http://slow.writerscafe.org/lookbothways The original writings of author look.both.ways en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776048125 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 I close my eyes. I feel your hand brush my thigh,and my heart jumps. You take me apart, and my throat closes.You cover my mouth,but the rest of me lies naked.You keep my chest from rising,but make my eyes flood. In and out. Like sand paper ripping through my soul,I feel you... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2040771/ Because of you, I'm broken. I feel like nothing I ever do is good enough.I feel like I can't make any decisions for myself or else I'll f**k up somehow.You say you hate the way my life is now, you're ashamed of me..But you're the one who made me this way, who keeps me this way. You set me .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2040464/ I wonder if you think about me as much as I think about you.I wonder if you care about me as much as I care about you, or even more.I wish I would've kissed you harder, hugged you longer when we said goodbye... not knowing it would be our last.I wonder if you read the words I write, and if it bother.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2038928/ sometimes I feel weak. my eyes flood, my hands tighten.weak.my heart hurts, my legs open. weak.my eyes close, my mouth opens.weak.  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2036940/ I hurt for you. I want to tell you how I feel,even though I know you'll reject me. I wan't to jump into your arms,even though I know you won't catch me. I want to sing to you my hearts content,even though I know you won't listen. Your eyes are the type of green that makes me whol.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2030745/ my heart is in my chest but its still between your fingersyou let go of my heart to hold hersnow my eyes hang low and red who would've thought she'd get you http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2028874/ f**k http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2024456/ My soul is overwhelmed with happiness.My stomach tightens and a smile spreads across my face.My eyes close and tears of joy dance down my cheeks.My shoulders shake with laughter as I look at the ones I love.I am alive.What is this feeling?My hands are steady and my mind is clear. My breath is easy a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2016828/ I've made a decision. I've decided to let myself feel.To feel everything.To be vulnerable and honest with everything I feel. To love. Feel overwhelmed, with happiness as well as sadness.To not embrace one emotion and suppress another. To be my best self and love her, because she .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2014549/ When we're together,the room gets hazey with smoke.When we're together,my eyes get cloudy.. I choke.When we're together,I laugh when there's no joke. When we're together,I forget how I broke. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2013932/ I honestly just want to feel something. pain, pleasure, its all the same.just make me feel. fear or loveI need it. I need to feel again. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2013925/ You move my body with your soul;you move my soul with your body.You make my mouth smile to your words; you make my eyes smile to your mind.Your embrace covers me with warmth of fire, a flame that can only burn between our skin.When you are gone so is the flame and I miss the warmth. I.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2013834/ I made a life. It is what my body was made for, and I did it. You wanted it gone and I didn't fight because I knew I could make another one.Before you got the chance to take the life I made, something went wrong and it was gone on its own.I never told you how much that hurt me.I never told.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2013698/ pretty much thoughts that I'm having that I don't know how to make into a poem quite yet http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2013697/ this is less of a poem and more of me expressing how I feel http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2011082/ I can't tell if you're good for me, or bad for me. All I know is that I'm scared to see how sad I'll be. I can't tell how important I am to you. All I know is what you told me not to do.I can't tell if I'm capable of falling in love with you.All I know is that I won't, because you won.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2004540/ you scream songs about bruises.its funny how they show up on my body. each one darker than the next. I only need your voice to speak those words to me.Only your hands to fill my bruises. Your chest to steady mine.  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2002628/ Just because I'm high when I tell you I love you, doesn't mean I mean it any less. I know it means less to you.Even though you get high too. but I understand..I understand why seeing me high makes you hate being sober, and why seeing me sober makes you love getting high. I unders.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/2002613/ I look at you and I see the drink. I see your red eyes. I see your fists coming my way. I wonder what you gave to the drink instead of me. I look at you and I see the pills. I see your tears.I see your body on the floor.I wonder what you gave to the pills instead of yourself.