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Perfection

emotive.eleven's picture

You can rely on
waking up tomorrow morning
and not hating yourself.
You can wake up to happiness
and colors
and more peace, and more happiness,
and all your fucking perfection.

I can rely on staying up half the night
thinking about how much I hate this,
and having dreams about mazes and
baby- snatchers.

I know I'll wake up at six twenty- three,
beacause my alarm clock is broken and skips
all the logical times
people should wake up at.
And I'll get up and hate this,
whatever brought me to thinking how much I
fucking hate this.

And maybe I'll eat dinner today,
and maybe I'll call to chat about nothing,
just to hear your voice.
Maybe I'll take this black nail polish off,
because its eating at my self restraint.

And that's what I want, right?
I want to stop this sickly sweet music
playing in my head.
I want to ruin these voices telling me
it's not too late to love.

I can't have everything.
And if your world is perfection,
then mine is just another
fucking nightmare.

SnowStars's picture

Wow. Yikes. I'm sorry you're

Submitted by SnowStars on July 24, 2008 - 08:36.

Wow.
Yikes.
I'm sorry you're feeling this way...
Very powerful poem. VERY.
:)SnowStars

Special's picture

beautiful, i like the imagry

Submitted by Special on July 24, 2008 - 09:47.

beautiful, i like the imagry (spelling?) you remind me of a friend of mine, she's kinda emo (not that you are) and writes like this, and she loves converse.
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"I've decided that as long as I was going to Hell,
I might as well do it thoroughly."
-Edward Cullen, Twilight

emotive.eleven's picture

emoness and twilight

Submitted by emotive.eleven on July 24, 2008 - 20:01.

I actually would consider myself pretty much emo, so it's all good.

And I like your quote. :) I lovvveeee Twilight and Edward.

Special's picture

Who doesn't,

Submitted by Special on July 24, 2008 - 20:02.

Who doesn't, honestly?
Smilies:)
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"I've decided that as long as I was going to Hell,
I might as well do it thoroughly."
-Edward Cullen, Twilight

emotive.eleven's picture

I know. He is amazing and

Submitted by emotive.eleven on July 24, 2008 - 20:05.

I know. He is amazing and gorgeous and so awesome.

Special's picture

Unbelievably

Submitted by Special on July 24, 2008 - 20:07.

Unbelievably gorgeous...

"edward Cullen, raising the standards for men for girls all over the world!"
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"I've decided that as long as I was going to Hell,
I might as well do it thoroughly."
-Edward Cullen, Twilight

emotive.eleven's picture

That's really what he is

Submitted by emotive.eleven on July 24, 2008 - 20:14.

That's really what he is doing, isn't it!!!

I did think less of him after he left her, though. At first I was like "OMG how can you do this to her!", and then I was like "Wait a minute. Jacob deserves her more than Edward does." And so now I am really undecided about who I like more.

Special's picture

Sorry, but i have an

Submitted by Special on July 24, 2008 - 20:16.

Sorry, but i have an unbreakable dedication to edward, it tore him up too when he left. I know i cried....

i liked jacob before the transformation.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I've decided that as long as I was going to Hell,
I might as well do it thoroughly."
-Edward Cullen, Twilight

emotive.eleven's picture

Well me too, but he only

Submitted by emotive.eleven on July 24, 2008 - 20:21.

Well me too, but he only changed because of Edward. (and the Cullens) And he acts all hostile to Bella BECAUSE OF Edward.

I might have to go, get a load of this storm!!!

Special's picture

I know, i soooo love the

Submitted by Special on July 24, 2008 - 20:23.

I know, i soooo love the wind tho

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I've decided that as long as I was going to Hell,
I might as well do it thoroughly."
-Edward Cullen, Twilight

emotive.eleven's picture

I know!!! It looks all scary

Submitted by emotive.eleven on July 24, 2008 - 21:23.

I know!!! It looks all scary and ominous and creepy and it's so cool- looking!!!

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