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Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
Dangling on the branch
Burned black
That hangs over the river
Of dreams

I fell into a nightmare
That splashed my face
Waking me -Opening me up-
To drown

It was a flash
-Of my eyes gone white,
A face that wasn't mine-
Before I pulled up to the bank
Beneath the black tree,
Below that burned branch, the curse upon me
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
I want to say it all
I want to free the birds
Trapped in the tower's hall

But I can't open
The windows anymore
I can't free
Them to fly
And no one can release me

But I'll smile
For now, because prisons aren't forever
And it's already been a while
Hi It's Haliyah Mar 2016
I'm just a whisper now,
just a thought hovering above the piano key,
just small smile before the bow.
Oh but the encore! Oh the glee!

I think maybe when I'm forty-
when my smile sets in-
I'll be old then.
But not now. For now I'm a song of freedom
from a choir of rebels. For now I am a symphony.

Today I am eighty. I am old again,
just a breath away from a hollow lung,
just a chip away from a smile set in stone.
How unfair, to be young once but old twice.
How disconcerting the down fall
after the curtain call.
Hi It's Haliyah Jun 2015
I know how to dance
In the pouring rain.
I know there's not a chance
I can fall without pain.

I don't know
The cruelty of scars,
But neither have I felt the glow
Of the midnight stars.

I know how to hold my breath
In the deep blues and grays.
I know that death
Is the only promise of my days.
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
Dark, damp with tears
Shivering, shaking with hunger

Alive, alone with the rest of the sky

His whispers are the moon
Soft
Illuminating

"Don't let them see you down,
Don't let Hope die
Before you draw your last breath."
Hi It's Haliyah Apr 2015
Draw a breath,
Getting closer now.
Let it go,
And you're practically hugging death.

All the time
Between getting it and letting it go
Won't slow your climb.
Sorry if you didn't want to know.

You can pick up your feet
When this is all finished and read,
And forget all about that friend you have to meet
As soon as you're dead.
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
I've seen it all a million times
I don't have the right to say it
But I'll hide it in the rhymes

You've broken up your heart
And tried to smash mine too
You don't want me hurt, but you don't want to be set apart,
The only one with a clue

You've given me
A faulty piece
The one you don't want, and never really see
The one that says we'll all just cease
To be
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2016
I'm scared
of their cannons,
the bullets they tuck inside their corpses.
I'm terrified
they'll take it all before the dawn.
That they'll put out the fire,
the world's last embers of desire.
That they'll pull the breath from our lungs
till we're all just metal machines
with poisonous tongues.
Oh, I'm always saddest
as the silence breaks.
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
Blank stare,
Poker face
The deadly silence in the air
Drives them out of place

Smiles slip
Like rain, like tears
They are in my grip
I know their sorrow, I know their fears
And I am helpless to watch their sanity rip

They pound me, they want to break me
Moaning about
The sunlight they want to see
But I cannot let them out

Let the pain turn
In for the night
Let it burn
Brilliant light is their last sight
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
The black-hole in my universe
***** me back each time I leave
My soul was born to that
Pavement

From day into night
Free as the starlight
The ache and the rhythm feel so right

The black-hole in my universe
***** me back each time I leave
My feet have pounded circles on the
Pavement
Hi It's Haliyah Feb 2015
I miss the shine before the rain
I hear the sobs before the pain
I feel the flame before the burn
And make mistakes before I learn

I know melody until a song
I know I'm right until I'm wrong
I know I'm innocent until I feel relieved
And I'll miss you long before you leave
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
Be my infinity
Take my past
And put in the ground

Be the darkness
When I go to sleep
And swallow me up

Be my escort
Into the end
And be gentle with my soul
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
Is running in circles worse
Than running in a square?
Is letting chaos disperse
Worse than carefully setting up a snare?

Am I speaking in tongues
Riddled with sores?
Am I to young
To say much more?

