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96 · Aug 2017
Soulless (10w)
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
I lost my soul
So ****** deep
Inside of you.
96 · Sep 2018
Bump In The Night
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
Drowning in sin
Watch me burn
Doused in holy highs
Nothing left but bones
Don’t look in her eyes you’ll turn to stone
I wanna go, I wanna leave
This world might just not be for me
Hell is where we might find some peace
Don’t forget to breathe
When your minds at ease
When we’re chasing highway lines
In the moonlit hours
Certain things go bump in the night
95 · Jan 2018
The Gates of Heaven
Vinnie Brown Jan 2018
She begged me to come home
So I gathered
the eighth wonder of the world
An army the likes of the world
has never seen
And let them hear my words
“For if you all get lost within the shadows, look to me, let me be the light that guides you, and set the night on fire.”
And I unleashed them
Upon the gates of heaven
And angels fell
In desperation they called to Lucifer
Who brought with him his high command
And we slew them too
Blood soaked and weary
Collapsed upon the throne
Of the high heavens
God kneeling in front of me
Pleaded for answers
“For her, she shall have the world. So, nature call all your forces, your plagues and pharaohs, bring on your storms rages. I am headed home.”
For Annie
95 · Dec 2017
Chess Games
Vinnie Brown Dec 2017
So, here we sit again
In the high council above the heavens
Entangled in yet another chess match
You are black and I am white
A lot like the topic at hand
For I refuse to believe love exist
And you claim it’s all there is
I raise arguments of war, the ninth circle of hell, and pain
Yet, you claim it is all of it, pain, misery, torment, kindness, generosity, and hope
It is all Love
With each word my pieces fall
Check, check, and check
Till I feel my own northern wind
Sending shivers down my spine
Check mate
95 · Oct 2017
Human
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
How interesting is it
That the older generations
Don't understand
Our newer styles of music
For we live in heartless times
And simple electronics
Make our bodies feel alive
Feel something
Showing us that we're human
What they truly don't see
Is how we're addicted
To the highs and lows
Attempting to open doors that are closed
Begging for bitter sweets
We're all to young to feel this numb
95 · Oct 2017
Trouble Sleeping
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
I think the hardest thing
I've had to do
Was see this thing through
Knowing that you'd do
What you always do
Shoot me down for now
You slipped right through
In the moonlit rain
Subtle laugh line pains
I can see you haven't changed, only show love when there's things to gain
And if I'm not with you, I guess I'll have to teach myself to fall asleep again
If I need you, I'll see you in my dreams
95 · Nov 2017
Things
Vinnie Brown Nov 2017
With all the selfish things we’ve done
I hate that I don’t hate you
Although, I love that I don’t love you
No matter all the things we’ve done
95 · Jan 2020
Everything
Vinnie Brown Jan 2020
Floating on and on and on
Through the clouds
Made of black marble
Conversation leads to resolutions
Showing our worst behaviors
Oh, love of mine
Reprimand me when I’ve done wrong
For I am built of wrong
Engorged on your feverish love
But, believe me
You’re all I need in true reality
You’re the wind that shakes my bones
The warmth that seeds me home
Comfort in all of the worlds unsteadiness
Flowing of the waters in my creation
95 · Feb 2018
Donor
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
If I go
Let me go like a ******’ rockstar
Cause’ secretly I’m an ***** donor
And I’m more afraid of waking up
Feeling less alive than I do now
95 · Feb 2018
Sex For Breakfast
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
I love the proverbial highs
And I crave the providential lows
As we wander through the city of Lost Angels
Not really lost all
Just sight seeing
The beautiful and the ******
Looking for our own little hell
Soft whispers from devils
I'll bite your soul and you'll like it
Got her curlin' toes
And her smile getting wider
I can feel it in my bones
I'm catchin' visions of her soul
Watch her eyes roll back
Throwing the rights and wrongs down a deep black hole
Bending backwards
Pretending to care about the factors
Putting one another to the test
Having *** for breakfast
95 · Sep 2017
Faster
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
It's hard forgetting you
When you don't see the wrong you do
Moving on seems impossible to do
When the person you want moves faster than you
95 · Oct 2017
The Kingdom Of Us
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
Found myself running down to the ocean stream
Neck deep in the swirls hoping you'd find me in a dream
For uncontrollable emotions teeming with heartache
I seem to be teeming with lovers lost fate
Oh, drown in your love
Take me away, to the shores of begotten memories
Where the sun scratched waves
Draw away at my brain
Festered and spliced happiness
Revolves all around just your lips
We were dancing gods
Lost in embracing melodies
Never growing old, free to do it on our own
Crept back to the place we belong
And we can play pretend
Just don't play house with me if love is absent
Looking to go back to when we were fine
Looking to go back, except this time I won't make you mine
94 · Jan 2018
Sandbox Thoughts
Vinnie Brown Jan 2018
Life’s filled with some really ugly things
Some of the worst moments
And life’s gonna throw them really hard
And you’re all at least once going to feel
As if the world and everything you know
Is simply falling apart

