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The Unsaid by Leila Scott
It Was Only Lust
I remember the first time I gave it all
Thought we were in love
But as I watched you hover over me
Your eyes became dark
It was like you had finally bought that toy
the one you had been begging for
but I sat on your shelf
Waiting for you to decide when
for when was it my turn
for you to play with me
As if I was just one ragdoll
in your abundant collection
every time you picked me
I thought we were in love
every time you wanted to play
I thought we were in love
I had one of those strings you could pull
And when you’d tug it
I’d repeat words and phrases
pretending to enjoy our playdates
But I wish you had never bought me in the first place
What is Yours is Not Mine
You gave me chills
Maybe it was the thrill that what I wanted couldn’t be mine
It was only a matter of time
That you’d begin to lie
I knew you couldn’t fall in love with me
Our dance would never be in sync
That we’d waltz right into our biggest enemy
That you would take all of me and you’d never give it back
And my love, you never did
You have all of me
Every version of me
You were my greatest symphony
I will search for you in every song I write
I will search for you in all the days sunlight
I still remember the nights
When you still held me tight
I’d trace our steps we laid across the floor
but that won’t happen anymore
Because I was fool
To think this rhyme would ever make you fall in love me
The Journey Around a Broken Heart
I never asked for the world
simply a glimmer of hope
that love was still written in the stars
and that we weren’t at the end of our rope
You let stars light up even the darkest parts of me
but I am who I am and not like the other girl you want me to be
I just wanted a taste of what everyone else swallowed
I would never be prepared for the feeling that followed
You left before I could and took everything that was good
I knew you could hurt me just not that you would
You’ll be the underlining thought
of every book of every plot
My heart still misses you
I still miss you
and I still look to the sky
thinking about what used to be mine
Wishing on all my lucky stars
because the moon is too far
to be the only thing we ever share again
I can’t say I still know you because a trip around the sun
is just too long of a run to still say that you’re the one
Those three hundred and sixty-five days are too long to say that you haven’t changed
but I still know your heart and that still remains
even if the light in your eyes has already begun to fade
A Daydreamers Nightmare
I was fed empty words
So much I could choke
On all the lies you wanted me to swallow
I believed promises that are now lost
Travelling down the road you left me on
Trying to find me
Maybe they would apologize
Maybe then I’d be free
I stripped for a lover
Who didn’t have it together
I undressed my heart
Naked, for the whole world to see my scars
You were my world
Don’t you see
But I wasn’t the one who satisfied all your needs
With your fingers in my mouth
and me saying please, don’t leave
I never believed
That you’d leave me down on my knees
Praying that you would come back for me
Tell me this is just a dream
Pretty Woman
I have fallen into a sea
These numbers like waves, they drown me
I have a bitter taste that comes from the hate
That a skinny waist is a goal I should make
To be a pretty woman, a pretty woman
It’s a heavy burden I cannot bare alone
Wash me up to shore I cannot swim on my own
My reflection in the water it taunts me
Flashing images of who I used to be
Curves engulf new places, let me be free
My failure to wiggle into a pair of jeans
These buttons unlatch releasing my self-esteem into a society that fed me articles that made me want to be 95 pounds by the age of thirteen
Pretty woman, souls of fire the ideals of this world trying to put us out but continue to ignite
Pretty woman, givers of life I know you are growing tired but do not become silent we have our rights
Let Me Have This Dance
I’ve waited too long for someone to sweep me off my feet
If this night is over by twelve
I know I may dwell
In what could have been
If I could let my heart stay a little longer
If I could grow up and be a little bit stronger
Maybe then I wouldn’t fear
Fear you, love, the light that might change my life
But I am scared and unprepared
I know that you and me
nothing could compare
I am not any other girl
If I can, I will change your world
Give me this once chance and let’s dance
Cue our song let’s dance all night long
let the music sound the floor
You could be my everything and more
If you don’t bore
of my wild heart and sensitivity that runs to my core
You Would Not Know, You Are Not Me
I said drink me up
Taste my pain
It’s the only way
You’ll know what it’s like to be hurt by you
You did not hear the lies
Soak in your dulcet words
Drown in your love
You don’t know what it is like to be loved by you
Once you decided to walk away I decided that
I would never be so selfish to ask you to stay
Because even though I need you I understand that you don’t need me
Even if it means that you must leave
I would never be so selfish to ask you to stay
Because you cannot convince someone that you are what’s best for them
And I cannot make you see how you changed me
And my love, can’t you see what your love has done to me?
When you swallow, do I taste bitter?
When those words reach your ear, do they bleed?
When you wade in the water, can you float?
I Cannot Watch You Leave
If I love you
Do I have to let you go?
But you make it so hard to let you go
My love
Can you see?
This broken heart
The way it bleeds
You’re the only one I need
I cannot be free
