Forget I'm A Fragment

I'm nervous to put this one out. What do you think?

I've always strived to be that imperfect contradiction

So I guess then I asked you to dance

I’ll try to keep you interested

I make silly faces at you

Mentally hitting rewind

Park swings benchmarking lovers of your childhoods' inability to make up your mind

 

A distant corner of my past

I thought you’d fade

But we weren’t so lucky

Bad memories can come of dark places and small windows

These memories we stir up to remind ourselves of how miserable we were with chalk on our hands and bruises on our hearts

 

People kill for breathing simplicity

It’s something of a melody

But nothing less

So did she know?

That in a land before time

All that there was

Beautiful fragments of pine needles and love

I didn’t even know

Although sometimes I did

But what I forgot was to lean forward and whisper

It wasn’t worth it

 

Laugh

Because you aren’t her

This was my last attempt at saving you

But what do you do

When scissors just won’t cut it

What’s mine was once yours

So I gave you my rope

Hands in the air to catch you

All I caught that day was deception

 

And yet my smile shines

 As the breath of summer fades

This is the only thing we never shared

Because when my tears run dry

I wear colorful scarves and dance to the music of snow

He told me I must love it if I can fashion words out of it

 He was wrong

 I hate snow

 

But it isn’t over until you have a brain freeze and my feet hurt from walking

Sometimes all you need is a good cardigan

But what we needed was to sit down

And rest

Struggling to walk your last mile

Spread your wings, I'll pour you a cup of tea

Milk?

Is comic relief embedded in our DNA?

 

Sometimes we try

Pretentiously kicking our feet back

But you had sand in your hair and my coffee was cold

It was before you had hair though that I felt you kick my tiny hand from inside of mommy's belly

He won’t say it anymore, but I know he does

Because nothing breaks for good

Just ceases to have the mental capacity to put itself back together

 

The sun goes down

And all that we have

Are brief friendships

 That shape hearts on the back of our hands

 

Forget I'm a fragment

Love me as a whole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[zig]

you're only 16? seriously? where did you learn to write like this? well, if you are serious about writing, then please keep doing so. you have a lot of talent, i don't actually believe "talent" is a real thing, but i can't explain how someone so young could compose something like this... its phenmonimal to say the least. this poem is brilliant, a pleasure to read.

zig

[Tracie D'Angelo]

I think it sounds pretty and the analogies were lovely, but I'm not sure where it was all going. I thought maybe it was a break up and a cheating situation and then at the end you through in the line of the "tiny hand inside Mommy's belly" and that threw me off. Be careful, when writing, that you don't throw in so many analogies that you lose yourself in just words that sound good. When writing, you're painting a picture with words. Make sure that picture is clear. I truly believe that you can!

[Jade-UH]

It's beautiful. Just beautiful.. It spoke to me in the most touching way. You are brilliant.

[Adelia Alighieri]

This is amazing, you connected very well with the audience. I LOVE the last two lines, they speak for me. Plus, I like how the poem is contemporary in itself. Well done, dear! :)

[Addie]

Very emotional. I love it! I also like how you included many literary elements in this poem. Very nice.

[TeenRomance2]

Very unique and troublesome (in a good way). I see pieces of happiness and sadness throughout the poem. I loved reading it. It was almost like reading a story.

[Scandalous]

Very beautiful, it intermixes childhood simplicity, and beauty, with a continuous battle of hatred. Very lovely

~ Scandalous