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1991009/ My fingertips follow your traces on my skin.The burns from the last time I saw you still ache when I touch them.I put my hand on my chest and it's empty.A hollow hole where I keep my love for you.Your voice pierces my ears at its lowest tone. Three years later and I still open my eyes fearing t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1987006/ I see your blood shot eyes and they move me.The sting of your breath makes me wince.I once knew pleasant dreams before I knew you.Now I am awoken by my own screaming.I see the drink hit your lips and I shutter.You slowly disappear and it takes hold of what little of you there is left.I once knew san.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986676/ I am lost.Waiting for someone to find me,To lead me home again.I am broken.Waiting for someone to fix me,To put me back together.I am doomed. Waiting for someone to grab me,To bring me back from the dark.I am numb.Waiting for someone to make me feel,To spark fire in my nerves.I am in pain. Waiting f.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986516/ My hands are shaking,My mind is clear. My bones are breaking,The end is near.I'm falling, silent.I see the ground. The screams are quiet.No noise, no sound. The rush, the sirens.I see the lights. People surround me.Nothing is right.I'm in the room again.No escape.I'm bonded to the bed again.No escap.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986513/ I'm in my box. I didn't want to go in,but you won't let me out. I don't want to stay in,but I won't survive if I'm out.You told me it was safe.I don't have to stay in,you told me I could leave.I could just give myself away.Not be me anymore.Then I would be allowed to leave.I want to leave,but only s.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986512/ I’m sitting in the room,Dark, cold and dirty.The walls are soft,So they can’t hurt me.I have wraps around my ankles,wrists and arms.I have clouds in my head,So it won’t do me harm.No talking, no eating.I’m wasting away.This is what I wanted.I won’t last another day.They.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986385/ How soon will you forget me?After I am taken. How soon will you forget my voice or the color of my eyes? The shape of my lips and how they meet yours. The softness of my skin and the way it feels against yours.How soon will you forget my voice? The way I speak. The way I laugh.How long will it take .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986384/ I am nothing.The wind doesn't hear me.The ground doesn't feel me.The sun doesn't see me.You won't remember me.I was broken.Everything was wrong.So I tore myself apart until I became nothing.I don't feel anymore.I am nothing http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986383/ I am overwhelmed with sadness.Without my heart, my chest is empty.There is no movement from me.My blood sits still, awaiting the return of my heart.My lungs don't move, there is nothing they move for.Not without my heart. My eyes don't see, I lay asleep. Waiting for my heart to come and wake me up.I.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986380/ I have sewn my mouth shut,Afraid of hurting her again.I tried to do good,But all that came was sin.I’ve lost all ever loved.My world is caving in.And like the break of dawn,My girl is gone.Because of my anger,I couldn’t save her.Because of my shame,All she can do is blame.Because of what.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986379/ White, padded walls surround me. Designed to keep me safe from myself.I've built fences around my head.But with each pill they come down. My mind is cold.No longer safe and surrounded by my fences.The fire comes flooding in through my head.It moves like waves through my body.There's a fence in my m.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986378/ Black tears sink down my skin.Hands all over me,I am drowning within.I don't want to disappear,But I can't face the sin. Slowly I let go,deeper into the darkness.Every time you see me,I'm less and less. I don't want to disappear,But I've failed every test. I'm falling further away,Keep me as yours.I.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986370/ Hands around me.Afraid to lose control, they suffocate me. Holding on tight, not leaving any room for me.I am unable to move without their command.Needing their permission to survive.They grip my throat, telling me what to say.Hands in my head, forcing me to believe.Fingers twist my mind, trying to .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986369/ The smoke is heavy.It fills my head with its darkness.Fills my lungs with its poison.Lingering on my breath, in my clothes, on my skin.The smoke is unforgiving.The smoke doesn't ask why.The smoke doesn't care.The smoke isn't light.It fills my eyes with its redness. I love the smoke, though it hurts .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986367/ Inside the darkness of fire, Lies my heart’s true desire.To watch the flames grow,As my court is overthrown. I become unaware, Of the house that lay abandoned there. Against my heart’s content,Away the fire went. Away went the flames.Away went the blame. Away went my heart,That is still .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/lookbothways/1986360/