Paper Doors

By TaLisa

Paper Doors is a book that reaches into the depths and dark corners of love and life. TaLisa fills the pages with a startling amount of the unsaid in love and loss. She pushes the boundaries of these themes and certainly manages to splatter a few hearts across the page.

Paper Doors boldly explores the emotions we all find it difficult to acknowledge internally, let alone verbalise. It will take you through a roller coaster of emotions from the knowing smirk that creeps upon your lips though to the hot flow of tears on your pink cheeks. It has the power to lower your defenses and urge your vulnerability as it inspires you not to go a moment longer without telling someone the whispers of your heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Jul 6, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503506534

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Copyright © 2015 by TaLisa.

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Rev. date: 06/15/2015

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Contents

Incomplete Rooms

White Flight

What I Know

What Am I?

Us to Me

Torn Pages

Throwing Away Diamonds

The Start of Our Forever

The Paper Door

This Modern War

The Growth

The Engine Room Was Empty

Strong – True

Speaking in Silence

Soak Me Back to Life

Show Me

Quintessential

Needles, Ink, and Soul

Leather

Inspiration

I Do Not Understand

Heels and Stockings

Excruciating

Evol

Competing Times

Blue and Green

A Sentence to Finish

A Quick Glance Back

Apart from Together

A Note

A Memory

A Mallet

Always Silver

The Hidden Room

Way Down

The Sun Still Rises

Time and Place

Tigers Wake

This Way

The Music

The Drama Finds Us

She Is

My Rain of Pain

Please No

Love on Cardboard Signs

Jealous

It Must Uncover You

Ingredients

In a Breath

Ignore Me Once

Fernweh

Explore

Don’t Save Me

Don’t Get to the Point

Design

Bondage

Before You Go

Tiger Lily’s Room

When Answers Are Not Answers

We Seek Unknowingly

Today I’m with You – That Is All

This Feeling

Swimming with My Broken Hearts

Song No. 2

Old Frenemy

Need Me

My Memory Owns Me

Long Lashes

Just a Night

I Understand

Houses Don’t Find Me

Gathering Direction

Gap

For H

Fences

Fall in Love with Pain

Eyes Ablaze

Doors Bursting Open

Decorate

Conversation of Emotions No. 1

Confidence and Humility

Cogitated Love

Apples with Apples

Anorexic Dreams

A Little Journey

Now You Know

This, my first book, is for me – I did it.

Incomplete Rooms

White Flight

Up to the heavens on pure white wings,

surrounded by nothing but beautiful things,

is my heart, when the church bells ring,

and all together, Amazing Grace we sing.

What I Know

I will always care for you.

When we are apart, and we’ve gone our separate ways; just know I will always care for you.

It is rare and beautiful – just having someone like that cross your path, someone who gets you, cares for you, supports you, and laughs with you right from the start.

I cannot deny, whatever happens there is a part of my life tied to you, and that part is part of me, so it will always be.

What Am I?

It beats, it moves, it grows,

a love born it begins to flow,

it challenges me to show,

myself past lessons I now know.

The bits that normally scare,

just feel everyday I’m aware,

far from others’ fanfare,

is this comforting feeling I bare.

Us to Me

This pain it moves around me,

inside it grabs and shakes me,

the dark clouds it brings within me,

the air is thick it chokes me.

A pain that slowly suffocates,

within the life it begins to take,

it makes eyes hot and tears wait,

the prick that begins their fate.

I don’t like how this is going,

life was tense, an unknowing,

but moving forward also strangles,

and so we dance, emotions tangle.

This pain of change I endure,

it hurts, it cuts, but I am more,

to get to the point where it no longer strikes,

where it just is, no longer my life.

Torn Pages

In the tear of life you will find me.

I am here but not to see.

Throwing Away Diamonds

I don’t know many chances that aren’t taken.

Unfortunately, they aren’t the chances of success; they are the chances of false hopes and inane dreams.

The hope of a stranger.

The conjured image of perfection we project, mixed intoxicatingly with all our desires manifested.

We aren’t available but we are beyond tempted.

We are weak.

Judgement is blind.

We take, plucking the apple right from the tree; the