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54 · Apr 2020
Goodbyes = not fun
Emmett Apr 2020
Why do I cry at night
And when I’m in plight
You leave me out of sight

Why do I smile during the day
And when I see you we dance and play
But then I fall when you finally say g’day
54 · Mar 2020
Is Fire Love Or Pain?
Emmett Mar 2020
Each moment goes past in a series of memories unfolded not without but within me. You see

A container for the memories of what we could be. When I would have told you that this burn is an evergreen would you run or flee... To me.

The burn oh evergreen. Bursting
Inferno will you, will this roast me?
If it does would I want it to be?

A line of words brittle and broken as bones... alone. Isolated. An island of paragraphs yet to be written. I’m bitten.

And yet unsure of my status, am I lost or am I found? Am I floating through the air or pounded into the ground?

If I burn then I run the risk of having to be there endlessly. You see. I would never leave you in my independency but your parents ask me potentially to leave you be.

Then again as Tyler said those T’s uncrossed and I’s undotted could leave us in a heap 10 feet from where we departed unable to justify the cost of the fight you’re right I might.

But no. If I am cast into the pit of fire and flames and maimed I could never return. Unburn relieve myself from this pain and gain or lose and loosen the noose surrounding me. Slowly emptying the space between me and me. Or more accurately the space between me and you. Eventually this could be the death of me or who I was meant to be.

In bed with a liar that I could never trust. I never want this ****** upon me because each moment, each life, each crying embrace. Laced in a web of your encased place I would never know if it was really beau and boe or just another fancy way of saying I need help and you’re the only way I can be who I’m meant to be.
53 · Apr 2020
Stuck
Emmett Apr 2020
I plot
I ponder
Some days I simply persist

If time dilates when one moves at high speeds
Does it contract when one moves barely at all
A beautiful quote from a beautiful book
When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi
53 · Apr 2020
Untitled
Emmett Apr 2020
Emmett,

A good change
doesn’t always
feel that way

Love Emmett
52 · Apr 2020
Thanks... for everything
Emmett Apr 2020
Thank you sun
Thank you garden
Thank you friend and piano and breath
Thank you sister
And thank you laughter
And thank you trampoline

Thank you trees
Thank you blankets
Thank you books

Thank you Hello Poetry
And love
And the ability to try again tomorrow

Thank you for my ability to smile
Thank you tears
Thank you bracelet giver

Thank you punching bag
And karate
And gloves

Thank you knuckles
and hands
and feet

Thank you legs
Thank you feet
Thank you chairs

And especially
Thank you moon
Thank you clouds
Thank you stars
I can get lost in you and lose myself

Thank you life
I appreciate you
52 · Apr 2020
In my mind
Emmett Apr 2020
A loss
No matter how temporary
Is forever permanent
Held by a regretting mind
52 · Apr 2020
Life
Emmett Apr 2020
A tilled life of memories
That, once your gone,
You never get to enjoy
51 · Apr 2020
Save a life
Emmett Apr 2020
Howdy doodie doo?
How are you?
What are you thinking?
What can I do?
50 · Apr 2020
Loving stops
Emmett Apr 2020
Life is a series of idles,
waiting for something to happen

Find someone who fills those stop-sign-breaks
with love
49 · Mar 2020
Cold
Emmett Mar 2020
I approach a god
I leave myself
48 · Apr 2020
What’s life for?
Emmett Apr 2020
If you can find joy in a walk
Does IT ever really matter?
48 · Sep 2020
grit
Emmett Sep 2020
I have the drive to strive to be alive to have the right to live a life worth living.
One of glory one of peace of a nice warm fleece
A sock laid down by the fire

I have the drive to thrive and dive into the hive of my mind.
A place where life resides and death awaits
behind the line, beneath the fence, beyond the gates

I have the drive to be alive to push myself and to survive.
A challenge once excepted can never be neglected
I accept you as you are now please let that be reflected

I have the drive to contrive a kinder life that I'll revive
one of peace and of love. Without deceit of

Goodbye
48 · Mar 2020
Drops of Love
Emmett Mar 2020
Good morning love
Wake up heart
It’s time to give this day a fine start

Good morning sun
Wake up lungs
It’s time to sing some more songs unsung

Good morning
Wake up
It’s time to know that I love you

From: me
To: me and everyone else who needs or want a little more loving too
Emmett Mar 2020
It starts under the stars.
And laughing in cars.

Late at night we conversed and cried.
That was the difference of you and I.

Whenever we'd talk my smile spread wide.
Then you departed and my hopes have all died.

