Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
 
Have you forgiven them yet?

The moon,
for it gives you out no secrets.

The stars,
for their beauty
which often hurts your eyes.

The sun,
for it never dies, unlike us.

The dead,
for their silent smile.

Have you forgiven them yet?
I ask

myself.
 Oct 2024 Shane Lease
Self
They say time heals all wounds,
and I suppose that’s true,
But how do I heal the scars
that always remind me of you?
 Oct 2024 Shane Lease
David J
Your eyes sang the song of loss
And I recognized the chorus
I was reading a book in a place no normal person would be. When I was accomponied by a lovely gal who had the same plans as me. We never spoke a word to eachother but I've never felt so understood.
 Oct 2024 Shane Lease
EM
Heart
 Oct 2024 Shane Lease
EM
My heart is broken for the love you took away,
knowing my heart belongs to you.
But why in the world do I feel so forsaken
when I'm the reason why my heart is breaking?
I try to stay so strong so that no one can see
that this pain is killing me,
I rise up and wipe the tears from my eyes
and make it go away with a closet full of lies.
I tell myself that I hated you,
And I tell my heart that the love that we felt could not have been true.
 Oct 2024 Shane Lease
Marcus Lane
I fear the way you love me:
That tender-touching kiss
Seducing me to nightly
Sink deep in your abyss.

Those smooth caresses take me
To places that I dread,
Your cunning fingers rouse me
To plan such lies ahead.

But while we writhe and tumble
In lust's hypnotic hold,
I fear the final stumble
That will see the truth unfold.
© Marcus Lane 2010
Empires have fallen
For a beauty lesser
Than yours
Helen of Troy would pale by your side
 Oct 2024 Shane Lease
Emery Feine
When a project has been abandoned, creators of said project will solve small, irrelevant problems, so as to give themselves an ounce of satisfaction, rather than just solve the problem as a whole.
Mentitus sum. Puer eram. Non putabatur ibi esse.
 Oct 2024 Shane Lease
Emery Feine
Can you see the soil softly shake
As the once-dead zombies burst from it?
They're being revived,
Though they were left to die and decay.
The ice is melting,
And the heat is increasing
Into a blinding fire.
When I finally felt free,
The dead seeds I planted months, years ago
Are slowly sprouting. (A miracle? A curse?)
The world is repeating,
Like they told me it would.
I'm terrified.
The scenes I have escaped
Are creeping around the corner,
Like now-alive zombies.
The memories that I threw to the snow,
They are beginning to grow,
Like flowers in Antarctica.
this is my 128th poem, written on 10/16/24
Next page