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9.7k · Apr 2015
In Order to Earn Respect
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Pity
I truely hate that word
Its so weak
So absurd
You can grovel all you want about your neglect
Or you can shut the hell up
And earn some respect
Know anyone who this reminds you of?
6.5k · Jun 2015
The Cat
Dead Lock Jun 2015
Don't make fun of my scars
You see,
They have minds of their own
And loathe disrespect
4.4k · Apr 2015
Sugar 10w
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Life gave me lemons
But It gave me no sugar
3.2k · Jun 2015
Catching Care
Dead Lock Jun 2015
They say we are all loved
They drill it into our heads
But the only time people care
Is when we are
Popular
Beautiful
Or
Dead
2.6k · May 2015
Corpulent
Dead Lock May 2015
This is how I feel
Maybe that's not how I look
But this is how I feel
And that's whats important
2.3k · Apr 2015
Cages
Dead Lock Apr 2015
If someone where to open me up
They would see that every animal
Has escaped its cage
2.2k · Apr 2015
Queen of the Pirates
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Like a ghost on the wind
She comes from the sea
And trembles the foe
So wild and free

With swashbuckling swagger
And a Jolly Roger laugh
She flies the black flag
On a whalebone staff

She has terrifying eyes
And a ring in her ear
And on her sun tanned face
A flippant leer

With a bone-cold glare
And a sneer on her lip
She has coins in hand
And a cutlass on hip

With a thunderous blast
From her cannons' might
She plants fear in the strong
And steals the fight

She takes all that's lost
And turns it to gold
For she's crafty and devious
And frightningly bold

She is dashing and daring,
A fierce buccaneer
Faces of many
Pale when she's near

From ocean to ocean
Her tales are spun
About the queen of the pirates
For in the end she won
Ching Shih was the most sucessful pirates out of men and women.
She's like my freaking idol.
2.2k · Apr 2015
Woe Me Not Really
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Oh Lily
She's a pretty girl with a pretty name
Oh Lily
To bad she's insane
Oh Lily
She's holding a knife to the world
Oh Lily
Since when did your mind become so unfurled
Oh Lily
She's a different person now
Oh Lily
How?
Feeling a degression of my person
2.0k · Apr 2015
Crocodile Smile
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Memories with pointy grins
Their leavings sick and vile
Ruggad rips along my phyc
They bite with sharpend smiles
Roiling inside a cage of script
Are my snapping crocodiles
1.9k · Jun 2015
Moral Glass
Dead Lock Jun 2015
Our moral glass
Breaks easily
Like a feral beast
With a china mask
1.8k · Apr 2015
Down the River
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Dreams like tissue paper
Mornings like flash floods
Stealing away mind crafted worlds
With a sun shining torrent
Of splinters and mud
1.7k · Apr 2015
The Needle
Dead Lock Apr 2015
People with pride
Puffed up like balloons
And here I come popping
Like some clutzy bafoon
1.7k · Apr 2015
Believe in My Lies
Dead Lock Apr 2015
I am a cheater
I thread lies on my loom
But everytime I fake a smile
A blosom of hope does bloom
1.7k · Apr 2015
This Dear Web
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Here is a spiders web
Strands of rhythem
Being spun by the dead
Where liers come to lie
And the truthers come to die
1.6k · May 2015
Dear Parents
Dead Lock May 2015
You have no idea
What it is like
To grow up in this generation
Just like how your parents
Were clueless about yours
1.6k · Apr 2015
Angel descent
Dead Lock Apr 2015
I didn't fall from heaven, dear boy

I crawled strait from hell

Where all of the wingless angels

Empty shotgun shells
1.6k · Apr 2015
Voiced
Dead Lock Apr 2015
There is a thousand ways to say goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
I scream it out so very loud
Because the next time I find my voice
I may not remember how
1.6k · Jun 2015
Gone Girl
Dead Lock Jun 2015
Don't they see?
Don't they know?
They lost their little girl,
Years ago
1.5k · Apr 2015
Weak Breath
Dead Lock Apr 2015
I will always keep fighting
I will fight with every breath
Because weaklings can't decide anything
Not even their own death
1.5k · Apr 2015
Cracked
Dead Lock Apr 2015
If only we were dolls
With faces of porcelain
Then we could pick to pieces our paint on smiles
And see what lurks within
1.5k · Apr 2015
The One Woman Rave
Dead Lock Apr 2015
I am so confused
I can't figure it out
All of the voices in my head
Shut up, there's no need to shout

