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Ben Jan 2018
My heart pounds before seeing you
But once we've met up...
My body has reached its subtle calming peak
The melatonin is released
Ben Mar 2018
Maybe one day
I'll see your face
For the rest of my days
See it wither
Every wrinkle, every line on your face
Representing the decades of love we had and continue to make
Until death takes us away
May our love remain
This is a poem in hopes of one day meeting someone that would enjoy me as much as I'd love to enjoy them. Just loving each other until death take us away.
Ben Jul 2023
I love you

But I'm afraid I love you too

Don't want to tempt you with a minor truth

I'm sorry for loving you.
A love for one, became for many and every woman.... i loved; i didn't lie about it.
Ben Aug 2022
"Here we go again"
The words that hurt the most
Because we both knew what you were referring to
Words that hurt more than "I don't love you"
Words that caused a strum to become
A guitar with broken strings

Strings replaced
But the tune was not the same
Ben Aug 2018
As the wind blows
And the trees become woodwinds
Playing a wonderful tune
My eyes experience the beauty
Of what nature is
While my mind fails to attain it
And my mouth cannot express
In the end, it's better to get my own taste and experience the aesthetic
Ben Sep 2021
The scythe is never dry
Fight!
To stay alive...

Cheat death of its vice
This poem is based off the idea of fighting depression and any ideas of death taking over your mind. Finding the good in life and to remember to breathe. Death and depression will always be there, but you are strong enough to fight it and succeed.

For more context, the image of a scythe never being dry is because death/depression are always around.
Ben Oct 2018
Plain old
Flavorless
Feel.
Every bite just fills.
While the taste doesn't fade away
I start the taste the tasteless
Dead
Feel.
Made it up. Don't think it makes sense, just typed it up as it went.
B&W
Ben Jan 2019
B&W
Black and White is my life
In search of hue or gray
To make some kind of change.

When I see a difference
I begin the chase
To pursue the sight I like.

In the end,
I become more color blind
Ben Jan 2018
From the time we met
Till before we split
I always wanted what was best
Though our end was not the greatest
Seeing where you're at now
I feel peace
I'm glad you're doing well
May we one day meet again
Old friend...
A poem dedicated to an old friend, that showed we are okay, but don't have to speak of old things again.
Ben Feb 2020
In my lack of excitement
In my lack of motivation
The sweet sounds of disaster have binded me in isolation
The demise of motion has paralyzed uplifting truth
****** by my own muse
Recently being single had felt like a curse because people around me are becoming couples. I'm just missing that feeling and need to calm down.
Ben Mar 2018
I have found beauty in your eyes
Your perspective changes mine
I have seen different things through
The lens of your eyes

The secrets of your heart
Reveal to me who you really are
I have found beauty in your heart

I have found beauty on your lips
Because you say the right things
And close it shut before making a mistake

I have found beauty in you
Because no one else is you.
Ben Apr 2018
Doubt
It's
Deep

Faith
Takes
A
Leap

Better is the excitement before failure or completion
Than
Living in the depth of deceit
You won't get far with doubt. Risk your life for things and embrace the unexpected, it's possible to learn from the experience. Just don't do anything stupid lol.
Ben Mar 2018
Binge drinking my own facade
Thinking I have gotten far
Vanity is my bud
I have rolled the blunt
Smoked and inhaled
I see thick smoke
And my life starting to vanish
I sit and see life pass me by
While enjoying the lies
Pride leads to nothing but facade and lies.get over yourself... You need God and people in your life!
Ben Nov 2018
There's such an elation
From your fingertips touching mine
There's a beautiful, unexplainable
Ecstatic feel from our fingerprints rubbing against each other
Sparking the fire that keeps us warm
On this cold weather
Let's keep warm
Ben Jul 2018
Freedom.
Its smell is great
As I inhale it smoothly.
It's next to You
That I am soothed
Being with You I have found my peace.
Been a while since I've written something
Ben Feb 2020
Pushed to the side.
Faded into a lifeless mist.
Presence is gone.
Do I even exist?
It really ***** being ignored while being in the presence of a conversation.
Ben Sep 2018
I just want to be cared for
and I have to admit it
I want a free spirit
I've denied it for so long
what lingered was my need
to be honest
and believe
that I can't just live "me"
But enjoy life with other beings
I just want to be...
Cared for. Thought of...
I just want to be...
Loved.
Ben May 2018
Of having someone so close
And feeling their skin
Of having another being tell me that they love me
and it being genuine
Of feeling someone else's vibrant sense of living
and not being ******
I miss being in love with somebody
But I'm all right being me
Enjoying the people life brings
Ben Apr 2018
I'm sick of all lies
I've heard it all my life!
Just tell me who you like
Tell me the truth for what it is
I hate hidden things
I wish it'd be clear
If I was never "him"
Just some thoughts, I know my worth,but not knowing things from the people you love... hurts.
Ben Jan 2020
Just a few characters
And I feel like I know you.
I've had encounters before your beautiful eloquence.
And now I sit in poisonous pestilence.
Because I think love is in the air.
But love was never there.
Just being a hopeless romantic. Making scenarios and making poetry over someone else's work.
Ben Dec 2018
As we spend time together,
I want to learn your ticks
While my heart talks.
May our days pass
Every second well spent.
Make our love last
Even if our clock stops...
Restart.
Ben Sep 2020
You are my freedom
But
I miss my *******
And that is my sin
Ben Jan 2018
Tasting the sweet taste of every bitter tear
That’s swallowed up by my drowning heart
As it gasps for air
I drown it
In despair
Trying to shut out and numb its pain
I’d rather do it alone than ask for help
But my heart fights to live again
Asking to live again
Fighting to feel some pain
And FEEL again…
I was overwhelmed at the time and didn't want to cry. So, I suppressed my feelings. Then, I prayed. Felt relieved, because I was reminded that I do have feelings. Hiding them won't solve anything...
Ben Oct 2018
Listen to the cries of your soul
It may be what we need to find peace.
Listen.
Live.
Breathe.
Ben May 2019
Love scars.
I can taste the blood.
I can feel the pain you left.
Nonetheless, love scars.

