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May 28 · 28
Tragic
Kara Palais May 28
I'm a daydreamer, a drifter, lost in despair,
Writing love songs through fog that's filling the air.
Smoke in my lungs I'm lost in the haze
it helps blend together the darkest of days.

Kissing this wine just to numb the sting
Everything was a lie and now I'm an angel without wings.
Through mascara tears with a soul laid bare
I realized hell doesn't want me, and heaven never cared.

With a revolver, I'm here tongue in cheek
Pretty when tragic, divine when I'm weak.
Pour me another, let the bottle confess,
All of my sins leave me undressed.

Moonlight's my witness and the night knows my name,
Beauty and madness are one in the same.
Light up my sins and watch them consume,
The scent is morose like heartbreak’s perfume

I'm a daydreamer, broken and scared,
My life’s a nightmare, like chaos without cares.
I'm in a reverie moving too fast,
Sh*t luck future and dirt covered past.
May 28 · 26
Tapestry
Kara Palais May 28
They wove my dreams on a ribboned sky,
With threads of love that never die.
Rose-gold whispers, cherry wine air,
Soft as his hands in my tangled hair.
A needle dipped in morning’s blush,
Pulled through the cloth in a lover’s hush.
Silken vows and honeyed grace,
Woven deep in the fabric’s face.
The sweetest dreams are stitched in gold,
In patterns warm and gently bold.
Even the storms have silver seams,
Love lives loud in quiet dreams.
So wrap me up in that living art,
A tapestry sewn from a faithful heart.
Each thread is a promise, soft and true,
A life of love in every hue.
May 28 · 52
Masterpiece
Kara Palais May 28
We started as dust on the workshop floor,
Thrown to the wheel, hearts craving more.
Your hands found mine in that restless spin,
Rough and unsure, but we let it begin.
Water and whispers smoothed every line,
Shaping the curves of your soul into mine.
Fired by longing, glazed with regret,
We cracked in the heat but weren’t finished yet.
You kissed the fractures, gold in the seams,
Like Kintsugi lovers restoring our dreams.
Time turned the wheel as we learned to stay
Masterpiece hearts made of delicate clay.
Now we sit hardened but tender and whole,
Fired by passion an unbreakable soul.
In the kiln of infinity, through pleasure and pain,
We’ll spin on that wheel again and again.
May 28 · 57
Roulette
Kara Palais May 28
Karma's a revolver with a cherry red smile,
dancing in the dark like a ghost gone wild.
She waits under the cloak of stormy skies,
with a perfume of gunpowder, secrets, and lies.
Every sin's a bullet tucked into her dress,
Tell me, are you sure you want to place your bets?
Spinning the chamber with slow caress,
every choice calculated under your duress.
Humming sweet lullabies in the back of your mind,
she's satin and danger, all intertwined.
Pulling the trigger with a wink and a sigh,
you thought you were wanted, but you're just the high.
Ask yourself before you begin:
Can you stomach the cost of the chaos within?
She plays to collect, and so far has yet to miss a debt.
Do you really want to tempt Karma when she's actually Russian roulette?
May 26 · 38
New
Kara Palais May 26
New
I wear a smile and play the part
Hide the storm inside my heart.
As long as you don't meet my gaze,
You'll never see I'm lost in a haze.
Racing forward, standing still.
Waiting games are breaking my will.
Hours blur and chaos stays
While spinning through these endless days.
Too much to do, too much to lose,
I'm drowning in the wish for new.
May 26 · 39
Loss
Kara Palais May 26
I wake to find the morning light,
yet everything’s the same.
I can’t explain, I’ll never know
Why life goes on through the pain.

The shadows in my doorway,
the steps I swore I heard last night,
My world is gone can't count the tears
I've cried in this new life.

The clock still ticks and the world still spins,
And there's an ache that time won’t quiet,
echoes of love lives on in my head
I'm supposed to go on but I don't know how to do it.
May 26 · 45
Fleeting
Kara Palais May 26
Love is fire, sharp and brief
wild roads whisper, where shadows meet.
This summer spell is a dream we made
My heart calls out, your soul to claim

Let's slow dance to broken songs,
twisting in shadows where we belong
With a melody only bodies can create
is it lust, or love, or some wild fate?

We'll talk til the stars no longer shine bright
writing our story in the heart of the night
Hearts adrift in a fragile dream
Wrapped up in a moment that just seems like a scene

Your eyes like mirrors of endless days
holding me still in their golden haze.
A love too fleeting to name at all
Comes to an end at the beginning of fall.
May 26 · 44
War
Kara Palais May 26
War
The battle in my mind rages loud
and on the outside I'm calm,
but really there's no one around
and so into depression I fall

the silence is eerie where I sit,
in limbo with the love and hate
one side so deserving of one to commit
the other longing for a dreadful fate

there is nothing left to be done or said
no words to help heal the heart
when you live a life at war with yourself
and call your chaos an art

The weight of the void pulls me deep,
a temptation I can’t seem to outlast.
The only solace I find is in sleep
bound by the nightmares of my past.
May 26 · 43
Anxiety
Kara Palais May 26
When everything is loud the mind goes silent
but never in the way one would like it
The race is so overwhelming it's now just a hum
The hands are steady but the mind grows numb
Eager to please unsteady to rise
Constant exhaustion from boundaries pushed aside.
Anger held down suppressed in the void
Feelings inundate set up to destroy.
May 24 · 40
Honeyed
Kara Palais May 24
The past was riddled with solitude,
I woke up in lace, like an old movie scene.
Now morning hums in a honeyed mood,
Last night you treated me like a queen.

