I never asked for this
I never asked to see what I see
When I close my eyes, when everything goes dark
The monsters that make me lose sleep
That keep me away from my dreams
They don’t have to sleep
I never asked for this
I never asked to get nervous every time I walk out the door
Not because I’m scared to go outside
But because I’m scared of what the outside will make me do
I can’t look a stranger in the eye for more than 3 seconds before
It happens
I start to shake
I can’t breathe
I wonder what they’ll do
But nothing ever happens
I never asked for this
I never asked for this nagging feeling in the back o
Sometimes I think in poetry
I wonder if you think of me
Do you want a poet on your lips?
And I think in poetry
Long drawn out soliloquies
Recounting every word you’ve ever said
I wonder if you think of me at all
If you hear me when I speak to you at all
I think in poetry, I think of what to say
And then I never even say it all
Trapped in a bottle, full collected all my thoughts
And you are a mason jar
Made of tickets, chocolate, whispers, lofts
And when I think of you I think in poetry
Trickling every sympathy
From every romance underdog worn out love story
Darling do you think of me
When I think of you
Late at night when my thoug
The Detriment of Using an Ink Pen on an Exam by amcas97, literature
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The Detriment of Using an Ink Pen on an Exam
The answer to number 10 is D
Because its polysyndeton gives me anxiety
But woe is me,
How can this be?
I marked it B.
This mistake cannot be undone
Irreversible
Unerasable
Woe
-another terrible poem by me
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I Am a Beach and You Are a Boulder
To the boy in math
Who threw candy at me because he thought I was fat
To the boys I trusted
That showed me I wasn’t but an item to be lusted after
To the girl who made my life so miserable
That going to school was barely livable
You were the ones that hurt me the most, the ones that broke me apart
To the boy in the 10th grade
Who showed me I was meant to be saved
To the girl who stuck with me
Even after they all left with Kasie
To the girl who called me pretty
Even after you saw the scars that covered my body
You were the ones that loved me, the ones who put me back together again
When you walk on the beach and all you see is the sa
How to Love Him: An Instruction Manual by amcas97, literature
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How to Love Him: An Instruction Manual
Warning: Contents are not as they appear
The inside is much bigger than the outside
And he has a heart that’s miles wide
If you want him to smile, all you have to do
Is give him cuddles
Or tell dorky jokes
Or give him a compliment every once and a while
Warning: Do not poke his sides when he is holding something breakable
He is ticklish, and it will fall out of his hands quicker than you can catch
If you want to gain his love all you have to do
Is give him something you know he’ll love
You don’t even have to buy it
Tip: He likes food and music and you call him your bear
If you want to earn his love all
I never asked for this
I never asked to see what I see
When I close my eyes, when everything goes dark
The monsters that make me lose sleep
That keep me away from my dreams
They don’t have to sleep
I never asked for this
I never asked to get nervous every time I walk out the door
Not because I’m scared to go outside
But because I’m scared of what the outside will make me do
I can’t look a stranger in the eye for more than 3 seconds before
It happens
I start to shake
I can’t breathe
I wonder what they’ll do
But nothing ever happens
I never asked for this
I never asked for this nagging feeling in the back o
Sometimes I think in poetry
I wonder if you think of me
Do you want a poet on your lips?
And I think in poetry
Long drawn out soliloquies
Recounting every word you’ve ever said
I wonder if you think of me at all
If you hear me when I speak to you at all
I think in poetry, I think of what to say
And then I never even say it all
Trapped in a bottle, full collected all my thoughts
And you are a mason jar
Made of tickets, chocolate, whispers, lofts
And when I think of you I think in poetry
Trickling every sympathy
From every romance underdog worn out love story
Darling do you think of me
When I think of you
Late at night when my thoug
The Detriment of Using an Ink Pen on an Exam by amcas97, literature
Literature
The Detriment of Using an Ink Pen on an Exam
The answer to number 10 is D
Because its polysyndeton gives me anxiety
But woe is me,
How can this be?
