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Elena Rosi Jun 20
Oh you’re disappointing!
You’re to blame!
You’re a failure,
what a shame!

A little secret though,
Is that you’re not.
A big secret is that
you don’t know.

You’re amazing
You’re brilliant,
Yes, I’m praising
You.
You the failure
You the crap.
You the human
You the light.

You made a mistake,
Like we all do.
It may feel too late,
But no, not for you.

Fix you’re wrongs, get up
Because you’re only a failure
when you give up.
So cheer up, smile.
Would you, Lyle? I’m  Writing this for you and for who needs it, hope I helped.
I'm not depressed
I'm not depressed.
Is it too complex?
I just need solace...

I just had a bad day
Just had a bad week.
There's always a way,
But sometimes I'm weak.

I know how to smile,
I've done it through pain.
But walking on fire
is not really a gain.

If I don't eat,
It's cause' I don't wan to.
If I lay down,
It's cause' I want to.

If I draw and not write
If I watch and not talk.
Doesn't mean I'm not right.
I can stop running, and walk.

I'm living life, I fall.
But that doesn't mean
I'm not giving it my all.
Feeling sad or weird a couple days, doesn't mean I'm depressed. Give it a break. Do what you want. Then come back to life. That's my plan :)
Elena Rosi Jun 12
Dry tears go down her cheeks,
She wipes some, others still sneak
Down her skin and downriver.

If only I could give her
A reason her collar stays dry.
If only I could tell her why,
Life forces weakness goodbye.

Why else would she laugh,
When she wants to cry?
Why else would she rise,
When she wants to fall?

As she gasps to breathe—  
because crying steals the air.
She turns around and sees
That life just isn’t fair.

If only she knew,
dry tears are real,
She knows all,
yet not her own fear.

If only she knew,
we share the dream:
That every person,
should have a gleam.

She doesn’t know that,
she stands to help.
She doesn’t know that,
She laughs to cry,
Her tears are dry,
And still she tries.
From 1️⃣ to 1️⃣0️⃣
How much does it hurt?
I’ll say a negative ten.
For I haven’t  learned.

I let things go by
Saying, “I’m okay.”
Not letting me cry,
Not even today.

So I’ll keep on pretending
It’s the easiest way.
Lies, lies, lies,
Until truth I say.

I couldn’t lend
Myself a hand
Thus, here I send:
From 1️⃣ to 1️⃣0️⃣
How much does it hurt?
(Oh, let’s speak the truth!
When will we learn?)
Elena Rosi Jun 7
Good night, wry smile.
Let your poker face rest.
This might take a while,
But come back to sense.

Bring back that you,
Who falls once, falls twice
and still tries.
Bring back that you,
You’re a pearl of great value.

Good night good night,
Protective script.
You’re a warrior of light,
So act like it.

Please say good night,
Or at least say good morning.
To those dreams still hoping,
Hoping that one day,
You’ll wake up.

But if you don’t say
good night, good morning,
When is that day gonna come?
Give your self a break, from whatever it is you’re doing. Feel peace with those around you and yourself. At least for a brief moment, when the sun is rising, or the moon coming.
Elena Rosi Jun 9
A poem so long,
A poem so short.
A poem of love,
A poem of hate.

A poem above,
All that's fake.
A poem that debates
A poem with sake.

Why do humans complicate,
things that should not be?
Is it because we're humans?
Doing things that are wrong,
And still pretend to be superman.

Is it because we can't bare
Doing things that are right,
And still be treated unfair?
Humans, humans, humans, we're hilarious. Aren't we? (In a good, and bad way. Depends on you which one you chose.)
Elena Rosi Jun 9
That’s not where
it went wrong

People hurt,
Loving hurts,
Caring hurts.

But please, I beg
But please, I plead.
Keep going…

Keep caring,
Keep loving.

You’re not one to fit
But you’re not the flaw.
Don’t over think it
Because you’re worth all.
Trusting, loving, caring for someone is not the problem. The problem is, after falling, we hide ourselves, because it hurts. But don’t hide the sun that’s meant to shine. Know you’re worth✨
Elena Rosi Jun 19
I needed you to know.
It’s not just an expression,
It was never perfection.
Love isn't touch,
Three words aren't much.

But the feeling they convey,
can brighten someone's day.
I happened to come your way.
I'm a complete stranger,
But a kind word or two
shouldn't be a sin:

I love you.
You're cherished.
You're wonderful.
One day they'll see that too.
God Bless you.
It was more than two words, I got carried away. 😅
Elena Rosi Jun 18
I broke a glass cup.
It shattered in my feet,
I stared as it fell, for
It didn’t cut deep.

I wanted water,
Just a cup of water
I was very busy
being the eldest daughter,
I ignored feeling dizzy
And kept cleaning.

I didn’t mean to, but I broke you.
You can’t serve water any longer
With a plastic cup I wonder:
Did I crack first—
Or did I become my mother?
It’s not really about a cup. It’s about the glass that was once a cup. When I don’t pay attention to myself, I end up like that. Take care of yourself, and do what you really want ✨✨
Elena Rosi Jun 15
I’m tired of hatred
I’m tired of racism
I’m tired of anxiety
Im tired of depression.

I’m too tired to be tired.
The perfect irony, though
I’m tired of the dark,
When I live in the light.

I’m supposed to be a well
In the hot weather.
I’m supposed to be a candle,
And make your day better.

Where have I gone?
Where have I gone?
I’m too tired to think
I did something wrong.
Perhaps I can’t be happy all the time, even when everything around me is fine.
Elena Rosi Jun 14
We’re more alike
than what we think
I certainly didn’t have to blink,
I already knew my heart
was made of ink.

Ink that helps me trace
words almost extinct.
In this community
Problems don’t shrink,
But our strength doesn’t sink.
Writing is not a hobby, it’s a way of life ✨✨
Elena Rosi Jun 27
There’s eleven players in soccer
I’m eleven in one, mother f*

I’m a goal keeper
And a striker
I feel as I go deeper—
I couldn’t be blinder.

We feel the pain
And still, we play.
A broken leg,
And still, we tread.

You’re a goal keeper
Striker and center field
But you won’t give up.
Do we have a deal?
I don’t play soccer lol. It just feels sometimes like we play a game alone. But we never face anything that we’re not strong enough to overcome. I feel you! (The curse word couldn’t be left out. It rhymes 🤷‍♀️)
Usually we’re the ones lost.  
To get back on track we must:
Admit that we are.

We’re an exploded star.
Turning into stardust
People are so far—
100 million years light.
They still see us shine.
Not even we see our fight.

It takes courage
to admit the fall
For people used
to resist it all.

You’re not weak for falling,
You’re weak for not recognizing you’ve fallen.

Oh star, you’re growing dim.
But little is that a sin.
Lost the battle, not the war.
Rest today, and then you’ll soar.
Elena Rosi Jun 27
How do you change the world,
When you’re changing it by doing what the world tells you to do?

Don’t let the world change you,
When you were born to change the world.
Elena Rosi Jun 6
Lotus, let your petals fall,
One by one until you loose them all.

Butterfly, waste your ten days of life
Do not migrate, don’t try to thrive.

Bird, don’t fly, don’t dare to try
To reach for the vast open sky.
Stay nearby, please abide.

Child, don’t grow, don’t seek to know
What will happen if you let go
Just a little of that rope.

One that so tight you hold
Why are you taking their hope
To be better, to break the mold?

Let them be better than you

Let them fall and rise,
Let them win and loose

You did you
Let them
Beat you.
Parents who aren’t bad, but who don’t understand. A little push from me— hope it helps you, super parents✨✨
Elena Rosi Jun 10
Life is bitter
Life is bitter.
"Hate the sin,
But love the sinner."

You're aggravated
You're devastated.
Who's there to blame?
You blame yourself
For not being the same.

It wasn't their fault
You loved more.
It wasn't their fault
You cared more.

You understand
You don't resent.

Life is bitter,
But still sweet.

Because you're in it...
Because of our big hearts, a lot of us have trouble. Am I wrong?
Elena Rosi Jun 19
Perhaps it was all a play.
If one obnoxious day
I decide to walk away,

Will someone hold my hand and say,
“You’re better than this, please stay.”

I know more colors than grey.
I’ve just forgotten to dance in the rain
I’ve forgotten to smile through pain.
I know there’s more colors than grey
So I’ll try to remember today.
P.S. it was a nice challenge to try and make all the rhymes with grey. I encourage you to try it out with any word of your choosing 😊
Elena Rosi Jun 21
In the sky, dark and vast
I hear a dim star ask:
“Why am I alone
In a place so cold—
Is this what they call galaxy?
I want a place to call home,
But that feels like fantasy.”

Is it cold? And dark?
“Yes. All day long.”

Ah! Then why don’t you shine
Through the **** cold night?
You’re dim, not gone—
Just blurred by fright
For I know there’s more stars in sight.

If you shine your light
A second will too
Then a third, and a fourth—
And it won’t just be you.

You’re a beautiful star.
Don’t be afraid, ashamed
Or distressed, of who you are.
This is the  thing I forgot, that inspired Word of air. I knew I would remember, eventually.
Nothing
Unless
Monday to Monday something
Bothers you.
It’s not really just nothing. Because that type of feeling is the most frustrating and awful part of pain. Feeling numb— getting cut by the thorn so many times, it just doesn’t hurt.
Elena Rosi Jun 10
Like a lonely orchid,
Dancing in the snow
It’s purple petals,  
Denying to let go.

You always prevail, prevail, prevail
Your tenacity never seems to fail.

How come, the cold
Hasn’t torn you apart?
Why do you always
Deceive your heart?

You say there’s light
When it’s cold and dark
The memory of warmth,
Keeps you alive.
False
                Evidence that  
                Appears to be
Real.

F
E
A
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Elena Rosi Jun 17
Every day is a new day.
Hours wash quickly away,
They meet unknown bays.
Why can’t we, escape a sky of grey?

Time is like waves
crashing into the shore,
Every minute
It’s funny how I think of the ocean quite often, when I live in a desert. One of the hottest places in USA, AZ 🥲
Elena Rosi Jun 13
Sometimes I feel like a hero.
And then I feel like crap.
Sometimes I feel like a zero.
And then I feel like I’m all that.

Sometimes I want to be with friends,
Be part of something.
Sometimes I want to be alone,
And go star gazing.

Sometimes we’re too much.
Sometimes we’re not enough.
But we’re always amazing…
A mistake does not define you. A good action doesn’t make you a God. But it’s all those “sometimes” that make you, YOU.
Falls.
Never gets up.
Falls.
Pretends it doesn’t hurt.
Falls.
Too much pride to accept.
Falls.
Stops trying— stays alert.

Falls. Falls. Falls.
And
Still
We
Get
Up
Again.
Elena Rosi Jun 17
If you can still breathe,
It can still happen.
If you can still move,
Keep your pencil sharpened.

If you can see the dark
If you can feel the cold,
It means you still have a heart.
Just— your story’s untold.

Let your wings unfold.

Im not being rhetorical,
Or sarcastic, or philosophical,
Or any fancy, poetic way.
I’m just saying, there’s always a way.
There’s always something you haven’t tried, something you haven’t done, keep on fighting. You deserve all the good things in this world ✨✨
Elena Rosi Jun 13
The secret of life is:
fall 10 times and get up 20.
Elena Rosi Jun 16
My mom didn’t know English,
My dad couldn’t cook an egg.
We were lost in a unknown place,
And still we didn’t beg.

This Father’s Day
I want to say,
“Dude we’re not evil.
We survive, we find a way.”

This Father’s Day
My family’s okay.
But there’s others
who are not the same.

What a shame,
what a shame.
Los Angeles and Miami,
Can’t they see?

