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You will know I love you when my eyes can’t stand to glance away from your face
You will know I love you when I laugh even at the smallest quip to cross your lips
Hey kid.
Keep doing what you’re doing
I know sometimes it hurts to exist
I know no one seems to understand
I know you’re afraid to tell them
There’s so much we will never tell
I taste your anger,
I feel your sorrow.
You occupy your own mental space with words of injustice on others.
When little do you know the world around you is just a reflection of you.
My mind thinks too much
And yet, i can't think, can't eat, sleep, breathe
I feel a Pandora's box inside
I can't let those emotions out, not now
But I can't keep them in, can't let them win
My idea of you, in my head; maybe unethical.
I see you beyond the stars. Through light years, It's almost uncanny.
I've felt you before in a different world.
How do you feel,
When you witness demise?
How do you deal,
Without effort to try?
How do you see,
When you're dead, so blind?
Who can I be,
So dead inside?
How can you say,
I want to die.
It's been a while since I said that out loud
The screaming voices of the world have sworn me to secrecy
But it’s true.
I’m not afraid to say it
Not afraid to accept the inevitable
Something that Inspires ME
Something that inspires ME, motivates me.
Something that inspires ME, keeps me focused on my goals.
Something that inspires ME, may not inspire you or the next person,
But it inspires me
For awhile I've been down
I hadn't smilied, always a frown
I had been depressed
My life's a mess, super stressed
Used to slit my wrists
But now I'm balling up my fists
I believe that you appreciate me
I believe that you will love me unconditionally
I believe that you will love me without regrets
I believe that you raised me the best way you can
I don’t need youI don’tIt took me 8 long monthsBut it’s trueI don’t need your smile or your laughI don’t need your hand tangled in mine
I know why the willow grows.
It grows for a life it yearns to know.
It grows for you. It grows for me.
It grows so tall for all to see.
The willow grows because it can
because no one told it that it can’t.
I am rolling hills of Kevlar skin
I am night before the days begin
I am terra cotta heart
I am stories yet to start
I am bones of solid gold
I am young, but I am old
I am war yet to be won
When Simone biles runs to the bar to do back flips in the air she is an athlete.But when I run to the bar and do a backflip holding a beer, suddenly I have an alcohol problem and need help. Perhaps they might be right ya know?
I am a seed sprouting in both infused unfertilized and fertilized soil
No one can really fathom the highest potential that I could achieve
Only after I, the seed, has proved to weather the storms and turmoil
whispering Secrets are
Second only to staying quiet.
Muffled screams from
a Muzzle with my prints.
the door was Closed behind me
i don't like the alchohol
it messes with my head
instead i'll chat with demons that reside under my bed
the demons know my pain because they cause it every day
Say "No."
Say "You won't."
say "You are nothing."
Say "It's impossible."
Say all these things.
Say these words!
Say them!
They are but fuel for my fire!
I say "yes."
I, too, matter
I am the unborn daughter.
The one with the heartbeat.
The one without a life.
But my heart still beats,
Nothing’s worse than feeling unwanted in a world full of thin people.
Being told simply your not pretty because of your weight brought me down
CHILD ABUSE
“I’m only a child”
My fingers are itchy
My tummy is empty
My clothes are dirty
Tears are shedding off,
Slowly down on my chicks
I cry I weep
I dont sleep
Night all alone
Hiding in my phone
Where am i
Where did i go
Do i run from myself
Wont i leave me alone
I am lost
It is dark
Will i come back
My heart cries out for you, my mind is not exactly where it should be, because I can't think of anything else but you! But I guess that what happened when you in love. By chieww pal
Life.
The universe.
Reincarnation.
Living.
Breathing.
Do you know what -
what these words
have in common?
Besides grammar -
besides capitalization -
Because I love you
“You should buckle up, wear your seatbelt.”
“Have you had anything to eat today?”
Love is providing back-up when the platoon needs it.
Your Platoon.
Love is pushing one to do better and go farther than even the person receiving the love thought possible.
I talk
When you
Don’t have the words,
Because I love you.
I listen
When you
Have news to share,
Because I love you.
I smile
When you
Lack the strength to,
Because I Love You
Because I Love You I will lift you up.
