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110 · Nov 2017
Love Tendencies
Vinnie Brown Nov 2017
Your love like tendencies
Are no reassurance
For the damage is done
And when she learns
To never look bsck
You’ll truly know
Self hate
110 · Nov 2017
Up High
Vinnie Brown Nov 2017
For I struggle with you
And therefore I have never known to call
Yet is it possible
I see you in small moments
Of glimpses in silence
When everything feels right
Even if temporary
In the snow flakes in january
Or the suns rays as they caress me
We’re all so unpredictable
Pulled by the currents of life away
Finding time for you seems impossible
To pray to something that could be a lie
Is this my breath in your lungs?
Maybe I am the ship
And you’re the rogue wave
Come to sink me
As you sit high on the upper circles
Locked away in the clouds
Behind golden gates
Chained shut to me
110 · Nov 2017
Deals
Vinnie Brown Nov 2017
It’s going to be a ****** day
When she realizes
She shouldn’t have to bargain
And make deals
For your love
Take a note from the reckless
She will figure it out
Sooner than you’ll be ready for
110 · Dec 2017
Holidays
Vinnie Brown Dec 2017
To the desolate
And the lost
You’re not alone on this holiday
For you are in my thoughts
Merry Christmas
109 · Oct 2019
My Love
Vinnie Brown Oct 2019
I heard the crack in her voice
As she claimed that it ***** that I love you
Yet, you’re so honored
3 A.M. take me home from these catacombs
Caress these brittle bones
Tuck me in, kiss my forehead
Cause my niche is tearing me down
And I hope you’ll be around
To hold me up
When I can’t stand
You’re the one that I call
When all the ones that I trust
Have left me in the dust
For I am like snow in October
Not cold enough to stick
Yet, you’ll always dance in the flurries
109 · Oct 2017
The Judge and The Jury
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
It seems the judge and the jury
tried to buy me time
I just might be guilty of this crime
It's as if I left the window open overnight
As there are somedays I wake and the world doesn't shine as bright
Maybe it's me and my brain that just don't fit together quite right
The memories I thought I left behind
Those tire tracks just talk dirt behind my back
The more I'm happy the less that you see
Writing salt licked sympathies to show the world just what I'm finding out about me
108 · Sep 2017
Tempted Fate
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
Nothing is ever perfect
I suppose it's human curiousity
To tempt the fates
Just to grab the flames of a lover
When I lay me down
I pray, we keep each day
Just please stay with me
108 · Aug 2017
Eclipse
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
This eclipse is proof
That the light will shine
Beneath the blackened skies
So, pretty girl
Shine bright
For the dark is only here, but for a moment
2017
108 · Sep 2018
Skyline
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
On the way out
Hitting my shoulder on the doorframe
Almost like I’m drunk
Sitting on the cliffside above California
Bloodshot eyes and sleep deprived
3 A.M. angel wings dyed black
Run my hand through my fade
Careful not to touch the horns
Delicately made of salt
And all these waves
Could help me sleep at night
Awake to see with white X’d out eyes
We could change, but talk is cheap
And I’m a demon with demons
And my demons are down for ya
With the sun coming up
The pains coming
But the rush is feelin’ amazing
Flash a devilish white smile to myself
Watch the skyline fade into black
108 · Sep 2017
Saving Sanity
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
In an unrelenting fashion
My mind just craves what it can't seem to have
Thrones built on pretty lies
For you are insanity
To save my sanity
The conclusion is to fall in love with insanity
For there is the idea of falling
And I just want to rise
Except across the room
You have the high ground and line of sight
A divide, a moment apart
With thin floors and tall ceilings
The corners of the earth are just memories
The night is late, just show me the fall
To your dark fantasies
108 · Jan 2018
Elephant In The Room
Vinnie Brown Jan 2018
It's about time we address the elephant in the room
It's standing in plain view
Everyone can see
That it looks just like me

Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity
So, tell me what's the remedy
There's things that they don't teach
Things so out of reach
That gods and devils envy us
For when our bones have turn to dust
And, love transcends all natural bounds
That's when true peace is found

