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340 · Aug 2016
Undisciplined
Lilly frost Aug 2016
Circles and loops
Jumping through hoops
Avoiding the fires burning below
My scar covered body enforcing the legitimacy of my woe
Burns are worse then bruises
I'd rather have those
I've been here so long
Trying to escape
I no longer know which way to go
I stumble and tumble
I run and crumble
Trying to avoid the flames that have seared us all
Down to the meat
Down to the bone
I would much rather have lept eleven stories onto stone
When bliss is this
Bonfires instead of infernos
I would rather be dead
Not running through my head
Circles and loops
Jumping through hoops
What a daring act to feature
Acrobatics performed clumsily
So as to not be covered in scar tissue
340 · Apr 2017
Sweet Dreams
Lilly frost Apr 2017
I know better than to fall asleep
Deep sweet sleep
Ceremoniously swept away onto a red carpet behind my eyes

Why is the carpet red
Why can't I see
Nothing but red trails and dark black emptiness staring at me
Where am I
How did I get here

I follow the trail faithfully never knowing where now it will lead
A sweet dream
Long lost lullaby
Maybe I won't see anything until sunrise

Oh what a fool
How could my mind ever be so sweet
No
I follow blood
Dragging along behind my eyes
Because I couldn't meet my sleepless demise
Now I am stuck inside
Following the bloodlines
To my nightmares
Waiting for me to arrive
339 · Apr 2017
Untitled
Lilly frost Apr 2017
Hello there
How are you
I just wished to enlighten you
Splitting apart our community isn't something I would suggest
We won't go down without a fight
We won't be the sheep that you guessed
Rolling over and becoming a bridge
For your muddied feet to walk on
Well
That's something we'll resist
Take a look back
Back into history
We love our community
Love our school
Even that bad times
We love it here
Grew up with much juevenille cheer
We have walked these halls for many a year
Eve and morning
It wasn't all that boring
We enjoy it
So never fear
Your plan is trashed
All out of whack
You'll sure see us all back next year
If any of you are in Youngstown city schools you know what I'm talking about.
338 · Jun 2017
Family
Lilly frost Jun 2017
Once again the shovel hits the ground  blood oozing out
Drip
Drip
Dripping down
Grey gravestones
Staring unforgiving
As you condemned yet another
Violence among each other
Brother against brother
'till you decide to lay him with your mother
337 · Sep 2019
Someday
Lilly frost Sep 2019
Bestowed by a summers dream
A winters sleep
A falls cool sigh
And a springs daring eye
To lead with a love like no other
To cry with tears of paths torn assunder
To help and love and throw it all away, just dreaming about someday
But someday is never now and someday is never tomorrow
But someday just one-day I'd like to live like someday could be tomorrow
In an hour, a minute, a second
I'd like a chance where I wouldn't go and wreck it
A time, a place, a segment of space where I can find a someday
A someday to be
To live without need or want or worry
Where I can float in life instead of hurry
To live and breathe calm serenity
To fix an aimless path
And be by just being
Instead of forced believing in a tomorrow when tomorrow never comes
Everyday is the same day
No love is true love and even if it were its not my love
Because who could find love in aimless wandering?
Who could love a creature with no direction?
Who knows not head from foot or ceiling from ground.
Because of a someday I will dream until tomorrow
For a life that was earned and never meant to borrow
337 · Oct 2015
Flowers for the Dead
Lilly frost Oct 2015
Flowers for the dead
Shriveled and dried
Just like their hearts

Flowers for the dead
Lush and pure
Just  like their souls

Flowers for the dead
Starry and brilliant
Just like their minds

Flowers for the dead
Really flowers for the living
For those alive are dead inside
Those who are dead are dead outside