Like clouds with rain
So high in the sky.
Because I Love You I will make you happy.
Love is something you love and think all aboutLove's something you're giving allegiences toLove's not something very ordinaryIf you love it you will take risk for itLove's a medicine reliving your pain
Because I love you
He makes your life a movie and he’s the best part
He’s the water when you're stuck in the desert
If you love him say something
because i love you, baby, i will hold your hand.
keep your heart in my pocket and my feet in the sand,
with the angels in winter and the dresses in snow
in the songs that you sing when i'm driving slow.
Because I love you I will say no.
Because I love you I will let go.
Because I love you I will support you.
Because I love you I will be your boo.
Because I love you I will do anything.
I took time to notice all the little things about you
Like how your hair was auburn
Or how you laughed
I brought you flowers on our first date
You smelled them and told me they were pretty
Cherokee roses for the wildflower in me, rustling above my Boholano roots that borne me
I alone slept still in my barren garden with lovely wonder
I hold my tongue as you draw my attention with the spell you hypnotized me under
Because you are kind,
Because you are patient,
I love you.
Because you do not envy or boast,
Because you are not arrogant or rude,
I love you.
Because you do not insist on your own way,
I did not know what love was until I met him
It was not until I felt him caress my skin
He captured my heart
And locked me away
Because I love you, he said
I am Black
A race named after the richness of skin
A race deemed unclean
And for centuries; believed so
What does it mean to be Black?
I
did buy
the lie that
Many told me
the land of the free
and the home of the brave
Yet I was not taught this way,
Through minority eyes I saw
A world unequal; I stared in awe
I wasn't meant to be beautifulI wasn't meant for the pleasing of your eyesor the stirring of your inner loveI am meant to set a fire beneath youto make you quake in your boots
I’ve been
Awake full nights,
For the past three months,
Because I’ve got nothing to do.
So instead of doing nothing,
I instead do nothing and
Please don't come back for my dead body in the
Woods.
At least there my corpse would be the king of the
Flies
And my soulless body won't only be home to
Depression
and
Anxiety
and
I used to think I was drowning in an abyss of my own loneliness. That darkness used to consume my heart and soul. My eyes would continue to close as my head dosed off in an eternal slumber.
Who knew the sins of the past,
would resurface in the future?
Might I ask,
What would you do if you made
At 12:49 in the morning, I am asking myself why I write. Why do I write songs? Why do I write essays? Why do I write letters to my loved ones?
At 12:52, I am answering;
I am allowed. I am able.
I'm nineteen but I reason better than some double my age.
I see through life's glasses and I never hesitate to turn the page.
Sometimes I feel like a newborn, when I cry from everyday pressures.
All I need…
All I need is music
Music is everything to me
It keeps me calm I'm distressed
Its there to listen to me
When I was a newborn, it was Mommy.
When I was six, it was to be "a big girl."
When I was fifteen, it was freedom.
Now -
I thought I knew who I was.
I thought I knew what I wanted.
I’ll see you after seasons change
when we’re bundled up again,
when breezes penetrate thermal
layers and our fat gloved hands
are teenagers again, awkwardly
holding each other in your coat’s
She is what I aspire to be
gentle, loving, kind and free.
Soft and warm and close to my heart.
I loved her from the very start.
She gives me hope and unconditional love.
I was sent to her from God above.
Is it the way she stares at you while you comb your hair,
Or the way she rushes you out of bed?
The way she can make you regret every decision you've made,
Even prove to you that you still care.
S, Someone please explain to me how we define ourselves
U, Undermined, unloved, understood by none
C, Cease the stronghold on this white washed country
C, Cancel your freedom subscription the magazines void
Smile, smile,
a world of smiles.
When you haven't seen your own in a while,
look around and you will see,
smile, smile,
a world of smiles.
I find myself alone On an island unfamiliarWith nothing but myself And a feeling drawing nearer. It is like a fog, All consumingly ominousAnd as it creeps through my skull and brainMy terror becomes bottomless. How long have I been here?It’s been
All I need are books and pens
And study halls with all my friends.
All I need is the internet
To answer the questions i dont get
All I need is the library
And to cry when the stress is getting to me.