Except life didn’t know one thing
You are you
And every fight within your own mind
Every fiber of your being
Screams for happiness
And, you’re all beautiful
All works of art
Covered in your own tattoos
Colorless and full of scar tissue
So, don’t give me that ****
That you’re tired and can’t go on
Cause, life isn’t about these moments
That are pretty and beautiful
It’s about these moments
Where you feel like your shell is cracking
And you get to take a couple deep breaths
Just to take the next step in your day
That’s living
That’s life
Every single day
And it’s stupidly gorgeous
94 · Jul 2018
Honey
Vinnie Brown Jul 2018
Did you know Honey never goes bad?
You can reheat it thousands of years later
It’ll taste just as good as it would fresh
If we survive and get out alive
I think that’s the kind of love I’d want
A forever type of thing
So, Honey would you like to be my love?
94 · Jun 2018
Cotton Candy Skies
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
It wasn’t until I was lost out at sea
Under the cotton candy skies
That I realized how lonely the oceans were
It must be why I like it so much
Relating to the lapping tides
As they push farther inland
Searching for something
They can’t seem to grab
94 · Sep 2018
Homely Hell
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
My favorite part
Of making deals with the devil
Was how free I never thought I’d be
While I’m burning up never feeling so cold
Yet, Hell was comforting
It felt familiar
So unlike Earth, foreign and misplaced
Sort of emphatically beautiful
Like everyone just took a little more time
To understand that we all had sins
Sharing our hot coals with eachother
Watching the others hands burn
The smell of apple crisp
Seemed to be so homely after all
94 · Jun 2018
Guiding Violence
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
I’m looking to you for guidance
All I can hear is silence
It’s radiating such violence
Is it the end?
The dawn?
The kick back
Into reality
Is often
Too hard to ignore
I guess let’s wait
See what the second act has in store
94 · Sep 2018
Dangerous
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
And just for one time
I want to feel like the dangerous one
While you’re chasing me
Weakened staring at my jawline
As I’m watching the city lights
With you not in mind.
93 · Nov 2018
I don’t exist
Vinnie Brown Nov 2018
Pretty sure I was doomed from the start
Everything in the world seems to fall apart
So, quickly...sort of love having a broken heart
Even all these drugs can’t fix me
Unless it’s mixed with whiskey
I’m not even sad, sort of just bored
Nothing can excite me anymore
The coast has lost all of its allure
New York use to be so pretty
Now it’s just a city
And all of these people
And all of their friends
Look so good together
And I don’t fit in
Cause’ they’re picture perfect
And I’m on the end
Cut me out the photo
So, they can pretend

Like I don’t exist.
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
You
And
I
We just never could catch eachother
At the right time
Could we?
93 · Aug 2017
Heavy Lies The Crown
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
Dreams and dreams of a man
The only one who can do what you do is you
Taken paths of decadence
To the moralities of an heart not yet corrupt
Lie two picture frames
The legacy of a man

1. The family and kingdom adored by all
2. A man of twenty-four atop the world, of snow capped states and stars, yet a lone for the glory

