I don't like sand —its gritty, irritating, and it gets everywhere
I don't like the deep water of the ocean—its vast, uncharted, unknown, scary.
I don't like the sun for the way it beats down, baking sand and sea and those who've made the mistake... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I'm the kind of girl who burns through guy friends like rubber on tiers, like sulfur on matches, like gasoline and kerosine and flameward moths.
But I don't want to burn through you.
We just go together so well—like puzzle pieces.
You and I are... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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How is that you make me smile at my phone like a complete fool?
With miles and moons between us, we joked how we could be twins with our like taste in music and video games and movies and stories and everything else.
When you snapped me a... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Midnight drive down I-35 It's more than just a title. It's more than a playlist.
It's more than a poem.
I took a drive up I-35 and met Kansas. We said "goodbye" just as quickly as we'd said "hello."
I took a drive down I-35 and met Texas. It was... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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It kills me writing this down.
I shake —my hand shakes as I write.
The parchment beneath me is riddled with streaks defining
emotion —ache, regret, grief, love, fear, desire.
I wish falling in love could wash away this pain but it never will.
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I feel her cold tendrils licking at my heels as I tread water, hovering in shallows just at the brink,
I know she’s ready to pull me down if I let her, sweep me beneath the undertow
It’s like the quiet before the thunder, the calm before the... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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I pulled up to the stoplight, the intersection a construction mess
The panhandler sat crouched on the curb, cardboard sign in hand
It read: “Army Vet. Whatever you can give helps! GOD BLESS”
Reluctantly, I remember the $83 in my backpack, bound... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Five horizons are inherently beautiful whether
or not they revolve around her sun as the earth to our sun.
The air I have tasted and breathed has taken a turn but it's no less sweet than my first breath.
While my bitter hands chafe beneath the... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Barnacled shipwrecks are beautiful in their sundered glory.
Ivy-covered age-old walls are deemed charming and quaint.
The moon is mystifying even with craters that can be seen with the naked eye
Neither age nor imperfections make you any less... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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He comes, she goes, no one every really sticks around much.
It rains, the sun bares its face, the clouds come back to steal it’s thunder.
Nothing is ever set in stone
Well, except for maybe human bones and Founding... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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The French call an orgasm
“la petite mort” or “the little death”
tango with lips, teeth, and tongue
undress each other with our eyes
an unspoken agreement that
we’re both dying a little... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Siren, sorcerer, seductress of my soul
Vampire of verve, temptress of thirst tantalizing,
captivating, enthralling me through craving
Wrenching away transmogrified desire exposing
a colossal and cavernous aching
Licentious liquors and... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Every little move, every soft step, every breath I take,
I am reminded of him; I am reminded that he was here.
I savor the subtle soreness, the secret that only we know
—the remnants of pleasure that reside there.
They remind me that I am his,... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Time and time again I self-sabotage
I drink the poison; I eat the dollar bills
I make bad decision after bad decision
to punish myself.
Now, I think it’s time I pour out the wine,
pour out my soul and let go of the pain
because how else will... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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roll back
lips part slightly
soft moans come
short breaths loosed
steel thighs melt
nails dig in
possession?
small death?
or... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Night flower blossoming
Beneath the summer sky
Petal parasols unfurling
Throughout June and July
She was born under the moon
Nocturnal butterfly
Pollinated by pale moths
To live one day then die
Moonflower blooms in warmth
Her short... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Barren—they call you and now
it is your badge of honor, one
you wear proudly on display.
They likened you to a desert for
a lack of children and lack of
desire for them.
Be Mojave—Gobi—Sahara—
because your glittering, glass sand dunes
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Steel at my back
a welcome intrusion,
confirming my own suspicions, permitting my desires
—sharpening them, even.
Fuel to the flames.
Silken petals drip
sweet, honeyed molasses dew
nocturnal flower blossoming
—firelighting below Diana’s... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Is it too much to ask that we
just lay around with our
cigarettes and coffee and jazz
and just enjoy each other?
Why do we strive for perfection—
when it would only neglect
the intricacies of this gritty,
raw, vulgar... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Beautiful, yet beastly.
Creeping translucent tendrils of cold.
Frozen, frigid fingers pointing down.
Crystalline and gelid shivs poised to kill.
It is only day two of the ice storm and there is
expectedly, more to come.
The weight of the world... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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1. kissed me in his beater car
2. in the hall,
But *he* only looked at me
and never kissed at all.
C’s kiss was quick, demanding,
J’s was sweet and light,
But the kiss that lingered on *his* lips
haunts me day and... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Each day I push the stone
Each day I tread the waves
Each day I carve the marble
but when
when will I see peace—the long-craved result of all this guiltful carving?
when will I breathe feely, free of tons of tons pushing and pulling on me... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I am endless, immense,
no God nor Goddess am I.
No fixed being,
no stagnant, static entity,
no trapped energy,
no universe.
I am ever revolving,
undulating, expanding,
experiencing,
growing, evolving,
understanding.
I am eternal,... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I was meant to be named Elise
but my aunt stole that name away from
my mother—from me
I never felt like an Elise anyways,
but even so I’ve always felt a strange ownership
of the name and when the girl named Elise sat
in the back of my... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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He looked at me with lamenting eyes
which said everything he hadn’t with
his own tongue and that was how
disappointed he was with me.
He caressed my legs which were draped
across his own but stayed quiet as I
supped hungrily on water which... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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As you wrote my name in
cursive with your tongue
I saw explosions behind my eyelids,
I heard a melody that was
so blissfully new, yet familiar,
I tasted lightning and saw colors
that for now have no name here,
and only exist in that... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I was a waning crescent, pale and thin—incomplete
a silver sliver of light peeking unwanted in between the
folds of the velvet, midnight sky
and now, having gazed at my sun from a world away, I
am whole—I am full and complete—grand... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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It is the cream, the sugar the spoon
I should be reaching for, but this early,
my fingers know only the route to
the buttons on your shirt and the zipper
of your jeans and nothing... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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“When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brains, trying to get answers. The primal questions of any marriage. What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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you walk
down cracked pavement
bird’s eye view
past yellow taxis
blue postal boxes
and red phone booths
details I could see from here
though none caught my
eye quite like... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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The world has turned grey in your absence and feels
as if I will remain blind to all of its brilliant hues for as long
as we’re required to be apart—for the foreseeable future.
When this is all over—when I do see you again, I know
this dormant... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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“I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” -Genesis 9:11
“The day of the Lord will come as a robber comes. The heavens will pass away... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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“Unbind
Unclasp
Uncover
Uncurl
Unfurl
Undo
Unfasten
Unfold
Unhinge
Unhook
Unleash
Unlink
Unmask
Unroll
Unveil
Unclip
Unlace
Unzip
Untie
Unbutton
Unlock”
“Undress.”
“Understood.”
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Glass plate,
window to the road, the future,
caked in red dust and
baked in sunlight,
showing nothing but
blue skies ahead,
I wish it had only been
blue skies ahead.
I’ll never forget that warm summer
afternoon when it was you instead
of... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Perhaps we should look to the
natural sweetness of wildflowers.
They’re beautiful without reason,
blooming each summer, for no one,
yet, their beauty is a truth that has
stood the test of... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I can only compare him to
waves, because no matter how
many times, I push him away,
he always pulls me back in.
