a_failed_compliment unhinged when it's 2am and you can't think of anything else to say she's in your arms crying and you see the scars and it's one of those situations where it's obvious words are needed but the right ones won't come and the silence is intolerable and she turns to look at you and walks out the door 010210 ... birdmad when the words she spoke were meant to assuage the damage she had done, but in their emptiness came out as sounding as much like an insult as the betrayal itself 010211 ... florescent light When your heart wants to burst with all the beauty he brings, but all you can manage to sputter out is 'Hi'. 010211 ... johnny west When you know that, whatever it is you have to say, the recipient isn't interested. The words die before they leave your lips. Because all words are futile. 010310 ... Inanna The last insult that I received was a compliment. It is all in how you perceive. The irrational insult reflected the insulter more than it ever could me. 010828 ... MollyCule "don't you feel like a pretty cow?" 010829 ... starved every one of them that came from my mouth, it seemed... that and every glancing touch of my fingertips against her this comes as no surprise 010905 ... sandy a bird disoriented bashing its head again and again against the window glass must learn that for those who love not, to be loved signifies nothing beyond a senselessness of the constant knocking on the pane. 011111 ... ClairE It is all turned around, because now he is too young to understand, and I might as well shoved him further down the slide. 031219 ... misstree i hope you don't realize how many purrs i hold back, because we are aloof by necessity. i know you don't believe me when i say you're among the best, but you at least glean some compliment from it. you don't understand and i don't know how to tell you--you're the one i keep bringing back to my bed, you're the bliss and release i crave most. but i can't tell you, because when people say things like that it usually means that they want to keep you, when really all i want is to be on your mind sometimes, on your hips sometimes, in your thrall sometimes. leave the rest of the times to me; i know how to fill them. trust me just enough to let me call you lover, and i'll do the driving. let us use eachother and take nothing. it's what we do best and enjoy most. 031219 ... silentbob "That shirt looks good on you because it makes you look thinner." 031219 ... x most any aimed in my direction 031219 ... crimson I yelled that he was beautiful as I ran down the hall and all he did was glare. 031227 ... that whatever over there i guess sometimes the value of the complement depends on the comparative worth of the sender 041208 what's it to you? who go blather from