Buried in what I want to become.
To hide the truth that I am some ****.

Hiding from the truth of what we are.
Now I'm pulled from the dark and I say "please put me back in the jar."

I was doing so well.
In fact, quite swell.

Now...

Let me take you in time to a place long ago.
Where I danced and I partied and was there for a show.

I was so young and naive I thought the world could be played.
Now it's just me, my emotions and this ****** parade.

How to be best friends with someone you can never see?
The question I ask is "can it be?"

To encase one's heart in friendship and love all one needs is one simple thing.
Time spent together, laughter and joy. But oh the sting that that little thing brings.

Because although I would love to spend each day your friend in tow.
Laughing and crying and learning things new things to know.

I can't and won't and will never be allowed
to sing and to dance and say my feelings out loud.

I've given up the hope of talking to you.
You see that's the best I can ever do.

So I fake cool laughs and bright smiles.
Plastered on faces to hide that I've wild.

Now it's gone and I'm scared it's forever
You cried and said that you would never.
but...

I'm scared.
47 · Apr 2020
Realization
Emmett Apr 2020
The sunrise shattered across the discordant melodies of my mind
A sudden bursting of light and sound
Reverberating so beautifully as to cause my eyes to reach into the lakes of muck to find the clearest tear
47 · Mar 2020
Gargling Salt Water
Emmett Mar 2020
Fleeing to a flood of drowning tears
That’s what a day feels like my loves, my dears
46 · Mar 2020
Early morning
Emmett Mar 2020
It’s raining
It’s pouring
My eyes oh they’re storming
And I don’t want to leave this bed

It’s raining
It’s pouring
It’s four in the morning
And I don’t want to cry

But I need you here because I’m a mess
These are lyrics by Anson Seabra and I love them so much
46 · Mar 2020
Death of a poet
Emmett Mar 2020
Word-pain is so much better
Then real pain

There is no fancy writing
There is no rhyming lines
No quid pro quo
No justice
Or quick sayings of wit

In a poem you can die a thousand million deaths, but after each you still hear them all and have a mind to write one more for yourself.
One more time you are able to cover your grave.
One more time you can cry over blotches of black and white

In life you die.
That’s it.
No more.
End of the line
No more graves to dig
Only a life of promises made... and broken
Only a “to be continued” unfulfilled
46 · Mar 2020
Hellos and Goodbyes
Emmett Mar 2020
I have always been the one asking for more time

it was always the other person saying goodbye.

You were different. Now as a friend you are the same… I’m sad.


I say "Howdy Doodie Doo. How are you?"

You say "goodbye. I've got to fly"
46 · Mar 2020
Future death
Emmett Mar 2020
Only with the hope of a future
Do we survive the present
Emmett Mar 2020
Starlight star bright
All my loves sleep well tonight
I wish I may I wish you might
Sleep in beds of love and light
Sleep well
46 · Apr 2020
Cake
Emmett Apr 2020
Some days you succeed
Some days you don't
But you can only fail in one thing
Not trying again tomorrow
45 · Mar 2020
Hide
Emmett Mar 2020
A. A word you search and never find
Before your world fades away.
C. Come out and say what you need to say

D. Don’t try to find who you are
Even so you’ll be led on
F. For you’ll be forever gone
45 · Mar 2020
And Yet
Emmett Mar 2020
An audience applause
Loved for all your flaws
And puppies little paws

A good workout
look and breath out
A new PR with all that clout

A competition won
A moment alone with the sun

Laughing crying on the floor
A deep conversation where you're never ignored

This is life
both bad and good
goodnight my love
45 · Mar 2020
Love
Emmett Mar 2020
I see your body
But fall in love with your mind

I like for a face
I love for a thought
44 · Mar 2020
Blinded by a breath
Emmett Mar 2020
Help me see
1000 ways
That we can breath
Stop me please
This was lyrics that nicholascromeenes made on TikTok for one last time and I loved them
44 · Apr 2020
Someone Needed, Gone
Emmett Apr 2020
It’s funny how you need someone
Then they leave...
You still need them

Then one day  
You’re walking by yourself
And realize you can smile without them
Emmett Mar 2020
Hand prayer knot:
Our hands touch as she teaches me to make a prayer knot.
I feel a spark.
Her face is beautiful and alive.

Pulchritude:
We go it to the dance.
She has pulchritude,
Even though I don't have the nerve to tell her.

Pictures:
Our pictures are taken.
My hand trembles as I tie her corsage.
She looks beautiful.