Again, and again, I am welcomed
back into his sun-warmed waters,
despite my feelings of shakiness
upon solid... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Velvet moon
rays cascading down
caressing so softly, your skin,
I could scream.
Dressed in nothing
but the moonlight,
wrapped in folds of silk and sin,
there, you... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Silver rings upon your fingers
fingers trace my collarbone
silver’s soft, but gold lingers.
It reminds me of our home.
Where fleeting moonlight filters in,
through old windows veiled in lace,
over sheets, and over skin,
softly caressing... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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You teased and teased.
“Fuck you,” I taunted.
You took me... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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He was sweet, dripping honey from
his lips, lust from his eyes,
fire from his hands.
I know sugar is bad for me.
My head reasons, drinking from
crystal clear fountains of love
would do me more good than
that sweet sap, that poison, slowly
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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He might be sweet, dripping
honey from his lips, lust from
his eyes,
fire from his hands.
But sugar is no good for you,
hun, and wouldn't you rather
drink from crystal clear
fountains of love than
let sweet, hot tea burn
you again and... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Keep me close,
hands clasped around
my waist in
empty aisles to
remind me of
what transpired in
the seclusion of
dark rooms,
what was more than
raw desire,
when our souls
were... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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You used to look at me
like I was the greatest
thing since sliced bread.
Now, you look at me like
I am sliced bread and
you're... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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The shadow man came in the dead of night
Slithered into my bed, curled against me, tight
I bid him speak, yet he said not a word
No face could be seen, but his breath could be heard
I felt his smile, pressed to my back
his wicked grin curling... – by Payton Hayes | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Set me on fire.
My body will be the kindling,
my soul will be the flame.
How could you not know that
you’d be the oxygen, for fire
or flesh, I cannot breathe
without... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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don't have to
love yourself
everyone says to,
that you can't really
love someone completely
if you don't love yourself
the truth is, you just have
to accept yourself and say
it might get better,
it might not, but I'll
stick... – by Payton Hayes | 19 Views added 1 year ago
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clatter of plates the click
of chopsticks dancing on the floor
as a guest unfurls their napkin
the napkin left in the back of the
booth and the wads of straw wrappers
intermingled with scattered rice
the smell of rice and ramen and
... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Coffee.
Breakfast in bed.
Sunlight pouring in
on warm, silk sheets.
Your head between
my legs, your lips on
mine, gently writing
me love letters with
your tongue.
Perfect... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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soul, old as time
composed of stardust
and fine lines
mortal frame
a sad attempt to
capture you
lovely hair and
little bones and
eyelashes filled with
sunlight
if only they could
see you the way I... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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He was never my rock
but he was always my oak,
constantly standing through
whatever weather I blew his way,
and still... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I'd rather feel the pain, the sickness, the despair, the destruction, the loss, the fear, the loneliness, the struggle, the exhaustion, the worry, the doubt, and everything in between.
I'd rather feel the hand of death curling with
every drag of... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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All my life, I thought
I needed seas and
mountains and bright
city lights to be happy,
to be satisfied.
The truth is, all along,
I just needed... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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hot cup of
coffee in the
morning is all
well and good
but I'd rather
have your lips
on mine, kissing
me awake
... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Day after day and
night after night you
watch the sun and
stars swirl overhead.
How many times must I
remind you to not take
for granted all that which
you've been blessed so
richly with, before you
realize that In keeping
count of stars,... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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He creeped in through my window,
the moon’s shadow peeking softly
while I slept, watching, observing, guarding
a neither malevolent nor benevolent thing
just existing, in his own orbit, pulling the tides,
serving his purpose,... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Between sips of espresso and difficult late-night conversation,
I realized I like my coffee with milk and that Cancer hurts.
It hurts those who have it and those who have those who have it.
When I explained how frightened I was that my... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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He’s been there through the milk,
but will he stick around in the meat?
The smaller bumps in the road come
easier than the potholes and sharp turns.
When things get tough, will he be... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Love me as an artist loves to create.
Love me as the pianist loves the feeling of his hands across the keys
Love me as the sun loves the day and the moon the night.
Love me as I love you, or not at... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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He threw back her silence
like liquor but it hurt
him all the same.
He didn't regret his words
he'd meant them with
everything in his bones.
He regretted that she
didn't feel the... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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There are two things that drive us -fear and desire
My deepest fear is never reaching my full potential
and likewise never realizing my greatest desire.
My greatest desire is reach my dreams and finding
true, passionate, unadulterated love.
The... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Her hair wasn’t orange
and her skin wasn’t pale
She had a thin spray of
light brown freckles across
her nose and dotting her
shoulders.
Her hair was strawberry blonde
naturally falling somewhere
between red and blonde,
but never really... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Two lovers tied
by invisible thread,
black, white ropes
like snakes tangling.
Their depressive
nature, a Gemini feed,
a cosmic cauldron,
stirring them to fall
apart... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I'm searching for myself in a world where we're the average
of the five people we spend the time with, but have millions
of people to connect with, get to know, emulate.
Where we're constantly comparing ourselves
to one another and struggling to... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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He is forests and mountains and oceans
He is cliffs and caverns
He is tongue and truth and religion
I want nothing more than to explore
every single... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I had never thought I would
so greatly enjoy the mundane –
sitting and doing nothing,
no more than a good conversation
existing in the presence of good
company, but it has been revealed
to me, that I do in fact, take great
pleasure in time... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Listen to your eyes.
Take note where they linger
and where they don't.
Take note at whom you catch
yourself starting and whom
you couldn't bear to watch.
Take note of those whom
you can't bring yourself
to turn away from, like
a driver,... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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I want it all.
I want your head, your heart, your mind, your soul.
I want your days, your nights, and afternoons.
I want your nows and laters, your firsts and lasts.
I want your happy days and sad days.
I want your good and your bad.
I want... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I’m an all or nothing person; I always have been, I always will be.
If I’m not challenged one way or another, I create my own.
I’ll self-sabotage even if I know better -not necessarily intentionally,
but despite having learned the lesson before.
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I flirted with the redheaded
agent at the service desk to
change my flight.
Now, I'm miles away, up in
the clouds thinking about her
and how I wish I could have
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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To the redhead I flirted
with at the check-in desk:
I might have gotten a
faster flight out of here,
But I wish now, that
I could have... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Again, I suck the cigarette.
Again, I nurse the liquid fire.
Again, again, again.
I do these things again and
again, for no other reason than this:
It reminds me of... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I never thought I had an addiction.
But I’ve tried to quit drinking coffee nine
times and yet again, I stand in line at the
shop, waiting for that consoling dark brew.
I know later, I’ll come down from
that high and when I crash, I’ll
feel... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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“Hey, how’s it goin’?” you said,
calling me up on your cigarette break.
Good to know how you think of me
between puffs of smoke.
I’d like to think of myself as more
than just another one of your
addictions, but you know how
vices often go... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I just want to
smoke my
cigarettes and
drink my coffee,
alone.
I know they won’t last,
nothing does,
cigarettes burn,
coffee cools,
but while we’re hot
just let us be
together,
... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I don’t ever want to be apart from
you again, my love.
I know happiness is never far,
when you are... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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My dear, you are so wonderfully
lovely, and I want nothing more than
to write you eloquent poems, and sculpt
you from the ground up.
