Submissions by EveAteRedApples
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
LOVE POEM
Published
16th Jun 2024 3:16am
16th Jun 2024 3:16am
I'd build a time machine to erase you
Haven't seen you in a while
not since our last slip
my last slip
that left us tangled
in more than bedsheets
In the afterglow
you tell me you
wouldn't change a thing
I don't tell you
I would change everything
I don't tell you
how if I could go back
to our beginning
I would walk right by
your drunken philosophical musings
at that stupid party
where a group of us
stood around with rapt attention
all too stoned to realise
nothing you said made any sense
It's amazing...
not since our last slip
my last slip
that left us tangled
in more than bedsheets
In the afterglow
you tell me you
wouldn't change a thing
I don't tell you
I would change everything
I don't tell you
how if I could go back
to our beginning
I would walk right by
your drunken philosophical musings
at that stupid party
where a group of us
stood around with rapt attention
all too stoned to realise
nothing you said made any sense
It's amazing...
#memories
#UnrequitedLove
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LOVE POEM
Published
12th Jun 2024 12:19pm
12th Jun 2024 12:19pm
my empty heart
There is an emptiness here
without you
an emptiness that started
the day you said
Let me make one thing perfectly clear...
And then you stole
a part of me I've never
been able to replace
The irony of the fact
that you left me for a stripper
we were never really together Eve
wasn't lost on my me
I don't know the exact moment
we weren't something
though we never put a label on it
And late at night
when I've had too much to drink ...
without you
an emptiness that started
the day you said
Let me make one thing perfectly clear...
And then you stole
a part of me I've never
been able to replace
The irony of the fact
that you left me for a stripper
we were never really together Eve
wasn't lost on my me
I don't know the exact moment
we weren't something
though we never put a label on it
And late at night
when I've had too much to drink ...
#deception
#heartbroken
#lies
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LOVE POEM
Published
12th Jun 2024 10:13am
12th Jun 2024 10:13am
opening old wounds
I took a trip down memory lane
sucker punched myself
with our past
Every single emotion
I buried
rising like bile
in my throat
how could I have forgotten
what we put ourselves through
in the push and pull
of young desperate love
I still remember
the way your cruelty tastes
and how my desperation
made it easier
to twist the knife
Though I wasn't blameless
in our demise
I still remember
the rhythm of my heartbeat
when you'd message me
out of nowhere ...
sucker punched myself
with our past
Every single emotion
I buried
rising like bile
in my throat
how could I have forgotten
what we put ourselves through
in the push and pull
of young desperate love
I still remember
the way your cruelty tastes
and how my desperation
made it easier
to twist the knife
Though I wasn't blameless
in our demise
I still remember
the rhythm of my heartbeat
when you'd message me
out of nowhere ...
#heartbroken
#memories
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2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
11th Jun 2024 10:13pm
11th Jun 2024 10:13pm
Just a taste
You're the kind of friend
I'd be happy to make out with
and not as the prelude
to something more naked
I just like the way your mouth curves
and I'd like to have a taste
without the burden
of expectations
And you walk the line
of good and bad
with enough finesse
I think you could
lick my tongue
without us falling in love
I miss the the promiscuity
of my youth
that had me kissing
any willing mouth I chose
So come and...
I'd be happy to make out with
and not as the prelude
to something more naked
I just like the way your mouth curves
and I'd like to have a taste
without the burden
of expectations
And you walk the line
of good and bad
with enough finesse
I think you could
lick my tongue
without us falling in love
I miss the the promiscuity
of my youth
that had me kissing
any willing mouth I chose
So come and...
#crush
#friendship
#lust
441 reads
7 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
11th Jun 2024 10:03pm
11th Jun 2024 10:03pm
unwritten letter
I want to know, how the fuck do you have this hold over me? Even when I build walls, and be good, and fall in love with someone else, why are you still there, like the last unsmoked cigarette in the pack, I tell myself will be my last, never mind that I quit smoking in 2015.
I sure as hell don't keep you around as back up. That would be like expecting paracetamol to numb the pain of a broken femur, when not even morphine will do.
But you are like a drug. You're my drug. You always have been. And unlike alcohol or cigarettes, I haven't been able to kick the habit that...
I sure as hell don't keep you around as back up. That would be like expecting paracetamol to numb the pain of a broken femur, when not even morphine will do.
But you are like a drug. You're my drug. You always have been. And unlike alcohol or cigarettes, I haven't been able to kick the habit that...
#betrayal
#love
#lust #nonfiction
#lust #nonfiction
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LOVE POEM
Published
30th Jun 2022 8:56am
30th Jun 2022 8:56am
Hey, Jealousy
My insecurities aren't a flattering look
and I try not to let them show
but you know me better than that
We aren't fucking
and you know why
you've added notches
to your belt since we last touched
and I've kept my legs closed
cause I've learnt through experience
getting under someone
isn't the right way
to get over someone
And lets be honest
I'm not so exciting these days
I'm not up for fucking
in public places
or letting you film me
while we do it
I'm scared holding me down ...
and I try not to let them show
but you know me better than that
We aren't fucking
and you know why
you've added notches
to your belt since we last touched
and I've kept my legs closed
cause I've learnt through experience
getting under someone
isn't the right way
to get over someone
And lets be honest
I'm not so exciting these days
I'm not up for fucking
in public places
or letting you film me
while we do it
I'm scared holding me down ...
