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 Oct 2013 Nickols
JM
Looking into your eyes;
Clear and glassy, a beautiful blue
Why did I have to meet you?
I would have preferred never meeting you
That way I’d have nothing to regret
Now that you’re only a memory I can’t forget
Why couldn’t I stay strong?
Why couldn’t I have kept fighting?
I’ll tell you why… I’m weak
And now I’m left here alone feeling ***** inside
I’m hiding behind a smile now
I’m no longer an innocent little girl
Why did you have to strip me of my innocence?
This guilt is like a worm, eating away at my insides
Even though I’m still a ******
You took away my purity
LEAVE ME ALONE!
Disappear from my life please!
My innocence was like a blanket
And now you ripped it off of my body
I’m now standing here alone, naked and cold
No matter how hard I try to hide it…
I can’t find a way to cover the rawness you left me with
God help me find peace!
I need Your unfailing grace and love
Wash away my filth and make me new
I Beg You!
 Sep 2013 Nickols
Matthew Garcia
Breathing is normal,
appetite is aberrant.
All sounds are ambient.

....I
am
still
here.

Lost in time;
unaware of reality,
but aware of my sanity.

...Am
I
still
here?

Senses have risen
and failed
My mind is jailed.

...Will
I
stay
here?

Jailed but liberated,
I am one with everything.
My heart begins to sing.

...I
am
not
here.
It's been over two months.
And it's been getting a little better.
But you are gone. And it's
Not reversible.
You're gone and somehow people forgot.
But I didn't and I refuse to.
You were perfect but now you're gone.
The rope broke your soul.
The tree took you away.
And I just want you back.
Happy birthday Evan...
 Sep 2013 Nickols
MNdiamond
funerals
 Sep 2013 Nickols
MNdiamond
I've grown weary of funerals
yet I'm just 25
But I think none is as tired as my uncle

In a span of nearly three decades
He buried
His parents, a sister,
two sons, two brothers
and one granddchild

And yet he managed a smile
held my hands in his
whispered I love you
when it was my turn to bury my father.
The love and life and the living are seen;
colors exist to interpret our dreams.
They flow with no control;
a story and a dark hole.
These mysteries we want to shatter;
but, in truth, we are beat and battered.
The energy that gives shall never die,
and so will not our sacred minds.
We lose because we must gain,
an eternity of humble hexane.
Fear not, for when physicality is gone,
our colors will certainly live on.
Here we lie,
but our energy shall never die.
 Sep 2013 Nickols
Kelly Flint
I don't know what to think
I don't know how to act
Because every time you're around
I stop and think back


Every move and every word
Makes me rethink your intentions
But I seem to hold back
Because of my confused conditions


Making me feel special
Is your best trick of all
It's like you have a power over me
That keeps making me fall


Fall for your charm
And all you put on the table
But according to another
You just seem to be unstable


I've heard it all
I don't want to know
If you're just a fake
I don't want a show


It pains me to know
That I'm just like the rest
Im not on a different level
Still not the best


You send mixed signals
I can't be the only one
It's like I'm on a mailing list
Is this your idea of fun?


Making girls feel special
Making them want you
When in reality kid
There have only be a few


The best if the best
The cream of the crop
In your eyes they were perfect
But they made my heart drop


Vulnerable is not word you use a lot
Mainly because of your pride
But I wish you could just see it
Sit back and enjoy the ride


I know deep down inside
Way in the nooks of your heart
There is a beautiful man
Just waiting for his start


Maybe you'll see one day
All we could have been
And if I was being honest
I would wait till then


But I've waited long enough
I've grown tired from fear
I'm ready to put it out there
Even if I shed a tear


You are one of a kind
A man in the making
Here's to you and your life
Here's my heart for the taking.
 Sep 2013 Nickols
Bernardo Soares
Of all the girls in all the world that love the smell of paper

There’s nothing in this world that smells quite like good behaviour

Nostalgia in the morning makes me think that you’re right there

You’ve been lost long enough now I should know you just don’t care

Poetry to sleep to like and antidote that heals you

All of it makes little sense unless I can be near you
 Sep 2013 Nickols
Megan Grace
but
god
none of my blankets
are as warm as you
and none of my pillows
smell like you,
breathe like you.
 Sep 2013 Nickols
Tilly
(the gate's been left hitched open, with fraying string   ajar)*

"Although, I've left you clear directions to the travellers' garden path -
              yet, you've chosen a different route - to all you're searching for."
    

I wait, at a journeys end of heady scents, tending ancient roses trees at it's breadth;

Sipping warming cups of rosemary blues, infused with sweet thymes' underneath.
                      
Perhaps, just an invitation to the garden was quite enough... to let fear decide your fate.

*Bared soles should move with deeper love... when pure destiny awaits.
In the language of flowers...

Rose: Love, desire
Thyme: Courage, strength
Rosemary: Rememberance

Dock: used to calm sting nettle rash :)
 Sep 2013 Nickols
Shevola
Emerged from the forest of before,
lying out here on nature's open floor.

Hushed silence descends on the crowd,
astronomic anticipation deafeningly loud.

And an audience of many a twinkling light,
an audience of burning green eyes keep us in sight.

The spotlight is trained on a boy perched on a red box,
He ignores the creaking seats and the rude whispered talk.

The silence is blessed,
as Jupiter smiles down from above,
As the grass tickles our cheeks,
Necks arched
We need to behold it.

Clasped in embrace, lips coiled in fear,
Something is stirring, monsters of society rear
Ugly heads to turn away,
Their anger, their fright, their life...
is on display

A star gazing ******, new to this universe,
new to the way the galaxies converse.
New to the language of this astrology,
I now write previous lives eulogy.

Even though this masquerade leaves us dissuaded,
its lines ensnare us, to overlook mumbled words
and taut stagnant blank faces.
This dancing boy cries out in many voices,
now he's loud enough to be heard.

And then we see it and it's in the sky,
I don't want forever and I don't want why,
I just want to hold stardust in my hand,
To recall, remember, rewind.
As  I will never understand.

In front of our eyes, they speak the final words
linked together by their unity.
One does not surpass the other,
and in their eyes we find serenity.

Who cares what you are
Under a star
Who cares how you feel
Because nothing is real
There's always more than you or me,
the world is bigger than what we see.
It's not just our stretch above,
there's more to accept and more to love,
And two hands on either side,
lead me to open my heart. Open it wide.
To swallow the stars and swallow the sky,
Swallow this terrible tragic lie
Whole.

Looking into portals to Heaven or looking into
the realms of the mind,
Whether someones is listening,
up there- I solemnly believe to find-
That someone is "vested in your success".

SO OUR LOVE ALWAYS
The description of our (myself and fellow Hello Poetry poet Aisling O'Leary) night. It consisted of theatre and star gazing.
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