Burnt

I hate this
Silently I sit
My mouth bound
By your lack of regard
Words I cannot bear to sound
When you are lifeless before I start

And I lay under your boughs
Fighting tears
Cursing your furrowed brow
My back turned
While a spark in my heart still flickers
A cigarette burn branded on my chest
With feelings unsure
Stirred as ghosts of you torture me with unrest

Your canopy has crashed
That used to shield me from the light
Here the haunted girl sits
Adorned in white

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Dandelions

caught in the fog
that separates the distance between us
drowning under waves
waves that stir up trouble
slapping a desert with more dust

searching for the source
of talk that hurries and cowers
beneath the cloud of a rumor
before i can crush this weed
they pronounce it a flower

now i'm twisting and turning
waiting for this bond to break
bearing the consequences for words i never owned
and even after they scatter
they will move in on you and make themselves at home
a feeling that i will never shake

and the part that aches the most

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Looking In The Mirror After Crying

I was never a pretty cryer-like movie scenes depict
They weep beautiful tears-I weep until I am sick
I scream and curse and sob and yell
Until my head throbs and my eyes swell

I curl up under blankets-they feel friendly on my face
I nest myself in my bed-there seems to be no better place
I sniffle, and sigh and feel sorry for myself
I sneak a roll of toilet paper and leave it on my shelf

Finally I leave my nest-to see if this tree will tip
I peep out into the world-and it is as I remember it
I look in the mirror and gasp at what I see
Everything is spilling out all over me

I guess it makes sense-I wear my feelings on my face
Though I'd much rather it not be the case
I was never skilled at the trick of concealing
And so I'm cursed with everyone knowing what I'm feeling

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Fighting You, Fighting Me

I keep going through
Phases of common sense
That shock me with a clear view
Until you reappear in a hazy lens

I sweep away your mist
But then you grab my hand
I struggle to make a fist
But in one touch you rearrange my plans

Its like you know when I make up my mind
Because thats when you swoop in and leash me
And I've never been so comfortable when I'm so confined
And I can't fight you when you strip me of my energy

Slowly you retract my pointed finger
As I remind you of your indifferent attacks
I turn away and close my eyes but there you linger
And you have the strength that I seem to lack

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Asking You to Stay

if i keep

f
a
l
l
i
n
g

like this

i will slowly suffocate
when you become someone i miss

leaning over the

e
d
g

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The One(s)

I am on a search
I keep trying to find
The One

Mysterious as it seems
A constant longing
Haunts my dreams

It's a man that I need
My heart assumes
But thankfully...my mind doesn't take heed

For it knows that what I possess
Is a greater sort
Of happiness

The kind that stays close
Despite time and circumstance
And is never opposed
To giving things another chance

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Pretty Fly For A...

I must say
You impressed me
Left your memory
Lingering where you used to be

Yet I continue to try
To sweep you from my mind
To push your shadow from my side
With motives I can't define

Together we danced all night
But never danced together
You catch my eye
Like a moth to the light
But my mind changes with the weather

And looks that dart and change
Shooting at me like a gun
Hushed whispers exchanged
Always make me turn and run

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Last Summer

it was a lightning bug summer
we danced in blackberry water that mirrored the stars
spanish moss leaping with the breeze
jagged lighting piercing the sky with fleeting scars

it was a sunset season
the golden torch bleeding into the sky
setting my whole world afire
melting your brown stare into gold copper eyes
it was a firework frenzy
blue and red sizzling through my veins
it was a furrowed brow of a night
the morning weeping with quiet rains

it was another lovestruck august
after another doubtful july
my sleep heavy with honey dipped dreams
the moon bigger with every balmy sigh

it was the summer of me

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I Am Clumsy When I Love

I am not smooth and fine
Like other girls
With floating steps
Bitten lips and perfect curls

I am clumsy when I love
My words spatter you with the wrong thing
Or my lips crash into each other in a full on stammer
Or my legs find places to wobble and gravity again is king

Those other girls walk up to you
With words whispery and rehearsed
And you catch me rolling my eyes over here
Hand on my hip-lips pursed

Others protect a cloud full of feelings
Secrets well hidden and never seen
While you just have to look at my flushed cheeks
For I neglected to give my thoughts better security

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Pause

You walked me to my car
As I pretended not to care
Under a night sky with no stars
I was happy you were there

You couldn't see me blush
As you caught me glancing your way
We walked in stride as our fingers brushed
And the silence a symphony played

I'm laughing at nothing at all
The taste of your beer still on my tongue
You laugh because I'm new to it all
I shiver because I'm so young

So you lean into me
As I lean against my car before I fall

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