Tuesday, June 16, 2020

a cool girl


a yes man
I listen to the type of music only you can relate to
for that particular time
to block out the screaming that surrounds
more often than not, the music exists and I do not
call me a cool girl
cause our playlists match
you’ve now aligned yourself to my path
so all I see are the scars on your face that’s too personal to talk about
lie to me with your tongue in my mouth
you’re a cool girl
someone who doesn’t do ‘love’ or ‘dating’
like these words have been burnt on your head
as a mark that screams not to go further
I’m a cool girl
cause I ‘vibe’ with you
I don’t give you issues of attachment
I set you free
I’m a cool girl, you don’t have to make romantic gestures to impress me
in your eyes, I’ve been impressed since the first time you told me I’m funny for a girl
you tell your friends I’m a cool girl
I’m effortless
like food being served to you but you never even said you were hungry
someone who doesn’t make a big deal when you mess up
I’m cool with anything, I’m an easy going person you can do anything to
as long as it’s inside the hotel room
where too many bodies had been entangled
all being a blur of what we could be, but decided not to
I’m a cool girl cause can crack a joke with your friends and not get offended
you have me today, you can choose not to tomorrow
and I’ll be fine with it
I’m a cool girl, you can tell me you like some other cool girl
and I accept it without drama
I’m a cool girl, so deep into being the way you want me to be
forgetting to understand who I am and will be
I’m a manifestation of your wishes
your validation keeps me happy
take away the ‘cool’, I have now become no one
and I will dissolve into the next cool girl in your life
I had never even existed in the first place
I’m nothing but a person you want me to be
until one day, you don’t.



-nn

Friday, June 12, 2020

if tomorrow


living with guilt, my presence makes me vomit
a shade of black 
I see it everywhere
mistakes up my sleeves
eyes dripping of salt
the tears have aged, they don’t see meaning to this anymore
I force out a sob
it’s been a tough day, but when hasn’t it?
the music has stopped, the instrument has gone
but the sounds remain
empty feeling crawling up to the neck
like waves on the beach, they’re coming towards me
if tomorrow I don’t wake up, don’t sing for me
the dead cannot listen
don’t write me a letter, the words are cheaper than lies
feel me, in your chest
an ache, a hollowness
I reside in you as a body of someone’s thoughts
it never left me, it’ll never leave you
until you go crazy from the pain
if tomorrow I don’t wake up
don’t get scared of my body
i’m just tired
my skin changing colours from overworking my mind
so vast it turned into the sea
the night sky has lost its meaning


-nn

Friday, April 24, 2020

red flag


Put a red flag in me
for my beating heart
pumping so loud
people can hear it
if they tried
To listen
put a red flag in front of me
for my eyes are blue
reflecting the waves
I have submerged myself into
there’s an anchor
that pulls me lower
lower
into the nothingness
and darkness
put a red flag on me
an abomination
too sensitive or too cruel
doesn’t talk
talks too much
my existence contradicting itself
I shouldn't be here
but I am
I exist so I live



-nn