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Sep 2017 · 176
Faults
Phoenix Rising Sep 2017
It wasn't all your fault,
I'm not saying that.
I won't put it all on you.
Sometimes,
you start out as the solution
and end as part of the problem.
You were a bee drawn to my
sticky issues.
It gave me depth
and made me look strong.
[Ill]usion.
Your stinger of a love
was too sharp for my
soft, flimsy values.
Sep 2017 · 164
Hush, Little Ego...
Phoenix Rising Sep 2017
The real war is inside ourselves.
If we can push through the expedition,
if we can conquer our minds,
we can save the human life.
Sep 2017 · 250
Evasive
Phoenix Rising Sep 2017
I want you in,
but I'm too shifty.
I see all the life lines
I could live.
Ms. Somebody,
but who should I be?
I could love you,
or you,
or you,
or me.
Sep 2017 · 238
.
Phoenix Rising Sep 2017
.
emotional tides strict like a meal plan,
except i don't eat, but more like a noose.
i see him, i see you.
[always about you...]
the gasp is wearing;
air is tearing and dissipating.
you are choking me
handless.
manic thoughts
and cigarette chiefing,
ears bleeding
from the infomercials.
4 AM
and i ******* know more about
RVs than i know about you.
Sep 2017 · 211
Genuinely Crazy...for You.
Phoenix Rising Sep 2017
I wonder if I write from
the bottom of my heart,
that you'll take a deeper interest
in what I say.
I love you, I love you, I love you.
All I do is make you mad, sad, mad, sad; gone.
My hands tremble, I cry in bed and I feel, once again, a indescribable aching pain
inside and out of my chest.
You'd think I'd have a tolerance for pain.
Just laying there, punishing myself as if you can see it from 400 miles away. As if you can hear my gorilla-glued mouth speaking all the words my 1st place race championship mind hasn't spoken.
I am delusional and it is always too late to see. Always a fool after the fact.
I love you, I love you, I love you.
Is it enough for you?
Sep 2017 · 386
Depressed
Phoenix Rising Sep 2017
Depression gets so old...
Swallowed whole...I have a disease that has no cure...No relief, no control...I wonder if I'll die this way...alone, alone.
Aug 2017 · 241
Spawn
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
You're the bad seed
I stem from.
Tell me I need a professional,
one more time,
when you're the one
who left the dirt and grime.

Here I am...
Cleaning up your mess,
the mess in my head and chest.
I don't need your meds
nor your opinions.
Save your breath.
Aug 2017 · 305
Going You
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
Good to no longer be an addict,
see things through...
The only thing I wanna be
addicted to is
you.

I'm finished with man-made chemicals,
I just want home-grown
you.

Fill my lungs
with your breathes.
Pump my heart
with your "I love you's."
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
The hours
of smoked cigarettes
is equivalent
to the time
it will take
for you to
**** me.
Aug 2017 · 366
JDH
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
JDH
I wish you knew.
O, how I wish you knew.
Everything I do.
Everything I do is for
you.

I wish I could say it,
scream it to the stars.
I'm sorry,
sometimes I just can't find the
words.

You're tattooed to my brain,
a permanent mark
on my heart.
Aug 2017 · 208
[grand]father
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
i should spend more time with you
instead of wasting away in my room.
i'm so self-absorbed and it's rude
that for a second, i could even forget about you.
your existence matters.
you aren't dusty furniture
that we bought to impress
the friends who come over
and do not even notice.
because they are just as self-absorbed
as me
and you.
we should start listening to our elders,
they don't speak to hear themselves.
family matters.
we just let them waste away
thinking we have another
*******
day...
Aug 2017 · 5.9k
Chameleon
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who am I?
I couldn't tell you.

I am a shapeshifter.
I have many hues.
My emotions depend
on the feedback of you.

If you love me,
I will shine.
If you play coy,
so will I.

Hurt me,
go ahead and try.
I will turn dark
and blend into the night.

