Dear daughter,
I combed your hair, I tucked you in.
I gave you all I could for your life to begin.
You're as smart as they come, I knew you'd go far.
You always gave me reason to raise the bar.
I trust your judgement because I know
You're aware of what's right, far in life ...
Flying is only possible when you first start on the ground.
I don't want to write about love, no. I want to write about something you wouldn't even thinking about.
Something like what gets us through everyday.
Oh how I wish you could say how it feels to be flat against my weight. Pushed...
I wonder if dying hurts the way you're dying. I mean, I've died inside and that pain was enough to make me go insane trying to rearrange my feelings into a way they'd make sense to spit out and say.
I've died mentally when you're testing and you lose track of things, start...
It's the kinda thing you just don't know how to say. Wondering each and everyday wishing it would go away.
We have been through hell and back, far too long with each other to get off this track. You have stacked your lies neatly, cleanly, easily accessible for when you need to remember. W...
You should have been like the characters in The Notebook.
You should have passed lovingly in each others arms. But you didn't.
There is a reason god has taken him and left me you.
I know you're 79 but you're mine.
M I N E.
Not cancers, not deaths, but mine.
It's beautiful h...
Honestly honesty is, well, impossible.
Because once you give out the truth there is no gift receipt on it.
No, it isn't returnable, unmistakable for lies that didn't have to be.
Me, I keep things inside. I hide that I saw your comment. And I tried to brush it off but I lied. I cried thi...
The wind danced wildly through her brown locks waving behind her trying to catch up; her pink ribbon becoming loose as she ran. Out of breath, she raced upstairs, slamming the historically old door behind her.
Her room was of no color or theme. It surrounded her like a dark night: breezeless, em...
And where have you been all 74 years?
Ten years dependent on mother until she died of aids.
Eight more supporting your brother using all the money you made.
Thirty after that for the way you made that's spare change.
And twenty getting a job while trying to clear your name.
Those last six ...
My name is Kara.
Not baby, not wifey, not your one and only life-y. It's Kara.
My name is Kara.
I'm not a trophy, not a wanna be not an almost was. I'm me.
I'm Kara. Not special, not indifferent not your enemy or your princess. I'm your friend, kara.
I am Kara. Not blac...
Nowadays if I don't demand respect, I'm subject to neglect. Respect me before you dissect me like your little science experiment like your suicidal merriment to put your pain on Someone else.
Respect my differences for the instances when you have chosen distances away from the truth and ...
More than a person lost,
more than a gravestone bought,
I can't imagine all that you are.
A mother, a teacher, a maid for your mister,
a writer, a worker you may,
find a place in our hearts while God tore us apart to a place we'll go someday.
A walker, a driver, a medicine prescrib...
Cry me a river of tears near fear of why you haven't tried to find me all these years.
Bless your speech speaking sorry's for the worries if I've become less than your best, impossible, you are NOTHING.
You are no one considered someone with nothing called something; alone.
You are...
A worthless being is one who tries none, asks why don’t you describe his son who lies, who tries,
Cries and asks why you see him no different.
Accidents are none, not when you choose to be someone,
Take the gun, turn it around, flip his frown upside down: make a difference.
Without a sound...
within the same body are my heart and brain.
my heart falls for your lies and my brain plays your game.
tell me why I ruin myself? tell my why I cant stop?
tell me what have I done to deserve this?
tell me where to go from here.
tell me what happens now that you're gone
tell m...
You are reading line by line
So you'll never understand what I meant to say.
I left room
[I N]
[B E T W E E N]
[T H E]
[L I N E S]
for interpretation...
"I'm pregnant."
All blame, all focus, is on the father who might be absent,
Distant,
Could stay around but he doesn't.
And when he does, he gets special judgment.
A mother is expected to stick around,
Unrewarded, uncrowned.
But when the daddy is unwou...
You've shown me a different side;
a different light; a different lie.
The lie of believing I had ever had the best before you.
If today was my last day, this being my last call,
I'f call you and thank you for it all.
I met you by chance and love you by choice.
Let me tell...
What is that we seek?
Happiness that exists in the silence of often times harsh honesty?
And yes there was a time when my heart was a privileged acquaintance of yours
but at what time did it become a burden;
a bomb in your hands you have the right to detonate?
Or maybe this time you...
The bottom of my heart, dank; cold..
Wait? What bottom of what heart?
Is it even there at all?
That’s right, I remember.
The heart you took from me back in December
Thought it was too cold for warm lies
The break too frozen in place
to ever half compromise
Wh...
Breaking a girls heart is easy as pie.
when you lie
when you have feelings disguised
when you pretend to try
make her imagine a "you and I"
make her cry
die inside?
Brag about your new girl.
the one that makes me want to hurl;
curl in a ball and find a new world?...
He's never seen someone so beautiful, that's what he told me.
Never felt this before, until one day he finds he wants something more. Before I could say saving words he had already slammed the door.
[chorus]
Momma said baby time will go on,
Just gotta be strong.
I know that ...
On a white horse you rode
to save me from hell.
You swept me up
and saved me from myself.
My knight in shining armor,
that you were.
You were the greatest thing in my life to occur.
I took your hand when you put down your guard
I fell in your trap
when you opened your arms...
Sometimes I'm real busy.
Busy having a good time.
Time to go to sleep.
Sleep after homework.
Homework after dinner.
Dinner after school.
School where I learn.
Learn to be strong.
Strong because you broke my heart.
Heart to live with or without.
Without being busy.
...
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