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We will never be satisfied
When we get what we want
Always longing for something
Just beyond our reach
Building bridges out of bloodshed
Just to get to the other side
Only to find that another
Lost, greedy soul
Made it here first

And now you want what they have too.
Aug 29 · 1
18:10 (Any% is Dead)
You don't have to go back
I wouldn't want you to
I know, deep down you aren't that person anymore
And who you are now is what you were always meant to be
But I will never forget the day I found you
Ha..
As though something so great could possibly be undiscovered.
No, you were known
And I was simply to blind
Too ignorant to your existence
But my eyes were opened
To see the stars blazing in yours
as you achieved something
something that at the time you believed to be greatness
I don't know what you think about that day now
I don't even know you
But I know everything is changing.
What we can do now is far different
from what we could do back then
But I will always look fondly on the day
that you achieved
18:10
Jan 30 · 91
Word Salad-2
You always stuck pictures to your fridge
A reminder of the people who matter most
Scattered amongst magnets and things that dont stand out nearly as much
Today was no different
The faces changed the your practices remained the same
I found myself asking the same question I used to years ago
"How can I be good enough to be up there on that fridge too.."
Only to realize that you never bothered to even take my picture.
Always a stop along the way, but never a passenger.
Jan 29 · 117
Word salad
I spoke to her  for the first time in a long time
It seems things arent well for us both
She was so cold I nearly froze
But I was eager
I leaped into the replies
Shamelessly reaching for something familiar to hold onto
Hoping my warmth would melt the ice
Offering friendship
Its been a few days since her last reply now.
And I find myself talking to the walls again
Hoping one of the voices that reverberate might just sound like you...
Jan 29 · 103
Wildflowers
I plant wildflowers in the empty spaces
The places you left behind
Knowing that you'll never return
But hoping that when I'm old
The heather will help me remember
What was once there
And the love that always will be.
I carry you with me like a bouquet of regret
Bittersweet love that I'll never forget.
Jan 19 · 383
No Contact.
My love for you is parasocial
But I swear we knew each other once before
Its always a little(very) one sided in the end, isn't it?
Dec 2024 · 400
Divorce
She gave me her keys and I drove her insane
Its no wonder she took the car and changed her name
Now I'm taking busses and hailing cabs with no destination in mind
Wishing I could just go home to you.
Man I do not enjoy being alive right now
Dec 2024 · 500
Promises
Promises promises,
broken like bones;
Jarring, jagged and painful.

Never will I ever know
why I wasn't worth it.
But I know it was my fault
Oct 2024 · 775
A Sun's Halloween
Cloaked in a tapestry of evening sky
I dim my light to hide amongst the masses
If only for one night
Oct 2024 · 933
Armstrong Landed
Armstrong landed
Icarus burned
Some find love
Some just hurt...

everyone.
Sep 2024 · 104
Untitled
I've vanished friends like fogotten shipwrecks for the treasures that lay within.
Sep 2024 · 116
From the Depths
Maybe they were right, maybe I am crazy
And what else could possibly be done
When so many of my friends fought the oceans depths
And the oceans have always won

Now its my turn to slay the beast
Beneath the endless blue
Maybe I'll emerge victorious
Maybe I'll get to see you...


-For Etika and Javier
The ocean represents depression, and though two of the three people this is dedicated to drowned in some body of water, depression quite literally killed all of them.

And they were my friends...

The second part is about me wanting to dive into the same ocean that Etika did, to see if I could survive what he did not, while simultaneously hoping that I don't for the possibility of seeing him again.
Jan 2024 · 375
Words, I guess
I come here to become undone
My words like fingers pulling at loose threads
Until its all out there, in ribbons and shambles
A relatably undiscernible mess.
Sep 2023 · 241
Relapse
I've tried all kinds of ****
Lord knows I'm an addict
But nothing quite hits
Like you
Mar 2021 · 252
On the Rocks
Your lips are like ***** on ice
I'll sip on your bitter disposition
For as long as you make me feel warm inside
Mar 2021 · 39
Half a Heart
You ask him if he loves you
And in his silence you are torn apart
For your love is just a run-on sentence
And a question mark is just half of a heart
Love loss unrequited heart heartache poetry
Feb 2021 · 427
Forward
Caterpillars evolve into butterflies
And my pen will soon stop writing your name
Life is hard but the one constant
is that nothing ever stays the same.
Feb 2021 · 496
Frostwalker
"Sometimes you have to be cold in order to be safe"
And that's just what I'll do
Cloaked in snow
Memories in tow
I'll forge this path anew
Feb 2021 · 318
GM's Gambit
You're upset because I don't like you,
but I'm just playing the game.
I've learned from the best
and now the rest
will surely learn the same.
Sometimes I wish memories were water soluble
That these tears might wash them away
But try as I might
This clouded mind
Is where these memories choose to stay
Feb 2021 · 5.1k
Can I tell you a secret?
Sometimes...
I talk to the moon
And tell it all the things that I can't say to her...
He always used to call me his sun
Feb 2021 · 235
Hero(ine)
I've hit you up so many times
My veins collapse and still I find
another to shoot what you now sparingly give
You say you're dry, but I know I'm just not your type

of customer
Feb 2021 · 229
Stars
You cannot acknowledge the constellations without tracing through the darkness between the stars.
My kind is celestial, interstellar, cosmic,
but my kind is also in perpetual darkness, trying desperately to shine bright enough to make a difference
It's hard when you aren't able to see your own light
Sometimes we just have to look at each other
A distant reminder that we are still alive
That we are parts of a whole
And bright enough to be seen
Feb 2021 · 689
Near-sight
I am so much more than what I see
I just wish that was something I could truly believe.
Feb 2021 · 946
Celestials
Though both were born of cosmic flame
They fought too much for both were the same
And so they split night from day
So the other may always have their way...