You'll never know
what character I am.
You'll never know
because I don't even know
who I am.
Wow! Thank you, everyone, for the kind words. I've never felt more at home than with Hello Poetry and the people it comes with.
Aug 2017 · 310
roar
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
when i was a little girl
my mother told me there were
monsters,
under the bed.

no, mother,
can't you see?
they are in my head.
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
every day i'm breathing...
is a battle i've won...
Aug 2017 · 182
Gluttonous
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
what's a girl gotta do
to simply melt into you?

gifted with a voice
to send me shivers laced with ecstacy.

you feed me so much love
/as if it's bottomless/
yet here i am, starving...

your moon for eyes,
silk for lips,
you touch me and it feels like sin
i am a glutton for you
Aug 2017 · 152
Ratio.
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
it had to be today
at this specific time
in this specific [drunken]
state-of-mind.

it couldn't have worked
a minute less...
without the steps i took
to all the destinations before...

it had to be today
at this specific time
in this specific
state-of-mind.

you had to do
all the things you did
to bump into me
and say,
"Hi."
Aug 2017 · 349
Fickle
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
you say i'm running away

but...

it's just the momentum from you pushing
Aug 2017 · 193
J.H.
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
i'll never run out of words,
out of rhymes,
out of time
to write about
you.

you'll never lose beauty ,
lose your shine,
lose
me.
Aug 2017 · 562
The Fear.
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
Am I old news?
No longer your muse?
Have you seen enough?
Is a new touch better than
a lasting love?
Aug 2017 · 215
Naked.
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
I'm so vulnerable.
Never been this naked.
I'm ******* scared.
Please, don't scar me.
Aug 2017 · 436
I love you...
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
I almost lost you
as quick as I found you.
I almost ran away
before showing you myself.
I could have kept running
and driving
and crying...
But I think I'll rip that page right out.

I'll be who I say I am.
I'll love you stronger than anyone.
I am different...and I am so sorry.

Sometimes I think
that I'm doing you a favor ...
running away
/a selfless act of freeing you of me/
...but now I see that is more selfish than

anything.
Aug 2017 · 175
Untitled
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
I am scared of everything but
I won't let that steal my adventure.
No...
I'll never let it take me away.
Aug 2017 · 1.1k
I'm finally sober, guys.
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
Boy...
Was I wrong.
All I ever really needed was

to be loved...
I was heavily addicted to oxycodone for 3 years and I feel that the battle is coming to an end. So many friends and family and love and support.
Aug 2017 · 621
Weeknd Sex
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
O, the flow rolls
like the way our bodies do.
You look at me,
I look at you.

This is so much more than touch.
Your hands are on my body but
I feel them on my love.
Aug 2017 · 1.0k
Everything Is Simple
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
I am drunk
and my lips are numb.



But for once, my feelings aren't.
Aug 2017 · 182
Sober
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
I've been living in a day dream...
Except exchange day for 'night' and dream for 'mare'.
I almost pulled out every ******* hair...these last 3 years.
The war is over.
THE WAR IS OVER.
The war on drugs...
I am clean.
I am free.
I am me.
Finally.
Aug 2017 · 248
J
Phoenix Rising Aug 2017
J
His eyes shimmered.

No need for the shine of a burning star
nor the glare of the moonlight...
For the warmth of his heart lit the path to my sanctuary.
"I love you, too", I replied.
Jul 2017 · 296
Jordan
Phoenix Rising Jul 2017
I fell in love
with your face and picture.
When I first saw you,
I didn't know what to do.

When I saw you,
in person, too.
I never knew
how much I'd fall for you.

Now, I'm really scared.
I don't know what to do.
Please excuse me,
please don't be afraid of me.

I swear I'm safe,
and I will try my best to never hurt you.
I'll try my best to never, ever hurt you.
I won't do what the others did to you.

I can see it in your eyes,
you're just as scared as I feel
and I won't show it
but I know we both feel the same.

I don't know what to tell you,
I think I love you, too.
And I'm so scared that you don't see it.

What am I supposed to do?
I'm just a girl
I'm only 22.

But the world feels so old,
the world feels so cold,
and I feel so old.

I know I'm still so young,
but trust my tongue
when I say you are what I am thinking of.

Please don't mistake my words as new,
I know what you have been through.
I've been through it, too.

At least a thousand times before.
Phoenix Rising Jul 2017
Sometimes, I wake up and I wonder
How I ended up inside
...Ended up inside
Sometimes, I wonder
How did we fall...
For such a simple trick
That everyone says that they'll never fall for
when they fall in love.
You said you'd never do the things you do.
You said you'd never fall in love again.
You said you'd never do the things you do.
Then why, why, why
do we not know better?
Not know better?
Farther down the truth....
Farther down the truth...
So far away from you.
Farther down the truth.
So called truth.
I thought I loved you from the start.
I thought I loved you from the heart.
I thought this was about you.
But in the end,
it's always about me.
In the end,
it's always about me.
In the end,
it's always about...
Phoenix Rising Jul 2017
No more war.
Within yourself.
With the world.
No more war.

