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218 · Jul 2017
The Pull of Your Soul
Yitkbel Jul 2017
I would be your shadow,
The stardust in the wind,
The fleeting image behind the mirror,
The spectre of time.

I would be at home,
trapped in the event horizon
of our first, last, and only event
In our space and time,
Letting my soul pulled by yours through eternity.
217 · Nov 2017
Invisible Cues
Yitkbel Nov 2017
I live my uncertainties in life
Following invisible cues
Different signals in different hues
A twinge here and there
And uneasiness blooms and heals
When I follow the steps
That leads me back to you.
217 · Jul 2017
Dust
Yitkbel Jul 2017
I dwell in the past, standing on flecks of dust.
217 · Jul 2017
Stranger Love
Yitkbel Jul 2017
I don't want to possess you
I just want to barely know you
So that each chance meeting still takes my breath away.
So that I still fear never seeing you again
So that every element, every emotion of this stranger love remains renewed and refreshed after each encounter.

So that I would never be weary of loving you.
216 · Sep 2017
The Garden of My Love
Yitkbel Sep 2017
I showed you the way to my soul,
Hoping you would walk right in,
And indulge in all the little hidden
Presents I have planted for you
In my long unoccupied garden of love,
That yearned to be seen.  
But you found no urgency to enter
No need and no desire to knock.
Is it because you thought
I would always be right here
At the gates, keeping it wide open
Waiting to give you everything,
As soon as you asked?

But you never did.

So losing faith, and losing heart
I finally decided to shut it down
completely.
Hoping you would finally be intrigued
By the sudden closed doors
And finally be lead by your regretful curiosity
To knock, and inquire
What was hidden deep within.
What treasures could have been yours to
Take.
And keep.


(But most likely,
You would still hide away quietly
In your cozy little cabin of safety,
At most,
Only occasionally peering distantly from within,
Never taking the risk to leave.
Never taking the risk of a prickle or a sting
From plucking and holding even the most beautiful things
From my youthful affections in its zealous Spring. )
216 · Aug 2017
Nightmare of Living 2
Yitkbel Aug 2017
We struggle everyday in this nightmare of living,
only to wake up to another dream after death.
214 · Nov 2017
Je t'aime, et vous?
Yitkbel Nov 2017
I will be your last leaf
Until it falls on the eighth day

I will be your crescent moon
Until it falls into the
Midnoon waves

I will be your lighthouse
Until all land becomes
The sea

I will be your smile
Until every smile
Dies away

I will be your tea
Until the world
Only drinks coffee

I will be your silence
Until the world only
Speaks French
And all voices fade away.
210 · Apr 2018
Talk to Me
Yitkbel Apr 2018
When you don't speak
I can hear your every thought
                       How frightening!
208 · Nov 2017
Your Indifference
Yitkbel Nov 2017
I have read every single letter
Of your words silent and unwritten
To have understood regretfully
Your incomprehensible
Indifference.

Still I will ponder forever
Hesitantly
Your definite answer
Of immediate
Impermanence.
208 · Oct 2017
The Crossroad
Yitkbel Oct 2017
On this crossroad of me and you
I still decided to leave
To keep on going on my own
Because I knew I have passed by you long ago
I knew on this one way street of fallen and regrown dreams weathered and used
The only way back to you
Is for the unforeseeable curvature of time
To wind us back
Unexpectedly
Unlikely
Yet, completely fatefully
Till we start our old journey together
Anew.
Heading back to the happier place we once knew.

