Submissions by candencecollapsing (cadencecollapsing)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Aug 2014 1:34am
13th Aug 2014 1:34am
Can I Blame Amnesia for You Forgetting Me
I’m scared
that I’m easy prey
a little too raw
and unrelenting
i have trouble with
distance
fearing the silences between sentences
will soon be all that we say to each other
if i blink
you’ll be gone
that I’m easy prey
a little too raw
and unrelenting
i have trouble with
distance
fearing the silences between sentences
will soon be all that we say to each other
if i blink
you’ll be gone
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
4th Aug 2014 3:53pm
4th Aug 2014 3:53pm
I Think This is Why We Don't Talk Anymore
At 3 in the afternoon you wanted to make small talk
Speaking to my turned back
Your shadow told me you were still far enough out of my reach so I couldn’t touch you
Physically detached
And I was emotionally blocked
I didn’t reply
By 3:01 you were crying
Saying that I hated you
Your feet left the room
Followed reluctantly by your shadow
A part of you was waiting for me to call you back
Expecting me to apologize
At 9 that night I walked in
Heard your muffled sobs
And met dad’s drunken remark
Saying that I hated you
I was too tipsy...
Speaking to my turned back
Your shadow told me you were still far enough out of my reach so I couldn’t touch you
Physically detached
And I was emotionally blocked
I didn’t reply
By 3:01 you were crying
Saying that I hated you
Your feet left the room
Followed reluctantly by your shadow
A part of you was waiting for me to call you back
Expecting me to apologize
At 9 that night I walked in
Heard your muffled sobs
And met dad’s drunken remark
Saying that I hated you
I was too tipsy...
716 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Aug 2014 00:56am
3rd Aug 2014 00:56am
10 Honest Remarks I Can't Say to Your Face
1. I like you. And you do not like me
2. I try to deny this fact by staying in touch. But you continue to blow me off. This bothers me
3. The fact that it bothers me bothers me. Because I never expected anything more from you.
4. The fact that I never expected anything more is a loud cry. Saying my existence is merely a welcome mat you use on your exit. I never really could hold your gaze long enough to see if you ever saw me.
5. You’re leaving me mid-drink again in the pool with your older friend. I do not trust him. You do not explain why you are leaving....
2. I try to deny this fact by staying in touch. But you continue to blow me off. This bothers me
3. The fact that it bothers me bothers me. Because I never expected anything more from you.
4. The fact that I never expected anything more is a loud cry. Saying my existence is merely a welcome mat you use on your exit. I never really could hold your gaze long enough to see if you ever saw me.
5. You’re leaving me mid-drink again in the pool with your older friend. I do not trust him. You do not explain why you are leaving....
650 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
28th Jul 2014 8:39pm
28th Jul 2014 8:39pm
Puddles Dressed Like Me
They ask me to describe myself.
Describe the way I twirl
Arms spread wide
Chopping at their resolve
I aimlessly countdown
Until they decide they're tired of flinching
Or sighing at my paper cut scratched skin
I beg them to notice
Asking why?
For the millionth time
It doesn’t take long before they confess
I’m just like all the other girls
Blooming under attention
Facing the sun heated by compliments
Its easy to warm puddles
But I thought I could be an ocean
An abyss of future promises
Instead I’m inches deep...
Describe the way I twirl
Arms spread wide
Chopping at their resolve
I aimlessly countdown
Until they decide they're tired of flinching
Or sighing at my paper cut scratched skin
I beg them to notice
Asking why?
For the millionth time
It doesn’t take long before they confess
I’m just like all the other girls
Blooming under attention
Facing the sun heated by compliments
Its easy to warm puddles
But I thought I could be an ocean
An abyss of future promises
Instead I’m inches deep...
590 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
24th Jun 2014 00:53am
24th Jun 2014 00:53am
Sunday Morning Phantoms
When you called me beautiful
Did you mean it?
Or were you only referring to the way I looked that night
A few days- or was it years- ago
Hips swaying and alluring eyes
You see I was just hoping when you said perfect you were actually talking about my soul
Or my mind
And the way I tried to shape every conversation into something poetic worth hearing
Were you listening?
When you said my name
Were you thinking of someone else's?
Trying to fit the letters tracing my outline onto her frame
You were fighting so hard to make her and I synonymous...
Did you mean it?
Or were you only referring to the way I looked that night
A few days- or was it years- ago
Hips swaying and alluring eyes
You see I was just hoping when you said perfect you were actually talking about my soul
Or my mind
And the way I tried to shape every conversation into something poetic worth hearing
Were you listening?
When you said my name
Were you thinking of someone else's?
Trying to fit the letters tracing my outline onto her frame
You were fighting so hard to make her and I synonymous...
688 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
9th May 2014 5:04am
9th May 2014 5:04am
Avalanches Swallowing You
You've got this eroding mind that I can't fix
The avalanche is slowly crushing you
And I'm trying to call in helicopters
Kicking at rocks because my hands no longer know what to do
I've traded my eyes for flashlights
Chasing after glimpses of your reflection
But you're dimming
Like tragedies often do
You've become a day at the beach
And the sand in my shoes that I can't wash clean
I keep thinking I hear you breathing
But you're the melody I'll never catch
You're living off dosages of wishful thinking and denial
I wish I could drag you...
