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55 · Feb 2020
Overload
Ayn Feb 2020
The sixteen bit
Integer variable
“intParityHandler”
Has had an overflow error.

I could always
Enlarge its capacity,
But what if
There’s not enough
R  o  o  m
In my mind
to do so.
Think like a programmer, and you can even hate the way you think more!
55 · Mar 2020
L’s
Ayn Mar 2020
Love
Lies
Little thoughts
Lingering doubts
Living in a lovey drought.

Love escalating, but
Lies pervading through
Little cracks
Lingering of a broken foundation,
Living in this silkily scripted silence,

And hiding from the moonlight.
L’s as in Love and Lies. To me, it seems like lovers keep a **** ton of secrets from each other. I don’t wanna engage in another relation full of lies, especially with one so close.
****. That. ****.
55 · Feb 2020
Specter
Ayn Feb 2020
He appeared in the dead of night,
A specter emanating the deathly ice
And he stole out from all entities, a light.
Now the world was dark and cold, a paid price.
The ebon fauna was forever a blight,
Now the night had come, and death to its right.
Just read The Masque of The Red Death. That’s where my inspiration lies.
55 · Apr 2020
Fall
Ayn Apr 2020
I wake up in the morning
Feeling oh so ******* fine
Wanting to carve my soul out with a knife.

Everyone sits dark and empty,
But I’m still light and so **** full of strife.

In an endless battle between my ungrateful heart and soul
I’m starting to lose sight of this god forsaken life.
Written and tuned to a happy acoustic song. I can’t sing for the life of me, but it’s done in a happy voice.
55 · Sep 2020
Untitled
Ayn Sep 2020
The little widow’s weeping
Stopped my heart from beating.

The hourglass branded up on its spine,
Signaling the end of my time.

A teardrop stains my arm,
But that’s just the venom in my souls.
55 · May 2020
Untitled
Ayn May 2020
Swirling drops of screeching chalk
Memories left untouched.
Life unwound,
And a life better left in the ground.
Too many emotions to write, so I’m taking a break for a while.
55 · Feb 2020
What to Love of Oneself
Ayn Feb 2020
Today,
Another day in the line,
Another line in time,
And another time
In an era.

On this day,
I felt I needed to start
My active application
Of the concept of self love.

I love my 1.5 month streak
Of no self harm.

Let’s go for two items!

I love my 1/2 month span
Void of suicidal thoughts.

I wonder when
The streak and span
Will come to a close.
54 · Sep 2020
Untitled
Ayn Sep 2020
If there’s an edge above the waves,
I’ll fall fast and hard.

In my twisted world of love,
There’s no room for elegant dives.
54 · May 2020
Trust
Ayn May 2020
Trust is a two way handshake
Both parties have to want to shake hands to shake hands properly.
54 · May 2020
Notepad 7
Ayn May 2020
Remember,
You’re awesome.

Who you ask?

You! The person reading this.

Now don’t forget that!
We are all awesome because we are all ourselves. These times have been trying and are most definitely uncertain, but I think we’ll make it through, together.
54 · Sep 2020
Untitled
Ayn Sep 2020
Needles working into my throat,
As alarm bells ring through my ears.

A softly falling drop of liquid air
Dispersed into the vacuum of space.

If no place exists for me to breathe,
Then I’ll choke on the music.
I’ll end the show before the final dance,
And let the curtains close,
Bringing closure to my contract with life.
54 · Feb 2020
Double Time
Ayn Feb 2020
Beating hearts
Lined up in parallel.
A growing passion
That will never die.
A life is gained
On a converged route,
But the separate routes
Drop in priority.

Three roads running in parallel.
Two eventually stop, leaving
One road to move until the world’s edge.
Hearts beat double-time. There are two muscles that beat almost at the same time. You can feel it if you check your pulse.
53 · Mar 2020
LampLit
Ayn Mar 2020
Broken street lamps
Scattering luminous dust
Along the chalky sidewalk.

The particles fly
And the phantoms fall.

The light summons radiance
And the darkness casts its shadows.
I have no idea where the idea came from.
53 · Feb 2020
Consolation
Ayn Feb 2020
Don’t worry
It’s just water,
Flowing under
This bridge of yours.
You’re up here,
The water won’t hurt.
Unless you jump.
But one
Should never
Find themselves
On the edge of a bridge.

