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Poetry Marathon Archive Seventeen

EightHundredOne

 So it's over. 
 It's the night and you can breath again, unrestrained.
 Unconfined, your solitary, succulent, socialite soul goes out to 
 drink in the warm papaya night that isn't under your window.
 Where is he?
 Where is the music you always were afraid to dance to?
 What does your world become when the same music box tune
 plays in your head like candy,
 and the beat is uneven,
 but you never stop to care.
 Spread your wings, soft feathers, multicolored brown, mottled blue. 
 Patterns in your feathers, stars in your feathers, dreams only now 
 coming true.
 Learn to see beyond. 
 Learn the time to fall, and how to do it gracefully.
 Just because it's obnoxious doesn't mean it's bad.
 Just because it's new doesn't mean it won't go away.
 Wake up with the dawn and see the face that surfaces like a drowned
 sun in your mirror
 as your own.  
 ~Becky~

EightHundredTwo

 And the beat was un-even
 and you never stopped to care
 just kept moving, avoiding, leaving
 other people called it "running away"
 you called it "escape" and somehow
 the two were entirely different.
 Different feet everywhere you went
 and all of them could dance
 and all of them tried to teach you
 and all of them failed.
 You got so used to shuffling
 that listening and moving and following
 were hard to learn
 and you kept tripping 
 and they'd laugh
 and you'd leave.
 
 Your goal in life
 was never to get stuck
 and you suceeded for a while
 but then you learned to spin and looked into eyes
 that were smiling
 and you never knew eyes could smile before
 and your feet wouldn't move the way you asked them to
 just kept going in circles
 without tripping
 and there was more to learn
 and you wanted to learn it all.
 You learned to smile
 to giggle and laugh
 and when someone tickles you now you don't
 suck your stomach in.
 You learned to ask and listen and fall
 and someone was there to catch you
 and everything was perfect.
 Then one day
 you fell
 and kept falling
 and the hands were gone
 and you had forgotten how to escape.

FrannyIsRad


NumberEightOhThree

 you had forgotton
 the way a body has such a presence. how he was so tall.
 how could anyone dominate
 a doorway like that?
 walking two steps to each of his one, you had forgotton
 what it was like to smile bounce skip hop
 wear sunglasses
 gaze up adoringly past the sunlight filtering past his neck and shoulders
 you'd forgotton how he could leave you behind
 how he'd stride, watching the distance
 how he'd leave you one step shorter, so you could
 smile and melt and grin and love all you wanted
 without fear of being caught.
 
 you know you thought you'd forgotten how to love
 you were afraid how thin the butterflies wings were getting lately
 afraid that if they tried to flap too hard
 they'd curl up and die, fluttering cold to the ground.
 
 were you glad, the day you realized, he would always stop for you
eventually? 
 turning and smiling as you trotted to catch up
 were you rejoicing the day the butterflies wings built up so much
 that they caused hurricanes in other parts of the world?
 or did your stomach turn
 when you realized how much there was to forget again?
 you know you are afraid of being destroyed
 by something as powerful as
 a million butterflies. you know you're scared of being swept up by their
colors and their wings.
 you know you are blissful that he'll walk beside you now, his arm around
you now, you are never left behind now,
 but it's so much harder to see the sun, from there.
 are you glad you remembered
 what you thought you'd forgotten? or are you wishing for
 a single butterfly
 wings fluttering gently
 against the sun?

--RoyaBoya


 8oh4
 I bet you thought that I had gone?
 I bet you thought you'd gotten ride of me
 And my bloody words
 But when you gave me that look 
 I turned around and said
 how could i even close 
 a doorway like that? 
 My Poetry is the way of me
 It's my baby that's only 5 months old.
 When my baby poetry weeps
                          i weep.
     When my baby crys
                     i cry.
           When my baby laughs 
    i laugh.
 i watched my baby grow up 
 from my first poem number 51
 to my latest ones that no one has seen.
 my poetry is my baby 
 the baby i love.

