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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
87 · Sep 2017
Wishing Wells
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
When
I
Was
Young
I
Use
To
Wish
For
Girls
Like
You
In
Wishing
Well­s,
Now
I
Just
Wish
You
Well
Witt Lowry
87 · Apr 2018
Cast Away
Vinnie Brown Apr 2018
She’s pulled to the black silver ocean
Where the currents
Clash and collide with the heavens
I seem to be caught in a swell
She is the lighthouse the sea mark
And I’m led by the currents away
I’m the navigator who never could lead
Aboard the mighty ship
One who could never sink
And you’re my only thought
If I go down the fear of the water’s amnesia
So, my memory is gripping
As the waves seem to be ripping
And your voice is an echo
Of things I don’t know
Some of stories I’ve been told
A light house, a voyage
Would someone please take notice
87 · Sep 2018
Decaying
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
We’ve been dying at a fast pace
And I’m addicted to the way you taste
Dim the lights
I don’t want to stay inside alone
Tonight’s the night
Let me see what will make you moan
You can hide inside all the places
I decide to never look
Always keeping your face in mind
Cursed with bad luck
Looks like we’re decaying from the drugs
87 · Jun 2018
Sea Worthy
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
I write of the seas a lot
It’s cause they still steal my breath away
To be honest they terrify me
They encase the ideas of freedoms
I haven’t known
For I am so ever trapped
Within my mind
Longing to be lost out at sea
On a sunny day
With no where calling my name
Pulling me to land
Looking for peace
86 · Feb 2018
Me and You
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
When the cities burnin’ down
Which of us will make it out?
I hope the only ones
Are me and you
86 · Aug 2017
Peaceful Bodies
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
In a life time of internal wars
I found peace in your body
Lost in the currents of loving vibes
86 · Feb 2018
Heaven
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
Let's write a confession
Nothing fancy, no rhyme scheme or pretty words
Truthful insights that a corroded mind calls home
What's home?
Down wishing wells
Lost in ocean swells
Cause' the truth is hell
Drowning minds
Overcome with grief, sadness, without an ounce of hope
Lost and bitter, feeling like you could die
It's like a dream that you can't wake up from
No matter how hard you scream
Like, darkness calling you home
To the deep unknown
Where light and time cease to exist
They say secrets make you sick and you should all know
The problem is you can't tell anyone for the fear that they'll go
Imagine you were a kid running and stumbled
Scraped elbows and knees
Just to find yourself years later still stuck with apathy
And you get a moment where life's just a bit different
It shined briefly and you hadn't eaten for weeks
So, you stuffed yourself to the extreme
Just to see that you'd go hungry again
And I like words, they give something I can't seem to find
Knowing that my health isn't good and I hate myself
Stoking the fire, complaining you're still cold as hell
Overwhelmed and empty knowing you aren't well
I just won't keep running in circles ending where I began
86 · Aug 2018
Everest Pt. 2
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
I’ve done something’s for which I can’t atone
Feeling like I am the stone
Skipping across the lake
I want to be alone, but I hate the distance
Honestly, I don’t what to think now
I know I’m not the best to be around
I thought I belonged in a coffin
I popped 20 pills and no could stop it
I thought for a second it’d be shocking
Believed these words weren’t enough
And I was done talking
Yet, I awoke and here I sit
Writing love poems to love
Where it seems fit
And my head is still a room
And it’s a mess
Finding Cupid’s arrows stomped in half
With scribbled words on ripped up papers
It’s the way I cope, and I hadn’t felt like myself in months
And I want to go far away from you
But, I don’t want to know how it feels
To be alone
But, I’m craving Everest
85 · Oct 2017
Unknown
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
Oh my dear
You're a creature the world doesn't produce quite often
The world longs to feel your bare feet amongst its skin
it craves to play its wind tipped fingers through your hair
It desires you so badly it's sun's heat dives into the gleams of your eyes
Cascaded in moonlit kisses to make an everlasting complexion
No, the world doesn't get more mysterious everyday, but you came along
A rarity unknown to many
85 · Jun 2018
Twenty-Five
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
Twenty-five and I finally just got my mind right.

Learned that girls like you...just aren’t my type.

Moving on to new heights, got heaven in my sights.

And I still feel the burns from the hell you put me through, but it’s alright.

