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  Alone

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  I be-friend broken mirrors Twisted art and words; Words pained with beauty Coated in heartache. Intentional to never see a face --My face. Instead, millions of fragmented pieces That tell me I am never alone-- Friends with strangers staring back at me. I am a founder of darkness. Of l...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Never Before Seen

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  In the center of my body Be all that do remain Of my never complete structure Of this complete frame. You see such confidence My walk, this stride, Inside I tremble in darkness Emptiness, completely dry. My image is what you seek You believe that you know me, Except that you don’t. ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Feel For You

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  When you hate them all And they hate you too When you long to forget And they make you confused If you tell them goodbye And they keep coming back Then you know that this cycle Remains something intact When your dreams turn to dust And you promise you can't remember When they made you...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  My World Is Not Grey

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  If two shall come And one shall brew If they must create Then one must have grew If none shall recieve Because two shall not want It is so that thy believe One's journey is distraught Said perfect harmony Is the secrets to which I behold My "perfect" destiny Was yours creat...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  My Regreatable Mistake

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  Whistling winds breezed through and stole away our bubbles, while Tiara and I continually blew more and more to keep the steady stream going. Stooped on the front step, with greasy Lay’s Potato chips to snack on, we bantered back and forth over whose bubbles were bigger, and who could blow more. C...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Unspoken Recognition

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  I thought-if only I could survive. If only I could conquer! If only I could believe.... Maybe, you could believe in me? Sometimes I would think that everything were possible. Most of the time, I believe the opposite. It's not my heart telling me this. It is my mind. Said heart want...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Fear.

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  Do not fear to remember. Fear to forget. Do not fear to love. Fear to never love. Do not fear to replace someone. Fear being replaced. Do not fear others. Fear yourself. Do not fear success. Fear failure. Do not fear fear. Fear everything. That way when you fear to remember...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Collected Teardrops

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  Absolute betrayal Complete and utter astonishment The deepest of all feelings Angriness, Happiness, Sadness. All vividly visited memories The reminding tragic beauties Of our perfectly splattered tears Steadily building with an angry aggression. Unloaded in streams, Sobs, rivers, constant f...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Promised Truth

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  It's the crazy, drastic secret That you would never want anyone to know The one that would leave you mortified So you promise yourself- Just one person. They're my best friend I know I can trust them with this secret. Whispered urgently Perfected reactions Filled in-between electr...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Jim<3

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  I met you when I was seven, And from then on you were my light into heaven We were the best of friends And that means forever until the end I loved you more than anything, Even than myself, I'll love you forever and ever, And that is without a doubt. When I pray to you I know you can he...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Suffocated

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  I can't stand those people That think they're all that The ones who like to poke fun They don't understand that you Might never come back No one thinks about that, they're so dumb Why don't people get it They don't understand, they don't care Everyone thinks...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  If You Painted Me

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  If you painted me Black would be my color With hints of red Blood surrounds me claiming mother I see darkness A broken and distorted body Ugliness, disgustingness Crying out for anybody If you painted me My frame would be hazy A far away dream I'm stuck in it- I've gone crazy. ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Writing

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  Writing is something that comes from my heart Line after line, page after page I write to explain, to get my point across I write to remember the things that broke me apart Things to never forget Happiness, Love, or Pain Amazing people along my journey I have met, Then the ones who hurt me an...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  When Time Runs Out

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  Estranged surfaces Scoweringly glance at the intruder An alarming loud flickering From then to now, past to present Astonishment at the speediness Always urgently scurrying along time Denying all comforted souls The chance to bask in their cherish able lives. Racing towards the ending Only ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Nails Painted Black

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  She’s emo, they’re thinking She simply longs for attention She’s just another one of those messed up teenagers She’s a freak. See that girl With those disturbing black finger nails? She painted them that way I think she’s trying to prove a statement I wonder if she has any friendsâ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Finding My Way

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  At one point in time Finding my way was not an option It was not a possibility, it was impossible. You can't find your way, When a stable life is not apparent A loving home, is not just simply handed to you When a definite home, is not yet received. After all these years Searching to be...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Crumpled Lives

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  Some of us think we're lost That we can never be found, That we won't be found. Those of us that lead complicated lives Confused lives, haunted And crumpled lives. I am one of those people. My crumpled life consists of Everything combined into one My crumpled life was created The...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Connected

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  I need to live I want to die I strive to communicate I long to cry Please accept me For everything I am I want you to hate me For in the end I won't land I'll fall so far Completely tumble and wipe out To the greatest of all darkness I want you to know that This life? I don...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  All Along

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  When you promised me I'd live You never told me I could die When you promised everything was fine You never stated the world was unkind When you told me you loved me You never reminded me it was unconditional When you told me to try You never soothed what had to cry When you told me I w...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Unkindly Truth

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  Naturally selected Hand picked Collecting nothing but the finest Sharp, witty, crazy Intelligently sculpted minds Picture perfect candidates They bathe in glory Constantly confused to which color What size, how many, or which ones No time to fret over the unessentials Undiscovered, hidden,...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Last Song

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  I played to you my song A melody that created itself The raw and steady beat of my heart You promised you had it memorized- I wasn't worried. Nor was I the lease bit confused I never did question Whether my heart would always play for you I never questioned if you would always listen O...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Things I'll Never Tell You

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  I'll probably never tell you How you destroyed everything that I am I won't tell you How the cruel things you say hurt me That they leave a scaring that will never go away I'll never tell you That I can't live without you Because then when you give up on me You'll b...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Your Beautiful Face

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  It is golden, to a perfected light brown Elegantly contrasting your piercingly green eyes Your cherry red lips They are full and have a tasteful appearance Your brows, gracefully arched over Those long and thick black eye lashes A perfectly sculpted nose Evenly portioning out its surroundings...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  My Only Savior

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  All I want Is to hate the world Everything that is in it I long to destroy it. I feel the need to crush Torment and abuse Everything that should Leave me dying and confused I wish to go along with it To destroy it and jump in for the ride I never want to return Not when it has soothed wha...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Need You

  

  By MercedesXO, South Easton, MA

  You've helped to erase these tears That seemingly protrude down my distorted face With your gently loving heart You instill in me my grace Reminding me of our love Of our destiny to be one You kissed my thirsty lips And tickled forth your longing tongue I want your loving gaze I want ...