Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
A May 2015
Tears fill my eyes
images flying through my head
my childhood memories of places
I'm not home.

No one understands
I don't belong here
I don't want to be here
but I don't have a choise
Ben Nicolls Feb 2011
I may never change the world with words.
I may never write a string of syllables  
that a high school kid will be forced to memorize.  

But I know that I must try
because the world is a wonderfully awful
brutally beautiful place and everyday
I look at something I saw yesterday
and still it shakes me.

And maybe I write too many poems
about too few different things like
women that get stuck in my head
the way poems sometimes get stuck in my pen
or... did I mention the women?

But I'm going to keep writing
about the same four things
or the same one girl
until I can read it back to myself
and instead of it reminding me of what I ment
it will show you what I saw.

Because in the end you gotta do
what you gotta do and I HAVE to do this
and I don't care how much I was
called a ***** in high school or last week.
And it doesn't matter if I meet somebody in a bar
and when I say I'm a poet they smile and walk away
and never look back.

Because I AM a poet
not because I made the choise
but because I was born this way

and before you comment on how
I'm stealing the slogan
of Mamma Monster
I'm going to say that it's not about
being gay, or the wrong color,
or being sluttier than most people like,
or being crazier than most people can handle,
it's about absolutely owning who you are,

because deep down we're all a little queer
and you can let your oddities make you invisible
or you can make them turn you into a monster
and let you be the thing that goes bump
in the middle of the day.

And if you don't like it
I apologize for this unpoetic end
but you can go **** yourself.
Terra May 2017
I travel trough the heavy rain
I sit lonesome on a lonely train
I play blues
These days are grey,  these nights  are blue
my mind keeps coming back to you
I play the blues

I travel with desire
Past houses lit on fire
I play jazz
Windows lit by sundown
My train-seat old and rundown
I play jazz

Rainbow roads in colored blurr
Pretty little towns I'm sure
I play swing
Past mirror waves and open sky
My stomach tingles, wonder why I
Play swing

***** feet on ***** train
Skin so white I see my veins
I play punk
Impatient taps and flickering lights
Soon the day will turn to night
I play punk

Head in the clouds, mind at ease
Longing for the morning breeze
I play Pink Floyd
Memories hanging from branches
Passengers sharing brief glances
I play Pink Floyd

I'm coming home, I'm on my way, but I travel still...
I travel not by force... yet not by will
Music of choise as soundtrack to the silent film
beyond the windowsill
I wrote this as a little homage to my lonesome travels. I fittingly wrote it on a train during sundown, but it's about my memories as a homeless teenager with no idea what I wanted to do or where I wanted to go, just that I wanted to go somewhere and do something. It's also about that longing for someone I hadn't yet met, that empty space reserved for someone you know you'll eventuelly meet. Luckily, this time I was on my way home to that someone.
I imagine this poem as lyrics to a jazzy tune. Maybe I'll get to try it out one day. I'm no great singer, but I'm reserving space for a trumpet solo in there somewhere.
Rai Jun 2013
We were never anything more
You took my trust
And stampled it to the ground
We were nothing more
Than a wanting
An unsatisfied plea for help
You touch upon
That place within
I never told you
How I really felt
You were too busy falling for fools
You were too busy pulling me down
The time you threw me in the gutter
The tears mingling with puddles of remorse
The stab of failed friendship
I loved you
For all the cruelty you dealt me
Broken hearted
Now I never fall so hard
Tears never fall
Mirrors only reflect scars left from warfare
That way
I managed to keep my head above water
I am my own life jacket
So swim or drown
I know I made my choise
It's good
When you know your armour will keep you safe
Rai Jan 2011
She knows all the ways to make you crave her
She knows every move to keep you close
She holds the binding threads of your heart in her hands
And pulls them tight to stay in control

She knows the force to make you stay here
She cast her spell
She boiled her brew
You drank the poison from her cuplet
Now you will never let her go

The flowers of spring lay on her pillow
So devinely sweet is she
You would hold her by her heart strings
You would cast your spell of love

She knows not how she came to be here
Skin next to yours upon your bed
Soft as silk you kiss her forehead
The poison given goes to her head

