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Feb 2020 · 74
Slipping Beams
Ayn Feb 2020
The moon slaps my face
With its brightly shining beams.
Now I remember that day
So many years ago,
When I feared the aliens there.
Now their existence
Is a mere fact of life.
I oftentimes see ppl with their social media accounts posted and stuff so imma post my only other social media account
orca#5802 (it’s a discord account)
Feb 2020 · 69
Mistakes are Okay to Make
Ayn Feb 2020
People always say
That mistakes are okay.
But what consolation
Have we made in preparation
For when mistakes become a blight
That decimates our planet’s light.
I mean, they become not okay at some point, right? Or were they never okay in the first place? Mistakes I mean. Feb.3.2020
Feb 2020 · 39
Forgetting to remember
Ayn Feb 2020
I just forgot her presence
Simple as that.
But when she shows herself
Into this world of mine
I can’t help but feel disgusted
At my stupidity.

All I did was shut her out.
I’m an *******.
Feb 2020 · 73
Five
Ayn Feb 2020
The past five days
Were not the best.
You could even say
That they were ****,
As you disgustedly spit
Into your spittoon.
But they were among
The best five days
That I’ve been blessed to live
In the five year winter.
I think the equinox is finally coming,
So I’ll start my vernal days humming.
What happened? At the turn of a dime I’m suddenly leaving the winter behind. Sure there’s still a chill of my self harm tendencies to haunt my early spring, but what happened to me?
Feb 2020 · 241
Mary
Ayn Feb 2020
Wings for Mary,
Donate her wings of smoke,
To carry my mind ever so higher,
Where the wind is softly blown.
Mary Jane sounds like someone
I’d like to take to the smoke-zone
It’s based on a joke my friend told me about bad undercover cops, and how they try and be hip with words for drugs. I don’t do that stuff.
Ayn Feb 2020
The words you uttered just now
Reminded me of the place
We went to a year ago.
I was much younger then,
Take me back to those days when
I was hopelessly in love with you.

Now, I cannot say the same is true.
I kinda wish I still felt the same about her. I mean I do, but it’s different..
Feb 2020 · 39
Hands
Ayn Feb 2020
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019

A cold hand grasps my heart,
My emotions taken over.
The finger nails puncture like a dart.
I must’ve lost my four leaf clover

All that was left has been lost
I let out an unheard wail
Its thumb and fingers crossed
As it starts to drive in a nail

The pain makes me want to cry
But i must keep it all together
Even if I’m going to die
I will stay calm forever

But it’s all too late
My calm appearance leaves
I go insane, full of self hate
And drag a knife down my sleeves

When the deed is done,
My arms are bleeding, a smoking gun.
It leaves me in a state of despair,
Reminding me that it is always there.

This feeling comes whenever I’m weak.
It’s when I’m stressed or when I’m meek.
In the moment, i feel eased.
But my hunger is never to be appeased
I found this while looking through some files I had saved on my cloud. This was there and I was surprised to have found another poem saved from that time.
Feb 2020 · 234
An Instance in Time
Ayn Feb 2020
As he said these words:
"Nobody could ever love me,"
I knew I loved him.
I wrote this in my program bc I got bored. No matter what the dictionary says, I say 'ever' is 1 syllable, not 2.
Jan 2020 · 241
Someone
Ayn Jan 2020
All of you precious people,
all you precious men and women:
do not fret or fear,
you are never alone.
Just as I am here,
someone is there.
Someone exists
to repair your breaking soul,
and help you rebuild yourself whole.

No matter who you are,
someone out there loves you.
You may not think this true,
so then keep living
and prove me wrong.
You'll realize I'm right before long.
For all those people who really need it. I wrote this with two people in mind. One of them is you, M. You know who you are. If you read this, please don't do anything rash.
Jan 2020 · 55
Burnout
Ayn Jan 2020
All work and no play
makes me a useful boy.

As long as I keep working,
people will see my lie as truth;
that I'm not a failure.
I've found a while back that as long as I keep working really hard, getting everything done, and receiving good grades, people will think I'm not a failure. It was only recently that someone was worried that I'd suffer from "burnout".
Jan 2020 · 252
Debugging
Ayn Jan 2020
You have an idea.
It pops into your mind
like an unannounced prince;
sudden and wild, but welcome.