Is grasping at straws
Better than taking with bad cause?
Is rambling about life
Better than handing out my strife?
Hi It's Haliyah Feb 2015
There's a rhythm
To our breaks
          A momentary pause in our song
There's the words gone wrong
That still skip on the beat
          A stone on water

There's no hinting
To a hidden truth
Just a shard of words
         Written in red lipstick
So someone reflects
         Between each s p a c e
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
Black blood squeezed up from my heart.
Sometimes it’s caught, stuck in my throat,
Letting slivers of art
Elude me, and ink only drizzles off my tongue.

It's caught in my sight
The swirled swish of passions power
Goes long beyond the hour, sneaking past the night

And so it always seems to be
That rancid air will neither come nor leave my lung,
Because I am drowning –smiling, in the pages of an open sea.
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
This is not our fight
Take me on your arm
Let's dance by Night
Let's forget about the hurt and the harm

Darling come with me
Leave behind that growing sea
Come ride with me on the stars
Ignore those old battle scars

We were shrouded
By the clouds
And you placed on my lips, a sudden kiss
It was our last taste of bliss
Before you left me for War
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
Can I lose
What I never had?
Can I win what I choose
And still be mad?

Thorns pricking me
Blood will fall away,
Like love that exceeds the depth of the sea
And still refuses to stay

Can I steal
Their wandering eyes?
Can I feel
And never be the one that cries?

Thorns pricking me
Blood will fall away,
Like love that is free
And so, refuses to stay
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
Broken bones, broken glass
Bodies are buried, hearts reap ash
Life is a battlefield
We watch magic
We watch it rise
This magic fog that captivates our eyes

The drought comes slow, but the fire comes fast
We're burning alive!
We're burning alive!

Broken bones, broken glass
Bodies are buried, souls are sparking on the pavement
Life is a game
The silence is the glass between us
That refuses to shatter
Our tongues... hopelessly in tatters

The drought comes slow, but the fire comes fast
I'm burning alive!
We're burning this world!
Hi It's Haliyah Jul 2019
i can’t i believe i let you crawl inside my bones,
let you make a home
out of splintering self-worth and shaky breaths.
self-immolation,
i let you take me over like a fire.
burn up my words before you even listen.
use me up until there’s nothing left, just fuel for your addiction.
still i know i’m the sick one,
cause my hands are always shaking,
and i’ve got kaleidoscope vision.
cause sometimes i miss you for hours
and i replay every kiss, every lie,
until they start to taste the same.
cause it’s been a month, and i’m losing everything.
i think my keys are still in the door,
and i think i left my heart on your floor.
and i’m not saying i want you back, i’m just saying
i was doing fine with the wool over my eyes.
but you laid this house of suspicion on top of your lies,
built me in with no way out,
cause you’re a fire,
and my soul is only free once you burn it down.
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
I could be broken,
Beaten,
Burned....
But. I'm Not.

The mist could catch
The corners of my dress
You could see the sleeping beauty
But. You. Don't.

I could live lies,
Hiding,
Horrified....
But. I. Don't.

We could die,
Fading into nothing.
We could walk
On golden roads...
But we don't.
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
Are dismal days headed our way?
Or could the blue
Carnival part the grey?

Fluttering red ribbons of the red carnival.
Warm blood
That welcomed in
The oncoming flood.

Spinning whites
The back of your eyes
The toothless grin of a cackling clown
A white carnival of white lies
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
Echoes
From the last man
In this haunted mouth

Feathery pinks
Deepening blues
Hues
Leftover from when he awoke

Plump water drops
Piercing emerald blades
Passing time that never offered, never gave
He left it all a hollowed cave
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
Words are naught but ashes on our tongues
Blown behind us
From icy wind once buried in the lung

Fallen on the ground like snow
Footprints left untraceable
Children lost, no where to go

And I hope for them to reignite
A fire that we've long since put out
I hope the children choose to write
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
Overcrowded.
Words, melodies, dreams that I forgot.
Where can I
Fit you in?

Claustrophobic.
The walls are coming down
In the worst of ways.
How many days
Can I see that same frown?