Once bound by love
You both will know now
The ties you both have bound so well
Each other cast unto the other
Silken flowers take a bow


Be one with earth and sky and heaven
Holding back is no longer a choise
cast your spells in yonder cauldron
Drink from each others cuplets
Poison travels through yur blood

Now you are bound
By the laws of each other
sacred to those who believe
Hold on tight through out your life
In time the binds will loosen and
your love will freely grow
cpy:2011
Constantine Oct 2011
Life can just taste like mud
like your licking it off the steal toe boot
that kicked you to the floor in the first place,
yet we all stand up or die, and it is a sad choise
but it can turn few into sunset admiring warriors
and others in to those whom can survive an oil infested
jungle. ether way falling into a personal void like getting
lost on the moon is how it can all start...getting lost in the jungle
drowning in the oil, it keeps going life, even when we stop
and sometimes we just look up in the sky and eat it.
Tink Nov 2017
My friends and I - what irony!
When you see people come and go
then wonder when your turn will show.
Just sit and wait
like on a ticking bomb
with a delay.

My friends and I - such irony!
They play their rules and games
to see how long they'll get away.
The choise is yours
to say or stay!
Where lies your heart?
How much to take?
... until you break?
My friends and I - the irony!
Bluebird Apr 2015
it is not about the choise,
you are going to make,
it's not about her,
who's voce you're gonna take.
Today is all about me
Jonah Lavigne Feb 2014
You made up your mind
You chose me
I'm happy
The first time in weeks
And all I can say is
.......................
I'm speechless
Thank you
I know you made the right choise
I promise
I'll treat you and your baby right
Do everything in my power
To make y'all happy
I swear
Fenix Flight Jun 2014
I try my hardest
To be close to you again.

To erase the past
Of hate and distance.

But its times like this
That i wonder if
i made the right choise.

imature
rude
disrespectful

Words you scream to me.
Dont you see what they do?

Do you have any idea
The affect you have on me?

You dont see the tears i hide
You dont see the strength
i pretend to have.

Because i know if i cry
You'll just say to stop being a child.

All i can say is
Im sorry
Mama

Im sorry
I didnt turn out
The way you wanted me to

Im sorry
I know
Im never good enough

I know
Im nothing but
Disapointment
the life is a world
compleatly diferent from ours
with trees and animals and beutyful things everywere
flowers and butterfly flying in the sky
lions and tigers playng with cats
elephants and mouses living together in the same house
humans and dogs with the same toys
with not a single fight about who got it first.


the death is a world**
compleatly diferent from ours
with black sky with no clouds
the humans and animals and plant are disaper from the ground
the floor with a gray aspect and gloomy ground
the silent in ths air with any noise
trying to be and have more choise
and trying tho save a pice of green ground.
Arcassin B May 2014
by Arcassin B


his origins is the most beautiful,
the creation came for hours,
little lucifer was born,
to bring light to even funerals,
light up the world to grow flowers,
amazing grace he gave you life,
but i guess it all ended,
when you needed the power,
not long before you were born,
already going against his wishes,
i guess he makes no mistakes,
but the making of you,
would have turned out so great,
if you didnt lose your mind,
and you didnt waste his gift,
that was you,
but instead you had a different choise in mind,
make a quick rebellion,
you must want it bad,
had several followers,
like you, they were mad,
hope he didnt fail you,
while banishing you from this place,


....then you slowly change,

...along with your followers,
the world is about to change,
hell is born,
dont igknowledge worlds.
http://arcassin.blogspot.com/2013/09/his-love-is-gone-full-version.html
Sinai Mar 2013
I'm afraid.
Because I know me, not you.
I've seen my choise of men, and I know after today,
the way you kissed me, made me laugh
kissed me, made me laugh,
that I will fall in love with you.

I'm afraid because you're pretty.
And because most men cheat, especially the pretty ones.

I'm afraid I will forget all of this.
The pain, the healing,
and that I will eventually trust you.
Give everything I have, just like I always do.
Loose myself in your approval, love you more than I love myself.

