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Frankie Newton Mar 2016
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Everyone gets a day
that may be shared
but it is theirs all the same

And on that day
it must be celebrated
the fact that the world is graced by their name

That, is how it should be

However this is not so
maybe it is because
the names are too plenty?

but it is tragedy
that yours
must vanish among the many

but that, is how it is.
505
Frankie Newton Jul 2016
505
Dear friend,
shame we must meet
I do love you
and your company

Only you know
what it is like
Only you
are my soul, solace

But it is
terrible
that I
have need of you

were it that we could meet for another reason,
alas.
Frankie Newton Mar 2016
Oh you,
Consume me
Set me aflame

I want it

Send me to ruination
Destroy everything that I am
Every fiber

Please

Take this dance
With me
And let us

Disappear in our own destruction
Frankie Newton Jan 2017
Bsisknsd
love
Zbcncnck
intelligence
chsiwowubdnd
triumph
Shiaosna­ soso
effort
Hahsiiandnd
nothing.
Frankie Newton May 2016
i think,
about everything
every little thing
wether it be the way I walk
Or how best to converse

So much that I unconsiously remove myself from the world and everything in it

Yet even then
I end up thinking,
About nothing at all
Throwing thought aside

And depending on feeling alone
Frankie Newton Jul 2016
Swagger, swagger
walks in the man

oil
flair
pomp

Swagger, swagger
where is the man

with the long hair
and sad eyes?

who sang, staring
into your soul

Swagger, swagger
is all he is now

or maybe,
that is all he can muster.
Frankie Newton Jul 2016
they say
to tell a happy story

all one has to do
is end it early

and s-
Frankie Newton Jul 2016
I am
The word, hanging
At the tip of your tongue
Where I belong

Inescapable
Sought
Wanted

Lost.
Frankie Newton May 2017
history doesn't repeat, it rhymes
through paper and lies
blood and wine
sins of people who don't know why
you and I
and those who die
and other such misremembered lines
Frankie Newton Jan 2017
I have worlds upon worlds of words to use on you


ngunit


may mga bagay sa mundo na dapat lang na gawin gamit ang iyong sariling dila

at

ikaw

at

ako

ay dalawa sa mga ito

tayo,

aking iniirog.
Frankie Newton Mar 2016
I’m sending you off
My dear
To beyond the sea

A place where
I have long have not been
It is a much different place now

Unknown…

My dear
I know you are strong, intelligent
And resourceful

But above all, I trust you

Be the person I raised you to be
Be the person I know you can be
Be all my hopes and dreams

Be safe…

As you set off, beyond the sea
Frankie Newton Nov 2016
blink

the stars
the surface of
far galaxies
the touch
of a lover
the sigh
of stolen moments
laughing
at imagined conversations

this

you

blink*

I'm sorry,
I saw the stars and of things I don't think I shall ever see or feel.

you were saying?
Frankie Newton May 2017
spinning spinning
spira-ling spiraling
away and away
upwards upwards
downwards every which way
wherever wherever whenever

whatever

it matters it does it does oh,
for me for me
it matters it matters it does still
for you for you

no matter.

oh oh oh it does it does
Frankie Newton Mar 2017
to the moment when you lost your name
And remained only you

The moment when I knew
Caught by you

the moments when I'd see
Through to you

By permission
Or happenstance

Lucky or hubris
To have you

Lost in the stars and fire
That were your eyes

Eaten alive
With a smile
Frankie Newton Mar 2016
I have looked up at you
up above where you lie
Idolizing you

You have been my muse
pushing me, to heights
never before reached

But now as I rise
above and beyond
I aim

To achieve the unthinkable
to rise higher and higher
So that one day

You will look up to me.
Frankie Newton May 2016
Leave it all on the floor
your blood
your sweat
your tears

Leave it all
your hopes,
and dreams

bare your soul
in all its awful ****** glory

take everything
cheers
jeers

every cry of exhaustion
of pain
of fear
of disappointment

whatever they throw at you
take it
to be great is to risk weakness

retaliate
a thousand-fold
every movement
every effort
every waking moment

in stark defiance
of insurmountable odds
of a defeat that seems destined,
of odds against.

