Thick Skin

You smell like a summer breeze Rolling off the beaches of the sea Calm and gentle you move around me Against all will I let you surround me Wind pushing my hair out of my face The warmth of the sun finding its place On my skin, and calling it home The memory of you lingers long after your gone Haunting me so pleasantly it’s hard to forget When you don’t want to let go of the sunset Just a moment before it drifts below the horizon line A burst of light that I thought for a second was mine And only mine, like it was made just for me Something beautiful and simple that aligned so perfectly With the contours of my heart Burning effortlessly in my chest, a fire that gracefully tore apart Every ventricle, every vein and every chamber Every kiss I wanted to keep, every memory I wanted to remember You are scarred into the tissue on my heart, and I want to keep you So I embrace the pain it brings because I cant leave you You leave a swe...

--> Some of the greatest things in this life contain just one word Love, freedom, and happiness they’re all the ones you’ve heard The words that have in them more power than any person may hold Words, that when they’re spoken, break everything that you’ve been told Everyone needs love and everyone must find it Before we’re too old, we have to search for it, or we’ll be left behind it Because love can chew us up and spit us out And we’ll tumble head over heels, and never doubt That our happily ever after and our “prince charming’s” do exist Because fairy tales are so much easier to believe than to see how it really is When the clock strikes midnight, it isn’t just a glass slipper we leave behind We leave fragments of ourselves for that one special someone to find Hoping that if we shed enough of ourselves along the way That our “true love” will pick them up and put it together, and carry us away But there is no glory in that road because it just l...

She pulls at her hair and tries to scream But no sound emerges from her lips, she is left to dream To hope that silence will let go of her and let her live She has no smiles left to fake, no more of her broken heart to give She is forced to learn the difference between right and wrong Though, nothing is real, so why be strong? She looks out the window at a world so full of color Looks at herself, drenched in black and white she realizes her horror Wonders, maybe the world is the one that’s completely deranged Maybe she isn’t so broken and completely insane The people in this world look directly into her eyes, and still overlook her misery She looks through those same eyes in the mirror, yet seems to miss the mystery Doesn’t understand how people can miss so much of what is right in front of their faces Yet it doesn’t truly bother her, considering she was trying to hide it in the first place She looks at a world of robots, acting how they a...

Deep breath in, deep breath out Let all of the doubts just spill out of your mouth Holding on tight to moments like these Moments that can carry you away on a breeze As fragile and delicate as a leaf in the fall Something so beautiful, yet something so small And you can’t help but let it change you Let it consume you, let it sway you Into thinking you don’t deserve something this great Letting words make the difference between choice and fate Hands chasing hands through summer air Name the last time you took the time to let down your hair Cause this world wants much more from you than I will ever ask And it won’t be as forgiving of the past Don’t stop to ask yourself what is wrong and what is right Let the world wonder where you’ve been, and just stay here with me tonight Cause love can seem such an awful word When the love you’ve felt was in the lies you’ve heard When loose ends don’t match, and you can’t fill the spaces That th...

The moments between each breath you take, Steady and willing to haunt every move that I make Hoping that someday I can say the right thing That one sentence that might just bring Your heart crashing into mine The words that will leave you longing to find Those words again, traveling far and wide To be next to the someone that you had so gently placed aside A heart tainted and bruised by its past And yours so untouched, it would be too good to last It’s beating so softly now that I just might take it Because the pain of having it is better than allowing another to break it I am a guardian of something that was never mine, never will be And it’s easy to see the bigger picture with you standing in front of me Because the nights that I have waited, wasted, and yet somehow treasured The moments when you hold your breath, I have measured Each sigh, and each passing glance that has been thrown my way Hoping all the while that maybe one of t...

I’m a daughter of the darkness And it would swallow me whole if it heard this If it heard the soft tears in the night That I have hidden so gracefully from the light This smile somehow hides the lies Between my teeth, in plain sight But everyone admires my strength instead of calling me weak And it’s true that maybe that’s just what they see But these scars on my arm tell me otherwise Every time I see them I can’t help but despise The person wearing them around Out in the open are the memories of the sound Of the silence that surrounded me When I cut into my body When I took away the perfection of the skin That everyone around me seemed to be so wrapped up in Though few and small they are just enough To remind me that I wasn’t ever really as tough As everyone said, when I gave into sharp objects When I gave in to the pain, when I became the subject Of its infliction on the canvas that was so full of life That I slowly dismant...