A wise woman told me to let go of the poet
That life's ******, but it's not some tragedy line
In the fourth stanza of an endless summer
And her daughter showed me some love
Igniting winter's fires
Under cracked thrones of proverbial highs
108 · Oct 2017
Pride
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
She asked why I'm addicted to solitude
Do I truly need it?
I beg to plead the fifth
Bargaining with lost lay of the lands
Wishing to be lost
Sunsets in streetlights
Certain beauties in midnights
In the late hours
You start to remember what we call ours
Learning it's okay to fall
Sometimes it's not for love,
For the mind craves heavy drugs
And some pursue trust, while after lust
I'm stuck with pride
108 · Sep 2017
Time Travel
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
For the mind that just won't sleep
These violent ends, have violent delights
And right now, in the dark of the moon
I just can't seem to figure you out
Like a haunting call, begging for help
Always a prisoner
Just what exactly is salvation?
Locked in a cycle
For the beauty in every final moment
Is that we don't get to live it again
And the peace within a moment
Can never come again
107 · Aug 2017
Inferno
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
Any day now
I've been waiting
Been a long time coming baby
Come closer, please
We don't have to rush
Holding the pieces, let's build it up
Back to the endless summer
Remember the first time I saw you
Most beautiful creature, I've ever saw
I'm not quite sure what will happen
Both our lives hectic chasing passion
Just know that flame I've had for you
Is still ignited, and it's burning up
107 · Sep 2017
Unpredictable
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
How curious
The mind tries to plan all outcomes we shall face in life so, zealously
Except our hearts beg to run into love on such random occurrence
If we should end in fire, then we shall both burn together
Hope for binding resolutions from shattered skies and scorched earth
Let the tides wash away the hallowed souls
And, let us drown in the unpredictable struggles
Of what we hope our love is to be
107 · Sep 2017
Body Glows
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
For she is more than skin and bone
To the waves and shores of a mind
To the feelings of fire and flood
Better she can be, as can we all
As moments of torture
Nature and nurture
Caressing of a light on fire
For even in the dark
She is a torch
Body glows and heart throws
107 · 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
107 · May 2018
Reaper
Vinnie Brown May 2018
I just want to help myself
Discover inner peace
Except that concept doesn't make sense to me
Life is exhaustingly crazy
We find ourselves fading
Always in the background
That's where were staying
To me I am the enemy
The summer nights
Pink lit street lights
Laughing in my face haunting me
Searching for self absorbed honesty
One thing's for sure, when I look in her eyes
I get nervous
I guess that's the Reaper's purpose
107 · Jul 2018
Sway
Vinnie Brown Jul 2018
And as we start to sway
Heartbreaks on its way
In times so dire
Why were we born to be such liars
For the oceans do get rough
And I’m not sure this ship will be enough
I’d rather drown or wrap a bag around my face
Seems like we’re born to annihilate
All of the love we seem to waste
107 · Jan 2018
Where Do We Go?
Vinnie Brown Jan 2018
Where do we go from here?
When it seems like we've lost one another
Let's step out in the dark
One foot in front of the other
Feel my bones getting older
Turning to dust and watching skyscrapers begin to rust
Let's just find a place and lose it for a day
Just lost looking for moments, wondering what we'll be
Sadly, the future is just something we can't see
Let's just hope that were finding hope
At the three a.m. callings
Lately, I've been constricted with despair
Wondering if you're still there
Just know I still care
If I asked you to stay
Would you still want to run away
Every other day?
Cause, I'd still choose you even when were far from home
And not sure where to go
Just know, that when you're ready, that I'm game to go with the flow
107 · Dec 2017
You & I
Vinnie Brown Dec 2017
-Thoughts of midnight

             -I think God forgot about you and I
107 · Nov 2017
Destruction
Vinnie Brown Nov 2017
She’ll strike again
The green eye’d beauty
For she is a wake of destruction
How many hearts will die tonight?
As she walks the night
And there go our lives
With every departing flight
106 · Aug 2017
Love's Taste
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
Find myself writing the eulogy
For romance and chivalry
We live in a ****** hookup culture
Maybe I should embrace the torture
Cause' I can't seem to find my place
In a world that doesn't have love's taste
106 · 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
106 · Nov 2018
Please Excuse My Language
Vinnie Brown Nov 2018
Please excuse my language
There’s just no other way to say
When you’ve had yourself a day
Knee deep in the salt stricken waters
Staring at the sunset
Out of breath from the weight of the world

****.

Knowing you’re sort of lucky
To get to do all of it all over again
Tomorrow when the salt is a little lesser
Dancing together in the fire covered ocean
Staring at the sunrise
Full of breath from the weight of the world