--Heather who is back on wiki poetry


 805
 But when you gave me that look,
 Such a look I don't think I've ever seen.
 My oppionions came crashing down with your hug,
 like dynamite for the soul,
 my barriers fled as I thought WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?
 You happend to me.
 Made me think. 
 Made me question how I looked at people,
 how I saw them as impervious to me,
 or thin and pourous and yearning to be filled with my love.
 I'm still scared. 
 Still afraid to give kindness to strangers
 who may turn their backs, toss their heads,
 and dismiss me with a sigh.
 But I see myself like a mountain
 where before I was a valley.
 I see myself as determined
 where before I was indesicive.
 I look you in the eyes now,
 and smile.
 ~Becky~

EightOhSix

 i look you in the eye
 look myself in the eye
 and try and decide what's real.
 the glimmer of mischeviousness
 the welling of tears
 or the smile?
 special smiles from your lips
 that i roll up and stick in my pocket
 to keep for later
 when i'm cold and silent and none of my friends
 notice
 i take out that smile and wrap it around me
 and eat chocolate memories of when
 the sun was shining on the porch steps
 and perfect was a jar of peanut butter
 and saltine crackers
 and bare feet.
 and i wear navy blue
 and remember you.

FrannyIsRad


NumberEightOhSeven

 when i'm cold and silent and none of my friends notice
 you know i'm all
 curled up right now, alone, and
 i try to swallow down
 emerging panick. something big and blue and freezing
 from somewhere deep and dark inside
 and i sit
 like a glacier
 
 melting
 into my hands. i bend over the keyboard
 and tears drizzle into the pool. you can't even tell.
 you don't even know.
 how could you be expected to
 i still type in smileys
 even when my eyes feel like
 stones. rocks. gravel.
 scratching.
 you make the pit in my stomach ten times heavier
 and i can't move. can't breathe. i don't even want to write
 poetry won't make anything better
 all it does is warm my fingers up
 so it constrasts starkly
 when i touch my freezing forehead.
 where are you to tell me
 to keep warm?

--RoyaBoya


EightZeroEight

 I try to swallow down emerging panic.
 Losing control would not be good right now,
 or ever again.
 Panic would mean crying, 
 being scared,
 refusing to let go of you.
 No. I won't do that.
 So I cram it down,
 stuff it out of the way.
 Maybe if I ignore it long enough
 it will disappear.
 So just hold me
 as we watch the time we have left together
 rapidly disappear.

~Qetyria~


EightOhNine

 so this is it 
 i swallow my last
 real breath of you
 and cough you back up
 and you stream down my face
 so this is it 
 baby's on fire
 a scorcher, this one is.
 But daddy's lost to your secrets
 that he thinks are his:
 I imagine a smack
 and your cheek bleeding blue
 but even bruised and beaten up
 still doesn't suck away
 daily aches
 from where you chill out 
 in my chest.
 so is this.
 this is so.
 don't go.

~Maggie


EightTen

 in my chest
 this feeling of collapsing
 caving in
 yet emtiness
 like when someone leaves and a room grows
 larger and smaller
 and someone HAS left.
 i think it's you.
 your feet just shuffling out
 of my life
 in fluffy pink
 slippers and how can friendship
 leave so quietly
 no stomping
 or slammed doors just
 gone.
 i'm holding a slip of paper you wrote on
 when we still giggled together
 and i don't giggle a lot
 and all the paper says is
 "i'll always be here for you"
 and i wonder who invented "always"
 and how long it REALLY is.
 and if "forever" lasts any longer than
 "tomorrow"
 and the calluses on my fingertips
 are fading
 since i don't play my guitar
 anymore
 whose here to listen
 but how i was proud of those calluses
 now i'm trying to do that
 to my heart.

