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Started February 07, 2019 by @ember-chan-will-never-forget-you

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Similarly Different

A crime scene,
In the midst of the night.
A beautiful yet sinister
Line of sight.
There’s nobody around me.
There’s no one to see.
There’s no one to judge me
To who I may be.

Someone, somewhere, has died alone
A heart of gold, a body of stone.
There’s not a cure, to all his pain
For no one cares, to share his rain.
Leaving alone, so hard to do.
To close the door, a silent tune
Was breaking through, but in the end
There’s nothing there, but a soft ‘amen’.

Oh why was I…
Enduring all this pain?
And why was I…
Afraid to let it go?
Why was I…
Too scared to let it show?
Oh why?
Why…?
Why.

Within all the sighs I have heard in my life,
Could it be that the answer’s…
Right in front of my eyes?

That’s right.
It’s fine if I am left alone tonight.
It’s fine as long as you are happier in time.
I’ll gladly see myself out,
Of a life of someone so kind.

You’re right.
I’ll gladly disappear without a fight.
I’ll leave my doors closed so you won’t
Have to see me cry.
At the end of the day,
I will leave all my thoughts to decay.

Someone, somewhere, has been living alone.
No one to take care of, and no one to care for.
The roses’ thorns have pierced his skin.
Then all of its beauty was carried by wind.
Through time and time, the roses corrode.
And die, and die, at the end they’re disposed.
The autumn’s skies, a beautiful red,
But what is there to love? When your heart is so dead?

Oh why was I…
Faking through it all?
Why was I…
Too weak to risk anything?
Why and why…
Have I been so weak?
When all of my reflections,
Reflect someone else I don’t know.

It’s fine.
When the person who was dead was in my mind.
The actions of the past has led me down the road I’m on.
Too late to turn back,
But too soon to be gone.

And I,
Will embrace my fate with happiness and I…
Will not cry again for all the tears I shed
Go somewhere I couldn’t even know.
Where the roses have bloomed,
Where the light will follow you.

The sky…
A beautiful and destined demise.
A curse in all it is and I will
Cry into the sky until I’m fine.
Hopefully my tears are hidden—

I…
Will love the pain, will learn to love my mind.
It’s all inside my head and I will fight until I see the end of the line.
I will stand again sometime tonight.

Even if I’m different,
To who I was before.
Even if I’ve murdered,
The man I was before…

I will try if life’s worth living for.

i mean,
you already know my thoughts on this but here's my not so immediately after reading thoughts
lkjsfjlksd altrince this is a m a s t e r p i e c e
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is so gudddd
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okok i know, not much better than the immediately-after-reading thoughts but
yea there they are

omg ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!— Thank you Izzy! Much appreciated friend! :D

:DDD
Yw!!

ig I got a couple-

Carcass
Summer saw them in the valleys
Spring in the fields.
Winter came, they stayed in their home by the fire.
In fall they moved through the trees
The sun dancing on the leaves
By summer again they were wiping their tears on their sleeves.

Gutter
Small trickles of red on cement
Heading for the gutter
Where they belong.
Glittering rain on cement
Heading for the gutter
Where it belongs.
Darkness in the sky
Sucked to the gutter
Where I belong.

(punches wall I have feelings to express)

Unnoticed Wounds

He was a dog
A stray dog
A wild dog

He bit people
Dug his teeth into their fearful hearts
But in a way that
Most of me found justifiable

His eyes were green

He
Sat outside my window
Panting, watching the summer
Patiently

I will lock the window, but break out the panes of glass. They will glitter like stars in his brindled fur

He sees me and smiles so very widely
Like the sky in the west
He knows I’m afraid, knows I am not afraid
He does not know why

My eyes are wet

My mouth moves, he does not hear
Even with those sharp pointed ears

I came for you, he says.
He rises, slow and easy
A king of the sun
His paws
Don’t know they are bleeding
Until
He
Falls
Back
Down

This Nonsense is Like a Journal

When I write about darkness
It’s as if I’ve dipped my fingers in ink
Or sticky tar-like cobwebs.

The words drip off me and cling to the paper
Wet and heavy
Soaking through to the surface of my desk.

When the darkness dries, it is flakey
And smudges if you touch it.
A red incense rises up when set in the light.

Maybe you don’t care about
this darkness when you read it
Or maybe it drowns you
Funny, I don’t know which option I prefer.

(There's much more where those came from (almost four year's worth lol), but I'll drop the best ones later when I have more time. This is an awesome thread and I don't know why I've waited so long to contribute to it! ^^)

poetry? prose? idk it's hard to tell

Let me bring this back to life real quick

”And with you, I can really smile”

As time goes, the grass grows.
Hear the music, of the meadows.
A strange new world,
One you can hold.