They see more than the living
For the living are dead

They see more than the living
For the dead are alive
333 · Jun 2019
The Twist
Lilly frost Jun 2019
For those who fall fast
Past the pits of time to those depths of mind
For those who refuse and refuse the refuge of a single thought in which they are sane
A changing mind is no enemy
A turning heart can tear apart the brightest of suns or the darkest of seas
A changing mind may leave behind a life unadored
But open your eyes to a life that was left unexplored
327 · Aug 2016
F.A.M.I.L.Y
Lilly frost Aug 2016
Falling
Apart
Most
Infamously
Lying
Yet again
323 · Nov 2015
Little Bit Of Hatred
Lilly frost Nov 2015
Hatred
Boiling...
Bubbling...
Rising...
But I digress
This emotion I do suppress
But when you pound my head into the ground
Take my hair
Throw me round
Sit on my chest so I can't breathe
Scream
And scream
And scream
About how you hate me
Should've never had me
How much of a disappointment I am
How much of a failure...
Tell me how much you protect me
How much you love me
Cry and try to hold me
Try to touch me
I think I'm entitled to
Just  a little bit
Of hatred...
320 · Jun 2015
E
Lilly frost Jun 2015
E
Everyone has someone to love
Even me
Everyone has someone to love
Even you
320 · Apr 2016
Weak and Strong
Lilly frost Apr 2016
The war between the weak and strong
It rages on
Yes it rages on
Through the inky black of night
Through the shining blue of day
Each thinks one is the other
How little do you think of one another?
To believe that for past mistakes you must always pay
Pay in full
Once it is found that payment is needed
To think that past mistakes cancel your current strengths
When in truth your strengths are the product of mistakes
Why believe the world is black and white?
When repeatedly in your life it has been proven instead to be gray
Why think one is strong and another is weak
Based on the testing of a few thousand characteristics out of billions
Why think you are one or the other when in truth everyone is both
311 · Jul 2019
A Tale As Old As Time
Lilly frost Jul 2019
Two paths diverged in a yellow wood one unknown and one understood
One dark and dreamy
One alight but dreary
Walked upon by two travelers long
One impatient and oh so weary
One settled and oh so Leary

What change do we need we'll walk in between

How and why There's no outcome to be seen

To be oh to be!
Just settle once in your ways and follow me!


I cannot I am far too tired
I'm afraid I must sleep
At the cross roads of my life let me lay and weep

Get up I say it'll be ok just so long as we know the way
The lighter path may be a bit unpleasant but at least all is quite apparent

I cannot
I will not
We'll end up peasants!
Why not explore, beg for more!
A darker path for a brighter life
A future that goes further instead of scrapping the bottom line

I'm sorry to choose but I don't like to lose
Change is too scary, I'm afraid I'm leaving you

My life, my love
We've made flesh and blood
To leave for a common impression instead of working for something refreshing is the worst possible path
I'm sorry I just can't live with that

I can't follow you
I know so I must go

The two travelers paths diverged in a yellow wood
They left each other
No longer side by side
Along the paths they fretted
Waiting for a time mist dreaded
That old familiar sigh, of another traveler by their side
311 · Jun 2015
Fireflies
Lilly frost Jun 2015
Summer nights
Blinking lights
Before your eyes
Fireflies
308 · Jun 2015
You Are Amazing
Lilly frost Jun 2015
You are amazing
In every sense of the word
Every step of the way
308 · Jan 2016
Helpless
Lilly frost Jan 2016
Useless
A *doll