I'm afraid that there,
at my weakest point,
you will be just like them.
Arcassin B Jul 2015
By Arcassin Burnham

She,
She was only one that knew everything,
She was only one that knew everything
That I was,
She,
She could take the pain away,
She could take the pain away
that was inside of me,
She,
She knew my flaws and my weaknesses,
She knew my flaws and my weaknesses,
Without a curse,
I,
I wanna say that I miss her,
I wanna say that I miss her and I miss her dearly,

With a rose and two stones,
From here to Illinois,
Swear I regret the choise,
Of not seeing you when you left,
And it all but me hard,
I miss the sweetness in your voice,
Even sometimes when you were sour,
I'd love the feeling right now to kiss you all over your face,
I can kick out alot of things but its you I can't replace,
I miss you.
18 Part 3
I caught myself staring at your picture,
Then l lie to myself that it won't happen again,
For your beauty I wish there was some kind of a switcher,
So I can turn you off every time you turn me on,
Because you're a gorgeous woman and you got me under your spell.

**** it I really do miss your softly voice,
So I am scrolling through my phone's agenda untill I see your name,
Calling you should've been an easy choise,
On a second thoughts, I let my ego to torn us apart,
I am really ashamed of the man I have become.

I am ignoring you but I can't stop thinking about you,
Yeah it's such a cliche but darling it's true,
I sang a duet with Rihanna 'bout "where have you been"
I am still looking for you in every woman I meet,
And yet nobody can replace the adorable you.

I like you like a little boy love his wonderful toys,
When we get together I feel enormous rejoice,
Spending time with you is something I do enjoy,
Now that you're a little older we can get drunk with a bottle of red wine,
We can have lots of fun cause' we will never be this young,
Needles to say,don't tell your mom about this or I'll get my *** kicked.

I felt your absence more than a hundred times,
It is like waking up one day with no teeth in my mouth.,
I wouldn't have to run to the mirror to know they were gone,
We both pretend that we are just fine,
Truth is we haven't been friends for quite some time.

Stef Devid Alexandru ©
Andrew Vitans Dec 2019
For the good and the bad
Never wished on me gore
Can't go far from my bed

You'll not tell me anymore
Like you promised all this
Consulating me with a "no more"

Sed eam fecisti

I'd never regret my choise
Like trust to be thrown away
As you'd not tell me what it is

Remember the first time on May
How can you forget it
When all the fears I threw away

Durāre non poterat

As I notice ya' strange for a bit
My sixth sense never lies
I realise that ya' made it

How direct my being wise
Put all the guilts all over
Feelin' it never seemed so nice

Novum moralis natus est

Forget me to be a lover
And never come back
I'm a heartless, it's over
This is the first lyric of a collection of poems.
The title of this work which includes more poems is "Heartless Soul" and tell about my personal experience about being heartless after getting used in a relationship several years ago.
I'll post one poem every day.
The phrases you might not understand are written in latin and these works are 100% written by me.
No body May 2018
Dear dad

I know i'm not there to say this so I though typing it is the best choise.
I know I messed up. I know i'm not the little girl I used to be.
Dad we were so close and know I get why we aren't anymore its because of me. I shut everyone out. Dad i'm sorry. Dad when you see this, if you ever do, its not your fault, its mine. I should of never shut you out, I should of told you what was going on, but I didn't. Dad I didn't move because I was running, I moved because I need a change and I got one and now I'm happy.

Dad when you read this I hope your not crying
I hope your not sitting there saying its your fault
Dad I hope your not blaming yourself

Dad i'm growing up I become this quite person
i'm sorry

And dad I want you came to my party by yourself because we need to talk face to face. I need to tell you things that I kept to myslef. Why I was quite, why my grades were bad, why I never talked about it, and why I need this change. Dad don't be angery please. I love you and miss you tons. And dad I will answer any questions.
Orli Jan 2020
I don't want the the
Power
It looms over me like a
Tower
They say everyone has a
Choise
But mine was stolen by a
Voice
A voice so loud I can no longer
Hear
Now I can hardly even shed a
Tear
The river has run
Dry
It's time for me to say
Goodbye
And when I finally close my
Eyes
No more will I have to
Try.

— The End —