High School: II
Tegan Sabine – 8/August/2014 - 27/February/2017
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The worst thing about high school,
Is not that you are called names,
Is not that they spread rumours,
Not even that their words beat you to a pulp.
The worst thing about high school,
By law, you must, for six hours every day,
Remain on the same block of land,
Within the same buildings,
And even in the same classrooms,
As the people that shove you down.
Your parents spend away their savings,
Told that hundreds of dollars of uniform,
Will prevent bullying, prevent judgement,
Take away the basic elements of ridicule.
They’re fed lies, told that you’re bette
i would do anything to get you to love yourself by MisfitableGrae, literature
Literature
i would do anything to get you to love yourself
i know your type, i’ve seen them around here
before, browsing through my poems like
you’re flipping through vinyl records, trying to find
that one disc you were listening to the first time
he leaned over and kissed you.
the only way you’ll ever be able to love yourself
is if he leans over and kisses you again, is if someone
tells you about the seven wonders of your soul, if
someone sits down and writes a list of all your beautiful
fault lines that you’ve never been able to forgive.
you want to love yourself and you want to be loved,
but i know it’s hard to believe that you’re holy,
when your hands still s
When you leave me for the last and final time,
you say you will call soon. We will talk tomorrow,
you are sure. We are fundamentally still the same people
who could never have imagined a life without the other.
When you leave me for the final time,
all I do is hug you again, hard,
because this is the precise moment I learn
that you cannot wish something into
existence simply by wanting it enough.
You will not call me. I will not visit you.
Something between us has changed with the distance,
something that refuses to stretch and instead
breaks across the country leaving grooves in the earth,
deep and heartbreakingly, dangerously beautiful.
So Long As I Have Them by LyricalAutumnWind, literature
Literature
So Long As I Have Them
They're contradictions of a wonderful kind.
They're people I can't live without.
An understanding light with a difficult side,
One shines upon my heart.
She is my hope, my positivity, my pride.
Though not always easy to deal with,
she takes the hard parts in stride.
She gives me the strength to keep trying,
No matter how much I want to quit.
An angelic demon with no plans on dying,
She's my Frustrating Supporter.
Better company than these friends, I may never find.
They're people I hold in my heart.
Another's a raging ball of fun, a furious, wild thing.
A bundle of wonder and drama,
She's often confused and confusing.
Clueless
The album of photos lying down on the floor
Make me squeal in enchantment for things in the past
The past is unlocked in the shape of a door
To the knob my hand is cast
But pictures always end up yellow
And memories will sooner fade
People do forget and mellow
While blue and green revert to jade
I struggle with the games I play
To wish for nothing more
But to be a child for one more day
Ten years old or maybe four
To play with friends I haven’t seen
And ones I later missed
Correcting things I didn’t mean
From the ever-growing list
But time is vain, it won’t go back
And we age with every season
It’s going forward to
My first best friend replaced me with music,
Playing it till I got homesick...
my second best friend replaced me with a game,
conversations were never the same...
my third best friend replaced me with my ex,
all weekend they practice sex...
my fourth best friend replaced me with death,
Suicide, now I have nothing left...
my last best friend disappeared without a trace,
please, let death not be the case...
Friendship is Magic by Inkwellthewriter, literature
Literature
Friendship is Magic
Do you wanna know,
The purest thing,
The easiest thing to get,
The most powerful force around,
It makes you smile,
But it can make you frown,
It makes you worry,
It can make you cry,
Do you still wanna know?
The most rarest thing,
The most wonderful thing,
Friendship,
The true magic of our world,
Because if we didn't have friendship,
We wouldn't have anything magical at all~
The soft warm bodies
and cold wet noses
with ecstatic tail-quakes
would miss you;
The oceans that have never tasted your feet,
the sandy shores that will only beach
for one second before sailing out to sea
would miss you;
The skies that dawn
bright with birdsong
or awash with dripping kisses
would miss you;
The stars’ light that was born
before you were even a thought
but has been yearning and traveling just to glint in your eye
would miss you;
The words on paper
wrapping up worlds
waiting for you to discover them
would miss you;
The fantasies and dreams
and mysteries on screens
the faraway places locked in pixels
would miss you;
you think you're clever
i can see it behind
the snarky sarcasm of your smile,
you think i don't understand
the cavalcade of words
eclipsing your mouth;
you are a moon
mercurial and cold, silver and distant -
you use your pretension
as a tool to get attention
even if it's negative
because
even if someone hates you,
you think;
at least they care -
i wish you could see i liked you better
when you were you, the dork that found
my corny jokes amusing;
this intellectual you pretend to be
doesn't suit you.