Me
me myself
me myself and...
me myself and {i}
I am me
only me
alone
You ask what I would need
if I were hypothetically alone,
I can only take one thing
Live life without hindrance, please sir
It is something taken for granted, all should have
None of us truly do… not even you, do you defer?
Might as well do it now, it is only gonna get worse
Whatever I need...
Is all I need
Whether it be the love of my life
Or a tiny flax seed
Whether the world on my shoulders
Or the sun's delightful rays
The love of my life, and his beholders
All I need are the lives of my brethren,
given up for the ideals of the free.
Pressing forward with my dreams I've been buildin'
Seeing all these faces looking up at me.
Millin' in my mind,
all the time,
When I grow upI want to be a programmerNot just any kindI want to write video gamesMake a character run or jumpMake a gun fireRemoving bugsGetting feedbackMaking changes
There's something I need to tell you,
My story is short enough to expose.
I am no saint,
When there is someone you truly love,
You'll find that life before them was without consequence.
Without purpose.
You feel useless.
Before I met Her, I thought that what I couldn't live without was materialistic.
Like a string on a bow,
you get tugged,
pulled so far back,
you think you may just snap.
Like an arrow,
you soar,
Form. Aim. Fire. Miss.
What went wrong?
You can't succeed on your own.
Looking past the landscapes
there stands one dream.
One final goal that you know
deeper than the cliff you're standing on
you want one dream you know.
The trees are greener
the grass is taller
Metaphorically I am a simile,
like an allusion,
I AM an oxymoron,
a flagrant euphemism,
a hyperbolic faux-pas,
so masculine, I could metonymously eat a feminist,
I am young, hungry, ambitious
I am Yond Cassius
I crave success
I relish challenge
I have bark
I have bite
I am the tip of the ice berg
The edge of a knife
The start of something great
“Have I got, a crush on you”, said he
The message passed, a swift
From her pair of ears to her brain
Her heart was beating up in at the highest
Her mind was remembering it on and on
I am a teenage girl
I am silly and helping
I am friendly and outgoing
I am music
I may be young
I may be old
I am somebody
When I was in physics class I learned that an object with any amount of mass can store up any amount of potential energy based simply on its height and the force of gravity.
i am a girl.
i'm not just a simple girl. not your girl-next-door.
i'm not the popular girl that has girls and guys
on their knees just to be
seen by.
I am water.
I am fire.
I am earth.
I am air.
I am what the world around me bears
Two Hydrogen, One Oxygen
The desert falls in love
Raindrops fall on the barren land
How beautiful it is
It won't last long
Evaporating
Leaving everything wanting more.
Not one of the Me's
-But all of the Me's-
All of the different variations of I
-All of the I's in me-
Only one you will see.
Only one that will stop,
any standing structure, they throw on gas
setting it ablaze and melting the brass
on fear and freedom these fires do insist
and further the plight of the anarchist
collapsing On top and rising below
I will be your strong tree
I will, just give me the key
I am alone
Atleast I am not a clone
I will be there when you cry
I will leave if you lie
I am true
I don't know what you go through
I sell myself short
with these small rhyming pomes
I could make a da-vinci
and hang it in homes
I choose humour
simple simplicity
My reflection is in my eyes
And in my hands
They are always moving
Trying to find an abode
Trying to find a cause
Looking upon the distant faces
With no color to define them
When I look at me in the mirror I see a beautiful
African American.
That is not what I AM.
I AM a determined female.
I AM a trustworthy human.
I AM a hard working individual.
What I see is not who I am.
Can I be lost in your arms
Can I forget what it is to remember
Can I lie and say goodnight
Would you believe me?
If I try to deceive you
Would you even care
Would you look away
Am I a Man
Am I honest
Am I emotional
Am I young
Am I human
Am I alone
Am I free
Am I home
Am I wise
Am I ready
Am I loving
Am I suporting
Am I helpful
You are the reason I hold on,
Because without you I am nothing.
My love for you has made me the happiest girl alive.
There is just one little something,
That I need to tell you.
It’s a three-word sentence.
Curtains are drawn at night,
To shield our fragile minds
From obscurities
Mute outside.
Half are opaque,
Half are translucent.
