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1.2k · Aug 2021
The Giants
David Aug 2021
When I walk down the street
I realize that...

I’m as tall
As tall as the giants

When’d that happen?
Why so fast?

I was so little
So tiny and brittle

But now
I roam with

The Giants
973 · Oct 2021
To a retired artist
David Oct 2021
The man with a spherical  crown
He aspires to conspire
About the shadow realm

With shrunken shrines of human skulls
He suffered to sacrifice goats
And now found satisfaction through screens

Perhaps some day
I could try burfi,
Stuff myself silly
With this secret delicacy

So long, solo white king
Somewhere in a satire sufficient future,
Somehow they would use our carbon molecules
And particles from follicles as fossil fuel

and I'd be satisfied
If we died together.
Where else have I heard of siesta inc...
886 · Aug 2021
‘Friends’
David Aug 2021
‘Friends’-
That’s what she wrote.

That’s what ended it,
‘Friends’.

Ha!
How am I gonna recover?
If I text like everything’s A’ Ok?
I knew this was to good to be true...

‘Friends’-
That’s what ended it.

That’s what she wrote -
‘Friends’
827 · Jan 2021
No New Years Resolutions
David Jan 2021
Maybe I just forgot to make them
Or perhaps its the lack of interest

But this year

No new years resolutions.

I’ve tried all year
To change the person I am

But last year

I didn’t change

So what makes people think,
That I’ll change this year?
Ah, I know why they think I’ll change!
It’s because expectations exceed reality.
697 · Jan 2021
Opening Up
David Jan 2021
Ha!

As if I’d open up

Cause if I did
No one would give a f*ck

There’s too many flaws
To my hurtful falls

Even if I told you
Would it comprehend?

Or would I be left alone
Yet again...

I don’t trust you,

It’s just the plain truth.
604 · Feb 2021
‘L’
David Feb 2021
I’m to nervous
When she’s around

I try to play it cool
But I feel like a fool

Always in my head
When I’m alone

Resting
In my bed

Just get out!
So I don’t have to feel

All of these...
confusing things

Maybe it’s ‘L-‘
No...

If I let her get close
And it all ends up hurt

I wont recover.
474 · Dec 2020
Dear Grandpa
David Dec 2020
Hey grandpa,
It’s been a hot minute huh?

I’m growing up,
But its not all ‘thumbs-up.’

Ive heard so little
About your curious life.

I wish we met,
Before you left.

An amazing editor
That I admire.

How I miss you!

Even though,
In the photo’s,

You seem to be,
So very tired.
This is a poem that is a little bit more personal, I never got to meet my grandfather. And If I wrote a letter to him, I think it would go something like this.
347 · Mar 2021
‘L’ part 2
David Mar 2021
Geez
Emotions are diving deeper now

Dancing through dandelion fields
Dragging my depression out of the darkness

Dam demons!
Got me drunk in danger

Derived from damage and delusions
Driving down a dangling edge

I’ve dabbled into the dark arts
And dreamed of dreariness

But...

She came into my life...

Is it finally L-

Love?...
David Dec 2020
Walking through the door,
The cold winter air
Brushes through my hair.

It kisses my cheek
And hugs me,
With a frozen embrace.

As I look down,
To the colder than ice ground,
There’s a dandelion.

It makes the world still,
So still its hard to breath

Staring down at this flower,
Down at the end of my feet.

Almost like magic,
It survives in the freeze
And as white as the snow.

The sun shines down,
Onto this flower
Frozen in time.
315 · Dec 2020
Where - Heh - Am I?
David Dec 2020
Im standing on a cliff,
Endearing the drop of terror.

As I let out a painful laugh
Filled with fright,
I sit down in spite.

It’s a deep pit,
I wonder whats at the bottom.

Should I jump down?
And see how I turn out?

No, to crazy
But I cant stay here,
Yet why wont I move?

Why wont no one guide me?

It’s ok, Ill just sit here,
And wait for what will betide.

So...

Where - Heh - Am I?
310 · Aug 2021
Sickening
David Aug 2021
She struck straight through me
With a sharp, silver, spear

She said she loved me
So I suppressed superstition

but now...

She stabbed me with a stimulant
That scared my soul

So much so that,
I feel sickening sadness

And show grey stained smiles.
305 · Jan 2021
Triple Threat
David Jan 2021
Beware!

The triplet threat,

That sneaks into your room
And makes you upset.

The triple threat

Breaks down your walls
Until you cant feel,
At all.

The triple threat!

Hangs you by a thread,
Even if you think
Your safe in bed.

So beware, O! Beware the triple threat

Which is life, love, and loneliness.
295 · Jan 2021
Ignorance Isn’t Bliss
David Jan 2021
I despise the saying-
‘Ignorance is bliss’
Because it isn’t.

If anything,
They should say-
‘Academics leads to advancement’.

If someone called you ignorant
Would you consider it bliss?

Honestly I’d be
Really dam ******.

Knowledge leads to power
That the wielder controls.

