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Nov 2018 · 271
Pale shades and Escalades
kyle Shirley Nov 2018
I find it impossible
To describe her
flawless beauty.

Her Radiant eyes
Even through
The lines
Her black frames
Drive me Insane

The way her hair
Falls along her face
Hides the fear
Without a trace.

Flawless
Radiant
Stunning
Nov 2018 · 116
Untitled
kyle Shirley Nov 2018
The problem is, what if I already had the one?
The best relationship I was ever gonna have.
What if the reason I'm alone, is no one compares to how amazing the last one was.
What if I'm so scared to make the same mistakes and lose yet another one?
Loneliness isn't just about waiting for the better one, it's also having the best one and finding it hard to move on after.
Oct 2018 · 103
Incomplete.
kyle Shirley Oct 2018
He sacrificed her
For everything he ever wanted
Money, fame, women
It still wasn't enough
To fill his ego
When on his last days
He would pull out her picture
Glare at himself in the mirror
Shake his head
And put it away
She was the only thing missing
The old man knew his life
Would forever be
Incomplete
without her
Oct 2018 · 102
Digital age
kyle Shirley Oct 2018
Our Lust for flesh Has got to end
No empathy for human kind
The digital eye has made the world blind
*** craved teens to
Marching hybrid death machines
Ending our suffering
With Satire life memes
No need for begging
We have apps for that
Taking selfies with our cat
At the tables playing craps
Gambling our student loans
"Don't worry mom I'm grown"
Buying time we will never own
School never prepared us for this
Every new drug we take creates bliss
We don't have time to mourn our loss
Even if it comes at great cost
Oct 2018 · 96
Exhausted
kyle Shirley Oct 2018
I'm not just tired..
I'm exhausted
Built up an immunity to people
Always being a let down
I'm lonely doesn't justify it
I'm solitude.
I find that others are more important
Than my own happiness
I'm extinguished.
The flame that fuels my drive Is out.
Lost faith for love
It's a delusion of grandeur
It's a ghost of what once was
I'm tired boss.. tired of being last.
Oct 2018 · 110
Calculated
kyle Shirley Oct 2018
Counting back the days
Counting, counting
Now it's a blurry haze
Cigarettes and Midnight silhouettes
Fueled my teenage years
It's time to fight these tears
Counting and counting
Walking home till dawn
Passed out on mother's lawn
Oh what a disgrace I've became
Counting, still counting
My skin and memories
Are like prison bars
Just strong enough to hold me
Not the  life momma wanted or fancy cars..
Oct 2018 · 89
Evil
kyle Shirley Oct 2018
My father left me one night
Not saying a word
Running away from the fright
Of living in a lonely world
Left his kids back home
To find the love of his life
We'll sit here till were grown
He is still chasing his wife
Lone traveller lost again
Romance will be his last
Love of a woman he must befriend
The demon still fights with his past
The dance with the devil
In the pale moonlight
Is better than living with the evil
In the darkest of night
I hope he finds what he searches for indeed
Even when he comes back
Us kids are still left in need...
Sep 2018 · 100
Delayed love
kyle Shirley Sep 2018
He never spoke about his feelings
They were his to hide
The best kept secret
Till he was too late
Hand in hand
With another man
His dreams
And thoughts of desire
With her
Started to disappear
He could hear the echo
Of laughter as they walked further
Might as well been fate
Mocking him for his mistake
A secret he will keep to his grave
Sep 2018 · 114
Butterflies inside
kyle Shirley Sep 2018
To the eighth wonder
From the seven seas
Across the sky I ponder
brings back memories
The wind brings your taste
Drifts pass my nose
Leaves me with such haste
The heinous storm grows.
Love is a hurricane
whirlwind of emotion and lust