I want nothing more than to paint you
in a million different colors and sing
songs of your beauty.
But I’m no... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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If the big bang created
everything we now know,
If the sun brings us life,
If the moon, turns the tide,
How can we not be moved
by the stars. We’re practically
stardust,... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I’ve never had a deja’vu moment,
but I could have sworn I’ve seen you before,
after passing you on the sidewalk.
It wasn’t because you had a familiar face,
God knows I’m the worst when it comes to
remembering these details.
It was something in... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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You are no lemon, or lime but
for some reason you
are still bitter, even
more so than a grapefruit
and I credit envy
with the way
you are so green.
Perhaps you are this
way because it is
winter when you bloom
and the sun isn’t out
to kiss... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Darling,
I never asked you
for your body count.
And to be frank, I
honestly don’t care.
The number of lovers we
shared our beds with is
irrelevant, so why do you
need to waste your
precious... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I’ll never forget
the night we had
on the rosewood floor,
the way you looked,
the way you smelled
the way you felt
on my skin.
I’d have the floor taken
up and I’d cover my walls
with it to evoke the
memory of you every single day,
more... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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me a river
build a bridge
and get over it
he said,
but if only he knew how many
oceans I’d cried for him and
how many bridges I’d burned
trying to get over... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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1)
You look lovely in
spring colors, chrysanthemum,
drop dead beautiful.
2)
Red, purple, and pink
are toxic to me, I think
poisonous nectar.
3)
Yellow and white shades
steeped in boiling water
become amber tea.
4)
Haikus made... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I know we’ve known each other for a while, as friends,
but there is something you must know.
I see the way you read and the way you play the piano and
the way you quote Shakespeare, and there is an aching in my
bones to be the thing that steals... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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For so long I have been suffocating,
in a world where no amount of oxygen
could ever ease my pain
I have tried time and time again to
fit in, to please, to belong somewhere
I was never wanted in the first place
and it is this excruciatingly... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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There is so much power
in the delicate touch
of your hands caressing
my own.
Yet, this power, a force
even stronger than gravity,
and softer than a feather
binds me
to... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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He was a desert
and I was rain
but he decided he
liked the feeling of
sun on his skin better
than... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Diamonds and gold,
honey and ice,
glittering,
should the two ever mix
it would be chaotic
but somehow,
they are charming
draped ‘round
her caramel
... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Diamonds and gold,
honey and ice,
glittering,
should the two ever mix
it would be chaotic
but somehow,
they are charming
draped ‘round
her caramel
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Let me tell you
a little secret, my dear,
I can make myself
disappear
anytime I want to,
anytime I fear
you are getting
just too near.
Let me ask you
a question, my dear,
if I closed my
eyes, would you
disappear?
If I closed my
eyes,... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I need him
I tell myself things like
things will be better soon
I don’t believe that
it will be like this always
I know that
he treats me this way out of love
there is no way
he meant to do it
I know in my heart
that deep down he is good
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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You, earthling, how can you even
begin to attempt to fathom
what it means to live,
when you don’t bother
to attempt to fathom
what it means to love?
I’ve learned over the eons that
it may be air that keeps
my lungs full and my body alive,
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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This isn’t just a wildfire, springing up
with heat when the right wind catches it.
No, this is an ember, slow and smoldering.
I’m not angry with you, I’m hurt.
I’m not plotting my revenge,
I’m planning my... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I want
ropes
not
roses.
I want
teeth
marks
not
bruises.
I want
lipstick
smears
not
tear
streaks.
I want
fire,
passion,
love,
but I don’t
want to
get
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Fireworks sound inside
my chest every single time
I hear those voicemails
you sent me
at 2... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I love the way you always
challenge me.
The way you always
keep me on my toes.
The way you always
get my heart beating
like a drum.
This time, it was a race, only the first one
to cross the finish line
was not the winner.
The... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I’ve been drifting for days, floating.
Restless, like salt-battered driftwood that goes
wherever the wind pushes the waves.
Somehow, I always end up at your feet, awash
in foam on those white shores.
Tell me, will you drag me out and set me on... – by Payton Hayes | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Flowers do not cower and
close up their petals when
someone does not like them.
Flowers do not exist to please
others, but instead their singular
job is to make this planet a
better place for... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I tried to forget you,
I did, but you took root in me,
wrapped yourself around my
collarbones, and day after day,
I am reminded of how hard it is
to breathe without you.
Day after day, I pick the flower
petals off and am reminded
that you... – by Payton Hayes | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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you’ve got galaxies in your mind,
and endless stars inside your eyes,
so, won’t you tell me why
you seem so terrified?
if only you could see how
terrifying a town
my mind is now,
you’d want to get out.
darling, it seems they’re right
... – by Payton Hayes | 14 Views added 1 year ago
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Saw you standing there
beneath the dim gas station lights.
You looked so out of place like
the sun out at night.
Kept your head hung low, still
your eyes met mine.
Even though you tried to
hide its glow, I saw
your stardust... – by Payton Hayes | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Split down the centre
as if there were two.
The energy of one
is colored a happy yellow,
whilst the other
is a saddening blue.
One light, one dark.
It is hard to know Gemini’s
head and... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Bruises color your face
and the split lip he
gave you is enough
to warrant it,
but gin on ice
is never enough to cut
the sting of the morning,
after,
the pain on
the inside won’t just
go away with the cool rush of
juniper berries that... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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He was a man made of silver,
but you were gold
like the sun and moon,
two different kinds of magic, that
seemed to enchant anyone who
dared a glance your way
electrum, you thought,
but you melted hotter
and he lower, and unless properly
... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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You’ve got this aura,
this soft magic about you
that keeps me
in orbit.
I couldn’t walk away
even if
I wanted... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I’ve got a lot of bad habits.
I stay up late.
I drink my weight in coffee, daily.
I forget to text you back every now and then,
and when it comes to others, rarely at all do they
get a reply.
I often don’t listen.
I day-dream a lot and find... – by Payton Hayes | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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You asked if he was my other half.
I said “no,” and your face lit up like
it never had before, and it fell when
I said I’m not a... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I’ve spent what feels like months in a haze.
I can’t seem to shake it, it won’t go away.
I breathe in deep, to try and clear my mind.
Even if it leaves, it comes back every... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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He means to say, “I love you,”
But leaves it at “Goodnight,”
Because to love involves falling,
And she’s afraid of... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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She was never one for dancing,
but the way she arched her back
and rocked when we made love,
was enough to tell me that she
just hadn’t found her... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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You said “be quiet.”
“hold your breath.”
“not a word.”
Only not in so many words.
Lifted a finger to those
familiar lips and signaled
that if I made a sound
you’d stop.
You must have known what
blissful torture it was, caught
between... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Golden-yellow, silky smooth skin
the color of honey begs me for a taste.
I mustn’t forget, the last time I came to
her seeking sweetness,
I was... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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As humans, there are just certain things
that we could never ever know.
How are we to know that there is or isn’t a god?
It is merely belief in one of the other that keeps
a god alive or dead in one’s heart.
But one thing I know with absolute... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I close my eyes and hear
wind and rain slapping the
sides of my house.
The windows are open
and I am chilled to the
bone, but it isn’t
because of the... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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You pulled my hair, left bite marks
and handprints on my skin and
left my sore all over, but it was
a good kind of pain.
