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355 · Oct 2017
Skeleton's
Lauren Leal Oct 2017
I'm dwelling in the catacombs of my mind
Where the bones of past me's come to be grind
Fuel for my Demons power, just temporary
But it all goes except the memory

It contains my deepest fear
But nothing draws near
As if I'm welcomed here
I see myself and it's my eyes to leer

The consequences of hate
Is a sour fate
Watching yourself become what you relate
Walking into your hells' gate
354 · Jun 2016
Mind the Memory
Lauren Leal Jun 2016
A bleeding poet, a pained writer
Burning the pages, red splatter
Another Story, of atrocious pain
In that, words we gain.
Writers, seemingly find themselves having far-more writings in the notions of a bad memory.
350 · Jun 2015
Yet You Are So Far Away
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
If I could just hold your hand once more

Just once more

*My heart could stop feeling so bruised and sore
Even if it only lasted a moment. It would be one I will never forget.
344 · Feb 2018
Wishing
Lauren Leal Feb 2018
I'm on a stairway to heaven
I wished for it at eleven eleven
Though it was a wish you'd figure
That it wouldn't be me to
Pull the trigger
343 · Sep 2015
Remember
Lauren Leal Sep 2015
In the darkest of times, memories light up the darkness.
Thoughts
343 · Jun 2015
My Heart
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
consists entirely of a
                       raging vortex of
                                       Fire and Ice
Never ending emotions that either burn it or make it cold.
343 · Dec 2016
Set Alight
Lauren Leal Dec 2016
My soul was my home and she was the arsonist.
Forever charred and scarred.
342 · Jun 2019
Heavy Hand
Lauren Leal Jun 2019
It's hard to write
When its only for me

It doesn't feel right
It's an empty plea

Each word forever pasted
Just seems like my time is wasted

It's so hard to write
With this blight of grief

It's hard to write
When it's not a relief
It's not helping the same.
342 · Oct 2015
False
Lauren Leal Oct 2015
I lie to myself more then I have to everyone.
An epiphany I had.
340 · Sep 2017
Fake Limbs
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
Some come my time to write
Do I just run or take flight?
I think of all I did wrong
Why couldn't we just get along?
We fed like vultures to prey
Wearing a new mask each day
With that same sad smile
That anyone can see within a mile
Riding high on that good ****
To ***** out what I need
Because I just wanted to help you
But just help you is all you would do
For 9 months no not 10
I don't think I could ever do that again
340 · Sep 2019
Past Strains
Lauren Leal Sep 2019
Tremble to the cause
Far planes in my heart on pause
Lost to time and to the pain
My eyes stricken
From staring into the rain
Drip drop, I'm the sinking ship
Down into the water
I'll take a dip
And a taste of my regret
The table is set
I'm the main course
Served to my demons as
Remorse
339 · Jun 2015
Courage to Walk
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Sometimes,
           even in Darkness,
                               you can still find the most beautiful of things.

*It's just a matter of finding the courage to walk through such Darkness.
338 · Jun 2015
Legacy (10W)
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Life is Death, but also the wake you have created.
I feel you have truly lived when even after death, the people whom you've touched along your way can't forget you and you 'live' on.
336 · Jul 2015
.
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
.
The current does not absolve you of your past.
336 · Jun 2015
Vast (10W)
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Life is but an atom to the universally imaginative ones
Random
335 · Jun 2019
Hand full of Sadness
Lauren Leal Jun 2019
The only thing I know is sad
It's all I've been given and all I've had

When happiness feels temporary
It's hard not to feel the contrary

I've got a hand full of sadness
That I dont want anymore
But I've always had this
So its tangled into my core

Woven into by bloodstream
Making life and living

Simply a dream
Mood. Expression for decompression.
332 · Oct 2017
Rubble
Lauren Leal Oct 2017
If there's anything that you should know
Is that I never really wanted to go
I would have used myself whole
To help you, that's the goal

Then there would be nothing left of me
So, I had to leave you see
There just wasn't enough for you
I ran out and didn't know what to do

To come up with more pieces
I made deals with Demons like car leases
To full fill your needs
Responding caringly to every plead

The cost was my happiness
That made me a mess
I never got a chance to be alone
Away from you or my phone

I buried every anger and every sadness
Which lead to my madness
You never paid no mind to me
I can do this can't you see!