There is now a window
Replacing a locked door
I can't make heads or tails
Of this mess anymore

My mind keeps on shrieking
And I left one foot in the grave
You should get out of my way
I am the one woman rave
I just made it into Maggie L. Walker Governer School and my head keeps spinning and spinning. Any good highschool tips?
1.4k · Apr 2015
Compassion
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Maybe the world would hold it's breath
If my life blinked out into thin air
Or maybe it would just keep spinning
I shouldn't expect it to care
1.3k · Apr 2015
The Dawn
Dead Lock Apr 2015
When birds start to sing
And the day dances a new
When the grass waves its arms
Shining with morning dew
Where the worlds resets
For just a little while
For five seconds troubles are forgotten
And we allow ourselves a smile
1.3k · May 2015
10w
Dead Lock May 2015
10w
It will be hard
But
It will be worth it
1.2k · Mar 2017
Technophobe
Dead Lock Mar 2017
"Woe is us of the 60s and 70s.

Technology is ruining our lives.

Millennials don't talk to eachother but to screens.

Change is bad.

Thomas Edison was a witch."

Let us enjoy our commodities,

Our youth,

Our technologies,

And our expression,

As you do yours.

Please.
1.1k · Apr 2015
Help Wanted
Dead Lock Apr 2015
We are in need for some assistance
There are some minds half way beyond repair
A handful of hearts are broken
And hope is vanishing into thin air
1.0k · May 2015
Dear Octopus
Dead Lock May 2015
Some one has been sneaking
Tentacles rummaging through my mind
They never asked to
But they have left their trails of slime

Raw bits and pieces of my phyc
Have been overturned
Spilling the secrets of my life
Which I have rightfully earned

If you wanted to see inside my head
You could have just asked
For even though you are my mother
This side of me should stay masked

Oh mom
I was just starting to recover
My glass house finally being rebuilt
Has been smashed by my mother

Poetry was supposed to my open window
A place to write down what I see
But now you are a camera clicking
Illegal shots of me

Don't worry though
I still love you
I am like a dog in that sense

But mommy
Please next time just ask
I know it my seem hard
But it is a crucial task
1.0k · Apr 2015
A Presistant World
Dead Lock Apr 2015
I've disected the world a thousand times
I've choked this world in a thousand rhymes
I've tried to wipe this world away
But it seems to wish to stay
989 · Feb 2017
Fishing Line
Dead Lock Feb 2017
She used to write poems about slitting her wrists

About monsters that did but did not exist

About band aids and stained paper towels

About grubby toilet seats and empty bowels

And well, now

She regret the scars

Fishing line trails out of them

Transparent until noticed

Then tangled and messy

Catching on hot sweaters in the summer

On the eyes of friends

Of her grandparents

She found them to no longer be the uneven lines of art she loved

She'd stick to colored pens
Don't self harm. It leads to lots of regret.
972 · May 2015
Roses and Kittens
Dead Lock May 2015
Raindrops on roses
And bloodstains on lines
Razors and longsleeves
To keep her scars hidden
She jumped off a building
Like a bird without wings
Those were a few of her
Favorite things
968 · Apr 2015
The Trick of Carnival
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Death isn't a game
Its not chess
Its not hopscotch
Or tic tac toe
We can't expect it to be fair
Death is scam
Because no matter where you move your king
Your already ******
965 · Apr 2015
Reverse
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Falling into me
You are a butterfly in reverse
Letting go of your wings
And accepting my curse
935 · Apr 2015
Concepts
Dead Lock Apr 2015
The concept of victory
Truely depends on where you stand
917 · Apr 2015
Gone
Dead Lock Apr 2015
An invisible girl
Who knows where she's gone
Hidden in plain sight
Because she was wrong
906 · Apr 2015
Me
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Me
Another girl sings through my lips
Another girl swings with my hips
Another girl uses my crocodile smile
Im trapped inside
All the while
898 · Jun 2015
10w
Dead Lock Jun 2015
10w
I despise mirrors
They strangle me in truths that bite
887 · Jun 2015
Broken Lyrics
Dead Lock Jun 2015
Lilly's little birdbath
Sitting on a dirt path
From the bowl she did drink
In the water the did sink
A translation that I had assigned from an Arabic story. It's pretty, no?
869 · Apr 2015
Demon Heart
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Marred and marked from battle
He hides in the night
Searching and seeking
The shadow beyond the light