FrannyIsRad

 

 EightEleven
 whose here to listen
 to the incoherent rambles
 of a brown haired girl 
 and i wonder
 do they really want to listen?
 or do they just say that
 to keep me in a state
 of semi-consciousness
 i look up at the stars
 and its midnight
 i'm wondering
 who i really am
 and who i will be
 whose here to listen
 to my strange sayings
 and singing in the rain
 those phone calls
 at 3 am
 speaking of faerys and stars
 and i realize that there are many people
 here to listen
 all i have to do is ask.
 ~Jadzia

 EightTwelve
 
 Do they really want to listen?
 The silences seem to stretch on 
 for miles.
 For every word you don't say
 I fill in 20.
 I coil the phone cord
 around and around my finger,
 thinking of all the people you must have talked to
 in your life,
 and I'm sure they were all more interesting
 than me.
 When you laugh,
 it's like bells chiming
 and I shiver in wonder that something I said
 could create such a sound.
 You know, I never stop 
 to question
 why I care so much
 if this phone call is perfect,
 or if it's just an odd mix of awkward giggles and long sighs
 like most.
 I have to prove something to you.
 But what if I screw it up?
 I feel like there's only one chance,
 one phone call
 to prove my entire character to you.
 Fuck that.
 I'd rather just hang up.
 ~Becky~

 EightThirteen
 as the plane descends through a tangle
 of buildings, skeleton glass brightly
 shining back at the plane, 
 it should have been raining
 you think as you dial the number
 (your mother's number, your husbands number
 your friend's number, your sister and brother)
 people saying their goodbyes
 through plastic mobile phones
 with guns pointed at their heads
 through the chill of
 their impending death
 through the kill of
 your sinking hope.
 and my shattered shock to
 watch your death on the TV screen
 to read your obliteration
 on the computer
 it must have been relief to hang up
 after saying "I love you, goodbye"
 and swallowing down tears and bile.
 you close your eyes and pray
 that the clenching shiver
 in your stomach, sharp and acid
 screaming and raging through plastic
 they must be laughing
 i hope they're happy
 at the last minute agony
 becomes a joke, just like everything else
 becomes smoke, and stench fills the air
 reminding me of terror -- can you imagine?
 i can.

--Eireann


EightOneFour

 Looking back on that day,
 it should have been raining.
 Remember when there was rain.
 We were united,
 brought together,
 many voices made one. 
 Warm, crowded,
 we didn't quite fit,
 but a little extra crowding didn't bother us.
 The rain bonded us together,
 then set us free,
 dancing off to change the world.
 Without the rain,
 yes, we are free now,
 but we've forgotten how to dance.
 There was no rain to close the old chapter,
 which makes it that much harder
 to begin a new one.

~Qetyria~


NumberEightOneFive

 rain bonded us together,
 the kind of bond where you don't really want to
 know the person that well
 i knew just about all
 that i was comfortable with.
 but acid rain like drops of unrequited love
 hissed on our unprotected heads
 and now
 our poetry is linked.
 and now the songs i listen to are tainted
 because you've listened to them too
 and i think they mean more to me.
 i am the one who feels so deep. i am the one who cares more than she
should.
 you laugh, you flirt, you put another conquest on the back shelf
 and i hurt, i fade against your extraordinarily bright image
 loving more than you've ever known.
 it was my love that overflowed and splashed down
 like acid
 on your head. and now you've confused it with your own
 
 and our poetry is linked. linked and i want to sever our connection,
because
 i have drowned in rain
 and you have always evaded getting in too deep.

--RoyaBoya


EightOneSix

 i am the one who feels so deep
 who cares more than she should
 
 everytime i get close to someone
 i can't help but wonder
 how much do they really care?
 is it real or just an illusion
 something to pass by later on
 like a silly school girl crush
 that you look back on and laugh about
 i know you, but who will take the time
 to get to know me, who i really am?
 "i prefer to dig for gold"
 thats the line i'd love to hear
 whispered from your lips...
 ~Jadzia

817

 Gone.
 You have left me.
 But to where i wonder.
 Heaven?
 Hell?
 Is there such a thing? 
 Is there a difference?
 I can't tell.
 All I know is you are gone.
 We will never read together again.
 Or laugh together,
 Or lie on the grass and watch the stars,
 Or a thousand other things.
 I will never hear your voice,
 Or thrill when you touch me.
 Or feel your lips against mine.
 I will never see a smile light up your face.
 All these things I will never know again.
 What I wouldn't give to hear the words 
 "I love you"
 Wispered from your lips,
 once more.
 ~erynne

