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32 · Jan 2020
Lightening
Ayn Jan 2020
Struck dead awake
Then pushed off to sleep
As my knife stabs my side
And I silently weep.

My suffering continues
But the emotion dissolves
Like a drop of milk
Inside of an amber marsh.
“It will see me tomorrow,
But for now,” I thought,
“I’ll bid it a good rest.”
True story. I was falling asleep but rolled onto my open pocket knife which I had forgot to close after cutting myself ten minutes prior. My friend is never gonna let me live that one down...
32 · May 2020
notepad 8 (I think...)
Ayn May 2020
As paper falls,
the wind is blown.
The life once held in this sole book
is now spread across the land,
free to follow the wind.
32 · May 2020
Icy chains
Ayn May 2020
Cold and frozen
Inside a cage of my own.
There’s nobody out there to thaw me out,
Nobody to listen for my frostbitten shout.

Maybe I’m just a mannequin,
Singing lullabies and lies
Until my stifled cries
Reveal the real human inside.
After all, mannequins can’t get frostbite. So obviously I’m not one. But maybe my entire personality is just another puppet. Maybe I am a puppetmaster?
32 · Feb 2020
Distinction
Ayn Feb 2020
How do I know
That I love you?

What is the distinction
Between ‘like’ and ‘love’?

Who decided
That I should confess now?
32 · Apr 2020
I
Ayn Apr 2020
I
I sit here
I lay here
I feel here
I see here
I live here
But
I am not here.

I never was here.
Am I really alive or not? What should I be questioning besides me, the only thing in which I have a right to question?
32 · May 2020
Notepad 2
Ayn May 2020
I almost forgot
To write one.

Who’s ever even heard
Of a one day streak?

Nobody.

Because there’s a more common phrase
For this phenomenon:
Lack of commitment.
32 · Feb 2020
Foundation
Ayn Feb 2020
Why not cement
the foundation of our world
on something as flimsy
as the petal of an iris?

Why not live a life
where we perceive
the fallacies of ourselves
above the undeniable truth.

Why not compare
every aspect of our beings
to those who stand above us.

Why should we not
just look into each other's eyes,
and smile, happy with our world?
"he had cemented the foundation of his world upon something as light as a fairy's wing." From The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald. I think that's how the quote went.
32 · Feb 2020
Silent Road
Ayn Feb 2020
A morning dew greets the sun,
Forming crystal beads upon the grass.
As a courtesy to this rising flame,
And to that falling luminary,
The mountain brushes off the cool air,
Forming flavorless cotton candy
At its imposing base.

A darkened sky
Lightens up
As a bomb of color
Blows up the east,
Smearing the sky with color.
I remember the sights like these that I saw on the way to climb Mt. Washington back in August. I was a bit nervous at first bc it’s such a tall mountain and I was doing the second hardest route, but it was fun... and it absolutely killed my legs for the next 3 days.
32 · Jan 2020
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.
32 · Jan 2020
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.
31 · Mar 2020
Rivers
Ayn Mar 2020
The rivers are never too deep,
The chasms never too wide.
My bones are made of sinking lead,
Yet I hold myself with this broken pride,
Knowing that I’m on over my head.

I’m under the torrent,
Swept in the current.
Falling through a chasm,
Seeing death’s phantasm.
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31 · Feb 2020
Goals in Holes
Ayn Feb 2020
Digging a hole
As I’ve always done.
But sweat, tears, and blood,
Corroded an abyss of mud.
If you want a hold dug,
Grab a shovel.
If you’ve dug too far,
Grab a pen.
I’ll be fine. And even if I’m not, there are sharp metal sticks of fun, that will make me fine.

My great grandmother, one I never met, used to say “If you want a hole dug, grab a shovel!“ which means if you have a dream, work towards it.
31 · Jan 2020
Doin' My thing
Ayn Jan 2020
Have you ever wanted
To do what you wanted to,
but your brain stubbornly acted.
Filled your mind with words,
and thoughts that should be redacted
on a relaxing day, such as that.
Yet you got tempted and resigned,
so you picked up your pen again.
Threaded a soft blanket of words
one to rest your fatigued body under
until the sun was pulled from the sky.
I don't really like this one, but I felt I just had to write today, when I planned not to... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So apparently if you press WIN + . on a keyboard, emoticons come up, cool.
31 · Apr 2020
Gay
Ayn Apr 2020
Gay
It used to mean happy

But what is it now?

