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simpleton
simpleton
English Copyright ©2013-2025 simpleton
I wish I could tear the earth apart And rebuild myself Relearn Redo And mold myself to you How do people go mad in love? Do crazy things Such naivety Such purity I wish to lose my senses For your warmth But I’ve already been made Hard and cold I know not to get too close to the flames My tongue has been trained Clear and rational I wish I could lose my senses I wish I could blur the boundaries in my head Unlearn the discomfort of having a sky I want you to know That I want to For you But I don’t know how How to give you What I don’t have
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Mar 27
Mar 27, 2026 at 8:25 PM UTC
To be the soft you seek
I should have married a poet Who knows nothing of grand gestures But would pause on a moment of grazed fingertips And could tell you just how the air tasted at that moment in time The poet would know how to read the things that aren't written And hear the things that aren't said Perhaps then a heart will be so touched That it longs no more for tender days
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Oct 27, 2025
Oct 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM UTC
Are poets the only romantics?
Darling it took 2 years and 3 months We've reached a complacency, where love's embers faded, Your presence a ghost in our desolate charade. There are no words, through empty glances we sway around eachother but never towards. It's been a while where passion's colours grayed, In echoes of silence, my heart yearned to speak, But no more. I'm held captive by routine My soul's silent plea In this stagnant realm of marriage Longing to be free I crave the warmth of a sun that once shone bright, Yet in this dim cocoon, we faltered, lost the light. My heart, a garden left untended, Love's petals withered, desires suspended No hopes to flourish
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Feb 21, 2024
Feb 21, 2024 at 12:15 PM UTC
The spouse
But do you see me when I'm burning out When I'm darkened by the shadows cast And the world drags me down Do you love me When I'm full of red hot rage And hatred licks my heels As I try not to let it climb up to my chest Do you hear me when I bite my tongue And let absence speak Do you see me Through their words Do you see the lies they fling around Do your eyes recognize the truth Do your ears hear both sides Tell me Does your heart know mine?
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Jan 6, 2024
Jan 6, 2024 at 3:31 PM UTC
Do you
God left And the silence is a trembling hush This was not the peace I asked for But He doesn't reply There's a quiet in my heart It's too quiet Like a meadow turned graveyard A fatal abscess Worship became a map I could not read And God Well he was in my heart And he's still in me somewhere I carry him Like the taste of prayer Which hangs off my tongue like passion fruit I desire to suffocate my longing for temporary things I want to starve how human I've become Busy in the clicking, sleeping in the day French painting my nails highlighting all ten useless moons Forgive me Lord I have misplaced my hunger for heaven Forgive me my Lord I remember you taught us that hunger was a gift that sweetens the meal I have starved myself of your angels And I'm wanting to break my fast Let me plummet but not drown Let me propel and soar but not be breathless Let me worship And God please find me Catch my prayers and let me feel like I've been found again Show me I was wrong to leave but You never did
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Jan 2, 2024
Jan 2, 2024 at 6:23 PM UTC
God left
I love you Sometimes that makes me feel like the luckiest person ever And sometimes I feel doomed by this love of ours Like it'll be the death of me Sometimes I feel safe and comforted Like I found eternal peace and bliss Sometimes it's the total opposite Like I'm trapped in a union of silence Or drowning in the roaring waves of white noise
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Oct 5, 2023
Oct 5, 2023 at 9:06 PM UTC
Sometimes
I remember a yesterday when I sobbed to be with you Wept and begged to go home with you For the universe to never let us part Today it's the same eyes That wet my cheeks Because being with you hurts So much it spills out without my lashes squeezing together
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Oct 5, 2023
Oct 5, 2023 at 8:58 PM UTC
Oh how the tables turn
He drifts away Consumed by new skies As she lays in bed where boredom lies Weighing her worth against the empty space Mind wondering back to when they last embraced The flame that burned with passion's light, Now dwindles low, obscured in endless night Her dreams deferred Waiting up, her hope begins to fade In solitude, she finds her heart betrayed As days march on and change does not show She wonders if there's any more room to grow Doubt lingers, heavy on her soul Reality seeps in and it takes its toll Sacrifices seem one sided Together forever becomes undecided They say patience is golden Until it all becomes a burden How long will she live in this trance How long before she gives herself a new chance?
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Aug 20, 2023
Aug 20, 2023 at 7:35 PM UTC
Is there more for us
What's wrong My love Why do your eyes Avert mine Your hands crawl away from my fingertips Your torso turns and leaves me behind Your words They drip between us But I can't find the puddle It feels like I am alone underwater Ears filled with white noise Your body lays next to me like an animal Like I am wearing a dying loves dress Like you're already living in the imagination Of a dead loves future Except it's not you in distress My ache for you hits me Like lightening striking a stream Like bars Wounding the water creating Deep glugs as it drains cold inside of me I'm the one who whines like an animal Pines after you Going crazy whilst I hide Terrified to face the truth Buried under the tide
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Jul 18, 2023
Jul 18, 2023 at 3:07 PM UTC
Like an animal
I have robbed myself And cried at your result Oh how I feel like sobbing at your name They told me you were sweet They told it was like drowning in honey But your cruelty has become a taunt for generations Love For me you were a false allegation Where secrets impaled every word between us Everything has fallen to a grinding halt And I feel n o t h i n g - Like a forgotten lamppost An old rug soaked in canine **** An amputees stump: hollow. My calendar still has marks for our hours to spend together My mouth cannot bear the taste of someone else I stare at my mugshot in the mirror And tell myself I am the victim But my veins hold me to account I was a willing accomplice I let him take all the empty spaces in my heart And left me no room to grow I let it feel strong and terrifying I felt he'd loved me harder than anything I've ever known And I swallowed it whole Thoroughly, completely I wanted him all Little did I know I'd entered a civil war Where my thighs would bear the marks of collateral damage My mind would spill the spoils
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May 30, 2023
May 30, 2023 at 8:11 PM UTC
The time you would take another