(Perhaps the road isn't in the shape of a mourning cross,
perpendicular to me and you,
parallel to other dreams lost and killed,
But in the shape of a heart,
Through the curves and ebbs
It will always bring me back to you.)
207 · Aug 2017
Lamp under the Sun
Yitkbel Aug 2017
Oh
how I wish
you love me just as much as I love you.
But I am just burning for you
Like a candle lit lamp under the sun.
207 · Oct 2017
Moon Love
Yitkbel Oct 2017
My love for you didn't perish
In our clash of silent indifference
That devoured me whole
Instead I became the moon
Tirelessly revolving around you
Giving you light when your sun is too weary to
And hiding in the dark at your brightest,
Afraid to steal any light away from you.
Still, I have always been here for you
Whether or not you knew.
204 · Apr 2018
The Love of Light Bulbs
Yitkbel Apr 2018
If we clash
We would both break apart
Let me shine with you
            From afar
204 · Jul 2017
Absence
Yitkbel Jul 2017
I filled your absence with neverending thoughts of you.
201 · Aug 2017
Nightmare of Living
Yitkbel Aug 2017
I am struggling to wake up from this nightmare of living,
only to live another dream after death.
198 · Sep 2017
Invisible
Yitkbel Sep 2017
You had friends, not many, but
still, you had friends. You were
happy, felt mature and never
worried about anything, but
recently you seem to be moving
backwards, walking in the wrong
direction. You shed your friends
like you shed your dead skin cells.
You are growing backwards even, you
are becoming a whiny, jealous,
insecure, and self aware toddler;
everything looks to harm you, and
you are afraid even daddy and mommy
won't love you anymore or just
you've grown so old that their love
for their baby has diminished to a
critical point where the care and
attention you now desperately need
are no longer an option.


You feel horribly lonely, but in
isolation, who cares, who will hear
you. No one, you are dead inside,
but you are afraid of ****** death,
for even in heaven, you are afraid
you will be alone. But, how can you
live when you don't even feel your
own breath, let alone anyone
else’s. You don't scream, don't
want to scream, don't need to
scream, NO ONE will HEAR YOU.
You are dead and alive, you are invisible.
More of a monologue from my unhappier days.
196 · Jul 2017
Distance
Yitkbel Jul 2017
I wish I never moved in too close,
that there were still a distance between us,
for me to feel that pull of my soul.
196 · Sep 2017
Astray
Yitkbel Sep 2017
Even though you are away
I will still stay
Waiting for that one inevitably unexpecting day
When you mindlessly pass my way
And finally,
Abruptly,
Steal my wanderlust soul astray.
195 · Aug 2017
Haunted
Yitkbel Aug 2017
What really haunt me
   are not your words of indifference
and looks of disdain
   but your trusting smile,
and our intuitive understanding,
now that
I've lost them
forever.
193 · Sep 2017
Still
Yitkbel Sep 2017
Still
From Me to You

You are the sweetest dreams in my sleepless nights

You are my untouchable muse, though I have felt all of life through you

Still

I swim insignificantly among your vast ocean love

Still

I see you everywhere, but you are nowhere to be found

Still

I will always love you like a stubborn child, foolishly faithful

Even though I am just burning for you
Like a candle lit lamp under the sun

Still

I'd rather be your eternal shadow than the momentary sunshine.

Still

I will always love you.
Yitkbel Mar 7
Let me wander, let me be,
Somewhere between the past and the dreams.
Have I truly been here before? Let me think.
I don't know.
But it echoes.
The words and melody against my soul.
Are you from lifetimes ago,
Or just memories fallen into the furrows,
Finally grown.
I see them clear as a dream.
I feel them clear as a dream.
The warm and the cold.
The familiar and unknown.
The childhood shadows I've rushed past long ago,
Wavering in the same glow.
Why did you stay? Will you never let go.
Will you stay with me in time,
Until eternity takes hold?
190 · Sep 2017
The Hollow Child
Yitkbel Sep 2017
I was the invisible child hollow
Fragile with a glass shell
Until you came by
Filled me with honey
And all the colors I would ever need.

Till I was content,
Till I was fulfilled.

But then,
Abruptly
At my happiest
At my fullest
You vanished.

In sadness, in grief, in mourning
I withered, gradually
The coldness and wintry grips
Shattered me

All the sweetness left me;
All the colors faded and seeped.

