I'd write truth, but even the word is a waste of time when it's from me-- but for all the wrong reasons, with no rhyme at all.
Fuck the fact that I was raised on lies, in houses coated with gold that turned out to be lead that turned out to be poison that turned out to be deadly.
Fuck the fact that I was raised in a lie, where nothing mattered past the facade-- but at least it was a really good facade.
Fuck the fact that I'm not even a good fucking liar.
All that matters is that the truth never mattered so much as circumstantial evidence.
All that matters is that a lie is a lie, even when it's the truth.
All that matters is that no one
v.
we were [v] and we were lonely, and the world was too big for us to know how to navigate, so we didn't even bother to try-- we just floated, drifted like we were lost, because we were, we were, but we didn't have the guts to admit it, just yet.
because we were only [v], and we didn't even know we were afraid, yet.
x.
we were [x] and we were shy, with baby stars in our eyes that were fading, fading fast, because we were too old to say we didn't know how to lie, anymore, but we were still lying about the cookies that went missing, about the dirt we tracked in, about the juice we spilled-- those lies were still white, and so were we.
bec
Unconventionally static, I'll love you forever in all the wrong places.
In photographs, but those are quickly becoming outdated, like the polaroids I took and left out too long on my bedroom desk. Who would've thought artificial light could be so deadly?
-- the colour is gone, much like my life without sleep and medication.
-- you thought I was going to say my life without you, didn't you?
-- I'll let you in on a secret: my world hasn't changed a bit since you walked away.
In memories, but I don't trust those much, anymore. I can see the seams in the photoshop, and the shitty CGI has me thinking that my editing skills need a little work.
Dear seven--
I don't even know where to start this.
I don't even know where we started.
Regurgitating old memories not only makes me look like a total bitch, it makes this entire letter irrelevant and much too lengthy; I should have more to say to you, but I don't, and I should feel more guilty about that, but I don't really feel guilty, either. Or, rather, I feel guilty about that... I just don't feel guilty enough.
I'll start here:
Sometimes, I miss you.
Sometimes, a thought comes up, and I'm laughing, until I remember why I laughed in the first place. Sometimes, I do something, and I'm happy, until I remember why I was happy in the f
"Hello?"
"Hey, sweetheart."
"What-- who is this? Do you realize what time it is?"
"Calm down, sweetheart. It's just me."
"D... Danny? What the hell are you doing? It's 3:00 am! How did you even get my new apartment number?"
"Oh, come on, sweetheart. A friend. Besides, I even had enough courtesy to wait to call you."
"Until 3:00 am."
"I waited until you got home."
"More like until you got home."
"Once upon a time, it was you, too, babe."
"Are you high?"
"No. Not anymore. Aren't you proud?"
"Fuck off."
"Hey, come on, calm down. Look, I know I haven't called and all..."
"It's been six months."
"Missed me?"
"You have five seconds
Immortality v.s. Invincibility by MissAlphaWolf, literature
Literature
Immortality v.s. Invincibility
There's fire in my veins.
It's eating me alive from the inside out, and it's the most beautiful, torturous feeling I've ever felt, and it makes me want to crawl out of my skin and grow and recreate myself and destroy myself, but all I can do is feel... well, all I can do is feel, for the first time in a long time.
Once upon a time, I was stuck in a forest-- a beautiful nothing filled with beautiful, macabre thoughts of beautiful, beautiful death. Caught in the center of a world where no one was there but everything was heated and everything had a soul and everything wanted my soul... however rusted and tarnished it may be.
I was frozen in
Oh, Pretty girls with hair all curled fall to
the ground when he walks in the crowded room.
With quiv'ring lips and hopeful eyes, they say:
"Oh, save us, love, oh, save us from ourselves."
And monotone with eyes long dead, he says,
"Pretty girls with hair in curls bleed pearls and
all the diamonds on this fair and lovely earth;
it pains me, dears, to see you here, hurting."
They smiled, lovely, at him, then, until,
"So then," he said, lips all but cheered, "We have
a choice to make. Give me your hearts, and I
shall fail, but you will never hurt again."
And so they gave him everything, without a pause:
And he, the trickster, ran
-- because i dont
Because sugar doesn't last, not when it's melting in the sun.