817

 
 liftoff
 but to where i wonder
 in lowercase freebase
 and a suitcase
 blacknsilver zipper closed and bursting
 with bits of me and bits just aquired.
 blaming the growl
 of nerves
 (when a man
 in a towel turban sits near)
 on indigestion.
 behind the eye-dreams
 of drugs
 when i get home
 will there be something left?
 or maybe just a hole
 with me and my fatsuitcase
 standing in the center of a cloud
 that used to be steel
 and a pulse.
 ---Maggie

818

 standing in the center of a cloud
 swirling mists surround me
 
 my life was like a black and white photo
 before you came
 you color the mists with rainbows
 and dance in the moonlight 
 like a faery
 
 i have bursts of realization
 where just for a moment
 everything makes sense
 like a key that likes to appear
 at odd moments of the day
 you open the door to avalon
 and fairytales at midnight
 i smile and you giggle
 goddess girl
 my life was like a black and white photo
 before you came

~Jadzia


EightNineteen

 i smile
 and remember
 when i used to laugh
 and a smile is all that's left
 no one ever told me that once you forget
 how to laugh
 getting it back taked practice
 just like no one ever said
 that once someone leaves they're gone
 but you still don't forget
 once something's over
 you still hurt
 and when i cry out in pain
 and they ask where it hurts
 and i point to my heart and say "here"
 and they laugh.
 i smile and bite my lip
 just hard enough 
 not too hard
 enough to not say a word
 and know i'm real and here
 and not draw blood
 and no one can see because my hair
 makes a cutain round my face 
 and i cry out in pain
 and they ask where it hurts
 and i point to my heart and say "here"
 they smirk a little but look thoughtful.
 i lie in bed and sploch
 my journal pages with tears
 and enjoy the way blue lines look
 smeared together
 i cross thing out
 write them in again in pencil
 earase them
 write them in again with pen
 and i draw windows and flowers
 on my palm
 no one's gonna hold my hand
 so they won't smear
 and i cry out in pain 
 and they ask where it hurts 
 and i point to my heart and say "here"
 
 and they say "i understand" with wet eyes
 and give me a hug.

FrannyIsRad


EightTwenty

 smeared together, I can still tell
 where I began
 before our words blurred together and
 you showed me
 that language is meant to be used
 like a box of 26 crayons -
 that a rainbow doesn't even begin
 to describe the colors we can create.

For Roya

--Robyn


NumberEightTwentyOne

 like a box of 26 crayons
 i fall and scatter
 the smell of wax and blank paper
 exciting, thrilling, anticipating
 a mess all over the floor
 bright
 and brighter i am every color possible
 being ground into the carpet
 by an unsuspecting heel
 i got in trouble
 for drawing beautifully on the wall
 and i melt 
 if you leave me alone.
 i would have you be my mural
 my canvase, my butcher paper, my wall
 my blank slate
 anything is possible
 before i try to scratch my own colors on your skin.
 
 who says that 
 blank is perfect
 and that
 scribbles aren't the epitome of eloquence?
 i am the orange the blue the purple the green the marks on the table
 snapped in two 
 i am the girl who never knows
 when to stop

--RoyaBoya


 EightTwentyTwo
 wasting time with scribbles
 i'm sitting here giving into fear
 if i give in, they win
 i still don't know where the predator hides
 i still don't know where the danger lies.
 wish i wasn't sitting here
 wasting minutes, absently tapping and waiting
 should've gone back and climbed the rock face
 like i did yesterday
 to stand on top and look down
 feeling like a beautiful giant.
 i like the danger that i know.

--Eireann


EightTwentyThree

 feeling like a beauty
 and tapping my foot
 and wishing i could but memories on a TV screen
 and replay them over and over.
 pink
 hair in the sun
 "hair is pink?"
 this country girl didn't understand.
 one year later.
 purple
 hair in the sun
 "ooohhh purple hair! pretty!"
 this country girl
 didn't realize how much you change in a year.
 feeling like a beauty
 all curled up on the sofa
 watching
 (story of my life)
 listen and watch, listen and watch
 remember it all
 then when i'm home i can pour it all onto paper
 and put it in the mail
 and i mail it to you because
 maybe you didn't listen and watch
 listen and watch
 and remember it all
 sometimes i wish I was the one
 being watched.

