Greg Dempsey

Greg Dempsey Dec 2017

Rain

Drips drops
Yellow boots, puddle hops
Drips drops
Natures' sound, reality stops
Drips drops
Child's laugh, parent flops
Drips drops

Greg Dempsey Dec 2017

Another

Why do you smile at me?
I'm just another face in the crowd
Why do you look but can not see?
I'm just another guy trying to be proud
Why do you become my friend?
I'm just another guy that'll fall for you
Why do you stay close till the end?
I'm just another one to get hurt too
Why do you tell me how you felt?
I'm just another soul always there
Why do you let your love melt?
I'm just another man who will care
Why do you push me away?
I'm just another, always the other
Why do you tell different each day
I'm just another, why do you bother
Why do you play game without know?
I'm just another echo of an echo
Why do you convince me so?
I'm just another fool who alway shows
Why do you, I'm just another.
Another friend, another crush, another shoulder, another brother, another student, another employee, another person, another teen, another, another, another, another. An....an...an....other

Dec 2017

JG Fletcher

How Come?

Why is it
That creatives like us
Gain popularity
A following, so to speak,
By churning out love poems
Lines of our past, often failed
Relationships and semi hookups

I know I am guilty of this
You caught me red-handed
But I'm inquiring because
Sometimes, the best food for thought
Is found in poems, not about love
But about failure, success, pity
Growth, maturity, lack there of

Maybe, indulge me
Maybe the best pieces of work
Are outside the realm of human intimacy

Written at a Starbucks while sitting outside, after crafting some weird abstract poem to paper.

#spring #march #foodforthought #metapoetry

Greg Dempsey Dec 2017

Broken

Stuck in the shell I can't shed
Help me, I'm locked in my head
No one can hear me scream, not even plead
Cutting my arms, watching them bleed
I can't take much more, someone end this pain
Ready to take a bullet to the brain
It too much to bare, just let it end
I beg and cry, but the message doesn't send
Louder and louder, but no one can hear me scream
Too much pain, too much, please is this just a dream
No one can help me now, I'm all alone
They can't hear my painful tone
Someone please, hear my cries
I yell and yell, but no one tries
I guess no one cares, no one is listening
My tears roll down glistening
I'll shut up and put on a smile
I'll walk a broken glass mile
Just know the smile I wear is to hide
I am eternally broken inside

Greg Dempsey Dec 2017

Phase

Everyone said it would pass
"This isn't you" "It won't last"
I don't care what they say
This is me, this is today
I don't plan for tomorrow
Or look back at yesterday, so?
Nothing is truly s phase for a person
we aren't a moon phase, we're its sun
Like the moon wouldn't have its phases
Unless it had a sun for its changes
We're the sun, permanent and same
What you call a phase, i call came
It came and stayed, i did and will do
What I am or will be is not a concern to you
I am me, not a haze
This is who I am, not a phase

Dec 2017

Hannah

My Woodpecker

Those little pecks,
That little spark.
The little tears,
That strain my heart.

My woodpecker you were,
My woodpecker you will be.
And dead you were.
And dead you will be.

Silence it what I got,
Not the simple pecking.
No more late night talks.
No more simple chatting.

I miss you to death.
You were my best of friends.
Death is what got you.
Goodbye my old friend.

My dead woodpecker.

Greg Dempsey Dec 2017

A Letter For You

Dear You,

     I'm not sure who is reading this, but i love you I also hate you. You definitely know me if you have this letter. I love you because you know me, you took the time out of your life to be apart of mine. I hate you 'cause you were there, you were there when i was ready to end it. I love you, and i hate you, for not letting me go through half the dumb **** i could've done. Thank you for all you've done for me. I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for you. I love you, but I also hate you.

                                                                        -Yours Truly
                                                                                 Me