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Mar 2020 · 97
Love
Maxwell Clouse Mar 2020
Love is the feeling I get when I feel you near
Love is the feeling I get when I hear
your voice.
The voice that I imagine every night in my dreams
but can't seem
to get it right...
You used to hold me tight
Now I just might
Cry.
I'm shy
When I'm telling you how I feel
But I can't deal
with the thought of losing you
It's been too long.
But it's wrong
for me
to intervene.
especially when it seems
I am not who you want
Love is the emptiness of my heart
when I am not with you.
I feel a spark
I'm sure you've felt it too.
I love you.
and this is true.
like my love for you.
I love her still to this day. Got my heart broken. But she got her way. I hope she's happy, every day.
Jan 2020 · 104
I Fear
Maxwell Clouse Jan 2020
I fear
I fear the uncertainty that I have for myself.
The uncertainty of what lies ahead.
Therefore I lie awake...
Hoping that I can stay in that moment forever.
Sep 2019 · 318
5 senses
Maxwell Clouse Sep 2019
Close your eyes, see the blank space...

Smell the light scent of vanilla...

Hear the soft sound of the piano...

Taste the peppermint on the tip of your tongue...

Feel your muscles letting go...

.... Relax.
Just follow the directions. concentrate. Use your senses... and relax.
Sep 2019 · 100
Positivity
Maxwell Clouse Sep 2019
Positivity.
Where art thou positivity.
Where art thou love while my heart is enlivening.
Help me find the chambers,
as to where my heart is confined.
Help me
becasue the adrenaline is leaving my conscious behind.
Help me find the path.
For once I find this path,
My negativity will not counterveil.
Sep 2019 · 111
Rotten. To. The. Core.
Maxwell Clouse Sep 2019
I'm a mean person.
I'm selfsih.
I'm careless.
I'm depressed but blame it on my mom.
I let people know the truth about how others feel about them...
Even though I know it will hurt them.
I don't apologize for hurting their feelings.
I'm mean. I'm terrible.
But most of all... I'm me.
Rotten to the core, little ol me.
An unforgivable, hellbound soul.
I'm on a roll.
ding ding ding
You got it!
I'm worthless.
I'm the worst there is.
And everyone knows it.
But let me be.
Let me die alone.
Go to hell.
And be a lonely soul.
Because I'm rotten to the core.
And I won't grow.
Sep 2019 · 91
I get these feelings
Maxwell Clouse Sep 2019
I get this feeling...
This tingle throughout my body.
My mind soars.
I feel this constant vibration like i'm being shook in a box,
and the next thing I know, the bell rings.
It sings...
constantly in my ear...
My eyes sting.
Constantly threatening me with tears.
I get this feeling
in my head.
Like someone is talking to me.
If only you all can see...
that these walls are crashing on me.
I get this feeling...
that I am not me.
But I understand now.
My limbs are being pulled by strings.
And It's only when I feel pain, that I am in control.
Because I need to feel that pain...
to be alive.
I need to feel.
Sep 2019 · 97
No title needed
Maxwell Clouse Sep 2019
She feels the weight on her shoulders
She's almost to the border
Her bones breaking
Legs are shaking
She's losing her mind
Her soul is leaving her body behind
Sep 2019 · 107
Sounds Down The Hallway
Maxwell Clouse Sep 2019
There was a sound on the floor down the hallway.
it sounded like the thunder before a storm.
like the soound of my heart when it is no longer warm.
The sound of someone falling on the floor,
because they were fighting and ******* take anymore.
There was a sound on the floor down the hallway.
The sound of childrens feet running from fear.
Sound of feet that weren't there while you were near.
There were sounds down the hallway...
that you could hear, even though there's no one there.
You can feel the prescence, but you're alone.
You're alone in the world...
There were sounds down the hallway...
It's in your head.
But where is the hallway.
Sep 2019 · 94
Clouded
Maxwell Clouse Sep 2019
My mind is clouded.
It's surrounded.
By all of these temptations,
I constantly go on these vacations,
letting the demobs take over.

I hear the sounds getting louder.
The demons are coming.
I'm running.
Trying to get away.
I start to sway.

The demons catch me.
I am now out of my control.
How can this be...
that my life is taken from me.
In 3... 2... 1

