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Katherine Brooks Jun 2020
We just wanna stay where we are
normally functioning
unwistfully listening
Level willed to the earth

Ladders incompletely climbing
in front of stairs that seem
impossible to walk on, sometimes
This tundras just in our minds

We seal the deal
underneath wandering times
not invoking questioning ones
Simply staying in a room

In a group homeliness is tired to find
work in short hours of the day
in the long late ones of the night
we'll stay crisp in the trying times

underneath the lines that others
pronounce towards each other
we do not want to bander
instead we try to work together

On coure;
Read on;
Katherine Brooks Sep 2017
No longer have I that desire
That need for a love to Die for.
Show me something good
Show me a love to Live for.
Katherine Brooks Sep 2017
Was a hard time in a teenage girls life unrequited love, attempted suicide and her mind out of line

It was a cold winter morning and she was shaking again
the sun lit up the baseball field like an angel playing again

Smoke surrounded me like a cloud of exhaust
I was exhausted of feeling this way
I wanted out of my own mind, out of this thing called life
1-800-273-8255
Suicide Awareness and Prevention Lifeline
Katherine Brooks Dec 2015
one date ago
one day ago

my heart was confused
separated by two

love for both
doesn't satisfy my thirst
need for it
doesn't satisfy my hurt

love for both
doesn't help my worth
need for it
doesn't help my mirth

one day ago
one date ago
Katherine Brooks Jun 2020
Where in the world
have the owls flown off to
not a single one in view

Evidence of a strange encounter
in light of another side
live on for it, forward

Soap and dip in tune
Love and laughter needed
for a simpler light's hue
Katherine Brooks Jun 2020
I'm sorry to be writing on you.
I know the indentions
can be tough
Will sombré be enough.
American love is true
Katherine Brooks Jun 2020
Vines grow
In distinct forms
In a life Everleading
For written meaning
With tombs everleading
Strife forms meaning
With undergrowth  ♡
                             is bright
Lyme
Tyme
Substance
Constance
Mother's true time.
Katherine Brooks Aug 2020
When you're lying down to try to rest
When the world seems the same but strange
It goes in circles for a time
When the most had waves of stress
Less of fire or fury


Winds of the crickets resound the laughter but quiet the heart to a way of life that feels grander than the normal strife


Quickly we go over to a different side
Quietly we feel the same
Lively we stand for strength and
Lonely we rest for ease.
quiet//silent
Katherine Brooks Jun 2020
Chrome
Lumensent
Paint, please.
Remembrencé
Jesus's love is true
Katherine Brooks Sep 2017
you were born
something to adorn

and you grew
perfecting your hue

I wish I could compare
to your heavenly glare
Katherine Brooks Oct 2017
you look at me sideways
am i the pinnacle of hazy?
a tired dream?
am i currently swinging?

i need to not be sideways
Co-writer: tequila
Katherine Brooks Oct 2023
a young girl longs for the flames of her soul
burning and yearning to touch
        a                                   whole.
light                                  the
    that                      from
             illuminates
Katherine Brooks Dec 2015
here I stand
silence in hand
headphones broken
life's token
making sense of the chaos
and of all that is lost
not finding that silver lining
walking in too many bindings
hear my call
here I try and stand tall
Katherine Brooks Jan 2017
I feel
I think
I am

This is where I stand.

I wish
I dream
I be

This is me.

I long
I seek
I need

Please accept these three.
Katherine Brooks Jan 2016
I know you don't know me
but I think we'd be a good we
we're only strangers
but let's go make a rager
let's laugh together
sleep together
be together
for one night
tonight with height
let's run
and have fun
Katherine Brooks Oct 2019
I've been living with you my whole life
A silent killer
A nameless lore
You seem to know me,
but I ignore.

It's your creeping way
A shadow I can not shake
Supposed to keep the demons at bay,
instead you invite them in and wait.

I weep with out reason
Rhyming with the seasons
On and on and on
depression, you heathen.
Feeling a little lower than usual these days.
Katherine Brooks Oct 2019
Thin band wrapping around your wrist
Daring to cut off the circulation
Its embodiment feels safe and bliss
Never wanting to part from combination

Have not dared to find the knife
That knows my final intention
I could never truly be yours
With my lonely condition
Katherine Brooks Oct 2017
Is in the leaves & an autumn breeze.
Katherine Brooks Sep 2017
I feel as though we are changing
into beautiful beings
that might not need each other.

It's scary
and enticing
and tearing
me into pieces.  

will you hold onto the idea
of sharing our lives
or will you leave me
thinking why?
Katherine Brooks Sep 2017
Your eyes, shine
Drawing constellations on my heart
Tearing the universe, apart
Katherine Brooks Oct 2019
A mystery
Never distinct
Maybe it's history
Or a memory, think

Can it be love?
The unruly kind
That leaves your heart
Not knowing what is right

Something hard and hurtful
To balance it's purest form?
Unfair and lustful
It leaves your innocence torn.
Katherine Brooks Dec 2015
we find
a mind
lost in the dark
searching for a part
not looking for a friend
trying to mend and defend
a love so real
it's not enough to kneel
a heart departed
from a life of the hardest
Katherine Brooks Dec 2019
I feel like I am drowning
going deeper and deeper
no oxygen to save me
just the smoke at the end

I feel like drowning
there's no light for me now
only the shallows
where the predators prowl

I am drowning
it's my last attempt to swim
but my arms are tired
and someone stole my fin
mermaid perspective I guess
Katherine Brooks Jan 2019
You showed me there was more than the labyrinth
more than the cold still waters,
           the ripples

In a love so intense,
   I saw your past self
        your present
and who you could be



but why could I see this in you and not see it in me?
Title not included...
Sometimes the thoughts and words just flow and revising the moment feels like a sin to its origin
Katherine Brooks Mar 2019
You must climb down
to really see the beauty
of the hidden wonder

in that town
just a kiss
from the canyon

holds the most majestic
Aqua-filled fall
of streaming water

you shrink when you see it
incapable, small
to the grandiosity

a place where water flows
a place so normal
and yet begs to not be seen

In the bottom of the canyon
lies a dream of an aquamarine

the lost love of the sea.
Katherine Brooks Jun 2020
In the early morning
in the late brisk day
under asterisk stars

and the substance of may
we gather together
for neighborly hope

in spite of things
lost and forgone
not one but three in

solemn persistance
for the birds can
hear our minds rhetoric
the warm days need cool water for friends
Katherine Brooks Dec 2015
More than just romance
It's a chance
To change and rearrange
To enfold and behold
A thing so precious
Our hearts explode
Round and around we go
Loving everyone and everything being told
Katherine Brooks Sep 2017
Traveling place to place
to avoid submerging disgrace.
Katherine Brooks Jan 2019
do not answer it.
Hide in a corner
until it peeks through the window
Facing its true face
unknowing and searching
With an honest pace
you’ll find that destiny
might be a fake
Katherine Brooks Dec 2015
rules of our heart
include not being pursued
more so in art
creative interlude
we brave
we strong
we free
living under the cover
of  a mask
not being a lover
but a friend –
is all some can ask
Katherine Brooks Dec 2015
I fell and was caught
now I stumble and I'm not
how do I move without you
I saw clear, now everything's new
which way is right
who will not spite
why do I write

it's only an escape
from superman's cape
ducking and diving
revival of the surviving
everything's new everything's clear
everything's blue everything's here
how do I be bare
Katherine Brooks Jan 2016
beneath the heat
on the beat

loving
learning

hating
hurting

I'll meet with you
If you want to

quietly
mightly

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