It was the kind of pain you
yearn for the second
it begins to heal.
Honestly, I didn't mind
the markings either,
they... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Like desert birds circling
bones picked-clean, you
keep hanging around here
like I’ve got something to offer.
Let me tell you, I’m all out of magic.
You bled me dry and though
I love you, I can no longer
be in love with you.
I’ve only... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Black coffee, beer
-two things that are
absolutely disgusting
and I won’t pretend
they taste good.
What’s more?
I won’t pretend you
taste good,... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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The melancholic, nostalgic feeling you get while
watching her dance, it’s like you’ve stopped breathing
and she’s carbon-monoxide, but you
remember what your last breath was like -without her,
and you’d rather suffocate.
It's like standing at... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Laying beside you is my greatest fear
and my greatest dream,
for both you and I can hear
the rise and fall of my chest,
fighting to keep my breath
in tandem with yours, I could almost scream.
You hold me so close, the air between us
heats... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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She sat among the irises,
her irises ringed with
irises, the flowers swaying sideways in the wind
a flower child in the wild
her inner wild growing
wild and even more wild the more she sat in them
a soft magic called from the earth
as she... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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I w a n t y o u
i n l a y e r s
L i e d o w n o n
Y o u r s k i n
P e e r d e e p
d o w n b e l o w
S e e w h a t
L i e s w i t h i n
I w a n t y o u
I n p i e c e s
T h e w h o l e
I s t o o m u c h
T o a d... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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My covered eyes see nothing through darkness
but my other senses have heightened
I hear every footstep crush softly over
the carpeted floor beneath me
I feel his hands gently move across
my skin, caressing
I smell the leather I’m... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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How can I be so completely,
head-over-heels in love with
you and still dream of another?
In my dreams, I see a man, an old friend,
what might have been.
But he isn’t the one that steals softly
the breath from my lungs at the very
mention of... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Of course, I’m afraid of being lonely,
but I don’t fear being alone.
Solitude brings its own kind
of freedom, but I don’t want to be left
alone with myself for too... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I lost your necklace
the one you gave me
dropped into my palm
even before we were dating
I lost your necklace
somehow left it behind
on the hospital bed after
my E.R. visit late last night
I lost your necklace
it probably didn’t cost... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Lust is a tricky mistress,
dressing herself as love,
like a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Haiku (1)
A tricky mistress
Lust is, dressed herself as love.
Wolf in sheep’s clothing
Haiku (2)
Tricky mistress, lust,
dressing herself as... – by Payton Hayes | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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Last night, we were closer than two people could be,
skin to skin, heart to heart, soul to soul.
You made love to me in the darkness, and when we
were done you pulled me as close as you could and whispered
that you loved me with teary eyes and... – by Payton Hayes | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Even in a world of darkness,
I become your midnight sun.
Wrap me in your arms and I’ll
wrap you in warmth and light
‘til morning... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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In a world full of darkness
I become your midnight sun.
I’ll wrap ‘round you in warmth and
light.
I promise to keep you safe, by my side.
Even in the dark of the night,
I’ll be the one
who stays with you through
the thick, through the thin,
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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For eight long years,
I’ve known you
and during all this time you’ve
been but one of my best friends.
Distance has never been a
challenge to us, we always remain
within reach.
It is one of my greatest privileges and
honors to even know you.
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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You are the pioneer
after the fire,
with silver-grey and
blue-green leaves,
pods filled with seeds,
and brilliant yellow
flowerheads.
When you lived in the
mountains, you were
dressed in white-
lichen and... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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The moon chased me through cities
growing more as days go by
I could not escape its gaze
through foggy curtained windows
I always thought I was made for
the night but as it turned out
the moon burns in me more
than the sun ever... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I thought after
all these years of
being bitten and scratching sores,
I'd eventually grow a thick enough skin
to keep out the mosquitos.
I was wrong.
Even so, mosquitos are nothing compared
to the itch I've got for you.
You see, mosquito... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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You’ve grown on me
like moss and ivy,
slowly at first but
before you know it, I’m
covered in you, and I
choose not to remember
what it was like to be... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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As I stood on that mountain
alone and windswept,
I realized something.
I realized with the quilted
land below me and
the fiery painted sky above
and with the sun coming up to
kiss the new day,
I wanted to be anywhere but there.
Despite the... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Constantly, I am
searching for you beneath
overcast skies and between
the iron-wrought, and beautifully
woven, poetic words of others, but
all along you’ve been beside me,
my whispering muse, and
the love of my life,
gently... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Of all the shoes
and shirts
and skirts
and hats
and pants
and socks
and coats
and every article
of clothing I own,
somehow, I am
still naked
without
... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I’ve found that I don’t mind
the difference between trees
and flowers.
They are all appealing to me.
And being the honeybee, I am,
I’ve found I enjoy the sweet sap
from logs, as much as the flower’s
nectar... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I do not need alcohol to have
fun.
I do not need cigarettes to be
cool.
I do not need dope to be
creative.
I need to feel you in my
veins.
I need to breathe you in with every
heartbeat.
And even if you’re just a high,
I want to never come... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Sneak out, sneak in
let me join you
when your nightride
begins.
Breathe out, breathe in
pull me closer
take me places I’ve
never... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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“Love hurts”
“Love sucks”
“I hate love”
That is not love, my dear.
It is but part of the journey
in finding... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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It’s been days, weeks, months and an eternity since
I’ve done something useful with these hands.
I make no exaggeration, I’ve been stagnant for so long
now, no motivation, no drive, no power to turn over within myself.
I wish I could keep my... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I still remember the taste of
orange Fanta, sticky and sweet
on your lips.
It’s as nostalgic, as it is painful,
remembering you.
I swallow a bit easier, with each
coming... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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You have a gravity about
you that I have not yet
become accustomed to.
I feel I will never become
accustomed to it, to you
or to the way you push
me in and pull me out,
the way your gravity
keeps me orbiting, just
within... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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There is something profound in the way
that just a singular thought of you can
take me to another place, another
universe, another eternity.
Here, there is no hate, no violence.
Here in this place, there is perfection
and there is you.
Often,... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Velvety soft and rich in color
they shiver ever so slightly
at your touch, they’ve unrolled
themselves for you
just look, won’t you?
there’s no need in
destroying their soft... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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For hours we have driven
down dusty, dirt roads passing
one after another, the rotting animals,
flattened to the pavement.
I count them, one, three, seven, ten.
It’s a means of passing time and
getting you off my mind, momentarily.
You sit... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Here comes the rain and with it
a sense of peace,
a sense of calm,
a sense of quiet,
through the pelting water drops, and
thunderstorms, and
lightning.
Somehow, I feel at home
when it... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Repetition everywhere.
Repetition everywhere
in bookshelves and tiled walls
and the yellow striped down the street.
Repetition everywhere
in staircases and stitches
and cornstalks.
Repetition everywhere
in tree-rings and theater seats
and... – by Payton Hayes | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Spring came and went with
the sweet smell of flowers
and the sound of chirping swallows.
Summer melted away beneath
the sun’s beating rays.
We watched her go slowly like
a sunburn fading to tan.
Fall flew by, like a leaf caught
by the... – by Payton Hayes | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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I get it,
being in the driver’s seat
means that you can
do nothing but
stare forward, the whole way.
