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Jeremy Betts Sep 2024
I stay silent
Too often my own words betray me entirely
I keep quiet
To eliminate any possibly of my past tracking me
Must calm the riot
Internal conflict in turn turns reality iffy
Must stay strategic
My mind gets creative trying to beat me down completely
Can't be complacent
Not while losing my footing on this plain of reality
There's no enjoyment
Living with a cranium teetering on the brink of insanity
Fear becomes a constant
So it never occurred to me these walls shouldn't be up permanently
I remain hesitant
When there's no certainty I can take down these walls safely

©2024
Malia Sep 2024
If only I didn’t care!
I could float through life unaware
I could spend my hours on practical things
Without wasting time, pursuing the truth.

If only I didn’t care!
I could ignore the annoyances, anger
Would be a far-off imagining.
The world would be gentler, muted
Peaceful, calm, and placid.

If only I didn’t care!
I could lose the bright contrasts and
Colors and flaws that make me
Who I am.
Ah, perfection always
Looks the same, no?

If only I didn’t care!
It would all be so easy.
It would all be so easy and
Dull.
Nasus Sep 2024
After years of turmoil and deception
Of another’s making,
Finally comes peace of mind.
How glorious
That
stillness
sounds.
TG Price Sep 2024
I like to sit beneath my open-aired pergola,
That I may listen to the gentle
Pitter-patter of rain droplets
Softly colliding against the aluminum,
While the wettened ground breathes, and
Fills the air with a delightful
Earthy fragrance.
TG Price Sep 2024
I often walk through my garden
Alone, that I may simply
Exist amidst the soft breeze, and
Contemplate upon the stillness,
Until existence itself becomes so,
So light and delicate, that
Even the mildest wind could
Gently whisk me away.
Vida Sep 2024
I want you to understand me
truly me
What makes me
me
What makes my muscle sore
What shakes me to my core
There is so much more to me than you will ever understand
You weren't delt this hand
no matter what I tell you
You cannot understand my struggle unless you have lived it
You cannot be the person I talk too unless you have felt Like life is not worth living
I know I have friends thats a fact I do not doubt
I don't want a friend.
I want a person that I can live life with forever.
And they will never leave me through love and sorrow.
They will want me around, not as a love but to love
The person who time stops when we're around each other.
But you can't be my oxygen and neither can I
I have to breathe the air that lies in the sky
Tint Sep 2024
Want to know what terrifies?

I claim
I am afraid of heights,
why?

my first thought
is
to
jump
.
.
,
LewisVC Sep 2024
A difficult year for all to see: breakup, betrayal and travesty.
Yet through that pain our hearts connect, our spirits soar, a love unchecked.

I look for you, in all I see, and in that find sweet harmony. You are my love, my precious girl, your smile lights up my little world. This corner of life, in which we share, you take away pain and despair. And in its absence bring joy and love, as if an angel from above.

Not all is easy, sometimes we fight, we shout and scream, cause pain and spite. And though I yearn for better days, you do too, and so we’ll play, the game of life, and it we’ll win. You by my side, my sweetest sin.

Or so I thought, but was so wrong. It seems love cannot conquer all. The pain I feel, it burns so deep, but know love must be put to sleep. And fade away into the night, like sweet songs you used to sing to my delight…
A poem dedicated to the girl I hoped would be mine forever. In a strange way it now makes sense why I could not find the words to end this piece. I was trying to write a happily ever after that did not exist. I'm sorry
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