And they know,
How to use it.
265 · Oct 2021
Building Blocks
David Oct 2021
As a kid
building blocks

Inspired me
To create
Imaginative creations

Now

Building blocks
Are a metaphor for
Beginning a backbone

To a solid foundation
That helps you move forward
259 · Jan 2022
I Don’t Know
David Jan 2022
I’ve been stuck
In a cycle
Of-
‘I don’t know’

How does one
Find, the-
‘Know’?

But I don’t know
Why I do
Half the things
I do

Do you?

Like a one-trick-pony
It’s the only words
I know
244 · Mar 2021
Outside Tonight
David Mar 2021
I saw...

Well,

there’s only one way to describe it-

I saw the heavens shinning down



The sunset
Had me mesmerized

Utter beauty
So bright it was blinding

And it made me feel
Like everything moving forward

Would be alright
David Jan 2021
Leave the house
Down the path
Day in
And day out

I sit
And ponder
On where
I can wander

Leaps
And bounds
With smiles
And frowns

I stare
To the
Far away
Rolling hills

With
Sharp Stone Swords
That
Long to Lunge
211 · Nov 2020
They Say
David Nov 2020
They say to work hard,
So you don’t end up poor.

They say study hard,
So you end up with a bright future.

They say to reach for the stars,
So that our lives don't fall apart.

But why do they say such things?
Do they think I’m able to do as they say?

Yes the future may be mine,
And even with all this time.

Haven’t you seen?
That it's not as easy as it seems?
201 · Dec 2020
The ‘Good-Ol Days’
David Dec 2020
They say the ‘good-ol days’
But why cant I relate?

What if I don’t miss the old days?

Is it wrong to like the present,
More than the past?

Why doesn’t anyone say-
‘What a time to be alive’ anymore?

Please don’t think I’m crazy,
But I don’t miss the past.

Because right now I’m fine where I’m at.
I understand that some people might think that I don’t care for the thousands of lives dying because of covid, but I truly do pray for those lives. Like many of us I also have family and friends out there who I care for deeply, but this poem is not about corona, its about the past. So please understand.
197 · Nov 2020
Infinite Corridor
David Nov 2020
Standing in a corridor
Is a young boy,
Looking into infinity

Left,
Then
  Right.

Doors along the corridor
As if pleading to be opened,
The boy approaches.

As he grabs for a handle,
He stops.
And decides not to open it.

He continues to walk
Till he reaches another door,
This time he opens it.

But as he walks through
There is just another endless corridor,
However now he seems to have grown.

Standing in a corridor
Is a young man,
Looking into infinity.
196 · Feb 2021
Lady on the Landing
David Feb 2021
I went past a lady
Smoking on a landing

Her coarse black hair
She smoked a cigar
Without regard

For only a moment
I saw her

Sitting there
in a chair
With mystery and perplexity

It was cloudy today
No sun shine
To brighten her time

She left me
Speechless

As I noticed
Her blackened eyes
From restless nights

I went past a lady
Smoking on a landing...
172 · Dec 2020
Dreams
David Dec 2020
I used to dream,
Of beautiful greens.

Crazy adventures,
That I would venture.

Rolling sunsets
That never made me upset.

But...

Those days are gone,

Now I sleep,
With a black sheet,

Covering up,
All my dreams.

As if shielded,
From the slumber.

Then I wake,
Only to ponder.

On what could have been.
171 · Dec 2020
Silent War
David Dec 2020
A war we all face
Since we are all
From the human race

No words needed
Because we all know
The terror

Of the silent war.
156 · Nov 2020
Thin Wire
David Nov 2020
To walk on a thin wire,
Is what we all do.
The tightrope swerves
And curves
As we progress through.

Some people push others off
And some slip,
And fall,
Some even decided to jump
While all we can do is watch
And contemplate.

Then when we out stretch our arms
To keep ourselves stable,
We soon realize
that it makes it harder to stand
With the brand of time
Pressed against our backs.
149 · Dec 2020
Human
David Dec 2020
feeling to much sorrow,

That can make us hollow.

Doesn’t make us human.

To much pride,

That makes you take life,

With to much stride.

Doesn’t make you human.

But if you blend the two,

And make it into you,

Then...

That makes you,

The most human of all.
149 · Dec 2020
A Working Mans Hands
David Dec 2020
As a soft, yellow light,
Opens the morning sun rise.

There’s a man,
With tools,
In his hands.

The face brushed with dirt,
And the depravity of his rest.

Comes home to nothing,
But a mess.

He slumps down into his bed,
As if it was preaching for his head.

Tries what little time,
To enjoy,

What he’s got left.
125 · Dec 2020
We
David Dec 2020
We
We are fickle things…

Why were we given emotions?

If half of it is pain.

Even if you’re on top of the world,

You can still be afraid of heights.
The last 2 lines were from a song I heard one day, I thought it was really amazing.
109 · Dec 2020
Words of Words
David Dec 2020
Describe the sky,

Seemingly endless,

Blue,

Beautiful.

So many words

For just one word.

Yet we cant take the time

To describe others,

with more than-

“Basic”

Or

“Annoying”

— The End —