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Katlyn Orthman May 2013
You look at me but do you really see?
Can you see the pain?
Or the shame?
The scars?
Do they define me?
Maybe it's better I didn't know
Maybe...
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
You used to fight for me
Like I fight for you
You used to help me see
And I'd help you too

But lately I find myself more and more alone
And you seem to be so far away
I feel like no ones home
And I'm alone to stay  

You slowly drift away from me
And I just try to keep up
You're so far I can barely see
I want to call your name but I'd hate to interrupt

I reach beside me but you're gone
I try not to cry
But you've been beside me so long
I can't understand but I try

I'm so alone, and afraid
I'm searching for your face
I smell the sheets where you laid
You aren't there, it's just cold empty space

Why aren't you here
I miss your embrace
This single tear
For a heart I misplaced
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
Goodbye fragile soul
Sadness overwhelmed the heart
Of a fourteen year old today
He fought and he fought
But the dark swallowed him
I shed these tears for him
I whisper his name to the stars
And scream it to the clouds
The words scraped across his already bleeding heart
"******" "loser" "poser" "freak"
Each another cut into his flesh
Until they added up to the rope around his neck,
Swinging there lifeless the angles cried for him
And we lost him, and then they all care
Not when he pleaded for the help when we had a chance to save him
Not when his heart still beat firmly in his chest
Not when his skin was still warm
Only now do the tears splash upon his cold body
Only now do they ask god for him back
When he no longer breathes
When he no longer smiles
Or laughs ...or lives
I hold the memory of you In my arms
As I struggle not to leave myself
As I fight not to follow you home
Because though it hurts
I will live for you
I will go all the places you can't anymore
Breathe for us both
Smile and laugh for your spirit
Just promise to be at peace
And rest your eyes
Good bye
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
A beast inside of a beast
Four legged or two
A beast thick with fur, or a full head of hair
A beast you thought you knew
Until the full moon slips into the sky
And the two legged beast turns to four
A sharp piercing howling cry
Unravels the truth of the lore
Running along side a pack of beasts of four legs
The thick pads of their paws imprint the ground
And the need of speed simply begs
For the four legged beast to be found
Running tell that large moon lit brightly in the sky
Lowers it's shining head beyond the horizon
The four legged beast turn back too two with a cry
Saddened that the race was done
Looking up at the pastel sky the beast says until next time
And off he goes to resume his normal life
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
When your friends are falling apart
And you own a broken heart
Your eyes fill with tears every time it's dark
And the pain inside hurts
You overflow with this need to fade
And you wish you could trade
Your life for the perfect ones on tv
And your dying inside but no one can see
You split your skin again, people won't understand
And you hate yourself for the scars left on your wrist below your hand
But in the dark there looks like only one road to go
And if there's another you just didn't know
And the rain is falling harder than it was before
The thunders so loud it shakes the door
We can't be perfect I'm nowhere near
But maybe if I pray loud enough god will hear
Maybe if I ask for him to just hold me
Like I need to be
These feelings and thoughts will subside
And I can fix myself inside
Imagine that wouldn't it be nice?
But something so easy always has a price
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
The morning light spilt in through the window
The birds chirped a soft melody
The curtains swayed with the breeze
And I watched the ebbing trees
Today I honor a woman I trust
A woman who gives me all
Today I honor a woman so strong
A woman who never falls
Fighting through all the blood and disaster
Fighting through all the pain
This woman fought for everything I have
And crazily she's still sane
I love you mom
Don't ever forget
That I love you with all my heart
And you fight for us even if we don't see it
And I will never forget
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
Fighting for something I believed was right
Something I was willing to die for
I wouldn't give up whether dark or light
I stood there a soldier

Until I found out that nothing was true
The whole thing a lie
This thing I believed in through and through
That I would've put down my life

It tore me apart left me shredded in wait
For a death to come sweep me away
But I picked up my head and followed a fate
That would leave me here to stay

It was hard at first
But sorely I moved on
It could've been worse
Every dusk and dawn

But a soldier fights even if the orders change
Even if it seems impossible
Even if you lost your way
And I'm a soldier through and through
To the bone and I made it too
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