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A chair and a rope
A glimmer of hope
Lonely in this room
Hope to see you soon
Whiskey and coke
Spent it all till broke
Cigarettes and ***
Reading that last text
Cohen and Cash
Powder and ash
An acrobat drops
The wall clock stops
The ceiling taps
The bottle neck snaps
Heaven is a lie
I see darkness as I die.
And as I grow older
I begin to comprehend why
We believe in invisible deities
And two-thousand year old religions
In the hopes that this isn’t all there is
And that one day
I’ll see you again
The days roll by like dice on a game board on a crooked table,
The nights are long and silent and smell of whiskey and unbathed flesh,
I awake every morning with a headache worse than the one before,
I don’t know what has become of my life.
I’ve failed in so many endeavors that if I hopped on my car and just kept driving ahead,
Sooner or later I’d end up right back where I started.
I’m self destructive.
Tomorrow will come in just a few hours,
I will live to see the sunrise,
The sunset is still an enigma.
My stomach rumbles,
I hear a car passing down the road,
I reek of bad decisions,
I taste iron and dirt on my lips.
I can see my reflection in this glass,
A child trapped in a well,
Angry with me,
Caged inside my broken body.
If tomorrow I won the million,
I’d spend it all on more lottery tickets.
That’s probably why I don’t win,
Triumph is not for my own good.
Why do I only suddenly get the urge to change the world or better my life at midnight and when everything is closed?
Daniel J DeVille Nov 2024
Hold on a little longer
Oh heart of mine!
Keep on beating just a little further
Ticking time bomb of my life
Grab on just a little more
Till I see my children grow old
Know that although I don't treat you well
I yearn to see those little moments I'll miss
Hold on by God my ever wandering heart
Don't fail me now that I'm beginning to live
I know I've given you away to many and one
And so carelessly much more
But oh my breath of air
We've learned to love one soul
One body, one mind, one heart
Life has beat us over and over
but through push and shove
I beg you heart of mine
keep on beating one more time!
A poet once said
"Traveler, there is no road;
you make your own path as you walk.
As you walk, you make your own road,
and when you look back
you see the path
you will never travel again."
Daniel J DeVille Oct 2024
Life is nothing more but the millisecond spent
Within the blinking of an eye
Daniel J DeVille Aug 2024
Depression is a heavy ***** blanket
That wraps you and won’t let go
It sometimes becomes cold and soaked
And you can’t take it off
And it dries and becomes a little lighter
But it’s still there

It sometimes keeps you warm
And it is the only sense of safety that you hold on to in those lonely Sunday afternoons
When the only warmth you get is that dreaded blanket

That blanket becomes the only thing you know
It creates a sense of familiarity that when you don’t feel it draping over you
You begin to wonder if you finally have managed to take it off
But it’s still there whether light as satin or heavy as wool
It will always be there

Until that final day when they’re covering you with it in a wooden box
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