I marked it B.
This mistake cannot be undone
Irreversible
Unerasable
Woe
-another terrible poem by me
I Am a Beach and You Are a Boulder by amcas97, literature
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I Am a Beach and You Are a Boulder
To the boy in math
Who threw candy at me because he thought I was fat
To the boys I trusted
That showed me I wasn’t but an item to be lusted after
To the girl who made my life so miserable
That going to school was barely livable
You were the ones that hurt me the most, the ones that broke me apart
To the boy in the 10th grade
Who showed me I was meant to be saved
To the girl who stuck with me
Even after they all left with Kasie
To the girl who called me pretty
Even after you saw the scars that covered my body
You were the ones that loved me, the ones who put me back together again
When you walk on the beach and all you see is the sa
How to Love Him: An Instruction Manual by amcas97, literature
Literature
How to Love Him: An Instruction Manual
Warning: Contents are not as they appear
The inside is much bigger than the outside
And he has a heart that’s miles wide
If you want him to smile, all you have to do
Is give him cuddles
Or tell dorky jokes
Or give him a compliment every once and a while
Warning: Do not poke his sides when he is holding something breakable
He is ticklish, and it will fall out of his hands quicker than you can catch
If you want to gain his love all you have to do
Is give him something you know he’ll love
You don’t even have to buy it
Tip: He likes food and music and you call him your bear
If you want to earn his love all
Hard to Live Down
"In the Name of Love"
For Puabi
"This is so hard to live down."
"Just enjoy Puabi, beloved."
She is not the only one
Who wonders what he has done
To be so fortunate
As to enjoy a love like ours.
I must wonder too.
But when the hour is late,
We just lie back and forget,
And enjoy our love for hours.
On the love bed,
Under the blanket,
On a cotton sheet,
In the calm, silent night,
When we lie alone,
Our thoughts and words are so sweet.
But we mean every one.
It is so hard to live this down,
So we put it aside,
And enjoy each other
Until the night is gone
And we see the light of dawn.
Do you think that lighthouses cry a lot?
Always illuminating,
Always helping,
Always selfless.
Never thanked,
Never celebrated,
Never lauded.
Do you think that lighthouses cry a lot?
I want to feel the
electricity under my skin
and the sparks in my eyes,
the kinds of sparks
that make you want to shed
sugary-sweet tears of joy;
the intense lightness in my chest,
the feathers I used to feel
with you,
before the warmth was replaced
with ice and nausea
that was once nonexistent
in my world of innocence
and rosy smiles,
except in thoughts of future days
like these.
I had joy so strong
before the descent,
just thoughts of you
had me running miles
and leaping hurdles in my sleep;
but the dreams are gone--
I sleep now to escape,
and I'm left only
with hunger
for the feeling to feel.
I want to feel wh
Wake up
Give up
Start fires
Break windows
Drink whiskey
Share files
Murder politicians
Tell stories
Slash tires
Plan insurrections
Corrupt children
Do drugs
Fuck freely
Spread misinformation
Blast music
Blackmail businesses
Crash parties
Forge documents
Start arguments
Vandalize churches
Slander celebrities
Buy local
Drive slowly
Denounce democracy
Renounce yourself
Become nothing
Be imperative
every night my hair is falling out by insomniaplague, literature
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every night my hair is falling out
I have heard that in 7 years
every cell in your body
is new
& isn't it beautiful that it will be
a body you have never touched
but I know that when your brain cells
die
fall like ashes through your skull
they stay dead
& I can never scrap the memories out of their corpses
I couldn't keep up the pace
when the accusations leaked into
everything,
so I retreated
inside closed eyes
where the darkness showed me
the light,
while my losses won the war
filling the deficit with their valour.
Now my shoulders bear the burdens
and the scars prove an
unswerving loyalty,
yet only remembered when I
drown my sorrows,
feeling tears appear only to fall down
and escape the obligation to share in the guilt,
of the grand old scheme of things written in the sand
with bullets, from a pen
onto paper made from heroes.