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rose-13
13/F/Hong Kong
I lost me the day I found you. Shed my skin like tears and waved my old self goodbye Took some belongings but left my memories behind If justice is blind But so is my mind Then what am I? I lost me when I dared to call you mine. Fell for your ice blue eyes and stone cold lies Thought I knew you but all I knew was plastic. If hope springs eternal But my fountain has run dry Then what am I? I lost me when I lost my mind too. Told everyone to leave me alone Then complained that no one ever stayed with me. If rose colored glasses are merely glasses If the truth is the beautiful truth Then what am I? I found me the day I lost you. Picked up my old self and dusted her off. Introduced myself as the stronger one. We both learned the true meaning of fear But we both smiled for the first time in years And for the first time, I spoke words I believed in. “If rose colored glasses are merely glasses And if the truth is the beautiful truth Then, so am I.”
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Mar 18, 2021
Mar 18, 2021 at 6:28 AM UTC
i lost me
It's been a long time since my world turned upside-down And you'll be happy to know I'm doing just fine When I walk by your house at night I only think of you twenty times And now I'm sitting in the same room as you Yeah, I'm totally not thinking about it Trying to avoid your eyes Cuz I can feel you avoiding mine And really, I talk before the words go through my mind And that's why now I stay closed off all the time Now that I've got it, my first taste of crime Did you like it better when I was polite? Now I know what it feels like when you can't catch your breath When you honestly think that you'd rather face death For all of my silent screaming and all of my fears And yes, I still remember after all of these years Opening this notebook, it reopens old scars I thought it was over, but it's barely just begun Cuz I'm still walking by your second-hand car Thinking that this is thought twenty-one
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Jan 26, 2021
Jan 26, 2021 at 7:04 AM UTC
thought 21
Roses grow, and your stone's cold You're way up there, you're all alone And normally I don't trust psychics who claim they can talk to the dead But this time I guess I"ll go The gypsy put her cold hands both on mine Told me that there's help from the divine That I could reach way deep inside And find what you had left behind I close my eyes but all I can see Is the hole where you used to be And all the crystal ***** in the world Could never make me complete Forget-me-nots evermore A prayer sent for you and I And normally I don't trust self-help books cuz they say all the same things But I guess this time I'll try It said 'Let your emotions be expressed and released' But I feel they could never be free 'Talk about it whenever you can' it reads But the only person who'll listen is me I imagine you watching me But I know I'm not just imagining
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Jan 26, 2021
Jan 26, 2021 at 7:03 AM UTC
remember
If he asks you if you're with someone Say your mom's waiting in station two Always give the man your extra change Chances are that he won't report you If you ignore them, they'll ignore you Who cares about some curious kid? For the first time being thought to be stupid Might actually play to your advantage And if anyone dares to ask you how old you are Say you're old enough to know better  than to tell them Don't talk to anybody, no one will talk to you You're not going to fall for them again Be careful not to say a single word You don't need the strangers' gaze You know exactly where you're walking to And you know all one thousand ways Feel the morning air cool on your skin Soak it in, you won't walk this way again Stop by at the florists' shop Breathe in the flowers' scent You said you won't stop for anything But maybe you'd stop for me You walked in empty-handed But you walked out with an orchid leaf And maybe you might try to text me You've done it eight thousand times Your pride stops you from saying sorry But you're hoping I'll read between the lines And after everything's been done The sand is beautiful when it's moonlit Your family's been frantic, where've you been Shake your head, they wouldn't get it And maybe when I open my door tonight I'll find a beautiful orchid leaf And maybe when I stare out the window tonight I'll know you're dreaming of me I'll know you're finally sorry And I'll know you're dreaming of me
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Jan 26, 2021
Jan 26, 2021 at 7:01 AM UTC
you're sorry (runaway)
night is dark but lights are bright fades away but your ice blue eyes continue to haunt me all the way home i stayed at the party way too late but i was wonderstruck today and i never wanted to be alone i'd never wanted anyone except me but after seeing what we could be i realise exactly what i've been missing i can't sleep when it's so soon i turn around, look at the moon are you too looking at the same thing? my black eyes search the black night but i am using them to search for light there will be a way i think i'm in love with you it feels forward but it's true i was wonderstruck today
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Nov 12, 2020
Nov 12, 2020 at 1:33 AM UTC
wonderstruck
Alone, maybe it's not such a bad thing anymore Can't fall asleep or remember what it was like before Quietly lie, say I feel fine, as they check in for the hundredth time I don't belong, I don't belong here Stop saying that time is the best medicine It's been months and I'm still not healing You can't stop someone after they've already jumped in Nothing, nobody knows how I'm feeling And everyone thinks they understand Say "I go through that all the time" No you don't, otherwise you wouldn't be smiling Blanket beneath my chin, stare at the TV Even when it's off, and the wind blows free And it feels like it's taunting me because I can't leave I'm not bad, I'm not good, so what am I? Please don't stick around. I don't want a glass of water. Don't leave the curtains open, I don't want the light of day Drown my feelings, I'm not the perfect daughter You wanted, I tried but I died along the way And the pain turns to hurt And the bad turns to worse Like I thought it would go. You could never feel All this pain, yes it's real And it's like wildfire through my mind And I'm falling through air Feels like I'm not there Maybe I'm dead Alone Is that such a bad thing anymore?
