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You visit my dreams every night
You visit them to watch me

Always a shadow
Always in the side-lines
Standing in the crowd
On tiptoes your fingers in your mouth

Watching me beat my opponents
Bounce around the ring
I was never one for softness but I'm harsher now

I didn’t want to tell you I noticed you
I knew how you would
In your time
Come to me

I knew what you would say
And I wasn’t sure I was ready for it
I don't think I'll ever be

Tonight though
You’re ready, aren’t you
I recognize that look in your eyes
The one that has long since faded in mine

I wipe the blood and sweat off my face and smile wide with all my teeth
Whats left out them
And you grimace
You can tell it's fake

You hug me, and I tear up
Almost

There’s only one thing I must I say
You know it, and I know it
I miss being you

You stall
A Beat a moment a butterfly's wing

Unsure if you want to be honest
But maybe I’ve influenced you too

Because you say it

You say it slowly

With regret marring you face
With dread drying like the blood on my mine
With sadness reflected in your eyes
My eyes reflect yours

And you say it
You say it
Not as much as I regret becoming you
But we’d rather not clean it up
There’s too much to regret and too much we had hoped for lying there
And I don’t think we can handle seeing the future we envisioned again
****
Like a ****** butterfly
I feel like I just got my heartbroken  
Heartbroken  
Heart broken  

(The very essence of me snatched
All from a biscuit that was supposed to give me growth)  

All I feel like is I am giving and giving and giving  
And giving  
And not receiving  

(My hat, your hat, lead you say? Hmm, I remember something like that)

Am I disregarding too much of the other times  
Am I contemplating too much of the now  
The split is drastic headache enducing  
Headache  
Head ache  

(How can we ever move on from this
The flamingos arent here for us to play crochet)  

I’m tired of trying and trying and trying  
Of having always to be on  
Of having always to be the first to text the first to ask the first the first the first

(I don’t like it anymore
This white
It doesn't match my theme)


I love her  
She is my heartache  
Heartache  
Heart ache  

(Liquid gold and sunlight  
Pretty but it burns
Care for a spot of tea?)  

Do I really, though  
Or am I so eager to prove I can love I latch onto anyone who will let me  
Who will let me  
Why have they let me  

Perhaps I’m being dramatic  
Perhaps  
Mayhap  

(Mayhap, this is just my way of saying I don’t feel anything anymore  
The pills
This isn’t what it used to be
The cigars)  

Am I the red flag  
No, she says  
No  
No?  

(I will leave it for now  
Have a biscuit)

Always feeling feeling feeling  

(Remove her from the picture and let me paint
Let me paint my roses red )

I’m tired  

(ALFRED!
Yes my dear?
Get me a pillow)

And the crickets have started to play
Even though your words were treasured

Even though your words made me hopeful

It was like sand in the wind

Like pearls in vinegar

Like me

Don't waste your time on a fellow so negligent of advice

The stars shine but they're dead inside
Real Name 2 0 Jun 23
I’m sorry I was too little  
I’m sorry I wasn’t enough  
I’m sorry I was too much  
I’m sorry I wasn’t subtle  
(I still wanna text you back)

Sorry I didn’t try  
Sorry I gave up  
Sorry I tried for the both of us  
Sorry I thought I was enough  
(I still wanna tell you about my day)

For you and I  
For me and you  
For all the work I thought I could do
For every time I assumed it was you  
when it was me, it was me, it was me  
For never trusting  
Always forgiving  
For being harsh and sleeping on your thoughts  
And never minding them  
(Everything we should have said,)

For thinking I could fix this  
When you were enough  
(I wish they didn’t have to be in brackets)

I wish we were enough for you  
I wish this was enough for me
Real Name 2 0 Jun 21
You know when you realise you've been laughing different
Your face is worth looking at
And no not just because of the filament
Or because of that new smile
It's a weird kind of sentiment
Your eyes lined with fulfillment

And you realize you've been changing
Something feels
Amazing

Stranger
You feel happier
Happier...

Plastic
That's what it is
Tragic
That's what I feel

All it takes is one argument
And the Plastic gets ripped right off
Allowing it to breathe to reveal its temperament
And it hasn't breathed in a long ******* time

You're living your life through the happiness of others
Who are you without your servitude
This kind of happiness smothers
Because who are you without the happiness of others

A side note
A cheerleader
just another side character

So yup that was my realisation today
A real sad one wouldn't you say?
"So, I woke up"

You're telling me about your day as usual
I wonder if you realize the love you give me

(Did anyone ever tell you if angels could laugh
They'd sound like you)

I let it become me
I let it color me on the inside
The outside

"So, she said"

I wonder if I love the way you love me, will the people who know you
Love you
Will they find you?

(You're asking if I'm listening, but sometimes I just get so lost in the beautiful person that is you)

The small things you say

(I greet like how you greet Did you notice)

The way you laugh

(Sometimes I laugh, and I sound like you)

My skin reflects the sun

(I talk like you sometimes)

You are the sun

(I wonder if the people you love realize)

"Alright, i have some things to do"


(I wonder if you do)
"See you later?"

(Of course)

The love you give me
I let it hold me
It is the paint I use
It is the poems I write
The yellow of your laugh
The golden twinkle in your eyes
The small pieces of yourself that you give to me

(If you ever leave, i might die)

The love you give to me
I carry it
In a basket like a flower girl
I sprinkle it
I wonder if you recognize the parts you left of yourself
The parts that are now me

(Sometimes, I try to imagine what would happen if I hadn't met you)

your love that carries me

(and I honestly couldn't see another future without you in it)
(Maybe because I couldn't bear the thought of it)

I love romantically I've always said
but you my friend your simple love is one to change worlds
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