(or on my tongue, or on your tongue, or between our tongues)
-- but I hear the fake shit they use in everything nowadays can give you cancer, so am I worth the risk?
And because swapping gum wasn't meant for us.
(or for any of the kids kissing beneath the stairways, or behind textbooks, or under stars)
-- but you're the only one who ever knew how much I love Big Red and coke, so can I keep you, anyway?
Because your tattoos and piercings only caught my eye for a second.
(or a million seconds, or a billion seconds, or a trillion seconds)
-- but it doesn't m
i.
These are the days you trick yourself into loving.
The days when you're too lonely to bear so-- dammit!-- someone else just might bear it for you.
(you're adorable, honey; as cute as tehy come. if we were five, I would want you as a partner on a field trip so I could hold your hand.)
But the bitter truth is, I'm not five, you're not in love, and your obsession will eat me alive.
(I will bury you alive.)
ii.
These are the moments where we lie to ourselves.
I tell myself ilikeyou, iwantyou, iloveyou, ineedyou--
but it's not your face I picture.
(you're just like the piercing everyone wanted me to get; the one everyone thought was p
Break Down The Fucking Door by MissAlphaWolf, literature
Literature
Break Down The Fucking Door
There are some things etched into me; tapped deeper than my fingertips, deeper than my eyes, deeper than my bones, deeper than my heart.
Down to my fingerprints.
Down to my mind.
Down to my marrow.
Down to my soul.
I can't fucking get rid of it; I can't fucking get rid of you.
If you think this is for you:
then it never was,
we never were,
you can't be on my soul,
you were never even on my lips.
I'd list all the places and ways to escape you, but I can't bring myself to recognize the fact that, no, jail won't work. My fingerprints spell out your name, and everything I touch screams everything you've ever said to me in brail that
I'd write truth, but even the word is a waste of time when it's from me-- but for all the wrong reasons, with no rhyme at all.
Fuck the fact that I was raised on lies, in houses coated with gold that turned out to be lead that turned out to be poison that turned out to be deadly.
Fuck the fact that I was raised in a lie, where nothing mattered past the facade-- but at least it was a really good facade.
Fuck the fact that I'm not even a good fucking liar.
All that matters is that the truth never mattered so much as circumstantial evidence.
All that matters is that a lie is a lie, even when it's the truth.
All that matters is that no one
v.
we were [v] and we were lonely, and the world was too big for us to know how to navigate, so we didn't even bother to try-- we just floated, drifted like we were lost, because we were, we were, but we didn't have the guts to admit it, just yet.
because we were only [v], and we didn't even know we were afraid, yet.
x.
we were [x] and we were shy, with baby stars in our eyes that were fading, fading fast, because we were too old to say we didn't know how to lie, anymore, but we were still lying about the cookies that went missing, about the dirt we tracked in, about the juice we spilled-- those lies were still white, and so were we.
bec
Unconventionally static, I'll love you forever in all the wrong places.
In photographs, but those are quickly becoming outdated, like the polaroids I took and left out too long on my bedroom desk. Who would've thought artificial light could be so deadly?
-- the colour is gone, much like my life without sleep and medication.
-- you thought I was going to say my life without you, didn't you?
-- I'll let you in on a secret: my world hasn't changed a bit since you walked away.
In memories, but I don't trust those much, anymore. I can see the seams in the photoshop, and the shitty CGI has me thinking that my editing skills need a little work.
Dear seven--
I don't even know where to start this.
I don't even know where we started.
Regurgitating old memories not only makes me look like a total bitch, it makes this entire letter irrelevant and much too lengthy; I should have more to say to you, but I don't, and I should feel more guilty about that, but I don't really feel guilty, either. Or, rather, I feel guilty about that... I just don't feel guilty enough.
I'll start here:
Sometimes, I miss you.
Sometimes, a thought comes up, and I'm laughing, until I remember why I laughed in the first place. Sometimes, I do something, and I'm happy, until I remember why I was happy in the f
"Hello?"
"Hey, sweetheart."
"What-- who is this? Do you realize what time it is?"
"Calm down, sweetheart. It's just me."