Person.
One has me caught
In a snare.
How could I have thought
Love would be fair?
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
Leaving the blacks and whites and the grey
To a garden, blue and red and violet,
Where I should hope to stay

Escaping the calls of death
In melodies of flying birds
Who lend me breath

Wandering in a fantasy
Of fog, blue and red and violet,
When I can't bear to see
Hi It's Haliyah Apr 2015
Search.
Through the clouds and under stone.
The sorrow bird has found it's perch
Inside my heart, nesting with my broken bones.

Ocean.
I apologize for being so crystal clear,
So easily read,
And so easy to fear
If you're not already dead.

Turtle.
Curl up my head in the dark
While you make a worried remark.
Don't fret. I'm just training to die.
Hi It's Haliyah Dec 2014
Broken bones, discarded glass
Bodies are buried, hearts reap ash

Beaten black soles
Bleed into the world
Bright stars once hid there

Blazing fires where devil's roam
Burning hate, scorching screams claim home

Boiling skin, bubbling with words that recall days
Before the crisped carriage came
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
Dawn is coming so open your eyes
To the only gold that won't feed you lies

Dawn is coming so spread your arms
To the only love that does no harm

Dawn is coming so bloom
For the only one who's watching you,
In the only day untouched by gloom
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
A deadly heart
That opens to the sky
Beckoning with art
Vile beneath what our eyes
Have chosen to see

A deadly heart
That clamps with the moon
And rips us apart

A deadly heart
That cries with the rain
For a day
Without pain

My heart was taken by death
And made evil
To steal up your breath
Hi It's Haliyah Apr 2015
Dear life,
If you could permit me one request
-my first and very best-
If I could ask only one, it'd simply be:
Can you please inspire me?
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
Screaming in my mind,
Pounding in my heart.
I can't seem to find
Out why I'm falling apart.

I'm so tired of the rhymes
Falling like flame off my tongue.
I can't keep wasting time
Singing the same song I've always sung.

Run away
If you can't stay
With your soul.
But I'd be a fool
To make that hole.
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
Lost, like the birds
That pass me in the sky.
Forgotten, like the dreams
I loved until I opened my eyes.

A wisp of words
I meant to write.
A wonderland that
I wished to see.
None of it compared to him.
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
It's easy to lie,
Or let the words in my mouth
Fade. Just to let them die.

It's easy to forget
One day I'll be with them,
And that silence will be my last regret.

It's not easy to smile,
But for them I can try, because
What if we only have a little while?
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
I had words here before
They were just ramblings really
But still, they were more

I had words here
But why not just pretend they were never there
Why not rid myself of another fear

I had words, but they were put down, laid to waste
I had words, but they were disgraced
I had words, but they were erased
Hi It's Haliyah Feb 2015
My blank, unwavering sky
Against your whispers
Soft, illuminating

The sun closed up it's face
To let the night keep up it's deadly pace
We were without light
Without time and space

Age has pulled the skin
Tight across our bones
Accept the daily loss, the wins
Those smiles sunk us like stones
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
Louder. Louder. Louder!
Throw the blue glass
-the two that see-
Behind a curtain to
Listen. Listen... Listen

Please!
Fire burns inside me
Thinking of the crisp wind
Blowing stains of autumn
Patience.

Farewell.
Chipped white class
On a dark blue -black to me-
Tablecloth
Goodnight.
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
Faucet spit out your water
Cry out the cold
Now make it hotter

Make sure the flow
Is steady
But I don't want it slow

Make sure it comes out crisp and clear
Make it soft and known but still queer

I want it to be heard
But don't shout it
That takes from the beauty of words
Hi It's Haliyah Aug 2015
He said
the universe cannot feel,
so she
cried Fire with the stars,
and every breathing creature
tasted melody
in our rain.