But I’m in
the passenger seat and
I’m just along for the ride.
I find calm in knowing even if
I let the universe move me,
I’m still... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I strung together
a few slender reeds, carved
notches to breathe across, and made
such music you stood
dead still and then
followed as I wandered through
the weeds, growing
doe-eyed and weary, my feet
slapping over the river rocks,... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Day after day,
sun after sun,
moon after moon,
you and I become one.
Grown together like roots,
our strength runs years’ deep.
I promise you my heart,
for yours to keep.
Entangled in your arms,
you I wrap around,
like roots of a great... – by Payton Hayes | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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I kept the roses you gave me
on our first Valentine’s day
Even though they’re dried out now
and crumbling away
Somehow they smell even sweeter
even after all this time
And every whiff reminds me, I’m still
yours and you’re still... – by Payton Hayes | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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Oh how bittersweet a moment
such as this is, knowing never again
will I lay my lips on yours, cup my hand
in your hand and wrap myself in your arms,
only because you said, somehow from this
we can both be happy.
I do not understand, I will... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Your sapphire eyes rival the deep
morning sky, the abyssal depths
and the richest royal blue ever
hewn from the earth.
When I look into your eyes,
I see a sapphire sea, a sapphire
sky I could get lost in for years
if only, you’d let... – by Payton Hayes | 10 Views added 1 year ago
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In all my years,
I've heard only a handful of people say,
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
It might be because it's only half true.
It might be better to say, “What doesn't kill you makes you harder."
What doesn't kill you makes you... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Sometimes I sit seaside
and think about you.
I think about the warm,
sun-kissed sand clinging to
my skin, and how much
warmer I’d be if it was you
instead of the sand.
Sometimes I sit seaside
and I think about you.
I think about the cool
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I never expected there to come so
much work with a breakup, but now, I
have all these things to dispose of
and all these memories to forget about.
I must patch the hole in my heart.
I must fix the calendar where it
says September... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I wasn’t gluttonous, but for you, ravenous.
It was always lust, never true love.
You gave everything, I was greedy, still.
It wasn’t something for others to envy.
I took pride knowing you were mine.
How could I know that being a sloth,
I’d... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I remember driving down the sun-baked
city street, on a mission to find
something, somewhere, which
now I cannot remember.
But I do remember this: you pulled
the truck aside and said, “Go grab some of
those pods off those trees.”
When I... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Before I go, let me pour this
over your head
it is not the skin or the bones
or the rushing hot blood beneath,
it is not the eyes or the hair
or the makeup,
it is not the clothing and it is not
even the way her footsteps fall
on the pavement... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I want to sleep with you, love.
I don’t mean to have sex.
I mean sleep, with you in my bed,
beneath the covers with the window
cracked ever so slightly,
just so the room is chilly and you
have to move even closer to me.
I want your head on my... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I’m nowhere near ready to even begin
thinking of marriage, but I’ll admit this:
Listening to those new songs brought
back old memories and future thoughts.
I remember slow dancing with you on
prom night and again at each banquet.
It felt like... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I’ve known you for years,
never known you in person,
but I’ve known you.
Despite the fact that I am
madly in love with another,
despite that he very well could
be my soulmate,
despite how incredibly happy he
makes me,
I can’t help but smile... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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There is some kind of soft magic
in the way your hands glide
across my skin, half knowing,
and half discovering,
deciphering,
decoding all that I am.
The way you go straight to the heart
of the matter, yet in doing so,
you're perpetually... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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hide
burning
breathe
dying
flinch
run
disappointment
useless
wrong
These are just some words
that come to mind when
he does.
As it turns out, despite his
opinion, I was always the
first word and he was always
the...
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My shoulders measure no more
than a foot across, left to right.
Your hands wrap around my wrists,
your fingers curling 'round with
length to spare.
You stand a whole head taller
than me, with an ego to match,
and a superiority complex,
if... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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My shoulders measure no more
than a foot across, left to right.
Your hands wrap around my wrists,
your fingers curling 'round with
length to spare.
You stand a whole head taller
than me, with an ego to match,
and a superiority complex,
if... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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My shoulders measure no more
than a foot across, left to right.
Your hands wrap around my wrists,
your fingers curling 'round with
length to spare.
You stand a whole head taller
than me, with an ego to match,
and a superiority complex,
if... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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a veil of perfect midnight
velvet, you kissed me,
had me thinking I’d lost my mind
growing dizzier, dizzier, even dizzier,
I felt myself spinning out somewhere
lost in... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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How could you ask me to sculpt for you a
poem out of pure stardust
only to turn your ear to the soft
hummings of another?
I poured my heart out on the page for you and
you crumbled it up and tossed it off the bridge.
I just want to know,
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I was never one for the daylight,
rather a soul made for
the nighttime.
Stepping out
on the cold concrete, barefoot
to see the stars
was more my schtick than
was watching the... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Beneath a blanket of stars
thicker than salt in the sea,
I sat and sat and sat watching,
stargazing and telling you
all my secrets and all my dreams
you took my face in your hands
and looked me in the eyes and said
by all means,... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I laid with you until time carried
me away and then again, as I dreamt.
But, when I awoke, alone and no
longer in your arms, I cursed the universe
for not letting me stay with you a little... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Strange bird
you climb atop stools
and you perch and drink coffee
from saucers and you curl up on the flat concrete
to nap outside, rather than the soft, warm
folds of your bed. Strange bird, why?
You thin-boned, bright-feathered
... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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You don’t need anyone to light you up.
Don’t ever let anyone else become
your sun, you are your own sun.
I believe that it is necessary to find
your moon, the person that you
reflect off of, and the person that you
fall into special kind of... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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The heat the summer sun brought
to your skin makes me so jealous,
for she touched you and you
welcomed it willingly before me.
She left her mark and it’s all I can do
to keep from screaming- I wish I could
touch you, myself, but I am left... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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He was, still is, and always will be
my sweetest dream,
my beautiful nightmare,
my lovely monster.
He’s the recurring, fire in my bones
and the only thing that could
extinguish the flames.
He’s the thoughts that keep me
awake at night and... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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My dear, this life is as sweet as
warm, honeyed tea.
Why be so bitter, when all you
need is to bring your
lips to the rim and... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I’ve lost track of the weeks,
started
losing motivation,
losing momentum.
Or rather gaining momentum?
Moving like a snowball, rolling downhill,
all control lost, spiraling.
No doubt, collision, just around the corner,
waiting betting on... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I take back everything I ever
Said about the things I would
and wouldn’t be caught dead doing.
I could never ever have known
the person I’d grow up to be.
It used to be that the things
that kept me in my comfort zone were
boring, but now,... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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You asked me if I’d ever been to *honey*
*creek.* And when
I shook my head, you
took my hand and led
me into the tall trees.
The river was
frozen over and moss
hung like beards on
the bare branches.
You said to close... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I am so very sorry for
how sweet I must taste
that you’d accidentally
let my name roll off your
tongue, whilst savoring
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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His tattoos, they always get me,
always draw me back in.
The way the dark lines sweep and
dip and curve and tell a story better
than his words ever could,
it always enchants me.
His inky black hair and dark
eyes always got me too.
I was... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Hot on my lips
the amber liquid flows
even with milk and
honey, it could never
be as sweet as... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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There is some kind of
soft magic in the way
striking the same key over
and over again, hearing the
same note over and over
again can bring a chill to
my skin and tears to my eyes.
