Glistening lights
Peek into my promising future
One you premeasured
As impossible, unsuited
My sparkling dreams
That leave me believing
But your uncertainty
Rocks me senselessly
I'm always wishing
For a world beyond my eyes
You seem unready
To dust your wings and fly
But it’s all i wanna do
I wanna hum another tune
This home you don't want to lose
But I'm alone if you don’t choose (my way)
I’ve told you before
I'll walk the path of solitude
I’m sorry, but i don’t have enough remorse
To rot away in hell with you
I’ll fall off the Golden
Before i stay holding
The place that burdens
My true feeling of purpose
You can stay here
While my ship steers
You will not hold me back
From my golden years
Stop wallowing
I’ll grasp my solid dreams
We’re growing differently
Though i love you exponentially
I’ll wish you farewell
On your journey nowhere
My name is Abroad, I’m well
I’ll hand you my care
Nov 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM UTC
I love you so much! You energize me, hydrate my skin like a moisturizer. Your name drips from my tongue like I’m fresh out the shower, harmonizing psalms of a distinct desperation. You’re my foundation – the creation of my tireless city. And you’re the annual light of my candle in which I wish for a life with you. I love gazing at your frame and smiling at the photograph within. The image of polychromatic dreams lushing the heart of the boy I love most. Our ghosts sit on the steps of the hill across the street from our middle school squinting at the horizon that became our future. My dimples shine at your shadow in my mind, even with the lantern of habit. You’re sweet and refreshing, like a mint from Olive Garden. You’re a fortune of exuberance, a beacon of hope, nestled under a weighted blanket between my lungs. You’re the ribs protecting my heart, like Prince Philip defending Aurora from the dastardly Dragon and the Beast preserving the enchanted rose that brought him to true love. Your voice is my alarm clock to kiss me awake, as calming as trees that rustle in the wind on a soft autumn morning with the sun peeking through our vision. Our breaths condense, hanging in the air like love cycling through the vents – filling our home with stability, a necessity for a healthy future. Every memory with you is a lavish ornament decorating our tree in pops of color like a Jackson ******* painting. You're the amulet to ward off evils, wrapped around my neck replacing the rope I lingered with. You’re the trampoline to catch my fall when I steer out of a plane, forgetting to unbuckle my parachute. My love for you takes the shape of a mermaid diving to the bottom of the Earth and burying its treasure deep within the sand, a message in a bottle to highlight our sonnets, like taking notes on a Shakespearean romance play. You're the Olympian of my heart who earned a gold medal like Mondo Duplantis. Every day I look at the gem on my finger as if it’s a crystal ball, giving us a sneak peek of what’s to come like the movie trailer of our future. You're all I could have ever asked for. I love you.
Love, Ari <3
Sep 30, 2025
Sep 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM UTC
My eyes sink
Dreaming of you
If I blink
I may miss you more
It’s your soul
I hold so close
And your love
Raise a toast
My eyes are like sunset
Sinking while I sleep
Yours are like sunrise
Full of energy
My light dims
While yours awakens
My might sins
Your sins were taken
We’re so up-and-down
I’m full of frowns
Your smile lightens
Mine turns around
You brighten my evenings
You heal my grieving
I have a lot of skeletons
They hold meanings
I’ll never be like you
You’re perfect by define
I’ll live in solitude
You’ll never live as mine
The way I’d design it
You’ll make my coffee daily
But I’ll resign it
And give up on the maybe
Your face will exit my brain
Two weeks notice, I’ll never be the same
I’ll hold my head and pray
That my world won’t turn as grey
As it was without you.
Jul 13, 2025
Jul 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM UTC
Ari’s Mind
i wish i was good at writing songs about when i’m sad
but for some reason my mind can’t fathom reaching that grab
although she’s fond of thinking so grand,
depression is something she can’t quite cram in her notes
maybe my next album should be called “Ari’s Mind”
i never knew how complicated she was until now
although writing makes all my stars feel aligned
describing my emptiness is just something she doesn’t allow
it’s something i don’t allow
i wish i was an artist who can write while their sad
but my phantom traps my pen to stay sat
wont let me get creative with crows and darkness
but every emotion is art, my brain won’t stay conscious
billie doesn’t know how lucky she is
taylor doesn’t know how lucky she is
melanie doesn’t know how lucky she is
i wish i knew how lucky this is
at least i can write below sea level
if insurmountable words count as credible
although this poem deems debatable
maybe to some it could be relatable
i wish i was an artist who can write while their sad
but my phantom traps my pen to stay sat
wont let me get creative with crows and darkness
but every emotion is art, my brain won’t stay conscious
26 letters are in the english alphabet
over a million words in the language
and still in my brain i would bet
i can’t comprehend the sadness
poetry is something most don't understand
it takes a long time to build a house out of sand
but if you sit with your thoughts and get deep
then maybe you’d believe the poet’s dream
i wish i was an artist who can write while their sad
but my phantom traps my pen to stay sat
wont let me get creative with crows and darkness
but every emotion is art, my brain won’t stay conscious
Jun 25, 2025
Jun 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM UTC
no words flourish my brain
only insurmountable grief yanking my sails towards the storm
a thundering wobble winds unsafe in despairing darkness
my mind is an hourglass shattered into oblivion once the boulder kills my windows
the seasickness churns in my knotted stomach until i wail overboard,
the substance of all i was and all i would become flies into the depths of the deep end
im left unwanted
only tainted
i’m alone without a spark
no strange speck of glitter solo in my hair
i search the broken ship inside barrels and floorboards
for a hint of sequined lights
but to my dismay
i wallow to none at all
an unshaken fury with no gold in sight
only smite and discoloration
shakes my fragile surroundings
the inability to swallow my cries
weep and wail on the waterlogged crib
my sighs, disheartening, a rolling in my chest
my breath is like shoelaces being pulled and tugged by illiterate tots
i collapse
my body weighs a billion pounds
like a giant cheshire cat locked firmly on my torso
with it’s tail wrapped around my neck
suffocating my last hope of being free
with every small breath i exhale
the gold turns to charcoal
i see the world through the eyes of a loony
trapped in the pits of hell
i silence my eyes
i see a field of pastels
colors, it’s been years since i’ve last gallivanted
they smell fresh and flowery
an adolescent sits amidst the poppies
one of a familiar figure and mannerism
one i’ve seen before
i approach the child whose head is deep in touch with nature
i reach my hand out like im offering them a chance at life, as if they’re an abandoned puppy who needs saving
the rustling startles them, and their milk chocolate eyes widen
it’s okay
everything will be okay
they take my hand
i know this person
their eyes are my doppelgänger
i see their future is my own
and i fear for when they go loony as did i
Jun 25, 2025
Jun 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM UTC