lights will guide you home

it's like screaming, but no one can hear. you almost feel ashamed that someone could be that important. that without them, you feel like nothing. no one will ever understand how much it hurts. you feel hopeless, like nothing can save you. and when it's over and it's gone, you almost wish you could have all that bad stuff back, so that you could have the good.

[thoughtkick]

“Please stop destroying what is left of your heart by constantly thinking about things that have broken you.”

— Nikita Gill

[poems-and-word]

Poems & Words

[poems-and-word]

Poems & Words

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.” - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

[inthenameofloveforthesakeofpower]

Halsey’s comment under her most recent Instagram post.

[queenofbadlands]

Road To Manic

[poems-and-word]

[poems-and-word]

[olearypoetry]

“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”

— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (via rupikaurpoems)

[olearypoetry]

“If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not.”

— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (via rupikaurpoems)

[olearypoetry]

“You have sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live.”

— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (via rupikaurpoems)

[humansofnewyork]

“I hated going out with them because something would always happen.  It was usually on birthdays and special occasions.  I was painfully shy, but they weren’t shy at all.  They’d scream at each other in restaurants.  He’d never hit her in public because he was smarter than that.  He’d save that until we got home.  I felt like a soldier growing up.  Even the quiet times were stressful, because things could go wrong at any moment.  One time he chased her around the house with a knife.  Another time he broke her finger.  We’d always go to my grandmother’s house after the big incidents.  Those were the calmest times of my life.  But after a few weeks he’d always show up with flowers, and Mom would say: ‘OK, we’re going back.’  I tried to tell her that it wasn’t just her.  That we were suffering too.  But her answer was always the same:  ‘We can’t survive on our own.  And he doesn’t do it to you.’  Things changed once I started going to college.  I became more confident.  I felt powerful for the first time in my life.  I packed his bags.  I took his house keys.  I went to court, filed the forms, and served him myself.  Mom’s doing much better now.  She looks twenty years younger. She’s going out with friends again.  She’s taking theater classes.  And I just finished my first year of law school.” (Toronto, Canada)

[smittenswift]

That’s it, that’s the quote.

[books-n-quotes]

“My first love was some insignificant boy when it should have been myself.”

— Michelle K., First Love (via books-n-quotes)

[vital-dust]

[lilyofthevalleyxo]

“I finally no longer sit awake at night thinking about you. Thinking about what could have been. What could have happened if you had just reached out one last time.

And deep down I know what would have happened. You would have slipped through the cracks in my skin and destroyed me once again. And I would have let you.

So thank God I got some sense, some peace, and some real air in my lungs to replace the lingering thought of you, because now I’m lighter than I’ve ever been.

Oh yeah, and fuck you.

- M.J. Walker

[poems-and-word]