Like I said, twenty-five and I got my mind right.
84 · Mar 2018
Garden Walks
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
Some will hate these words
They’ll draw their axes
To cut down one another
In the garden of life

Still

I hope these words
Nurture something inside
For all of you
To grow into what and who
You desire to be
84 · Mar 2018
Clouds
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
She said “Don’t forget you owe me one.”
Ninety-nine cent dreams
Maybe you can show me some
I’m up in the clouds again
If you need someone, call your friends
Clouded by all of this smoke
Seems the fires all we can understand
Your body looks like heaven
Caught up in a breeze
Riding the clouds feeling so free
84 · Oct 2017
Wisdom
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
My apologies dear
I'm sorry, that she'll get to see sides of me
That you deserved too
84 · Aug 2017
Painting You
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
I'm trying to draw, what I think I want this life and it seems to be you
I can't seem to keep the colors inside the lines
Cause' when it comes to you
The page goes blank and I feel like I'm losing my mind
I have the shape and curve of you
The color is what I can't seem to find
Is it Red or Blue?
I swear, I'm going color blind
Only to realize that in time
You just happen to be
All the colors I need in me
84 · Feb 2018
Valentine’s
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
Even after all this time
I still choose to blindly believe
That love is real and all there is
Happy Valentine’s
84 · Oct 2017
Somewhere Near Home
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
How discerning we are
Wrapped in boundless wants
Love accused as a non-believer
Maybe something's wrong with us
Honestly, in these times
It's better to be asleep
Testaments to the born dreamers
Stark heart waves to the broken healers
Cause' we'll all find our place
Somewhere near home
Is where we'll find we need to be
83 · Jan 2018
Caught Up
Vinnie Brown Jan 2018
This trip was suppose to help
Get away from society
Feel the way of the land
Maybe get a breath of fresh air
Yet, here I lay
Realizing they caught up to me
Even hundreds of miles away
Heartbreak and torment
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
Another plane
Another sea
Flying across the world
So, lost it’s plain to see
83 · Oct 2018
Swaying
Vinnie Brown Oct 2018
You keep me swaying
Between being high and sober
Back and forth
Something or nothing
Caught in purgatory
And forever doesn’t seem so far away
Until you get there
Trying to find the best parts of me
Where an angel with black wings
Whispered that it wasn’t going to be free
And I still smell hells smoke on me
I swear it warms what I think
Just might be my soul
83 · Jul 2018
Wavy
Vinnie Brown Jul 2018
Let’s run away to the beach
Ask the skies not to change a thing
I just want to catch some waves with you
Find our way back to the shallows
Before we get in way too deep
And the waves tell us all the things
We’re just too scared to say
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
Truth be told
I am terrified to write
To show you all
For these words aren’t just words
More so they’re speckled stars
And the glow of firefly hearts
Resembling the scattered remnants
Of a beautiful mind
Familiar to that of my own
Lost searching for Eden
With diminishing returns as a result
But, I feel compelled to tell a story
So, maybe these mere words
Will reach your cascading eyes
All set upon an Endless Summer
Endowed with kindergarten crushes and
Lost Lover’s souls
82 · Jun 2018
Icarus Polaroids
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
Black and white polaroids
Crossed out eyes
And tongues out
We must’ve been so high
With stars in our eyelids
Lost to the heavens
So close to the Sun
Icarus wings melting
I wonder when my mind decided
I wasn’t worth helping
82 · Mar 2018
Bridge
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
His desires were that of white waters
Young and naive you
You use to try and cross
For Love was on the other side
Just to get lost in the chaos
Of a raging river
A little older and a little wiser
You said “No thanks, I’m not a fan of drowning.”
And took the bridge
82 · Sep 2017
December
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
Even with a heart of gold
There's turmoil that gets old
Drag me back to holy ground
For a moment it felt alright to burn
What a slow burn, I guess December chills really do know us that well
82 · Jul 2018
Hey Depression
Vinnie Brown Jul 2018
I don’t really know when it happened
Or even how it happened
I suppose I just woke up one day
And didn’t really feel the same way
I was different
I knew it, I could feel it
I wanted to start over
Except sorry’s can’t change time
And it was hard for me to be mad at you
I don’t want to be
There’s a part of me
That loves you still
Always will
You know, I just want to be your friend again
It’s really hard that you look exactly like me
And, we’re taking turns in my mind
It happens all the time
Just give me some time
I’m sure I’ll change my mind
This is a really base story of the development and relationship with my depression and anxiety.
82 · Jan 2018
Itch
Vinnie Brown Jan 2018
-Even surrounded by friends
-Traveling for adventure
  -You’re still constantly on my mind
82 · Aug 2018
Silver Lining
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
There she was
Her eyes the silver lining’s
In all these bad lines
That I keep writing
81 · Nov 2018
Cracking
Vinnie Brown Nov 2018
Tonight is the first time
I’ve written in weeks
It’s all sort of fragmented
Disjointed and dislocated segments
Bound and squeezed together in moments
Of sheer chance diluted by pedigrees
Of ever elevating time spans
Spent sleeping or wishing for sleep
Like seeing a pretty face for the first time
Attaching the backstory myself
Sort of like a shock culture moment
Like when you realize not all stars
Are quite like each other
With ocean waves crashing about
Forcefully until nothing, but peace
Resides in the moments we find ourselves