Heavy Lies The Crown.
To choose what to be is the greatest quest of man, especially the aspirations of a king.
93 · Feb 2018
Winter Moon
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
The moon and I have what you might call
A love hate relationship
As I find her overwhelmingly beautiful
And she likes to show me my loneliness
93 · Sep 2018
Maestro
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
And the hour was late
Standing in the dark
Open and terrifying
How the night air screamed
Headphones in
Eyes closed
With soft rap lyrics
And impending guitar riffs
Let your hands do the movements
Feel the words and beat
Conduct the symphonies
Get lost for the moment
Accepting certain peace’s
Lost to you during the sunlit hours
Choked up on life
Finally remembering to breathe
In the midnight hours when your minds at ease
When the sun starts to crack through the dark
It all doesn’t seem so desolate
93 · Sep 2018
Lipstick Highs
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
It’s always funny
Going through the motions
And you said you were feelin’ high
That’s a little how I feel
With just your lips on mine
And tonight we’re both a little drunk
Slow dancing in flames
Just you and I
Except this time I don’t want to just be another one of your lovers
93 · Sep 2018
Truce?
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
Every time I write
I’m filled with a feeling of this is the last
After this, I’m done and I’m complete
Just to find my veins filled with ink again
Dripping from my fingertips
Caressing your lips with all the unsaid things
So, disastrously impatient
Filled with incredulous amounts of self doubt
But, it seems you are too
Truce?
Funny how when we stop yelling
You and I both start to speak
Stop and wait for the other
There’s just nothing to say sometimes
And we’ve been at this for quite some time
Calling all skeletons
Hidden away by time
92 · Apr 2018
Visceral
Vinnie Brown Apr 2018
Pretty girl
In her feels
Poppin’ pills
Feelin’ visceral
92 · Jun 2018
KTF
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
KTF
She was a sun kissed blonde
With dark brown eyes
I swore they saw through me a few times
I wrote a long time ago
That I’d make deals with the devil
To know a girls name
This time I think I’m long gone
As I’d clip angel wings
And tear down the gates of Heaven
For a moment of her time
I can feel Hell’s heat rise in my veins
When she flashes a smile
And with the curves of her body
She pulls me into the sea
I find myself drowning even in the shallows
Katie Frana
92 · Aug 2017
Remains
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
We all have things hidden deep inside
And I am no king, no I wear no crown
But, you are still my queen that I've learned and my heart resides
You've taught me to trust
What lies deep inside
And, I still faulter in these desperate times
Still I weaken somehow
As time still slowly goes by
You refuse to let it tear me apart
Trusting the fears that lay upon my heart
For the day is losing light
But, you remain
Shining, oh so bright
92 · Nov 2017
Glimmers
Vinnie Brown Nov 2017
I’ve never been good with religion
It’s a damning personal decision
Even then I find myself on my knees
Begging you please
This world has glimmers of hope
They’re all that allow me to cope
To be honest, I shouldn’t be here today
It’s a moment I’ve learned to replay
Every day, in my mind it’s the only way
For I am a sinner and you’re a saint
Lost for words and only images to paint
I wanted to dance in the chemical rains
But, they never came
You were dancing with the sun
I guess I’m just not that fun
92 · Aug 2018
Take a Breath and Breathe
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
There’s this voice inside my head
It sounds just like me
It’s saying let go of some things
For my own
Even the screaming sun can’t block it out
And so, maybe I need a break
From all that I am
All that I was
Take a breath
Breathe again
Find what to write
Instead of dreaming that these words
Might just make it around some big town
I have fears that I’m a letdown
So, I’m reaching out with these words now
Telling my head that you may never be who you want to be
So, just take a breath and breathe
92 · Aug 2017
Couple Of Lifetimes
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
Saw you in the summer
Your face came to life
You could be my lover
Oh, baby we're falling so deep
Only took a couple lifetimes
Take our bodies higher
I saw you in my dreams
Middle of the night
You told me we're all we need
Together let's go
Your voice and sound set my soul on fire
The girl guys hope to meet by running into
Whoever you are
Just hope you take my body higher
92 · Aug 2018
For You
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
I do this for my father
Who I’ve only ever seen from time to time
In my dreams

