Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Originally published online May 24, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

No More Seeing You Again by Melodie Yvonne

I don’t know what I want, but I know when I don’t want it
I’ve never been real good at make-believe, fake shit, and frontin’
I’ve never really been in love just know when someone wants me
And there’s really not too many to surprise or even stump me

I’m never really ever gonna know if we are over
All I really know is that I just can’t do this sober
And if I have to have something to numb away the pain
Then maybe it’s just time for no more seeing you again

I’ve never been the kind to be somewhere that I’m not wanted
Don’t want to be ignored, but also sick of being hunted
I don’t know what I want, but I’m quite sure that it’s not this
‘Cause the price is way too high for me to pay for just a kiss

I’m never really ever gonna know if we are over
All I really know is that I just can’t do this sober
And if I have to have something to numb away the pain
Then maybe it’s just time for no more seeing you again

I’m still not sure what falling is or maybe I’m just broken
Not sure if I’ve a heart left or a need to keep on hopin’
But maybe all I need is just to numb away the pain
So maybe it’s the time again for seeing you again

I’m never really ever gonna know if we are over
All I really know is that I just can’t do this sober
And if I have to have something to numb away the pain
Then maybe it’s just time for no more seeing you again

My friend, I guess it’s just the time for no more seeing you again
My dear, I guess it’s just the time for no more seeing you again
My love, I guess it’s just the time for no more seeing you again

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Originally published online May 21, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

Dead in My Head by Melodie Yvonne

Lost scraps of paper float through the wind
Wondering if I’ll ever see them again
Lost bits of memory flow through my mind
I try to forget and leave them behind
Your words fill my ears from inside my head
To listen again or leave them for dead
You’re just like my words that float through the air
Not looking back not stopping to care

Wanna be with you, but just in my head
My heart is just broken and left me for dead
You never heard the words that I said
My soul is all homeless, my body’s been bled

Landscapes fly by the windshield in my mind
I rev the engine then leave them behind
Try to steer clear of these spots that are blind
Moving my mirrors ‘til I change what I find
Try to speed up troubles stay right behind
With my one sided reflective memories mind
Tryin’ to erase all the bad I let in
But cleaning the mind doesn’t undo the sins

Wanna be with you, but just in my head
My heart is just broken and left me for dead
You never heard the words that I said
My soul is all homeless, my body’s been bled

Wanna be with you, but just in my head
My heart is all broken, just leave me for dead
You never heard the words that I said
Now your body is homeless ’cause my soul’s been bled
Now we are both soulless ‘cause we are both dead

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Originally published online May 20, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

My Hero by Melodie Yvonne

You are Superman, but I don’t need a lift
You are Captain America, but I’ve got the gift
You’re quick just like The Flash but you’re wasting all my time
And I just don’t need no more of yours, I’ve got too much of mine

You are Wonderboy, but I am Wonder Woman
And if we’re here together then who’ll be there to save them
You’re a super power but I’m just Switzerland
And it’s just too hard to pick a side, break walls, and let you in

You’re a firefighter, but I’m a firestarter
Each day that we’re together just gets hard, and then gets harder
You just sit all quiet as you listen and you learn
But I’m all sittin’ here just waiting for the world to burn

You are my Scott Summers, but I need my Wolverine
I need a little dirty, and you like to keep it clean
I’m waiting for my gambit, though, when all is said and done
And I wish you well, and hope at least you’ve had the mostest fun

Oh! You are Superman, but I don’t need a lift
You’re my Captain America, but I’ve got the gift
You’re quick just like The Flash, but you’re wasting all my time
And I just don’t need no more of yours, I’ve got too much of mine

Oh no, I just don’t need no more of yours, I’ve got too much of mine

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Originally published online May 13, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

I’m A Real Shell by Melodie Yvonne

Are you a real person, or are you just a shell?
Sent here from heaven, or sent straight from hell?
Will you take me with you to climb up this mountain,
Or leave me back down in the ditch where I cower down?

Are you a real person, or are you just a shell?
Don’t know you at all, or do I know you well?
Thinkin’ for sure time would kill all this wonder,
But right on back here I am crashing like thunder

Are you a real person, or are you just a shell?
Why do I give a shit? Why can’t I tell?
There’s gotta be somethin’ deep in me that’s fell
And I bury it deep so that no one can tell

Are you a real person, or are you just a shell?
Were you sent here to me from heaven or hell?
I just plain don’t care no more, now can you tell?
My bottomless pit of a heart’s not for sale

Are you a real person, or are you just a shell?
Sent here from heaven, or sent straight from hell?
Walked straight away hoping absence would fix me
But all I am doing is wonderin’ if you missed me

Are you a real person, or are you just a shell?
‘Cause I’m not a person now, buried as well
I’ve not been a person since that time that I fell
No longer a person, now I’m just a shell

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Originally published online May 10, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

“M” is for Migraine by Melodie Yvonne

Hormones and weather wreak havoc on me
Chop off my head it might set me free
If this keeps it up I’ll be a disgrace
‘Cause I’m walking around missin’ half of my face

Belly is twisted and making me squeamish
Your odor ails me somehow worse than appearance
If I had a match I think I’d ignite you
And take out this odious thing you give life to

“M” is for migraine, and “I” is in pain
“G” is for gouging, “R” roots my brain
“A” is for agony, “I”, “N”, insane
And “E” is for everything making me lame

All of these muscles are tense in my neck
Well, of course, only half as I bet you could guess
I’m walking around sticking chemicals in me
Knowing damn well it’s a mask and won’t fix me

Running away sometimes fixes my problem
But just like the rest it works short then gets sodden
And when it comes back it’s doubled in strength
Like a real angry Bruce sittin’ right on the brink

“M” is for migraine, and “I” is in pain
“G” is for gouging, “R” roots my brain
“A” is for agony, “I”, “N”, insane
And “E” is for everything making me lame

I sit in the dark and I pray for a savior
My head is just wrecked, but my soul signed a waiver
And now there is only me left that can fix me
If I’ve been forgiven then why have you jinxed me?