This Father’s Day
I want my people
To not be swayed.
It took me a while to write something today. There has been a lot of things going on, that I couldn’t choose a topic.
A smile
A try
Higher
A lie.

A smile: we play and laugh.
It’s all that I have.
A try: alone again. Don’t cry
There’s something I can’t let go by.

Higher: pain grows. Night unfolds.
Anger. Hatred. Fire.
The stakes are higher.  
A lie: I scold and question who I call me.
I answer with a lie, wrapped in a plea.
But I’m blind— can’t see, can’t see.

This process is ****.
The pieces don’t fit.
But I won’t quit.
Let’s talk about it.
What’s the matter tonight dear? Even when everything else is fine, you don’t have to put yourself in happy mode. Liana, hate isn’t the answer. You know…. Talk to yourself. Speak truth.
Elena Rosi Jun 13
After narcissist and life
Were torn apart,
A flower was born
Form the depths of his heart.

The lake in which he fell
Cried, cried and cried.
Oh lake! Why are you crying?
“Because Narcissist has died.”

Oh that’s right. He was beautiful
Wasn’t he?
“Pardon me?” Said the lake.
“I never knew.”
Every morning he came to you.

How could you not?!
“I never paid attention.
I didn’t know he was hot.”
Well then why do you sob?

“I looked at him
And he looked at me.
But all we could see
Was our own beauty.”

Too bad he only saw a mirror
And never saw a lake.
Too bad you only saw a reflection
And never his pretty face.
—both of you would’ve been amazed…
Inspired by The Alchemist. A retold fable
Elena Rosi Jun 11
As I stand at the edge
Of the unknown,
I really, really, truly,
Want to go home.

Have I wasted my time
Chasing things I can’t reach?
Perhaps I’m fine—
Except it’s all bleached.

My eyes and my mind
Feel covered in bleach.
My path I shall find
In somewhere distinct.

Have I speed up the clock,
Doing things I should’ve not?
I’m only thirteen
So why bother at all?
Sometimes I go too fast.
Maybe you do too.
Slow down…
Elena Rosi Jun 16
Tree tops, tree tops,
Air swinging back.
Driving, driving,
Until water pops.

Fallen and dying trees,
who lived to help.
Wood that stands
With sticks as hands.

Hands that stay still,
As you go downhill.
The world follows
This oblivious drill.

Yet you drive and drive
Until water you find.

You’re an evergreen.
You don’t take to survive;
You’re a shelter for life.
If you drive and drive,
I know water you’ll find.
I went camping recently, but we couldn’t find a river. There were so many dead trees, as well as beautiful evergreens and open fields. As always, I came up with something✨✨
Elena Rosi Jun 16
You know what’s funny?
When it’s hot you want cold,
When it’s cold you want heat.
You crave a change—
Never the seat
You’re sitting in.

When it’s hot
enjoy the summer.
When it’s cold
Enjoy the winter.

Embrace the sweet
And the bitter
The sunburn
And the shiver.

I know it can be better—
But we’re not just talking
about weather.
Sometimes we wait for the right moment. Or sometimes we just hate everything— we want anything but this. Maybe “this” is exactly what we’re missing. ✨✨
Elena Rosi Jun 20
Where it’d go?
Word made of air,
It danced out my lips.
But didn’t get shared.

It got stuck in my throat.
Or lost in my mind.
Of course it’s in a place
I cannot find.

Word made of air
Word made of air
You were meant
To help despair.

Oh! But where have you gone?
I’ll probably remember you by dawn.
Please tell me someone can relate 😔 I dislike forgetting something that was going so well.
Elena Rosi Jun 23
Like a baby bird I fall off a tree,
Will no one come rescue me?

Was it too early to jump?
Should I jump at all?
Knowing I can fly,
isn’t worth the fall.

And so forget about the clouds,
And the land that isn’t your tree.
Hear the world be mad loud.
But your nest never leave.

Oh! What words of a coward!
Who dares speak?
I’ve fallen but I won’t retreat.
I see where I want to be,
That future belongs to me.

— The End —