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Pain In My Heart

sankara
Lost Thinker
Joined 24th Feb 2017
Forum Posts: 12

Tell me you'll cross oceans for me

I knew you’d never cross oceans for me
Though i’d cross the frozen threshold of hell, cross
The heavens, plunge from eden’s paradise, all for you
I burnt our bridges because that terrified me...
My soul was dancing around your pale fingertips
Though you were not aware, the power your name had over me.
To save you i’d bleed out into your hollow heart, because mine belonged to you.
If your sky colored eyes ever shed a tear, like clouds setting free
melancholy raindrops, slowly tracing your fine alabaster skin, i’d be there
Before your tears left the warm hearth of your cheek, to wipe them away
I wanted to be a wall you could lean against, a river
You could sink into, a flame that would dispel the darkness
But I was a black sun, exuding dark, mournful rays  
I was a shadow that failed to be your light
And i thought your hands fit into mine so perfectly, for you’d always
be the one to pull me back up, from my woeful depths of despair
But now we don’t even speak and all that’s left are old scars
That still ache sometimes when i see you, old friend.
Before i try to save someone else, the wounds i bear must heal
Before i try to hold someone else together, i must piece back my own shattered spirit.
What hurts the most is having so much to say…
Suffocating from all the sorrowed songs i swallowed locking them in a safe
made from bleeding pieces of my forlorn heart refusing to release the river
of unsaid thoughts i had once turned into poems  
You were family, maybe more, not bound by blood but I have loved you
For an eternity, and so too will i continue, until my last waking breath
That's why it hurt so much when you push me away, though i know i was the one
Who pushed you away first. We became the moon and the ocean waves
So far apart, pulling towards each other, never able to overcome the sky between them
I wanted you to stop me from leaving, that's what i’ve always wanted
For someone to stay when i try to soar with frightened wings upon
faint-hearted winds, far away to my own little world
For someone to pierce that somber chamber i’ve trapped myself in for centuries
I had always wished that when i turned my eyes from you and walked away
That you’d grab me by my hand, lace your fingers into mine and tell me
You’d cross more than oceans for me, tell me you won't ever let me go
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brokentitanium
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Tyrant of Words
Canada 10awards
Joined 18th Nov 2015
Forum Posts: 1123

Friend

You break my heart each day
Tenderness drawing me in
Willing me to offer my soul
To ignite and crumble to ash
For we can never be

Then yet again your gaze
Calls forth my phoenix heart
Filled with hope and fantasy
It flares then fades to black
For we can never be

I cannot let it go
The healing you provide
Addicted to your wisdom
Though it crushes me inside
For we can never be

Your irresistible kindness
Mends me as it tears apart
I pour my pieces at your feet
Knowing you won’t pick them up
For we can never be

Yet I choose this breaking heart
This dying rising unity
Better broken in your presence
Than whole without your light

You break my heart each day
For we can never be

poet Anonymous

Screams and shouts fill my young mind as I try to sleep
The daughter of hate, a child made from anger, lust
Leaving again, I catch a glimpse of my father for the last time
I know Im not good enough for him to chase
So I file it in my mind
My first love, my superhero
Putting a rock above me and his family
A simple buzz, an addict at his best
While I loved him at his worst
It was not enough to take away his emptiness
I did not yet understand
My fragile child heart was broken before it had the chance to grow
But I was ok
The pain morphed me into something I was not
But I somehow made it out alive
Every bruise I covered up and every memory I will not speak on
Every come down I helped you through
And every break up I endured
I understand now your demons were too much for you
But I was only a child
I tried to help you fight them
But I did not understand
I am sorry I let it break my heart
I did not understand
I try to be strong for you now
And wonder what youre doing
I remember who you were before addiction took hold
That person will never perish in my mind
For I know he is still there
But years have gone by since Ive seen your face
And Im know theres more to come
Dont you worry about me
The way I worry about you
You made me who I am
But when I look at my own child now
I dont understand
How you could so easily let me go




Duende
Dangerous Mind
Netherlands 9awards
Joined 24th July 2016
Forum Posts: 38

Under My Skin

i want to forget
the scent
of your body

i want to forget
the taste
of your lips

i want to erase
the ink you traced
on my fragile
frame

but you’re
under my skin

you’re my deception

my dangerous distraction
my insane satisfaction
my fatal attraction

i want to forget
that we’ve
ever met

but you’re
under my skin

you’re my memory
and the words i bleed

you’re the drug that works
and the truth that hurts
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Duende
Dangerous Mind
Netherlands 9awards
Joined 24th July 2016
Forum Posts: 38

My Saudade

the pendulum swings              
the metronome moves              
my heart bleeds for you              
               
my Anarchist Artist              
               
missing us, and                
all what once was              
passion, destruction              
maybe just an illusion              
               
yearning for intimacy              
I suppress my urge              
preventing myself              
from calling you              
               
when solitude              
submerges                
me and              
               
nothing              
    matters              
       anymore              
               
for you, my Love      
               
you stripped me bare                
and forced me to wear                
nothing but vulnerability              
               
for you and only you              
I got down on all fours              
while I begged for more              
               
the pendulum swings              
the metronome moves              
my heart bleeds for you              
               
my Master, my Rebel              
my heaven, my hell              
               
my de Sade              
my Saudade              
               
               
~Your Elf~      
     
     
     
     
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIknDwrHkjY
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WomanofDayandNight
Lost Thinker
United States
Joined 30th Aug 2015
Forum Posts: 10

My Permission??

[font=Georgia]Did you think about asking me before her?
Walking round town like everyone adores her
Silly me to think that we had something greater
Held you down when the other chicks said, "Later"

I was a best friend even when I didn't like it.
Was the only good girl with a bad side you couldn't diss
My friends warned me of the unhappy ending
But I just wanted to keep hoping and pretending

Now you're expecting me to give you some clarity
or help but sorry boo this is too sadity which is why I left
I know you think you need her but even with my head spinning
I believe we both should consider the options pending

1. You could've chosen me
2. I know you inside and out truly
3. I guess I'm jealous of the brat
4. Why couldn't you just fess up for love and face this fact?!

I know you needed me and I should've asked for better
days, but sometimes I swear your jaded which is why we stray
I love you and I know things to say that could make your heart quake
Boy look at me before you walk away with this flake because it's not too late

Just to say....Here we are. I don't need it anymore
But you need my permission and even then or before
It won't matter because....Wait, what? I thought...
No, it's just if you were going to marry her....maybe what we had, you just forgot?

This hurts, but hold up. I just remembered
Before I get in the feels and forget the fury I simmer
You didn't need my permission to see her
Nor did you need it when she cried out for you to go deeper

You didn't need it when you had that fight
Or when she was suspected of fucking that guy
You never asked for it when I thought it right
So what's the reason and what's your why?

I need, no I demand in ever sense of the word
I don't recall you ever asking nor have I heard
you needing my permission for that
So where the need for a tit for tat?

She is yours now. You deserve to be happy now
I should know better somehow. Still love you.
I feel everything and then again you never will
I guess this isn't about permission in the deal

You didn't need my permission until now
Guess that should be something somehow
I didn't think I'd believe I mattered compared to her
Even though my answer is yes, don't ever ask for my permission when it comes to her
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Written by WomanofDayandNight
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