Then comes the pain
Followed by mistrust.
Communication is dead
Alone my bed feels bigger
Things always left unsaid
I couldn't feel any less sicker
Sep 2018 · 494
Watching the tide subside
kyle Shirley Sep 2018
It would be no surprise
If I committed suicide,
Forget the overdue goodbyes
Wishing momma wouldnt cry.
Soon on desperate wings I'll fly
Looking down sky high,
Passing other weary people die.
Till then I'm watching the rolling tide
On my Lakeview drive
Chained to this life
Dead inside.
Sep 2018 · 100
Dont forget
kyle Shirley Sep 2018
You are loved.
Even if it's not by her or him
You are loved.
That man that smiles at you
Or the woman that likes all your sad posts
You are loved.
If your father never hugged you
Or your mother was never around
You are still loved by many
Before you hurt yourself
Look at who you will hurt by doing so
That little boy that looks up to you
That co worker that you make laugh
Don't forget you are loved and will be missed
Sep 2018 · 95
Cumbersome
kyle Shirley Sep 2018
It's been ages since we met
A thousand times I have wept
All those nights I've barely slept
The memories haunt me yet Im kept
Spent my youthful twilight dreaming
Thoughts of redemption I'm still scheming
Bitter and old barely breathing
Alone in bed
death is creeping
All my life regret has stayed true
Alone and cold
my hands turn blue
Memories fade,
The last ones to leave are you...
Sep 2018 · 113
Sunken ship of one
kyle Shirley Sep 2018
How the full moon so bright
Look how the stars align tonight
Reminisce my Youthful Twilight
How cool are the summer nights
with her felt so right
Cuddled up together so tight
I blink
Now it's behind me
Fast forward twenty
Nothing it used to be
Alone with money
Can't make me happy
If only I could see
And stop this from happening.
Aug 2018 · 112
Free roamer
kyle Shirley Aug 2018
The crack in the sky
The blood orange glow
The tear in his eye
Of sorrow and woe
The lost traveler
Love in hand
World unraveler
Heart in command
From the great lakes
To the land that shakes
With a Warm embrace
He meets a new face
The crescent moon howls
The trees sing with laughter
The lonely wolf growls
No happy ever after...
Aug 2018 · 129
I am not lost
kyle Shirley Aug 2018
A lonesome traveler notices
the break in the sky,
The tear form in the eye.
The dance of joy flutter
Between two lovers
Many travels have taken place
Yet none was more beautiful than her face
He kept her close
in a pocket book
One look
To find home
Saddness creeps
His arms felt weak
Chin held high
He whispered
True love never dies...
Aug 2018 · 157
Blunt truth
kyle Shirley Aug 2018
Women are more attracted to loyalty and compassion, than looks or objects.
That's why they fall in love with cats and dogs not men.
Aug 2018 · 113
Homewreaker
kyle Shirley Aug 2018
She was his saving grace
Her body was Braille
As His fingers traced
He read her so well
She ached her back
Goose bumps under attack
She was under his spell.
The things she could do
Was magic,
This brunette beauty
Made his feelings tragic.
She was broken
And even his fingers
Knew hurt was unspoken...
Aug 2018 · 458
Oh, my sunflower
kyle Shirley Aug 2018
It hits,
That feeling your not good enough.
That she deserves better than you.
Yet,
You still pursue,
Because you know it's worth it.
That if it pans out in the end,
She is this unyielding light
And your beginning.
You could save her.
From her self destructive past,
From all the guys that made that mistake,
From the insecurities, and heartache.
If only she took a chance
Saw you as her savior
Not her keeper.
A lover not a friend.
Aug 2018 · 112
Tunes trapped in the halls
kyle Shirley Aug 2018
I too am fluent in silence
Come sit next to me
Tell me your violence
Sing your song of misery
I'll sit and listen
Heart aches in my treasury
Trapped in my own prison