She said
the universe cannot listen,
so he
fell silent with the sky,
and every breathless creature
heard
the flutter of her heart.
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
Free falling
Wings stretching
Birds calling

Tripping on my thoughts
Misguided by desire
Almost there, almost caught

Free falling
It's over now
Mother's calling
Death has kissed my brow
Fly
Hi It's Haliyah Apr 2015
Fly
You wouldn't notice him
Looming in the doorway
Or plastered to your wall

He's a little to dark
A little to ready
To annoy you with his constant buzz

They're high on jealousy to taste his life
It is poison for which we infants are to pure
To ever taste.
They don't pity his disease though it has no cure

So when it's over,
When I still love him, he'll step
Under his spotlight, and only I
Can cry.
Fog
Hi It's Haliyah Mar 2015
Fog
Fog does not crawl
Like people do
He doesn't beg on hand and knee

Fog does not conceal
What is looming there
He just let's it disappear

Fog does not revive
The demons and the dead
He just pulls them from your head
Hi It's Haliyah Dec 2014
BACKWARDs and forwards,
reeling in when THOUGHTS go out.
they can't give SOMETHING as small
as a goodbye letter with a mispeled word,
even when someone IS MISSING them.
they've taken SOMETHING and it
IS making you BREATHLESS.
you were only BROKEN apart
for a moment, for another kiss, but
he was searching for other HEARTS.
wipe your TEARS,
if not FOR yourself,
then certainly for THE
DEAD.
------------------------------------------------
BACKWA­RD THOUGHTS
SOMETHING IS MISSING
SOMETHING IS BREATHLESS
BROKEN HEARTS
TEARS FOR THE
DEAD
Hi It's Haliyah Mar 2015
Like fish
That tickle my toes
Like a wish
That no one else knows

I'm the girl who spent her last token
On a game that was broken

The bugs
That **** my blood
The shower without a plug
That bears the unbearable flood

I'm the girl who hid in her heart
Until he broke it apart
Hi It's Haliyah Mar 2016
My fingertips are frayed
like my favorite pair of jeans.
My hair is grey
like the faded pencil marks
in my old diary, my book of dying dreams.
My back is bent
like the crook in my couch
where I used to read a stack of books.

My mind
is missing like the word in an
incomplete
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
Give me wings
And I'll fly
Give me melody
And I'll be what every bird sings

Take my eyes
I'll be blind, I'll be wise
Take my feet
I'll crawl, I'll not accept defeat

Give me blue
And I'll be in the sky
Give me a day
And I'll say
Thank you.
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
At times I feel like glass
Clear, easy to look past
Growing weary I'm cautious
On well worn paths

At times I feel like glass
All is well,
But my life is connected by cracks

At times I feel like glass
Open on the ground, shattered
I am paying a price
With a torn heart, bruised and battered
Pain is simply a vice

After these times, I don't feel like glass
But instead blip on the world
Bold and happy enough -like them, but gone in a flash
Hi It's Haliyah Jun 2015
Splatter paint has stained
His sunlit skin
Blacks, blues, and grays chained
Him to his sin
Painted words have trained
Him on what could have been

His charcoal tears
Paved roads as they fell
And after years
I'm still under his spell
His streets still refuse to disappear,
Still lead me out of my hell
Hi It's Haliyah Jan 2015
I dropped my eyes,
And they shattered
At your feet.
My tongue is in tatters,
And never speaks no matter how hard it tries.
I have no sleeping flowers,
So it has to be enough
To take the ashen hand
That guides me to my grave.
Hi It's Haliyah Apr 2015
I hope the words
Will engrave themselves on my lips
So when my words are broken and blurred
I can have one last sip

I'm hardly ready to go with ease
Into your eternal keep
So just a moment please
This is my time to weep.
Hi It's Haliyah Nov 2014
We were young
When are heartbeats first begun

I let us fly
And you put
Stars in the sky

A storm had past
The drought came slow
And fire came fast

Burning winds raged but
We held on
We held on

We poured the water
So no one died
But I'd been slaughtered

We were old
When our hearts strained
And the words came cold
When the love we chased
Went to waste
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