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 Aug 21 LL
Lyla
Missing You
 Aug 21 LL
Lyla
Pinprick from a thorn
I press until my finger
produces rubies
 Aug 19 LL
Bekah Halle
plenty
 Aug 19 LL
Bekah Halle
After walking in the lightly misty rain,
I fall back into bed
and think; "thank God for my home,
warm bed, clothes, and
delicious food to eat...."
but then my mind turns to all
who have not,
all who slept out in that rain,
all who don't know when they will
ever feel safe again.
What can I  do about that?!
The need for action stirs.
 Aug 19 LL
Ashly Kocher
Falling
 Aug 19 LL
Ashly Kocher
The moment when
Everything is
F
A
L
L
I
N
G
Apart
But yet it’s
F
A
L
L
I
N
G
Right
Into place
 Aug 19 LL
Kevin Seiler
You’ve been gone all weekend, probably with your new man.
As to why I’m sitting here waiting, I’ll never understand.

I cleaned the house.
Scrubbed the toilets.
I even made you dinner.
And you couldn’t care less.

How good was it, that you’re still not home this late on a Sunday?
I just want you to notice.
I just want to  be seen, like “check out the porcelain, that’s quite a sheen!”

I want to go back to my old friends, a tall bottle and my knife.
I want to feel the burning of the liquor, and the cold of the steel.
I want to make manifest the pain you cause me, so I can feel something real.

Less than a six pack and surely I’d be ready for the noose.
The tree out back should be sturdy enough.
My limbs would lie steady, before the tree’s would come loose.

Will you let my loved ones have my things?
Would you come to my funeral?
Would you spit out my name in front of your new lovers door; and forget my existence, now and evermore?

Teach me how to care less. How to be cunning, conniving and cold.  
So I can take this knife to my throat, without seeing my mother’s face.
Teach me how to care less.
So I can bleed out on our floors, like a worthless disgrace.
I ******* hate you.
 Aug 17 LL
DElizabeth
bruises
 Aug 17 LL
DElizabeth
soft pink bruises decorate
the skin between my fingers
from holding your hand so tightly.

"you are everything"

"you are everything"

you are everything
.
 Aug 15 LL
Mike Adam
Visit
 Aug 15 LL
Mike Adam
Woken by orchids
Kissing my ear-

Found the moon had fallen
Into a puddle.

Unexpected overnight rain-
And with moon departed
And orchids ******* puddle

Within my pain
I wonder

Will we ever witness
Such a night again?
 Aug 14 LL
Josie
My Girlfriend
 Aug 14 LL
Josie
"My girlfriend"
You will never know how hearing those words
Crushed me
 Aug 13 LL
Peter Garrett
You spoke about leaving
So often and for so long
That I didn't believe
You'd ever be gone
I miss you everyday and I wish I would've been there for you...
 Aug 13 LL
Kalliope
And still I look back
On the bad days
The ones with the fights
And the yelling
Cant forget the tears

And still I look back
On the good days
The ones with the love
And the affection
Can't forget the feeling

And still I look back
Before I met you
And my heart wasn't broken
Can't forget how you changed me

And still I look back
But do you?
Do you think a brace would force me to live in the present?
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