Now I am just shards trying to rebuild myself
Complete

Savoring what little trace of the honey that's still clinging on to me

So that when I am ready to be filled again
So that when you finally come around again

I could still be yours to keep.
189 · Nov 2017
Dream: Beyond the Mirror
Yitkbel Nov 2017
Have you ever dreamt of the ocean
And then being presented with a plate of fish
Have you ever dreamt of an old friend
And then welcomed them at your door
The very next day
Have you ever left a place of comfort
In search of better dreams
Only to find that you still remain there
Within your dream of a dream
And could only find comfort in
Returning to the same old place
In the sleep of real life

Have you ever dreamt of love that filled your Whole being with a sweet essence that lasts
The entire enchanted day
And wondered if it was
Mutual longings

I have mastered the skill to predict reaching messages from an old friend
By the reunions in my dreams
Since she always reconnect with me
The very next day
And
Always took hints from my dreams
On what to write
What to say
Or even what to do

I live in another sentient world
In my dreams
A world not like
Yet not unlike ours
A world beyond the mirror.
A world perhaps beyond
The reflective fabric of our own reality.

(Dream is a mirror that goes both ways, and like a mirror, when you know what to do with it, you can use it to your own advantage. And it works very well too.)
187 · Apr 2018
Your Voice
Yitkbel Apr 2018
There is a gust of silence
            Outside my window
                Calling my name
                Wondering how much
                .               I'm missing you.
182 · Aug 2017
Pain
Yitkbel Aug 2017
I have had my bones chipped away from me,
Have had my share of physical and emotional pain,
But those pain subsided in a week's reign,
Yet,
I am still here,
Crying over the loss of thee.
181 · Apr 2018
Your Silence is Loud to Me
Yitkbel Apr 2018
Give your silence to me
           Let me exchange them for
                            The most honest words:
                            
My unyielding love for you to keep
                            Safe and eternally
181 · Oct 2017
Hidden Talks
Yitkbel Oct 2017
Sometimes I think,
You speak to me through my own thoughts.
178 · Oct 2017
The Moon
Yitkbel Oct 2017
If the Earth vanishes
The sun still rises
But, what about the moon;
I am lost in orbit without you.
177 · Aug 2017
Foolishly Faithful
Yitkbel Aug 2017
I will always love you like a stubborn child, foolishly faithful.
177 · Feb 2019
Vessels from Dream to Dream
Yitkbel Feb 2019
How much poetry live within me

Or am I merely a vessel

That has to be loaded and unloaded

To not waste away under the calm wind

And sink to a weighted depth of silent

And unfulfilled dreams


Yet what is the use

Carrying a soul from an unwritten land

To an unread land

Both dotted with footprints of past voyageurs

But no path or end in sight


Perhaps I am destined to be an unnamed pilgrim

That treads upon and whose marks will be tread upon

The wasteland of hapless ambitions

Transforming it into a garden of everlasting

Love, freedom, and hope


There,

You may find me one day

Though you will not know it

Nor will I

Within a petal of the rose

A dust in the dew

The wings of a honeybee


And if you look closely,

Listen closely

Within the laughing wind

As the gale brings all of us

Across the sea

Carrying vessels after vessels

From dream to dream
Written: June 25, 2018
176 · Sep 2017
Your Lighthouse
Yitkbel Sep 2017
Why must I swim like an empty vessel,
A lost boat among your vast ocean love,
When I can be your Lighthouse,
Unnoticed, insignificant
But forever caressing you and
Watching over you from afar.
174 · Nov 2017
My Love is Silent
Yitkbel Nov 2017
My soul is a love song written in a language
Only you can understand
Sang in a frequency
Only you can receive.
And I know
You heard it loud and clear.
171 · Aug 2017
Secret
Yitkbel Aug 2017
I just want to be the little secret
That never makes into your words,
But fills up your mind.
169 · Jul 2017
Exile
Yitkbel Jul 2017
Send your love to exile,
If it is true,
It would be sure to return.
168 · Sep 2017
Please Stay
Yitkbel Sep 2017
Draw me with a pencil
Erase me when you leave

Color me with chalks
Wash me away when you leave

Hum me with a mindless tune
Forget me when you leave

Build me with dust and rain
Break me when you leave

But never ever leave
Because,
Without you, I'd rather cease to be.
166 · Nov 2017
Goldfish of Time
Yitkbel Nov 2017
What if  only you have
Those memories
Moments of happiness
That were
Yet, could have never been