So please,
Step down.
I wish someone told me this when I walked along my local bridge’s 3.5 foot barrier. But I came down myself. Somehow.
53 · Apr 2020
without intent
Ayn Apr 2020
It always seems to me
that the closer I get,
the more I dull.

A dull blade
is more dangerous
than a sharp one.
It always seems that it's my **** insensitivity that hurts others. After not being able to connect with any emotion from others or even feel any within myself for 4 years, I still find it hard to ascertain what others feel, so I end up taking up the wrong tendencies, saying the wrong words. All of these little things hurt people and the closer I get, the less I notice it, the less sharp I become to their pain, and I hurt them even more. Sometimes I wish I could drop this entire connection to people once more. It would make things much easier. I could then fake everything because I don't feel anything and that would be fine because I wouldn't feel any guilt. But I can't.
53 · May 2020
incorrect output
Ayn May 2020
An incorrect output
to the anger built up over the day.
I wish I could apologize,
but the window just may
have already closed.

I should take back what I say
once in a while.
I'm sorry. I really am.
53 · Jan 2020
Grabbed By The Shirt.
Ayn Jan 2020
There’s a helping hand
That holds me back
From doing what I desire...

Like asking for help.
Oh god, it is all too many times where I’ve stopped myself from doing stuff... things even as simple as saying hi to anyone.
52 · Jan 2020
Sheltering
Ayn Jan 2020
I know I’m Li’l late,
My love’s just a dying shield
That shelters my hate.
Input a but after ‘late’ and before ‘my’. Just my passing thought I had as the bags under my eyes grew... saggier i guess...
52 · Mar 2020
Staring Star
Ayn Mar 2020
A star so bright
I could not hold my gaze,
She brought to much light,
And my mind’s in a daze

He put my mind in a fight
And set my logic a’blaze.
Now I’m lost on what is right
Because of this love filled haze.

Love is a maze,
Both she and he
proved this fact to me.
I tried writing my mind out. “he” actually refers to two different people, one I liked in a romantic sense, and the other one I despise for somewhat unreasonable reasons.
52 · Mar 2020
Firey Mask
Ayn Mar 2020
A cloak was drawn over his shoulders,
And set aflame, flickering in the passing wind.
He grabbed his mask of flame,
And set out to take in his name.

A house was on fire,
And death needed to take those lives,
Quenching the water
That flowed from their eyes.
I tried to write.
52 · Feb 2020
Eve of Clarity
Ayn Feb 2020
Under the stars,
two souls become one.
Some may say
that they were star-crossed,
but I say that the stars
ran in tender parallel.

There are innumerable lines in the sky;
you may see a line cutting their fate,
but I see the lines running side by side,
and know that a red thread stitched this date.
Not about the action of "becoming one" more about a confession between two lovers who were oblivious to the other's feelings. You know, Romeo and Juliet is not really a tragedy, they got to meet each other in hell.
52 · Feb 2020
Resistance
Ayn Feb 2020
Starting the journey
Is far harder than the trek.
Just as finding a reason
To leave my covers
Each draining morning,
I have to strive and strain
To find a reason to start
On this journey.
I want to continue reading “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe, but I don’t know whyI can’t start it. I really enjoy it so far.
52 · Jan 2020
Windy Times
Ayn Jan 2020
The wind moves like a whip,
As if making way for a storm.
The field, a dull golden amber,
Leans to one side in the fiery weather.

The wind pulls me away from myself,
Freezing my saddened body,
But releasing my tortured soul,
Pulling to the healing grounds
That I consider this field to be.
The field is really nice.
51 · Feb 2020
Slop - 2
Ayn Feb 2020
Whenever I have an exchange
with this quiet friend,
I can't help my incessant urge
to tease him once again.

His reactions lighten my mind,
and bloom flowers in my soul.

It is not a romantic attraction,
but he helps remove the dark,
a welcome distraction.
This is why I don't like love. I know I don't love him like I have liked other people (men and women) but I don't know what exactly these emotions are, they may or may not even be love tho. Same dude from the original Slop poem.
51 · Apr 2020
Notepad 1
Ayn Apr 2020
How many days
Will I be able to do this
Without failing?

