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"Reach for the stars" you said.
I stood on tip toe and felt the air close in on me.
I was reaching for oxygen as much as stars.
My eyes and my lungs needed more than I could get.
You sit on the moon, swinging your feet, laughing.
Tears fall from my eyes and you yell down at me
"If you were at the height I am, you could pass that off for rain."
I ran inside the abandoned building that used to be "home".
The peeling paint chipped and when I looked, it was under my fingernails.
I scrapped my way to the room at the very top.
I looked up at the small lightbulb and watched it flicker out.
The window was missing too, a tree branch reaching into the room.
I let it take me and knew it was time to end everything.
It set me down on the moon and I landed facedown, lifeless.
You walked over and kicked me in the ribs.
"Get up. Reach for the stars. Hurry up, your time's almost up."
You held my hand and helped me up but when I got to my feet you let go and my knees unhinged.
Can't you tell that I can't take it anymore?
And you grabbed my lifeless hand and tried to help me grasp a star.
A small, glowing one landed on my fingertips and you guided it into my eye.
All of a sudden I could breathe.
I looked at you and you smiled.
Then you said coldly
"I told you to hurry. Who could love someone like you? You're worthless."
You pulled the star out and threw it back into the air.
I collapsed.
I stood on tip toe and felt the air close in on me.
I was reaching for oxygen as much as stars.
My eyes and my lungs needed more than I could get.
You sit on the moon, swinging your feet, laughing.
Tears fall from my eyes and you yell down at me
"If you were at the height I am, you could pass that off for rain."
I ran inside the abandoned building that used to be "home".
The peeling paint chipped and when I looked, it was under my fingernails.
I scrapped my way to the room at the very top.
I looked up at the small lightbulb and watched it flicker out.
The window was missing too, a tree branch reaching into the room.
I let it take me and knew it was time to end everything.
It set me down on the moon and I landed facedown, lifeless.
You walked over and kicked me in the ribs.
"Get up. Reach for the stars. Hurry up, your time's almost up."
You held my hand and helped me up but when I got to my feet you let go and my knees unhinged.
Can't you tell that I can't take it anymore?
And you grabbed my lifeless hand and tried to help me grasp a star.
A small, glowing one landed on my fingertips and you guided it into my eye.
All of a sudden I could breathe.
I looked at you and you smiled.
Then you said coldly
"I told you to hurry. Who could love someone like you? You're worthless."
You pulled the star out and threw it back into the air.
I collapsed.
Literature
Someone Pinch Me
I used to think it was you
Breathing on my neck at night...
Then I realized
It was just my fan that sits
In
My
Room
That makes more noise than I do
When I cry.
I used to think it was you
Singing me to sleep at night
Then I realized
It was just the mix of our songs
Playing in my
Mind.
I used to think it was you
Drying my tears at night
but then I realized
It was all just a dream
that I
Never
Had.
Someone pinch me.
It takes more than a prayer to forget all of this...
Broken mix tapes and torn pictures.
But how do you erase a memory
burned into your skull?
Its under your skin.
Its under my skin.
And what about th
Literature
Forever
Forever, have I lost you?
You're fading from my sight.
Can you not see we're falling?
We're dying in the night.
My heart is yours, Forever,
I'll never turn away.
I'll wait for you to find me.
I'll try to make you stay.
You promised me, Forever,
To make our hearts as one.
Did you forget, Forever,
To tell me we were done?
Forever, will you hold me,
And sooth my heart to sleep?
Tell me again, Forever,
That I'm the one you'll keep.
My heart will beat, Forever,
Until you bid it rest.
I'll live for you, Forever.
I'll try to pass this test.
Forever, I feel empty,
My heart has told a lie.
Forever, can you promise
That you won't
Literature
when You were fourteen
You spit, splatter Your eyelashes
against his cheeks, You rub Your forehead
on her wall holding poison in Your hands,
he should cower, but does not, she should
not turnaroundyellscreamshoutkickcry
but does.
You hold Yourself
like Your family have disowned You
for the fifty eighth time and grin into doors
at how sad you can be. You wash dinner plates
one a time and Your chests pour out bubbles.
i often replace You with a DoubleYou to show You
how big these things can seem when you hold two telescopes
to the map on your thigh and calculate carefully
where the pain will end up. Not in Your feet,
or chest, not in Your skull or pin
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Ohmygod.
I was reading through the comments on this, when I realized with horror that there wasn't one from me, and this has to be my favorite deviation of all time. It's a tragedy. In fact, I love this so much that I would want "If you were at the height I am, you could pass that off for rain." Tattooed on somewhere like my ankle if that wasn't against copy write things. And if I was a tattoo person, which I'm not.
This is like... reading a really raw intense form of emotion placed in the most beautiful way. I can't say enough about it. Just... I love it.
I was reading through the comments on this, when I realized with horror that there wasn't one from me, and this has to be my favorite deviation of all time. It's a tragedy. In fact, I love this so much that I would want "If you were at the height I am, you could pass that off for rain." Tattooed on somewhere like my ankle if that wasn't against copy write things. And if I was a tattoo person, which I'm not.
This is like... reading a really raw intense form of emotion placed in the most beautiful way. I can't say enough about it. Just... I love it.