The idea is used,
your head leaks code
onto the glowing screen.
Now the turning mind
grows weary.

Your mind's fatigue kills,
and you are so close to done...
but secretly,
you know it's a lie.

Debugging awaits your arrival.
Ugh, when programming (or at least in my case) you usually program a section of an application, then you debug it. The programming part is fun. The debugging part... not so much. Especially when a bug that is hard or impossible to fix appears.
Ayn Jan 2020
Lessons learned through progression of life.
Lessons I had unknowingly tried, and never met success.
Lessons I all learned at once yesterday.
Lessons I will now follow.

Life is what I am to make it,
So it is no longer an autumn hell,
For I terraformed it into a vernal heaven.
Funnily enough, it’s when life gives you a pile of **** that you learn valuable lessons. I wish I had paid attention to these lessons when I first found them 2 years ago. Maybe I’d be less broken.
Ayn Jan 2020
It’s ok to hate yourself,
As long as you’re trying to like you.
You will fall from grace,
But it’s ok, life is sour sometimes.
If you don’t ever let go,
Life will let go of you in your stead.

Before you love someone else,
Learn to first love your own **** self!
Look for pt 2 if you want, it describes my story behind this.
Jan 2020 · 113
Alrighty
Ayn Jan 2020
This isn’t right.
My actions
Are devoid of light.
I run bluff after bluff,
So apparently,
Living life isn’t hard enough.
I act all high and mighty,
But if I’m asked in earnest,
I’ll get an early start on my nightly

Breakdown.
It’s not going very well in my world. So I’ll keep lying and acting all fine.
Jan 2020 · 289
Difference in Light
Ayn Jan 2020
Draped in a cloudy cloak,
The light is filtered
Onto this marsh once more.

But a crack near the horizon
Lets some straggling beams fall,
And reflect off the salty water.
Now all the marshen rivers
Are made of liquid gold.
Sorry if it’s bad, it’s my best attempt as of late.
Jan 2020 · 34
Shaken Earth
Ayn Jan 2020
As the walls come down,
There’s a look in your eyes;
My fear begins to freeze
As I recall all of those times
I shouldn’t have cried
And all of those times
I should have died.
But
I don’t mind,
Because you
Were so kind.
Inspired by the song “H.” by TOOL
Jan 2020 · 162
Abstraction
Ayn Jan 2020
Sifting through the simmering desert of time,
The golden sand reflects the open sun,
Making this a bright, golden hellscape.
The sun scalds my damp body,
Donating my pale skin a rosy sheen.
I don’t know where I’ve come from, or where I’ve been,
But I know that all I can do is sift further,
And grimace with each step on the scalding sand,
Hoping to leave this golden hell,
And traverse to a green heaven.
A green heaven would be a forest in this case. This is a bit ironic because in the older puritanical belief, the forest was the home of the devil.
Jan 2020 · 41
Disillusionment
Ayn Jan 2020
There were no lies
That could have
Choked me with
Their rose vines.
There was only truth,
A simple matter
Of a wild week.
The golden fountain
Of glorious euphoria
Wells up in me again,
Donating vitality
To my dying soul.
The illusion I had was that there were lies in the air. Me getting exited over small things again though.
Jan 2020 · 78
grainy ocean
Ayn Jan 2020
A single grain of salt
divided the ocean,
creating a rift
for the convoy of change
to triumphantly march,
and once again unite the ocean
in it's revolutionizing wake.
ugh, I don't like that title, but it's the best I could think of.
Jan 2020 · 172
reflections
Ayn Jan 2020
The moon reflects
the sun's simmering shine
onto our planet's nightly shade,
just as the sun
reflects her circulating radiance
onto my darkening world.
Written in math class again. It's been a wild week for me with workload so that's why I haven't been posting as much. I haven't had time to do what I love, which *****, but school is important.
Jan 2020 · 31
Reversal
Ayn Jan 2020
Picked up and put down.
Thrown into the ground.
Suffering from pain and hate
My mind goes a blank white,
My blood is stubbornly irate.
The day holds less light,
And the night now controls,
Filling my heart with empty holes.
I haven’t been so sleep deprived in a while. I don’t think my insomnia is comin’ back, but who knows? Certainly not me!
Jan 2020 · 72
Fearing
Ayn Jan 2020
Stuck wide awake,
After being given
A rather rough wake up slap.
Now a red rash of fear remains,
Stinging my brain with sharp pains.
I know it’s a bit childish for a 16 Y.O., and especially one who never admits this stuff, but I’m actually really afraid rn and probably won’t sleep.
Jan 2020 · 50
Corruption
Ayn Jan 2020
As things continue to stand
In this land of the eternally ******,
theres no more room for an honest man.
Jan 2020 · 232
feed the food
Ayn Jan 2020
The king was but livestock,
given to the next in line.
His death was a tragedy,
but another arose from it.
chaos uprooted justice,
and bit by corrupted bit,
the monarch transformed.

