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  Turn Around

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  Turn Around FIRST VERSE: I really wish you‘d realize, how I look at you, cause baby how we do, just ain’t normal, you got me on my toes, babe my heart in the throes, oh I just can’t stand this CHORUS: I’m waiting for you to turn around, and see just how I been hanging around for you,...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Fully Prepared

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  I'm fully prepared for all the abuse to come, I know the punches before they land, all the kicks I can stand, The words hurt, as you might see, if my abusers got to know me. I'm fully prepared for your spiteful tongue, fully prepared for the day for do be long, I'm fully prepared loc...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Think I Might Love You

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  I know you don't want to hear it. I know you don't want to believe it. I know we've been friends for years. I know you love her. I know you want us to stay friends. I know you love me. I know you think of me as a sister. I know you despise how I feel. I know you could care less abo...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Why do You Care?

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  Why do you care? Let's face it, you don't know me. I'd feel better if you didn't care. But instead, I like you, and you like me, and I have every possibility to get my heart broken. My head and my heart aren't in the same place, they ain't agreeing, I don't know if...
• Opinion > Discrimination
  All You People Who Think You Can Change Them

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  Every one of the homophobes who think they can change homosexuals by hating on them should read this. You can't change them. It wasn't a choice. What sexuality you are doesn't change WHO you are. If you were friends before this person came out, why would you stop being friends with th...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Dream

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  Dream of me I dream of you I dream of you Do you dream of me too? I dream of love and peace while you dream of going to war because you are my dream soldier boy And so to this sheet my heart I pour You love violence and injury to bruise and cut I love healing and unity and when the mo...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Happy

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  I'm happy. Sort of. Let's face, all that makes me happy these days is seeing you happy. I don't care if I have full rights to be sad, and don't care if I'm supposed to be furious at you, as long as you are happy, I am too. Because I love you, and I need you, whether you need...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I'm Done Saying Sorry

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  I'm done saying sorry, to you, to my mom, to those I love, and those who I drag down. I'm done feeling sorry, for myself, for my friends, for everyone who knows someone as horrid as me. I'm done being sorry, about things I've done, about things I'm doing, about things I know...
• Nonfiction > All Nonfiction
  Do You Approve Gay Marriage?

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  Gay Marriage? Yeah approve of gay marriage. Do you approve of it in schools? In the world? The disapproval of gay marriage is what keeps people in the closet an what lowers a lot of people's self esteem . For all you know, your best friend could be gayer than a pink Oreo and so far back in the ...
• Nonfiction > All Nonfiction
  The Mysteries Of Life For A Teenage Girl

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  The are fine main mysteries of life for the average teenage girl. The first is boys. To start this mystery I am going to say that this one is probably the most difficult to define. Boys make life difficult and fun at the same time, and make life painful and pleasurable at the same time too. The se...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Changing My Mind

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  Deciding to change my mind is also my choice. All you need to do is help me listen to my inner voice. So dont try to change my mind for me, cause to me leaving that is really the key....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I'm not afraid

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  I'm not afraid of the dark, just whats in it, I'm not afraid of commitment, just when you leave me, I'm not afraid of risks, just when things go south....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I'm a good liar

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  I'm a good liar, but I can't lie to you, I'm a good liar, but I can't lie about you, I'm a good liar, so I CAN lie about loving you. </3...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  If you found out

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  If you found out I love you, you'd look at me even weirder, If you found out how much I think of you, you'd never speak to me again, though if you found out how many guys I dated to try to get over you, you would swell with pride....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Truth Is

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  Truth is I love you, Truth is I wouldn't be able to live without seeing your handsome face, Truth is my heart akes and wants for you to return these feelings, Truth is I probably would have said yes if you asked me to marry you on the spot, Truth is, that was probably a lie, Truth is I would pr...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Im in love with you

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  I cant help it, it feels so right, I wish it wasn't true, but I'm in love with you I keep looking for the good in this, when I know you don't love me too, but I'm in love with you I wish things were different, I wish I didn't care, I wish I didn't have too, I wish...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Falling

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  My tears are falling, as I am for you, the days are passing, but you still love her too, so my tears are falling, as i did for you, my heart is braking, as my tears fall to the ground, your falling deeper for her, as you could never for me, my tears are falling, the days are passing, and you are sti...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Acting

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  Acting like you care, Acting like you love, Acting like you have a heart to love with, Acting as if you love me, Acting as if you care about me, Acting as if that imaginary heart makes you able to love me, Acting like you care at all, Acting as if you are able to love me like I love you, Acting as i...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  All I felt

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  If the love was all I felt, then this would be okay. But since it isnt, since I feel the pain too, I have to leave. I have to change....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  How the world ends

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  The world will not end in a bang, but with a whimper. A whimper of those who are weak, afraid of death. A whimper of those who believe themselves too young to die. The truth being that no one is too young. We all have our time, whenever it may be. And that, I conclude, is how the world shall end....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Pay me back in kind

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  I cause you pain, but you say its all the same, I know its kinda lame, to say sorry with a poem, when I know you already know em, its like you read my mind, like we could be perfectly in time, like the love I feel, is really real, and this time, you pay me back in kind...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Hurting me hurts you the most

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  If hurting me hurts you the most, then why do you choose to hurt me, why not be an intelligent person, stay away from hurting me, but no that would be a good choice, so that's not possible...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Make me Cry

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  I cry for you, I would die for you, But still you make me cry, tears rolling down my face, I don't know why love her, and make me cry, by being with when you were with me first, I know I have my head in the books, and don't pay attention sometimes, but I act like I love you, and I dooooooo...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Leaving Me Behind

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  Do you just feel the need, to make my heart bleed, leaving me behind, making me cry, hate the lies, hated the final good-byes, but for once I am glad, that now that I am over you, my boyfriend is driving you mad...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Impossible

  

  By MMorton, Oriental, NC

  If love is possible, how can it be, that it feels so not, that the love I have felt for a whole year, has been so impossibly ignored, so unnoticed, so impossible...