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ana-llanes
ana-llanes
Mexican
We speak of You Sing of Your glory We are awed by Your greatness We go by trying to convince this world That what we do is live for You But we contradict our outspoken love Share a picture In the morning something depicting Your love At night something to fill another heart with lust Social media shows our double mindedness Yet we are not ashamed We preach sin and forgiveness But we do not speak of how much better we should be Go and tell a stranger they should learn the truth And we turn around and share our sins We wonder why the world can't see past us Why can't they see that we are human not perfect But they do see what we share And we are not sharing Your love So how do we preach what should be And not live more like it? How can we convince a stranger Or a loved one To be more like you, Jesus If we are not edifying ourselves But putting You to shame
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Jul 29, 2014
Jul 29, 2014 at 10:17 PM UTC
Untitled
Well again it's my favorite day of the year A day I get to celebrate you I get to thank you for all that you've done To tell you how I see your hard work I will always remember all our family trips All our weekends together And how they were perfect because you're The one that made it all l happen I will always have with me All that you've taught me Thank you for the times I was grounded And thank you for the rewards when I fought through You're the one that holds all our weight How could we ever get by without you... I'll tell you how exactly Even in the years that you were there You were never really there All the problems were actually you You being gone is even better than you being here How can you possibly call yourself a dad All you really did was help conceive How could I celebrate you What would I even have to say to you You never taught me anything a father would I could thank you though Thank you for leaving That may be the only thing you did right in our life You left my mom with no option She had to be the strong one The one that grounded me Because yea I was a bad kid I was a mess just thinking I needed you But you know what Now I know how much I really don't She's the one that did all the hard work Just so she could reward me when I fought through She's the one that holds our weight She's the one we could never get by without So today is a bitter sweet kind of day And in the end it's ok Cuz right beside me is the most wonderful father anyone could ask for So Happy Father's day mom
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 8:14 PM UTC
Happy Father's Day
Well again it's my favorite day of the year A day I get to celebrate you I get to thank you for all that you've done To tell you how I see your hard work I will always remember all our family trips All our weekends together And how they were perfect because you're The one that made it all l happen I will always have with me All that you've taught me Thank you for the times I was grounded And thank you for the rewards when I fought through You're the one that holds all our weight How could we ever get by without you... I'll tell you how exactly Even in the years that you were there You were never really there All the problems were actually you You being gone is even better than you being here How can you possibly call yourself a dad All you really did was help conceive How could I celebrate you What would I even have to say to you You never taught me anything a father would I could thank you though Thank you for leaving That may be the only thing you did right in our life You left my mom with no option She had to be the strong one The one that grounded me Because yea I was a bad kid I was a mess just thinking I needed you But you know what Now I know how much I really don't She's the one that did all the hard work Just so she could reward me when I fought through She's the one that holds our weight She's the one we could never get by without So today is a bitter sweet kind of day And in the end it's ok Cuz right beside me is the most wonderful father anyone could ask for So Happy Father's day mom
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The time is passing and it still feels like the first day . The pain and the disbelief in knowing I could never see you ever again. That I would never see your smile light up a room. Your joy lighten the mood. The littlest things are embedded in my heart. When you said forever. You accepted all the change. You embraced the time together. I embrace the memories now. Because all that I have is your memory. It's always a struggle to remind myself. I can't call you. I can't text you. I can't see you. If I could only dream of you tonight. Just to see you if at least in my sleep. If I could only hold you my friend. Tell you how much exactly you mean to me. How well we understood each other. And the most important part of our friendship, That was never spoken. How much I wish I could go back and tell you. You took a piece of my heart with you. The days I see your face in a crowd are the hardest. Those days for a second I think of reaching for my phone. Those days I wish it was you. I wish I could run up and hold you and realize I've been asleep. But I'm falling asleep as I wish I could. When I wake up, it is that my heart sinks lower than before.
