m happiest
We fight
And make up
Because we care
And we want to be heard
But in the end
All that matters
Is I’m happiest
Love is beyond belief.
You may not believe me
If I told you all the things love causes,
That "because I love you" causes,
Good and bad of course.
Love comes in both these forms afterall
the privilege of touchinganother person’s bodyconnecting skinto skin thisis the gift of aphroditesubtletya grace in touchingfingertip to palmhead to necklips to hand this poetry of silencebridge between solitudeand something bettermingling of
Because I love you,
I'll always say it and mean it
I'll always answer your call at 3 am
I'll always listen to you vent when you've had a bad day
I'll always laugh at a joke that took you days to write
i loved a boy who hated everything sweet.
i made him a cake but didn't add any sugar,
yet he still said it was too sweet.
i bought him candies but made sure only the sour,
I was always a mixture of too much and not enough.
A galaxy dotted with stars and brillance,
but with dark spaces in between.
An ocean teeming with life,
I have a dream that one day love
will be gentle and easy.
There will be no abuse, there will
be no loving one more than the other,
there will be no force, there will be no
The hand on my cheek should be gentleNot rough.
The look in your eyes should be cordialNot forbidding.
The words you speak should be filled with loveNot anger.
Sweet love of mine
I can not allow you to live in misery
neither will I allow myself so much joy while you are stuck in sadness
Precious love of mine
give me your troubles
you should never carry them alone
Because I love you
I'll never let you face anything alone
Because I love you
I'll remember ever milestone
Because I love you
Why do yours shake when they reach my waist
why do they make me want to grow smaller and smaller and
dissapear
why do your fingernails
dig into my skin as I speak
What is love? Oh god, what a good question.
What is love?
Can anyone explain what it is, or isn’t?
What the hell even is it?
Love isn’t.
tell me about what you love
tell me about your dreams
tell me about what makes you giddy
let me see your eyes light up
a waltz through the house
toes sliding along the kitchen floor
giggles drift into the living room
harmony in a routine
a smile, a sniffle, a silence
comfort in merely existing
I missed your call earlier, and it was okay.
You didn't repeatively call, to "make sure I was OK"
I was busy doing homework, and you caught me off guard with "I understand"
yesterday you were out sick
you missed the history lecture
so i copied another set of notes for you
I love you, you said, only it came out as “thanks”
“
Scream!
Scream, my darling, I promise you that
my words are not nooses,
my love not poison,
my kisses not lethal injection.
Because you love me:
you take me to lunch at your least favorite place,
and you help me study during your lunch break.
Because you love me:
when it's pouring you throw me your jacket,
We can do this together because we love eachother.
I may not be able to do this but you can, if you want, because I love you.
I can do this but you cannot but you do not mind because you love me.
Experience teaches many things
for when you're shown that diamond ring
Mama always told me "love yourself first
you are a mirror beware of dirt
it's on their hands
let them touch and
The bruises and scars I received for sixteen years define me. I am broken and damaged almost beyond repair, my hopeful heart was shattered into a million pieces.
#BecauseILoveYou
I control who you see and what you wear, because I love you
I spend more time on my phone than spending time with you, because I love you
I flirt with other people behind your back, because I love you
i love to talk to you
to hear your feelings aloud
your words falling through my ears
through tunnels straight to my heart
you share your dreams
and they float as fluffy clouds in my mind
Because I love you I listen to you
Because I love you I support you
Because I love you I challenge you
Because I love you I pray for you
Because I love you I’m here for you on your worst days and your best days
Because I love you
I still get lost when I look into your eyes.
The simple thought of you turns my frown into a smile.
Every hug makes me feel warm inside
I have always been a vacant lover.
Communication does not come easy when you're a child from a verbally abusive home.
Because I love you
I don't press
When secrets slip between your eyes
Because I love you
I wait for you to tell me
Because I love you
I hold you when you cry
Wipe away tears with tissues
Because I love you:
I’ll make sure you eat and drink,
I’ll stop pestering if you say “I’m not hungry.”
Because I love you:
I’ll wipe your tears when you cry,
Your fingers intertwine
With every story I’ve ever written,
Every rose I’ve ever held.
They trace my skin,
Reading my story like it’s written in brail.
Love is when lust becomes not solely a feeling of attraction,
Not an act of self-satisfaction,
But rather, an act unachievable by anyone else.
When fingertips are no longer human skin,
A healthy relationship.
What is "healthy"?
Saying I love you when you get off the phone?
A good night and good morning text?
A like on instagram?
A tagged picture?
I texted you to make sure you got home safely…
I cooked you breakfast before I left….
I stayed up late to see you….
I take care of myself….
Because
you love me you dream my dreams with me,
and sometimes, you dream them for me when I forget to.
a healthy relationship
is an open window
sunlight filtering through the blinds
cool air filling tired lungs
a healthy relationship is
a flower you never forget to water.
a lily,
Loving you was like grasping oil
Always treated you like you were royal
Only to have you slip out of my fingertips.
Loving you had me inhaling flames
Didn't know who to blame
Please and thank you, yes and no
That is how our love should go.
Kiss me, love me, hold me near
Call me sweetheart, darling, dear.
Like a well-watered flower, or a tree with strong roots,
Because I love you i ask you if you made it home safe
Because I love you I ask if you’ve eaten and had enough water
There is something to be said of the force that lifts us at our lowest,
Turning our words into those of poets.
Allows us to know well their mistakes and flaws,
But to still see them and be struck by awe.
The ground beneath my feet is firm,yet I can spread and curl my toesin the forgiving soil of his support.
Love heals
Love serves
Love hears.
It takes some time to decipher
the truth from the noise.
Love is falling apart
and knowing they won't change their mind.
Finding light.
