elainelorriemartin

[elainelorriemartin]

if you don’t fall in love with the contagious laugh

or a smile hidden upon my face

if it’s not the way my feet always find their way to a toasty space

how about how your coziest pillow is my ember embrace?

then i’m surely not the one for you,

just a “great girl” standing in their place

so to make this about me for once

i wish i took less kindly to someone allowing their actions to validate the thought i could be replaced

as quickly i may rescind access to my truth..

though likely accompanied by a fumbling, saddened sort of grace

—e.l. martin

#3:28 PM PST / 20231222 #little words on little pages #original poem

[elainelorriemartin]

one look in your eyes i know

with you i’d like to grow

but which parts do you have left to show

what parts can’t i know

how far do i have to go

to have you allow me a glance

i wish to show you

as i wish to see you

whole, all there is is you

all i wish to feel is you

is this you?

is this really who you are?

truly? (p.1)

—e.l. martin

#9:25 PM PST / 20231125 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

i’d rather be told

‘you did it wrong’

than be told

‘you are wrong’

give me the room to imagine right exists

—e. l. martin

#3:24 PM PST / 20231006 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

for me

a hand that only ever reaches

never to touch

is worse than a hand who touches

without reaching

i’d rather skip some steps

than never have your finger tips brush mine

—e. l. martin

#3:20 PM PST / 20241006 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

human, you’re trying

human, it’s all you’re made for

—e. l. martin

#8:03 PM PST / 20230930 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

i will do what i feel

and not what i know

just don’t stop reaching out your hand

for mine to hold

—e. l. martin

#11:12 AM PST / 20231001 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

i adjust quickly

to you being next to me

a warming

to you being away

a cooling

to myself needing to self-warm again

just incase you don’t mean for me to ice

i will fight off the frost bite

i will thaw before i freeze

i will keep my eyes closed to enjoy the gentle breeze

and if you are cooling

i will share my warmth

and if i can’t hold us up

if you want it to fall

i’ll give you what you wish for

nothing at all

—e. l. martin

#11:05 AM PST / 20231001 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

i’m trusting

things are evolving as they’re meant to

i trust you’ll leave

if you’re meant to

—e. l. martin

#2:54 PM PST / 20230930 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

i have an excuse

many in fact

to turn out wrong

and i have an excuse

to turn out right-ish

many, in fact

—e. l. martin

#8:58 PM PST / 20230920 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

for the first time

i don’t want to

“fall in love with life a little more”

i want my blankets

to swallow me whole

to not have the responsibility

of being a ‘good person’

whatever that means

i want to scream at you

i want to argue

i want to plead our case

i want you to know

that i’m crying

inspite of acting strong

through a text message

—e. l. martin

#2:09 PM PST / 20230920 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

i never felt

people were lacking

before i’d even spotted a flag

always humans have

been so beautiful to me

i could fall into any

kind hand or gentle smile

but right now

i think you broke me

open a little more

than i once was the day

before.

and i’m so angry at you for it.

—e. l. martin

#7:05 PM PST / 20230919 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

i’m tired of people saying they

miss me

when they don’t

saying they

want me

when they don’t

—e. l. martin

#4:33 PM PST / 20230919 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

maybe

‘goodbye’

is all we were meant

to be.

i hope we get

a good ‘bye’

—e. l. martin

#8:39 PM PST / 20230917 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

i don’t know

maybe it was wrong

of me to backtrack

but i figured

when you found someone

you just knew

maybe all i knew

was that i was lonely

—e. l. martin

#6:48 AM PST / 20230917 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

i want to write about you

and i know i just have

but this chapter has to be about me

when i talk to you

it feels like it still is

—e. l. martin

#12:28 PM PST / 20230927 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

thank you for waiting

for giving me memories

of who you are

of who you chose to be

/ who you chose to abandon being

—e. l. martin

#12:40 PM PST / 20230927 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections

[elainelorriemartin]

you leaving

was the best / worst thing

that could have happened to us

better a light be burnt out

than be shattered by a faulty socket

—e. l. martin

#12:37 PM PST / 20230927 #original poem #poetry #poem #micropoetry #written word #thoughts #reflections