http://slow.writerscafe.org/reedmylips18 The original writings of author A en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776003299 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545}span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre}I am so scaredit hurtsmy bones arescaredmy heart I am scared hewill leavethat I willfall in loveI will keepfallingI will get to apoint where I.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1875254/ I sat with the urge to cryI sat with the emptiness I feltWith the pain and the fearI sat with the knowing that I didn’t knowThis unsettled meThis shook meI wanted to cryI wanted to allow myself to let goTo truly be present.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1857365/ Do you ever feel so alone?Not in the senseThat you are aloneBut that you feelBetrayed by your own mindYour own heart is in controlYou are along for the rideYet I understood the old painBut nowWhy the tears fallThe questions fl.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1587890/ It hurt more to realizeOur friendshipOur once wasThe late nightsWhere I could tell youAnythingThe way you hugged meAnd I felt likeYou were my glueThe love I had for youThat I mistookAs physicalWas never thatThe tea.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1587869/ It hurt more torealizeOur friendshipOur once wasThe late nightsWhere I could tellyouAnythingThe way you huggedmeAnd I felt likeYou were my glueThe love I had foryouThat I mistookAs physicalWas never thatThe t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1576817/ I don't very much  enjoy being stuck kept in this cageI have builtI have created thinking it would make the strong unbreakable only letting those in I very much trusted and wanted to break this cage I'm in  loveI have trapped myself  by not believin.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1497230/ I felt less of a need to be touched but more to be seen to be naked to be raw to be ALL in your presence no sex no rules only loveI shudder at the touch I used to be able to turn it off to un-feel like a flip of a switchNow it feels wrong I don't want to be touched I want to be held .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1482970/ I needed to get away to a place where I could feel small where I could put my pain into perspective I needed to be free feel what it meant to love myself Love the moment feel like I could breathe without the  weight of the world keeping me from  feeling holding me back.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1482963/ Why do I feel so alone...? feel like at any moment the tears will start and they may never be able to stop... Why? I need to get out as much as I don't want to run it is what I know best it is in my dreams it is all I can think .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1482859/ I sat there lay there in silence knowing the ping-pong match was far from over as the ball was passed from my court to his I kept wanting more I kept the deepest fear knowing eventually the ball would drop the game would be over .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1482850/ My life became  a series of unanswered questions broken hearts drowning in tears I needed a way where I once chose death I saw hope for an answer an adventure a road less traveled a heart seeking to  be loved a soul seeking to be found http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1482844/ It comes in like a wildfire consuming anything with life leaving a trail of its victims the memories the "once weres" behind I am left to survive with the burning inside the ashes may cool but the destruction stays waiting for  it to come back it smells the life and comes t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1482799/ As the lips touch The hands grasp                         Ontosomething           .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1254463/ I get these momentsIn instancesGlimpses of what life could be A forest of solitudeA beach of careA star full of hopeA blue sea of happinessLonelinessBeing somethingAnything moreThan each dayEach momentOf believingD.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1252914/ Do you ever wonder why?Why you’re in school? In class?Why you kill yourself over deadlines?Why you spend your days clock watching?Moments of you lifePass you byHour by hourYou continue to ask whyWhy do you wish To please peopl.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1242714/ One reasonThat’s all I needAll I can take amomentThe last words on mylipsOne reasonWhen the cloudovertakesAll rationalAll I can seeAll I can feelIs the weight of the past the present.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1190652/ The summer of 2008, I was 14 years old and I had officially stepped into adulthood. I had been kissed for the first time, the second, and the third time. I had drank many more than three times and I had smoked a joint or two at this point. I learned what bras to wear, how to apply mascara, still bad.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1172804/ http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1172803/ Doyou ever know or try and anticipate when you will fall in love? Does it takeyou a moment to realize when you are in love? Or are you simply stuck with theidea that what once was can never occur again, never more in a l.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1172800/ I had a dream last night… It was summertime; I was out to the bars with all myfriends, when one of my friends, Charles, wanted to get some air. I walked outwith him and we stood out in the warm summer air and we talked about thethoughts he had about.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1166837/ I know right away… I’m going to kill myself today. I havewaited for the right moment, the signal. It is another sunny Wednesday inBeverly Hills, California. I flip the switch to open the blinds knowing it willbe my last ray of sunlight I will ever.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1166835/ She was a poised for perfection fashionista that had neverworked a day in her life. As long as “Daddy’s” credit cards kept flowing shewas happy and content, or so believed. In truth, that only the garbage man knewshe was a pill happy girl that .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1166834/ A swingSafeLike a hugLaughterLike a childDreamsLike a cloudFree Like a breezeEscapeLike a trainHangLike a rag dollFly Like a birdSway Like a treeYellLike my momSing Like no one is watching.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1161234/ Whatif I could pay to forget you?Howmuch would I pay?Whatwould I want to forget?EverythingYourfaceYourhandsYourlipsTheway youSnakeyour wayIntoeach momentEventhe momentsI’mwith someone elseTh.