Variety feeds the filters
I am an amazing person
Sometimes others may not think so
They talk shit and hate
I know that others can relate.
Sometimes I don't feel so amazing
There are times when I just wish that
This sadness.
I feel my chest being crushed ever so slowly.
Pushing harder and slower. Farther and lower.
My heart throbs like a beating drum before battle.
Every day is a gift,
all the days just flow so swift
try to live positive & for others try to uplift...
<3
You are here for a reason bigger than you
I know some time you wonder what am I here to do?
Is it some thing huge & grand, here...
A picture tells a thousands words,
but can you read the emotions behind each smile?
Can you hear the hardships that their eyes express?
My wide bright eyes that seem to shine like the sun turn to dark clouds of gray.
I just want the me I was before I knew what it was like to have to live each living day without you, it's been such a long time since I've seen me and I miss me
Would a filter be typing?
Would a filter mean no erasing?
Does that mean I can't correct my grammar?
I'm going to give you the realest me there is, no bullsh*t.
Well, to begin, my appearance.
If today was my last day
Would i regret my memories
Would i have people who love me
Would my life have been worthless
Would have my thought of life have been corrupted To think that everything is okay
"I" is edgy, "I" is hot.
"I" is exciting, "I" is loud.
"I" is daring, "I" is spontaneous.
I am not "I". I am a completely different me.
I am easily entertained. I am self-conscious.
I am quiet. I am nervous.
Being told I am not enough
I get hurt because I care too much
I turn to things that help me up.
The art of makeup makes me forget who I was
I got myself a new identity since I cannot go back to what I was.
What you see before you is not what I see in the mirror. For the mirror knows the true person who always hides behind the mask. Tell me, is it true that the most common mask we put on every day is a smiling face?
It's a wonder that I have survived so long without your help.
How it is possible, I have no idea.
Maybe it's my willpower or my lifestyle.
Watever the cause, I am having fun with no you in my life.
Within a minute you are quick to claim your fame, in another moment you completely disowned it.
A rebel driven by a devil. Words of wisdom questioned, a world full of deception.
I have an innovative mind
One with many characters and personalities
My friends are imaginary, a figment of my dreams
They come alive as I write on the pages inside a blank notebook of my alter worlds.
I am from the sun and sea, fire and earth
I am from forbidden love, heat and passion
I am from broken laws and wounded souls
Constant trips and endless highs
I am from falling snow and raging winds
My experience with love is
painful
unforgettable
betrayal
Eight months making
memories
moments
music
Proving people wrong with clashing
thoughts
personalities
THE REALITY OF THE WORLD
by Kevinia P.
Why is the World so harsh, and so cold?
Sunset settles on the east
As the sky darkens
Stars twinkle
While tine slows downs
Owls awaken
Yet, birds fly south
Heart beats
And I stay still
waiting
waiting
waiting
As I sit down once again, in front of the old computer with the whirring fan
My fingers begin to hit the black keys, each one a small click
That make an musical orchestra of words
While you were sleeping, I slipped away. I was told to never trust a flatterer; unfortunately an enchanter is who came along
He is laced with lies I was forced to sew underneath his skin.
I am an open book ready for her to rip the pages he so carefully inked.
She is a blade sharpened by the years of trust issues and lack of love.
"Here you go"
They said.
"Here is your little bundle of joy"
Like all, I had paused and reflected on my past.
At that moment, I didn't mean to drown in drunken thoughts.
I couldnt help it.
Love
May I lay with you?
It is not to fill in my void, gutted by loneliness.
Nor to feel a sexual pleasure.
Though I can, it would not be to tell you my life story.
I place the key in the ignition,I put the car in driveand press the gas pedalbut I go no where. I open my mouth,and move my lips,I push air out
I am a woman of faith,
I am a woman of my word,
I am a woman who once settled for less and was unheard.
I am a woman who thought love found me,
I am a woman who gave love my all,
I look out onto the world,A broken, world full of hate,Changing minds and people unsat,
We've been broken up for six months
both of us are in new relationships
, and I woke up this morning to a next telling me you love me
how can you love me and love someone elese?
