The Guide to Make Teens Dislike You... For no reason

1)  Be a reserved person.

By this I mean be quiet and enjoy alone time.  If you live with roommates that are all very social people, they will label you as antisocial and call you out on not hanging out with them.  When you explain to them that you just enjoy quiet time, but prepared for them to say that you are a loser or that you are antisocial.  Tell them that you like quiet time.  If they persist... tell them to "Fuck off"

2)  Don't Talk About Your Sex Life

For some reason people just love talking about their sex lives.  Even if you have a very exciting one, just don't talk about it.  You will be asked time and time again to open up about it and when you explain that it's a personal matter and you would rather not share, you will be seen as uncool.

3)  Tell People that You think Oral Sex is Gross

You get a lot of weird looks with this one.  Whether you're joking or not, people are very serious about this for some strange reason.

4)  Be in a Happy Relationship

Your peers will hate this.  Jealousy probably though I hear from a lot of girls that it's because they're "young" and want to do whatever they want.  AKA they like having sex with multiple dudes.

5)  Avoid Conflict

Because it just causes more.

A Small Place Across Town

                There’s a place across town, you’d like it.  Real small… yeah, the kind of place that you can go into and just disappear in for a while.  No one would notice, no one would care.  You can just close your eyes and you’re free. 

                The kind of free that you dream about when you’re an adult thinking about your childhood.  The kind of free that a beaten old dog thinks about after being thrown out and kicked.  You know what I’m talking about…

THAT kind of free.

The grass is green and the sun is such a sweet yellow that it tastes like honey and smells like sunflowers.  The flowers are in full bloom and the ground is moist under your feet.  You don’t remember how hot or chilly it was, you just remember that it was perfect.  That when you looked into the distance, you saw infinity unfolding before your very eyes.  You don’t remember what brought you to this experience, nor do you want to.  You just want to take it all back and relive it again.

THAT kind of free.

The waking up at nine a.m. and not feeling tired.  You smell a freshness flowing through your open windows and are drawn up by the morning’s light.  The one you love the most rolls over and as your eyes meet, you feel like words will never explain how much you would give up for that person, how much you love that one and only person.  You push away your thoughts about how the future scares you and, instead, lean in and share a sweet kiss.  The morning could just pass you by but you don’t care.  You are so free in this moment that you never will let it go.  Not until that last breath crosses your lips and you heart beats its last tune. 

You know what I mean.

You just have to go there.  I can take you but you got to go in on your own.  It’s a personally thing that you have to do.  I’m telling you though, it’s a beautiful thing.  It’s like dreaming while wide awake.  It’s like giving up everything to that one person and having it done in return.  It’s comfortable.   You are so free.  Just follow me, it’s not too far from here.

But once you go in and then leave, you can never go back.  Once you leave that place… just… just go in and don’t leave.  It’s just across town.  I’ll take you.  Go disappear for a while.  You deserve it.

XVII (I do not love you...) by Pablo Neruda

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

A Walk on the Moon

My Love,

Take my hand

We shall dance among the stars tonight

Sing out into the ever expanding Universe

Take a saunter across the moon

Just you and I,

I and you

The stars performing their own light show

Tickling your eye lashes

While I caress your soft cheeks

Push aside your stunning hair

And kiss you until the sun rises up

Above the grey, dusty mountains

Kiss you until I forget my very own name

But never yours

Not you, my Love,

My only

Tonight we shall soar past the sun

Skate on Saturn’s rings

And swim through the Milky Way

Oh, you are truly beautiful tonight

And always.

You are more than my world

You are my Universe and beyond

We shall walk on the moon

And never turn back

Tonight, you are all mine.

Kill Me

Red water washes over my coarse hands.

Not too long ago
I used to imagine something different
          from this

I don't know what
It just was different
Like-
Something I used to know
I was someone I used to know

No one can see through the facade
the mask covers up too much of the truth
that floats face down with the river
taking the slow bends
riding the rising tide

A hallow hatred fills my lungs
not my heart
as I breath in a dream
and out the denial of everything that once was

Consider me broken

But I won't leave you
Like how you left me

I'll walk away slowly
looking back each half step
hoping that you'll call out for a hand
someone to pull you back from the edge

Even if you don't call,
Remember that I'm here
when it seems that I'm not




You used to love me





Our own lies have torn us apart.

I lift my head and walk away
unsure of how to feel
of how to think

God, this was so easy

Where has all of our time gone?
Is this what the rest of our lives are going to be like?

Sociology is teaching me that we wait around until the next best thing comes around
It's human nature
But you are the very best
and I don't want to wait

I just want you

Fuck it,
I want to give up everything and lay with you
everyday for every hour
to watch the sun rise and then fall
to feel your chest rise and then fall
to simply coexist

rather than watch everyday slip by like sand through my fingers

I am so tired of watching this life go by alone
but it's something that you'll never know

You've never enjoyed reading poetry,
so I doubt that you'd ever find this
but if you do,
just know that I will wait forever if I have to

I'll always be waiting,
hoping,
for you

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If You Forget Me

by Pablo Neruda

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine