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keith-johnson
American My name is Keith. I write when I need to let my thoughts out.
This will destroy you. This feeling. Like a car crash inside of your chest. This exhausting, unforgiving and unrelenting feeling. This will destroy you. This will **** the soul from your veins, and you won't even try to stop it. This free form, endless feeling. This will take it's time. You will never understand this. You will be ok with that. You won't want it to ever stop. This will define you. Even the strongest won't survive. But they are the ones we will remember. They are reminders of why we live. This will hurt you. This is how it feels to be on the edge. This is what hope is made of. This feeling. This will complete you. This one word with more meaning than could ever be described. This feeling of drifting in the dissonance. This feeling.
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Apr 6, 2011
Apr 6, 2011 at 8:35 PM UTC
This will destroy you.
If safety's an illusion, it's the best trick in the book. If love's a game, then who makes the rules? Can I spend my nights ankle deep on sandy beaches, just trying to find Orions belt? What if I just whisked myself away on a breeze? I could flow through the atmosphere, faster than a jet engine, louder than a thunderstorm, stronger than steal. Or what if I fell in with the waves? I could crush, crash and roll till my heart explodes. The sound of my breath alone could make the mountains shake with concern. Perhaps I could be infinite. I could prop myself right up in the stars and talk to god. I could say "It's beautiful up here." and he could just smirk, knowing that we're the only ones that know. Maybe I could just congregate with the street lights and pretend we were the very stars themselves. We could believe what ever we wanted. We would never have any problems finding Orions belt.
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Mar 7, 2011
Mar 7, 2011 at 5:24 PM UTC
Finding Orions Belt
One day I just woke up. There were tears in my eyes and a hurricane coming out my mouth. I was wrapped in blankets and handed to people I didn't know. I learned to live on this planet I had never been to before. The big bright light in the sky warmed my blanket. Some where on my new planet, some one was feeling the same. One day I might get to meet that person. I wouldn't mind sharing my blanket.
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Jan 27, 2011
Jan 27, 2011 at 7:27 PM UTC
One day I just woke up.
I feel like skipping existence today. I just want to stay in bed, or explode into the fabric of the cosmos. Return to the stars. Fuse with the atmosphere. Be absorbed by the roots of a tree. Float on the wind in millions of tiny particles. Or at least get my hands on some STRONG coffee.
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Jan 27, 2011
Jan 27, 2011 at 7:22 PM UTC
Skipping Existence
When the city shuts down, and everything is quiet, and everything's still, and no one is around to disturb the calm, you can actually see the definition of the word beauty. Sometimes you can even smell it. It's that feeling you get at 1am while sitting on the beach. It's the flavor of 3am coffee. It's the sound of static stations and tv's with the volume turned down just low enough to fall asleep to. It's when every single action that has ever existed happened so you could be brought to this one moment of sheer beauty. It's when butterflies fall in love with hurricanes. It's when stars explode, only to be wished upon. Beauty comes to those that know what they're looking for.
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Oct 26, 2010
Oct 26, 2010 at 8:40 PM UTC
Beauty Comes
Is it worse to break your own heart, or keep it out of harms way? Smoke stings my lips, these thoughts of your hips, moving with mine... It's the only thing keeping me from the clouds tonight. Passion is madness, but Jack and I both know the mad ones are more fun. If I could give you my breath, I would. If you let me love you, I could. I wish I could understand, I should. I have around 30,000 nights left on this planet, and I want to spend every **** one of them with you. It's cold enough in this universe without the help of shoulders being turned. No matter what happens, the earth will still spin. The stars will still shine, and the sun will still burn, but it won't be the same to me. I will bend to the wind and the rain and to gravity. I will sail away, never to return. I will sleep with the stars and the sky, but I will always remember your sway.
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Oct 26, 2010
Oct 26, 2010 at 8:38 PM UTC
Sway
It's those moments right before bed that I miss you the most. I can feel you in my chest whenever you're not next to me. You are the rain. You are the sky. You are the piece that fit's just right. I remember you in a thousand different ways. The way you feel, smell, taste, breathe, sleep, move, talk, walk, listen and smile. The way you look at me. The way you make me believe. I want to kiss you with all the passion that this world has left in it. I want to dance us into that place where nothing exists but us. And if you show me your world then I'll show you mine. I'll show you the colors in the music and the beauty of a streetlight. And I won't be afraid. You are the girl whose soul is filled with stars, and I am the boy wishing I was where ever you are.
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Oct 16, 2010
Oct 16, 2010 at 9:28 AM UTC
Where Ever You Are
Help. I'm drowning. Rip me out by the root. My heart is made out of Nicotine and brick walls. I can feel the exact spot where my chest started caving in. I feel your finger tips slipping away from mine. This undertow, this torrent, this feeling. It's pulling me down faster than I can swim. And just like that everything goes numb. If I can't make it back, please don't forget me. Every one I've known, everything I've done, everything I can't take with me, it doesn't matter as much as this. If you remember nothing else, remember how you made me believe. You made me believe the unattainable was not so far away. That maybe this all isn't some huge ******* joke that everyone else gets. If I don't make it back, please forgive me. I swear I didn't want to go.
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Sep 7, 2010
Sep 7, 2010 at 6:28 PM UTC
What Its Like To Drown
I feel like I am being forced to disconnect. Everyday I am farther gone than the day before. I can feel my heart breaking from years of over use. My breath is bitter, and all I can see is nothing. I used to know everything. Now I know too much. Everything means nothing now. At least to me, any ways. I know the song has to end, but can't we do better than this? Where is that feeling I can't live without? It doesn't even make sense! I hope there's time to salvage the ghost in this body. I mean, I didn't even get to say good bye.
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Sep 7, 2010
Sep 7, 2010 at 6:26 PM UTC
Where Am I Going?
I got high again today. Not the way most people do. Sometimes I need to be above it all. Sometimes I need to look down on things and wonder what they look like when no one looks at them. The sirens in the distance scream like children, piercing the night like a safety pin through fabric. I wish I could live like this. Where there is always a nice breeze to kiss me on the cheek, and tell me it will be better no matter how ****** up things look. Where I could see whats happening. I could always be there. And people would notice me staring at them, and they could gaze back. And every now and then they could smile. They don't have to, but they just do it any way. With out force, Without fear of rejection. How wonderful that would be! And maybe, just maybe, One of them could walk up here to join me. And we could watch the sun wander off. And the concrete mountains would breathe with us. Breath by Breath we could watch the world pass just under out feet. Just under out feet. How wonderful that would be! And to every one else, we would just be two young kids on a parking garage. But to us, we would be invincible. And we could wait up for the sun to come home. And watch the world come back to life. And not one person would have the tiniest notion that we beat the statistics. That we lived forever in just a few short hours. How wonderful that would be.
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Sep 7, 2010
Sep 7, 2010 at 6:24 PM UTC
Wonderful