IfWeKnewLove

We can see what happens...

[regular-love]

Grunge//Indie

[deathtouchxoxo]

Deathtouch

[ifweknewlove]

Affirmations

Look into the mirror The reflection on the lake Listen inside youself This is a message for you to take You are caring You are kind You are intelligent You are beautiful Repeat it until your tongue can not forget Listen with your mind and your heart can follow suit Know that the unbelievable can be truth You are strong You are powerful You are valid You are capable Write it on every wall Shout from every rooftop Whisper in the dark You can love You can be loved You can love yourself You can find good in others Search the world alone Bring others along Find peace within your own melody You are unique You are you You are a work in progress (But that doesn't negate how) You are true Hold on when the going gets rough Inside of you is some pretty great stuff It is okay to feel weak You are complete You are enough You matter You do not have to be perfect Meeting standards means so little You mean so much There is nothing more important than how you treat yourself You may fall down You can get up You can perservere You can write the words that you need to hear You are allowed to be mean You are allowed to be nice You can choose what you feel is right You can let others shape their own lives You are a beautiful you Some day you might find it as true as I do I can say as a fact that no matter what trouble you might make Or even with the biggest mistakes Or how much you change Or the times your heart may break Love every bit of yourself You are pretty damn worth it

[ifweknewlove]

When more lights shine on you, more shadows walk by your side.

Unknown

[ifweknewlove]

Haikuishes

(I found an old notebook and these were in it. Just figured I'd put them here. Each paragraph is a seperate thing.) Startling beauty Even through all the mistakes You are my one light No light in your eyes From what I remember Of our shared chronic love The scent of the wind Relinquishing my regrets Only one more chance Breathing in your smell I wish I'd comprehended What you had told me We are all our own But forget to remember We are not alone Oh, all of the feels Evoked by the love we share For complete strangers I'll go on a quest To find all of the colors Build you a rainbow Your eyes are like stars That light up my darkest night Too far away now

[ifweknewlove]

Shhh (tw?)

My love is not a slow-motion swaying in the moonlight Never have I danced under the stars Freely tiptoeing my way through the waves Hands holding not too tight Waiting for the perfect night That fight was not a passionate frenzy Sometimes it’s connection I envy Still here to pleasure you Is this what I want too? Crumbling cement restrains my other side I will not try to hide Go for it, it’s why I’m here Ignore the “no” that is whispered in your ear Your leathery wings fly away from the scene Ripping a bit out of who I had been For I am no one, my presence will fade If only it was love I had made

[ifweknewlove]

Moments Lost

In a room with you, your absence whispers loudly Memories spin to fear, I don’t know of what your reality is woven Reaching for you, in this ocean we may both drown Missing you so, unaware of the moments we have lost Caged, your mind has locked the bars Hoping to reach you, a forgotten connection I speak in endless rhetoric, hoping someday you may pick up the other end

[ifweknewlove]

I am

(Note: I haven’t finished any poems recently, so here is a piece of a draft I figured I could share. Gotta love my mental block.  Happy September!)

So many times when I lift my pen

I wish to write a sentence that begins with, “I am...”

A sentence that ends in certainty, not a question mark

The universe has yet to settle,

So maybe that’s tomorrow’s story?

[ifweknewlove]

what inspired you to start writing?

I have always enjoyed poetry and admired poets. I have written for a while so the beginning is not totally clear. It is challenging for me to create words that portray thoughts and to allow others to see them; so sharing poetry and the like is a way to overcome that challenge and to do something that I have wanted to do all my life. I’m still working on it, however I find inspiration comes from many parts of existence.

[ifweknewlove]

Dreamer

Slow down, take in the view

Leisurely as you always do

Kick back, enjoy the sights

Maybe when the time is right

I’ll find you in some rainy weather

and we could be alone together.

[ifweknewlove]

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We all have different ways to cope

There are those who complain and those who buy dope

Some self implode and lose all control,

Then there are those who sell hope

[ifweknewlove]

Not Utopia

Do you ever feel as if sanity and reality are not one in the same?

Gazing at the sun, glasses filled with something unknown

We sip and feel the waves with our toes

Breeze bringing us nearer to flight

Dancing across the horizon

The ground anchors my heart no more

The intangible floods space

When is never again a question, but a statement of the past

Freedom no longer conditional

A prize treasured by the deserving, not chosen for those deemed worthy

The violent heaving of our world slows

As love washes away yesterday’s tears

Poison becomes vitality

Do not consider kindness a veil

All is well as we race for oblivion

Fog is not visible ‘til morning light

[ifweknewlove]

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Strange music rushes through my head

A cinnamon-like musk flavors the air

Gravity is less here

Chimes ring out across the hills

The happy bustle as all go about their lives

The star burning as it races

toward the horizon

My normal seems excessively flamboyant now

Air chilling my face

Sensations of wakefulness

So lonely in this crowd, I smile

[ifweknewlove]

Like Butterflies Falling

Wings flutter for the final time

Curtains drawn

Life absent, restricted

As you held me for the first time

Flying no more

Wings shimmer

Beauty as the collapse begins

Your embrace could not surrender

Souls who could only flourish through freedom

[ifweknewlove]

...

Words turn to smoke

Floating away

Inhale

As paper crumbles to ash

I fall, broken glass

The void calls my name

Exhale

Surrounded by this heavy curtain

I become my shame

Distorted visions of grandeur

Breathe

My hands shake

As I wearily grasp

My strange companion

Hastily reconciling

Our fragmented affinity

Getting lost in your temporary infinity

[ifweknewlove]

Hello

A bit about whatever this is:

This is not really my thing, but I have decided to give it a chance.

I am not one to share much but I am going to try to just do it.  Maybe turn off my inner critic for long enough to put some ideas into the world. 

My intention is to use this platform to share some writing and hopefully receive some feedback.  I appreciate any and all comments.

I am currently in high school. I enjoy music and am a bit envious of those who write well.  Practice makes better, right?

I like big words, and read very well but I always seem to have trouble forming English from my thoughts.

Anyways, I’ll stop rambling now.  Just thought an intro might be nice.

Questions welcome :)