It is I, the one, and we the strong who have held high our beacon of light
The hope to all that see it know that with our string hearts we defend the right and just
We embrace the weak with open arms
You and I are different
You and I are the same
You and I are pieces of the same game
You and I are black
I have been raised in this country, I appear to be fully Caucasian.
I speak English fluently, but I also speak Spanish.
I identify myself as a Hispanic American, because of my roots.
Teacher these days are just ignorant
They like to teach us stuff we already know.
When you correct them, you suffer a consequence,
Or you could just go
Outside and miss the whole lecture,
Roses are red
Violets are blue
My heart will always
Belong to you
No matter what happens
I will always love you
And baby you will always,
No matter if we are far apart,
I crave for your thoughts, wisdom, physical attributes, hair, skin
silent and hungry, i prowl through the streets in the bronx
where i'm from
water does not quench my thirst, idiocy of people disrupts me all day
Hey you teacher standing in the front of the class room. You make me want to stand up and smack you with a dirty broom.
That back seat far into the corner,
I become unseen.
Though I do the work that you ask,
Why can I not just be me?
You tell us to be our selves,
But when we do, you shut us down,
Who am i to you?
Am i that girl that always gets in the way?
That you sit back and say, "she always doing something."
Who am i to you?
Am i the girl you call a "bitch" because of the way i walk,
i am void
i am powerless
not special
completely worthless
i am forgotten
or i will be soon
i expect to be depressed
but this is not doom
i open my mouth
in a new light
My heart is a birdcage
Hanging from a tree branch and
Moving with the wind.
You can look inside-but don't touch!It might fall
and
break.
Sometimes my heart is the bird inside
If I could
but for one moment
keep at bay
the pain, the suffering, the sorrow
If I could
but for one moment
Still the tempest
Bring back the blush
of life
into the cold pale faces
I don't know about you.. Yes I doI know what you look like and know what you can do to me..I think I love you.. But you're hurting meTemptations taking over, I've already lost myself
Should I hold it all in...or should I cry it all out?
But I don't want to disappoint them,
I don't want to be given the doubt.
They think I'm strong.
They think I can do better.
But how can I?
How can you have hate
For the color of my skin
I've done nothing wrong
Is me living life a sin
I'm a person, a human
Like each and every one of you
I've done nothing to harm
What will be when I am gone?
I think this question, thinking I’ll go on
But for all I know, I could die tomorrow
Then, would my loved ones grieve in sorrow?
These words that boil inside you are strong
By nature, to hold them imprisoned is wrong
Speak raw, speak power, speak truth, speak you,
Your poem, your story, your song.
Do it for heart or do it for fun
I am untouchable
Surrounded by the black gates
Unsure of which to open
“Let the people in!”
Cries my heart
Yet I am lost…
Separated and gone
Write my name in the water
buried in metaphors,
the allegory of a door
representing the figurative
pathway to the highways
and byways of my brain-
the complexity. as it rains,
i'm brainstorming some more
Why I write
My words aren’t just words
That are thrown into a sentence
But you must uncover the mystery
Of what I have written
I write for those who can’t
But want to be heard
A single lasting impression,
The hinting lack of discretion
He poured into each word he never said to me.
I am simply letters from a father,
The aching heart of the waters
This is for the child, So young, Who thinks his parents don't care. Who sits up all night wondering, And hoping he'll do them well. This is for the girl, So scared, beaten and abused.
I was first introduced
By a man named Dr. Seuss.
His rhymes helped me in the best of ways,
Especially if it was one of my worst days.
A real inspiration,
Gave me a good foundation.
You make promises that you never keep
Break my heart,andmake me weep.
Never do I protestI just ignore the pain,So that in your armsI can rest.
I am from time well spent and moments lost,
Licking the cream from Oreos and
Summer days spent at the park.
Where I'm from we catch salamanders at the river,
Stay up late watching drive in movies
I live my life trying to create such precious memories.
Living with all these people I thought were a friend to me.
Where would i be without a pencil and paper, a thought or a rhyme? Where would i be without emotion? Where would i be without poetry? How would i express my life to others without a map of guidance?
I write for the world.
Its skies of blue stretching uniqueness across the planet
Revealing its luster and foliage for all the universe to see
Young love is the topic of discussion, heartbeat, tempo cousin of percussion.