FrannyIsRad


EightTwentyFour

 Sitting down
 tapping my foot
 not in time to any music
 only to hide my shaking.
 You still have no idea how bad that was.
 Doesn't seem like any big deal to you, I know.
 But it brought up a decades worth
 of old fears and insecurities
 and shoved them right in my face.
 I wanted to go hide in bed for the rest of the day.
 I would have
 if I had thought I could get away with it.
 So instead,
 walked through the day
 in a self destructive haze.
 Not healthy, not happy, not good.
 I knew the happy streak was too good to last for long,
 but there's always the hope that it will.

~Qete~


Eight Twenty Five

 I wish my heart was a child's again
 Pure and undamaged, a spark of light
 Not like this, not this unhealthy
 Because I know there's something missing
 A feeling where there should be love
 Thoughts, fears, and excuses
 Rush to fill the empty space
 And instead, I look to others
 To validate my importance
 Tell me I'm special always
 Like the sun, tell me I shine
 Tell me I'm that happy child
 You always wanted a child
 Not this fragmented excuse for an adult
 Who still looks for approval like a child
 Only doesn't have the resources to find it.
 I know there's something missing
 Some glowing light I could not retain
 Now that I don't shine
 How can I expect you to love me?
 When love leaks out of my heart
 Like sand through a hole
 Still, like a child
 I want to be lied to.  

--Eireann


NumberEightTwentySix

 missing
 some glowing light. i miss
 the way i couldn't cover up
 the shine. my hands were too small
 to hide the smile
 that could split
 brick walls. 
 i smell smoke tonight.
 and it makes me miss
 the he's of before. the ones that made me
 know what
 first love was.
 i miss the thought of firelight and you.
 
 and winter makes me want
 more cold. summer makes me long for heat.
 i want what i have
 one finger holding on to, but not
 what i can hold close
 to my skin, to keep me warm, protect me from burns
 you take too long to reply.
 and winter is in my heart
 while summer burns in my cheeks.

--RoyaBoya

 

NumberEightTwentySeven

 your hands trace out a story
 in my hair. I spent a whole winter in your arms,
 dreaming of forever.
 but that winter
 lasted as long as any other,
 the permedence of the season
 lasting as long as forever, at least
 in this case. the rainstorms fading 
 gradually.
 spring's violence jerking me
 to reality
 to your hands touching me
 (again)
 and
 me 
 slipping away
 like a raindrop
 down
 a
 window.

--Robyn


828

 in this case. the rainstorms fading 
 back distantly in my memory
 spring turns to summer to fall
 in a space of days, the space of 
 a thousand miles from someplace like home
 leaves are red, here, but the sun is shining,
 and the rainstorms are but a memory
 of Oregon.
  --Aredridel

EightTwentyNine

 a thousand miles from someplace like home
 and i wonder where home REALLY is
 because it sure isn't here
 where my parents are
 my family is
 my house is my family, my home
 is where i don't need to think because
 everyone understands me already
 home is where i can dodge between raindrops
 and change things in an instant
 and take what scares me and shut it in a drawer
 and leave it there
 forever
 forever
 is a long time
 but not as long as you'd think
 sometimes forever isn't even long enough for tears to evaporate
 and sometimes
 it's long enough to forget them
 forget
 forget
 forget
 is what you shouldn't do
 don't forget me?

FrannyIsRad


NumberEightThirty

 take what scares me and shut it in a drawer
 like peter pan's shadow i will
 hide it until
 someone with soft hands shows me how to
 sew it back on painlessly.
 i would but my hands are cold, and shaking
 i can't thread the needle
 and besides
 it's like a haystack in here, and i
 am the camel's back.
 there are so many metaphors
 similies like water flow and just as cold
 cloth clings to my shoulders
 as i hold words to my body for warmth.
 sometimes i'd like to
 shut myself in a drawer, rattle the knob, or
 be the flickering light on the wall.
 clap
 if you believe. clap. believe in me.
 and i will find a way to attach
 words to your shoulders like
 the warmest shadow.