Lakes up high, blue fogs rise.
One step more, you can explore…
What’s out the door—

In every heartbeat,
In every breath deep.
There’s a soul waiting to be found.
There’s a heart screaming out its sound.

Fireflies shining bright,
Fly ahead, soar through the sky.
Watch the stars as they light the night.
Witness life as we were designed.

“And with you, I can really smile.”

Breezes fly, cross the skyline.
Butterflies play, in the sunlight.
Every new day,
Adventures wait.

Lakes up high, blue fogs rise.
In this path, full of surprise…
But with you by my side—

In every heartbeat,
In every breath deep.
You bring life as your eyes meet mine.
You’re the one I came here to find.

Fireflies shining bright,
Fly ahead, soar through the sky.
Through the dawn and darkened nights,
Through the rise and fallen times.

“And with you, I can really smile.”

When I look upwards,
Even through distance faraway.
I see your starlight,
Forever shining bright—

In every heartbeat,
In every breath deep.
In this world, enveloped with time.
In this life, could I call you mine?

Fireflies are shining bright,
Fly ahead, soar through the sky.
See the buds of our blooming light,
See our love floating in the night.

“And with you, I can really smile.”

What a lovely poem! ^^
I also have one:

Aloe

Myriad of dewdrops
The dark feet step slowly
Thin, obliqued feathers trace ripples in the pearl sky
Or maybe breezy loops in the water.

Considering the plum-colored silk
She has thoughts so quiet
Not even the dream-flies can hear them
Gold spider lilies glitter knowingly in the folds.

Slowly

Books always write about the sweetest times in evenings.
When the sun would start to settle down its shining.
His favorite dress of hers, his eyes and how they’re sparkling.
So many moments, so many stories.
So many tales to tell to the lonely.
In the end, it’s the tale of you and me.

The time I kissed you, oh I wish you remember fondly.
How we met within the forest under shadows of the trees.
How you look into my eyes and how you see me.
Though it’s been long, I won’t ever be gone.
No matter the days, I wait here for as long…
As you want me to wait for you.

Slowly I’ve loved you,
Slowly I fell through,
Slowly but surely,
I have fallen in love with you.
Slowly I want to act just like you,
Slowly I fell for you.

Slowly I’ve loved you,
Slowly I fell through.
Slowly I feel
Like I need you with me…
Because sometimes
To love is to take things… slowly.

Along the gardens of the summer’s sky, your smile shines.
There’s no need to hesitate for you are here by my side.
No storyline would fit our love perfectly like yours and mine.
There is a reason, there’s something certain.
Maybe it’s destiny, or some sort of fate.
But I know, happiness comes everyday.

Slowly I’ve loved you,
Slowly I fell through,
Slowly my feelings
Showed themselves to you.
Slowly I want to learn to love you,
Surely I’ll stay here too.

Slowly I’ll love you,
Slowly I fell through.
Slowly was my life
Before I had you.
Because sometimes…
To love is to take things… slowly.

Because I know…
I’ve grown in love with you…
Slowly.

( @darling-velocipede I kinda love your poems fam )

(oh thanks dude that's really sweet! i love your aloe poem, above altrince's last one. it's so delicately evocative)

( @darling-velocipede I kinda love your poems fam )

(oh thanks dude that's really sweet! i love your aloe poem, above altrince's last one. it's so delicately evocative)

(eeee tyyy XD)

idk what this is guys i'm homosexual and tired and the words ain't here today

(My friend, my dude, do you have like a tumblr or somewhere else you post these that you're okay with sharing? You write the kind of stuff I make Pinterest boards for.)
Meanwhile, I feel I should contribute more of my own spitprose.

Sudden

I hear my heart beat, just once.
I am stilled.

Away in the green distance, there is a clearing between the trees.

What was that sound?
I search for the source, but there is nothing.

The air hangs heavy beneath the sun.

Reconstruction

The rain came last night.
The first real rain this spring.
I examine the way your hands clasp around your knees
The exact texture of your hair
The starry anklet you wear, and the old scar underneath

I do all this
Rather than meet your gaze
Rather than try to read your little smile
From the far side of the dark kitchen table.

5:13 a.m.

You mumbled the words of a song in your sleep last night

It gave me pause to hear it

Such a thing only happens in stories, when necessary to tell a secret or send a message or bring out forgotten courage.

Is this the darkness before our dawn?

Funnily, I have never loved you more

(My friend, my dude, do you have like a tumblr or somewhere else you post these that you're okay with sharing? You write the kind of stuff I make Pinterest boards for.)

(oh wow that's so sweet! i do have a tumblr, but i'm on a bit of a break for the moment. i'll let you know when i go back to it! also 5:13 a.m. killled me seriously i love it)

(My friend, my dude, do you have like a tumblr or somewhere else you post these that you're okay with sharing? You write the kind of stuff I make Pinterest boards for.)

