Your words ring out with a lack of conviction. Set off by that insincere smile you can't hide. You're always peeking through the peep hole, debating, observing, but never letting me inside. This cat and mouse dance keeps the perfect distance ( Read more... )

When I paint your eyes shut at night ( Read more... )

One day we will look back objectively. 
One day we will look back without regret, without sorrow, without longing. 
One day we will all look back on our individual histories and feel nothing but blessed for the situations that forged the characters we possess today. 
One day, the tears and the laughter, the screaming and the whispering, the fighting ( Read more... )

I miss the days of fellow insomniacs.

I want what we all want, I just need it more than most right now, I want that person who just understands. 
Not the one that simply agrees to end the conversation or even the one that just listens.
I want the one that won't have to. 
I want the person that will pick up the phone and know just what to say when they hear my voice. 
I want the one that ( Read more... )

Babe, someday I'll break down
Babe, don't break, I might drown
Baby at this rate, time should slow down.

Some stories don't end with happily ever after, and aren't begun with once upon a time. 

I am not happy with who I am, or who I have become ( Read more... )

Words ruin my fucking life.
No joke.
I wish I was illiterate.

It is a comical and scary thought that everything we do is ultimately so that we will exist in someone else's mind after we have left their sight.
And it is funny how long after we know that it's no use, we cannot stand the thought of them purging us from there.
We throw fits and fill their ears full of meaningless threats and words that are aimed ( Read more... )

The walls we build around ourselves are greater than that of wood or brick or steel or titanium. 
They are more impenatrable than any physical barrier. 
They are more suffocating than any hands around our throats.
The walls around me are more asphyxiating than any gasping breath that escapes my lips from waking nightmares could ever betray. 
It is more ( Read more... )