Cracking.
Probably won’t make tons of sense, it’s more or less me just ramble things I’m thinking good, anyways. Thanks.
80 · Mar 2018
Ink Plots
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
I have tattoos without ink
White and filled with scar tissue
Just as beautiful as can be
80 · Jul 2018
Lonely Killer
Vinnie Brown Jul 2018
She’s the type of girl we call blind
Only see herself online
5,000 likes and 60 comments on her last post
Thinking she’s got this generation by it’s throat
After all, she’s just a
Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Killer
79 · Jun 2018
Recovery Day
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
Who knew
That liquid courage
Can fill even the most secluded
With involuntary truths
Not remembered for days after
When the world blurs
And the rooms were spinning
When you and I were cruising
To mixed drinks and laughs
Too bad today we’ll pay
For the good times
Grinning through headaches
Knowing next weekend isn’t far away
79 · May 2018
Burn
Vinnie Brown May 2018
God said I’d be welcome here forever
There was a little sadness
As I knew I’d have to cancel forever
79 · Jul 2018
Humility's Fire
Vinnie Brown Jul 2018
And lately I've felt like I'm on fire
You just sit back and smile
My brains screaming that you're running the show
I'm feeling fine almost everyday
Except for all the time
Don't have enough energy to even go outside
I've dropped my insecurities
I've left my dignity on the floor
But, you'll pick it up again for me
Allow my humility's to catch up to me once more
78 · Dec 2018
The Tired, Tired, Wild
Vinnie Brown Dec 2018
Oh, and my sweet dear mother
I need love
But, your sweet sinless sensation
Just isn’t my style
And, by the church I’ve come undone
Yet, I carry on like the wayward sun
How long must we bleed?
Till we start to believe?
Colors a blend, these raw shriveled
Black and whites
She said “you’re tired.”
And I’m tired
That’s when I said “I’ll see you in the Wild.”
It’s been a while, as always thank you.
78 · Feb 2018
Of All The Nights
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
And of all the nights
A windy Wednesday
I don’t think I’m escaping it
This time around
In the moonlit hours
78 · Feb 2019
Oblivion
Vinnie Brown Feb 2019
Blank pages upon blank pages
White and black
Yet, electrified with everlasting colors
Of the things I don't love about myself
Such as the seeking of validation from the woman I love
In the way of toxic questions that I know will hurt me
I suppose I dislike the way I isolate and shut down
For when I've run out of words
The stark air can be felt encompassing the room
For I am truthfully the elephant in the room in my mind
Not entirely belonging to one thing
Enticingly scattered like torn pages floating down the river
The judge, jury, and executioner with the sentence passed down
Too soon before the hearing
I suppose I write myself off
For it's repeated behaviors that I can't seem to shake
Like when the summer time ends and closing in
Ever so approachingly like the tide in winter time
To be addicted to the complicated things in life
That bring sadness and wave away joyfulness
Where our worries won't be far behind
Next to the classic novels, finding our lonesome-selves
Welcoming oblivion
78 · Apr 2018
Swallow Up Your Pride
Vinnie Brown Apr 2018
I see the way that you take off your disguise
Drinks and pills what’s your fix to get high?
You just want to feel something to feel fine
You gonna let him swallow up your pride?
Just run away in the night
No ones worth the tears that you cry
It’d be a shame to see you do this till your ******’ numb and gone
Just come with me and take a ride
77 · Oct 2018
Coastline
Vinnie Brown Oct 2018
The coast always called
On Friday nights side by side you and I
Riding on my bike ready to disappear
There’s bout a million places we could go
Except I’d rather be here
And so, let’s chase these highway lines
Turn off the light and let the city lights
Guide us to where we think we’ll find home
Where, I’m feeling powerless
And, you have all the power over me
I just hope we’re bad enough
That the Devil rejects us
77 · Feb 2018
The Female Busker