And how long
Will it take
To dust off the old books
Lying on my mind’s shelves?
Let’s do a daily thing now I guess.
51 · Mar 2020
Doormat
Ayn Mar 2020
How could I show you the door
When you’re the one
that picked my heart up off the floor?
51 · Apr 2020
Stolen
Ayn Apr 2020
Maybe the ghost
Will come to my door
And he too,
Will become a thief
And steal my life away.
Hopes for the future from the past. And probably present. I’m an *** who stole and destroyed more than his heart.
51 · Jan 2020
Corruption
Ayn Jan 2020
As things continue to stand
In this land of the eternally ******,
theres no more room for an honest man.
51 · Jan 2020
Pun
Ayn Jan 2020
Pun
I lay in my bed,
In the aftermath of
That...

After a quick nap,
I wake only to find
Myself chained down,
Unable to move.

My sloth sin
Consumed me,
Leaving no active
Pieces untouched.

So I lay,
And I ponder
My wandering mind.

I think to myself
“If I lay here long enough,
Could I get laid?”
And
“If I sat in a puddle of
My own **** for long enough
Would my leg disintegrate?”
Both answers are probably no,
But...
You never ever could know.
Yes. This is what my mind is doing to me now. I only want to figure out what happened but my mind is saying “no, *******.”
51 · Jan 2020
Disillusionment
Ayn Jan 2020
There were no lies
That could have
Choked me with
Their rose vines.
There was only truth,
A simple matter
Of a wild week.
The golden fountain
Of glorious euphoria
Wells up in me again,
Donating vitality
To my dying soul.
The illusion I had was that there were lies in the air. Me getting exited over small things again though.
50 · Jan 2020
Reflection of the Soul
Ayn Jan 2020
Her face,
a moonlit visage
shone more light
upon my life;
upon my soul,
than the
solitary moon
ever could.
Yeah... another dumb, lovestruck teen. I wrote this while trying to write something that was more descriptive of the night reflected in this poem.
50 · Jan 2020
Knowledge
Ayn Jan 2020
Knowledge is power.
If it’s a sin, then I’ll be
A drug lord in hell.
Hit me hard when writing the previous poem. Also a drug lord is the first thing that came to mind with evil powerful jobs.
50 · Feb 2020
Elevation
Ayn Feb 2020
With each click;
Each turn of the wheel,
This chamber elevates,
Moving betwixt
The omnipotent clouds
Without a single groan;
A single fearful moan,
In the face of these forms.

Sitting inside this elevator,
I wonder
When will the line break?
When will I fall into death’s open arms,
And view his cold visage on wake?
It’s about an elevator.
50 · May 2020
Movement
Ayn May 2020
When shall this fast world,
Stuck in a lasting stasis,
Start to move again?
I wonder if I’ll have a ponytail by the time barbershops open again. My hair’s longer than it’s ever been.
50 · May 2020
Untitled
Ayn May 2020
Amongst a storm,
Inside the raging current,
Iridescent light
Shines once again.

Things are going
To be all right.
49 · Feb 2020
Invocation
Ayn Feb 2020
I call myself a writer
Yet I’ve never made another cry
With the pieces I’ve written.
I’ve seen looks of disgust,
And those of disappointment,

But how does one invoke
The emotions felt in that moment
In the hearts and minds of the literate?

I want to create tears from one’s eyes,
Let the warm water streak a path,
And then send a fearful shiver
Up their chilled spine,
And freeze those beads of water
Into spikes of ice.

Maybe a boiling rage can follow,
And dissipate those trailing tears.

But when all is said and all is done,
Others spike emotion.

I spike none.
I realized that I’ve never seemed to have the same effect on others with my writing as others’s work has had an effect on me. Sometimes, there’s more to believing than seeing though, so I’ll hope that somewhere, sometime, I’ll invoke the intended emotion into someone.
49 · Jan 2020
Lightening
Ayn Jan 2020
Struck dead awake
Then pushed off to sleep
As my knife stabs my side
And I silently weep.

My suffering continues
But the emotion dissolves
Like a drop of milk
Inside of an amber marsh.
“It will see me tomorrow,
But for now,” I thought,
“I’ll bid it a good rest.”
True story. I was falling asleep but rolled onto my open pocket knife which I had forgot to close after cutting myself ten minutes prior. My friend is never gonna let me live that one down...
49 · Apr 2020
Lost
Ayn Apr 2020
What’s lost
Shall be missed,
Held dear,
And close.

But remember:

The lost
Can be found,
The broken
Can be repaired.