Glued to my fear
Lend me your hand
Feel these tears
Stories so grand
Reminisce the wasted years

I'll follow you
To have and to hold
You know it to be true
Hearts made of gold
Alone at last, let's see this through
Aug 2018 · 188
Please send sunshine
kyle Shirley Aug 2018
As the random rain drops fall, and seep into the eroded cracks of the earth
Depression falls into my already crippled body withering away my judgement.
My compassion for love.
Yet I hold onto the rain
Unable to move.
Judgement slipping
Please send sunshine.
Aug 2018 · 129
Blackened in defeat
kyle Shirley Aug 2018
No one can see our Mental scars,
But they are far worse than physical ones
The abuse the past brings
Damgages us for the future.
Laying in bed with crazy
Leaving the toxic atmosphere behind
Finding hope with another
Only then, crazy slips back in
It Drowns your hope
Rapes your future
And tells you
I'm what you need...
And you listen
So no one else can get hurt.
Aug 2018 · 110
3 years gone
kyle Shirley Aug 2018
He still herd her sing
when their song came on,
3 years gone
When he looked over at the passenger seat he could still picture her hair
flowing in the breeze
as she smiled back at him
3 years gone.
Time doesn't heal wounds,
it helps you cope with them
Like a cut you watch bleed
Till it scabs but never heals
3 years gone
She told him never forget the music
He replies your the only melody I listen to
He still herd her sing
When their song came on...
3 years gone.
Jul 2018 · 93
Masks
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
Tears still fall
Memories will fade
Life is but a masquerade
These masks we wear
To hide our fear
The pain is real
Scared to feel
That we won't heal
Jul 2018 · 128
I wait.
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
I saw heaven in her eyes
A meadow of daisies in her smile
God's voice when she spoke
She was an Angel
Handcrafted for me
The beauty of love
Was such a gift
She was the light in every room
She was the song
Everyone else danced too
She was mine
I was hers
We gave hope to the poor
Magic to the touch
She is my dying wish
Too bad death won't visit me
Jul 2018 · 122
The mirror
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
He ruined things once she started to love him
He was happiest when he was depressed
Never really knowing how to feel otherwise
He's done this with every girl before
Love was just a term made in movies
It never really applied to him
He stood at the mirror
Cussing for hours
Wishing he wasn't like this
Needing to love someone other than himself,
She Took many shapes
But nonetheless he preferred himself
They fell in love so fast
With every glance
Yet each one
He hurt as much as the last
kisess were poison
Killing him on the inside
Because happiness...
Was only in the mirror
Jul 2018 · 122
The cancer of my heart
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
It's a wicked kingdom I have built
Watching my insides tear out
Plague walls crumbling down
No sign of my crown
No lady by my side
I mimic a captain and his ship
In my kingdom and I'll go down with it
Ivy spreads to the walls
Only echoes in the halls
It's like a silence calling out for help
A poker hand that was misdealt
So many mistakes were made
But you the one that made it all cascade.
Jul 2018 · 110
The distance
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
Your my first thing in the mornin
Your the worst thing in the afternoon
Late at night without warnin
Misery sinks in around two

It's not being in bed without you
It's not even talking
It's the sexless nights
And I'm left wanting