Love scars.
I enjoyed the thought.
I smiled at the idea.
You have left your mark.
Nonetheless, love scars.
Ben Apr 2020
Matches constantly lit
No char
No ash

Unscathed

No fire
No ember
Just memories it gave
The poem is about false hopes and love. They have no effect sometimes, but are memorable.
Ben Apr 2018
Peace so soothing
Whispering in my ear
Kissing my cheeks
Saying things so lovely

I begin to feel less lonely
The lonely artist feels the same thing
Expressing notes
Beautifully
Music is a beautiful thing, because I feel less lonely. This is so, because I'm sure the artist behind the song expressed the same experience.
Ben Nov 2019
Brick by brick
I put up my wall
People peek and wonder what's wrong
They hand them over
One by one
Ignoring their cause
I look for foundation
There's none at all
Ultimately, being my own flaw
It's hard doing things alone, though things get done it's not always fun and sometimes finding fault in others is our own fault.
Ben Aug 2022
My life is a never ending dream

And reality keeps me awake
Ben Nov 2018
I've seen my empty self
Inside.
My outer layer cracks as I hold so much in
I began to let go...
It's been a while since I poured myself out
Being more open and honest
Loving more abundantly!
I let the muck inside seep out of my cracks
I feel broken.
At peace.
I feel so lovely.
I can no longer hold in the real me.
I feel like i can feel again.  I am becoming more honest with people and more importantly myself. I'm loving it!
Ben Apr 2020
We rarely talk
We've had memories
Some bittersweet

You're the song on repeat
And I want it to stop
Get it off my mind

No longer do I want this lullaby
The mind wakes up memories before you sleep and sometimes it's of old romances
Ben Mar 2018
Are beautiful...
Over the time you get to know them.
Are trouble...
Once you thought you knew them.
Are fun...
At the right moments.
Are understanding...
When you share your experiences.
Are confusing....
Because they can change in an instance.
All this to say that love can still remain.
Love can still remain.
Ben Oct 2021
My voice became constantly muffled
Whirring to your ears
Becoming inaudible

After abruptly making a heartbreaking statement

I had already started to fade the more I spoke
To make things straight
The imagery is about a breakup trying to find closure but the other side of the relationship is already beginning to forget you.
Ben Mar 2018
Beautiful is the bloom of the saccharine rose
Though it seems alone
It's learning how to grow
Its vibrant red shows the love
It wishes for others to know
Because it doesn't want to be known as the lonely rose
In the bush
Beautiful is the bloom of the saccharine rose
Ben Sep 2019
You're the poetry that became reality.

---------

You make my sensories wild.
Couldn't think of a name, perhaps you can help me out. It's been a minute since I've written and I love them both separately yet together. Made them within 3 hours of each other!
Ben Aug 2018
I have not found her yet.
Her character is in many of the ones I've met.
I feel her close, as if she were real.
I miss the electric beauty between fingertips and kiss.
I'm still in search of she that will bring bliss.
Ben Jul 2020
Lost in thought
Mind is gone
In search of solace
By breathing in
And moving on
Couldn't put a definite description, but it's about sometimes spacing out and thinking too much of the past that you can forget to just breathe. Sometimes finding solace is breathing in and moving on.
Ben Mar 2019
Wonderful sun-kissed skin
Blissful rushing winds
Birds chirping hymns
'Tis a beautiful spring!
Happy.
Ben May 2018
I'm tired of this ****
Seeing screens in all aspects of my life
Wanting internal seductions to be satisfied
Lust is killing me from the inside
God, help me from my own mind
I don't want my mind to be between my own thighs
I want to be liberated from this tie
Ben Apr 2019
You are my safe haven
And I hate it
The person I began to love is no longer who I want to be with.
Ben Jan 2018
Your vocal cords
Please my body
As I hear the different tones...

Hearing you is so soothing
My heart is filled with bottled expressions
But once enlightened, feel amazing!

Your voice is just so...
Beautiful.
Ben Oct 2018
Salty ocean breeze
Pleasing my nose's needs
Releasing dopamine
I feel its cool winds
Wrapping around me
At the beach, relaxing and unwinding.
Ben Jan 2018
These words may have been used
Several times in different
Songs
In many tones
And
Poems
But never from my own unique soul
And so I say these three little words
I love you
Learning to love people
Ben Feb 2019
The Poet is at a loss
For words that cannot describe
What had begun
And had no end
Until he found his friends...
Dead to him.
He then became numb, again.
Had to express what I thought I feel, but my body hasn't expressed it yet.
Ben Jun 2019
Your smile...
The smile of a thousand suns
Brightens my darkest of planets
In an empty universe
Ben Jan 2018
When the sun would go down
Your smile brought it back up

When the sun would go down
Even a smirk made it worthwhile

When the sun would go down
And the night came about
Your face in the midst of all adversities
Shone like stars
The poem is about being with a person in all moments of life: the good, the bad and the in between.
Ben Apr 2018
Tu alumbras las noches oscuras
Mi corazón comienza palpitar
Y el sentido es eufórico
Toma mas tiempo conmigo
Quiero mas tiempo contigo
Estoy practicando escribiendo mis poesías en Español. Espero que les gusten.
Ben Apr 2018
You light up my dark nights
My heart begins to beat
And the feeling is euphoric
Spend more time with me
I want more time with you
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