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Sep 10, 2020
Sep 10, 2020 at 11:45 PM UTC
listen.
Remember when I said I'd see you one day? Remember what I said to make me feel okay About myself and now you're gone I know you don't know me but I shoulda said goodbye So many beautiful people I've lost in my life And I know you didn't deserve to go It's no myth though I try To get you out of my eyes Tear it out but there goes a piece of my life And ever since you died I've been trying so hard not to cry And I keep thinking that I didn't say goodbye And I remember that I loved you so much Even though we never were close enough So many memories I never got to write I remember how I said I would meet all five But in the end I suppose only four would survive But I still know that you didn’t deserve to go But you were too young, too needed to fade away On such a beautiful day Leaving our sorrow and pain Nothing can bring you back this way I prayed that one day I'd get to meet you this way So now I think God's fake And I'm just praying, hoping, thinking, I shoulda said goodbye
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Jul 14, 2020
Jul 14, 2020 at 3:06 AM UTC
7.13.20
Nobody cares anymore. Money makes the world go round Not the orbit of the sun. The universe doesn’t matter anymore. They say that we should keep our eyes wide open But their eyes are glued down At the screens that feed them information Whether it is true or false We don’t know anymore We just go with it since we know no better. As you get older You accept the world Instead of questioning it like you should. So many things you could do But you are cut off from it Your eyes are blocked off behind the mask. I wonder how many miles Our thumbs must have scrolled On our screens. “Look at the moon,” they say “Of course,” they reply but once they sit outside They are back to scrolling through their phones. “Slow down,” I want to say “Everything will be okay.” But everyone keeps rushing all the same. They ignore the skies And instead find their gold In cheap, plastic, machine-made stars.
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Jun 26, 2020
Jun 26, 2020 at 7:41 PM UTC
Cheap, Plastic, Machine-Made Stars
I can fly with birds of sorrow, I can fly with twisted wings. I can fly like there’s no tomorrow, I can sing like many springs. People are but lonely birds, Calling, calling, to be heard, By other birds, by anyone, Yet each bird keeps flying on. Not ever pausing, to stop and hear A lonely voice, calling dear, The voices are lost, the voices are found In the sound of the song, the song of the sound. But I can fly on lonely waters And stop to sing with lonely souls, I can linger on the frontier, And stop to sing, all alone. I can soar above the clouds Watching for someone worth singing with Watching for someone in the crowds A singer of songs, a legend, a myth. But the sky is still grey, so bleak and dark, Of blackness and unwanted things, So I fly, as lonely as a lark, Singing alone, on whispered wings.
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Jun 26, 2020
Jun 26, 2020 at 7:39 PM UTC
Whispered Wings
A silhouette against the ground Striding across its battleground Watch it as it comes around Never lost yet never found A silver streak against the night A pounce, a **** with all its might A piercing call towards the moon Through the black, ferocious wood The wolf is a comet, darting by The wolf is a stalker, sneak and pry The wolf is the fox of the night sky The wolf, the wolf with the hunter’s eye Of the woods it flies, of the moon it sings It presides over all the forest things It readies its paw, starts to spring Soaring across the sky as if on wings Ferocious in fight Tenacious in plight The wolf is a hunter at heart Never with the night or the woods will it part.
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Jun 26, 2020
Jun 26, 2020 at 7:34 PM UTC
The Wolf