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257 · Aug 2015
wayfare
erin walts Aug 2015
Stranger living in this
world all alone

I know your journey
Is strenuous
Long

But don't ask me to
And please don't call

Just keep on walking
Ramble on
255 · Sep 2017
Recycle
erin walts Sep 2017
The sky and the trees
Are plastic

And so is my heart
And my mind

I keep trying to recycle them
Turn them into
Something better
Something new

The trees become my heart
And
The sky becomes my mind

But

They're still made of plastic

Hard and invaluable
254 · Jul 2017
Brushing teeth
erin walts Jul 2017
Maybe to disassociate
Is the only way
"Like maybe that's alright
Maybe it's okay"

But
Then it all hits you at once
Speeding bullet subway train

Your body has been void for years
Your organs have already melted, rotted, and withered
away

And when that happens
There's no going back

You wake up in the morning
Every morning
and
Instead of brusing your teeth
You look in the mirror and ask yourself

Who the **** am I?

And your brain goes empty

So.
utterly.
*******.
bleak.
251 · Jul 2017
Picky
erin walts Jul 2017
Peculiar and particular
Is how many describe my taste
For if you are not
Perfect
You are a ******* waste.
246 · Nov 2016
Tricks are for Kids
erin walts Nov 2016
The white hare smiles.
It smiles with the smile that a girl ought to smile.
The hare is fast enough to outrun it's predators,

I am not.

And even then, sometimes the fastest hare is caught.


White becomes pink
Pink becomes red


These are the colors of my brain splattered on the plastered
wall.

The hare is alive.

I am dead.
245 · Oct 2015
Truth
erin walts Oct 2015
Life is just a theory
Every break through
Every thought and idea
Every problem and solution
It changes
We don't know
Until we know
So I will forever never believe
The "truth"
240 · Jul 2015
porcelain
erin walts Jul 2015
Shatter that glitter
Dark blue glass
Christmas bulb
And I'll pray they all go out
All at once
Leaving eyes blind as they should be
Blind as you should be
Sitting there with your nothing
Muttering to yourself in the pitch
Saying something about how I don't understand
And
something about how I lie
If you were awake
at least half as awake as you say you are
It wouldn't take so long to pull the sleep out of your eye
It wouldn't take so long
even in the dark
to see
240 · Aug 2016
The lie
erin walts Aug 2016
You were created from
nothing

Born
Into a world
Where people believe you need
Something

To
Be
Happy.
231 · Jun 2017
When she breathed or smiled
erin walts Jun 2017
Her body was made of frosted glass
You could see all of her muscles and tendons working inside in perfect unison like clock gears
when she breathed or
smiled

Somehow

This made you believe she was human
225 · Nov 2016
Modern art
erin walts Nov 2016
I don't have much of a picture to paint

You think I'll never be enough
Because I can't relate

Artists have been famous for much less

Because sometimes it's the simple ones that are the

Best
218 · Aug 6
20 Late
erin walts Aug 6
They all say I need to act my age
I’m so sad I’m full of rage
Everything just stays the same
They can’t believe my mistakes;
“Find a man who’s name you’ll take
And pray to god every day”
“Start a career or be a star”

They told me I could do anything
But I haven’t gotten very far

No money for college
No beauty for fame
No personality
No brain

I’m almost 30 now
Too old to start again

When will it all fall into place?
Am I praying to god?
Or am I praying to space?
Guess I’m back writing bad poetry again <3
217 · Oct 2016
The end.
erin walts Oct 2016
My doctor asks me
"how are you feeling?"
From one to ten
"Are you depressed?"
"Are you happy?"
"Is this the end?"

I say
"I am not sure how I am feeling, but today the sky is a dark despondent stormy cloud gray and this could be the end or the beginning of something new."

I'm never sure how I feel anymore since I've fallen in love with you

They serve me cold liquid imitation eggs for breakfast
And my mattress is solid plastic
I am only allowed outside at certain times
There are no windows so patients cannot
escape
We're all on suicide watch
When the night gets late

The girl next to me asks me if I want a demon
To be my friend

I already have one.