I was left in the dust
You were steel and I was just the rust
You only know what what I spoke
Or that too I make a joke

You never asked about my heart
So that's why I left, because I fell apart.
Enneagram Personality 2-1 = Me.
329 · Jun 2015
In Liquid Form
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
I experienced true love,
                        When I sipped my morning coffee.
A must in life.
328 · Sep 2017
Burn
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
Stop acting like you're in a Broadway
So listen to what I have to say
That I know what and who you are
I learned that the first day
In the the passenger seat of your car
Stop trying to play the Angel in human skin
Obviously by how ****** you are you won't win
You need to find that you with something to give
I think it'll change your will to live
Stop trying to find people to compare
Like you do when you dye your hair
Thus begins the cycle all over
You truly represent my tattooed four leaf clover
328 · Jun 2015
Perceive (10W)
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
I'm cold
I'm weak
I'm alone
I'm sad
You're **perfect
When you hit the bottom, most everyone seems so perfect.
327 · Sep 2017
No Advice
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
God be mad that I'm disappointed
That it was you I appointed
To receive all of my guidance
Like that last dance
Anger in each step made
In the fantasy of other men to be laid
In one ear and right out the other
Chances? Really, another?
We'll see what you really are in time
If you are reborn or stuck in grime
That you secretly created
To help you seem so sated
But I know I am real
But there was a gap in the deal
325 · Jun 2019
Wooden Walls (10w)
Lauren Leal Jun 2019
My walls are my fortress, but also my personal coffin.
324 · Jun 2015
Speak
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
My mind is in a fray
I can't seem to find the things to say
But when I do find them to speak
My heart shakes and my knees get weak
I'm afraid of saying something wrong
And I've waited too long
You walk away
Without hearing the things I need to say
I want you to stay with me
I just can't think, can you see
I want nothing but you
Please understand and love me like you do
Darling don't move along
Stay and read the song
Of what my heart may feel
But my mouth will seal
Know that I love you ***
That you are my Moon and Sun
This is someone I once dated. She had the hardest time saying what she want and admitted to me that she was afraid of saying something wrong or something that isn't enough. So, I got her to write her stuff in lyric poems and it worked.
324 · Sep 2017
Denial
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
"We are more similar than each other will ever know."
323 · Jul 2015
So Worth It
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
Love, took the wheel and drove into one hell of a storm.
Worth the experience.
323 · May 2020
The Good and Bad
Lauren Leal May 2020
"We quote the good, but are poetic of the bad."
322 · Jul 2015
To Cut the Ties
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
Someone else cutting the ties is painful.
        
                        But ****, cutting them yourself is absolutely excruciating.
Something I'd rather not do again.
321 · Sep 2017
Simple Thoughts
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
Here I sip my amaretto
Sifting through what to let go
Listening to another indie band
Drink my drink, we'll see where I land
Reinvent a whole new plan
Whoever it was holding my hand
Sometimes would distort to less than human
But I fall asleep to the siren song
I let the waves rock me along
Why did it go on so long
Tasted like chronic from a ****
But that's as far as it got
Encased in fears trust is what we forgot
Hmm.
317 · Oct 2017
Daze
Lauren Leal Oct 2017
"I don't remember what it's like to wake up anymore."
To clarify: This was inspired by my own habits, I smoke, I drink, I smoke ***, and I drink coffee like a God. Always needing a stimulant, a surfacing symptom of depression.
315 · Nov 2019
Afloat
Lauren Leal Nov 2019
Ghost Knight
Dressed in all white
Remnants of the twilight
Of the long fight

Fought in your head
With depression
Best served
In bed

Restless and blue
The stay of morose
Long overdue
Looking back on the dead versions
Of you

Day in and day out
This and that
With some doubt
As you try to muscle about

To stay afloat
On this rickety boat
315 · Jun 2015
I'm Letting Go for Good
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
I''m letting go for good darling
I'm sick and tired of the quarreling
You say that you love me ever so much
That you want to be with me and feel my touch

Yet you never answer your phone
you don't ever reply, you leave me feeling alone
You get mad when I then make assumptions
Then you come up with all these presumptions

You can't even follow your own word
When I call you out, you act like a coward
You come up with the same excuses
With that my trust it reduces

You are not the one I remember falling for
That one must have died crumpled on the floor
I can't see the light with us anymore
Which is unfortunate, because only you I could adore

I'm letting go for good ***
Consider myself dead and done
I was hoping for a better outcome