The only true dead
Are the ones lost
From heart,
And mind.
49 · Jan 2020
Fight or Flight
Ayn Jan 2020
Just another fleeting instinct
That hops from one event,
One minuscule instance in this
Perpetually flowing spring of time,
To the next.
I considered renaming it The Big Picture, but then the poem’s context wouldn’t make sense. Does anyone else name their poems before writing them or am I just weird?
49 · Jan 2020
Perversion of Poetry
Ayn Jan 2020
I know I swear a lot,
And many think it’s ******.
Sure words have power,
But who gave them the power?

You.

And.

Me.

We gave words power,
And I gave them less power than you,
These words are ways to express myself;
Showing how things **** me off too,
Not words to used to destroy poetry.

I thank you for your time.
That last line... it’s stayin’ because it’s necessary, but it’s kinda awkward.
48 · Mar 2020
Winter hands
Ayn Mar 2020
If close hearts really do warm the cold,
May I steal your summery heart of gold?
48 · May 2020
notepad 8 (I think...)
Ayn May 2020
As paper falls,
the wind is blown.
The life once held in this sole book
is now spread across the land,
free to follow the wind.
48 · Mar 2020
Risen
Ayn Mar 2020
Do you know why
The sun has yet to fall?

Will you retry
When you are left to crawl?

Inside your eyes
A light shines down the hall.

Now look in mine,
You’ll find no light at all.


Are you to fly
When I fly from fear?

Hey, please don’t die
So just persevere

No, please don’t cry
I won’t leave you here.

Give life a try
‘Cause I hold you dear
Kind of a song, I guess. The first part follows a 4-6 couplet rule thing (4 syllables, 6 syllables), 4 should have an “I” ending, 6 should have an “all” ending. The second part is 4-5 couplet rule thing, 4, again, ends in “I”, while 5 ends in an “ear” ending. Kapeesh? Kapeesh. (Another way I say “Got it? Got it.”)
Oh yeah, forgot, thanks to Caleb for the idea of writing a song.
48 · Feb 2020
Foundation
Ayn Feb 2020
Why not cement
the foundation of our world
on something as flimsy
as the petal of an iris?

Why not live a life
where we perceive
the fallacies of ourselves
above the undeniable truth.

Why not compare
every aspect of our beings
to those who stand above us.

Why should we not
just look into each other's eyes,
and smile, happy with our world?
"he had cemented the foundation of his world upon something as light as a fairy's wing." From The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald. I think that's how the quote went.
47 · May 2020
Silence
Ayn May 2020
Why should I speak,
If your flawless voice
resonates with the earth?
Why disrupt
The unparalleled song?
Your voice is the glassen sky,
To shatter the flow
Would surely be a crime.
When they wanted me to unmute myself, so they sang a song about it.
47 · Feb 2020
Silently Pierced
Ayn Feb 2020
The moon shines so brightly,
Sometimes I find myself
Looking at its beauty,
And stabbed through the heart.
An unexplainably ominous existence,
And an unrivaled luminescence.
My heartstrings tugged so far,
That they snapped into shreds.
The moon is beautiful in its own way.
47 · Apr 2020
Taken Into Account
Ayn Apr 2020
How many more
Nights
Will I spend
Alone?

And how much is left
To balance out
These nights spent solo?
The entirety of this is a pun on how I’m broke and lonely. Welp if I have one I might as well have both!
47 · Mar 2020
Faith
Ayn Mar 2020
Reigning down upon my body
Like an emotionless hammer,
Swinging hard and fast,
Leaving nothing untouched,
Leaving my love to be amassed.
The title has nothing to do with the poem, just the song I was listening to (“Faith”, by Limp Bizkit).
47 · Feb 2020
Superfluous Liveliness
Ayn Feb 2020
Scraping the blue sky,
Grazing the stoic mountain,
But far above the trees.
Take of it what you will.
47 · Mar 2020
Stars
Ayn Mar 2020
Above my eyes,
Yet sitting right inside
Lie the midnight stars
Flowing like the tide.

They twinkle without bitter,
And giggle and titter.
Floating flippantly and freely
Through the night so dreamy.

Watching us from above
Just as we watch from below.
The stars signal a guiding dove,
And we follow it’s tidal flow.

The stars are there to guide us right,
So why is the night now void of their light?

Where have the stars gone?
Where has the light gone?
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