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
This is a calling
Let it resonate
For my muses
I need your medicine
2 to 3 doses, daily
****, she knows how to play
My heart strings literally
So, ****** lovely
Feels like flying...
She plays with so much emotion
She can just feel the music
I got these notions
They’re deep as oceans
Calling out my name
Screaming out in vain
Singing hallelujah - Tash Sultana
77 · Jun 2018
Stretched For Time
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
You whispered let’s run away
I just wish we’d stay
These nights never seem to last
Like we’re bound for different paths
Looks like we’re stretched for time
Both claiming our hearts feel just fine
I can’t seem to name, the drug my brains been asking for
And dying seems like such a bore
So, come home my soul craves some more
Let me check something off my list
Cause I’d like to taste those lips
And I don’t wanna go
Livin’ in memories with nothing to show
77 · Mar 2018
Tempest
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
I want to be alone
Find myself lost out at sea
Knee deep in the black mass
Watch the siren's sing the maddening waves into men's hearts
Where time and the black silver ocean collide
To swim in the kisses of the incarnate
For the sea loves, hates, and weeps
Fervently shackled an...and bound to that which isn't
I feel my lungs collapsing under the pressures of the deep
Where your heart and your desires slumber
76 · Feb 2018
This Weather
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
I love when the lights die down low
When our lips and tongues find the words
We’ve been dying to say
Before our eyes scream
That we’re worlds away
And you know I hate this weather
I’m pretty sure we both know
We could easily do better
If only we let one another
And I never thought this could end
How do we expect to fall asleep again?
I suppose if I need you
I’ll see you
In my dreams
76 · Mar 2019
Whims
Vinnie Brown Mar 2019
I used to love to run and hide away
In the valleys of lost times
Watching the hills shadowy scapes
As the sunset licks the trees
Somewhere to the west
Where space and time collide
And desperate death resides
All just at the whims of life
As the summer’s night breeze
Carries our hopes to far off lands
And children dance in firefly towns
where we were alone
Just for a moment
75 · Aug 2018
Fears
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
You burst forth from the core of my fears
Raw and powerful enough to drown out
Screaming louder than the Sun
75 · Jan 2018
Fast Enough
Vinnie Brown Jan 2018
Bring your heart
And I’ll bring my soul
Careful now
Let’s venture into the great unknown
Not that anyone would notice
For moonlit madness catches me
And tonight I don’t think
The light will come fast enough
To save me from myself
75 · Sep 2018
Eve
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
Eve
I’m really glad you took that bite
Got us kicked out of Eden
It’s given me the chance
To commit all the sins that come to mind
When I see the curves of your body
And the way your eyes rip into mine
As you lick the bottoms of your teeth
And ignore me with a devilish smile
We all have our own Eve
75 · Apr 2018
I Spoke To The Devil
Vinnie Brown Apr 2018
Ever since I was a little kid
I had a dream of climbing Everest
That maybe at the top I’d see Heaven
Just to get there and find the Devil
I asked why I wasn’t cold
She put her hand on my shoulder
And said “I’m always with you.”
Who knew evil could be so beautiful
On top of the world
75 · Jun 2018
Ocean Lullabies
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
Unable to drift away
Caught by the currents astray
Till you started to murmur in your sleep
With the swish and swoosh of the waves
I could feel the warmth of the air
As the ocean lullabies tucked me in tight
74 · May 2018
Thirds
Vinnie Brown May 2018
She whispered so softly
The wind tiptoed on her words

“It’s a really pretty story, and you tell it really well. It’s just not the fairytale I’m looking for.”

It’s funny hearts don’t really break in two
We both seem to find it in thirds
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