"D... Danny? What the hell are you doing? It's 3:00 am! How did you even get my new apartment number?"
"Oh, come on, sweetheart. A friend. Besides, I even had enough courtesy to wait to call you."
"Until 3:00 am."
"I waited until you got home."
"More like until you got home."
"Once upon a time, it was you, too, babe."
"Are you high?"
"No. Not anymore. Aren't you proud?"
"Fuck off."
"Hey, come on, calm down. Look, I know I haven't called and all..."
"It's been six months."
"Missed me?"
"You have five seconds
Immortality v.s. Invincibility by MissAlphaWolf, literature
Literature
Immortality v.s. Invincibility
There's fire in my veins.
It's eating me alive from the inside out, and it's the most beautiful, torturous feeling I've ever felt, and it makes me want to crawl out of my skin and grow and recreate myself and destroy myself, but all I can do is feel... well, all I can do is feel, for the first time in a long time.
Once upon a time, I was stuck in a forest-- a beautiful nothing filled with beautiful, macabre thoughts of beautiful, beautiful death. Caught in the center of a world where no one was there but everything was heated and everything had a soul and everything wanted my soul... however rusted and tarnished it may be.
I was frozen in
Oh, Pretty girls with hair all curled fall to
the ground when he walks in the crowded room.
With quiv'ring lips and hopeful eyes, they say:
"Oh, save us, love, oh, save us from ourselves."
And monotone with eyes long dead, he says,
"Pretty girls with hair in curls bleed pearls and
all the diamonds on this fair and lovely earth;
it pains me, dears, to see you here, hurting."
They smiled, lovely, at him, then, until,
"So then," he said, lips all but cheered, "We have
a choice to make. Give me your hearts, and I
shall fail, but you will never hurt again."
And so they gave him everything, without a pause:
And he, the trickster, ran
-- because i dont
Because sugar doesn't last, not when it's melting in the sun.
(or on my tongue, or on your tongue, or between our tongues)
-- but I hear the fake shit they use in everything nowadays can give you cancer, so am I worth the risk?
And because swapping gum wasn't meant for us.
(or for any of the kids kissing beneath the stairways, or behind textbooks, or under stars)
-- but you're the only one who ever knew how much I love Big Red and coke, so can I keep you, anyway?
Because your tattoos and piercings only caught my eye for a second.
(or a million seconds, or a billion seconds, or a trillion seconds)
-- but it doesn't m
i.
These are the days you trick yourself into loving.
The days when you're too lonely to bear so-- dammit!-- someone else just might bear it for you.
(you're adorable, honey; as cute as tehy come. if we were five, I would want you as a partner on a field trip so I could hold your hand.)
But the bitter truth is, I'm not five, you're not in love, and your obsession will eat me alive.
(I will bury you alive.)
ii.
These are the moments where we lie to ourselves.
I tell myself ilikeyou, iwantyou, iloveyou, ineedyou--
but it's not your face I picture.
(you're just like the piercing everyone wanted me to get; the one everyone thought was p
Break Down The Fucking Door by MissAlphaWolf, literature
Literature
Break Down The Fucking Door
There are some things etched into me; tapped deeper than my fingertips, deeper than my eyes, deeper than my bones, deeper than my heart.
Down to my fingerprints.
Down to my mind.
Down to my marrow.
Down to my soul.
I can't fucking get rid of it; I can't fucking get rid of you.
If you think this is for you:
then it never was,
we never were,
you can't be on my soul,
you were never even on my lips.
I'd list all the places and ways to escape you, but I can't bring myself to recognize the fact that, no, jail won't work. My fingerprints spell out your name, and everything I touch screams everything you've ever said to me in brail that
love makes everyone mary sue. by tragicvista, literature
Literature
love makes everyone mary sue.
and fourteen smiles later, he and i were falling; not apart, but together for once.
and so i thought, maybe this will fix me.
"lover, i'm just using you to hold these wounds closed."