Silence:
The silence returns as we enter the dance floor. It has an awkward tinge.
I wish I could hold her hand or something to lighten the atmosphere.
When I look at her I forget everything.
The tension eases as we begin to talk.

Quiet outside:
It is quiet outside.
It is peaceful as the rain drops come down on our heads.
The urge to hold her hand appears again.
I look down at the water speckled boards.

Jumping:
The night begins to blur.
The jumping, the spinning, the dancing, the laughing, the talking.
It is all on one moment frozen in time. So small as to be nonexistent, yet so large as to be our life.

Final song:
The final song has begun, Home.
I wish to dance with her yet the fear is too great.
And yet with an unfathomable will she crosses the bridge between us and asks to dance.

What is this unknown emotion?
What is this unknown emotion?
Is it fear? No, it is to joyful.
Is it joy? No, I feel too anxious.
Is it anxiety? No, I feel to calm.
I have no words to describe what I feel.
Love? No, love is too strong of a word.
Like? No, like his too week.

Even without words it is so strong and unbound, yet un-actionable.
She asks what is to come. I look into her eyes and can think of nothing to say.

Tomorrow:
I wake up the next morning with one thought in my head, the intriguing girl.
The one so beautiful as to cause me to forget, yet so smart.
So strong-willed as to ask me to dance, yet so shy.

May we meet again and again,
oh mysterious girl, oh wondrous girl, oh beauty girl.
44 · Mar 2020
Being Happy
Emmett Mar 2020
I think that to be in a state of being that is happy is different then to feel happy.

Those moments of embodying happy are found in gratitude and appreciation.
They are found in the joy of a night by the fire.
In the understanding that there is so much more...
and you will never know it all...
and yet it’s ok.

Being happy comes with truly knowing that one is not okay. And that’s okay. Okay?
That it is ok to not be the best the brightest and the funniest.
It is ok to not get that role, to perfect that dance, or be the best singer.
It is okay to not be ok.

Being happy comes with knowing that love doesn’t need you to be extraordinary and that those that love you know all of you and that they love you all the more for it...
43 · Mar 2020
Love unspeakable unspoken
Emmett Mar 2020
There’s nothing I could ever say or do
To make you realize how much I love you
Love you all so much!
Emmett Mar 2020
Actions speak louder then words
Words speak louder then laughs
Laughs speak louder then smiles
Yet that that speaks loudest of all makes not a sound

~ Love
43 · Mar 2020
Respite: Sleep
Emmett Mar 2020
Goodnight
Sleep tight
I wish I will, I hope I might
leave tomorrow better then tonight
Sleep well loves
I hope your day is full of joy and if not that’s ok.
You are loved.
42 · Apr 2020
Stars gone
Emmett Apr 2020
Twinkle twinkle little star
Within my heart you’ve hid so far

I dig deep but not to find
All the feelings I’ve felt and left behind

With you
42 · Mar 2020
Hidden
Emmett Mar 2020
They come to me all black and blue
From a life of misery and strife
But they have no wish to tell what they’ve been through
No want for me to see their life

They secret and flee and hide and shuck
They live and they cower and close their eyes
But they never reveal all the mud and the muck
The flys they circle and buzz their mind but they want to swat their own thought fly’s
Emmett Mar 2020
Emmett,

Are you ok? Are you decent? Are you adequate? Are you enough? Are you sad? Are you crying? Are you happy? Are you loved? Do you love? Are you warm? Are you cold? Are you tired?

It’s ok. You’re ok. You’re enough. You’re wanted. You’re adequate. You are happy. You’re loved. You loved once. You’re warm. A little. That’s ok. We love you. I love you.

~ Emmett
42 · Mar 2020
Joy
Emmett Mar 2020
Joy
It will be hard
But say yes
41 · Mar 2020
Boxed by a closing world
Emmett Mar 2020
Stupid
.
.
.
Stop
.
.
.
Don’t think
.
.
.
Stupid
.
.
.
Stop
.
.
.
Don’t think

Late at night and I can’t think
All these feelings doing the thinking for me

I reach for the sky
It rushes down to meet me

Suffocated between ground and air
If only I could lift like Atlas

Except I can’t
So it all comes crashing down

One thought rushes to another to another to another to another to another to another

Thoughts to emotions, emotions controlling thoughts. Thoughts to emotions, emotions controlling thoughts.
Emmett Mar 2020
What’s the hardest thing
you will ever do?

Be ok
with who you are
41 · Mar 2020
Feelings You Say... Hmmm
Emmett Mar 2020
What does it mean to feel?

