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lipstick stains on wet walls
And all the Other Love Poems I Never Get to Write

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Table of Contents

1. if the eyes are the gateway to the soul, i'd understand you like god by now
2. monsters and people are one and the same
3. disappointing realities
4. life (love) is pain. anyone who says differently is selling something
5. you cannot separate the artist and the art
6. 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
7. picnic blankets are what we sleep on
8. red flags and green flags are all the same (i'm color blind)
9. you thought you were special but the only special thing about you is how much i care.
10. the universe in a mirror (what looks back isn't the reflection)
11. the prodigal brother (my loss)
12. doc, i think i'm in love
13. 5 years in the future
14. no one cares who your father was, only the father you will be
15. history will not rewrite my actions
16. you are one out of myriads
17. tears are just salt water
18. an enclosed love letter to the one i hate most
19. i don't know if you know this, but i really love you
20. what god has yoked together, let no man put apart even if nothing is official
21. you are not obligated to love me if my worst is unlovable but i doubt that's the case
22. would you hold my hair back?
23. did we have to fizzle out?
24. i like rocks, but they have no powers fight me on this one, i dare you
25. doing good deeds is not transactional
26. you. you, indescribable you.
27. i'mliterallyrunningoutofideastomakethingsoriginalhelp
28. i'm committed, alright. to what? i haven't thought about it much.
29. make it to the end of armegeddon with me (or at least stay until i decide to leave)
30. "and you must keep your soul like a secret in your throat"
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends
I'm taking back the life you stole
Came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again

-My Chemical Romance
  





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can i just say that i am in love with your NaPo thread title? That the imagery has been living in my head rent free, sticking to the wet walls of my mind????
LOVE IT and can't wait for your NaPo poetry <333
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if the eyes are the gateway to the soul, i'd understand you like god by now

you've managed sneaky glances
for the years our lives overlapped.
when the blackened out pupil dilates
on top of your restless russet iris,
it gets less and less subtle.

i see your shifting sclera
and the innermost thoughts from our looks.
it tells me i am more than just
some girl you see every few days.

but who am i that you imagine
is the real question.

we live together in the hypnotic realm
of youthful wonderings
and stupid insecurities
when our souls meet through our bodies' windows.

let us look at each other like the first time
running into a mirror with blind
guesses as to who is on
the other (same) side.
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends
I'm taking back the life you stole
Came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again

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Spoiler! :
ohmygoodnessgracious fire this has to be one of the best poems ive ever read!! the anatomical terms mixed with these metaphors makes a beautiful piece of art. and i love the somewhat whimsical feeling of a first love. this is fantastic! good luck of the rest of your napo <3
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Romans 6:14 NIV

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monsters and people are one and the same

i row myself out into the gentle calm
that i know is a frightful ruse.
a sentient whirlpool.
waiting. waiting.

he emerged to me like the kraken from the watery depths:
a deadly monster void of compassion.
but, the smell of the sea captured in his hair
makes me swim out after my boat has been sunk,
just so he’ll hold me again far above the waves.

a beautiful monster with tentacles
to touch and brush upon
with eyes aglow from the deep.

they say it must be killed
but i say it must be loved.

something so painfully human.
oh, to love a beast.

because what more is a monster than a broken person?
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends
I'm taking back the life you stole
Came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again

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disappointing realities

you confess to me
and it's like your voice
is under water.
your hand in mine
and we are weightless.

light from my screen
that echo my own
romantic ideas with you,
but now you're the one saying it.

"let us go to prom," you say,
"and it will be an evening ball
where we are unashamed to be
with each other."

you shout from your end of the phone
"you're the most beautiful girl
i've had the privilege to see.
once, i'm ready for a loving
and binding marriage
you are my first choice."

my backyard is our sanctuary
and we lay on the grass
with no care for the grass
stains in your suit
or the leaves in my hair.

a twilight sky looks over us
and we look back at it.
two pieces of the universe
looking back at itself
and wondering how it even got there.
the stars twinkled light
like how a music box plucks itself.

you ask where to go one day.
"the stars," i whisper back.
and with delicate poise,
like how one holds a newborn,
you kiss my hand and i've never been
more loved.