No more guilt.
No more hating yourself
for feeling tempted over
your natural desire to procreate, feel, live.
No more guilt.

No one will have power of you.
You own a mind and a body.
Don't let something or someone you have never met control it.
No one will have power of you.

God is a silly word and concept.
If any, God exists within you.
You are the choices you make.
Perception is up to you.
Don't let anyone control that.

Morality is what makes us human/civilization.
Don't ever think you need an imaginary friend for that.
Jul 2017 · 170
Fake
Phoenix Rising Jul 2017
Self-entitled brat
from a dirt path,
she waves her ******* out the car
while blasting ****** rap.
Where social anxiety is cool
and a fad,
where pastels in your hair matter more
than the way you act.
Yeah, she thinks she's a yuppie
with a daddy
What a rude awakenin'
she gonna have.
Once she is older
and her personality is a drag.
Jul 2017 · 231
But...
Phoenix Rising Jul 2017
...I do care.
Apr 2017 · 209
Untitled
Phoenix Rising Apr 2017
Abuse can be present and still be so subtle that the person doing the abuse and the person experiencing the abuse don’t realize what is happening at the time. Not everything is text-book perfect, in life. Not everything is black and white. Abuse isn’t always intentional. Screaming every day, ignoring every day, choosing partners over child, choosing partners’ offspring over your own child, belittling, singling out, calling out, never touching, quick changing-environments (moving in with boyfriend’s after only a couple months, risking child’s safety—which includes mental health)…..is a form of abuse and neglect.  Please understand that I must emphasize how this was literally every day of my life. Constant chaos is all I know.

I am a warrior. I just haven’t reached the good part of that story in my life, yet. I like to think someday, all this **** I went through was for something.  I hope that something is me becoming strong. I hope I truly understand how to use the pain of the past as a tool to get me through tougher times. I hope that this wasn’t all for nothing. I will never recreate that hell for my own child, that’s for sure.
Apr 2017 · 270
Be you. You are cool.
Phoenix Rising Apr 2017
Getting famous; now that must be nice. Getting famous by being yourself? ******* jackpot.
Apr 2017 · 254
Drive
Phoenix Rising Apr 2017
I want to get inside my
'02 ******* - roller coaster when it turns - car
and drive so fast
that the wind supplies my breathes.
My hair strangles my neck
and eyes,
gets stuck to the creases of my mouth
and my heart creates
an arrhythmia from
the combination of
excitement and anxiety.
Apr 2017 · 412
3PM to 8AM
Phoenix Rising Apr 2017
I slept from 3 PM to 8 AM
and my friends want me to go out, today, with them.
No one has a clue.
I'm Blue Da Ba Dee Da Ba - Blue.

"Sure, I'll go."
(Nah, no...)
I'll stay home, listen to Spotify.
Punk rock and play my terrible music.

I hear voices and have visions -- scenarios.
There is an antenna on my head
and I'm a backseat driver forced to hear this dumb stereo...
Play the same station over and over and over.

"I'll just jump out of the car, better on the pavement than this."
Delusional ******...
What came first?
The drugs or the hurt?
Apr 2017 · 169
Untitled
Phoenix Rising Apr 2017
Stay Away:
I taste bitter and sour.
And you will burn into ash.
I will love you
and then take your heart and go
SMASH!
Apr 2017 · 172
Untitled
Phoenix Rising Apr 2017
I hold all the cards...
But why am I only showing
the bad ones?
I see your eyes and what they are saying.
You are ready to leave...

Why do I create so much chaos?
I do it all by myself.
Then, like always,
Everyone runs away from me.
And I feel relieved.
Apr 2017 · 301
Sweet Tooth
Phoenix Rising Apr 2017
I'm picking out my teeth,
one by one.
Cavities from all that sweet,
sweet contin candy.
I need a special hell,
to make my medicine work.
Late nights mixed with
Brandy.
Apr 2017 · 254
Insanity
Phoenix Rising Apr 2017
Will the weather ever get better
inside my head?
Can these thoughts, formed as prison bars, dissipate?
I'm not sure how much longer I can entertain the monster.
Apr 2017 · 439
Manic Depression
Phoenix Rising Apr 2017
I feel nothing and everything all at once.
I push away the people who I love most.
I sit and stare out the window crying,
wondering how I ended up like this.
When I'm the one who started everything and also finished it.

I want to die,
I want to die,
I WANT TO DIE...