Okay, Where do I start?
The ladies and the girls thinking men run the heart.
Independence, Coincidence, hence-
My name is Renee, consoled by my thoughts, or so I thought.
I take words and create to poems, the power within them stays a mystery.
I write to express, to heal, to relieve.
They wonder what goes on, can't see, even with glasses, thoughts of what I can and can't be, preach to be free from the masses.
I am me, untamed; am I untranslatable? No, not yet;anyone who has come to go or has yet to, why then question our differences too,then leave it be or take it otherwise!
Could I but soar unbounded
As does the great Eagle Bald
And reach immeasurable heights
And No one has called
And tease all Day with my offspring
And feast as I may
Writing is the calm after the storm
The rant after the fight
The memories after the moment
The shoulder that I cry on
It's an escape from reality
The "Once Upon a Time"s and "the Last Week I"s never really seemed like much
When such a better way existed
To tell a story.
And when I took into account all that I knew about
I was introduced to poetry 7th grade.
I started to understand the concept: releasing.
I write because it is an outlet for my frustration.
Waking up, rubbing the crust out of my eyes
to realize, where i reside is a land on its demise
I then reflect on I, surrounded by subsidized housing
and homeless vets, and fiends who get cocaine wasted by the ounces
She stays when every one else goes
She is the loyalest thing I know
And when it comes to it, I know she will never go
When I'm sad she makes me happy
Five butterflies whirr around my head--
playing catch-me-if-you-can with each other's glowing, neon flutter.
I'm elated to see these spectacular creatures in orbit around me,
I write,
and who for, but for you?
I write for the twilights to come,
I write for peace among men, peace in their hearts and souls,
The wild nights, the worldly sights,
I am bound in new white pages,
I am read throughout the ages.
I am old and I am new,
I am false and I am true.
I am past, present, and future,
I am modern and old culture.
I am the hero and the villain,
Why I write? I write because it’s right and its fundamental value can compensate for what I’m feeling. I write to tell the story of my life, what I’ve done, where I’ve been, what’s my meaning?
So why do I write?
I am not a poet, but I write a lot
of poetry.
So why do I write?
I write to show my point of view.
So why do I write?
Sometimes it’s to feel like I have
a small amount of control.
"Who are you?"
Are you the super sweet one
that everyone seems to know so well
Or maybe the one thats so swift to get angry
And begin to yell
Or are you the one
That's slowly sinking into sadness
This
Is who I am,
Feelings
You cannot find
With five senses.
Feelings,
Of the worlds pain
As my own.
This
Is me
In a much greater place
Than thee.
So great,
I love you.
I love you
I love yo
I love y
I love
I lov
I lo
I l
I
I
I l
I lo
I lov
I love
I love y
I love yo
I love you
I love you.
A distant Utter; a mythical Stutter?
In Youth, is It serious truth?
Must be fictitious; It is never to be serious.
But Observe! Another undefined curve!
For Play or For Real? They May both Seal.
Sometimes I feel lost in the dark
But I can hide it with a smile
And wait for the stars
Before reaching high
Challenges. My plans are like fogged glass
And nothing is new
You don't where I come from
You don't know what I've been through
You don't know how many nights I
Stayed up crying for you
You just think this is a game
But you're the one to realy blame
Running down a dirt street
With my bare feet
Holding on your hand
As tight as I can
And never letting go
Running from my past
And going to the future
Running through time ain't a bad crime
I am a charismatic girl, with big goals and aspirations
I wonder where I will be in about 5 years from now
I hear encouraging words from the angels watching over me in heaven
Dreaming of a new age which
Requires all of us to work together for a brighter future.
Your love is my personal Diamond...
Many want it...
But only I have it...
& I wouldn't trade it....
For anything in the World...
For it is PRICELESS!
I don't need your pessimism.
I don't need your false hope.
I don't need your tears.
I don't need your pain.
I don't need your broken heart.
I can do bad all by myself.
I am a misunderstood girl,
who want to be loved.
I wonder if i'll ever find it.
I hear love songs and feel that
inevitable sense of lose.
I see lovers all around me,
but i hide away from them