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1157581/ The rain falls hardThe wind swaysBack and forthFalling downKnocking downEach rain drop that falls Brings a shiverAnother deep breathThoughts racingWinds risingThe heightened peak of the stormThe eye of the hurricane The sway of the freeTrying to be strong.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1157495/ I wrote this poem at age 8... Beginning of my poetry days http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1156586/ There was something about the wayheTook my handAs if he was scaredAshamed Afraid to ever trustThe way he kissed meWith such passionNo amount of alcohol could createThere was something about the wayhe hugged meAll of meThe .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1156358/ MemoriesLaughterKissesMidnightScaredSafeYour armsThe moonThe starsThe lake enveloping meAnd youInto each otherYour hand IntertwinedUnafraidThe mudLaughterNo need to perfectAnythingThe lightThe sunset .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1156350/ Nothing is too largeNothing is too smallNothing is too uglyNothing is too beautifulNothing is too boldNothing is too shyNothing is too happyNothing is too sadNothing is youNothing is meEverything is us http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1153687/ IhateCanno longer take onHowneedyHowuselessHowdramaticHowmuch painYoubelieve you have feltUnlessthere’s SomethingYouaren’tTellingme Allthe storiesOfthe beautifulChildhoodThe.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1153588/ EmptyShatteredBrokenPiece by pieceReaching what I never thought waspossibleI don’t recognizeThe eyesThat I seeThe faceThat places a smile above allThe bodyI despise each step it takesNo hope No joyAll I f.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1153585/ Iwant to say, “I love you”Iwant to fall DeepIn lovewith youLetgoOf theotherThe“one” Thatmy brain KnowscouldDamageall the ProgressI have madeHe tookme by surpriseI fellinsta.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1143984/ I’m scaredI wont see it comingI won’t let myself leaveBefore it’s to lateI barely got outOf their GraspsBarely made It outWith anyParts of meYet I seeMyself Doing it againChasingThe abuse.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1143979/ How can you expect so little from me? How come you didn’t see me falling?How come you didn’t fight for me?Ho.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1137264/ I don’t believeyou even know how to loveYou sure ashell don’t know how to be lovedHow come youcould never be strong?And tell whatyour fingers so easily typedYou had theopportunitiesThe chanceTo be thisman you say that .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1137256/ Sometimes pain needs causing To begin againTo start overFreshNewStartingBy bringing upUncovering the pastOver and over It can teach youIt can give you something You never thought you neededOr You never thought you wantedPain Can also tear you limb from limb ripping out each .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1134260/ I believe I am in loveWith youBecause of how unattainable you areYou will never be mineYet I let my heart be filled with love for youI let my mind be complete with thoughts of kissing youI would be anything you wanted Everything you neededYou're every desireBut yet you will never love meNot eve.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1134258/ Chocolate OrgasmsRunning SwingingCrying ScreamingBeatingCutting However you come cleanWith your PastYour thoughts The broken promises The broken dreamsThe broken onesThe battered ones At some point you have ToCome cleanWith the oneThat isPast Present.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1129482/ Physical pain is easyBruises healWounds become scarsIt's the words that digAnd claw at you even when you think you're over itEven when you see happiness Even when light comes into the distanceThe pain threatens to take allYou haveYou hope forAwayThe physicalBring it onI'll fight But as for.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1129479/ What ifI’m not upsetOr sadThat youHit meThrew meGrabbed meShowed your strengthWhat If I’m upsetOr sadThat you didn’tFinish what you startedShut off the voicesShut off the tearsThe fearsS.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1128301/ Leap intoThe deepDarkBrown entranceTo my soulMy painCarries eachtearThe doorThat sweepsThem closedWhen dangerappearsThe opennessI seekUpon AdventureAn experienceA dreamcome trueTake a look.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1128294/ Move meShake meBeat meDownTake takeI give          All         Love         AllCare too muchOpening book.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1128290/ The need for conquestsIs it about control?OrA game that I must winEach conquestHas no meaningIt’s simply lost allMagic All the momentsOf jittersOf hopeThere’s none of thatIt’s a gameThat I see.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1126250/ Do you believe in love?Do you believe in sex?BelievingActingDoingAll can changeAll are vitalYet we all are quietWe hold backWe are ashamedWe are doubtfulOf our natureOf who we areEach atom and cellThat creates .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1126249/ We all have our walls we hide behindThe pasts we hold dearKeep secrets Hold it inDon't dare show the faceBehind the mask Daring to be truth To be the oneTo stand upSay what's rightHow wrongOur worldWhere honesty is a LieAnd fights exist to break down one anotherWords and allWe all hid.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1123692/ When you canLearnAndThan teachHow toPut on a showBe the lifeFor the nightFor the summerFor the boysAnyone willing to be anaudienceOf attentionReassurementYou canBegin to lose.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1120951/ You’remore than wordsCansayMorethan theTreesThatcreateThepaperIwrite onMorethan any thoughtsI’veever hadYoucame out of nowhereMylongLostDisguisedSou.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1120947/ What ifI fallAnd no one is there to catch meI’m not afraidYou’ll leaveAnd I will have to watch youLeaveI’m afraid I won’tBe able to seeYou not thereAfraidI will FallDeepIn LoveWi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1120945/ Love. How can Four Lettersinvolve such a complex and confusing meaning? (: First I will answer: What does a loving andfunctional relationship look like? (It's short)
Functional is making do
Love isnot
Functional is dealing with&#.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1115868/ I’m writing this letter to you, because I often find words areoften misunderstood or hard to say. Through a letter it can be more understoodand easier to say my thoughts. I believe when I met you, I was searching forsomeone but not truly knowing it. In a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/reedmylips18/1115862/