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The Boy Jul 15
I chased the cliff
Just to stand on the edge of something that didn’t remind me of someone

I took the plunge
Just to feel the cold concrete wings sprout from my tired broken back

I closed my eyes and said they would surely hold me up this time

And for the last time, again
I knew I had lied to myself, again
We all have things that we run from, until we find ourselves running towards them. This poem is about vices.
The Boy Jul 15
I said I was sorry I lied
Because my Truth clenched your throat so tight, I immediately let it go and made myself feel ashamed;
How dare I simply stand by spectating how gorgeously your suffocating lips resembled the sky turning day into night?

I said I was sorry I loved
and blackened my heart to match the pit of your soul your eyes let slip
and grew disgusted with myself as you tugged and toiled at my very soul
and I let you

My love was always real, my words ever true
Deep down, I knew you knew

I'm not sorry you're broken because I'm more broken than you
I'm not sorry you somehow believe I'm what broke you

I'm just sorry I let you

I'm not sorry you made me feel like I left you;

I'm just sorry I let you
The Boy Jul 2024
I’ve divorced the me I am from the me you thought I ought to be.
Now there’s no more space in me for thoughts of you and me.
Sentiments of personal liberation and self discovery.
The Boy Apr 2023
The thing about silence is that it lines the fences of solitude;
It's the porch light, the front door, the wallpaper, the overwhelmingly cold marble that spans the very floors of the soul.

The Goal?
To discover what lies behind the dreams and beneath the lies you've piled atop what you know will remain your Truth.
Uncover the seed you buried and foolishly expected not to grow, and dig deep until you know you know you've reached it -
and the moment you're convinced it's real, stop. Go back.
Start over. Over and over. Each time with a little less lie.
To whom this may be disconcerting:
Instead of turmoil, soul searching and self hurting,
I suggest you embrace the silences of the sole;
Let their immaculate resonances swallow you whole.

Me? I relish my silences! The delicate volumes they speak saturate my solitude,
and the truths they bring reverberate in my heart and soul.
I'm never lonely when I'm alone -
I'm going to need a front row seat in hell's hottest pit beside Lucy's bare feet
To watch the sky drop to its knees
And steal one last kiss as we all crumble and freeze;
Before I ever l let anyone make me feel lonely -

I'd rather be... Alone.
Finding solace in solitude; learning to listen to what speaks through the silence
The Boy Apr 2023
Don't open your eyes to the blinding tip of that sunrise;
Your pupils are still far too dilated and still so drunken by the darkness that is the night

Don't take a whiff of that morning breeze;
Your sinuses will surely get clogged by the lies pollinating amidst the morning fog

The pretences of your so-called destiny serve only as an agent of blindness through which the ancient scribes of your true being have been twisted and forged into a sad stew of highs unreachable, lows and unthinkable and pains unspeakable.
All you can do is raise your glass and rush to wash it all down with a taste of the hollow hate that remains in its place.

It is a beautiful day nonetheless; so take a seat at the table where the wildness of dreams and endlessness of possibilities have all come through to eat.
But this is what I have to say to you:

Don't fall in love, child of the night;
Love won't set you free!

Lover of stars that illuminate even the deepest most eternal pits of your own being,
Don't fall in love;
Love won't set you free!

You already are all you need and all you'll ever need to be, so this is a warning I'm begging you to heed:
Don't fall in love;
Love won't set you free!
'Love' is a placeholder for the many things we use to make us feel the warmth of love when love eludes us.
The Boy Apr 2023
And like a ton of bricks it hit me, and I realised my mistake:
I'd been holding on so tight to a you you'd never be again;

And the phantom hand I'd clutched and clung onto all this time
had long since abandoned it's grip on mine.
The Boy Mar 2021
Where many might seek understanding,
some - however far or few - crave also
to be understood
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