I'm back...
My mind no longer clouded.
I guess you could say i'm back to normal.
But the temptations are everywhere.
Sep 2019 · 90
Lost
Maxwell Clouse Sep 2019
There's a wildfire burning in my heart
Where there once was strong strands holding it together,
has now torn apart.
Letting my limbs fall.
Wondering where to start.
Sep 2019 · 438
Perhaps
Maxwell Clouse Sep 2019
Perhaps I am strange.
But
I know life is short,
so
I'll live out my life
like it isn't falling apart.
I'll smile and breathe
until I cannot,
and
I'll say that it's fine,
until my heart stops
May 2019 · 557
It's Gone
Maxwell Clouse May 2019
Do you feel that pain?
I don't feel the pain.
I took the pain away
made it rain
May 2019 · 96
Searching
Maxwell Clouse May 2019
Sailing through the uncertainties
going on an unknown journey
through the past and present victories
finding the light that shines through the harmonious memories
trying to hold it together
and not focus on the misery
that has surrounded me
maybe the misery isn't mine
but the people that have knowingly left behind
Mar 2019 · 284
Gone
Maxwell Clouse Mar 2019
She hides behind closed ears and doors
Not wanting anyone to see or hear,
her hit rock bottom.
Completely helpless in her journey
to find happiness once more
Blinded by her selfishness and despair
she shed blood here and there.
watching it pour like a waterfall in the spring.
Surrounding every inch of the floor.
Slowly but surely fading into darkness.
Down, Down, Down.
Mar 2019 · 367
Your name
Maxwell Clouse Mar 2019
When I hear your name, my heart breaks.
Like the devastating impact of bone to earth.
Like a stick being stepped on in the woods.
Effortlessly breaking to pieces.
Splintering into the smallest fragments.
The ability to heal... Long gone. Drifted away.
In a sea of my deepest sorrows.
For when I hear your name, I feel the impact.
Feb 2019 · 113
Life
Maxwell Clouse Feb 2019
The rains pour down in perfect harmony
Silently summoning me
Soaking life into the souls of my feet
I didn't know where to end this. But someday I will. Let the rains pour inspiration to you all. You guys are amazing.
Feb 2019 · 157
Too Good
Maxwell Clouse Feb 2019
Like an angel fallen from the highest kingdom, into my arms, you stood there with arms wide open... Effortlessly loving me, whole heartedly. Not knowing what the shared love will bring. The most perfect imperfect combination. Melting into each other like it was meant to be. But we... You are an angel. And you need to spread your wings. You need to be free... But you can't be, when you're with me.
Feb 2019 · 146
Anonymous
Maxwell Clouse Feb 2019
I'm drowning. Drowning in the thought of you not being.
Being here with me.
The sadness... taking my mind, body and soul into its grasp.
Silently and effortlessly, taking my life away.
You being all that I had left.
Keeping me here, chained to sanity.
Every silent minute, coming to realization.
That you. Are. My everything.
And someday, everything will be taken away.
Waking up in tears...
It's all a dream. Too real to me.
Too real to let the thought of you slip away.
Into the bottomless pit of my mind.
Jan 2019 · 465
Silent Sounds
Maxwell Clouse Jan 2019
Tik tok, tik tok,
raindrops,
heart stops
Jan 2019 · 103
We as a Whole
Maxwell Clouse Jan 2019
We fall... silently,
violently clawing at the particles in the air
that we, human beings, cannot see.
For we are free-falling,
through an underestimated state of mind.
Silently breaking.
We don't see the world around us,
as it evolves from something so small.
Into something beautiful like a lotus.
Everything having many meanings.
But we do not see.
We do not care to see... the evolutions.
Nov 2018 · 453
Afraid
Maxwell Clouse Nov 2018
Afraid of letting you in...
Seeing my sins...
Seeing me runnin,
down this crazy path.
Something
that I can't let go of.
I try to stay above
the murderous tides
that keep sweeping me in.
But I can't run fast enough.
Everytime leaving internal
cuts and bruises,
that never heal...
I am afraid
Aug 2018 · 212
Your Eyes
Maxwell Clouse Aug 2018
Alluring and cavernous
The portal to my soul
Shining like the ocean in the midnight moonlight
Suddenly taking my breath away
Melting me to the core
Every-time so depthless
All at once looking into me
Knowing and loving everything
But only your eyes
Aug 2018 · 172
Woke up Different
Maxwell Clouse Aug 2018
Done with trying to figure out who was with me, against me, or walking down the middle because they didn't have the guts to pick a side. I was done with anything that didn't bring me peace. I realized that opinions were a dime a dozen, validation was for parking, and loyalty was wasn't a word but a lifestyle. It was this day that my life changed. And not because of a man or a job but because I realized that life is way to short to leave the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.
Jul 2018 · 198
A Place
Maxwell Clouse Jul 2018
Have you ever dreamt of a city of gold?
Where people go and never grow old? Where people never feel pain?
And they're always sane?
I wish there was a place like that.
A place where I'm not stuck between my thoughts and reality.
Where my dreams have no gravity.
Where they can soar and create more.  
A place that's best for all race.
A place where there is no bad judgment of others.
A place where we accept all colors.
I wish there was a place like that.
My family is extremely mixed. And it's been a hard life for my whole family.
Jul 2018 · 1.3k
Momma Why
Maxwell Clouse Jul 2018
Momma, you left me broken like glass on the cold hard floor
You didn't want to clean up the mess like you didn't want to clean up your act

Momma why?
Why do I have to ask you for forgiveness, when you have made me this way?
Momma why?

Momma why are you cryin?
Is it because of me?
Because of everything you took from me?
Like my freedom?
My family?
My father?
My siblings?
... Or is it because you're out of drugs?

Momma why?
Why do you make these promises?
You just left me in the crevices of these promises I call your lies.
Momma why?
Momma can't you hear those cries?
Those are your cries...
that I hear in the middle of the night.

Momma why?
Why do you take these pills?
Momma you're rollin over these hills
you can't prevent these spills

Momma why?
Why won't you change?
Can't you see the range of possibilities?

Momma why?

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