And

This

is the end.
209 · May 2015
Night and Day
erin walts May 2015
You and I
Me and you
we all keep going
living our lives
believing everyone in the world are
like night and day
but believing this
I do suppose
makes us
same.
187 · Jun 2016
Simple
erin walts Jun 2016
You have never loved
me

You never will love
Me

Yet

I will always love
You
129 · Sep 7
Sold my Soul to Sorrow
erin walts Sep 7
Sell my soul to sorrow
Artist’s lines I borrow
Worried about tomorrow
crushing bones of hollow
on this path I follow

Straight and narrow
No turns left or right
I ride into the night

Not a chance to wallow
These pills I’ll never swallow
Worried about tomorrow
Sold my soul to sorrow
119 · Aug 6
the rain
erin walts Aug 6
Does everything happen for a reason?
Is that why you’re screaming?
Does god only answer your prayers?
Or does he come to all in the rainy season?

"If you ask him to do something he will"
-If you are good

but what if you are the baby bird dead outside on the sidewalk
all because your parents chose to move into an apartment

I’m stuck wondering where God’s heart went

Like he loves watching people
run in the rain
......Dodging hail ..... .....
like a sick game

the rain

that nourishes the soil
waters the crops
and feeds everything

But, why make us thirst?
Why make something so beautiful hurt?
-to anyone who's ever told me "there's nothing you can do but pray."
erin walts Sep 7
I’m losing my money
Every Single Day
Put on retinol cream
so your wrinkles fade

Catching bees with honey
Every Single Date
Take your medication
so that you lose the weight

What will it take to be perfect?
Every Single Night
Practice your girlish accent,
flirting with the eyes

Know where to put your hands
Know how to catch the light
Smile more
You’re a girl, You’ll be alright
79 · Sep 7
counting calories
erin walts Sep 7
Maybe I’ll eat that
Maybe I’ll eat these
Try to forget
but you’ll never be free
76 · Aug 6
boulomanie
erin walts Aug 6
I’ll put you on a pedestal
You’re so pretty
You’re so perfect
You’re so cool

I’ll write you a million poems
About the sunlight sparkling in your brown hair

But you’ll never care
because you weren’t the one who put it there

Bubbling up floating around my rose scented mind
Is the daydream of you
and your smile
and your eyes
I’d see them more if you could actually just take the time

But no,
no you’re not really mine

So you fade into the humid morning sticky and sore
Keep me floating forever never reaching the shore
I guess I’ll see you in passing sometimes
(on a good day)
maybe this winter or maybe next may
he's got a 9 to 9
65 · Aug 6
rip
erin walts Aug 6
rip
Rip off the mask
To see what’s underneath

Not a woman or a man
Who am I, if I am not me?

Floating abyss surrounding
Fleeting moments abounding
I’ll look into the mirror again
So long until my face changes shape

Here I wait
For my reflection to scream back my name
(but it never does)

Is my body just a shell for my brain?
Empty and hollow and vain?
Pin ****** Pain
Ugly
     Horrid
             fat and lame

No one shall see me
For I am no one also

And no one could be me
But I never thought so
This one needs to be rewritten.
Some parts of it I don't really like, but that's okay.
erin walts Aug 6
Wouldn't it be heavenly,
if there wasn't so much wrong with me?

I'll never be a mother
I'll never be a wife

The way that I have suffered
I am bound to take my life

Could you just let me lay down for a while
in your great grass green eyes?

He'll brush my tangled hair
like there's no other girls there
Turn on the television
Make me blush and spinning

It still isn't enough
to curb the appetite
Trapped inside the sadness
but the sadness is inside

All of the ugly people
who have dimmed my light
try to cure me
like a disease

I'm still stuck on empty
with no gasoline
60 · Aug 6
Thermodynamics
erin walts Aug 6
How do I light a fire within me
A slave to society - the world ending
Like the fires in LA burning to entropy

How can I create vivacity
A shell in the sea - intricate and empty
Like Einstein said conservation of energy
For nothing is created nor destroyed

I’ll always be hollow and void

How can anyone stand to flicker a spark
A broken child - numb in brain and heart
Like a manufactured malfunction
Broken from the start

To be born alone is to die alone
Without a mother, a father, or home

For nothing is created nor destroyed
I’ll always be hollow and void

— The End —