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  Love you through the Darkness

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  Cloth tears, the Velvet curtain of my mind, Ripples. Thoughts of You, are like tiny fingers Pulling at the hem of my Skirt. Like a big kid, a Bully, I ignore them. Deep breaths, sharp, Quick, like clipping winds. I tell myself to breathe, But my breath starts to push Aside that dark cu...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Things I Can't Say

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  It’s the first day of school. Different town, different clothes, no friends, Again… “Tell me something interesting about yourself.” I laugh, Sigh And think, because there are so many things I could Say. I think about the years I spent Locked away, in safety, Afraid of almost a...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Sickness

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  The coughing starts Then the shakes set in, We’ve all seen this, We know where it begins. We know, in an instant, Where you were last night And that you were with Her Again… They say your sickness is a Disease, an addiction, And we should be sympathetic while You try to get better�...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Only the Eyes Can Tell

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  His eyes are dark, Ruddy brown, Like mud and storm clouds That turn black with Unshed rain. His body is taut, Fists clenched and muscles Ready to fight, Like wires stretched across A stainless steal frame. His mind, always Working, toiling Finds as much rest as A monk preparing for...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Machine

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  I have made myself Into a machine. I have done so Deliberately, In order to endure, In order not to feel— But it has killed my soul. I have deliberately Killed my senses— I have deliberately Died, In order to go on With the outward Form of living. I have deliberately Cut myse...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Am The Teddy Bear

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  There is dust on my nose And buttons that are my eyes Are coming unthreaded. She forgot me, And I am lonely, Shoved in a taped-up box In the back of a closet, Next to Sally the doll Who sings. I remember her, Blonde ringlets bouncing As she ran, she and I, arm in arm. I watched, As the ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Walks

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  I took long walks That multiplied my body into Companionable parts. My hands each held Onto another, As my lungs copied Painful sighs. My eyes stared into The depths of the ocean As I heard the Waves crash against my feet… I took long walks That multiplied my body into Companiona...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Am Perfection

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  I hide, everyday, behind thick layers of makeup and a perfected smile. There is never a hair nor a peice of myself out of place. I am Perfection in the easiest way......
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Dark Day Rising

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  His footsteps echo In dead ears, His reflection shimmers In a pooled mirror. He smiles to himself Laying his weapon into A charcoal case. Her dead eyes stare Upwards, Her twisted face Frozen In deadly fear. He walks calmly Onto a train Headed north, headed Home, Headed back to h...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I am unknown...

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  I am the whisper, The silent scream, The first and last drop of blood In violent scene. I am the forced smile, The joyous frown, The terrifyingly Amusing clown. I am the emptiness Too far down to find, I am the crippling desires Ripping apart your mind. I am the innocence You st...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  You Became

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  Once upon a time, I was alone, In a place where light became darkness. I hid myself in shame because I was A Lover without a Heart, A Princess without a Prince, An Artist without a Canvas, A Singer without a Song, A Fighter without a Cause… I was ready to condemn myself To a life...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  Christmas At Home

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  The day, it was Christmas, and all through the house, noises erupted, no one was quiet, not even a mouse. No one would go near it, the door of the house, fearing, it would yield an unwanted truth. But everything would go as planned today. The doorbell rang, almost violently, and a well built man...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  Four Seasons of a Soilder

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  The Recruitment: They always come, with their uniforms a little too big and their smiles a little too wide. They came for you father, and your uncle, long before your birth. When you were merely eight, they came for your older brother and he walked away with them, never to be seen again. And now ...
• Fiction > Thriller/Mystery
  Third Room At The End of The Hall

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  The girl stood infront of the mirror, carefully studiying her apperance. It’s day four of no sleep, and her eyes have started to sink into her skull. The charcole black bags above her cheek bones emphasize the purple-red veins that drew lacy patterns in the whites of her eyes. Her twigg like finge...
• Fiction > Thriller/Mystery
  Eating People is Probably Wrong

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  The television crackles as it comes to life. That hasn’t happened in a week, so you scoot closer to it, and couple pieces of your bones splinter into your skin. You don’t wince anymore; pain is something you can’t feel. There’s a really pretty lady on the television. Your mom called it a ‘...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Justifying God

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  There is something dark that hides in your soul. When you are angered, it cloaks your eyes in a mist of red. In times of great turmoil, it drowns you slowly in a deep blue sea of depression. Sometimes you can feel the smoky tendrils of darkness wrapping themselves around your throat. That same d...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  One Last Time

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  “Kiss me, One last time” She whimpered As her blood mixed with mine. “Kiss me, One last time, And forgive me For all the things I’ve done this time…” “Kiss me, One last time” She begged As her body Writhed in pain, Pierced atop a Malicious twisted Metal pl...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  If I Die Tomorrow

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  If I die tomorrow, take the bullets From my heart. If I die tomorrow, take my heart From my chest. If I die tomorrow, take the love From my heart, And wear it around your neck Like a locket. If I die tomorrow, keep that locket On your neck And remember, I was trying to change. If I die...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  This History

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  You know my face. Some of you call me friend, even sister. But do you know my history? All my faults, horrors, loves, losses, and explanations? And if you did, would you love me in spite of them, for them? If you truly knew who I was once upon a time would you shatter you alliance ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Maybe

  

  By PainfullyShy, FPO (State = AP), United States

  Maybe I am not the person you think of me as. I am more than what you think you see. I have secrets too. Doesn't everyone? But my secrets have more to them than they should. Maybe I am a person with troubles that go deeper than most. Is it my fault that I am different? If that�...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  He is a rainbow

  

  By PainfullyShy, Alexandria, VA

  His love is a deep red, that bleeds out endlessly from his heart His endurance is a flaming orange as he runs from life to life from end to end trying to be the change he seeks His optimism is a sunny yellow that keeps me smiling, that keeps me going from day to day, from disappoin...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Screaming at the Wall

  

  By PainfullyShy, Alexandria, VA

  Its just another suburbon weekend and Grandma's screaming at the wall mom and dad are upstairs fighting it sounds like they're ready to end it all. Its just another suburon Monday and brother is cutting through his veins he smiles as his blood pools, he says it takes away his pain...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Lion

  

  By PainfullyShy, Alexandria, VA

  Last night I saw a lion twisted in a bow I heard someone crow as he wiggled to and fro Someone laughed at his agony, his bones snapped and pure stark white contrasted with his vermillion flow I felt almost bad for him. in his death drained state he could not help himself... he call...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I prayed to God (for a close friend)

  

  By PainfullyShy, Alexandria, VA

  I prayed to God, show me and angel and I'll paint you one. Let me hear it's voice and I will sing a thousand songs with it. Let me be held in it's strong grasp and I will never leave it. Let me see it's handsome face and I will write a million poems prasing it. Let me...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  A million faces

  

  By PainfullyShy, Alexandria, VA

  We move beyond cars and trucks, all of the drivers faceless people... I have to wonder, if I had the chance would I try to know them? If I had the chance would I reach out a hand to caress a bruised heart? Would I smooth one'e wrinkled brow and calm one's racing mind? Would I ...