A broken toy
There must be something
Anything
To help
To *
fix
307 · Jul 2019
As it Happens
Lilly frost Jul 2019
A life for a life
Equals a loss on either side
Every excuse you make for war is hatred and pride
Its unneeded
Warnings go unheeded
When arguments get heated, its always time for another fight
One by one we all fall down
Dominos of grief for those that reside underground
306 · Apr 2016
Sleepless
Lilly frost Apr 2016
Beaten and bruised
Purple and blue
From the weary loss of sleep
Sleep that before I did not need
296 · Jun 2015
Dust
Lilly frost Jun 2015
Dust
It settles
Dust
It flies
In swirling waves
Up to the sky
296 · Jul 2015
Tick Tock
Lilly frost Jul 2015
Tick tock goes the clock
Fallen down its over now
Gettin sick
Tired of this
Half alive
All the time
Another face
Out of place
Out of time
295 · Jun 2015
For I
Lilly frost Jun 2015
Masquerade of hate
Revenge is my favorite game
Don't forgive
Don't forget
I have no regrets
I am the king of remorse
Though I don't  feel a thing
I'm sorry that I'm not sorry
I don't know what you're talking about
Swear I didn't do a thing
Perfect angel child
My past isn't far behind me
Ill go back someday
Ill play
Ill play
All of your stupid little games
Ill try and ill try
I will get by
Rise to the top
I believe
I believe
I will accomplish my dreams
I swear
Masquerade of hate
Success is my favorite game
290 · Nov 2015
Midnight Killing
Lilly frost Nov 2015
Red teardrops
Throughout the night
Collect in a pool
Reflecting amber light
You've been vicious and cruel
Blood stained knife
It lays across your chest
As you lay beside your wife
Three abreast
288 · Nov 2015
Music
Lilly frost Nov 2015
Faster
Faster
Speed up my heart
Play it louder
I'll be stronger
When once again
It is night
Play the songs who's tempos don't stop
Who match the beating of your heart perfectly
Pounding your chest
Coursing through your blood
286 · Nov 2015
Goner
Lilly frost Nov 2015
Somebody catch my breath
Spewing from my lips
Lifeless and cold
Please save my last breaths
Bury them with me like gold
So that one day
I may once again use them
285 · Nov 2015
In the forest
Lilly frost Nov 2015
For a slight of hand
You may be found
In the forest
Birds chirping all 'round
Stabbed through the heart
Tied to the ground
285 · Jun 2015
Everyone
Lilly frost Jun 2015
Everyone knows
Everyone sees
No one cares
No one believes
285 · Oct 2015
Johnny
Lilly frost Oct 2015
We carried Johnny home
Past the sycamore tree
A bullet sized hole apparent in his chest
A scarlet blanket covering his breast
A trail of red on grey stone
Followed Johnny home
Up to the door we marched poor Johnny
Just a child was he
We carried Johnny to his home up in the mountainside
His mother waiting there
Her face pale and scared
We carried Johnny home to his mother in the mountains
Hardly a word could he speak
He said I love you mum but I must go
I must go back down that road
Past the sycamore tree
For I can fight for myself and everyone else
And none shall fight for me
There Johnny lay
his fierce words ringing in everyone's minds
His mother reached down and gently shut his eyes
She said
Burry him in the battle field
Forever there he shall lie
Fighting for those who walk on earth
For the only peace hell have is if he's doing something great
So we carried Johnny down back past the sycamore tree
To lay poor Johnny to rest
The scarlet blood gone from his chest
Musket laid 'cross his breast
People wept
For that lost boy
For Johnny
Another child lost to the war
Bound to protect those who are in need
Bound to protect those he can
Bound in death and blood to the promise he made us all
284 · Jun 2015
Homocide
Lilly frost Jun 2015
A gunshot
That your body caught
Fell to the ground
A ringing sound
Pool of blood
A heavy thud
Empty eyes
Silent cries
Wasn't ready
Hold me steady
Flashing light
This isn't right
Sirens screaming
No more dreaming
283 · Nov 2015
Freedom
Lilly frost Nov 2015
I am not obsessed
Not with water
Not with the sky
It is simply love
Yes
I am in love
How each is free
To do what they wish
At any time
Day or night
How waves may crash and pound
Though a moment later they are silent
How the sky may never be defined in height
For it houses all 'stars' millions of light years away
I am not obsessed with either
Just in love
For each can do what they wish
Though one is on the ground
And one is far above
I didn't really know how to describe the freedom of the sky so any help with that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
280 · Nov 2015
Untitled
Lilly frost Nov 2015
Hush and shush
Close your eyes
Just let go
Take a dive
Do not fear
If you'll survive
Whats the point of having a life
If you don't live it?
279 · Dec 2015
Green for christmas
Lilly frost Dec 2015
Green comes in waves
Rolling over the ground
Slinking through the trees
Hiding in between branches
Meant to be buried in snow
It's too warm
To be winter
There is no cold
There is no white
There is no grey
Only green
278 · Jun 2015
Empty Pages
Lilly frost Jun 2015
Empty pages
We must fill
We write and write
Not of our own free will
Ink stains our hands
Ink stains our face
But at least we've filled
An empty page
278 · Oct 2015
Too Many Too Much
Lilly frost Oct 2015
Too much coffee
Too much love
Too many kisses
Too many hugs
Too much
Too many
Too many
Too much
Sometimes enough is enough
As you can clearly see
275 · Jul 2015
I'm Not
Lilly frost Jul 2015
I'm not a misfit
I'm not a nerd
I'm a person
A person that wants to hear
A person that wants to be heard
271 · Jan 2016
New Beginnings
Lilly frost Jan 2016
Here begins a new page
A new chapter
For fantasy
For laughter
271 · Dec 2015
Winter
Lilly frost Dec 2015
Snow
Sparkling
Unmarked
Until a car drives by…
Air
Cold
Numbing
Until you turn and go inside...
Wind
Whistling
Tearing through the trees
Until the storm ends…
What I love about winter and what I hate about winter in the city.
270 · Jun 2015
Nonsense
Lilly frost Jun 2015
A nonsense poem
A nonsense song
A nonsense line
A nonsense rhyme
Nonsensical nonsense
Time after time
Just for something
Something to write
269 · Apr 2016
Soldier
Lilly frost Apr 2016
Remember  when I cried?
When people died?
You held me tight
So I could continue the fight
I offered to carry you too
But you were a soldier in your own right
Marched on and on
Straight into the light
269 · Jun 2015
For K
Lilly frost Jun 2015
I'm sad
I try not to show it
And if I cry I just might blow it
The truth it lies behind my eyes
Under my sleeves
My friends
They stop me
I am loved forever and always
By them
I will be happy I will show
These little things
They are not worth it
So ill try to be happy
Ill try to show it
But if they speak to me again
I just might blow it
267 · Jul 2019
Untitled
Lilly frost Jul 2019
To those who looked but never listened
Never had the heart to bear witness
To admit you've felt something more than just a numbing ache
One who chooses not to recognize nor identify, with anothers' pain
Stuck in your own head
Lying waste to your brain
Can you imagine living like you use to once again?
The breeze, no longer choking and hot but somehow chilling to the bone
The colors no longer monochrome
The robotic tasks that you repeat are for some a momentous feat
For each breath of air comes so worldly care
Each care turns into a tearing pain as slowly you learn to love again
The landscape no amount of gray can cover
The eyes of a once blind lover
266 · Oct 2017
Trade
Lilly frost Oct 2017
I remember every detail laid out here
The sheets
The feeling
The smell
His voice coaxing
Telling us what to do
You don't remember a thing
How old even were you
I was younger by two years
He was my greatest safety
His betrayal my greatest fear
I remember
Why do I have to remember
You get to forget
Your brain builds defenses
One after another
The memories come flooding together
Stop them
Help me
Erase me please
I don't want to remember
I'll trade you
You can have words
I'll take the numbers
Just keep the memories
I'll take the numbness
266 · Jul 2016
Safe Keeping
Lilly frost Jul 2016
Phony crosses
Phony faith
Around my neck as a favor
I have sworn to keep it safe
No I'm not religious
No I'm not Christian
For you my friend you must know
I'll keep it with me
Even if turned to stone
When you come home seek me out
For you I will have your hold your last hope
Your token of luck
It may seem silly to those around
That a cross on a chain of silver would indeed be profound
But it was in the hands of those who you loved
The dying ones passing on their unused days of good luck
265 · Dec 2015
Smile
Lilly frost Dec 2015
Smile big
Smile bright
Shut your eyes
Against the light
Sometimes pictures lie
But smiles can lie too
264 · Jun 2015
At Least
Lilly frost Jun 2015
Your heart may break
Your bones may ache
At least you did
What you knew
Was right
Fair
Just
And kind
262 · Oct 2015
Love...
Lilly frost Oct 2015
Crime doesn't pay
Well enough to take away
All of the pain
Money down the drain
A single kiss
A feeling of bliss
Because that kiss was from you
I feel brand new
Fall today
No reason to stay
Out of love
Not sent from above
No other way
Nothing else to say
261 · Aug 2021
Untitled
Lilly frost Aug 2021
I crave a sense of normalcy
Everyday morale of routine
Cozy comforts of knowing you'll be here
You are always there
I want you here
I need you here

