I feel myself giving up on you Maybe that pipe dream was just too big or I just too small -melanie

one never knows how truly alone they are, until standing on the cliff's edge looking out over the abyss, & realizing that no one is there to stop them from jumping my heart aches for a warmth that

lost to a reoccuring daydream that I know cuts me down more & more each day for me it's like picking at sores & hoping they won't bleed sometimes I like the blood stains better than I like my reality

with a crooked smile, she fell from grace landing upon shards of glass now the only ones to love her are just as jagged as her scars -melanie

he loves me he loves me not I'm too tired to cared cut deep by these games I'm left licking my own wounds -melanie

I asked for love & was given pain so all I know is the fight serenity skips past me with her gleeful smirk & it takes every ounce of self-preservation to not attack her from behind I have turned

I thought of you today... I wish I could say it was a fleeting thought that disappeared just as quickly as it flashed in to my mind ...but it wasn't & now I'm plagued with what if's & coud have

Today, I met up with a friend who gave me such amazing gifts. It reminded me that it takes a villiage to raise a family, and anymore it takes all of us to help provide for one another.

back & forth yes & no butterflying my heart with little care for what really goes on between each trembling beat I am manic in my stillness & stagnant in my movements yet I keep coming back

as my heart drums loudly, my head whispers words that the dead can barely hear. while wrapped in shadows & kissed by regret, I hope to find an escape. -melanie

grip me tight til I can't breathe watch the light leave my eyes yet all you've killed is the love inside -melanie

crashing upon me in pure decadent sin I can't seem to run I can't seem to hide I once loved the devil now I just love his fire wallowing in the blisters & burns as the pain wakes me from this haze

Took a moment to find myself in one of my favourite places.

They hate you & they don't know why So you keep the peace To soothe the narrow minded You walk away To avoid the bitter violence & hold your head high As the knife sinks deeps

darkness envelopes me like a lost lover settling back into place as if light & warmth had never been welcome I feel my heart stop yet I keep walking this earth knowing I will be hollow forevermore

Let's try to get ran over, fall down in a ditch, be biten by all sorts of mosquitoes, and almost lose a shoe to take this photo. All while in a dress! All because it made me happy and I was having a shit

Holding tiny hands in crowded streets Panic wants to overtake But there's no time Panic should have happened a long time ago Before we turned cold Before we interjected our opinions into who can love who

doors slam as words are spat. eyebrows raise in sardonic curves. she never budges. knowing anything said falls in shallow graves. what a pity it is to be surrounded by unmarked tombstones. -melanie

there's a steady need within my soul that tears me down, that breaks me in half, that rocks me from side to side. it's this compulsion toward destruction that feeds a fire to burn everything I love to