I do this for my mother
Who’s finally clean
No longer a fiend

I do this for my sister and my brothers
The few that I unknowingly need

I do this for you
To understand
That these things are me
91 · Feb 2018
Self Destructive
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
Why does it sting?
When I see a comment or two
Liked by you and for all to see
Does my mind feel compelled to suffer?
I guess I’ll hope to figure that out tomorrow.
Like I always said
“There’s a line in Sensible Heart, I get so distracted by some people’s reactions, I don’t see my own faults for what they are.”
Except at times so self destructive
I’m here and you’re there
And there’s not a thought in between or so my mind tells me so
Maybe I’m wrong.
91 · Sep 2017
Her Storm
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
For she is my queen
Goddess of all my personal hells
Ruler of this heart
Torment and sweetness
Depths of madness only achieved
In craving kisses and unjustified bites
For the lands of my soul
Feel a despairing drought
When your love rains cease
So, please pour
Let your inner storm
Rage down upon
These fires within my heart
So, that you can begin to heal the charring remains
91 · Sep 2017
L.J.
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
Caught you dancing in the corner of my eye
You're a beauty, baby girl and I can't say goodbye
Can I go back to that night we had
A once in a lifetime kiss, it drove me mad
Laying arm in arm in the midnight summers laugh
Memories cut like diamonds, made to last
You always come sprinting back
To my mind
Seeing you every time you look your best
Take me back to that time you laid your head on my chest
I swear I don't belong here
For there are parallel universes where this didn't happen
And you and I made it out alive
So, I choose there, that is where my heart resides
Cause' a kiss from you is surely heaven sent
Let's get lost somewhere east of Eden
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
I seem to have always been drawn
To such simple things
How funny...
That she is ever so complicated
As her words dance
Like lullaby strings
90 · Oct 2017
Open Arms
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
Stubble and eyes worn
Just got in
You're pleasantries questioning my sins
Two wrongs never win
You claim you want to save me
I know you're frustrated
You know I feel the same
I'm stuck in the cold rain
Will you be my shelter?
Will you be my open arms?
Lost to my own devices
Patience just seems to wear you down
Sometimes I'm just so self righteous
It seems I'm indefinitely caught in the rain
This time I'm headed back to town
I know I can be saved
For I have a shelter
With welcoming open arms
90 · Aug 2018
The Heartbreak Room
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
Welcome to Heartbreak Room
The only place you can dance dying
I was just a little bit late
Lucky she didn’t have a partner yet
Sizing eachother up across the room
I kept stepping on her toes
She said “One more time and everyone will know.”
She must’ve meant my sins
Except those are common knowledge
Always up for show
So, this is what it’s like slow dancing with a devil
Before I knew it the room was filled with smoke and ash
And all I could see was the heavenly golden glint from your eyes
As the night wasted away
90 · Aug 2017
Name
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
So, point all of the blame
As I am the pain
For that is our game
Since we are one and the same
Just a dangerous train
A heart ready to be maimed
Cut deep from glass and shattered picture frames
A never dying flame
Creating the tenth circle of hell within my brain
Forever cursed with your name
90 · Aug 2018
Locks and Keys
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
So, there we were
Lost somewhere in where we wanted to be
And, where we seemed to be
Drowning in everything inbetween
Looking somewhere deep in my dreams
And societies lies are getting to me
For all we’ve ever craved is to be free
Daydreamers searching for destinies
While my sins are catching up to me
Thinking of memories
We’ll get to bring to life
Throwing away all the locks and keys
90 · Sep 2017
Sorrows and War
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
To the sorrowing man
May apathy get lost searching for you
For the age of war is upon us
Vinnie Brown Jul 2018
I stood head turned to the side
Feet buried in the sand
Watching the sun set behind you
Unaware of you're affect on the beach
Awestruck
As your curls melted into the glows
With the ocean screaming for me to run to you
In every crashing bellow of the tides
Although I a man of land and tree
Was hopelessly searching for a daughter of the sea
And we should meet where the sea and land shall meet
89 · Aug 2018
Inspirations
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
I hope that you’re the inspiration
To these words that caress my thoughts
Lost to an endless sea
Of what I wish I could say
Vinnie Brown Jan 2018
I fled the grasps of society
Gasping for the air of the open land
Maybe there I could finally breathe
Except I found that out in the open
You came crashing down like the ocean
Angry and seething as the sea
I wonder if the stars and moon
Look the same where you are
I wonder if your mind flutters and dashes
To thoughts of me
As mines covered in the star dust
In the ocean of stars
That you are
I want my heavens and my oceans too
I just want every single part of you
89 · Oct 2017
Lifetimes
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
Oh, Love
You're poetic venom
Seeped all the way to my core
Corroding the sanity of my words
Plaguing the inescapable reality
That you're nothing more than that
Just words
Yet, you hold such power over me
Maybe if I was the stronger man
You'd be just a casual Friday night
No, to the hazel eyed boy
You're lifetimes
89 · Aug 2017
Last Kiss
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
The days losing light
And we're running out of time
So, lover of mine
Come rush to my side
Please give me one last kiss
For such distance will soon
Spread between our lips
88 · Oct 2017
Prosecution
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
How curious for summer must end
As every line tends to cease
I feel you're incomplete
Yet, pushing to the ends of my reach
Even if you go unread
You'll still be one of my greatest treasures
For your words are me
Moonlit madden times
Suncrazed laughs and smiles
Just a glimpse to the realities
I'm dealing in time troves
For every line I write
Surely, does feel like a miss
So, here's a my confession
Summer may just be over
88 · Aug 2018
Naked
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
What are the words
That might just convince you
Not to get dressed
And just to let me catch my breath?
88 · Mar 2018
Curse
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
My self esteem been in the dirt
I don’t know my worth
I’ve been at my worst
Can’t explain my hurt
So, I write another verse
Seems I can’t shed this curse
88 · Mar 2019
Emotions
Vinnie Brown Mar 2019
And I am a showcase of emotion
Unprovokingly shining like a sun
Cast away in the middle of the night
Afflicted with envy and jealousy
Dreading dark waters
Afraid of the waves
Lapping at my hopes
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