I can no longer love what you have become
Happened on my birthday at that
314 · Jul 2015
The Bleeding Poet
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
Don't mind me, I'm just bleeding my heart out one poem at a time.
314 · Sep 2017
My Eyes Burn
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
Browsing women like a catalog
But I'm wrapped up in the fog
In the trail of destruction you left behind
You never look back so no knowledge you find
I think you need to just rewind
And learn to be kind
To yourself and all you consider a friend
Or you'll just be alone in the end
311 · Sep 2017
Its all part of the Show
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
I'm the puppet, you the puppeteer
A master in how you control and steer
But the problem with being a puppet doll
Is that we don't know love at all
We simply do what you need
And hear ever plead
When we try to walk away
It's you that gets the last say
It's always I love you, said just the same
As if it's some sort of game
Of cat and mouse
But I'm a puppet, so you tightened the strings
Once you saw them you clipped my wings
Captivated by that siren song
It's okay I'll follow along
Written for another and being able to relate.
311 · Jul 2015
Coincidences
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
It's funny
          how the day
   I realized I could write,
                        Was the day
                  
                                       she left.
311 · Oct 2016
Unspoken
Lauren Leal Oct 2016
I'm nothing but shambles and the words I can't write.
304 · Sep 2017
Heard Again
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
"I've run out of words, It's all something you've heard."
303 · Oct 2017
A New String & Needle
Lauren Leal Oct 2017
"I sit here stitching myself back together
Wondering if this time too, it'll break
or finally last forever."
297 · Sep 2017
After this Time
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
"It's at your side, that I should not have left."
296 · Dec 2015
Ideals (10W)
Lauren Leal Dec 2015
"Once again, someone proved my ideal of love completely wrong."
(In a good way)
294 · Oct 2017
In Time Passing
Lauren Leal Oct 2017
"You are now simply a dream, so it may seem."
294 · Apr 2019
Holes
Lauren Leal Apr 2019
My thoughts always streamline
With the usual I'm fine

But I'm now merely a shell
So flawless you couldn't tell

That I'd rather give up on my soul
Than experience another hole

That'll welcome itself into my heart
Whispering
Til death do us part
293 · Aug 2020
Seasonal Love
Lauren Leal Aug 2020
I can't just simply love
Simple words mean nothing appealing
When there is an absolute depth
To how I am really feeling

I love you like the first bloom in Spring
The singing of birds
The chatter of the bugs
I love you like picnic hugs

I love you like Summer's first heat
The blazing sun and a giant pool
The sweet repeat
The charcoal grill with searing meat

I love you like the first fallen leaf of Fall
You are the crunch of the leaves beneath my toes
You are the blanket
You are the first chill breeze that tickles my nose

I love you like the first Winter snowfall
Pure white, with footprint flaws
You are the snowflake upon my finger
Unique among them all, but here with me you've come to fall

To fall with you is what I'll do
I don't love in simplicity
I love in pictures and feelings
This is just a glimpse of what you mean to me
For you.
292 · Jun 2015
Simplistic Bliss
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
I swear, laying on her lap was heaven on earth.
292 · May 2020
Numbed
Lauren Leal May 2020
I'm wrapped up in my head
Through that forest fogged with dread
Congrats to my demons you won
I'm tired and numb

You've convinced me my fears are real
That I've lost and made a deal
Trapped in rewind
The same emotions are what I find

It's too good to be true
Now I wonder what to do
I'm angry and morose
Taking in depression like a drug overdose

I hate my own reflection
I'm always trying a new deflection
To pretend that I can't feel pain
In my forest, it begins to rain

I'll choose to die inside
I'll choke on my pride
***** what we call life
Next time, stab me with a real knife
It's beginning to hurt because of what I see, to what I know.
291 · Sep 2019
Refracted Photon
Lauren Leal Sep 2019
Sunset in my heart
But I'm the dying light
To come apart
And take flight

Into my dreams
Of a fake life
With gold streams
On a bronze knife

I'm a zombie
I'm a ghost
I'm dead to me
I'm not the Host
290 · Jul 2015
Poetry
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
It's amazing how I can show myself to the world,
without the fear of being hurt.
To the readers, you are amazing. I love you.
286 · Oct 2017
In One Ear...
Lauren Leal Oct 2017
"Your voice was a sweet lulluby, such a bittersweet goodbye."
286 · Oct 2017
Fallen Leaves (Haiku)
Lauren Leal Oct 2017
Autumn leaves burn red
Crunch and snap from where you
                                                             tread
Nap to rest the head
285 · Jun 2019
Bitter Void
Lauren Leal Jun 2019
There's a void in my soul
That makes me bitter with no control
Not to anyone just to me
Disgusted in what I see

Not just what's outside of me
But everything I'm to be
Angered at every step I take
As if each second is wasted awake

I'd rather game til my eyes bleed
Or sleep like it's my only need
Mood
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