
Pauly
16/M/Los Angelas, CA
Hey! / / I'm just a teenager just wanting to share out my poems that I wrote over the past years from my journal. Most of my poems are based on shitty things that I've went through as a child. I hope you do enjoy and get inspired, there all of my work!
I see you
how I see
the moon.
My wandering eyes
will never get tired
of your stage light glow.
I speak to you
and believe in you
with all my prayers
and truths
with an open soul
only you
and the stars
will know.
And on every midnight's darkness,
the wind
of your nightly voice
reminds me I'm never alone.
Apr 26
Apr 26, 2026 at 7:52 PM UTC
Has a river ever wonder
Where it follows
Or does it wander such
in circle
like the windmill
so endlessly?
Feb 13
Feb 13, 2026 at 1:53 AM UTC
He’s like the warmth
of an old memory
being revived.
He’s like the morning sun
kissing my face gently,
becoming the first beauty I see.
Or like the cool rain
I haven’t danced under
in a long time.
He’s like the wild adventures.
A reminder there’s new wonders
left undiscovered.
He’s the never ending story,
A NEVER again
will you find a better treasure—
Or at least that’s exactly
how you feel
each time you’re together.
He’s part of the reason
it feels like parts of you are together,
like magnets or unexplained magic,
or souls mending.
He’s all the words
you can define love
and all the ones
you’ll never find.
Dec 9, 2025
Dec 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM UTC
I never thought
it would be like this.
Unhappiness lie
under lovely memories.
We were dreaming
and soon realized
behind the crack mirrors,
there was a lifelong
screaming storm
underneath our
crayon drawn smiles.
What did we do wrong—
What do I say—
When my tears
fall alone—
What do I do now
that you’re gone…
I never dreamed
we’d end like this.
And now that
you’re gone—
Where do we go?
Now that you’re gone..
Now that you’re gone…
Now that you’re….
Oct 24, 2025
Oct 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM UTC
What a cruel,
ironic joke…
You told me
to go inside my old,
crooked, cold home,
lock the doors,
swallow the keys
whole in lonely hunger,
and cut my fingers
right off.
And yet,
you sick critics
told me
to reach out
more.
Oct 24, 2025
Oct 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM UTC
I wanna do
nothing with you.
I mean I wanna do
anything and everything.
But especially
when there are days
with nothing to do
and no places for
our hearts to go,
I wanna share
the stillness
in my messy room.
I wanna fill the room
with our loud and simple
existence.
Share little,
quiet moments
together.
I wanna fill the room
with laughter
and falling tears—
Not from sorrow,
but from peace.
I wanna dance with you.
I wanna feel our bodies
full of stories.
A picture of us—
A scrapbook of love
that means everything.
I wanna mean
the world to you.
The blood orange sun
falling slowly,
you can spend
forever watching
in the patch of wheat fields
we find ourselves on
when you need
a second to breathe.
So whatever you need,
I’ll be the peace
in this messy room
I share with you.
Oct 18, 2025
Oct 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM UTC
Tell me,
is it just a dream
made up of tears?
Because I always feared
somebody’s watching me.
I’m just an average man,
working an average
nine to five.
When I come home
at dead of night,
I bolt the door real tight.
Dark figures,
crawling beneath my skin.
A million eyes burning,
lurking in the long,
black void of midnight.
Walls clawed
like sharp knives
by hungry hands.
A horror scene
of the Truman Show,
rotting in my own home.
I always feel like
somebody’s watching me.
Not friends.
Not neighbors.
Not the mailman,
the IRS or the law.
But fifteen missing bodies
I take time to bury.
Faces flicker in static,
the TV hiss—
Their names bleed
all over news channels.
Behind mildew walls
decorated in the
smell of decay.
Floorboards
creaking like bones.
Beneath me,
there are deep secrets
twisting and turning.
Lost voices whisper,
and colorless eyes
of the uncanny,
staring, following,
stretching unnaturally
at dead of night.
Hell, I’ve paid the price—
Everybody’s watching me.
Aug 19, 2025
Aug 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM UTC
“You keep dancin’ with the devil,
And one day, he’ll follow you home…”
I’ve been dancin’
with the devil
for a long, long time—
Into the night blues.
The scariest part?
I’ve been feelin’ good—
Oh…feelin’ too good.
Blood on the wooden floor,
his breath smell like
liquor, hell and pain—
Somethin’ like my old pops.
The devil wore many faces
with twisted smiles I learned from.
Crooked, sharp hands,
wrapped ‘round my cold neck—
Yet the music keeps playin’.
I know burnin’ truths hurt,
so I lied to you
not to break you.
I love you, darlin’,
you did all you can.
I hope you can stand it.
Love’s a ghost cabin,
I built those walls.
Once full of souls singin’ blues—
Now hollow and haunted.
Trapped both saint and sinner
of a fallin’ angel,
and you’re the hymn
I can’t stop hummin’.
Jul 5, 2025
Jul 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM UTC
My poetry exist
with a crooked purpose—
And so,
its crooked disturbance
violates
its comfort presence.
It exists
without my consent.
- Paul P. Deratany
Jun 13, 2025
Jun 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM UTC