A homosexual slur.
30 · May 2020
Notepad 10
Ayn May 2020
There was a time
That time was now.
Now is gone,
Only to replaced by then,
Along with countless regrets
That continue to plague.
30 · Mar 2020
New
Ayn Mar 2020
New
All I want to do
Is something new

Rather than stay inside
And gaze out at the tide.
30 · Apr 2020
Ghosts
Ayn Apr 2020
At night I sit and stare,
wandering through my empty mind.
Every somber path I take
will always merge back to one,
and I'll arrive yet again
at the same old question;
when will the spirits of those I hurt
stop haunting my fruitless thoughts?
30 · Jan 2020
Untitled
Ayn Jan 2020
I would like to see
What would come to be
Of a moose and rabbit
Roaming free.

It is a rather stupid idea, you must think.
And i wholly agree
But where might the fun be,
If you cannot think freely?
I think of all, from the smallest flea
To the largest bee.
Or from the makeup of tar,
To the largest star.
It is fun to think,
That is what I decree.
But in real life,
The moose and rabbit would just flee
Sept.23.2019
30 · Jan 2020
The Pulsating Pen
Ayn Jan 2020
I think I write too much,
But it’s my savior; my lifeline.
Without it, my heartbeat
Would most certainly flatline.

It is everyday,
That I,
Ever so longingly
Look at my
Ever so shimmering
Blade of peace.
Without it’s edge,
I would go
Far off the beach
Ripped by the
Riptide of insanity.

But I keep writing,
As to keep my bloodlust
In check, and to not face
The
———————f l a t l i n e ———————
The title has little to do. And sorry for the train wreck of a poem... there was a trash train, a logging train, and a truck full of firecrackers, and they all collided at the same time... that’s my excuse.
30 · Feb 2020
Untitled
Ayn Feb 2020
This duality
Of my vicariously divine
Mental principality
Divides an entire world
Between the realm
Of heaven and hell.
Opening a foreign door,
seeing no more
Does this even make sense?? It’s talkin’ about how a split mind splits a world. The divided principality (one mind of a nation or planet of minds, unified by humanity) gives a divided worldview.
30 · Mar 2020
Texas Red
Ayn Mar 2020
“Twenty men had tried to take him,
Twenty men had made a slip.
Twenty-one would be the ranger
With a big iron on his hip”

From the song “Big Iron” by Marty Robbins
An awesome song, I highly suggest listening to it.
30 · May 2020
Notepad 3
Ayn May 2020
There once was a flame
that burnt all that came.

In it's charred wake
was left a world to take
full of renewed life
and eternal grace.

This unyielding force
never meant to ****;
it meant to rebuild,
and rebuild it did.
I need to write to wake myself up
29 · Jan 2020
Reflection of the Soul
Ayn Jan 2020
Her face,
a moonlit visage
shone more light
upon my life;
upon my soul,
than the
solitary moon
ever could.
Yeah... another dumb, lovestruck teen. I wrote this while trying to write something that was more descriptive of the night reflected in this poem.
29 · Apr 2020
Tracks
Ayn Apr 2020
Following the flow
Of the common track
The boy begins crack.
With eyes succinctly averted
And attention neglected,
fissures begin to grow.

A shout
A sprint
A line
Ran through.
A life
Forgotten.

A life
Renewed.
What is this thing called “self insert?”
29 · Mar 2020
Words
Ayn Mar 2020
Words needed by those in doubt
Are words gifted without drought.
29 · Apr 2020
Untitled
Ayn Apr 2020
The persistence
Of silence
Resides
Inside
A web of individuality.
29 · Jan 2020
Drowning
Ayn Jan 2020
In over my head,
And it all starts to change.
My air is running out,
I just might as well die.
So I break the ocean,
Rise with it’s tide,
And landing in her motion,
I sail to solace by her side.
Jan.2.2020
I keep typing Dec.2019 by accident...

Ummmm... it’s 2am and I’ve been reading way too much rom-com manga...
29 · Feb 2020
Elevation
Ayn Feb 2020
With each click;
Each turn of the wheel,
This chamber elevates,
Moving betwixt
The omnipotent clouds
Without a single groan;
A single fearful moan,
In the face of these forms.