--RoyaBoya


NumberEightThirtyOne

 sometimes i'd like to
 stop laughing
 every time you say something that
 approaches the truth.
 
 you scare me, you know
 how close you can get to the fire
 
 i think i would just
 burn up and die
 if i told you every little flame
 you spark in me.
 although sometimes your words
 are like
 a bucket full of ice water
 and drenched, i cry,
 because i am not waterproof.i am not flameproof
 and i am all too mortal.
 so i just
 laugh and hope
 i don't go up in smoke.

--RoyaBoya


NumberEightThirtyTwo

	So I just
	fall
	tracing the outline
	again and again in my head
	so I read too much into it
	and spilled it
	scared of what may have come
	you say you mean
	but I'm unclean
	waiting for the means to and end
	who knows what you think
	I'm behind
	the pace is off my scale
	pale with held and scorched
	so I'm forcing it all away
	I don't want to say
	even to myself
	where I've dwelt
	and lost instead
	so smooth it all down
	forgetting is
	and loose myself from it's grip
	striping it all
	down
	so I just fall.

~Irina


2nd place.

 i'm the 2nd place girl
 so I'm forcing it all away.
 im 2nd place in everything that i do.
 my poetry is good.
 but not good enough
 my kissing is good
 but not as good as the 1st place boy's
 my looks are pritty
 but the other one's just a bit ahead of you
 sorry.
 i didn't meen to hurt you.
 your just the 2nd place girl.
 sorry.
 i know you are stround enough to stuff it all away.
 that's why i don't mind saying this to you
 i have to go now
 i still love you, 
 you just came 2nd place in life 
 .... that's all 

--Heather


EightThirtyFour

 i don't feel /that/ way about you
 i know you'll understand
 thats why i don't mind saying this to you
 to hell you understand
 my heart racing at the mere mention'
 of your name
 those sparkly blue eyes
 making my knees go weak
 
 you treat me as though
 i'm there as a "girlfriend step-in"
 someone to fill the gap of feeling "alone"
 guess what? i'm sick of it
 to hell with being a "step in"
 
 people think we're together
 and nobody will make a move for me
 because of you
 than you flirt with other girls
 and don't hear the loud -crack- 
 as my heart breaks in two
 i thought i was over this
 thought these feelings were through
 i've been in denial
 avoidence
 not facing the facts
 
 i'm facing them now
 it's over
 i'm done
 your not the number one priority in my life
 (not that you ever were)
 fenito!
 if only it were that simple
 a conscious decision of who you love
 
 so i try
 not to let you see
 those hidden glances down the halls
 those jealous looks as you flirt with other girls
 that look of longing on my face.

~Jadzia


NumberEightThirtyFive

 i try
 not to let you see
 or hear
 the way tears are dripping and i am
 hiccuping.
 because you and your
 cheer
 matter more to me than
 scratches/slits on my arms.
 so listen to
 tom waits, and think of
 driving at night, the lights, the way
 we can make the dark stretch forever.
 because you are warm, and my smile is cute
 so we'll laugh
 
 and i'll think
 how is it that when you are with me
 the coldness is only cold because
 your arms are there?
 but tonight it's cold
 and you went to bed early.
 too early for me to 
 find out
 what was wrong.
 
 and the slits on my arm
 are too shallow
 to measure
 how much i want you to be happy.
 so i won't cut
 but feel the holes
 empty, in other places.

--RoyaBoya


836

 You
 Are too shallow
 Did I ever go down on you
 With the lights on?
 Did you once look me in the eyes
 When we made love
 Every night
 Remembering broken hearts
 Broken tears
 Broken bones
 Is that all that matters to you?
 Let it go.

837

 Is that all that matters to you?
 Why would you insist that I'm the cream of the crop?
 When you can't even touch me, what you're really saying
 Is that I'm good for doing you favors, it's true
 I'm a hard worker. dependable. yes.
 I used to pray that you'd notice one day.. that
 I'm good for other things. Deeper things.
 I could be good for more than doing your dirty work
 Filling your drinks, running your errands
 You praise me and yet you don't know who I am
 Otherwise I wouldn't be your second best
 If you knew me you'd be right next
 In line to claim me as the person who could
 Soothe your soul. And me?
 I wish you had a soul to sooth.