no alarm bells go off
as you drive a car away
when you are not legal to do so.
i shout for more contact,
but you're gone already.
i stumble over my feet in my driveway.
no bruises or scrapes to see.

and when my eyes opened in the middle
of this new day, i knew
it was too good to be true.
because you're too good to be true.
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends
I'm taking back the life you stole
Came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again

-My Chemical Romance
  





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life (love) is pain. anyone who says differently is selling something

profession of love is not new
nor will it one day be a thing of the past,
but never will the overwhelming sensation
of joy and fear die down.

when i announce it each time
the lump in my throat that is always there
gets bigger.

my chest with an ever-looming tightness,
constricts.

my body which is always on the verge of sudden-death,
goes into panic mode.

it's my shameful masochistic ways
that make me say i love you again,
and again, and
again.

i guess it's true when they say:
happiness is one hell of a drug.
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends
I'm taking back the life you stole
Came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again

-My Chemical Romance
  





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you cannot separate the artist and the art


i am the artist and you are the art.
to be loved by me is to live forever.
once we are both rotting corpses
surrounded by roses under mulch,
my pen strokes of your structure
and the love-sick words for your person
will live on far longer than we ever would.


you are a painting, one with
texture i wish i could touch.
i know i can't handle works of art
which belong in a museum,
but what else am i supposed to do
when they say pieces like this are to
be pinned against the wall?
you are ornate and gorgeous
and i want you in my house.
something to be looked at and adored
like my own creation.
you are a painting and i'm glad i can see.


you are poetry, the whole genre
i associate to be made of pure feeling.
you live like the storms and pull me in like waves.
the more i look, the more i'm tempted to read
you over again and again until
i know you by heart.
each movement and choice
is a word to your poem.
and every single one makes up poetry
i cannot put down.
you are poetry and i'm glad i can read.
and not jared who is 19

we will live on together in spirit
even if our souls never intertwine like i've hoped.
you are mona lisa and i am da vinci:
mutually inclusive and never to be separated.
whether you like it or not, you will live through my art
and i will live through you, my muse,
even if i'm disappointed i didn't create
you from scratch.
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends
I'm taking back the life you stole
Came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again

-My Chemical Romance
  





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1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

Love is patient and kind.


and i wish patience was more than waiting
without restlessness.
waiting to love,
waiting to hate,
waiting for an absolute;
it all gets tiring enough to forget
what it means to be kind.

Love is not jealous.


jealousy towards a lover i will never have
is the least of my internal worries.
i so violently want to love
that it makes me hate love
so deeply.
i'm jealous of what our love
could have been.

It does not brag, does not get puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked.


i'll shout from the rooftops of your glory
one that surpasses the almighty.
i have the honor to live in the same time as you
and the privilege to get to feel
the things i do.
i love you so that you may love me
because i've forgotten what it is like
to be held.
and when i should be ashamed
that i like you of all people,
wrathful hot air escapes
and is a poisonous gas only i am immune to.

It does not keep account of the injury


how many hand crafted gifts
have i given you that you have
buried in the back of your closet?
how many never made it there
and instead ended up in a waste basket
because it means nothing to you?
i can number the ways you've made me cry.
once for abandoning a duty,
twice for permissiveness.
three times for beating around the bush,
and a fourth for friends calling you (and me) out.

It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.


i've never rejoiced with you over wickedness,
but i wish there were more times
we shared bubbling warmth
over progresses of truth and hope together.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.


i've beared the weight of the world and
my own worthlessness so that i may love you.
i believe every time an expression of public
affection for your (our) god to be true
and it might get better from here.
and if you were to leave this earth indefinitely,
i would hold myself off from another
until we met again in a perfect paradise.
because no one can compare to how much i've
chosen to love you.