It's you and him
Not me and you
It's an outlook that's grim
The sky is no longer blue
Jul 2018 · 144
A break in narcissism
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
You don't get it, but you will
I'm breaking your heart
So you won't dare touch me again
I'm not only bad for you
But if you let me
I'll corrupt you
I'll twist your thoughts
I'm bad for you
I'll drive you insane with insecurity
Breaking your heart is necessary
Breaking you down is my gift to you
So you can move on
Just remember
This one time
I did it for you
Jul 2018 · 121
Corrosion
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
I've taken your talons out of me
Yet the poison still remains
Too soon for these wounds to heal
But the pain is still the same
The poison has weakened me
The melody of music fades
Coursing through my veins
Food has lost its taste
Everything is so black and white
Colorblind these days
Love is but a construct
Lust was just a phase
Jul 2018 · 89
Calamity
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
People blame what they can see
That is why we never blame ourselves first.
Jul 2018 · 89
Oh to dream
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
Oh to dream,
To have a life of love
To dream of the freedoms
that money buys
Fancy cars and loyal friends
Oh to dream,
To dream that money buys
get out of life free cards
Oh to dream,
To dream that everyone wants you.
Me oh my, to dream we never die
That money Brings bright blue skys
Where the root of happiness lies
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
Oh darlin, You got what I need
The love is fruitful with lust
Oh baby, You got what I need
Your the only one I trust
Oh hunny, You got what I need
The magic is in your eyes
Oh beautiful, You got what I need
Keep filling me with your lies
Oh sweet pea, You got what I need
Cheat on me forget saying goodbye
Oh my love, You got what I need
Don't say I never tried
Oh suga, You got what I need
The knife in my backside.
Jul 2018 · 129
20 days
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
For 20 days
you called me ******
While you were calling him on the phone.
20 days
I was there for you
While in the back of your mind he was why you asked me to leave you alone.
For 20 days
you told me you were working on us
But you were with him talking about trust
For 20 days
I was giving you space to think
For 20 days
He was why we didn't speak
For 20 days
I begged and bled for you to notice me again
But all along it was a waste of my time thinking we would begin again.
Jul 2018 · 138
Tragic lovers
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
As the winged serpents descended
And the smog filed death machine,
marched Towards their last breath
He grabbed her
Kissed her with everything he had left
And walked graciously onto the inevitable.
Something so permanent
an absolute truth of separation.
Couldn't change what he felt about her
The test of time made sure their love existed.
As she begged him not to go
Her memory started to fade
And all that was left, was a black and white photo of two strangers on the nightstand of the nursing home...
Jul 2018 · 124
Dramtic irony
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
I know your home alone
And your crying on the phone
Your left with so much hurt
And I only see you in spirts
And it kills
It's shrill
But just imagine the thrill
The cold chill of the night
Don't hate me out of spite
I gotta do what I think is right
No longer can we fight
It takes all of my might
To stop that beast that's inside
The one you choose to hide
From the world you chose to help
But instead you indulge yourself
We both can't sink in this ship
And I'm just tired of your ****.
Jul 2018 · 110
Washed away love
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
My love is fast and messy
Cake batter on the nose
Laughing is never ending
It's a quick, deep, and profound love
But it fizzles out suddenly
The love betrays me
Sends me anxiety
Fearful of losing
Kind hearted souls are retreated
When my true colors are depleted
My love has a meter
And I've used almost all of it
On people who didn't matter
Jul 2018 · 97
The rain and what follows
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
I miss the taps on my window pane
The feeling of being wanted kept me sane
But it's just the rain
Reminding me, the sound of your name

I miss the phone calls
The passing notes in the halls
How can the world be so small
When your not in it at all

From the arm wrestles to the cuddling
The first moment you caught me blushing
Once we started struggling
Heart break was when you started noticing
Jul 2018 · 95
Clockwork strange
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
In the small corner of my mind
Resides a place where my memories lie
Inside that door
I stand cold and alone
Every memory is still as stone
I've made many attempts to escape
But depression starts to take shape
cherishing the happy thoughts like glass
Anything good never lasts
Close my eyes and begin to count sheep
Hopfuly these memories can go to sleep
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
Alone in his kindom he wept
Moon lit nights he barely slept
Pacing the halls he never dreamt
His bride, his queen an untimely death

Trapped in the kindom with a ghost
Madly looking at the ivory coast
Cruel intentions set into our host
The outcome of cancer Diagnosed

Her memory to others was jaded
Even the tombstone was faded
This wasn't the life he thought he created
Depression quickly invaded

