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Breeze-Mist Nov 2017
In all of my search
Never did I think that I
Would lit'rally win bread
Got my first job ever today! It's at a bakery, so workers at closing get some of the leftovers :)
Aerinlia Nov 2017
Protect me like a Knight
Heal me like a White Mage
Steal my heart like a Thief
Burn my passion like a Black Mage.

Blow my mask like the wind
Drown my sadness like the water
Light my courage like the fire
Welcome my future like the earth.
lex Sep 2017
what's funny is that
they tell you
you can do anything in life
but when you tell them
what you want to do
they laugh at you and say
you don't have the tiniest chance
people themselves are hypocrites
it seems that if
you think you can do anything
you're a fool
and don't deserve
to ever think anything of the sort
apparently, society tells you what you want to do, not yourself.
Sometimes I think back to the time we spent at school.

Hard plastic chairs, short desks and shorter attention spans.

We were children:

Indoctrinated with dreams of quiet homes and large offices. Of fieldwork, pride and gold-gilt fame.

We said that we would be doctors, lawyers, scientists, astronauts.

Never-mind the adult's delighted laughs! We reveled in mirth and wonder.

Now we say that we would be seeing doctors.
Needing lawyers.
Blood-shot eyes scanning tabloids that preached SCIENCE as if it were medieval magic. No, brother, correlation ain't causation.

How wonderful would it be to someday see humanity dance among the cosmos? Weaving between invisible holes cut into the pitch vastness of space.

Now we accept our jobs with a grimace and a sigh.
Uncomfortable as they may be, we've got bills to pay and loans to ignore.

We're all waiting for something to come after.

After puberty. After degrees of debt. After—

After we aged. Fragile from years of effort.
Snapping our backs to the rhythm of our daily commute.

I don't know what comes after, brother.

But I sure as hell didn't sign up for this.
Tyler Matthew Sep 2017
You meet a lot of people
working as a pump station clerk.
In fact, certain people begin
thinking you're their friend
and start telling you their business.
I know a friend of the mayor,
a city cop named Tim, who can't stand black people,
and I know a black man
who can't stand Tim.
There's a girl whose name I don't know that's pregnant and still drinks and says at least she doesn't smoke.
It's hard to not have an opinion
on these sorts of people,
but I do.
I just never express it.
I just take their money and they go,
and I sit here and think how I
hope I don't seem like them to
the other pump station clerks.
Maybe I seem rude to the other clerks, since I don't say much
and I don't try to be their friend.
I just give them my money and
pump my gas and don't say a word.
I hope they know that
I'm not being rude and I hope
they are silently thankful of me for it.
Dream Fisher Jun 2017
If time stood still for a month
I'd question the minutes I misused
If given a week, where I didn't have to think
I might find a second to relax
This American dream I'm suppose to be chasing,
Just feels like I'm racing between work and my bed
Building  a mountain of stress and a mountain of debt
And then I come home, underpaid, overworked
It's hard to not let a job, define my worth.

They build us up for years, kid, follow your dreams
Then tossed to curb, kid, your worthless, it seems
They don't understand, the price to move up these days
A 50 thousand dollar loan to get a degree
In a job that still doesn't pay.
Call me unmotivated, I'll ask for an offer worth my time
Where the pay is substantial and insurance isn't robbing me blind
"Go be a doctor, a lawyer, a suit"
And spend the next 8 years eating only Ramen noodle soup?

You don't get it, I get it. "My generation wants it all for free"
Then how come I feel like I have so many chains around me?
They combat us with fear, attack our esteem and integrity
Until you're weak and question your own abilities.
These kids pop pills because their stressed out from life
Have you seen the pressures thrown at them every night?
I'm not saying we're victims, I'm saying we just need help
We're a lost generation as past ones only fend for themselves
Ira Desmond Apr 2017
I:

In which
I

amid the
whirring lights

and emerald
felt

drift
through a

raucous
flashing casino

searching

for a
table

with an open
chair

so I can
finally start

to play
the game


II:

In which all of us
are together again at last

for a family gathering—
Thanksgiving supper, perhaps—

and, as we greet each other,
I happen to glance skyward,

unthinking,
and notice that clouds

of a turbid
cumulonimbus gray

are beginning to coalesce overhead.

I look up again and notice
that they have spun

into dozens of funnel shapes,
each of them

starting to reach down for us
like the ashen fingers of Death.

We huddle down in the cellar,
praying the storm will pass.
sunprincess Jan 2017
Greetings and salutations,
Mr. President Trump
It's a beautiful day,
and congratulations
4 years and perchance,
Who knows 4 more!

Now the power is yours
to make lasting changes
improve our economy,
reduce our national debt,
And stop global warming!

Thanks for bringing back jobs,
and protecting our borders
Bringing back our dreams,
And making America first

For both Americans  today,
and future  generations
I hope at the end of 4 years,
I can say job well done!
That Random Guy Oct 2016
random-thoughts
What happened between you two? ~they asked

nothing, we both are good :D ~I replied





others knowingly know

neither of us trying to make things slow



Save this

Relationship he screamed



Love ? Where are you?



Everything is fine...

Everything will be okay..

Just lets not delay...

I miss your smile...

I miss your talks...

I miss you cause I love you...





~Random Thought
Everything is fine...

Everything will be okay..

Just lets not delay...

I miss your smile...

I miss your talks...

I miss you cause I love you...
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