Even if you only played that
key for the rest of your life,
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Speak in tongues,
wear only yellow from now on,
cover the street in paint,
lay naked on the lawn
shout curses in my ears,
pour out your soul,
roll around in all your fears,
to help me lose control,
forget what I've become,
make me feel... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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You complain of pits and
wrinkles and dark marks
and shadows of old age.
You say that the shadows
of your life in the world
will haunt you for your
remaining days.
You are wrong.
You, my friend, are a Tonka bean.
Your outer skin is wrinkled... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I’ve collected many, many
trinkets over years and
decades and I’m probably
dating myself by saying,
I’ve got more than Ariel
and more than my mom,
more than father too,
but you know whose
collection takes the cake?
Grandma Betty’s.
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Two things I’ve learned:
Love doesn’t come easy
It is a dogfight through and through
But once you find it,
you will remain changed... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Precious metals lifted up
from their watery graves
in the depths below.
Scrawled on their
backsides, 71026010.
Stacked, stored, arranged
in Venice.
The shipwrecked collection tells
a story of a slave who escaped
with eclectic artifacts,... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Darling dreamer,
close your eyes and sleep.
See the rain and the streets and the
silver buildings that jut
like silent watching giants into
the clouds.
See the coffee shops and the window seats
and the libraries and the guardian moon.
See... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Like the veiled midnight moon,
shrouded in the clouds, I,
covered in your gossamer sheets,
still shine brighter night.
When it is only us three,
I feel most at ease, most at home.
In your arms, beneath
the gentle gaze of the... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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How often is it that I hear you calling
yourself a good-for-nothing, useless,
unwanted, ugly, and a nuisance?
Don’t be a weed.
Be a vetiver.
Grow stems that are tall and leaves
that are thin with lovely
brown-purple flowers adorning them.
Be... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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You weren't made for the sun or moon
or from the earth, wind, or fire.
You were the kind that ran with the wild horses
and floated where the river carried you.
You were the sort of soul that not only
enjoyed the rain but danced in it like it... – by Payton Hayes | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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When he asked me why I love
the rain,
the ocean
and the river so,
the only answer I had for him was that
even after all I’d been through, I was
never afraid to get back in the... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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You know, that lingering
feeling of waves pulling
and pushing you
in and out of the sea
as you lay in bed after a
long day at the beach, that
is what it feels like after a day
with you.
Except with the waves,
if you forget about them for... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I tasted
the sting of whiskey
on your lips as we
kissed, your body betraying
you one last time
it was saying, “I couldn’t handle myself sober for this.”
we said our last goodbye, without
ever saying a... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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No rest for the wicked,
and no rest for the weary.
My eyes become slickened,
dreaming of the dreary.
You’re an idol, dearest lover,
promising tranquility.
Love in thee, I have discovered,
is paired with fragility.
Close my eyes to clear... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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The sun filtered through the trees and fell on your face in such a way,
it made me almost jealous that it could touch you so freely and I couldn’t.
I looked to the sky and wondered why you weren't mine already.
I'd been by your side for years,... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Nowadays it's all sex, drugs and rock n' roll,
fuck bitches, get money, and
stack on stacks on stacks, but
what happened to love?
What happened to getting so completely lost and
wrapped up in someone else instead of getting high?
I long for... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I close my eyes again and again, but even so
I cannot get the thought of you lying naked
beneath the moonlight out of my head.
I can’t extinguish the flames burning between my
legs and the desire in my heart.
I can’t part ways with the thought... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I will not take the blame for
any atrocities
my curiosities
may commit against you.
You told me you required
a potion, or a few
an elixir, or two,
here's what I've brought for you.
This first red potion will do
it will heal your... – by Payton Hayes | 16 Views added 1 year ago
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You blew me away, like a
feather in the wind.
The very first second I saw you,
I knew there
was no way I could keep up. You swept me
away with your wild currents.
When I first met you,
I thought, I was weak.
I thought you would surely... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I am calmed by the soft petals of the lotus
flower, the same petals of the same lotus flower that
rests upon the shoulder of my yoga teacher, whom I
see every Monday and Wednesday afternoon.
I am calmed by starting out in child’s pose, hips... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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For once, my room has good lighting.
It is not from the lamp that hangs from the
ceiling, casting a yellow glow.
It is from the moonlight
washing
over you.
Washing
over me.
For once, I truly see you. You are
so much more than the writer or... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Tell me, darling, do you know ... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I sway, o p e n to
the music, as I am in such a
v u l n e r a b l e state, as if my walls
have come down, and my soft shell
has been e x p o s e d , and the music is a dagger that
moves straight through to my heart and
s o u l... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Last night, I had a had a dream:
We were driving down a snowy-city street.
It was the biggest city we’d ever been in
because we just kept driving and driving
and driving without ever turning.
We had heavy winter coats on and
you... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Waller around in this pile of dust you’ve
been licking up.
Drilling deeper down into the dirt with a
forked, reptilian tongue.
Twisting coils of leathery skin ‘neath scales
of golden sun.
Swallow your tail, only to realize it’s how you’ll be... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I love when you are
sleeping, for you are
so very lovely
yet, so unaware.
I love how you are
peacefully at rest
in such an open,
vulnerable state.
I love the way you
smile- that hidden smile
I’ve only caught a
few brief glimpses of
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I ask your advice
time and time and time again
because one day, I intend to tell you
how I feel for you.
My dear, you are so wonderfully oblivious,
that when I tell you my secret it will
be that much more unexpected.
You offer wise counsel as... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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I sat at the corner of my bed awaiting your reply.
The phone buzzed and as I looked down at it, a second
wave of love washed over me. I never understood why a dorky
text message from you could trigger such a thing, but it did and
what a... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Your eyes are
like the ocean,
that blue a vast, limitless
expanse.
Dark and twisting
as thoughts are pulled beneath
the tide.
Eyes so blue that I could
become lost in them
forever, if only
you'd
let... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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There is some kind of sadness in
my heart when I hear this one song.
It just comes alive and dances with the
melancholy notes. I do not know where
it comes from, only that it is a part of me, and
I’ll carry it with my always, even if I am to... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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This world is so incredible, but it pales
in comparison to you, my love. I am
head-over-heels, madly in love with you, and I
long to be so sinfully close to you that even air
could not come between us. That being said, I’ve come
to believe that... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I always admired the lake-leaves
weightless, almost, with
lilies of pure white resting
atop the water, as if they had only
truths to tell.
I wish I could drown beneath them,
the light burning holes in my
spine, through... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Here
in
your
arms,
this is
*my* universe.
You are the stars, and
my heart is yours, always,
my dear.
This is the very definition of heaven on
Earth. The very definition of true happiness.
The very definition of... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I was the sea
and you were the whaler.
You cast your harpoon into
my waters. It never did catch
a whale.
But you caught me
time and time... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I begged you to **forgive** the tears that
rolled down my cheeks when I saw you
again. It has been so long and I’d almost
forgotten the contour of your face in the
moonlight.
If not for short notice, I’d have missed you again.
We... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Can you take me flying?
Like we once did?
Could you take my hand and throw me to
the sky with you at my heels?
I fear I am sitting still, like a lake gone stagnant.
