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Vindex Jul 2020
Act fast
Leave now
You’re not the last
For the river is coming to plow

There’s a path
Yes right there
Cross now or feel the wrath
Unless you dare to face the river

It is not too late
Please, do not let me wait
For there’s a river beside you
Which you cannot swim through

You’re ankle deep in water
Not enough yet to falter
Please just take my hand
Or you won’t be able to stand

This sandy road
Is about to wash away
The river has not slowed
There is no time to delay

Look right behind
There’s a crowd of raging fire
It is half of mankind
To get across, they aspire

Don’t let them burn you
For they can turn you
Don’t get caught in their flame
Cause it will be you everyone will blame

The water is now up to your waist
So you have little time left
Just increase your great haste
To which you can attest

I see you slipping
You’re chin, it is dipping
The fire is on your hair
There will be blood everywhere

I can’t go in
I can not save you
The flood takes those with sin
I thought you knew
Don’t let the river take you
rarae aves Jul 2020
Everyone has been hurt.
Everyone feels hurt.
We either suffer, check out or
make meaning,
As pain is inevitable.
With or without our conscious knowledge it happens to get us all.
There’s no escape. Only choices.
Raven Blue Jul 2020
I'm twisted inside.
My emotions are unstable;
And just like my emotions, my choices are also unstable.
It keeps going back and forth.
I'm twisted inside;
And don't know what to do.
It is very confusing.
I’m lost.
What do you want me to do?
Whatever you want.
Yeah, but that’s just code for
you-should-know-what-I-want-you-to-do-without-asking-me.
If I don’t pick the option I’m supposed to,
The first time around,
Without asking what to do,
People will be disappointed, mad at me,
And you know what?
I'll be mad at myself, disappointed in myself, too
It’s like that game,
Where there’s a coin under one of three hats,
The hats get spun around,
And you have to guess which hat has the coin.
Only if you pick the wrong hat,
You’ll never be anything but The One Who Was Wrong, the embarrassing one,forever.
And guess what?
Surprise. There was never any coin in the first place,
Just a sick, stupid, meaningless
Choice of options,
That aren’t really options at all.
Sometimes i still take forever on trivial decisions before i remember i wont get attacked for not picking what someone else wants me to pick.
Unpolished Ink Jul 2020
Move and drown or freeze
Sometimes decisions are hard
Learn to fly instead
Just having a little fun now
Vaampyrae Jul 2020
I choose to love
I choose to be happy
And well, ***** society if it tells us it’s beautiful to be sad
it’s  exciting to hate, to revel in misery
to wallow in unending pity
to numb yourself with a mask just to please others

No

We deserve to love
We deserve to know that we are loved
No amount of fakeness can take away this reality -
how we live our lives towards nothing, really
but that nothing can actually be made into something
if we just choose to see that while there are things worth dying for
there are also things worth living for

Life

And if I cry along the way, if I have to cling onto desperation
just to keep myself from falling back to the old me
I will
because I can and will be happy
because now I know that I have always deserved to be happy
just like everyone else

Maybe if we only choose to stop for a second and actually try to live
for what makes us happy
to search and suffer for it knowingly
to hope despite all the uncertainty
to feel and to know that the choices we make do form our reality -
who knows?

I choose.
Another spoken word poem. Had a poetry block these past few days, but now I’m back.
Might be rusty, but I’m doing my best 😌.

You will have moments like these, moments of numbness and lacks of happiness, but as long as you find it in you the hope to live and feel again, it’s okay. You can come back, love. You are in power of your own happiness. Know that.

Love, You
Zhavaed Haemaed Jun 2020
I walk slowly.
For I do not know,
Where I must go.

There are many a road
That afront me, fork out.

And yet I do not know,
The one I must take.

And thus
All I do is,
Walk slowly.
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