Love never fails.


and i hope mine is true.
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends
I'm taking back the life you stole
Came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again

-My Chemical Romance
  





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picnic blankets are what we sleep on

i so badly want to love like in the movies.
oh to get myself all dolled up
for a special day with you,
but when i wore a pretty princess dress
all i got was disappointed tears in the bathroom.
my personal storm cloud: party of one.

you are romeo, no doubt.
it can be taken both as how romantic
your story is in theory.
but also with a little digging,
there can be something more complete
to uphold.
i don't care, though.
ditch juliet, and i'll be rosalie.
together we might survive the play.

maybe one night
under the moon lit sky,
the same one i looked at every time
my heart was broken,
we could lay on picnic blankets.
you could rub your finger
along my calluses that remind you
of these same nights
when you drift to the land of golden slumbers
while i play you the same song.

but it all hinges on the same word:

maybe
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends
I'm taking back the life you stole
Came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again

-My Chemical Romance
  





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red flags and green flags are all the same (i'm color blind)

you treat me differently...is it a trap?
am i one of your freaks
you lead to barnum & bailey?
my differences are out on display
and you are well aware, just like everyone else.
at least disney will make our tale
one of compassion and philanthropy.

you've never snuck as many glances
my way to any other girl.
and who do you look at
when i'm not there?
a simple object to be looked at
then discarded,
to be picked up out of the trash when remembered,
and thrown back away when something else
catches your eye.

you apologize in a manner unlike yourself.
still cocky like any charismatic main character
just half the charm, but
it's genuine in an underlying tone
when you look me in my eyes and they say:
i'm sorry
and you've shown it.
did you only do so because
there were people whom you respect (and who respect you)
around?

most uncanny, you have entirely
removed a word you said incessantly
from your vocabulary.
all because it made me uncomfortable.
when you made a joke regarding it
and didn't get a laugh, you were the first to say:
it's not funny anymore.
was it because of me?
or was it because i told you the meaning
and how it cuts the core of many people
and you just wanted to not use a slur?

i guess i'll never know.
all these flags are a weird grey color.
schrödinger's flags, i'll call it.
both red and green
until i open up your intentions.
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends
I'm taking back the life you stole
Came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again

-My Chemical Romance
  





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you thought you were special, but the only thing special about you is how much i care.

no one can truly fathom the world
does not revolve around them indefinitely.
you are as insignificant as i,
yet i still know you.
i know the depths of your hat collection,
i know how long you've played guitar,
i know how you collect superman themed things
(at least you used to),
i know you.

what an immense priviledge.
i'm honored to really
know who looks back at me
over a lifetime.
what a time to be alive.

my goal will not be making you feel
like the only guy in the world-
that's only part of the plan.
i want you to be painfully aware
you are not the only guy in the world
and in my life;
but i want you to be loved.

loved like no one else has ever loved you
or anyone before.
i want you to know out of all my options,
i chose to love you.

on purpose.
i love you on purpose.
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends
I'm taking back the life you stole
Came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again

-My Chemical Romance
  





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the universe in a mirror (what looks back isn’t the reflection)

we are both shining stars
made from the remains of our
predecessors, bound to
decay the same way.

in another life we were meant
to do more than cross paths.

in another life,
you were the first star i'd wish upon
as a child.
starlight, star bright...
wish i may, wish i might
have this wish i wish tonight:

"i wish for you."

in another life,
we went to the stars together,
the ones we were forged from.
a sight to see when
we know we are both
made from each other.

in another life,
you were the sunshine of my lifetime

what would i trade the pain for?

Spoiler! :
The last lines were taken from the Fall Out Boy song, "Love From the Other Side" as well as "So Much (for) Stardust". I'm just putting proper credit here.
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends
I'm taking back the life you stole
Came a time when every star fall brought you to tears again

-My Chemical Romance
  





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Spearmint says...



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i'm not sure!

ahh you have a beautiful, genuine voice in all these poems, Fire! i'm not generally a fan of love poems, but "i love you on purpose." is just such a powerful line. also loved "the universe in a mirror (what looks back isn’t the reflection)"! looking forward to the rest of your poems this napo! ^-^
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alliyah says...



Spoiler! :

Oho! I especially loved your dissection of the 1st Corinthians verse! That's a really creative way to do a poem. :) Also liked the concept and execution of the Green / Red flags one - it's so true that sometimes love gives a sort of... blindness? where you don't know what's green / red! And then the twist to making them "Schrodinger's flags" Ah! Loved that, perfect reference! Keep on writing, looking forward to reading more. :)
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