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Justin S Wampler Feb 2022
Set upon the passing day,
a song, a hymn,
a rhythm, a sway.

The waning determination
of a winter sun,
it gives up on the bruised sky.

The dawning comprehension,
like a loaded gun,
rests heavily on the mind.

Set upon a budding day,
a system, a sin,
it's the only way.
Justin S Wampler Feb 2022
Can't quite find a way out.
Myself and my own capabilities
are the things that I doubt.

Sent it out, in the mail your
little package of sensibilities.
I'm just afraid of failure.

When the sun shines brightly in my eyes
with clear skies and blue eternity,
I can't seem to stay in this disguise.

It feels too **** good.
With perfect certainty.
Letting go, like I knew I would.
Justin S Wampler Feb 2022
That familiar dizzy
graces me again.

Tastes like a grimace.
The taste of fate again.

Twelve bucks
is cheap
to feel this
blessedness.
To feel this
sin.

That familiar fuzzy,
vision blurred again.

Tastes like forgetting,
the taste of home again.
Justin S Wampler Feb 2022
She stole my heart.

I found it
listed on eBay.
Justin S Wampler Feb 2022
I don't need this,
it's all refuse
and I refuse
to keep it any longer.

All my beloved,
all my collected
and cherished.
They're heavy
with sentiment,
burdened with
memory.

Artifacts of my past
that I cling to,
like plastic wrap.

Take all of me,
every scrap and
every piece and
send me home
to waste management.

Free my thoughts
from the chains
of remembrance,
so that I may sing again.
Justin S Wampler Feb 2022
The milk goes first.
I'm tired of being ostracized by the cereal-firsters.

I've watched these freaks literally fill an entire
bowl up to the top with cereal, then try to fit
milk in. They get one solid layer of crunchy goodness
then have half a bowl left of mushy, soggy garbage.

And yes,
it's a soup.

*******.
Justin S Wampler Feb 2022
All the loudest folk lie endlessly,
while the honest and the truthful
never speak a single word.
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