Sitting inside this elevator,
I wonder
When will the line break?
When will I fall into death’s open arms,
And view his cold visage on wake?
It’s about an elevator.
28 · Mar 2020
Postal
Ayn Mar 2020
Do we really know
Where our soul shall go
After we decide to die,
And let our phantasm fly?

Or is our hurt cry
Another futile try?
Do those who pass us by
Suffer from the same lie?
I guess I’m back into writing. Yay!
28 · Apr 2020
Vermillion
Ayn Apr 2020
As the dust and sand
Sweeps up into a cyclone,
The air cracks up
Like a dried out salt flat.

The clouds run dark,
And the crops bend down.
An invisible roar appears,
Rushing this dry landscape
And catching it unawares.

Branches and brambles fly,
But there’s no water here;
Not enough for the sky to cry.

The landscape sits,
A dusted vermillion;
Cracked any dry
With skin so reptilian.
28 · Apr 2020
walls
Ayn Apr 2020
When the walls finally fall
and the mask finally splits,
it can be seen by all
that your castle's in bits.

A pressure can and will always push down,
you can't push back and keep your crown.
28 · Feb 2020
Spectrum
Ayn Feb 2020
Of all the colors
My eyes could be,
They pick three
And a fourth... maybe.

The first is an odd one
A hazel generalization,
But upon close inspection,
They have a green outer edge
With a brown inner edge.

The second one
Appears from time to time,
They shine a forest green
But there’s no more to be seen.

The final shade
Is quite a mysterious phenomenon
For my head to wrap around.
I’ve seen in my eyes
On a few occasions
And they were a naval steel,
Nothing like I’ve seen
In the eyes of those
Bound to me by blood.
My eyes are weird, man. The main color is supposedly hazel, but it is two different colors in concentric circles (that blend a bit but not too much). The steel blue is a mystery to me though. It’s happened twice.
28 · Mar 2020
Waiting For Two Ghosts
Ayn Mar 2020
A bushel of sweet berries
Wait upon their willowed branch
For the ghosts to come for them

The rains will come and drench,
The sun will march and shine,
But the sky will never change it’s hue.

Sweet berries wait for two ghosts
They’re no different than you.
I forgot what I originally wrote this poem as. I passed out in the middle of writing it.
28 · May 2020
within
Ayn May 2020
inside little droplets
of silent memories
lies the key
to a world
long since deaf
to the radiating color.
28 · Apr 2020
Question
Ayn Apr 2020
Why do they smile back
When they know my grin
Does not make it to my eyes?

Is it to mock
My pained eyes,
Which shouldn’t exist?

Or because...
They don’t notice;
And never bothered to look?
I’m glad they don’t bother to worry about me. Saves them time an emotion as well as saves me from excessive guilt.
28 · Feb 2020
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.
28 · Feb 2020
Steeled Nerves
Ayn Feb 2020
I am to be
A hero of war.

I saw myself off,
Over that ocean so blue,
And into our frontiers.

Put into a battalion
That is none but death bound,
I wondered if I’d be
One more statistic
Adding to the millions.

A wiped battalion,
With me the sole survivor.
An ambush left me running
And now I’m lost.

I saw an enemy
Coming through the smoke.
I told her to stop,
But she kept her pace
So I dropped another human,
And added to the statistic.

As I went to examine
This defiantly death bound soldier,
I saw in her hand
A flag,
White as an ocean pearl.

But now it was dyed half red.

At home I had become a hero,
The patriot of the land of the free,
But I am not a patriot of any sort
Nor a man of vast bravery.

Life continues onwards,
But death always haunts.
Not very good but it was weird writing at 6am.
28 · Mar 2020
Viral
Ayn Mar 2020
What’s all the hubbub
Just a worse influenza
Overbuying food...
I by no means are an expert on this whole thing about covid-19, I know it is a problem, but people are overreacting. It is literally the flu, but worse, and stays latent in a person longer. It attacks older people and smokers, as well as people with compromised lungs. So just keep clean and don’t get too wild about it (I have been following covid-19 since mid January and saw it’s spread through china. I have a lot to say on the topic).
27 · Feb 2020
Tectonic Motion
Ayn Feb 2020
Sitting together,
Talking of whatever
would come to our minds.

The feeble whether,
A distant feather
Grew closer with each exchange.