Up at the castles tallest tower
was our kings final hour
Without his queen he had lost all power
The rope tightens quickly as the last tombstone reads "to my beloved wildflower".
Jun 2018 · 103
Love of an addict
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
Come on you ****
It's time to wake up
Get another kick from that ***** rush
You sloppy drunk
Here you go ahead lighting up
Another blunt?
Don't you think you have had enough?
I know staying awake is tough
When you wanna feel numb
When your head pounds like a drum
From the day befores ***
It's time for work here comes the sun
Out the door I run
Back again tonight looking to ***
Ready for some fun?
Wait whose this ***...?
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
Nothing like being ignored
When your bored
And they are out there being adored
Like some social media *****
Take a step out of the light and explore
It's always a battle waging war
Mind racing till it's sore
Screaming aloud to shore
No vocal cords
You won't hear from me no more
Jun 2018 · 109
Prosecution
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
I wrote another poem
about you just to show'em
My poems will **** you like Norman Bates
hospitals are too busy to operate
Watching you decay
Hovering over you while I *******
You're nothing to me
But a stain in the sheets
Watch you step back and retreat
Its more than another crime-scene
Just read
In between
The lines and you will see
I'm over feeling guilty
No sobbing
In tears drowning
I'm awake now flaunting
The top is so astounding
I know how this must be sounding
But you, me,and  your followers was crowding...
Jun 2018 · 116
False idol's
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
Honey touched skin,
Pearly white grin
All you attract is sin
Followers to boost your ego
Wearing the latest trend and logo
Lost in your eye any man will go
What will you have left?
Shame and regret
Loneliness starts to set
Using fancy things,
Gold plated diamond rings
In bed with pointless flings
alone watching your body decay
Anything to keep depression at bay
No one to have and to hold
You are nothing but fools gold.
Jun 2018 · 156
The way you made me
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
I have a suitcase full of stars
My body full of scars
Lavish life of fancy cars
only women i seek is in filthy bars
The end of my love life is chard
Alas nerves are brain dead
My Skin is all faded
Busted and used this life is jaded
Catfished women got me all baited
For my actions I'm hated
Assaulted and arrested
Tried, convicted and sentenced
Freed for my patience and penance
Now I'm full of revenge and vengeance
Can't stop till I get it.
Jun 2018 · 143
Suppresion rap
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
You don't think I have all this anger and aggression
As a kid I've only been taught suppression
You wonder why I speak with a stutter, guessin
They tell me to sit down shut up and learn my lesson.
I have anger in my sneakers metal music fills my speakers I have more rhyme and Rhythm than the rest of these tweakers, they wouldn't know the classroom from football bleachers.
So I sit with my time I write down and rhyme while the rest of my classmates are getting caught with crime I go home and have to deal with my parents doing chores lifting up grime but I'm awake the next day back at that grind,
I suffer all day and all night it ain't right I say these Rhymes out of spite at home no dinner no good night one of these days imma take off in flight.
Jun 2018 · 101
Chilling night
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
The blood orange moon pierced the night sky unveiling where demons lie,
True lovers intertwined
By the thighs
he moans, she crys

whereabouts unknown
some demons never shown.
Not even the darkness of night
Can conceal the blood moons light
Jun 2018 · 133
No lessions for sinners
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
I'm just a broken boy posing in men's pajamas
contemplating life like Obama's
traumas
This new reality I've made
Is nothing close to mundane
The drama is at every turn
Telling lies, when will I learn
A broken man with many horses at his stable
But no loyal knights around his table
Is my life only chalked up to fable?
Or is this last poem fatal?

My lust for women's touch
Make These intentions too much
For lying comes in clutch
When honestly has put me in this rut
Crying for help with my eyes shut
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
Off in the distance there is a faint howl in the wind.
The smell of the new dawn and lilac is fresh in the air.
Dew resting on the lips of the grass blades and cardinal song is beginning.
Yet,
I weep.
I sit in silence
I pleed for hope
Beg for a new beginning
But it's already here
And I feel nothing
Just pain
Loneliness
While the world still turns
My world crumbles around me.
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
When it comes to poetry,
You were the center of my writing.
My inspiration was your strength.
When you left,
It was like learning to write all over again.
This time I learned to think for myself
And when to close the door on us.
May 2018 · 159
Tales from the deep
kyle Shirley May 2018
Depression speaks in tongues only the weak and lonely can understand.
It's schizophrenic whispers in your ear when you know no one is there.
It's comforting when it's your only friend to talk to.
It's mumbling shadows on your wall
Telling you it's ok to end it all.
In the end I was there when no one could
No one understands why your so misunderstood...
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