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 2:10 AM UTC
Your face in the crowd
Hey my little one I hope that as you're reading this life is treating you good. I promise when I get out of here I'm gonna take you.. I promise when I get out we're gonna go do.. I promise I'm gonna be there.. All your letters All the same All through the years All meaning is void Just letters making up words I know so well not to believe Yet here I am hopefully waiting On something I fear may never be They tell me stories They share their experiences But none will change What you have already done They tell me to love you But they don't know how much I do So much I often wish I didn't For you Are the cause of my pain But I could never hate you And you could never say I haven't tried But all your words are empty In my heart All you left Is a hole Big enough To make sure No one could Replace what you took
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 4:46 AM UTC
Letters from prison
What defines you as a person As a man As a woman It is not your money Nor your car It is not the house you live in It is not the things you own You are not the clothes you wear You are not your weight Nor you height You are not defined by your job What makes you less Or greater than the next person For society to make you believe That to achieve greatness you must be rich But riches leave you with nothing Is a man with power any more Likely to be better than one on minimum wage A man makes more than he can spend Pulls up on a 2014 Lexus He rolls up his window To ignore a beggar A cashier trying to make ends meet Pulls up on a beat up 2000 Pontiac Running low on gas Waiting for the next paycheck Here's a dollar its all I got today And all I got Is more than what he has He gets to eat a hamburger today Because of that last dollar So your money can mean it all for you So you think you're a big success But you are not defined by your money
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 3:08 AM UTC
Money
In Your arms I first felt the smallest The weakest The most insignificant The ugliest So flawed In your arms I first felt the greatest The strongest Most important Most Beautiful So perfect In your arms only Have these emotions Mixed so perfectly To let me fall before you To be all for you For you to be all for me To love you With my heart In Your hands
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Jan 23, 2014
Jan 23, 2014 at 3:52 AM UTC
My heart in Your hands
I was blind My soul lost My heart empty Now I see Filled with love Joy, Jesus gives Jesus only, can In His name I was reborn With His blood I was saved He gave His life for me I cannot give Him enough And He is happy with just my love and loyalty With my praise So my Lord I will praise Jesus I will I give my life to you My perfect King My savior I give You my heart To be closer to You To love You more, Jesus For every breath Every step You have blessed me with My God is great My God forgives Only He is perfect And does not ask us to be But to love He changed me for better But only at my will My God loves me So my Lord I will praise
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Jan 23, 2014
Jan 23, 2014 at 3:46 AM UTC
Praise
Beautiful soul Taken over by pain Overwhelmed with love And no one to respond You hide so well What you truly feel But to know In my heart To see your pain In your eyes You smile But your eyes Tell a different story Your solution Wrong To take something So precious To take a life To leave this pain Only to wish To have you In my arms If only one last time If only to tell you How much I really loved you How I really cared If I could only stop you Take away everything That caused your pain Best friend Your place In my heart Will never know Time To take your memories
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Jan 23, 2014
Jan 23, 2014 at 3:44 AM UTC
V
You ask me how I feel You say something sweet You flirt You say I should smile more You say I'm sarcastic You say I'm bitter But do you remember shooting me down when I tried? So I cannot tell you Because you don't listen I cannot show you Because you'll run away I cannot love you Because you will never feel the same I cannot smile Because you'll make me cry I cannot tell you something real Because you'll laugh I cannot be happy Because you've hurt me too much I cannot, should not let you in But my heart won't let you stay out So here I am broken again Because I tried once more And once more you shot me down
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Oct 11, 2011
Oct 11, 2011 at 3:43 AM UTC
Once more
I wish you'd realize how much we needed you growing up. How simple our lives could've been. But I guess that doesn't matter, does it? You're off with your new woman trying to have your kid. While we wait here and hope to get better. You've been the cause all along. Yes that one small mistake changed our whole future. And I see you don't even bother to ask. See you had the chance To do good. And to be good. To us and our mother. But you chose them and now you're just gone. Not that you were ever really there. I gotta say that's a great choice you made there daddy. To go out and get caught doing what you do. When you should've been home! You could've been good daddy. But i guess it comes back to the same deal. You made the wrong choice. I hope I didn't forget to tell you, but Hey dad I'm depressed. Yea daddy they put me on meds and everything. You wanna know why? Well I guess you don't. But I'll tell you anyway. You remember those nights we spent with you? Yea that first summer in Mexico. Remember what you used to do late at night? Well daddy it came back and hit me even harder. You see my friends laughed and joked around. About that one word. And well dad that day I was hospitalized cuz I had a panic attack in the middle of class. Oh another thing My arms, they look great. Yea you know with scars all over them cuz I'm oversensitive. I wonder why that is daddy Well my birthdays coming up I hope you remember to call since its the only time I get to hear your voice.
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Sep 7, 2010
Sep 7, 2010 at 5:11 AM UTC
Flow
I wish you'd realize how much we needed you growing up. How simple our lives could've been. But I guess that doesn't matter, does it? You're off with your new woman trying to have your kid. While we wait here and hope to get better. You've been the cause all along. Yes that one small mistake changed our whole future. And I see you don't even bother to ask. See you had the chance To do good. And to be good. To us and our mother. But you chose them and now you're just gone. Not that you were ever really there. I gotta say that's a great choice you made there daddy. To go out and get caught doing what you do. When you should've been home! You could've been good daddy. But i guess it comes back to the same deal. You made the wrong choice. I hope I didn't forget to tell you, but Hey dad I'm depressed. Yea daddy they put me on meds and everything. You wanna know why? Well I guess you don't. But I'll tell you anyway. You remember those nights we spent with you? Yea that first summer in Mexico. Remember what you used to do late at night? Well daddy it came back and hit me even harder. You see my friends laughed and joked around. About that one word. And well dad that day I was hospitalized cuz I had a panic attack in the middle of class. Oh another thing My arms, they look great. Yea you know with scars all over them cuz I'm oversensitive. I wonder why that is daddy Well my birthdays coming up I hope you remember to call since its the only time I get to hear your voice.
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