Fierce is this warrior
Pained by his past
Dark is his soul
But this he must mask

Giggling child
His hearts delight
She loves him and his darkness
With all her might

His tiny angel
His golden haired little girl
With her innocent smile
Oblivious to the world


He wishes to come from the shadows
And see her wide eyed face  
For he is the demon that guards her
Loving and unable to trace
837 · May 2015
The Climb
Dead Lock May 2015
Getting up is hard
Getting dressed is hard
Looking at people is hard
Getting started is hard
Getting it done is hard
Making food is okay
Eating it is controversial
Talking is hard
Loving is difficult
Laughing, that's good
836 · Apr 2015
Heavy Hearts
Dead Lock Apr 2015
We are all born heartless
That's why as children we can climb high
Off rocks we can fly
For our hearts are so empty
Of all things
But my heart is heavy
Maybe so is yours
Washed up with words like lead weights
Piled with past people like barbells
Filled full with feelings like chains
Tethered we are
Beaten and scarred
Bloodied and marred
Locked up and barred
No longer does the air seem open
Nor do the trees
No longer may we roam
Free as can be
Who has a heavy heart here?
Dead Lock Jul 2015
The pain it creates cannot compare
To the joy she knows that will soon be there
It's worth the scars that will never heal
For just a moment not to feel
769 · Apr 2015
Beneath Us
Dead Lock Apr 2015
So many people are dead
Because we had to settle the score
There truely is no hope
In this long and silent war
759 · Apr 2015
Under Us
Dead Lock Apr 2015
The underworld follows me around
Clinging to my skirts
Hugging my legs so I won't leave
Because being alone hurts
754 · Apr 2015
For Who
Dead Lock Apr 2015
This is for the stoic
No one asks if they're okay
They really wish to hear that question
Somedays

This is for the kind
They smile wave and applaud
Just imagine all the pain
That hides behind their walls

This is for the silent
Not only voices do they hide
But everybodys secrets
Bottled up inside

I don't know who this is for
Have it if you so desire
This one may be your kindling
To your inner fire
749 · Mar 2017
Rash
Dead Lock Mar 2017
I haven't been sleeping a lot lately

The world's been awfully rough lately

My decisions are a little

Hasty

Old friendships have long since rusted

I'm not liked and I'm never trusted

Yet I'm okay with being hated

Then at least I know where I stand
745 · May 2015
The Creed of Thin
Dead Lock May 2015
Forget guns and forget ammunition
Cause I’m killing them all on my own little mission
Now I’m not a saint but I’m not a sinner
But everything is cool as long as I’m thinner
This is some one elses poem. I found it lovely. Sadly, I do not know their name.
741 · Apr 2015
Aha!
Dead Lock Apr 2015
Oh just look at all of you boys
You can't believe your eyes
You had said that I was ugly
Now I take you by surprise
You really should have been nicer
Ironic at that
Now I'm the big show
And none of you are even half of that

Hope you enjoy
Watching my ******* rise
The dear bullies in the school yard
Am I on your mind?
You now say you love me
But what about before?
When I was nothing
But the ugly little girl next door
739 · Jul 2015
The Pandora Cure
Dead Lock Jul 2015
I constructed myself a glass box
You can see
But you can't touch

I love to hide in my glass box
It's solid, impermeable
Though it may have become my crutch

I cannot open my glass box
My emotionless prison
My safety is my noose

I don't care if I'm stuck in my glass box
It's now a pandora's chest
And I'm hell ready to let loose
716 · Jul 2015
Pricey
Dead Lock Jul 2015
Widows are crying
Children are dying
There is a cost of life
That I just can't keep buying
700 · Apr 2015
The Descent
Dead Lock Apr 2015
I am going to hell
I am certainly aware
Maybe I'll send you a postcard,
When I end up there
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