But the cosmic ties that bond their hearts
Could never truly be pulled apart
So once in a blue moon, and every other red sun
The sky becomes dark...and the two become one.
Dec 2020 · 223
Eclipse
Dawn to each other, we overlap
A darkness the world waited to see

Now they wait, again, for another show
While I simply await your return to me.
He is my moon and I am his sun
In my folly I should have kept in mind,
The two were never meant to merge
An eclipse is just a show for the eyes...

And then its done.
Dec 2020 · 239
Seasoned Gambler
Its unfair to be born the way I am,

But I can't claim to be good at card games,

If I'm unable to play the hand I was dealt.
Dec 2020 · 285
I Was Born Broken
I break again to be mended differently
But everything's the same
There's nothing that can fix me
And somehow I'm to blame
First line was borrowed from another poet, the last 3 are the fruits of that line's inspiration.
Dec 2020 · 198
A Bitter Chase
I used to chase you
now I chase my *****

with lime
Nov 2020 · 185
Chronically Lovesick
The weight of my love
Is not your burden to carry
Just as you are not obligated
To be burned by my eternal passions flame
But I wish you would anyway </3
Nov 2020 · 184
He_artwork
Now carry your heart
For its apart of our time
A mosaic of parts
Made from peices of mine
Nov 2020 · 229
Sentient Sun
They tell us to be brighter than the darkness that surrounds us
But what of the ever encroaching darkness that lies just within?
Depression is the gateway drug

Because I'll try anything
Absolutely anything
To make this feeling stop
Jan 2020 · 197
Quicksand
Lost in my thoughts but my mind is too slow
In these quicksand memories, my hearts the first to go

and the rest of me follows
Jan 2020 · 188
Untitled
I miss her

But I miss the her that used to look at me, and saw nothing less than her galaxy.
I have so much love in my heart for you, all I can do is write about it.
Jan 2020 · 175
Uneven
And if you just hurt me this could be easy
But you've been nothing but true
Your truth is just that you don't love me
Nearly as much as I've loved you

And so I have to go.
He invades every piece of my writing, and I can't help but be inspired by the way he marches through my psyche.
Nov 2019 · 391
Untitled
You'll do anything for my love

Except love me...
Nov 2019 · 192
Bred In Captivity
I hate that life is something to escape

Like we're all animals born in captivity

Itching to slip between the grooves of our skin

Wanting to go home, without knowing where home is

And trying our best

Our very best

To enjoy the temporary things

As we drift down but a small creek

Within time's vast infinity
The first two lines are from a conversation with a friend. The rest is, as they say...history.
Jul 2019 · 222
It do tho
Our hearts fall apart
And we fumble with our lives
But fret not weary soldier
It be like that sometimes
Jul 2019 · 298
High Tide
Your breathlessness was the wind beneath my sails that helped me coast these waters

But the tide is high

You've caught your breath

And it threatens to take me under
May 2019 · 282
(In)Vulnerable
If I let you hold me close

You might feel where I've fallen apart

Those seams that seem invisible

The weakest of my spots
Apr 2019 · 242
Treason
You invade my mental with an army of my thoughts
The sharpest memories forged with you in mind
I gave them to you to fight your old demons
Who would have guessed you'd turn into mine
Mar 2019 · 385
Jane
You're akin to the way smoke settles in still air
It lingers for a bit and then you'd never know it was there
Feb 2019 · 536
"Rover"
I relate, Rover.

My battery too, is low.

And it is getting dark

But it will be

Okay

...soon
Jan 2019 · 792
"No One is Kind"
In a club full of diamonds, the queen sets herself apart
Wary of the way these kings take spades to hearts
Some more wordplay

(Title is also wordplay here.)
Jan 2019 · 354
Bleeding Out
Hemorrhaging life
This heartbeat of mine dims with each passing night
I'm broken and I need mending
But I feel like the last one alive
And if I can't escape the confines of my mind
I'll be dead by daylight.
Wordplay featuring one of my favorite Horror Games.
Dec 2018 · 1.1k
Modern Medicine
I've yet to forget the words to this song, and it echoes in the now empty spaces of my mind. Yeah you ****** me up, and I haven't been sober nearly long enough to find the time. I would relapse and forget the man I was if I could be the guy who knew how to make everything fine. But instead I'll find a different drug...and forget what was surely never mine.
Jul 2018 · 335
Planetary Nebula
“It was supposed to be a rebirth, then why do I feel this way?
Perhaps I’m dead to even the stars, and there’s nothing left to say”
"In the phases of a dying sun, a planetary nebula occurs when the sun finally reaches the end of its life. It expands and scatters across the galaxy before losing all of its light."
Jun 2018 · 829
Yesterday
I'm feeling nostalgic, but we're only a few moments in.
I guess something's missing, and I'm wondering where you've been.
I'm good at writing sad things
Apr 2018 · 266
Shiver
I call her "Shiver" for the way she makes me feel
Cold but exhilarating like the harshest winter
And it creeps beneath my skin when I draw her in
Her merest touch cold make my skin splinter
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