Regret is for tomorrow
and this moment

isn't.
Frankie Newton May 2016
Creature comfort
Creature comfort
Make life easier for me please

Free me from my slavery
From impulse that enraptures
and acts born of passion

Acts that take me where no rational man would go

But were it to be so
Humanity
Would posses only the mind
And not the heart

And then what would we be?
Frankie Newton Jan 2017
i have this pebble

and with it

I'd like to build a mountain with you
Frankie Newton Jun 2016
You'll never know
how much you're worth

you'll never know
until you promise

to throw yourself
body and soul
into every endeavor

you'll never know
who you inspire

you'll never know
how much you radiate

you'll never know
how many you touch

by just being.



you'll never know.
Frankie Newton May 2016
when the killings start
and bodies pile up

when people disappear
never to be heard from again

when the freedom fought so hard for
is silenced forever

when the streets run red with blood
and the night filled with the cries of grieving mothers

when this all happens
and you wonder why

know that
this was our choice
#philippines #elections #godhelpusall
Frankie Newton Aug 2016
a picture
in the mind

laughing
at imagined conversations

the perfect
song

tears
over me

get out
get out

out.
Frankie Newton Apr 2017
you walk and talk
look and gawk
trying not to balk
and failing

walking
and seeing
looking
above

the shadow
that brings you low
makes you bow
in the shadow of giants

you lie.
Frankie Newton Mar 2017
The King worked tirelessly
so that he may be kind

The King worked tirelessly
and so he thought he was kind

He worked and worked
for the people he thought

but honestly he'd think
it was for him to be kind

and so he lay on his bed
life ebbing from his head

and thought,
maybe now I am kind

but the people remembered otherwise
thus history said otherwise

and so The King
never existed at all
Frankie Newton May 2016
The wet smell
that comes before the rain
permeates the air

slowly it comes
little at first
then all at once

some find comfort in this
huddling in their rooms,
in their blankets and sweaters

others also look forward to its end
waiting for the sun
for the rainbow after the rain

but no
this time it's just mud, cold
and frogs after rain.
Frankie Newton Apr 2016
Perhaps the greatest tragedy
Of humanity

is that for humanity
to see beauty

in all its entirety
humanity

has to endure tragedy
Frankie Newton May 2016
Where the sun sets
just for you

Where even the tiniest apartment
can compare to the Sistine

Where you can't say it's picturesque
for you are in it

Beauty not found in reality
yet a reflection of it
Frankie Newton Feb 2017
I look beyond and see
everything unknown to me

from atop this wall
I think of the fall

to where no man, should be
to the land of danger and mystery

I looked at my sword and shield
past to those ominous fields

I was nothing
just my fists and spirit I could bring

a man
a gnat, before the fan

of desire,
turned to fire.

and so I laughed, and there I go
forward past, all I know
Frankie Newton Jan 2017
empty wallet

empty pockets

empty chair in front of me

surrounded by love

and 12 pieces of hot wings

this must be

happiness?

contentment.
Frankie Newton Mar 2016
Oh it is sad
To be happy
To celebrate
Without you

The smiles
The laughter
The merriment
Cannot feel as true as they should

But perhaps the worst is
Despite my grayness
Despite the sorrow
It could be worse

For you
Frankie Newton Apr 2017
balked

at the

lanky
droopy

long-haired
fingers flitting and tapping about on a guitar

opened his mouth
closed his eyes

and there galloped forth

a song of god

gawk
i
Frankie Newton Dec 2016
i
the pieces
all of them
a tiny sordid amount
of millions
all on the floor
bloodied hands
and pieces
in*

a completely and utterly
futile exercise


"oh you know"

"the usual"

the brightest smile you'd ever see
Frankie Newton May 2016
yet you are under my shadow
Frankie Newton Jan 2017
Lalalaloveyou

If I saw

Your smile

with someone

with something?

It matters not

All I want is that smile

of yours.

Cause you were never smiling

I never could,

you never could?



With me.



lalalaloveyou

forever and always
Frankie Newton Mar 2017
lies my love my love
dared

Dared did we
Or maybe just me

grabbing in vain
At things, matter

Never and beyond
Never did we

Have or get
Malarcy

Only
Fragmented so-called essence through prisms

honestly however
only hopes and dreams

ideas
Were we

Are.
Frankie Newton Feb 2017
I saw the stars

saw the sun

saw the world

and turned my back

to come back

to you

but you're not here anymore

but at least the world is still here

not for me but

at least


the stars do seem dimmer however...
Frankie Newton Jul 2016
I love you
I love you

till the ends of the earth

I love you
I love you

stupidly so

you know I do
do you?