#love
#lust
#hurt
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LOVE POEM
Published
8th Jan 2022 3:19am
8th Jan 2022 3:19am
Between heaven and hell
I knew you'd be bad for me
when we fell in love
but told myself your chaos
was a ride I could get off any time
Your darkness was a slow hell
I knew how to manage
when you slipped into that abyss
with beautiful rarity
You fucked like heaven
and I lived for every part of you
that reminded me
I was so exquisitely alive
when the other half of me
was dead inside
But there's no high
I could ride
that would temper your darkness
when addiction held you tighter
than my love ...
when we fell in love
but told myself your chaos
was a ride I could get off any time
Your darkness was a slow hell
I knew how to manage
when you slipped into that abyss
with beautiful rarity
You fucked like heaven
and I lived for every part of you
that reminded me
I was so exquisitely alive
when the other half of me
was dead inside
But there's no high
I could ride
that would temper your darkness
when addiction held you tighter
than my love ...
#love
#breakup
#alcohol
#addiction
#DomesticViolence
661 reads
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ANGER POEM
Published
4th Jan 2022 11:49pm
4th Jan 2022 11:49pm
f**k you and your romantic wonderland
You act like this isn't hard for me
like I'm not brimming with things
that want to bubble over
I am a fucking pillar of self control
and you are a spineless man child
that doesn't want to deal
with the consequences of his actions
Sometimes I fucking hate you so much
I want to see your face smashed in
and I want to be the one to do it
And sometimes I miss the way
your arms held me with an illusion of safety
that wasn't ever really safe
we were both just good at pretending it was
You light up my...
like I'm not brimming with things
that want to bubble over
I am a fucking pillar of self control
and you are a spineless man child
that doesn't want to deal
with the consequences of his actions
Sometimes I fucking hate you so much
I want to see your face smashed in
and I want to be the one to do it
And sometimes I miss the way
your arms held me with an illusion of safety
that wasn't ever really safe
we were both just good at pretending it was
You light up my...
#breakup
#conflict
#DomesticViolence
542 reads
6 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
8th Oct 2017 5:54am
8th Oct 2017 5:54am
where did you go?
I’m a shadow of the person I used to be
but I think you’ve always been a ghost
an internal suicide decades old
making me nothing more
than a temporary necromancer of love
and I wanted to know you beneath the addictions
I thought I could hold without going under
but I’m one cigarette too late
and you’re one too many beers past being
someone I can talk to
I don’t know who you are
when you slice the space between us to pieces
throw your hands in the air and promise me
you can’t change
reminiscing about...
but I think you’ve always been a ghost
an internal suicide decades old
making me nothing more
than a temporary necromancer of love
and I wanted to know you beneath the addictions
I thought I could hold without going under
but I’m one cigarette too late
and you’re one too many beers past being
someone I can talk to
I don’t know who you are
when you slice the space between us to pieces
throw your hands in the air and promise me
you can’t change
reminiscing about...
797 reads
7 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Jan 2013 11:51pm
29th Jan 2013 11:51pm
Dear Rachael
I’ve been saying goodbye to sleep
and edible choices
it’s not the same now you’re gone
less a prison of four walls and a locked door
than the tragedy of your own mind
your tears run through the eye of the storm
amid the non-existent hurricane you’ve been driving though
swerving for the birds, screaming at them to stop
to stop stealing your thoughts
there’s a little girl without a mother
“she’s been seeing things [that aren’t there]”
bad men and a changeling faery story
her little girl is everywhere but in her head
...
and edible choices
it’s not the same now you’re gone
less a prison of four walls and a locked door
than the tragedy of your own mind
your tears run through the eye of the storm
amid the non-existent hurricane you’ve been driving though
swerving for the birds, screaming at them to stop
to stop stealing your thoughts
there’s a little girl without a mother
“she’s been seeing things [that aren’t there]”
bad men and a changeling faery story
her little girl is everywhere but in her head
...
992 reads
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
2nd Jan 2013 5:07am
2nd Jan 2013 5:07am
flatten the atmosphere
flatten the atmosphere
and we'll try and fill the spaces in between
you're not who I thought you were
your words stick in my memory
so hard to swallow
when you're lynching my breathe
in marijuana paranoia
I slid into the sarcastic night
like skinny dipping in the rain
easily and with a smile
while you reeked of insecurity
as my clenched fist playfully connected
with a pretty player’s face
I'm adrift in your haze reddened eyes
a crimson women at some moralistic low
when I thought you knew me better
than to believe...
and we'll try and fill the spaces in between
you're not who I thought you were
your words stick in my memory
so hard to swallow
when you're lynching my breathe
in marijuana paranoia
I slid into the sarcastic night
like skinny dipping in the rain
easily and with a smile
while you reeked of insecurity
as my clenched fist playfully connected
with a pretty player’s face
I'm adrift in your haze reddened eyes
a crimson women at some moralistic low
when I thought you knew me better
than to believe...
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2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
29th Dec 2012 11:03pm
29th Dec 2012 11:03pm
strange little lies
we’re not as broken as we think we are
but when the lights go out, I’m still a bitch
a pretty little cock tease
a lonely little attention whore
I sleep to dream of you
I wake and search for your face
that will never lie beside mine
because attachment is a dirty word
we’re a friendship born of darkness
and a long list of medical words
that box us in and stamp us insane
I miss you, my non-lover
and the guilt vibrates my bones
with things I don’t understand
I fuck and leave
never letting the sunlight hit my...
but when the lights go out, I’m still a bitch
a pretty little cock tease
a lonely little attention whore
I sleep to dream of you
I wake and search for your face
that will never lie beside mine
because attachment is a dirty word
we’re a friendship born of darkness
and a long list of medical words
that box us in and stamp us insane
I miss you, my non-lover
and the guilt vibrates my bones
with things I don’t understand
I fuck and leave
never letting the sunlight hit my...
977 reads
3 Comments
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