shannennicole

[shannennicole]

Better days

The ground has started cracking beneath me.

Sometimes i lose my footing,

but other times i am forced to stand and feel the world trembling beneath me.

Trying so hard to stay standing.

Sometimes i just want to fall to the ground.

Maybe even slip between the cracks to disappear for a while.

It’d be a nice break from the constant roar of everything around me.

Maybe beneath the world is a less chaotic one.

Sometimes if i get a peek between the cracks in the ground, i see sunshine and even some green grass.

Other times i wonder if i see the twinkle of a fire.

My nose sometimes even burns from the smell of smoke.

Whatever it is it seems to be taunting me.

A saccharine promise of better days.

I think one of these days i might accidentally fall in.

-S.N

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[shannennicole]

i mean yeah i want you. but in a “i want the old you” kind of way. i want the you that i fell in love with. not this new person im not even sure i recognize. you’ve left and come back different. and not a good different. god i want the old you back. pls come back.

-S.N

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[shannennicole]

woman

-a poem about out growing people.-

I might not be here when you get back.

Maybe in a physical sense.

But that girl you left that day, sitting worrying about you…

She is gone.

Some people you just can’t save.

That girl waited so long for you.

This woman is here now.

If you come back to me,

will you have the heart to take who i’ve become?

Who i’ve turned into without you?

-S.N

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[shannennicole]

Intuition

And when the rain settles,

and all seems to go quiet for just a few moments,

only one thing remains on my mind.

You are what i think of after the storm.

You are the calm i so badly crave.

My heart knows things that i don’t think my mind has figured out quite yet.

Because the feeling that radiates from my chest is nothing less than what i’d imagine being in love feels like.

So when the rain settles,

and all seems to go quiet for just a few moments,

its clear that it’s you.

And it’s always going to be you.

S.N

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[shannennicole]

Ugly black moths

When I’m with you I feel the familiar flutter of butterflies in my stomach.

When I think of what we are or what we aren’t the little creatures beg to be acknowledged.

I smile a little at their presence.

Knowing that they are there for you and me.

But as quickly as my smile forms, it fades.

And I come to a more sinister realization as the flutter becomes more of a pounding.

I cringe at the thought that troubles me.

I know I am right.

The butterflies aren’t fluttering about.

They are not happy for us.

They are trying to escape.

They are trying to get out of me.

To warn me.

To plead with me not to do this.

To not let this happen again.

But I did.

So they flutter.

No not flutter.

Pound.

They pound until there is no boundary between them and the outside world.

My skin screams as they come blistering out.

No butterflies in sight.

These were pestering, ugly black moths.

I could hear them begging me to just see what was in front of me.

There were never butterflies in my stomach.

But sweet ugly black moths coming to warn me.

To show me exactly what your heart looks like.

They tell me it resembles an ugly black moth.

S.N

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[shannennicole]

S

The world must’ve seemed so dull before your existence.

When you took your first breath the sun began to shine just a little brighter.

Your entire being could light up the darkness of our universe.

Every star, planet and moon, outshone by your lustrous presence.

You are the very light that many people dream of.

My scintillating boy.

You shine so brightly in this very complex world.

-S.N

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[shannennicole]

My art !!!

(Recently I’ve been doing a lot of digital drawing,

so I wanna share some of that here :p!)

If you see this, let me know which ones are your fav pls! I’m very proud of the blueberries and very random egg hehe :))!

-S.N

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[shannennicole]

I feel with a heart and a half.

I feel so much and with so much power,

that I would not be surprised if I began to grow another heart.

One isn’t big enough.

For I have loved too hard and too much for that to be possible.

-S.N

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[shannennicole]

Broken pieces

If I were to break into a million different pieces,

scattered amongst the grass, flowers and Earth's creatures,

it would tell a lot more about me than if I were whole.

On display would be parts of me, even I had forgotten.

The deepest, I'd hidden from myself.

Not even on purpose.

All of me, would be as bare as a newborn, taken as I am.

There would be no hiding anymore.

Not even from myself.

S.N

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[shannennicole]

Healing

"we start healing by telling the truth."

To reach up to the very top shelf of your cluttered closet.

And to grab all of the bags that you tucked away a long time ago.

The ones that are full of what actually happened.

Full of the truth.

And by unpacking them, you will start to heal.

The enemies.

The injustices.

The fact that you were doing your best with what you knew.

You weren't a bad person you were just 14.

And 15.

And 16.

And so on.

No one gave you an instruction manual on how to handle this life.

So give yourself some grace.

That includes past, present, and future you.

-S.N

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-S.N

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[shannennicole]

-S.N

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-S.N

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-S.N 🫶🏼

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-S.N

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[shannennicole]

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