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first
you ignore your medication
to feel healthy

then
you break hearts
to make yours mend

soon
you smoke your cigars
to breathe easy

but not until after
you empty your stomach
to feel full

before you know it
you're slitting your skin
to patch yourself up

eventually
you **** yourself
to feel alive

and
you smile
to hide the sadness
that never goes away

self-destruction
is the only non-destructive thing I know
for it keeps me alive
while driving me insane
 Mar 2013 Raven Black
Lili
None of my friends
Know I write
To ease the thoughts
Constantly streaming
Sudden waves
Changing tides
Crashing against my skull
Thoughts and thoughts and thoughts

Nobody knows
That I’m behind bars
Caged in
Peering through the tiny
Cell window
Incarcerated
Within myself
With just my ink
Stained hands
And the music that follows

None of my friends
Know the beat my heart drums
When I feel the words
Seeping from the page
Or from the screen
Etching my mind
Twisting and turning
A maze full of mirrors
Or a bulldozer
Carving a path
Through to my soul
Feeling feelings of feeling
Like no one is judging
Just me and this melody
 Mar 2013 Raven Black
Cam Stoker
i want to hold you
i want to help mold you
into a beautiful angel
sorry i am for the fact youve been strangled
suffocating in your skin
makes me wallow in my sins.

i love you for eternity
and if you will let me
i will love you double.

i promise youll never see another day of trouble
as long as your with me.

my heart bleeds for the pain youve been feeling
but we could just lay in bed and stare up at the ceiling
and twiddle our toes
to a melody we create
and i promise youll never have to sleep alone again when it gets late.
Eyes that look lost in a sea full of souls
They wander
Looking searching
Needing
Hoping that one day the hook will be real

I cannot hide these torturous ways
My body aches for this love
A heart full of shattered dreams
And a head
Screaming
Needing
In need of a world complete

The cast is thrown
A baited breath be ready
Heart
Mind
Body
Feel the breath of a thousand need's
I have heard it said,
That the lonely people stay in bed
And order
Pizza,
Pepperoni.
Oh if only I was lonely
I would call for cheesecake pie
And then I'd sigh and order
Pizza too.
Would you?
 Mar 2013 Raven Black
st64
Paving the way into the future
Sharing Montmartre songs
With painters on the side
Picturesque ideals....

You were once with me
Scarred by words of yore
Said beauty was all yours
Said I'd never high cheekbones.

I look'd within and sought light
And mixed colours, all from white
Temerity to stare life in the eye
With pain(t) dashed across my cheek.

So, now the years have roll'd
And many a canvas sold
You pass by...gaunt, high cheekbones
Wanna buy a painting?



Star Toucher, 22 March 2013
Kind return of a slap in the face....lol
You should see the painting....
 Mar 2013 Raven Black
st64
Birdsong
 Mar 2013 Raven Black
st64
Lost in reverie
Of being with you
So far and yet, so close
No good wishing for what can't.

Hope in words
To redeem found spark
Never assume, always ask
Can't ever know what reward awaits.

So, lark some more
By window ajar, lovebirds
Flutter onward with affection
Whose depth can be but felt in song.



Star Toucher,  22 March 2013
To anyone who's ever felt the futility of a hopeless situation...and yet still hopes, in spite of it!
 Mar 2013 Raven Black
st64
Step into the sunshine
Feel love's eye upon thy soul.

Hark! They've come to offer tune
Attend to thy heart.

Horizons stretched so far away
Yet you linger right here....

Thou canst not know how
Deep into well, cat's fallen!

Thy words filter so strong
Shine on, baby!
Shine on....



Star Toucher, 23 March 2013
Just a bit of ear-ly morning rabbidy-do....ramblin' on, dear Rose :)
A flower for you.
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