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Nicholas Fonte Mar 2018
Close your eyes
Don't acknowledge their gaze
Let sit the lies
In the middle of this haze

You wonder why it isn't meant to be
Why it isn't standing in sight
I wonder why it is you can't see
In the eternal light

Open your eyes
Don't acknowledge their gaze
Let sit the lies
In the middle of this haze

Why do you continue to cower
Are you blind
Only you have the power
To break their bind

Open you eyes
Hold them with your gaze
Let sit the lies
In the middle of this haze

They try to hide
With their own line
There is no side
Call it mine

Open you eyes
Hold them with your gaze
There will always be lies
In the middle of this haze

Everything gets blurry
In this room filled with air
You need to hurry
Out of this despair

Open your eyes
Hold them with your gaze
There will always be lies
With your desires entangled by the haze
Really, I just want to make a side comment here on how it sounded in my head while I wrote this. To me, it kind of sounds like a song. I just read it like that, and if you can, I would like you to try and read it like that too.
Nicholas Fonte Mar 2018
A wise old sage
Once asked me
When you leave the cage
Are you truly free?
Nicholas Fonte Mar 2018
You would not expect
A person to inspect
The apple of a stranger
would be a danger
Despite my kindness
My eyes possess darkness
My stiff arms continue to reach
To offer the fruit you thought to be a leach
Nicholas Fonte Mar 2018
Off in the distance
She chooses to stand far way
To prevent conflict

Even though we love her
We two choose to go to war
To form the right angle
The is the third version of Triangle. This revision came from the same problem with everyone being confused on its meaning. The other comment I received to make it clearer was to possibly make it longer. I took a go at doing that and this is what came out. Read the previous versions and let me know which one came out best!
Nicholas Fonte Mar 2018
Out of our love's reach
Away she will stand untouched
By the war we wage
This is the second version of Triangle. The change here was to keep it similar but make the meaning more clear since it confused many people on what the original was about. Read the original and VIII to let me know which one is best!
Nicholas Fonte Mar 2018
Off in the distance
Away she will stand untouched
By the war we wage
I wrote this really early on in my poetry career. I have been critiqued on this one a  lot so I ended up writing different versions of it. Check out VII and VIII after reading this one and let me know which one is better, please!
Nicholas Fonte Mar 2018
The stream starts to flow
Gentle at first but will soon
Be a raging flood
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