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 5d Raven
Chari
Empty
 5d Raven
Chari
As broken clocks show the right time
Only twice a day
So does my heart
Beats twice a year

This hollow *****
Fathoms the grip of love
To capture its seldom
It hides in a cove

What have I become
To run
From the music of the sun
And the joy from the drum

Why do I cower
Try to find cover
Hide with great measure
From something that is not unnatural to me

A few beats left
Only a few beats left
Will it stop
Maybe I won't love again

Perhaps I shouldn't love again
It's beautiful yes
But the higher you go
The harder you fall

I may have fallen at my hardest
I know not how to stand
I know not how to weep
I know now how to move
I'm not really sure how this one goes, I wrote it when I had a heartache
 Feb 3 Raven
RMatheson
You left me discarded
a dead leaf drying further
and went on your pursuit
of attention and power.

Not even the acorn
resplendent in its beauty
could pull you back
into orbit.

Well four decades
have taught me well
and I have pursued
you long enough.

I can father myself,
so *******.
 Feb 3 Raven
souletry
I pick at my skin
to the sounds of our memories
I pluck the hairs that stand up
when I hear your name
I tear myself down in the love
I have for you
There's a leash around my brain
I'm tired of yanking it away
from the thoughts of your eyes
that wont ever look at mine
there's a cage around my heart
wired with hope
(where is the key?)
and while I'm filled with so much affection
I look at myself as a joke
once a queen, now a blue fool
I apologize to myself for being so cruel
It is not your fault you are tangled
in another soul
but I still blame myself
for always watering a plant
I should have sold.
my words are all over the place, just like my head. I'll make up for this one
Sons, you are pushing your mother to the limit.
Locked up, like it's the norm.
She out surviving everything that comes.

Sons, you are robbing, you are stealing, and this is very revealing.
You are not a survival of society.

Women, you must challenge yourself.
Challenge your man to avoid this or that.
Or the relationship not going to last.

Be like old school parents that told their child.

If you go to prison for crimes?
Don't expect a visit.

Too many society ills.
Where many men avoiding honesty and truth.
What decisions you make?
Will seek your image before many.

Don't get locked to start crying and complaining.
Just go the right path.
Sure, it's hard but it's the challenge to obey all laws.

Sure, a few we all fail.
But not everyone qualifies for bail.
Yes, prison is a living hell.
But you a party of society ills.
 Jan 27 Raven
Ashi Jain
There once was a little girl
Always smiling just perfect
Had friends, family just everything
She was loved by everyone else
She knew how to love herself
Surrounded by myths and sweet lies
day by day, year by year, time flies

Soon she grew up
By the expectations of society she was surrounded
Upon learning the awful truths left dumbfounded
Trying to fit in with everyone one else she forgot how to love herself
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A whisper, suspended,
in the breath of time—
You call me to pause,
to drink in Your beauty,
a nature unbound,
shifting through the veil of now.
Creation dances in Your eyes.
I am left undone,
consumed by wonder.

You pull the thread, stop.
The path, unwritten,
crumbles beneath my feet,
I stumble, without Your hand.
But there, in the space
between my breaths, You claim me.
How wondrous to be Yours—
in the pulse of life, a child in Your care.

Your voice, a ripple, “Go.”
The signal— clear as silence,
a knowing beyond knowing.
Peace not in the answers,
but in the stillness of surrender.
Joy blooms,
wild and untouched, when I listen.
When I obey, I am reborn
in the endless song of You.

Written in Your palms,
not just my path—
but the heartbeat of purpose,
carved in eternity’s skin.
I wait, unspeakable,
for the moment we meet.

In this breath,
I release my trust—
unfurling like an ocean,
no storm too wild,
no arrow too sharp.
Your love—
a masterpiece in fragments,
abstract, infinite,
a canvas that has no end.
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