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May 2018 · 3.2k
Drown me in your nothing
Parker May 2018
I followed the path that had signs to sunflowers
When I arrived, everything was dead
The full moon no longer shines and a dark cloud have been chasing my every step.
Living with sadness is like receiving a broken instrument
A printer with no ink
A car with no wheels
I stopped fighting it
  Existing as a shell of the man I once was shoveling dirt on the man I could of been
Watching the clocks lie
The silence is deafening
and
hope taunts me out of reach
May 2018 · 131
Right?
Parker May 2018
Hello poetry really should implement an App?!?
May 2018 · 164
Incomplete
Parker May 2018
Around this time of night some anxious depths hovers over my heart
sprinkled with a hint of resentment
All I asked of you along with your hand
was to not work late shifts
I hide behind traditional value to shy away from the truth
That the pain and worry rise after the sun sets and
my commitment to this marriage leaves me vulnerable in the solitude
always kept by being an honest man
I no longer desire to fill these discomforts with party nights and forgotten names, though I'm searching for someway to displace this carving void
Does this make me broken?
A vulnerable man searching for peace when all is dark and his wife is tending a bar
Serving other broken men who fill there void with liquor and just so happen to be in the comfort of the only woman who can fill mine
The irony just completed its first lap and the lead driver is going in reverse, expecting to crash.
May 2018 · 160
Let You Let Me Down
Parker May 2018
Your space of comfort
is discomfortable for me
The hours you're awake
All I want to be is asleep
I fell into an illusion
For some it's a dream
Crashing in this delusion
My eternal scream

Bound by your lies
and the drunks you serve all night
The machine says I'm winning
that is not the case
If these walls could speak they'd yell
Drowning in a cage
For some call it gold
To me, it will flake

Promised hand is just legal paper
A time you promised to be home
Can't get the imagery out of my head
My Sisyphus stone
Substances steal the light I have left
Oh how I wish for my emotions to run dry
I feel truthful when I say I tried my best
Continue in this state of mind I will die
Mar 2018 · 109
Aspen Tree By Paul Celan
Parker Mar 2018
Aspen Tree, your leaves glance white into the dark.
My mother's hair was never white.

Dandelion, so green is the Ukraine.
My yellow-haired mother did not come home.

Rain cloud, above the well do you hover?
My quiet mother weeps for everyone.

Round star, you wind the golden loop.
My mother's heart was ripped by lead.

Oaken door, who lifted you off your hinges?
My gentle mother cannot return.
Written about his mother after she was shot in a concentration camp after she became to weak to work.
Mar 2018 · 146
No Safe Way Home
Parker Mar 2018
I found sound sleeping on a bench
Freezing in the empty sky
Pretending it's a poet

The last place you stood no longer exist
and I
forgot that the world is not black and white
It's grey

In a way,
the rain never stops
You never read the signs
and we are all
scared

An un-promised guarantee
A spoken sonnet that lets her dance on it peddles
And at last,
we've all forgot your name
Mar 2018 · 506
After the Place Once Was
Parker Mar 2018
Red is floating covered in the the perfume she stole from the store
The night drips into the drain where the sad man sleeps
The last words held the second hand on the clock until it stopped
I felt ripped off
Finally the bulb burnt out and she got some sleep
The sound drenched and late slipped into a mad mans mind
A landing strip you created for the crash
Who new some things never dry
They just stand behind windows and pretend you cant see them
Mar 2018 · 491
Schizoaffective
Parker Mar 2018
It started with a single voice
Telling him to jump off the roof
Now, his head is full of voices
and as far as I know, they are all cruel

It started with a single voice
Now, one of them has replicated me
Convincing him that I have wronged him
Giving no power to my actual voice

It started with a single voice
Now, he believes everyone attempts to **** him
That the world is conspiring against him
That his thoughts have the power to take lives

