Hold back your teardrops
Don’t cry on me
I can’t be so numb with you here
My emotions rise up insensibly
Understand that I’m gone
I’m dead but my heart still beats
And my lungs still breath
Understand that Death has won
Don’t care for me
I can’t be saved
Don’t ruin yourself over me
You can’t reach me beyond this grave
I hate to see you suffer
The one person I would live for
But it’s too late
If only you’d come four years earlier
Then we could have shown the world
We could have beat the odds
We would have owned the world
They would have been awed
Because we had so much
But we both had our hells
We lost all trust
In others and ourselves
So we remember together
Trying not to hurt each other
We cling to one another
As we march ever farther into the fiery ring
We didn’t know how not to be alone
We didn’t know how to do things right
So we multiplied our faults in each other
We dared each other farther into the night
But, at some point,
You left me behind
I surrendered
To the King of Time
But you kept playing
You must keep playing
For both of us
Don’t forget you’re staying
Because I cannot
Because you have hope
You’re heart won’t rot
You can cope
Master the game
Beat the odds still
Show them all
That your looks can kill
Because you have the strength
I never did
You have the power, the life
I wish I could give
I’m here, on the other side of the void
Cheering for you, hoping for you
I’m so glad that we’ve been allied
Even though I must leave you
This will be your fresh start
Don’t let yourself falter
Because you are better
Than all the rest of them put together
Although I say goodbye
I know you will be fine
But you can cry on me
If you need to
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This is one amazing poem. Sorry, I don’t have more to say than that. Did your friend read this?
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love this one too!but it’s so heartbreaking.it reminds me of me and my childhood best friend. we both had eating disorders,and I decided to recover so I had to leave her. i love her dearly to this day and i miss her,she was like my sister and she knew me better than anyone,because she was sick too and she understood the ed. but please don’t end your life. i know it’s hard-I don’t understand completely why,but i know there is a reason for it.
@pandaadnap
My friend did not read it yet. I don’t think I will have the courage to show it to her. But I have everything set up so that after I die, she will read it. I know that’s cowardly, but I know how much pain I cause her, and I don’t want to make it worse. She knows that I’m going to kill myself, so hopefully she’ll be slightly better of than if she didn’t know.
@ellachristina
Haha. Spot on. We both dabble in our fair share of depression (of course), eating disorders, cutting, drugs, etc. That’s basically what the eight stanza’s about. We think that we probably make each other worse, but that’s fine by us. And I’m sorry about your friend, I truly am. I hate losing people. And I’m not dying tonight or anything.
I just wrote this tonight and I couldn’t not post it for some reason.
;_; i love ur user name…it’s nice!
It’s like..i dunno how to describe it.
Thanks. It’s from one of my poems. I posted it yesterday. If you search “Poetry Cleanse #1”, it should come up, if you’re interested enough to read it.
But, there’s a reason I choose it, you know? The image that it invokes and the connotations of that image, idk, I feel like that kinda describes me.
I think I definitely over thought my username. Lol.
lol u did a little but i understand the idea behind it…i tihnk lol
Haha. Yours is awesome too, btw. More creative than some of the others you see on here. No offense to all those people.