At least I hope so

for sure, however
I know you don't love

you

I love you
I love you

but it's not my presence

that makes you know it
that makes you feel it

it would be my absence

not I love you
not I'll be here for you

and that

you,

love me.
Frankie Newton Jan 2017
I want to love

to love

not to be

less lonely

but I love and I love

from the comfort of vainity

lovesad.
Frankie Newton May 2016
From the outside
looking at my country

do not laugh
do not mock
do not decry this
as the collective scream

of a nation gone mad

understand that
this is not a choice born of madness

but rather
this is a choice born of desperation

a cry

of every mother who can't feed her children
of every father working multiple jobs, just to provide
of every child born into a suffering they will never rise from
of every person who has to beg on the streets

hoping, begging for things to change
Frankie Newton Apr 2017
mundainity
miracouloosely
mirroring
grabbing
sinking
our view
of you
what is true ?
not this
but i wish
that that
was this- all old hat.
Frankie Newton May 2016
It hurts less now,
I'm sorry

It hurts less now,
a smile

I'm doing well, I'll say
if you ask

I could be better, I won't say
for it's better that way

I can live again, thankfully
but I wish

that I wasn't leaving.
Frankie Newton Jan 2017
they played that song

and everyone danced

it was lit

but it was only you

only you

love always leaves ruins in its wake my dear.
Frankie Newton Jun 2016
I am enraptured,
completely and utterly

caught

in this moment
in you

the beat shakes the air
my heart is stolen
and follows it

time slows achingly
slow enough to catch,
every moment

but not enough to savour,
not enough to appreciate nor inscribe,
fully into my being

yet even still
my heart soars
as now it knows

that it still can.
Frankie Newton Mar 2017
precipice, precipice
on this we lie
risking one piece

the most important
you and I
this, the now, the moment

never will
the stakes be so high
or low- shrill

indignant, arrogant, honest
fear, love, pain-why?
all we know is that this is the best

that we can do

and so we go

adieu.
Frankie Newton Mar 2016
I live on the precipice
Leaning in over the edge
And I see

All the wonder
All the splendor
That we will achieve

But it is not my place to take us there
To where our potential lies
To undergo the journey

No

I am relegated
Bound by time
To be an observer

Never has it been so ruinous to be alive now
I was not the never-was
I was the never-could
Frankie Newton Sep 2016
why is the last light, that anyone ever sees their own?

because everyone else's is brighter.

for the burden that seems lighter

only to burn in one's own fire
Frankie Newton Mar 2016
Pools
beneath the surface
never to be seen

Yet

Glimpses of the depth
ever so fleeting
present themselves

Yet

how does one know
if these are true?
Only you can say

Yet

maybe one day
I will see it too, if you permit
but that day has not come

yet.
Frankie Newton Mar 2016
I wonder
How does it feel?
To keep grasping at it
Yet never the real thing

For you are too afraid

You dance the dance
Know the movement
But again I wonder
With ache in my heart

If you know the warmth that should come with it?

Maybe one day
You’ll come to know it
That rush and loss of breath
And nevermore

Will you have to pretend
Frankie Newton Jan 2017
I headed

Waiting in line

Filled with my usual jests

Yet this one fought back

At my every push and twist

Enticing

Curious-ity

Realed in

****** in

Out of choice or ?

Climbing

Building

******

Zenith

Oh God.

I ****** up

This is not what I meant

Tragedy

Mistakes

Broke

Please?

Relief

Peace

Sigh,

Regret?

.
..

...

Good thing then

That rollercoasters

End




I headed...
Frankie Newton May 2017
it's alright, it's alright
it's fine and dandy
come over here, give me a handy

nothing hurts
can't complain but... hey...
it's not enough, anyway

I'd tell more
but there's not much to say
so I'll be gone, thanks anyway
Frankie Newton Mar 2016
See the forest for the trees
I told myself
You’ve been staring at the same one
All your life

Out of all the trees you could see
You had to see this one
And only this one

For all the lush green pines
The strong old oaks
The verdant maples
You see this… thing

And it ruins
It sours
It burns
Everything good

See the forest for the trees
Please
And maybe then…

Maybe you’ll be alright
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