It started with a single voice
Now, he sleeps in a locked monitored room
Drugged up with anti psychotics
Angry and confused
Over the last year and a half I watched as schizophrenia consumed everything my little brother had going for him, Causing him more mental suffering then I have ever see anyone experience. Watching the pain of his condition ******* my family and his future has left me at odds with my own journey. Just a for warning, my brothers predisposition was ignited by him trying lsd. You never know how much you cherish your loved ones being of sound mind until they're gone.
Dec 2017 · 265
To Every,
Parker Dec 2017
The primitive violence engraved in wild animals, having to ****** daily to survive, downplays all that haunts us, people.
Does a fox lose it mate and not question where its gone?
How similar does loss and trauma feel in us?
To every, fear is the same.
I don't believe intelligence matters, we're all scared
Dec 2017 · 256
Man and Wife
Parker Dec 2017
I see you dancing in our future as our bodies grow old
I, have married my soulmate
Time has changed
My heart has evolved to beat next to yours, assuring it on every pulse that I will never leave your side
The struggles we faced have become one and with every step I take I fight to make your half feel lighter
Oct 2017 · 224
Paint your Pain
Parker Oct 2017
Everything will eventually fall apart
You must keep running
Steering towards your masterpiece
The pain must shape you as a vessel that can withstand all the tragedies
Your captains wheel must point in the direction you will one day crash
you must keep running
For all life's tragedies are waiting to shred you apart
To try and misdirect you so that your vision seems impossible
Pain must only be used as another tool embedded in these bodies
For the one thing you are guaranteed is pain
How you handle it is completely your responsibility.
Paint your pain or let it **** you
Oct 2017 · 134
Rise
Parker Oct 2017
I hold the mornings like a lover that is shaking from the cold
Thank you sun for always being my rock
Oct 2017 · 148
Reality Check
Parker Oct 2017
I will accept you as you are, for rust on the nails never tried to hide
It was only I who placed pieces over my eyes to make a portrait that never existed
I who dismembered the screams and attempted to make them sound like the rain
loneliness has embedded me tonight in a form so alienating
A sadness has dawned on me like a final goodbye as you pull the cord
I am a mountain
Though even this mountain at times the wind is cold
I can feel it wrap around my existence
Whispering in my ear "you are alone"
No matter how rich love is in your life
You are alone
I see now that everything is an illusion
That the observer is not my mind
That I have created my own hell
Sep 2017 · 151
Pretending
Parker Sep 2017
TINKERING WITH DARKNESS UNTIL IT COSUMES US

CHASING NIRVANA THROUGH A ******* DRUG

SUFFERING SEEPING SO PAINFULLY,

NO LIGHT

I SEE YOUR BREATH IN THE SHADOWS AT NIGHT

ALOST ALONG ANOTHERS PATH

SILENT SLEEPS WHILE MORNING CRASHED

THE FIRES IN THE RAIN, SHE SCREAMS OVER AND OVER

I CAN ALWAYS TELL THAT YOU ARE NEVER SOBER

A PLACE, A SPACE,  WITH NO EMOTION

OCEANS EXPLODING, BRAINS ARE FLOATING, AND EVERYONES A DOPE HEAD

I HOPE THIS FOCUS BURNS AWAY

A WASTED LIFE WHEN YOU DONT LOVE PAIN

THE NAME OF THE GAME IS TO TAME

UTILIZE,

THESE ARE YOUR TOOLS, NOW USE YOUR MIND

YOU'RE ONE OF A KIND

I WILL SAY IT AGAIN

YOURE ONE OF A KIND

QIUT PLAYING PRETEND
Sep 2014 · 254
My only feelings
Parker Sep 2014
Her echo grows further
I am losing her
Or maybe
She's already gone
Maybe she has never woken up in the morning praying I'd leave her mind
Or maybe she has
Sick of running from pain
Tired of hoping you'd call
Why when I had you I didn't want you
And without you, everything feels numb?
Sep 2014 · 297
Deadly rose
Parker Sep 2014
Your paints bled together and now all you have is gray
Toss on a little salt and everything will be ok
In the wake of the morning I battle to keep you off my mind
At the crack of midnight it's your face that I fight
The space filled by time has locked a door forever
Chasing a thought of closure
A hopeless endeavor
They say as months pass the pain will go away
Fake a laugh and dance monkey on that stage
Hey facts you got me lost again
Never felt so alone surrounded by friends
Aug 2014 · 611
Trickery
Parker Aug 2014
At last the despare confines in disgression
Be that it dare face furious lethal weapons
A chase for the dawn before it shines so bright
All of the colors we cherish melt like ice
I found something hiding in the back of my mind
Hooked through the cheek reeled in by time
A road not built by man kind
Frozen in place for a poet to ryhme
Parker Aug 2014
After crashed her past there drive home
Compensated by lust and a tattoo that says jump
I stumble into your shattered world and leave
in pieces
I am not a man of Jesus
The engine is roaring as the sun pulls the trigger
Eyes closed are opened to a sinner
All I want to do is drink away your face
Sep 2013 · 606
In a Blink of the Eye
Parker Sep 2013
Measurements of love compatible for my heart,
I feel not for much these ludicrous fairy tales with happy endings,
A weight is drowning me in the sea,
That's all,
In the distance, they are calling,
In the distance,
The forgiven forgot to predict the foreseen,
Effortless energy that once was a creator, destroyed,
And when they finally opened their eyes,
The world was gone
Aug 2013 · 484
Endless Love
Parker Aug 2013
In the shadows, she dances, like the flame of a candle caught in a draft.
To be falling.
Oh hear me now inevitable earth, for now is possibly all we have left.
In depths of the silence that waits, I pray your face I will recognize.
To get lost in space, with you, witnessing the incomprehensible vast creations and obliterations of all, I hold close to my human heart.

A scar-less life is a wasted life.
In return, while climbing this eternal sunrise I jump, and fall, and bleed, then one-day die.
Worn out and ready to go, I shall one day follow you, reaper, with hopes of being full again.

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