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Here we go
She screams my name
I frown, she laughs
I walk away
Stampedes my chest
I clench my fists
The door is closed,
I mope and cry
The anger strikes
I claw my way
Tear no more,
my bleeding heart
This place's too tight,
The house has gone wild
'Till when could I say
that it'll all be alright?
Just another day that I couldn't breathe

© Cyrille Octaviano, 2015
Submerged underwater—stayed right there,
letting my body loose and my eyes slowly open.
I took a breath and watched as the bubbles
escape from my nostrils—I could clearly see this
vast blue ocean before me as I drift away from
All I Once Knew.
Sunk back to the phase of being kept in the womb
My mind has now been refreshed, awaken.

© Cyrille Octaviano, 2015
I could not deny
these feelings inside
Voices are roaring,
there's no place to hide.

Droplets of sweat;
blood staining the carpet
Walls stripped bare,
I await this comet.

To the stairwell I go,
oh, starry, starry night.
Come and take me away,
tomorrow meets *tonight.
© Cyrille Octaviano, 2015
  Jun 2015 Cyrille Octaviano
Eris
Are you blind?
Can you not see?
That I am being hurt by thee

Are you deaf?
Can you not hear?
The screams that yell "my dear"

Are you mute?
Can you not speak?
Because all I see are walls of brick

Are you numb?
Can you not feel?                          
My love for you is real*

                                                          ­                              To you I long to show
                                                            ­         Your words that bleed and blow
                                                            ­                   I long to make you listen    
                                                      ­          To keep me in your arms of heaven
                                                          ­                             To you I wish to speak
                                                           ­         Of words of mine, not to be bleak
                                                           ­                           I long to make you feel
                                                            ­                            Love with all its thrill
                                                          ­                         Maybe then we'd be free
                                                            ­                   From our hearts' animosity
She did not find the grim
in falling apart. For
every time she found herself
to be broken, she knew
she was brutally remaking
herself, and collapsing
to be reborn like a
rioting star; haunting the
dark sky.

© R.M. Drake
Found this
You've lived long enough
to never say goodbye.
?¿

© Cyrille Octaviano, 2015
5 am. Still awake.
I have waited years
for this flower to unfurl
Calling out its name,
only to hear a faint echo.

The girl whom you saw
disappeared later on.
The one that was found
can never be the same.

* * * * * * * * * * * *

From the year you left,
the girl met a friend
Being too innocent and naive,
she was taken for advantage.

From the second year you left,
she finally turned seven.
Closed her eyes and made a wish
then blew her birthday candles.

From the third year you left,
she's feeling more pain.
More bruises and scars
But she was too helpless...

She tried calling for help,
but was left, hung up.
The people would see...
but they'll just say: *let it be
.

From the fifth year you left,
she once awoke to a fight
screaming, swearing, this and that,
ended up with blood-stained glasses

From the sixth year you left,
she moved to a new school.
She learned, she excelled
finally thought she found her home.

From the eight year you left,
things started to change.
Battled depression, weeped everyday
Closing the end, but lived once again.

From the tenth year you left,
she wonders why she's gone numb.
Now you're back, forcing words
All that's left to do was to burn her to ashes.
After 10 straight years, I'll finally be able to see my mom again.
Can't feel a thing.
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