The avalanche is slowly crushing you
And I'm trying to call in helicopters
Kicking at rocks because my hands no longer know what to do
I've traded my eyes for flashlights
Chasing after glimpses of your reflection
But you're dimming
Like tragedies often do
You've become a day at the beach
And the sand in my shoes that I can't wash clean
I keep thinking I hear you breathing
But you're the melody I'll never catch
You're living off dosages of wishful thinking and denial
I wish I could drag you...
743 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
9th May 2014 4:58am
9th May 2014 4:58am
Falling for Your Flaws
I see you have flaws
But I do not think yours are trying to compete with mine
I think they are trying to latch onto each other
Forcing themselves to be mended by another's blemishes
Indiscreetly asking for reasons to be able to find ourselves beautiful
We are endlessly confronted with mirrors to our ugliness
We try valiantly-
Even if in vain-
To secure a calm ocean for our souls to sleep
We've spent too many years churning on the volcanic waves
Of silent bruises and blaring reminders of our inadequacy
I see you like a wound I can...
But I do not think yours are trying to compete with mine
I think they are trying to latch onto each other
Forcing themselves to be mended by another's blemishes
Indiscreetly asking for reasons to be able to find ourselves beautiful
We are endlessly confronted with mirrors to our ugliness
We try valiantly-
Even if in vain-
To secure a calm ocean for our souls to sleep
We've spent too many years churning on the volcanic waves
Of silent bruises and blaring reminders of our inadequacy
I see you like a wound I can...
836 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
4th May 2014 10:23pm
4th May 2014 10:23pm
Channeling Blue
It's been a nightmare letting you go
I could tell you about the awfulness
Or I could spoil you with the good old days
I could enchant you with the past
Or begrudge you with the more recent events
At my expense
I paid a listening ear or two
I expounded my sorrows
But to me they all sounded like
I miss you
Channeling blue
I am lacking your spectrum
I am lacking your protection
There's a crack in my armor
Where you were once my shield
Uncommon lullabies used to drift me to sleep
Now there all that keeps me awake
A...
I could tell you about the awfulness
Or I could spoil you with the good old days
I could enchant you with the past
Or begrudge you with the more recent events
At my expense
I paid a listening ear or two
I expounded my sorrows
But to me they all sounded like
I miss you
Channeling blue
I am lacking your spectrum
I am lacking your protection
There's a crack in my armor
Where you were once my shield
Uncommon lullabies used to drift me to sleep
Now there all that keeps me awake
A...
647 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Apr 2014 4:29am
30th Apr 2014 4:29am
Unraveling my Hemline
I'm still searching for your arms
In this empty
embrace
In this empty
embrace
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LOVE POEM
Published
26th Apr 2014 7:41pm
26th Apr 2014 7:41pm
These Empty Cracks
I speak in subtleties
Leaving pinpricks on his arms and bite marks on his lips
The kind that bleed and throb indiscreetly
He does not yet know what they mean
I like to keep the world an arms length away
I have learned too many lessons by slapping my own self in the face to think that he can save me
He cannot save me
I'm dressed in secrets and a bent heart feeling overwhelmed and incomplete
I'm too young for this much evil
I'm too young to have already aged my soul a thousand years past recovery
He smiles and like a mirror I try to shift...
Leaving pinpricks on his arms and bite marks on his lips
The kind that bleed and throb indiscreetly
He does not yet know what they mean
I like to keep the world an arms length away
I have learned too many lessons by slapping my own self in the face to think that he can save me
He cannot save me
I'm dressed in secrets and a bent heart feeling overwhelmed and incomplete
I'm too young for this much evil
I'm too young to have already aged my soul a thousand years past recovery
He smiles and like a mirror I try to shift...
711 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Apr 2014 9:00pm
15th Apr 2014 9:00pm
Writing Melodies on Broken Keys
She’s afraid he’ll run out of ways to tell her she’s beautiful
She has heard them rearranged into so many different words that she has become hyper-conscious of redundancy
He whispers that he loves her
But like he’s said it a million times
She unbuttons her blouse and wonders where did all the flower fields go?
This nostalgia-
This melancholy-
Write love songs on her arms
They are dripping with childhood promises
She shortens her skirt
Fearful of the disco ball floors that shatter when she walks
Her high heels are cracking those clouds of make...
She has heard them rearranged into so many different words that she has become hyper-conscious of redundancy
He whispers that he loves her
But like he’s said it a million times
She unbuttons her blouse and wonders where did all the flower fields go?
This nostalgia-
This melancholy-
Write love songs on her arms
They are dripping with childhood promises
She shortens her skirt
Fearful of the disco ball floors that shatter when she walks
Her high heels are cracking those clouds of make...
811 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Mar 2014 3:02am
7th Mar 2014 3:02am
We Slip Between Each Other's Hands
It is isolation
It is separation
It is a one way glass after the interrogation
The silence as they stare
Waiting
Torture but only guarded by apathetic pacifists
We still sit down to dinner
Graceless
And no one feels like eating
It will never be okay
Just an aging numbness to dull the gaping wound
And the vacuum that takes away
It is separation
It is a one way glass after the interrogation
The silence as they stare
Waiting
Torture but only guarded by apathetic pacifists
We still sit down to dinner
Graceless
And no one feels like eating
It will never be okay
Just an aging numbness to dull the gaping wound
And the vacuum that takes away
553 reads
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