"baby, i just needed someone to care."
frantic in our antics, i only ended up clutching his collar again,
my soprano resounding through his bones:
love makes everyone mary sue.
the world's first ever bachelor museum by ChloroformBoy, literature
Literature
the world's first ever bachelor museum
hey Irony,
remember me?
no? what if i
told you
i screwed
your best friend's
abacus & didn't
even call back?
do you remember
the time i snuck
into your guesthouse
and fell in
sleep
with your cuckold
futon? i chiseled
a wedding ring out of
Philosophy's fossil fingers
& proposed
(a solution)
to Plato. we eloped
in a cave (twas such
a feeble affair) where
i vowed to burn my
poetry. remember
when i set your diary
on fire? me neither.
bathe me in Aphrodite's
amniotic fluid. love is a
business--none of mine--
governed by mapmakers
it's not the harvest... waiting to be cropped by crookedthoughts, literature
Literature
it's not the harvest... waiting to be cropped
a blue o
m o
n
blue, like the feeling
like the color of the shirt you were wearing, or the color of the sign telling me to sleep late - sleep alone
we have a lot of words in this half-assed, back-alley language that don't mean what they mean
what we
want them
to mean
love
childhood
body
free
te
I
a s k y o u t o f o l d
a s k y o u t o f o l d
memories
read-
just the letters
i mailed (you re-
sent them)~do you
hear the beat
heart he beat
when
his head had
heard her heart
sigh?
he art fully
crafts his lies
to lie
by her thighs;
togetherinbed
I
ask you to fold
a sky out of old
two used calculators for the price of one new one. by ChloroformBoy, literature
Literature
two used calculators for the price of one new one.
this poem is 95%
about the ways i
tuck your middle
initial into mine;
11% about window shopping
for love lyrics in department
stores with expired coupons;
3% about how i traded
basic mathematics for
grammar lessons, yet
still can't identify
YOUR antecedent
or where to place
;a semicolon;
this is nineteen parts truth
+ one part improper angst
kinda like you + kinda not
a little of me + just a dash
of every 'him' whose heart
i let touch my pillow (h
She walks through the door late when you first notice her.
You look up from the notes you can barely understand and as you do, she takes the seat next to you with a quiet apology to the professor. It takes you a second to realize that you're staring at her; not because she's interrupted the class you don't care about at the fall back college you never thought you'd actually have to go to, but because she has been sitting next to you all semester and you have never noticed her.
She is nothing spectacular; you see her skin is far too pale, and her eyes are heavy and half shut. Her lips are chapped and she's made of paper-thin skin and brittle
hey, stranger-- i want you to catch me like a cold.
Current Residence: In the rain, kissing spectres. Favourite genre of music: Anything I feel like listening to... Favourite style of art: Conceptual Operating System: Computer? And the batteries I run on~ MP3 player of choice: Zune Shell of choice: Turtle shells Skin of choice: Black and blue with a soul that's fighting. Favourite cartoon character: Harley Quinn [UBERLOVE] Personal Quote: "Death smiles at us all; the only thing anyone can do is smile back."
Favourite Visual Artist
Salvador Dali
Favourite Movies
... a lot, trust me.
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Within Temptation + Emilie Autumn FTW<3
Favourite Writers
Gail Carson Levine [writer] and Miss SinisterStories [<3]
So... I have lacked inspiration lately.
D:
So, as a solution to this problem, I decided to do the 100 Themes Challenge!
100 Themes Challenge
Cause everyone knows that I love a good challenge, right?
;D
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100 Themes Challenge, Variation 2
16 / 100
1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Rot
6. Break
7. Heaven
8. Away
9. Cut
10. Breathe
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfourtune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Spit
17. Blood
18. Under
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. War
22. Mother
23. Distastefull
24. Want
25. Lurking
26. Europe
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Urban
30. Rain
31. Flower
32. Night
33. Wrath
34. Moon
Beauty.
Bahh.
I can't preach on what beauty is, nor on what I think is beautiful.
So instead, I will preach other views.
o_O
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View 1:
:: Beautiful things were never meant to be caught on camera. Because you can only catch something on camera so many times before it looses the factor that rendored you speachless, the element that brought tears to your eyes. You can look at a picture so many times and find it gorgeous, and then see it again and wonder what changed. What went wrong, what's missing?
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View 2:
:: Only half of beauty's in the eye of the beholder. There things that are based on opinion-- some things that different groups