But yet, all I'll do is cry.
Mar 2017 · 345
Apathetic
Phoenix Rising Mar 2017
Jumping beans,
itchy fiends.
Pop a couple
and feel like a queen.

Slave to the high,
I like to lie...
I don't know why.
Sunglasses in the dark,
I ain't no ******' narc.

Party till my heart drops,
or until the neighbors call the cops.
**** me softly,
or not.
I don't like to talk.
Mar 2017 · 202
No, I'm never coming back
Phoenix Rising Mar 2017
Stagnant and morose
as I transition throughout my duplex.
From chair to bed, bed to chair
staring at the wall and screens
Doing nothing, nothing I need to do.

Coffee at night and pills in the morning
and my therapist doesn't know me
like she should.
It's my fault, I suppose.

Articulating how I feel isn't my thing,
but it's a passion.
I understand everything I can't see and hear.
I just can't seem to breathe when I try to speak it.

It's pretty sad when "Guys my age" by Hey Violet
is a song I can understand.
I'm way too young to be feeling alone.
I have love and I'm still so ******* lonely.

I want to matter.
I want purpose.
I want my parents to love me.
Mar 2017 · 236
Untitled
Phoenix Rising Mar 2017
Doesn't matter.
I won't find the words,
I won't find the feelings.
No matter how hard I try,
I was never programmed to do things right.

Maybe because they're my words,
that I will never feel anything other than obsolete.
I hope someone reads this and thinks I'm smart,
thinks I'm special,
thinks "she's neat"

Will that resolve my defeat?
Doesn't matter.
I am predetermined.
I am programmed.
I am a robot.
Mar 2017 · 147
Untitled
Phoenix Rising Mar 2017
Women don't get as much done because they're always busy justifying themselves.
Feb 2017 · 848
Romney
Phoenix Rising Feb 2017
Fly high!
That's what they'll say,
after you wreck your car
and spill your brains.

They won't know--
or maybe they will.
****** tomb,
disguised as "wonderful daughter,
great friend."

Everyone has earplugs,
blindfolds too.
The epidemic is supplying
some for you.

Russian roulette
has some competition.
This ain't some new
invention...

Nobody cares--
it's not them.
Nobody cares--
unless it's them.
But it's too late by then.
Feb 2017 · 783
I love you
Phoenix Rising Feb 2017
5:25 P.M.

I have made a vow to myself.

I'll never let you go.

All the nicotine,
alcohol
and pills
can't wash you away.

You're a stain
I purposely poured ...
all over me.

I close my eyes
and I see
nothing but you.

Nothing but you and me.

Love ***** me up
---for better and for worse.

But I won't let my mother
and my father
pass down this....
curse.

Some day we will
purify our love
and it will no longer hurt.
Feb 2017 · 361
Blowing Off STEAM
Phoenix Rising Feb 2017
I hope that baby feels like razor blades all the way out of your already-ruined ****.
You're beyond ******* hopeless you adulterer, simple, bipolar, unsuccessful, succubus bottom-feeder.
Eat **** and seriously DIE.
I hope you cry every night knowing that you've already peaked.
I hope your husband ***** more girls behind your back.
I hope you want to die when you realize you don't have it--you never did and you definitely don't have it now--and that nobody wants to **** your sack-of-potatoes body.
You're cruel and doomed to your repetitive ways because your IQ is unfathomably LOW.
I hope your ignorance dissipates only so you can be miserable in your pool of shittiness while your low IQ prevents you from ever saving yourself so you forever live a life in hell.
I don't even believe in God and I ******* HOPE HELL EXISTS SO YOU CAN FOREVER ROT.

****, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE.
Feb 2017 · 412
Untitled
Phoenix Rising Feb 2017
Keep your family close...

It's easy to forget about the people who are near you every day.
Don't take them for granted.
They are the answer to all your problems, in a way.
My grandmother hugged me today.
We both cried over my dying grandfather and her dying soulmate.
This death will bind us, bind the time I took for granted---No more of that.
I have made a pact to take care of her damaged heart--differently damaged, beautifully damaged heart.
It's broken like my grandfather's, who has a short time-span.
I'm as scared as he is.
Jan 2017 · 416
r.i.p. josh bonner
Phoenix Rising Jan 2017
lost someone to ******. first time but im sure it wont be the last...
havent spoken in 6 years but it still hurts a lot..to see these people grow up innocent and turn to a place so lonely and sad and dark..
WELL....ANOTHER ONE GONE AFTER THIS POST.

RIP CURTIS KASHMIER
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