robyn-taylor
31/F/South Africa
I have been writing poetry since the age of 13. Mainly as an escape or rather an escape for my emotions or how I see the world. I am of the opinion that poetry is dying or rather the world has become so standardised that poets are slowly becoming extinct.
In the corner she sits and stares
As she watches me through her contemplating snares
Laughter fills the room
As she approaches & brings with her unprecedented doom
She grabs the light within me
And starts a waltz, ignoring my plea
The laughter starts to fade
Ring around the rosies with never ending words she played
Leading me further into her corner
The funeral she has planned, needs a mourner
As I step towards her, my eye catches the light
My Soul clinging to every inch of the internal fight
Lady of Darkness wraps me in her coat
Using a broken cup to scoop the ocean out of a sinking boat
Suffocating as my toes find the oceans floor
Realising in that second, this was a make believe war
Lady of Darkness sinks beneath me
She finally heard my plea.
Jul 3, 2020
Jul 3, 2020 at 11:52 AM UTC
Sit with me in this quiet
Lock your eyes to mine as My Soul starts a riot
Time didn’t stand a chance in this story
The universe conspiring & smirking at the glory
There you were...
Walking through this life without obscure
I saw a glimpse of emerald in your eyes
The storm was brewing despite our own demise
Your kaleidoscopes beamed light through my heart
Regardless of the ending... this is where we start
Our souls dance in glimmers of green, pink & blue
If I know of anything, to be true... it would be You.
Jul 3, 2020
Jul 3, 2020 at 7:39 AM UTC
Sit with me in the dark
Whilst on these pages I spill my heart
Time holds no weight
When you put your soul at stake
Naked into the light you step
Leaving behind all fear & forgotten regret
Ripping apart your rib cage as the light shines in
Love was never a game you were going to win
Jun 6, 2020
Jun 6, 2020 at 5:55 AM UTC
Love me for this meat bag
Whilst my broken wings, behind me drag
I will fix your halo while mine breaks
Even if its my own soul, at stake
Your demons are lurking in the dark
Come into the light, I will show them my spark...
Keep smiling while we waltz to this song
For these are the smiles we will lose, in a world so wrong
I will allow you to lead
If its my hunger that you can feed
Starve your curiosity through your finger tips
Trace my veins as we lose all our grip
Stairwell kisses leave us deprived
A hunger our souls can no longer deny
Your eyes stain my skin
Because of you.... I give into my sin.
May 23, 2020
May 23, 2020 at 3:18 PM UTC
I am ashamed
At how broken i am.
I apologize
For the amount of stress
I may cause in the midst of your
Efforts of trying to keep me held together.
I apologize
that i continue to fall apart
Before your glue has time to dry.
I apologize
That every time you pick a piece of me up,
Yet another breaks.
I am trying.
You are fixing me slower than i am breaking,
And i am ashamed.
Thank you.
Thank you for not giving up
On a broken piece of nothing.
May 19, 2020
May 19, 2020 at 4:02 PM UTC
Faith...
Just a simple word
But yet not to a broken soul deterred
One step at a time, no matter how lonely it may be
As you move towards the light, your heart will see
Fear riddles your throat as you choke through your prayers
In the darkness of your room, you lose the fight against their snares
Hanging by a thread still means you’re hanging on
Allow your heart to give in to what it longs
May 10, 2020
May 10, 2020 at 9:02 AM UTC
Tonight... My heart is weighed down
I gave away my kingdom, but he stole my crown
Something in me tugs at every inner voice
Be patient.. Stay. Don’t make a bad choice.
I don’t want my heart to crumble
Yet towards this inevitable outcome, I stumble
Tug of war day by day
Yet patiently my soul sits & stays
My mind sees the logic yet my heart neglects
My heart is longing but my soul wants to protect.
May 9, 2020
May 9, 2020 at 3:34 PM UTC
His eyes were dark and lost in a stormy sea
In his gasping breath, he asked me to leave him be
During that moment I chose to be his beacon of light
So silently he could know, he wasn’t alone in this fight
His eyes flickering between lost and found
In the darkness, His heartbeat was the only sound
He tried to close himself inside those walls
Believing he wouldn’t fall....
I stood in front of him, silently reassuring his fears
No matter the speed, I let him know this was his wheel to steer
Whether he be my next chapter or just a paragraph
I allowed him to know, at this cruel world, he would need to laugh
Don’t shut down to the winter days
Through each season... I would be here to stay
I didn’t want to fix him or evoke change
In my eyes he wasn’t broken but maybe a little strange
He saw the world in colour during the darkest of nights
Today... he accepted me as his beacon of light
May 3, 2020
May 3, 2020 at 8:50 AM UTC
Let’s scoop up our memories in perfume bottles
Leave them on the shelf, until our love throttles
When life whisks you away, pour out a drop
Reminding you, to take a second to stop
Reminisce on the smell of long Sunday mornings
And the wreckage left behind from when it was storming
As time keeps you from me
Look at that perfume bottle & let your soul see
Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020 at 10:26 AM UTC
i want to tell you.
i really do.
i'd love to spill my secrets, my issues to you.
yet i can't comprehend it.
i can't communicate it to you.
and the fact you could leave me.
it makes my heart a tearful blue.
you already look at me as if i'm broken.
what do i have to lose?
i want to tell you.
i really do.
yet i can't cope with the fact.
the fact your presence may fade.
vanish without a trace.
except you'd still have that key.
the key that can unlock the darkness in my brain.
Apr 28, 2020
Apr 28, 2020 at 1:01 PM UTC