When did perfume become chloroform?
Look at our country, so misinformed.
Listen to what we tell our daughters and our sisters,
lecturing them on what to look for and after, what they must've missed
or where they messed up.
Rape isn't a mistake
and it's not a matter of taking
pr...
You push me away
because you've been poisoned
by false ideals
that whatever can't get close
can't hurt you.
Too bad it never occurred to you
that the person closest to you is yourself
and you're doing just that without anyone else's help.
You think the voice betw...
Everyone you love will one day die
and everything you cherish will one day slide
through your fingertips,
but despair over this
you may,
don't bother asking why.
You're not the first or last to go try
finding answers that don't exist
to questions that are not impossible,
but ...
“You're not going to graduate high school, you know that, right?”
I tell him this, arms crossed and eyebrow cocked and standing over him as he's sitting cross-legged in the grass, but despite my casting shadows over his baby-faced features that clash with his baggy jeans and oversiz...
Some things are better left in the past,
things that broke and others that just didn't last,
so whatever you do, don't look back,
because whatever's behind follows
and whatever follows must be alive,
or undead.
Some things are better left unsaid,
things that might hurt and othe...
No?
Hah,
what a riot.
No.
Ha-ha-ha!
That's so hilarious.
That's so cute.
That's so endearing.
That's so...
Precious.
You love me;
you can't say no to me.
You love me
and I don't love you back.
You'd die for me
and I'd stand back
and laugh,
and...
Filled out applications,
wrote down recommendations,
got an education,
filled with anticipation,
focusing on being patient,
surrounding myself with motivation,
and still good for nothing,
good for nothing more.
Pulled myself together,
managed to sober up and get better,
healed my heart a...
Love and hate are identical twins.
They're two sides of the same coin, really.
Both have a reason to be,
told by an indescribable story
that can only be truly understood if stepped into
and transported to by two pairs of shoes.
Both see
red:
one for roses
and the other for blood,
o...
I wish I could fix you,
Straighten you up,
Smooth you out.
I wish I could fix you,
Take my hands
and clean yours.
I wish I could fix you,
Mend all that's broken
and sew all that's ripped.
I wish I could fix you,
Embrace every flaw until
Pressure produces a diamond.
I wish I co...
I don't understand.
I don't understand nature's cruelty,
the way the ones we need are free to come and go as they please
despite their admirer's attachment.
Or the way a mother can leave her child
as that child's hands reach out to her,
with tiny, soft, untainted fingers straining
to reac...
Hazy smiles,
Lazy laughs,
Crazy schemes
and stupid plans.
Splish-splash in the rain,
Walkin' back and forth everyday.
Love in the blue sky,
Soft like an M&M,
Every time I arrive, I see them.
Always there, maybe late,
But never ditched, no skipped dates.
Hand-in-hand friendships
...
My mouth sewn shut,
Dry blood 'cross my lips.
Undoing the stitching;
That's what Life is.
While some rise,
You see,
Others must sink,
and rarely is anything what you thought or think.
It's cruel and it's cold,
But we all want to be heard,
So desperately we scramble,
...
How many minutes,
How many days
Does it typically take
To decide between action
and fate?
I feel I've waited long enough,
But the clock runs independent,
As I feel its ticking has worn me rough,
It decides to add a few more seconds.
The numbers change,
But its incessant tick-tocking f...
I've heard my fair share of the truth,
and my fair share of lies,
But to my demise,
I can't tell which is better.
The obvious would choose the truth,
and protest that youth
Is wasted on an illusion waiting to crumble,
But what if I'm more humble
Than someone who believes they ...
I meant nothing to them,
Like they meant nothing to me,
So why do I
Find myself so late at night,
Striving to recall these
Decadent tales
and fairytale stories
That weren't so pretty
As much as they were gory.
My life has been an ode
To these,
Will it be the same in death?
What will...
If I tell the truth a thousand times
Would it feel a thousand times lighter?
If I tell the truth to a thousand people
Would the weight be divided by a thousand?
If I scream it on the roof tops,
Give it all that I've got,
Yell all that I've seen,
Would it wipe the slate clean?
How d...
What is a kiss?
A moment of lust,
A moment of bliss,
Or a mistake shared between us?
It's a meeting of two sets of lips,
Two lives,
Twice the risk,
Two seconds to revive,
Or one to split.
Usually, it's a mutual transaction,
But sometimes accidents happen.
It's intimacy or i...
You smell me all over your skin,
Well here I am!
I sense you're about to reminisce again.
If this is what bliss is,
Then you don't want to live this life
Where you're constantly faced with such pathetic pity and strife.
All you have is dead
And you're forced to relive that...