(oh wow that's so sweet! i do have a tumblr, but i'm on a bit of a break for the moment. i'll let you know when i go back to it! also 5:13 a.m. killled me seriously i love it)

(Okay, cool! And thank-you, I'm glad you liked it haha >///<)

Well I don't know if anyone here remembers me, but I'm back after deactivating a while ago.You can call me Nat. I most likely will not be super active but I do have a rather depressing story to tell. So um,, here we go.

Hug

It was nearly a month ago
When I called and said we were through
I cried for a long time but that was normal
Because it’s always been me, not you.

But I got caught up in life again
And I moved that all to the back of my mind
Until I was racing through some crowded hallway
And suddenly, you caught my eye.

The rest of the world melted away
Which probably should’ve been my first hint
But you were standing in the tracks
Of my train of thought, so that's where my mind went

“I know I must look great.”
You took one look at me and then you said
“You always look beautiful,” just like you do
And your pretty words always filled up my head.

You opened up your arms
And I didn’t hesitate for half a second
Before running in because somehow
I guess I forgot everything again.

Your arms felt exactly how I remember
Just like all of the best hugs do
And I still remember the smell of the sweater
I bought you, red, because I wore blue.

I closed my eyes tight
And you squeezed away all of my fears
Then I woke up with my arms around a pillow
And I couldn’t hold back the tears.

ok i'm sorry but this is gorgeous-

Hey I've never posted here but I wanted to share one of the odes I wrote for my creative writing class cause I'm really proud of it

Ode to the Little Beach Where I Grew Up

We turn the corner
But just before we do,
I smell the beach in the distance
I’m not worried though.
We’ll get there.

I pass the tall slide
I have long outgrown
And the swing set I
haven’t touched in years.
I say hello to my grandparents
And their house I miss.

We walk to the beach.
Fifteen years ago
I would have needed to
Hold my grandfather’s hand
Twelve years ago I would have
Been running ahead,
Keeping an eye out for pretty flowers
But today my grandfather and I walk
Side by side
He’s a little slower
But I don’t mind.

We get to the fence, wrapped in sweatshirts,
Trying to fight against the bitter wind.
On another day, we
May have all worn shorts.
But today only my grandfather does.
The wind doesn’t bite him anymore
In his sandals.

The ocean meets us at the steps
My grandmother says its here
To say hello. I roll my
Jeans up as far as they will go.
There are enough rocks
To be our steps to the sand.
We’ll only be here a little while
Anyways.

The sand is cold and grey,
But the ocean still sparkles
In the feeble sunlight.
A dog runs up to me,
Sandy and panting. I
Say hi, not wanting to
Break the owner’s rules,
But I still love the dog, and
He deserves some attention.
My grandmother points out
A shell to me and I bend
To pick it up. It gleams,
Still covered in saltwater.
It will no longer look as pretty
Dried in my bedroom, far from
The sea. But I take it anyways.
It will remind me of today.

I'm
Afraid of
the dark.

the bumps
and squeaks
and silence.

But

Sometimes

I'm

not.

On
the nights
the yelling
the pain

the broken
record
are too
much.

I'm
not afraid
of the dark.

the bumps
the squeeks
the silence.

It's
like
I'm
drowning.

I beg
and scream
but

not

a

sound.

ok i'm sorry but this is gorgeous-

oh thank u! that means a lot <33

i can write edgy things but cannot think of edgy titles. your ideas would be appreciated

Your eyes when they stare… so bright…
Over the canvas wall is the sunshine…
United with hope, inside… stuck frozen in time with none by your side…

Hush out the words, you have
And with a smile, you stand
Value yourself, with one more chance
Even if it’s hard to stay, I know that you can live through today…

To tomorrow and
Other days—

Because you have to believe.
Even if it’s hard to stay alive.
Live on… it’ll be alright.
In the days and nights to come.
Emotions never fade like the sun…
Vibrant, they will forever stay…
Even, through the darkest days.

Today… you awake.
Hourly you question yourself
“Am I… good enough?”
That’s question you shouldn’t have asked.

Through the dawns and through the dusks.
Hundred thousands hours passed.
In this life that you are in—
Stay alive… and find your light.

Inside…
Something still remains intact.. and alive.

No one else knows what it is.
One does… and—
That’s you…

Through troubles, through mornings.
Heavy emotions, and soft breathings.
Ever flowing tears on your pillows… will fade… some day.

Let go… of the past.
And embrace the present.
Sometimes… people say…
Things you don’t want to hear…

Don’t worry, close your eyes… you’ll be fine.
And at last… on some day…
You can… smile…

(YES I CAME BACK TO ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL ALTRINCE POEM TY I WILL BE SAVING THAT)

(Also Coral that was amazing I love that so much)