And I want to feel the waves in my bones,
the wind in my sails, again.
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I sat beneath the old saffron
willow, crumbling leaves
to dust in my soft palms.
Autumn creeped in once again,
setting the trees on fire and carrying
their leaves away with the cool wind.
I looked across the dirt road, at the
old, blackened... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I'll whisper my secrets
to the stars and pray
you are far, far away,
because my darkest
desires, and
wildest dreams
were not meant for you,
my dear.
They were meant for the
boy with the tree at his
spine and
all of my fantasies
on his
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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She lay on the
ground, dirt
collecting on her bones and in
her hair.
Feathers and twigs scatter
around
her as the raven builds its nest.
A gentle breeze
stirs up leaves around her.
It never served her to have a
heart of
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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This is where the ettin walks
Two-headed, three stories tall.
I’ve never heard the ettin talk,
Save for a rancorous call.
Here, he lumbers, like an oaf
Towing up into the sky,
Watching down upon the grove,
With his four golden eyes.
This... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Every once in a while
the dreamcatchers
grow heavy
with the nightmares they keep, and
someone must let
them
out
There are terrible things inside of
them, darling,
I know, for I have seen
their horrors, myself.
And there are mysteries... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I closed my eyes and in hopes that
you'd suddenly materialize, I breathed in, deep.
The darkness ebbed and flowed. I slowly lifted
each lid, revealing an emptiness before me
and an emptiness within.
I wish I could summon
you... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Sometimes, I can’t help but dream of
you in colors. I wish only to be able to describe them
to you, my love. But the fact of the matter is this:
there isn’t a single hue that would do your beauty... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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The old clock tower jutted
out against the hues of the
reddening November sky.
Old buildings, that had sprung
up in Rhode Island, made from
brick and mortar stood strong
against the evening winds.
The old clock tower stood
taller than... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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You always give me
butterflies.
Won’t you take them away?
I find it nearly impossible to
think when my heart is beating to
the rhythm of their gossamer wings.
And it’s all because of... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I have been doing a lot of thinking lately, and
I’ve realized there are so many
strikingly gorgeous people in the world.
No, I am not talking about the long hair
Or the blinding teeth or the amethyst eyes, those
lovely windows to the soul.
No,... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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You were an angel
but feathers fall like bowling balls
when the air is missing from the room,
from your lungs.
You gasped when I called you out, a
baffled sound, surprised more so, only by
the startling sensation of your wings being torn off.
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I poured myself out onto you, ink on vellum, your
skin gravelly, your alluring purr as smooth as silk and
soft as velvet, but as you folded me in your arms, my words
were lost like cries in the wind. For once, in a long time, I looked
at... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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A cool September day
we met,
with the rustling of the
wind, and
the sound of closing
car doors.
Now my heart’s desire
is to know you more,
to be found
in you, and
to be known as ... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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To lay with my head on your lap, was all I ever really wanted to... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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My dear, you sway with
the nervous passion of a
thousand
winds.
Tell my why you are
so anxious,
when
you
carry their wishes on
your... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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She breathed
with
hurricane eyes
and he fell
in love with
the way
the waves
crashed over
her
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I have once again, left
open the door to
my heart and
the wasps have found
their way in.
The fluttering in my bones
was not from the
butterflies.
It was the sharp sting of
falling in love
with... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Darling, toss your ... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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You, my dear,
are very
much unlike
the rest.
Your antlers
have not yet
grown in
and you worry
they never will.
But the boy with
amber eyes
says that
yours will be
made of crystal
and not of
bone and
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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There is a reason
water is clear,
and blood is crimson,
for
it would be far too painful
to try and see
the truth in your
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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The thought of you asking me to be your valentine sent butterflies up my spine and they went crazy in my stomach. It's so funny, though, because you have been my valentine for so long already, and somehow you still leave my heart feeling ... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I lay here before you,
u n d o n e.
And it is my greatest fear.
And it is my greatest desire.
Oh, my darling, set my
soul
on fire.
How I have waited for this moment, how I have yearned to be so close to you.
For you to be so close to me,
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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"You are a breath of fresh air." He said
in a way that was unlike the way
the others had put it.
"You are new air and new earth and
you are the words that have not yet been
written.”
“ You are the beginning and the ending of
a... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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"You write so beautifully,
your mind must be a terrifying
place," he
said softly, though he
hadn't uttered a single word.
It was his eyes that
spoke to her the most.
She surrendered herself to
the tears that raced down
her cheeks and... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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"Tell me the sun doesn't
shine when I am gone." She
said softly, eyes looking up,
earnestly at him.
"But it does, my dear, the sun
shines all day long. And I am like
the weary moon, who misses your
warmth on those cold,
dark
nights.... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I dreamed you kissed me
and when
I woke,
I was unkissed, and
alone.
So darling, kiss me now,
kiss me like
you did in that dream.
Kiss me with the lips you used to
spit daggers and whisper secrets, and
soothe souls.
Kiss me like the sky... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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There was this girl. She sang with a beauty that made the sun shine brighter with every tune that floated up to the sky.
But one day she stopped singing. A strange little boy told her, that no one gave a single shit about her little ditties.
... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Tell me, my dear, why you keep
that golden sun beetle tied so tightly around your neck?
You say that you feel naked without it, as
it hangs gently
over your breasts.
... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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As the sea
swallowed the sun once again, a single tear rolled down
her cheek, and I could not help but
ask her, "Oh sun, why do you weep as you do?"
And with a smile that nearly leaped across her cheeks, she... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I reach out to you -to your essence grappling to any shred of your memory. Your smile. The light in your eyes.
The tinkling of bells in ... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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You look
in the
mirror
and see
nothing
but remorse,
I look at you
and see
bones
and... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Darling, do not tell me that you are more beautiful with those drawings on your skin. You've convinced yourself that they mean so much to you, and no one can even begin to understand, but I want you to know that the real beauty of an... – by Payton Hayes | 17 Views added 1 year ago
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Imagine, I am sitting at the piano. Imagine, you come to sit beside me-to join me. And while I am playing, out of the corner of my eye, I see the twinkle in yours. The longing in your eyes, because I caress the keys of the piano so softly,... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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He sat at the edge
of the Earth,
and night after night,
the moon told
secrets to his
mocking blue
eyes,
secrets that no one
else could ever, ever
begin to
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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The moon poured over the moors
and the night-birds
howled through the wind.
The stars shuddered in their midnight sky and whispered his
name amongst themselves.
He could do nothing but swallow his tears... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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He stared down
into the dark, twisting waves, as if
a voice spoke to him from
the watery depths
below.
It seemed to pull him in and
... – by Payton Hayes | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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All of the others can
guarantee you the world.
But I can give you my heart.
I can't promise you fame or
riches, but you will always
be safe and warm and happy.
And even if you do not love me,
I will love you with all
of my... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I want to become
part of
you
the way the
wind becomes oxygen
in your
lungs, and
the way you cannot
breathe when you are
without
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Loving you is all I want. Laying on your chest
with a shaky softness. The way your electricity collides with my skin. Your hands, gently exploring. Your breath comes across my back. Lovely are your words, finding their... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Was it longing in is sad, blue eyes, or was it lust? Maybe it was a beautiful combination of the two. She always left him wanting more. So he gave up the sunlight for her. He promised to spend the rest of his days in darkness, between silk... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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"How did you know where to
find me?" She whispered, her voice
cracking under her tears.
