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TheRavensWrittingDesk
38/M/Cali Army Veteran|Single Father|I'm a self-taught poet and am still learning stanza & punctuation, so please excuse the mess, lol. / Please, ALL poems are MINE. They are copyrighted and for my use only.
We take And we we take And we take all your stuff But never too much We only take just enough First your hope Then your dreams Then your joy Then your trust But don't worry too much All that we take We replace With cheap substitutes And ruin And waste And for everything else Your depression Your grief Your loss of all hope Your tainted beliefs Your mistrust Paranoia Your inconsolable fear We've got a pill for it all In fact Your first dose is right here
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Aug 7, 2020
Aug 7, 2020 at 8:20 AM UTC
Stay Calm
Walking seems Seems like a good idea sometimes Till your walking and you see And you see the edge and decide Decide Decide Decide to fly Breathing could be Could be harder than you would like If the airs too thick and stagnant Stagnant air inside Inside Inside The air's too thick here inside So we're all gasping And clinging And sticking to one another Not breathing Not flying We're all dying We're all dying Sometimes I think that I know what your thinking Sometimes I think that I know what to say Sometimes I pretend that Im not so ******* lonely Sometimes I pretend that I'm really ok I'm not ok (I'm not ok) I AM this way (I AM this way) This way I'll stay (But it's okay) Cuz we're all gasping And clinging And sticking to one another Not breathing We're all dying And clinging And sticking to one another Not breathing Not flying Not flying We're all dying All dying We are all All already dead
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Aug 3, 2020
Aug 3, 2020 at 9:28 AM UTC
Air Too Thick
When dreams are more real than reality I sleep the day away But darkness still brings nightmares So come nightfall I depart my bed to play
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May 15, 2019
May 15, 2019 at 6:37 AM UTC
Come Night
A long time ago my Happiness was taken from me They dragged it away kicking and screaming They took it and they locked it up in solitary confinement No trial No jury It was meant to be a life sentence For a while I just accepted this I told myself there was nothing I could do Then one day I decided that was ******** This was my Happiness and I was getting it back So I went to the place where it was imprisoned and searched Eventually I found the dark and dank cell where they put my Happiness With a little effort I was able to pick the lock And finally let it free I rushed in to greet my old friend But to my dismay I discovered it had changed My Happiness was locked up in total darkness All alone For so long… It had become Insanity
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May 15, 2019
May 15, 2019 at 6:14 AM UTC
Mr Hyde
All our lives they've been telling us What's right What's wrong Stuck, in our heads like a song They tell us to have faith To shut up and just believe But what the f--k is faith And who the f--k are they They try Pushing us down unlit paths Then punishing those who stray But the great ones Are those who challenge them And walk another way They tell us to have faith To shut up and just believe But why ask us for our faith When they're lying through their teeth Greatness is to walk away When the demons in priests' clothing Are begging us to stay
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Feb 16, 2019
Feb 16, 2019 at 9:15 AM UTC
Greatness
Keep saying you don't want it I like when you lie Keep saying you dont want it I like when you cry My little snowglobe Love to shake you up Then watch the chaos inside Do you hate me yet Yeah, it's better this way You hate me, yet You still let me stay My little snowglobe Does it hurt your ears When I tap on the glass Arguing in the car last night My foot hard on the gas Probably shouldn't drive so hard When it's raining so fast My little snowglobe Did it hurt when you cracked It hurt me too It hurt me too It hurt me too I want you back
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Feb 15, 2019
Feb 15, 2019 at 8:52 PM UTC
Snowglobe
We crossed paths again today But how I saw him seemed to change I noticed the fine details And wrote them on this page He's wearing filthy rags Of pure gold His hair matted and clumped Is beaded with pearls His ***** unkept beard Hides rubies in every curl His face, covered in dirt Is kind and aesthetic His callused and scarred hands Have never formed a fist His body is thin but strong His voice is kind and gentle People part when he passes They move far away They ridicule and hiss and scorn Disgusted faces that they all make They talk in hushed whispers As they point and stare I can barely stand to see this But he doesn't seem to care Today I walked beside him Just to feel his pain But what I felt was peacefulness That feeling was so strange
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Feb 12, 2019
Feb 12, 2019 at 10:15 AM UTC
Humble
On a cold clear night, a dream A dream of thirty-seven Thirty-seven thin figures stand Upon a smooth white plain That glistens like purest sand There bodies completely still Yet long auburn hair dances Lightly back and forth As if under water Though these delicate figures wear all white What they harbor remains unknown Are they angels, bearing gifts of love and life...... Twelve months they whisper First once then twice .....Or malevolent beings Bringing forth illness and tragedy Twelve months they whisper Now ceaselessly Awake, oh bright beautiful morning Sun shining through the still drawn shades Downstairs loved ones waiting To celebrate this speacial day Upon the kitchen table A pure white cake Thirty-seven candles all aflame Loved ones gather round To sing aloud Happy, happy birthday
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Feb 6, 2019
Feb 6, 2019 at 11:54 AM UTC
37
It's not the first time And it won't be the last time That mistakes are made
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Feb 4, 2019
Feb 4, 2019 at 11:50 AM UTC
Life
There's is nothing as beautiful as a beautiful face Tall Thin Radiant skin. A face like no other And eyes like the sky Physical beauty in every way Then we locked eyes For only an instant But it seemed all that I needed. As a vain grin stretched outward And screamed I'm cocky, conceded! I'm better than you because I was born this way I have eyes like the sky, and a statuesque face A body that's thin with curves in all the right places. She saw me, enamored And it humored her And just as quickly my thoughts of her changed There is nothing beautiful about a beautiful face Unless there's a heart twice a big With humility, Grace.
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Feb 3, 2019
Feb 3, 2019 at 11:16 AM UTC
Truly Beautiful