A demon came from the monarch,
just as a saint had come from the king.
However, since the king was ill livestock,
the monarch would drop like a rock.

Hail Macduff!
Hail the one who hath slain
a most fearsome demon!
inspired by Macbeth. I was thinking along the lines of talking about solely Duncan, and how he was just livestock to feed Macbeth's upcoming reign.
Jan 2020 · 59
Rights
Ayn Jan 2020
To all those oppressors out there,
I say "**** you!"

I pray to all the masses:
Let the rabbits wear glasses,
let the pigs wear suits,
and let the accountants...
let them wear their favorite boots!

The cows can don their horns
and the sheep will wear their wool
while farmer brown scorns
the fool that wrought this chaos
into his farm stand kiosk.
inspired by the start of Disgustipated, a song by TOOL (I really suggest listening to it ****) also the **** you from this poem: https://hellopoetry.com/poem/3482287/i-fear/ started the idea. Thank you Larry Marshall!
Jan 2020 · 41
There’s an art to it.
Ayn Jan 2020
A silver tongue,
Or a golden one?
I tend to prefer
Them motionless.
“Sometimes the best thing to do for someone else is to shut the **** up”
-Me, said right now.
Jan 2020 · 49
Fight or Flight
Ayn Jan 2020
Just another fleeting instinct
That hops from one event,
One minuscule instance in this
Perpetually flowing spring of time,
To the next.
I considered renaming it The Big Picture, but then the poem’s context wouldn’t make sense. Does anyone else name their poems before writing them or am I just weird?
Jan 2020 · 74
camera
Ayn Jan 2020
Four-k cameras
don't do a scene much justice,
but beautifully spun verses
can imprint a distinct image
into one's imaginative mind.
Photos are nice, but poetry, and just wonderful writing in general are better. But nothing, and yes, I **** well mean nothing, can beat seeing the sights in person.
Jan 2020 · 171
Inability
Ayn Jan 2020
The anger closes in,
Like a thick blanket,
Ten degrees too thick.

My worldview is narrowed,
The blanket weighs me down.
Heat is rising at a rapid pace,
And my thoughts become colder.

The blanket is now
chaining me down,
And I feel useless.
I want to help another,
But I cannot help their case.
It violently tears me open
To be unable to help them.
And as I think further,
The blanket grows thicker,
And tighter.
It’s hot under my blankets. Ugh I feel like **** when this kinda thing happens, but I can always try my best.
Jan 2020 · 188
Unfiltered Sun
Ayn Jan 2020
A dulling gold plain
split into many pieces
by the high tide water.
The water flows steadily,
a rather small motion
that breaks the illusion
of stagnant salty ice.

the concrete bridge
stands like a gravestone;
marking the time of old,
and barely intact
to see the present hour.

The unfiltered sun
shines ever so brightly,
as if a golden amber blanket
is lain caringly upon
this dead winter marsh,

giving it light,
giving it life.
that bridge is kinda old... I honestly hope it doesn't collapse soon I think it says 1919 on it. I never noticed how beautiful this marsh was until today.
Jan 2020 · 55
Warm Hands
Ayn Jan 2020
Hands in flaming hands
With the demons that once had
Control on my world.
Jan 2020 · 105
As it is Unknown
Ayn Jan 2020
the ashen flower
continues to grow on
after the demon's power
destroyed the world we thrived upon,
but more flowers will rise anon.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jan 2020 · 50
Windy Times
Ayn Jan 2020
The wind moves like a whip,
As if making way for a storm.
The field, a dull golden amber,
Leans to one side in the fiery weather.