The sky was heavy just before,
in shades of black and blue.
Now the storms don't come anymore,
Since all I see is you.

The night once sang in minor keys,
and every hour felt like pain.
Now even silence seems to please,
As I hear your voice in the rain.

There's color where the gray once stayed,
a bloom where I had only thorns.
The price of love was what I paid,
and in return the world was yours.

Since then I live in softer light,
A dreamscape soaked in vintage hue.
Our romance has set the world alight
What's changed? Babe, just me and you.
May 24 · 16
Suit
Kara Palais May 24
You laughed like a secret, sat close like a spell,
But clubs in your grin meant you never thought well.
Said we were soulmates, sisters in crime
But you cracked at the edges
when it wasn’t your time.

Queens don’t trust jokers, I learned this too late
Playing your part and I sealed my fate.
Spades behind backs and diamonds for shine,
You twisted the truth with one scripted line.

So here’s to the fall, to the crash, to the end.
To fake little hearts that pretend to be friends.
I’ll toast to the silence, to truth in the dark
And rebuild my throne from your fake house of cards.
May 23 · 48
Fever
Kara Palais May 23
She walked in like a dream, a moonlit glow
Lips pink as a promise I'll never outgrow.
Her eyes are dark and deep in I dive,
She kisses like secrets that I’ll never survive.

"Baby, just love me." she murmured so low,
but love is a fever that burns until it goes.
Fingers like velvet and touches like a crime,
Forever she swore on, then vanished in time.

She whispered my name like a half written wish,
left me with echoes, sadness, perfume, and sin.
Too good to be true and too wild to stay,
she was a fever dream girl fading with the day.
May 23 · 108
Talent
Kara Palais May 23
Working so hard towards an unachievable goal
I wonder if I will I ever find a balance
But rest doesn't help when the problem is your soul,
and over-thinking is just your talent.
May 23 · 42
Revenge
Kara Palais May 23
In a town where gulls call over foam kissed stone,
Where sea salt grief clings to wood and bone,
Stood a hotel twenty three rooms small
A place where secrets crawled the walls.

It’s wallpaper was floral and faded red,
While whispers rose up from the unmade bed.
The year was nineteen forty seven
And she’d never know he was on his way with a vengeance

He wore a hat pulled low to hide
Eyes like storms, deep and wide.
Her name was still a song he wept
A curse he caressed a prayer half said

His love had been a ship at war
Cannons blazing towards the shore,
But her leaving? That was the gale
A wind so cruel it split his sail.

Hatred now was fuel to flame,
Drinking down whiskey
And forgetting his shame.

He climbed the stairs with measured tread
Knowing the ninth room housed her lover’s bed.
Opening the door was like splitting a scar
Inside lingered her perfume, the sounds of light jazz, the scent of cigars.

“Don’t” she cried out, but he did not hear.
The sound of revenge pounding in his ears
He pulled the steel from a coat lined dark
A love burned hand, a flint struck spark.

One shot - like thunder cracked in two,
She fell like a wave the sea once knew
The floorboards wept where she now slept
Where evil came to lay her to rest.

He left her there eyes full of dread
Hate on his lips and blood on the bed.
A man who loved like storms love the coasts
Broken down by revenge is now haunted by her ghost.
May 23 · 23
Circus
Kara Palais May 23
The circus came back to town last night,
Red and gold and little bit torn,
Like my heart on my sleeve, a bit weather-worn

I woke up in sequins and static again,
Mascara moons under my eyes, implying my sins.
Everyone claps when I make it look fun,
But no one sticks around when the lights come undone.

I’ve been the sad ******* the tightrope too long
Singing ballads to ghosts, always someone else’s song.
Balancing grief in a pink chiffon slip
Sipping my meds from a flask on my hip.

The elephants cry when they think we don’t see,
Caged in nostalgia just like me.
The trapeze swings, but I stay still
Frozen in mid air with no more will.

And God isn’t that the trick of the act?
To look like you’re flying with chains on your back?
To glitter in gold while you’re silently dying,
Turning breakdowns into something, something worth buying?

Carousel thoughts spin too fast,
A mirrored maze of my shattered past,
The crowd just wants their sweet matinee,
And I’m just the girl out on display.

The spotlight’s warm, but the glow’s all fake,
And I’m tired of bending just so I don’t break.
Call it a show. Call it a phase.
Call it depression in a pink beret.

Whatever it is, it’s mine to bear,
A circus of sorrow spun through the air.
And darling, I’d leave if I only knew how,
But the tent’s in my mind…
And the show’s starting now.

— The End —