"I followed the maps
you left in my heart, and I let my
feet carry me to you, because I belong to you
the way the stars belong in the sky."
She nodded... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Vibrant streaks of
green and blue and
violet
twist in your eyes, like a
beautiful galaxy and I want
nothing more than to
catch each
shooting star and leave
my wishes on your... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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The way a child trusts so
blindly,
I will close my eyes
and fall into your
every word. The sugary-sweet
scratch of every consonant and the
friction of each vowel. I will trust you
with no hesitation.
If I fall, I know that you will
catch
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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His love was
a lightning bolt
that split her
bones and left
her stalked out
on the grass.
She made his
heart beat like
thunder and his
soul sing with
the... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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You always tell me of the
e l e c t r i c i t y
coiled in your bones, and
how I put it there.
But my dear, you are one to talk,
for you've got me
burning like the wire in
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Sometimes, the leaves fall off the trees
to be carried over the
wind and to a new home.
Sometimes, the leaves fall off the trees
to be trampled and smashed into the
rich, black dirt.
Sometimes, the leaves fall off the trees
because they... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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He kissed me and I let out an
almost inaudible moan.
Hmm? was all he could say between
our kisses.
I didn't answer him.
This time, I kissed him
back,
more... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Imagine, I'm laying in your bed. Beneath your covers.
On your pillow.
In your arms.
Imagine, you press your thumb to
my lower lip, and you can hear my heart
beating like a hammer.
You remake my ribcage with your fingertips, and
... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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You always talked
about
falling in love,
but what if I
am afraid to fall?
What if I am afraid
of... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I used to think that
there were these little bones in my heart, and
when they got broken, the doctors would put
a bright pink cast on my heart.
But it doesn't work like that.
You can't put a cast on your heart, and even if you could,
there... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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You came up behind
me and wrapped me
in your arms and
covered my eyes with
your hands.
"Guess who," you whispered
in my ear, and
I laughed to think
that you believed
I would not know that it was
you by the feeling of your
heart beating... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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You are like a sky. A fire across the clouds. And I can't peel my eyes away.
Like a moth drawn to your flame, I'd rather burn down to nothing, then to fade from your memory.
I was a part of you, the way each ... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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It was you who kept me warm on those cold, Winter nights. I had you running in my veins and your love was a fire that left me burning for... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Sometimes, I am
afraid of falling so totally and completely
in love with
you.
I know you wouldn't hurt a hair on my
head and you wouldn't dare tear
apart my
feelings.
But I am afraid of loosing you
and that fear, alone
is far stronger than... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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His love was like an earthquake, and it rocked her world.
But one day, it destroyed anything and everything she had built for... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I fear one day my bones will break and my rib cage will crumble away to dust, if my heart cannot keep from beating out of my chest. It flutters like an anxious bird trapped behind golden... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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I will sleep with
my eyes o p e n .
I will breathe u n d e r w a t e r .
I will drink my coffee c o l d if that is
what it takes to become less like y o u .
The thought of being like you is so p a i n f u l , I'd
rather d r o w n .
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Suspended in one beautifully, eternal moment. The wind didn't blow, and world stood still. The only way we could measure time was through our heartbeats. You smashed your mouth to mine with a lust you couldn't hide, even if you tried. And... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Loving you is like
when the desert reaches
up to kiss the crying
sky as it
rains.
And my god, have I
grown madly in love
with the feeling of
water running
down
my... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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She closed her eyes and
shook her head in disbelief.
And I said simply, "My dear,
if you continue to look at the world
through rose-colored glasses, perhaps you
will never have to see the
demons at
your
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Have you ever
wondered how
a lake can be
like glass,
but the sea is
never still?
It is because
the sea is
wild and free,
and the lake keeps
its greatest
desires tucked
deep down below
its dark... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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There once was
a moth that
had wings
of crystal
and when
he tried to fly,
he always dropped to the ground
and shattered into a million pieces.
Sometimes, I feel like that moth.
But I look into your
eyes and see
the
... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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You were a drug to me, babe.
You weren't the medicinal kind either.
You weren't just a painkiller.
You weren't an antidepressant.
You weren't a Xanax.
You weren't Valium.
You weren't even the good kind of drug.
You weren't heroin or meth or... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Between silken sheets we let all of the golden clocks fall over the edge of our world. There, we kissed and kissed until we could measure time only by the rise and fall of our broken breaths and knew no other taste than the light in each... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Your cheeks
are the
sky
and every freckle is a glittering
star.
Your eyes are like beautiful moons, deep
blue,
like the
sea
and full of
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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You weren't the butterflies in my stomach-no, you were the ache in my chest. You were the lust in my eyes and the longing in my bones. And there's nothing I can do to shake the stinging feeling of wasps one my skin, in the places you should... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I've had a hole
growing in
my stomach for
days.
Butterflies are
wrapped up
in the ribbon
in your
tapes, and
they come inside
and tie
confused
little knots around
my... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Every breath, a weight
on my chest, reluctantly
comes, being chased
only by my
quickening pulse.
A knife slips between
my ribs and with
every word that passes over my lips, it
twists.
A silent scream is trapped
behind... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I'll wear your
bones like jewelry
in my ears, like
precious
trophies, and
like pins in
my hair.
I love you so much that
I wish nothing more
than for
you to be
with me
... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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The snow drifts were quite high, piling up into the northern sky, burying towns and trees and the poor souls who had fallen asleep on the grass and had awoken with shivers as snowflakes left little kisses on their eyelids.
... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Twisting and turning,
inside I am burning
blackened bones all smeared with ash,
and soot,
and along the edges tinged with yearning.
You were my air, I was your fire
and I was consumed with desire
a longing for you burned me up
like wood,
... – by Payton Hayes | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Gentle winds rolling,
Moonlight pouring over us,
Silent bliss... – by Payton Hayes | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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The boy with
amber eyes
was
destined for
glorious things.
And all those
he met could
tell
he had a special
light
in his eyes.
but the girl he
loved
dimmed his
light
when
she fell for... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Everyone will eventually
fall
victim to some
addiction, and
I want to be the
ravenous hunger
in you
... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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You were the definition of Satisfaction. You were the blood in my veins, and the smoke in my lungs. I was addicted to you in the worst of ways.
It was you who could quench the eternal... – by Payton Hayes | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I've always dreamed of adventure,
but now, I'm not so sure.
I grew up playing video games and paying pretend in the woods.
What I would've given to be Link with my own legendary quest.
But these are turbulent times.
Between my anxiety and the... – by Payton Hayes | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Bruises color your face
and the split lip he
gave you is enough
to warrant it,
but gin on ice
is never enough to cut
the sting of the morning,
after,
the pain on
the inside won’t just
go away with the cool rush of
juniper berries that... – by Payton Hayes | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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I knew what you
were from
the very beginning.
I saw you from a
different angle.
All the others saw a sleek and slender form.
Thin bones that were jam-packed with dreams.
When I looked your way,
... – by Lost and Found | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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There is no real reason
for alphabetical order
because
every essay,
every book,
every poem and every song
is just the same twenty-six
letters
in a different combination
but I’d re-write the entire
alphabet and
give it a new order
if that... – by Payton Hayes | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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