FEATURED TEEN POET
Emma Howe
Final Era
The web of lies feels heavy in your chest
We had these feelings now we lay them down to rest
6 feet under, under my grave
On the hill where it rained
Where I thought we were something
That was born out of nothing
Take me, a canvas; you painted me blue
You were my sun and I was your moon
Spinning out of orbit every time you said “I love you”
I was so naive, What a shame it wasn’t true
My cheeks are stained with golden flames
That once licked the cage around my heart
With your hateful smirk, you make your mark
Chisel your pen name into my bones
Without any thoughts, now I’m all that you own
My eyes bore holes into your soul, too bad you’ll never know me
How can I forget the memories when they’re all I’ve ever known?
And all I used to let comfort me
How is it that every time I shut you out, you have the key to get back in
A key I didn’t even know I had
The door without a keyhole was laced in you, the prize I’d never win
I’m the trash you clean up on your bedroom floor,
The old worn-out clothes you don’t wear anymore.
I’m the stained white sweater, I’m “you’ll never know better”
I’m the warning on the package and the “don’t you upset her”
But you kept all the vintage and things you don’t need
And as the story would have it, one of them was me
But you realized your mistake a little too soon
Before I caught on, before I lost you
So I balanced on top of the world on your glittering wire
Until I realized that you, Ness, were nothing but a liar.
The worst part about it is that you’ll never know
Because you never marked your calendar and god, you let it show
2 years ago, I thought you were mine
First come, first serve but second in line
I swear to god I’m over you, it’s just the feelings that I miss
But I thought everything was nothing if it wasn’t you I’m with
Strike your match, burn my memory
I’m just another picture in the mainstream gallery
Can’t put a price on a worthless thing
I’m pointless like a bird who never sings
Can’t put a price on a worthless thing
Not when they took your everything
Mother Nature
The wind has lost her temper tonight
Howls piercing through the air, gusts slamming her doors
Shutting us out from arguing any more
The storm is raging wild, lightning
That strikes my cheek and thunders through my mind
But it always stops, that’s the beauty of nature
That I try to appreciate but I can’t if I hate her
But the hate goes away like her love in the waves
And suddenly I can swim again for just a few days
Until again I board up my windows, here the hurricane comes
I’m holding back my words like she holds back her love
Rain pounding on my roof like her fists at my door
The weather’s awful, they say, what are you standing outside for?
The truth is, I wait for the rainbow no matter how long it takes
She sends me colors in the sky to forgive my mistakes
It’s okay, she whispers, tendrils of the breeze flowing through my ears,
You’re home and you’re safe, I’m sorry, my dear
I wade back into the ocean, because again I can swim
Backstrokes in the water until she comes back again
Nature is beautiful and I try so hard to love her
But that’s impossible to do while she is my mother