The wind pulls me away from myself,
Freezing my saddened body,
But releasing my tortured soul,
Pulling to the healing grounds
That I consider this field to be.
The field is really nice.
Jan 2020 · 128
Cowardice
Ayn Jan 2020
I’m such a coward
I run and hide from opportunity.
My regrettable cowardice
runs through my blood fluidly,
Causing my own grief.

Maybe if I was brave,
Life would’ve been better.
But I am a coward,
And I could never be proud
Of where it put me now.
Ugh. I’m a ******* coward. I hate how it just builds on my social anxiety and introversion, making everything social for me much harder.
Jan 2020 · 43
Stillest Moments
Ayn Jan 2020
As I sit ever so still,
I seem perfectly calm.
But on my visceral inside
Erupts a magnitude 9.
Ugh, I hate butterflies when they roam my stomach.
Jan 2020 · 189
Ate
Ayn Jan 2020
Ate
Slowly slipping as of late.
Im falling into a pit of hate,
My mind’s becoming irate.
I reluctantly anticipate
That I’m soon to suffocate,
Under the water that’ll inflate
And call an end to my fate.
An idea that wasn’t that great...
I guess I fell for rhyming’s bait...
(The poem has a nice trait.
The poem ends in ate,
While the desc ends in eat or ait
(Ate but it it’s an alternate))
Jan 2020 · 308
Lengthening Cracks
Ayn Jan 2020
Even now,
You’ve slipped into my mind, unannounced.
Once again, your absence plagues me,
And I attain more symptoms of love sickness.
I think of how much nicer this serene scene
Would be with you, next to me on this bench.

The cold weather
that’s striking our world
Would be less chilly,
with your warm heart
Resting next to mine.

I’ve started coming here daily,
To rest and ponder.
My mind will aimlessly think,
And my heart will slowly wander,
Cycling in front of my mind,
Obstructing my rational thoughts.
And each day, these cycles grow longer.
It’s a beautiful place. And it is a place that I want to share with someone special.
Jan 2020 · 68
Rising Sparks
Ayn Jan 2020
With each strike of the hammer
Embers launch themselves out
From the source of such a clamor,
Seeking a space to seed doubt.

The seeds are forever sown,
But the farmers are soon neutralized
They never get to see their work grown,
They only started getting them unionized.

But each earthbound cooling spark
Is just a part of the movement’s progression.
The real movement is each hammer mark,
Created from each act of oppression.

As the weapon of war is finished,
An army rises, and an empire is diminished.
I find this is a bit weak for speaking of such a strong movement but I got no idea on what to do so I just let it be.
Jan 2020 · 40
Throne
Ayn Jan 2020
I sit in my throne of pride,
Saying I’ve got nothing to hide;
"An inhuman person, holding face,
One will never see his fall from grace."

The tension starts to strangle,
And my body I’ll continue to mangle;
"A hardworking soul, who’ll never tire,
Even as the bar raises higher and higher."

My love increases, yet I sit and wait.
It’s over my head, I’m starting to suffocate.
"Married to his work, he will not love.
He lies not in such concepts, but far above."

I don’t know what’s happening to me,
My life is continuing into uncertainty.
"He knows what to do, he’s set on a path,
His definite success will fill him a bath."

I don’t need attention, the problems are mine.
I won’t ever worry another, It will work out fine.
"For him, things will always go right.
He’s hand in hand with luck’s vast might."

Things always find a way...
"His present & future are rather gray..."
This is my actual self versus what I think people think of me (quotes). People oftentimes reinforce these thoughts, and I end up falling further into this cycle. In the second to last stanza, I am saying that it will be fine in a dying hope.
Jan 2020 · 102
Paper Iron
Ayn Jan 2020
I built a castle,
And burned it down,
Watching the ashes fall
And fireflies rise.