“M” is for migraine, and “I” is in pain
“G” is for gouging, “R” roots my brain
“A” is for agony, “I”, “N”, insane
And “E” is for everything making me lame
“E” is for everyone causing me pain
“E” can fuck off when it rains in my brain
“E” can fuck off when it rains

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Originally published online April 28, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

I Run by Melodie Yvonne

I run ‘cause I think if I’m smooth enough I can run into your arms
I smile ‘cause I think if I’m cute enough I’ll win you with my charms
But all I really know is what you make me see
That my special kinda crazy’s not as fucked as it could be

I run ‘cause I think if I’m same enough you might run right back to me
I want you by my side but when you’re here I just want free
I love your every wrinkle, I swim in your big eyes
But I know that you can hurt me ‘cause I’m beggin’ for your lies

I run from you like clockwork as you run right through my mind
I run from you while prayin’ you are runnin’ right behind
I run around just like a foolish chicken with no head
And I run around all crazy lookin’ way too far ahead

I run ‘cause I think if I stop too long I’ll realize what I’ve done
I run ‘cause I know if I stand too still I’ll hate what I’ve become
But mostly I just run from what you told me not to be
When you said don’t settle down, dear, or you’ll end up just like me

Don’t ever settle down, dear, or you’ll end up just like me

I run

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Originally published online April 27, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

Falling Up by Melodie Yvonne

Don’t turn me on, I won’t shut off
Melodramatic more often than not
Too much passion’s all I got
Apathetic I am not

Take more shit than all you got
Get back up is what I was taught
White lies save your heart a lot
But truth is all I’ve ever sought

When I look up into the sky
I let go all your stupid lies
Stayin’ high to get me by
‘cause this whole world just makes me cry

Can’t turn you on, you won’t shut off
Melodramatic more often than not
Too much passion’s all you got
Apathetic you are not

Take more shit than all I got
Get back up is what you was taught
White lies save my heart a lot
But truth is all you’ve ever sought

When you look up into the sky
you let go all my stupid lies
Stayin’ high to get you by
‘cause this whole world just makes you cry

Don’t turn us on, we won’t shut off
Melodramatic more often than not
Too much passion’s all we got
Apathetic we are not

Take more shit than all they got
Get back up is what we was taught
White lies save their hearts a lot
But truth is all we’ve ever sought

When we look up into the sky
we let go all their stupid lies
Stayin’ high to get us by
‘cause this whole world just makes us cry

Stayin’ high to get us by
‘cause this whole world’s just one big lie
Stayin’ high to get us by
‘cause all we are is one big lie

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Originally published online April 25, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

See Me For Me by Melodie Yvonne

See me for the me I am when I am all alone
See not just the me I was, but see the me that’s grown
Don’t just love me for the things you think that I could be
Love me for me even when I’m lost and I can’t see

Don’t put me on a pedestal ’cause I’ll just fall right off
Don’t elevate me for all of these things that I am not
Just leave me down on level ground so you can look and see
Just what I am and all the little things that make me me

See me for the me I am when I am all alone
See not just the me I was but see the me that’s grown
Don’t just love me for the things you think that I could be
Love me for me even when I’m scared and I can’t breathe

Don’t flatter me with compliments, I’ve heard them all before
I guess the thing I’m looking for is just a little more
And I can’t take this constant passionless dull apathy
You gotta find your happiness, it can’t all come from me

See me for the me I am when I am all alone
See not just the me I was, but see the me that’s grown
Don’t just love me for the things you think that I could be
Love me for me just enough to know to set me free

Oh please love me just enough to know you need to set me free

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Originally published online April 17, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

Time Is Fleeting by Melodie Yvonne

Time is fleeting, you’re mistreating all I have to give
The way you steal my minutes is a menace I forgive
You think that you’re all busy, busy is as busy does
And you just can’t see that I’ve not got the time to call this love
I’m walking ’round in circles almost every single day
And I’m counting down the moments ‘til this all just goes away

Stealing all my minutes just to love me every second
Doesn’t mean you get me and it doesn’t mean you get it
So one day I will walk away and we will be no more
And I pray by then you’ve taken all you need from me and more

Time is fleeting and you’re reading too much into things
I’m reigning fool and made the rules in all your foolish games
It’s not a fight it’s just my life and you’re not fitting in it
My heart’s just not for sale and there’s no wager left to win it
I settle in the solace of your arms most every day
But this apathetic settling is what’s pushing me away

Stealing all my minutes just to love me every second
Doesn’t mean you get me and it doesn’t mean you get it
So one day I will walk away and we will be no more
And I pray by then you’ve taken all you need from me and more

Time is fleeting and it’s almost time for me to end this
The road is closed, I’ve lit the bridge, and we have neared the finish
It’s time to see me now for what I am when I am with you
A trophy mate, a secret fate, a backdoor bugaboo
Now I confess that we were blessed and got the best we needed
But now it’s time to walk away and let me have my freedom

Stealing all my minutes just to love me every second
Doesn’t mean you get me and it doesn’t mean you get it
So one day I will walk away and we will be no more
And I pray by then you’ve taken all you need from me and more
Yes I pray by then you’ve taken all you need from me and more
Oh I pray by then you’ve taken all you need from me and more

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