Pulled by a tether,
Separated more than ever.
Now I know happiness,

I learned what it was
Only after I had lost it.
“You know it’s sad but truuuuee”
-from “Sad But True” by Metallica
27 · Jan 2020
Space
Ayn Jan 2020
Under my covers,
Hiding.
From what?
I have no clue.
Fear sets in
Like clouds of hail;
Slowly descending,
Then pelted with
Everlasting darkness.

My breathing is
R a g
g
e d.
My body is
R                
    I          
       G      
            I    
               D.
My breaths
Rise up faster,
Now plumes of
Burning lava.

There are more
Voices, not just
Mine
And
It’s
Voices,
But a couple more
Disembodied
Voices.
I know them,
But I also don’t.
They’re all so
D I S S A P O I N T E D
In the failure
That I’ve become.

I’m panting.
Why can’t I scream?
Why am I choking?
Am I breathing too fast?
Breaths keep coming,
My heart keeps beating,
More
And more
And more
And

M
O
R
E

Then nothing.

—————S P A C E—————

My breathing slows
My heart at a standstill,
I don’t know what’s happening,
So I just lay there,
Thinking about how
I wanted
a new me,
But not a me
That was
So very ****** up.
I never specified that...
What has become of me?
Me questioning what the actual **** just happened 10-15 minutes ago. I’ve never heard more than one other voice in my head, or have ever felt like this in general. I have no idea what the **** that was.
Jan.1.2020
27 · May 2020
Swift
Ayn May 2020
Those who start to hit the closest
Always seem to go
In the must abrupt manner,
And far too soon.
27 · Mar 2020
Place
Ayn Mar 2020
Nausea shot through a syringe,
Filling me with surreal senses.
I must not stop,
I must not shudder,
I will not pause,
I will not falter.
There is no place
For a burden,
No space
For dead weight.

I am not a burden,
So
“I feel fine.”
My view on work is like this. I’m working my *** off and I can’t stop. If I’m lying in bed, sick, I’m a burden. I don’t have time for that. Hell I could have Covid-19 right now (In all seriousness, I probably do) and I’m still refusing to take a break.
27 · Jan 2020
Until Death
Ayn Jan 2020
From skin to bone,
I shall forever be alone.

Until death...

Until death comes for me,
Rips my existence apart,
Then leaves my body be,
As if he never graced my soul.

Then I will be alone,
And so frigidly, rigidly cold.

It is of a faintest hope I hold,
That I will not be alone
In the painfully adjacent future.
I thank you for your time.
27 · May 2020
Notepad 6
Ayn May 2020
Apparently
Eyes that I thought
Held no value
Are rather pretty
To others.
Apparently I have nice eyes (even though they’re not too great vision wise). You learn something new everyday.
27 · Feb 2020
Progression
Ayn Feb 2020
All it takes is some time,
And things can happen.
I waited in my solitary state,
But eventually the raven came for me,
not a half a second too late.
It bore a letter,
A letter which filled a book.
I’ve been bored today, so I’ve just been writing.
26 · May 2020
Mother’s day
Ayn May 2020
Dear mom,

We have an unspoken promise;
Not to make sacrificial altars
In the basement.
I kept that promise this year.
That’s my gift.

Next year though...
Is joke. I baked some sweets for my mom and gave a card saying something like this.
26 · Jan 2020
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.
26 · Jan 2020
Rain. Sun. Gone.
Ayn Jan 2020
It’s all a game of chess
you are just another pawn
We are all pawns, I digress.
Everybody is the same
Nobody is more special than the other
Not that anyone is special in this game
“The players don’t exist, mother.
There is no god, there is no satan”
A child will say this to their parent
This action was as useless as probation.
truth lain upon deaf ears, that is apparent.
We are all entrapped here, it is eternal
There is no cloud nine, it’s all infernal.
April or May 2019. Angry for some reason... I forget why. Name was taken from the song of the same name by Mudvayne.
26 · Feb 2020
Stars
Ayn Feb 2020
Numerous simmering stars
Slip into the sky nightly,
Shining a a light on our paths,
Guiding us with their truths.
In conjunction with our luna,
They create the immaculate sky.

It is the stars that shine so true,
That uproot the light of night,
And create our sky so blue.
It is these stars
That lie to you.
26 · Feb 2020
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 *******.
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