All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers by goodbyebluemonday43, literature
Literature
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
she's the kind of girl who's so beautiful you just want her to notice you/you think about her/write about her/breathe her when she's close/and just wish she'd never go away//she's the kind of girl who has that way about her you'll never really get/so you just stare at her and wonder why she has all that hurt in her eyes/why she hides beneath tiger stripes and pastel sweaters /she's the kind of girl who's so special everyone's afraid to touch her/and she just wonders why she's always the one touching/to touch her hair is to touch a part of her beyond your comprehension,/a childhood too shattered to repair//she's the kind of girl who tries
goodbye blue monday by goodbyebluemonday43, literature
Literature
goodbye blue monday
The darkness hugs me into its warm arms, caressing me with a gentle touch, as if it had given birth to me, a healthy baby girl, and was overjoyed. The stars beckoned to me as if telling me I belonged among them, shining high above the heads of humanity, free from the bonds of mortality.
For one fleeting moment, it was as if I didn't even exist, like I had faded into friction, forgotten at last. It didn't frighten me, but my shock frightened my mother, my darkness, and it began to recede as the sun extinguished the beauty of the shadows in an attempt to be a hero. I rejected the thought that maybe the light was positive, preferring instead
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers by goodbyebluemonday43, literature
Literature
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
she's the kind of girl who's so beautiful you just want her to notice you/you think about her/write about her/breathe her when she's close/and just wish she'd never go away//she's the kind of girl who has that way about her you'll never really get/so you just stare at her and wonder why she has all that hurt in her eyes/why she hides beneath tiger stripes and pastel sweaters /she's the kind of girl who's so special everyone's afraid to touch her/and she just wonders why she's always the one touching/to touch her hair is to touch a part of her beyond your comprehension,/a childhood too shattered to repair//she's the kind of girl who tries
goodbye blue monday by goodbyebluemonday43, literature
Literature
goodbye blue monday
The darkness hugs me into its warm arms, caressing me with a gentle touch, as if it had given birth to me, a healthy baby girl, and was overjoyed. The stars beckoned to me as if telling me I belonged among them, shining high above the heads of humanity, free from the bonds of mortality.
For one fleeting moment, it was as if I didn't even exist, like I had faded into friction, forgotten at last. It didn't frighten me, but my shock frightened my mother, my darkness, and it began to recede as the sun extinguished the beauty of the shadows in an attempt to be a hero. I rejected the thought that maybe the light was positive, preferring instead
The first time I met you, we walked down the railroad
tracks hand in hand, and I let you break all my fingers,
one by one. "There's beauty in pain," you said, and you
were in my bloodstream, a drug dancing through my brain.
God, for you I wanted to be beautiful, I wanted to be
magnificent. In the dark of my room, you cut me open and
tore me apart, planting poison in my chest like a bird cage,
until there was a fluttering new fear that would fill me up.
I asked you once if you were the devil, but you laughed and
showed me the holes in your hands and the hollow in your eyes.
"I want to be saved," I begged, and you etched the Lord's
p
you're playing tic
tac
toe
on a chessboard
you're carving letters on the white squares and i'm building my castles and creating my kingdom
on the darker side of the table
call yourself the influence, an addiction
like you're proud of that, like you
aren't something to be quit and fought and resisted
tell me that words don't matter but
we're speaking now and i can back you into a corner and you
can't fight back because you don't have the words you never thought you'd need
and he says it didn't hurt and by wish-sticks, literature
Literature
and he says it didn't hurt and
you'd nail yourself to a tornado, darling
tie yourself up in the waves and tell yourself that
it's just water
it won't hurt you
you popped the discs in your spine and twisted your shoulder
blades
back and back and snapping
click your tongue and your fingers and your camera
photoflash and lick
biting the dry skin from your lips and pressing it against his
you'd press yourself close only to
tear it away
why on earth did you decide that a recovering addict was a good person to love?
when did you start to think that the bass beat of your feet
and the revolution in your eyes weren't addictive? stupid
stupid girl
they could bottle y
They say it is better to be weak than selfish.
That it is better to be stupid,
to make a mistake,
than to walk knowingly into the dark.
They think it is better to be wrong than to be right.
People have died, will die
have been buried and burned and devoured
(by mud and by blood)
but not for love.
Children are born and raised,
taught not to lie by lying tongues -
and your voice is cold with all you have seen
and they are warm.
You cannot scare me, threaten me, break me. I have no cause
no fantastic idea,
but you cannot win.
I will be myself when you cut me and when you burn me
and when I am dead I will still be this;
I am ho
comparetheheartbreak.com by wish-sticks, literature
Literature
comparetheheartbreak.com
this is a drunken poem which means that
i won't remember it and i'm about to tell the truth
and we can't run away from this
so what you are is nails in my spine
you bend me and twist me down and we're going to the sea
we're going to fill our pockets with rocks
and our shoes with feet and our hands with hands
puddle-feet
i'm going to learn what mermaids are
you're going to turn me into foam on the wave
and i'm going to tell you about
chaos theory
because i'm the first point and you're the second and
we swing in known patterns, we make shapes
that everyone could predict
and then you found bottles and i found love and i swear
i t
she had a mole on her cheek
where her smiles folded into the rest of her face
and it kind of looked like a tear
she told me that she believed in a god and that
everyone could love
if they wanted to love
and twenty minutes later i had her drunk and blaspheming
i thought maybe that god of hers
had put that mole there
so everyone who needed to could see
that she was holding something back
that she was fixing her inability to cry
by crying all the time
in other ways
but oh
who am i kidding (who am i kissing)
she was a genuinely good person
and she wanted to love
if i wanted to see someone broken
so badly
i should have
Death is coming to town, today
get out the fine china -
no, not the bone.
Set the table with cakes and wines and fine,
fine foods. She is coming for a wake,
for The Wake.
He is dead. My words have dried in my throat
and she has come to clear it
in much the manner a forest fire would clear the land.
Lay down the tablecloth, and bolt all the doors
my heart has burst in my chest
like all the stars in the sky will do one day.
The funeral will be for our sakes,
but this is for his - to live for one moment
as bright as he ever did.
The Memorization of Graffiti. by rockandrollover, literature
Literature
The Memorization of Graffiti.
We sit and memorize
the graffiti on the concrete
and I can't help but notice
that you make me nervous
on nights like these;
Nights when I trace
the outline of your back
the crest on your shoulder
the heart in your chest
and play connect the dots
with the freckly stars in the sky.
You tell me about your plans
and I realize that you were made
for incredible things.
And in the middle of the night when I sit
listening to the unconscious curling whispers
your throat makes when you sleep,
I realize that I, too, was made
for incredible things.
"You sure are something else."
"It was Trout's fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, "What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man's first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,'I am here, I am here, I am here.' "