--Eireann


838

 I am walking these streets
 And these streets are mean
 They laugh too loudly
 Jarring me, as I try to remain
 Invisible. Because it's dangerous to be seen.
 I am walking these streets
 And these streets are full of threats
 They jeer and snicker
 With a heart full of liquor
 And cold sweat pours down my face
 And I grit my teeth and quicken my pace
 I wish I had my bike, so I could be fast
 Too fast for them to catch me. 
 I am walking these streets
 And these streets are full of monsters
 The darker it gets the louder they cry
 Every night I wonder if I'm going to die
 I pull my hood over my face
 Over my conspicuous pale face
 Stuffing my hands into my pockets
 Trying to disguise my race, my sex
 Trying to turn into a nobody
 Because nobodies can exist among goblins
 And god knows there are enough of them
 Around here. No one smiles.
 We walk past each other, grim and tense
 Our hands are curled into fists
 But our expressions are perfectly blank.
 I am walking these streets
 And these streets are terrified
 They richot with the yells and the
 shots fired one right. after. another
 here there is nowhere to dive for cover
 But you know you keep on looking
 You know it's not just about the gangs
 And the guns, and the drugs
 It's about the hate that infuses itself
 In the sidewalks. And I walk on those sidewalks
 Every Single Fucking Night.
 Sometimes it just turns into a game
 Sometimes the fear is cleansing
 Sometimes it's fun
 I am walking these streets
 And they threaten me every time
 A note of violence hangs on the air
 Vibrating like a note of music.

--Eireann


NumberEightThirtyNine

 it's dangerous to be seen
 which is why
 this computer, this keyboard, they come in so handy
 it's dangerous for you to
 hear my voice sometimes, 
 so i guess it's good that i 
 cry silently.
 
 it wouldn't do to have you
 guess
 the things that hang upside down on every word
 
 and even though i'm sure i'm being obvious
 no one wants me to admit
 anything, how i feel, that emotions exist
 because
 that would change
 everything.
 which is why
 i wrinkle my nose and squirm
 to escape
 every time you joke about
 what's true.

--RoyaBoya


NumberEightForty

 so i guess it's good that i cry silently
 and tell you nothings wrong
 and i want to say something funny
 just to say you smile
 but i don't think i'm concious enough
 i don't know why
 there's ripples running through me
 and youyouyou in my heart
 keep smiling
 remember honey
 when grass was warm
 and sun was bright
 and white sweaters were cozy
 it was youyouyou in my head
 and you never knew that your hair
 was perfection to me
 and your smiles cotton candy
 and you sang with a littleboy look on your face
 and it was youyouyou in my heart
 keep smiling?

FrannyIsRad


keep smiling (#841)

 keep smiling
 everything will work out fine
 keep smiling and noding 
 just look past it all and pertend that it doesnt bite you 
 as hard as it does.
 keep up that silver mask that you bear girly
 you don't wanna let the real you out
 keep eating your gold stars and pats on the head
 keep living in your comforble world and in your corrner office
 eating cold cereal day after day
 call me when you get tired of being comforble 
 in your tin can.
 but i'll tell you now girly
 its time to pull off your silver mask 
 and let caned you grow

--Heather


EightFortyTwo

 but i'll tell you now girlie
 i'm waiting for the day when you remember
 the packages i sent you
 the times you called me in tears and i listened for hours
 about the boy's who'd left
 the boys you wanted
 the boys you missed
 and i'll tell you that i'm checking the mail every day
 on the hopes
 you'll send me a letter
 tell me you love me
 say you remember.
 
 There's someone else i'm checking the mail for too
 but we won't talk about that
 i don't feel like getting laughed at
 just now.
 i'd dye my hair red but then
 looking in the mirror in the morning
 would be worse than it usually is.
 Mirror this smile
 and tell me who you see.

