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malice
malice
English I'm a single mom and college student who sells her art to pay the bills. Anything creative interests me. I'm working on two books. I engrave portraits on glass. Oh, and I chew ice. Yeah. Annoying, right? :)
There are thirteen things She hates about her life She isn't good with people She's never been a wife She has a few more curves than all The girls in magazines But then again, who doesn't? They all kind of look like beans She doesn't like her GPA Or her major at her school She doesn't keep up with the hipsters And thinks she isn't cool She wakes too late each morning She drinks too much caffeine She has a patch of freckles on her nose And her eyes are one blue, one green She keeps a messed up journal Where she writes her wicked thoughts She doesn't exercise enough Although she knows she ought Then there's last, but never least That to others she can't impart The thing she hates the very most Is her cold, dark, broken heart
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 3:29 PM UTC
Thirteen Things
What a year. First a divorce. Then financial trouble, of course. Losing my house and losing my car Led to time spent in a local bar. There you were. Masculine bravado. I figured you were gay. Shows what I know. Too pretty to be real, like Olympus was your home Walking up and programming your number in my phone You had a lot of nerve. Your game was impressive still. My heart was yours at that moment, though completely against my will. And so it goes, or so they say, that all good things must end. But 9 years later, I'd sell my hands to be in '04 again.
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 3:28 PM UTC
A Nod to 2004
She wears the cloak of strength and solidity And carries a shield against self-pity Her eyes tell tales of battles long gone But scars have made her heart their home Bruised but not broken she walks her own path And beneath debris in the aftermath Lies her integrity and in all honesty, She's not the person they think her to be She is simply a soul in a shell made of stone But stones can crack-as is well known And crack she has - her outward warrior goddess Underneath it all she's shy and modest Because of the fights that came before And this is just another war She'll push back down the little girl inside Who wants to scream and run and hide She'll face this conflict with cloak and shield And her inner weakness won't be revealed
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 3:23 PM UTC
Cloak and Shield
Sitting in traffic Trying not to break Painfully sorting through The decisions I must make. Out of nowhere, sounds I hear. Louder they become. It sounds like ****** pain and fear All rolled into one. I cannot fathom where on earth The screams originate. I look to the right, the left and ahead Where people congregate. I'm instantly there amidst the crowd Their faces full of dread. There, lying in a sea of blood A young girl is obviously dead. Her face is swollen; her hair is tangled One foot is missing a shoe. Her arm is twisted; her body mangled Her chest is black and blue. Suddenly, I started to cry As I finally began to see The screams, the fear and the blood were mine. The girl laying there was me.
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Apr 28, 2013
Apr 28, 2013 at 1:53 AM UTC
Daymare
Too many to count Her alternate worlds There's one in which She's an innocent girl Who's never been hurt And never destroyed Who catches the eyes Of all the boys There's the one in which She's been called insane As if they could fathom What goes on in her brain Then there's depravity A world of desire Where anything goes And all admire Another that offers Candles and romance A fantasy, this For she can't even dance But all the worlds in Underland She'd trade in no time flat To feel a sense of worth again To put on a different hat For just a while to be one person Without the flavors and shades But hope is futile. This is her life From now til the end of her days
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Apr 28, 2013
Apr 28, 2013 at 1:49 AM UTC
31 Flavors and 50 Shades
Isolation Desperation In a hell of my own creation. Scared to Love Scared to live Apprehensive- Scared to give. So much inside It hurts to smile Hurts to breathe Hurts to cry.
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Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 4:24 AM UTC
DESPERate isolATION
Are you my shade or are you my shadow? Will you bring me to life or deal me the deathblow? Am I crazy for loving - crazy for needing? Insanity leaves my exhausted brain bleeding. You keep me at arm’s length,keep me holding Waiting and wishing,through all of the scolding My mind tells me something; I know I should listen But my heart is at war... death is its mission Death of the pain and death of the lies Death of this ****** hope,death while I cry.
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Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 4:22 AM UTC
Shadow or Shade
What a pity You disappeared without a trace What a shame That I can't forget your face You should know You tore my world apart You left me with a black cloud on my heart The wind blows hard I still feel the raindrops stinging I need escape From the emptiness it's bringing You're like a storm You rushed in like a hurricane And left nothing behind But damage and pain There are nights I wake up fighting mad You threw away Everything we had And I must admit it took me by surprise When I saw the look of leaving in your eyes But the eye of the storm is passing through And maybe some day I'll get over you I'll rebuild myself stronger than before But there's still a lot to weather in this storm (This was actually intended to be lyrics, which is why the timbre of it is off.)
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Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 4:10 AM UTC
Eye of the Storm