A punch to the jaw
An unrung call
A leap from a building way too tall

Crashing and falling
Aching and sawing
Naked poring eyes all done with the aching and balling

leaping, flying, falling
dying, crying, crawling
Emmett Apr 2020
It’s funny a how a smile can cause so much ache
40 · Apr 2020
Cycles
Emmett Apr 2020
Some days feel like your own personal winter,
Devoid of love  

Then you walk outside
And the grass is warm
39 · Mar 2020
Life
Emmett Mar 2020
The key to the wrong door

The door to the wrong key

A smile, unseen waits on the other side

Switch keys... please?
39 · Mar 2020
Why Numb?
Emmett Mar 2020
Numbness
to cry and go unheard
what a strange idea
unheard by your own little mind-bird

Numbness
A feeling so complete
It removes all competition
and your eyes from the heat

Numbness
Yes it really is quite jealous
A nasty quiet *****
unfortunately for you, it's really just the preface
39 · Mar 2020
Best Friends Sister
Emmett Mar 2020
Best friends sister,

She said you should,
And that's how it began.
She shared I would,
And that's how I got mad.
That night I took a break,
And decided to forgive
My best friends sister who made this all begin.
I rampaged and I roared,
I wrote and destroyed.
Then, when it was over,
I decided to forgive.

I hope that she believes me,
When I said to her,
That I have forgiven,
plus another third.
I say, an action, does not define you,
you are still the same
Oh, best friends sister you are still, as you came.

I hope within this process of forgiveness,
You have forgiven yourself,
And not go on blaming for an unselfish self.

I wish as well that you,
Will take my apology for my quick words and harsh phrases.

So, I hope this shows as proof,
That you have been forgiven for the mistake you made,
And the first roll you played,
In our kindling flame.

Asking:

I sit within the air,
As I decide what to say,
To my girlfriend to be
And how to voice my apology.

There goes my note,
It is afloat,
We shall see what her answer will be.

We arrive at our rental house,
She asks to meet in the place where we last parted.

Cards:

As we sit my traveling companion,
Silence, decides to join us.
I think the room may be heating up from our feeble attempts to talk.
Finally she banishes him with a single phrase,
"Would you like to play cards?"
I am thankful for her bravery to start,
Even if it is a game of solitaire.

Girlfriend:

She says we should begin to talk,
My mind goes blank.
And my world is changed in one moment,
In one word,
In one girl.
She wonders if we should make it public,
It takes me a moment to remember all that has happened,
And all that has begun.
I think of nothing...

Appreciation:

She says that she is sorry
For not showing appreciation for all that I  have done for her.
I am astonished,
She has done more for me than I could ever dream of doing it for her.
She asked to begin,
She asked to walk,
She asked to dance,
She wrote letters and postcards. But most of all,
She is herself,
She is _.

Beauty:

It is time to leave,
She leaves for camping in two days.
I feel forlorn as she drives away,
Her exquisite,
Beautiful,
Amazing face disappearing from view.
The face that I can never seem to recall, no matter how many times I see it.
She turns the corner and is gone.
I think that I will see her tomorrow And the day after before she disappears...

Sinking in:

Three days have passed since her monumental words,
And still every day I remember
And rediscover that she is my girlfriend.
39 · Mar 2020
Bells and sunshine
Emmett Mar 2020
See you later
alligator

I hope you sleep well
And wake not for a bell

Until the morning comes
39 · Mar 2020
My gender?
Emmett Mar 2020
It’s not the pronoun,

but the perception...
This is not and should not be construed as being indicative of anybody else’s process. This is simply my own humble thoughts and feelings regarding myself.

Love ❤️
38 · Apr 2020
To love
Emmett Apr 2020
A heart pumped full.  
Laced with fear.
Slowly bleeding out.
38 · Mar 2020
night
Emmett Mar 2020
night oh night
lull me to sleep
pull the leaves down over my eyes
and out of my mind let me keep

sleep let me clearly see
out of this darkness let me crawl
transport me towards the light
sleep. please down and cover with your shawl
This would be my goodnight poem I normally write, but tonight is not a goodnight so this is my night poem

Night loves. I hope you had an amazing day
38 · Apr 2020
ur lovely
Emmett Apr 2020
hi lovely (:
Let’s do some self care, yeah?
first, throw on your fav baggy jammies
yes, i have acne too, it’s okay (:
ur cute :)
now get comfy cozy and get some rest.
i love u.
This was a quote from one of my friends @laurenmcofferyyy
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