I came clean and told you about the suffocation,
Specifically that I felt suffocated by your affection.
But you simply couldnʼt wrap your head around that notion
Instead, you gave me endless doses of your strongest potion.
Only after it was too late, did you realize that it was my intention
To let you get lost in the commotion
Donʼt you dare say that I didnʼt give you the option
To pull out the white flag, and graciously surrender to this failed mission
And be able to walk away with that meticulously curated carnation.
Had you taken the time to comprehend the art of my conception
It wouldnʼt have come to this, where I am robbing you of your elation
You made yourself vulnerable to the abrasion
Now all I can do I graciously mutter the farewell incantation
Darling, you have to understand that you canʼt and wonʼt ever be my salvation.
~M
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isnt it funny how i wrote before i met you,
about love and heartbreak,
even though i had never experienced it before.
and now you're gone and the feeling is here, and all i can do is choke on the words.
isnt it funny how everyone tells me to eat, but no one knows what i am actually feeding - feeding this overwhelming sense of helplessness that you, i promise, would want to starve.
isnt it funny how everyone wants better for me, yet no one is willing to be better.
how i'm still letting you destroy me.
how i still cry myself to sleep and dream about your arms around me.
how i havent cut recently but i cant stop bleeding; the tears are pouring out red, my screams are tearing my vocal cords, and yet my period is late.
i'm laughing, really.
laughing as i set the world on fire because it makes me feel less significant.
laughing as i text you just to break because feeling suicidal is still feeling something.
laughing as i talk myself out of jumping because its so ironic, its so ironic that i'm the one who climbed up here and i'm the only reason i didnt jump.
// i find myself rather hilarious when i'm not crying.
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I know you never meant to let a poet fall in love with you
You never wanted every word you said to be memorialized
Because “i want you” meant so much more than you ever knew
And love is so much more than just a word-
Its a string of feelings and memories and love was never meant to have an end
So please dont let this end
It feels like a knife sliding down my throat
and it feels like youre telling me you never loved me at all
“Leave me alone” sounds more like “i wish i never met you”
And once youve said it god knows you can never take it back
And i never forget
I never let go
I hold everything you said to me inside, in my writing
You have to be careful what you say to me
And i have to be careful with how much i give to you
Because once i give it i can never get it back
And maybe thats why i only ever told you how i felt through rhymes and rhythms
I know it must be frustrating
Maybe even annoying
To always be in the dark
I only leave vague clues of my emotions and tell you something different every day
Because my emotions are all over the paper
A poet can never be sane
A poet can never be anything but honest-
Poetry doesnt sit right when theres no blood or sweat or tears poured into it
And i think im being kind-
Holding your promises and secrets up and comparing them to the galaxies in the sky and the deep colors in the flowers you might sometimes miss
I take everything you give me and i make it my own
Threading your words onto my sleeve and saying
“Look everyone! Look at the masterpiece i created!”
And it must make you uneasy
Vulnerable, even
And if i could write you a poem i knew you’d read it’d start and end with “I’m sorry”
Because i know this isnt what you wanted
Maybe its not what i wanted, either
I never asked to cling to your words and lock them so deep within myself it sometimes hurts
I dont get to tell you that it fucking hurts
I only tell you about the beauty and the gentle waves of emotion-
Poetry doesnt sit right when theres no blood or sweat or tears poured into it
People like me always think too much, love too hard
And when a poet falls in love with you
Your words will never die
Even when you want nothing more than for them to die
But here i am again,
Repeating the things i’ve said a million times
Taking your words and pulling them apart and sugar coating them
Even if only for myself
And maybe i won’t ever tell you i love you again
Because you’ll take it the wrong way-
You won’t understand that a poet never truly falls out of love
And i’m afraid you’d say you love me, too
Because i’ll take it the wrong way-
I never understood how someone could be in love and still walk away
But here i am again-
Recounting the stars in your eyes and reliving all the times your lips touched mine
And you’re pretending it never happened.
Pretending you and i never existed,
Pretending i never came into your life, like you never wanted someone to feel this way about you,
And fuck, maybe you never did.
Maybe this is me coming to terms with that.
And i know you never meant for a poet to fall in love with you
But i’ll never stop being a poet
And i’ll never stop remembering the horrible way you left things
Or how easily we fit together
Or all the blood and sweat and tears that came in between
I’m sorry i managed to be too much and not enough all at once- too much fury and fight but never enough compassion or sympathy for the way i affected you
I’m sorry it took until now for me to realize i was affecting you, too
You’ll always be the kind of person to sweep this under the rug-
I always envied how easily you could look the other way-
And i’ll always be the kind of person to see through rose colored glasses
And i know i said i’d move on,
And, i promise, i have
I’m sorry you will continue to live through my writing
I know you don’t want to be held accountable for everything you never really meant
And i know you never meant to lie-
It’s just that a poet can never be anything but honest,
So no, i won’t forget.
I’m sorry you let a poet fall in love with you.
(inspired by this)
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friend, do you not remember
how pools of tears flood my swollen eyes
how your tired shoulders beaten down by life
in all its menace & mercilessness
provided me something to lean on
when my legs surrendered to the chaos
brewing in my head- words so loud and callous
they pinned to my lungs & suffocated the air out
words so big i shivered in their shadow
as they carved raw art in my sacred skin
how you coloured me with your soft golden glow
sung of supernovas and distant stars and their dust-
said my blood held some of it too
how you loved a wilting daffodil in water
till it stopped shouting hideousness at its echo
friend, now you're stumbling & your lips
they refuse to smile for a world undeserving
they only open for short raspy breaths that curse
the creation who's dependant on them
friend, here's all the kindness
you sung this corpse alive with
let me sow it in your barren palms
so hyacinths flow your blood once more.
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am i a monster?
am i a monster?
for not wanting you around,
for not giving you a reason?
the knife in my back unacknowledged by you,
the hot blood falling to the ground,
giving a red spot of life in an otherwise lifeless relationship
am i a monster?
for being protective of my heart,
knowing too well that another break would kill me completely,
as the tape peels at the edges,
and the superglue becomes unstuck.
i won’t hang on for much longer.
self hatred darkens my vision,
rising up my throat like bile.
i’ve been taught to care more about others than myself
so am i a monster for finally choosing a different path?
for finally dodging the thorns and nettles
and looking towards the sunshine and green grass and honey bees?
i have to do this for me
i have to remove the knife,
walk away from the crime scene,
give myself a chance at happiness.
although the blood might never come off my hands,
and the memory of you sits behind my eyelids,
waiting to come to life as i go to sleep,
i think this is best for both of us
you were too much for me,
and i couldn’t keep up.
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