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54 · Aug 5
El mascarado
Austin Aug 5
Peeling the mask away
Chipping at this facade
Jumping from the tight rope act
Finding the person I thought was lost
Pleading for the time to be right
54 · Apr 26
¿Duality?
Austin Apr 26
I don't want to feel anything
Yet I complain when I feel nothing.

I don't want to find love again
Yet I complain when no one wants me.

I don't want to talk anymore
Yet I complain when I'm not heard.
53 · Apr 5
Swing
Austin Apr 5
Please strike me down
Wearing that ******* crown
Sitting on a chair of bones
You watched me rot
Deep inside
I bathe in gasoline so please
Throw the match
Start denying me
I'd love to watch you scream
You cannot judge
Watch me swing from the rope
Been dead for a while now
Let me hang
Spread my hands wishing
To be a martyr
But I'll never be remembered for that
Just a mistake in your past
53 · Jul 26
down ya go
Austin Jul 26
when it comes
there's that
feeling
and now everything
begins to
slip
when it passes
there's no
feeling
and now everything
continues to
slip
53 · Jun 9
Unidentified
Austin Jun 9
Trying to figure out
Who I am
Is like
Trying to combine
Bits and pieces
Of shredded papers
Sound bites that
Don't go together
Videos that
Don't look like me
Or at least
Who I thought I was?
53 · Aug 10
Predestination
Austin Aug 10
Fate beckons you onwards
Not caring what you have
Nor who you are
What you leave behind
Nor what you become
In due time
You will be a whisper
Amongst those forgotten
Begging the next person onwards
52 · Apr 26
(U)
Austin Apr 26
(U)
You're beautiful
Carefree and forgiving
Loyal and perfectly imperfect
Who would've thought
Your greatest flaw would be

Me
51 · Jul 21
lovesick
Austin Jul 21
I understand why people
Call it lovesick
It can be meant in the way of
You're toxic to my system
And make me ill
Or it can be meant in the way of
When you stare at me
I sweat
And when you are gone
I fret
When you touch me
I shiver
And when you are gone
I wither
Personally?
I love being lovesick.
51 · Jul 28
Proclivity
Austin Jul 28
Hold me
With the gentleness
You would give
A flickering candle

Touch me
As tenderly as you can
As if you are operating
On an open wound

Kiss me
As hurriedly as you wish
As if we aren't going to get
One more singular moment
49 · Jul 15
esto o aquello
Austin Jul 15
Guilty pleasures
Rooted in
Traumatic treasures

You can either
Turn off the lights
Or we can sit
And both go to therapy
48 · Jul 15
Đ (Alternate)
Austin Jul 15
Divination
Sought out
By Dreamers
Sinners who
Held out
Desperation
Controls those
Who Don't
Wanna Die
Without somewhere
To belong
Pleading for
Deliverance
Enticing Dogma
You Don't
Believe in
48 · Sep 1
doubtfully
Austin Sep 1
Somehow it feels
I've been misplaced
Shouldn't be here now
Wishing I had been there then
Somehow it feels
I've been replaced
Can't be there now
Praying I'll be there then
48 · Aug 18
why bother
Austin Aug 18
all i ask for
is to not be
a horrific reminder
of all my flaws
is just a bit
of the closure
that i lack
is to just
be what i have
been dying for
47 · Jun 7
Honestly?
Austin Jun 7
I get asked questions
That I
Have already tortured myself with
For years
I get defensive
While being offered guidance
I get fueled by false hope
That someday
I'll have the wherewithal
To wake up
Look myself in the mirror
And be okay with what I see
But for now
Therapy blows chunks.
47 · Jul 15
Blind Eye
Austin Jul 15
I go from
3 days of a slumber
To pleasures and rage
Hating me but lusting for you
Times of hopelessness
Thoughts of suicide
To gripping a wheel
Doing over 140
Self wallowing
Hiding in darkness
To feeling immortal
Impulsive purchases
And everytime this flip happens
I feel half of me turn and
Look the other way
46 · Jun 7
54
Austin Jun 7
54
I sit here
Chewing holes in my mouth
Worrying
That someday soon
I'll be begging for the
Mercy
I never gave to myself
46 · Aug 23
empty vessel
Austin Aug 23
as much as you
stabbed me in the back
as much as i
slit both of my wrists
as much as you
squeezed my heart
as much as i
claimed to be alright
suppose you should know
you can't **** something
that has already died
46 · Apr 26
Pamyat'
Austin Apr 26
They say I need to move on
Say I can't see the ghost of you
Yet I don't even have that
Memories that don't exist suddenly
Photographs burned out of spite

I look in the rear view and
Don't even have the ghost of you?
46 · Sep 1
sp/lit
Austin Sep 1
my eyes are always heavy
and i know im not better
my hands remain unsteady
i know i shouldn't worry
and i know youre fine since i left
my crying only makes things blurry
i guess i hope you miss me
and i hope you know peace and love
while i work through the misery
46 · Jul 23
Final Hurrah
Austin Jul 23
Where will you be
When the party ends
Metaphorically I ask
Will you be covered
In golden glitter
Or passed out in the front yard
Like a drunken ***
Will you be safe at home
Cause your friends cared
Or jumping over fences
Cause they gave up on you
Will you be the one upstairs
With someone you shouldn't
Or praying to something for help
When you thought you wouldn't
The party always ends
45 · Sep 19
Mortality Salience
Austin Sep 19
Ah, a damaged wing,
Not the endeth of the w'rld,
Somebody shall cometh,
Taketh me in,
Maketh me anew.

Nobody is coming,
High-lone on the f'rest flo'r,
I shall surely perish h're,
By rot 'r predator,
I prayeth tis soon.
45 · 6d
Counterclockwise
Austin 6d
Wallow in the joy
Celebrate in the misery
Never watered the roses
Always played with the thorns
Dying under a rainbow
Living peacefully in the storm
Drink the blood
Waste the champagne
Keep rotting with time
To bide it entirely backwards
45 · Sep 21
Close the Curtains
Austin Sep 21
Unsure if its clarity
Or just simply bliss
But sure its a rarity
To feel like this

Unsure if its quiet
Or just peace in my head
But sure that I like it
So keep me in bed
45 · Sep 14
Bubbles
Austin Sep 14
Everything seems
Too distorted
Too chaotic
Too much.

So I will forget
How to swim
To drown it
All out.
44 · Aug 24
Two-Bit Man
Austin Aug 24
Confronting the words
      That dictate my headspace
The same ones that make me
      Feel as if I do not belong here
           To look at a bottle of pills
               Hoping they would just fall
                    Right down my throat
                       So I could say I didn't do it
The same ones that make me
          Feel as if I am not enough
                  And never will be
                       So I entertain ideations
                             And wonder, why not?
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