****.
106 · Mar 2018
Overtime
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
All you have to do is bring an open mind
Take a leap of faith
Put your hand in mine
Let’s both take the night off
We’ve both been working overtime
105 · 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
105 · Jun 2018
Dreaming In Words
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
It’s the same dream every time
If I remember that is...
The moon just looks so pretty
And the waves tickle our toes
As the beach is littered with bottles
Each with a different letter inside
And just for a moment
All of my words
Well, they seemed to be screaming out
I just hope they reached you
Did they reach you?
105 · Sep 2017
What I Believe
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
To my mother
And
My long lost lovers
May these words
Give you a glimpse
Of the reality
That such is my world
And to the souls
Who will bare witness
Have hope
For love is real
I know it is
I've seen it
I just couldn't grab it.
105 · Sep 2017
Linger
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
Words unfolded into complexities
Simple loves turned to untangled knots
Divided late into the nights
By an invisible line
Of who's side is who's
Although if you knew
That I inch ever so close
To your side when you're not there
Just to catch the scent that still lingers
In the absence of greatness
For when the shores kiss the tides
It's gentle retreat is that
Of when I watch you leave in the morning
105 · Aug 2018
Wind Storms
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
I have found that happiness is like the wind
As someday's it feels as though you're in a vacuum
And some feel as though you can't stand against it
You just can't see it, but it's always there
Caressing the folds of your desires
Ever prevalent in the storms to come
105 · Sep 2017
Forever
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
I'm struggling with mortality
Oh, Honey this world is mine
****, I just want to live forever
Feet don't fail me now, I just want to go
Sticks and stones, a couple broken bones
I've just been wanting to be scared
The beatings over now
Still I'll have my crown
Free to be free is pain
I'll incite the riot
I just don't know any better
I just want to ******* live forever
105 · Oct 2017
Let Our Voices Echo
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
Losing track to your master plan
Drowning again on oxygen
Take me back to when I was ten
Ask a younger me to describe what love feels like again
Cause fourteen years later and I swear it's just a life killing carcinogen
Love is just a bad acronym
104 · 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
104 · Aug 2018
Drunk On The Moment
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
Diving under waters
Still trying to be honest
Sometimes that **** really hurts
And my sins are catching up to me
Just hear me out
Ive been looking for a brand new start
I just happen to see you
In my dreams at night
Surrounded on the beach with pretty light
Dancing away, asking me to stay
So, I guess I’ll swim back to the surface
Take a step back
Watch as what I want sways in the night
Blonde and smiling
A little drunk on the moment
And we just may never be who we want to be
But let’s just see
104 · 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
103 · Nov 2017
Empyreal
Vinnie Brown Nov 2017
Right or wrong
For a moment in ecstasy
We’d **** our way to Heaven
103 · Aug 2017
Marked For Death
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
Marked for death
Through all of our pain
These violent history games
Kindergarten crushes to blame
For all the glory and fame
I can't remember my name
Decadent stain
What might have been lost?
103 · 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
103 · 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
103 · Sep 2017
The Sailor and The Shark
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
In the depths
Of the big beautiful sea
A creature does follow me
Beautiful terrors of the abyss
A love you'd surely miss
My demon in the dark
Forever bound to the blood I bleed
At the core still a love shark
As love isn't just black and white
For if we make it through the midnight hours tonight
We'll be alright
Don't forget the sailor born to a starry night
Only ever feeling safe in the salt water plights
Like two stars circling in desperate collision
There's a love tension
Between the sea of you and me
To the heavens here my pleas
Let the blue tides come and wash away apathy
103 · Apr 2018
Death Songs
Vinnie Brown Apr 2018
You are the reason I'm still hangin' on
You are the reason my head is still above water
And if I could I'd get you the moon
I'd give it to you
And if Death was coming for you
I'd give my life for you
102 · Mar 2018
Far Away
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
One day we're young, then we're dead in the grave
We love and laugh, just to decay
Heads in the clouds cause it feels so safe
Hell's never closed, so we're leaving today
Chanting on the way down, "Oh, God made us this way."
Admit we're addicted to the reflection of who we think we are
But what we claim to be, it always seems so far away
102 · 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
102 · Dec 2017
Subtle Hints
Vinnie Brown Dec 2017
Pay attention to the curves of her body
Her motions scream
That you talk too much
And feel too little
102 · Oct 2017
One More Night
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
When desolation comes upon your heart
Find your solace in remembering me
As you have problems with commitment
I have issues with imprisonment
Parting tides as feelings die
And honestly love is overrated in your mind
Although, if it was up to me
I might just be yours for one more night
102 · Oct 2017
Repetitions
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
It's a drop dead lifestyle
Making a change here and there
Just too revert back to the same way
Lost in bad habits
For when love leaves you
The alcohol calls your name
And carefree feelings seem inviting
Can't fool yourself though
If there's one thing that you know
You're stuck in repetitions
Maybe it's just your nature
Regardless it's hard watching you do this to yourself
102 · Aug 2017
Soulless (10w)
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
I lost my soul
So ****** deep
Inside of you.
101 · 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
101 · 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.
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