You'd be annoyed within a week
I just want you
The physical you
The goofy loving wonderful you
In my arms
In our home
In our bed
In my life

I want you home
Not on the phone
I love your voice
I no longer wanted in my headphones
I want you to hold me
Roast me
Joke with me
I want you to love me from here
Not from afar
There's only so far you can get by car...
259 · Jun 2015
Collection
Lilly frost Jun 2015
Out of ideas
Not out of words
Words written down
With no connection
That is what fills this collection
A collection of thoughts
Jumbled in my head
A collection of words
That shouldn't be said
258 · Aug 2021
Untitled
Lilly frost Aug 2021
What do you do when you have everyone to turn to
No one to listen
Who will help in times of need
When you need love and advice not action
When you need emotional support
Not the physical kind
When your heart is broken
Only willing to heal with patience and time

When your heart is scourned and demeaned
Forced into using its last box of bandaids
The last roll of duct tape
The last drips of paper machè and super glue
When there's no time to mourn
Only push forward
Achieving nothing
Always nothing feeling ashamed
Feeling broken, behind, lazy and unrefined

First a splinter
Then a crack
A short shatter later
Now your back
No more tips or tricks or tools
Just a thudding
A muddling
A hollow pounding with every step
A heavy being with a heavy soul
A shattered heart with nowhere to go
Turning slowly to dust with every punch to your beast

Nowhere to turn
Nowhere to run
Welcomed by the shadow of love,trust and support
Only to be trapped by the judgmental snear Reflected in your broken tears
257 · Nov 2015
You Say...
Lilly frost Nov 2015
You say that you are worthless
Ugly...

Well I say you're invaluable
Beautiful
Priceless...

You say you are crazy
Demented...

Well I say you're sane
Sensible...

You say to hate you
I simply cannot
There's too much to love
Don't try to downplay yourself
Your value
Your sanity
Your beauty...
257 · Jun 2015
Just because
Lilly frost Jun 2015
You aren't a failure
Just because you fail
You don't break bones
Just because you fall
You don't die
Just because your heart stops
256 · Aug 2021
Come Home
Lilly frost Aug 2021
Baby I need you
I don't know what I'm doing
I can't even surmise what I've done
One monumental climb after another
Nothing to show

God I miss you
I need you
Your reassurance and words
Your calming presence and the knowledge I've been heard

Please come home to me
I miss you
I need you
Your smile
Your strength
Your touch
When nothing is too much
When nothing hurts
All is healed by your touch
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