FrannyIsRad

 #843
 Mirror this smile
 this mere smile
 but don't say anything--
 I'm tired of your endless
 words and endless movement!
 In your thousand flitting phrases
 I know less about you
 than you will learn from
 my single silence
 (if you'll listen--!)
 be still and silent
 as a stone Siddartha
 don't speak at all
 I don't want your words
 (with every word
 I know you less)
 stand still--
 I want to know you 
 You think you cannot live
 without a witness
 if no one's eyes are on you
 then surely you're not shining
 (why isn't it enough to know
 /I love you?/)
 I whisper it against your ear
 inscribe it on the inky sky 
 just open your hands to me
 silently
 beleive me!
 but don't ask me
 (if you listen, you
 won't ask me
 /Do you love me?/)
 
 don't say anything
 with every word
 I know you less.
 --Rosemary

NumberEightFortyFour

 don't say anything
 with every word
 i know you less.
 i don't want to hear about the
 laughing life you lead
 when i am not
 smiling cutely on the other end of the phone.
 and sure, i feel shut out, sure i wish i knew
 every little facet of your day, feel left out when it was just "good"
 but
 let me drown out the words i don't want to hear
 with my guitar strummed lullabies
 put my brain to sleep
 so i don't have to hear
 about how awake she made you feel.

--RoyaBoya


845

 Put my brain to sleep
 So I don't have to hear
 Myself, my manic screaming clanging
 Thoughts. Crumple them up like paper
 Throw them in the trash
 You can't help me anymore
 So don't say anything
 I'll awaken and nothing changes
 I wish you would. 
 I wish you could
 Put my brain to sleep
 So I don't have to hear it
 Make it stop
 Without a word
 Because I don't understand
 Why I do what I do
 Why I think what I think
 Why I feel what I feel
 I wish you would
 Put my brain to sleep
 Shut it up in a box to keep
 I wish you could
 But you can't help me anymore
 Nobody can help me anymore.

--Eireann


NumberEightFortySix

 without a word you
 flip my heart over like it's lying
 bare and bleeding
 on the grill.
 rare, well done, soon i'll be
 burnt black. and charred.
 you'll be
 ready to slice me open
 you like them 
 hot.
 i like the smell of smoke
 but
 i wish the air didn't sizzle
 when you walk into the room.

--RoyaBoya


NumberEightFortySeven

 When you walk into the room
 that blond girl in the corner
 turns to leave
 takes her backpack
 and throws her pop can away
 as she walks through the door.
 i'm watching her, not you
 everyone else is watching you
 but this girl
 is fascinating
 she looks as if she's perfected these movements
 you walking into the room
 backpack
 popcan
 leave
 without so much as a backwards glance
 a sign of anger
 this girl
 is good at hiding the clenched teeth and tight mucles.
 the pop can in the trash
 doesn't even have finger dents in it
 this girl has hair flipping, over her shoulder
 and empty eyes
 down to an art
 and she has me watching her
 in amazment
 and awe
 and everyone else ignoring her
 and i wonder
 if this is what she wants
 or if, beneath her carlessness
 she wishes you'd turn
 and watch her leave.

FrannyIsRad


NumberEightFortyEight

 beneath her carelessness
 she smarts. i know she does.
 with every laugh she wishes you
 had never seen her cry. she wonders
 why
 you can't see her
 bathed in the flattering light of moderation
 because
 giggling and sobbing, that's not all there is
 she wishes you
 could see her witty
 see her intelligent, articulate
 wishes she could make you smart
 and so you'd laugh
 to hide
 the painful surprise
 reminding you that what you see it not
 the whole picture.
 she is never so careless
 to endanger
 the lighthearted phone calls though.
 she would never hold open the shutter
 because you might not like the picture
 if it was over exposed.

--RoyaBoya


849

 you can't see her
 but she's there
 standing amidst the shadows
 quietly taking in what is said 
 shhhhh
 you can't see her
 but she's there
 watching you speak
 as she glances at you
 a smile plays upon her lips
 shhhhh
 don't say a word
 just stand back
 and watch the world go on by
 minutes turning into hours
 and you can't see her
 standing there watching you...

~Jadzia


850

 just stand back
 I can handle this
 really
 I've been here 
 and I've handled it
 sort of
 If I can breathe
 then I'm doing fine
 right?
 and I'm handling this fine
 at least I thought I was
 but now I find I've been 
 holding my breath
 and when I try to breathe
 it hurts

 
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