A paper castle of much grandeur
Can’t hold a candle to a flame.
I originally had the last line as something else, but the pun was better.
Jan 2020 · 29
Meditation
Ayn Jan 2020
It’s a way to calm oneself
After a tough day of work.
Clearing your mind,
Or filling it with other thoughts.
You feel refreshed at the end,
But it all hits back on you,
Like the hammer hits
The glowing metal,
Sending sparks of joy away.
Then you feel like
You should meditate again,
And so you do.
I thank the friend I talked with for the idea. You know who you are. I wonder if anyone else can find out what this is really about...
Jan 2020 · 121
Poem.exe
Ayn Jan 2020
Using System;

Namespace Poem
{
     Class Program
     {
          Main(string[] args)
          {
               Console.WriteLine(“1 or 0”);
               String dec = Console.ReadLine();

               bool life;

               if (desc == 1)
               {
                    life = true;
               }
               else
               {
                    life = false;
               }

               string msg = MADNESS(life);

               Console.WriteLine(msg);
               Console.ReadLine();
               life = !life;

               Console.WriteLine(life.ToString());
               Console.ReadLine();
          }

          Public Static String MADNESS(bool life)
          {
               bool suffering = false;

               if(life == true)
               {
                    suffering = !suffering;
                    return “madness ensues.”;
               }
               else
               {
                    suffering = false;
                    return “madness took over.”;
               }
          }
     }
}
I wrote this and formatted indentation on my phone, but it didn’t carry over, so I indented it on my laptop. This is my best attempt at fulfilling what seemed like a challenge (or request, idk) from Grey. I gotta say thanks because it was fun writing. I’m pretty sure this would actually compile into a program successfully.
I’m sorry if anyone doesn’t understand it. and any fellow C# coders, remember that c# is cool. Jan.12.2020, but indented Jan.13.2020
Jan 2020 · 56
Location
Ayn Jan 2020
I want to run.
Travel far away.
This place is hell
I have no idea why
But my blood’s boiling as well.

My mind is hell bent
My blood is pumping,
But...
I can’t break anything
My fear is overtaking.
I want to break something,
Yet I’m breaking nothing.

I don’t want to be here
I don’t want to be here
I want to ******* run
I want to cough up blood
And wither away.

Split myself open again,
Laugh at the sight of blood,
Ride the wave of serenely
Stabbing,
Butchering,
And ultimately
Mutilating pain.

Home is where the heart is,
But my heart has burned away.
I’ve been ****** all **** day. No idea why. I meant to put more stress on the fact that I don’t want to be anywhere near where I live.
Jan 2020 · 28
the child’s outer shell
Ayn Jan 2020
The caring child,
Who hopes for
The goodwill of all,
And believes in everyone.

The caring child,
Who listens to metal,
And writes dark poetry.

The caring child,
Who enjoys cutting
Himself right open,
And has attempted
To take his own life
A regrettable 4 times
Welp I’ll be frank, that child is me. Apparently I’m a really caring person, but I just do what seems right, which is making sure everyone is ok and happy.
Jan 2020 · 47
Grabbed By The Shirt.
Ayn Jan 2020
There’s a helping hand
That holds me back
From doing what I desire...

Like asking for help.
Oh god, it is all too many times where I’ve stopped myself from doing stuff... things even as simple as saying hi to anyone.
Jan 2020 · 52
Sheltering
Ayn Jan 2020
I know I’m Li’l late,
My love’s just a dying shield
That shelters my hate.
Input a but after ‘late’ and before ‘my’. Just my passing thought I had as the bags under my eyes grew... saggier i guess...
Jan 2020 · 98
Dreamin’
Ayn Jan 2020
My mistress of sleep,
Slowly, silently, and seductively
Slips off her vantablack velvet robe,
And squeezes herself into my head.

She beckons in my mistress of dreams,
And seduces my mind into a sleepy *******...
Of sleep.

What else could it have been...
Jeez~! you people have ***** minds...
Lol. Fun little fact: some of my love poems that aren’t directed at a target (like Only One) I have actually shared with the one I fell for before I’ve shared them to anyone else. She don’t know that tho.
Jan 2020 · 208
Pseudocode of PROGRAM
Ayn Jan 2020
START

FORCE STOP [PROGRAM]

END
//(read the notes)
Some of my poetry consists of hundreds of lines of code in C#, and instead of putting an image in your mind, it will complete a task. I guess I’m tryna say that not all poetry is words on paper.

Also, this code would just end the program that started. It isn’t real code, hence the term pseudo.
Jan 2020 · 42
Upwards
Ayn Jan 2020
Above the ever changing trees
Lies the ever growing tower of stone.
A swift mountain breeze,
Causes the stout wood to groan.

Like a pebble
Being blown lightly
Across a desert storm,
I was unknowingly blown
Off of the towering stone.
There was more, but it changed the way what I had written appeared to me, so I cut it off.
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