What if that's all you are
Goldfish of Time
Goldfish of Memories
Goldfish of existence
Once lost, once passed
Never to return,
Never to be remembered
Never to have existed.
166 · Nov 2017
I want to be lost
Yitkbel Nov 2017
But not wandering lost
Not hopefully lost
But completely lost
Till I can find myself no longer.
Merely exists, merely acts.
No questions, no answers.
No thoughts, no fear, no love.
165 · Jul 2017
Lost Star
Yitkbel Jul 2017
I was a lost star that was slowly losing its light
And you rekindled the flame in me, and brought me back home
But, at my highest and brightest moment
You vanished, and left me suffocating
And craving for a love I would've never known
Still, I endure,
Still, I'd rather suffer,
and remain where you left me long ago.
Not because I am happy here,
I'd extinguish my light altogether,
But because, one day your world might lose its light
And be ever darker,
When that day comes, I will be here,
Ready to light up your world
With whatever brightness I still own.
165 · Jul 2017
Numb
Yitkbel Jul 2017
I am not afraid of loving you
I am not afraid of losing your love
But I am afraid of losing my love for you,
And hereafter,
Forever be numb.
163 · Oct 2017
Moon Love (Extended)
Yitkbel Oct 2017
My love for you didn't perish
In our clash of silent indifference
That devoured me whole
And tore me apart from you
Instead
In our departure
I became the moon
Forever separated by a force of unrequited attraction
And pushed and pulled by the invisible strings of tidal longings
That never bring me close enough to you
Yet
I tirelessly revolve around you
To give you light when your sun is too weary to
And hide in the dark at your brightest,
Afraid to steal any light away from you.
I have always been here for you
Whether or not you knew.
Whether or not you loved me too.
161 · Jul 2017
Stay
Yitkbel Jul 2017
When you were here,
I stayed because I needed you.
Now that you are gone,
I still remain,
Not because I long for what is left of my world,
But because one day, you might need me,
And when that day comes,
I would already be there for you.
161 · Nov 2017
I wonder
Yitkbel Nov 2017
I wonder
(If my keyboard loved my mouse too)
By: Yue ****, July 23, 2015
I wonder if 21 grams is really the weight of our soul
I wonder if that’s why when I saw her
I wanted to leave, but couldn’t go
I wonder if it attracts by gravity
Or some other magnetic fields
I wonder if our soul is not actually alone, but
A million components with a billion views
Each attracts to its own
Soul to soul

I wonder if beauty is a factor too
Like her kindness, and her introvert withhold
I wonder if that’s what makes Andromeda spin
The universe filled with the mass of our souls

I wonder if my keyboard love my mouse too
Perhaps, the bond was broken when
She went away too, after he bid adieu.
156 · Sep 2017
Sleepless
Yitkbel Sep 2017
You are the sweetest dreams in my sleepless nights.
153 · Jul 2017
Wall of Silence
Yitkbel Jul 2017
I hid my love behind a wall of silence,
Lest my heart hears it,
and in its unrest,
frighten yours away.
153 · Oct 2017
Loud Souls
Yitkbel Oct 2017
Have you ever loved someone
Not for their love
But their inability to love
Or be loved.

You finally want to give someone
Your everything
Only to realize
You have nothing to give
And they don't know how to accept
Anything

And so
Two desperately loud souls
Suffer
In complete
Silence.
153 · Nov 2017
Timeless
Yitkbel Nov 2017
I once desired to reach the highest of heights
By the shortest route and using the shortest time
But now,
I take my time to be timeless.
151 · Sep 2017
Your Name
Yitkbel Sep 2017
I used to see you every day
But I never knew your name
I always feared that one day you would get away
And nothing would ever be the same
Till I stumbled upon your name
In that receipt you stuck in my hand
Now at least I have your name
Even though you got away
I still write you love letters every day
Even if they are never read
They would still be yours to keep
Because all my love for you
Could write a long long book
And on the cover of it
Written in my heart and soul
Would be your name
Yitkbel Apr 2018
I must speak constantly
               Of my love for you proudly
                              In its truth and honesty

So that you never hear the doubting echoes
               Of your loud soul in its transparent self-reflectivity
               Within the glass walls of your silence
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