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Jan 2013 · 599
7 days in the World
Michael Ryan Jan 2013
One day back
Is 7 days in the world
Did I ever leave this realm, called a dorm
Never feels like I can traverse this gap
Time well spent, en-caged
Deciding to go talk, nothing wrong with that
Talking can't be a sign of defeat!
Finding a way to build a bridge
Use these connections to find that opening
Let the wind whisper, through these bars
The breeze will grant, a peaceful slumber.
Can I regress?
seven days in the real world
is 1 pleasant day being back.
This could be about multiple things.  Too much time spent in my dorm. Me going to CAPS.  or my need to make a poem, since its been a little while. (Filling that quota)
Michael Ryan Jan 2013
I can't help it
but wonder if all these animals are baiting my death
I don't know these cuties, they look innocent enough
sure that they are herbivores
no fangs, no claws, no ****** sacrifices
plain, smooth, and easy on the eyes
all their lumps and bumps
my heart starts to throb
I can't create such a beauty
nor dismiss those kind eyes
interact and build an idea of what species it is
what are you doing in the jungle to not come this way
see you some other day, I guess
we'll find out when I force you to come out and play  
to leave the safest cave
accept
because you can't help it
Waiting for Monday to come.  (She said she was busy Saturday, Sunday, but maybe Monday)  Hey Blind Date #2?{Not so blind anymore} I ended up saying I didn't want to go out again.
Jan 2013 · 472
My oh My
Michael Ryan Jan 2013
Never afraid to leave
because I know you'll always be here
sad to think that you'll never leave
happy to know I will rely on you
***** to know that I will abuse you
glad to know that I will try my best because of you
my oh my
You've given up nothing, because you gave it all to me
I'm carrying on a torch and without, I'm not much
so thank you for giving me so much of your life
thank you for giving me meaning
thanks so much
my oh my
I can never give as much as you did
nor will I try, evil may I be
instead I will live, happily, to bring a better tomorrow
granting you the greatest pleasure of life
to see your torch move and explore the world unseen
my oh my
you were always afraid for me to leave
always know that I will be there
don't be sad that I will leave
be happy that I rely on you for my strength
know that sometimes my decisions will hurt you
let those decisions remind you, that I will try to make the best
This is for my family once I leave for college, again, I will be leaving this as a surprise for them.
Michael Ryan Jan 2013
Time is my opponent.
It's the greatest villain that resides in this life
Things to do, none
Escaping this fate is greater than none
Time lets me explore the wounds in this flesh
Every ticking moment I explore the pain within
The most dangerous thing it does is keep on going
Things to give comfort, none
Binding the layers of life to a steadily dying grandfather clock
Eventually the mouse can no longer run
Can't go up or down
Sitting ideally by to watch the hands freeze in motion
Things to find, some
Someone to wind this clock
The clock can save you by letting you know to keep going on.
Jan 2013 · 1.5k
Blind Date
Michael Ryan Jan 2013
I went and saw you Saturday
Never seen your facade before
Time went by fast, we were cute
Both a little fearful of our new acquaintance
Not knowing what to say or do
We shared our beliefs and our food
Things weren't perfect, but the points were in the right place
Yours went up, mine crashed down, ending up even
Meeting once doesn't take much, no expectations
The second time is when you risk it all
The danger comes out to play
Is a stranger worth a second coming
Especially when they're almost out the door
This is one of my hobbies Lena. (To the rest of people who knows if I got the nerve to show or not.)  After thinking about it I didn't like her personality that much.
Michael Ryan Jan 2013
Everything is nothing more than the moment
you can't live it
can't go back
can't leave it
they are not emotions
they are not the most important
Never too sure if that ever happened
always knowing my friend it did
it was nothing special
but it meant the world
hard to tell whats important other than oneself
when digging to the past you're building to the future
just remember my friend
the past you dig up will bury the world around you
when you are ready fill the holes
since you can't look to the future without looking back
I just want something to do so I wrote these poems.  Still got nothing.
Michael Ryan Jan 2013
He strugglin .
Always had heart problems, from just being a kid.
Physically ill.
This thing beat for two, repeating each echo.
Growin over sized to fit the world.
This thing beating itself for it's compensation .
Telling one's self it's going strong, while the doctors say he don't got long.
Everything else keeps on, physically torn apart.
But that's not the worse, emotionally his heart just gone wrong.
Getin check-ups to see the pain he knows he can't.
Find some wound they've never seen since childhood
It's a funny thing that the illness fits exactly as he is
A heart yearning for another to beat right next to him
The Heart keeps pumping. The man?
Michael Ryan Jan 2013
I can't wreck this boat
I can't crash it into the depths once more
I gotta clean it up
I gotta clear the skies and wasp this deck
Otherwise these sails will forever fall
Otherwise the murky waters will creep aboard
Underestimate the strength of a breeze from the past
Underestimate these old boards, but they can float
everything can fall off it'll come back to the surface
everything can't go back together
NOT this time, no repeats, this boat is no Delorean
NOT in the past everything is right now
again no thanks my friend
again this boat has life preservers hope you can find them
I don't know how this really goes I kinda read this one like a rap.
Dec 2012 · 541
Amongst the Sea of Mask
Michael Ryan Dec 2012
I rasp my mind around these thoughts.
Weeping willows wallow in self doubt.
Finding one's own grievances to mask others charades.
I bring my hand to the face of a believer.
Just happens to be my own;
quickly, I realize that mine is masked by tears and a frown.
Tirelessly gripping my imprisonment.
Unable to remove what has been given to me.
Mistaken as I am.
The mask goes deeper than my core,
could I possibly of built this face for myself?
I do not know the reason I write poems.  Creativity? Others? Self?  I know what stops me from writing time to time that people will see and I feel like my poor writing is wasting their time.
Dec 2012 · 659
Presentful Presenting Pain
Michael Ryan Dec 2012
The last years.
they open presents to their desires;
enjoying what they perceive as their own.
The last years.
I open regrets to what I am undeserving;
persuading myself  to accept these "gifts".
The last years.
They deserved more than nothing.
I deserved less than their all.
This Year
Smiles and cheers cross their rosy child-like faces.
While mine mask the pain I could never share.                     Never on a holiday like this.

**Merry Christmas.
Worth while not really.
Dec 2012 · 827
Spineless
Michael Ryan Dec 2012
*****.
What are you thinking.
are you so unaware of what is here.
what the **** are you thinking.
It's crazy to think what you think.
nothing.
I've told you it all already,
how can you say you don't see;
dense maybe.
that's too kind, I mean obtuse or impaired maybe mentally *******.
something must be wrong with you.
I'm happy that it's over.
just ****** for how spineless you are and only thinking of yourself.
grow up and use your words.
Don't spew out ******* I want the truth.
Don't spare feelings just speak the despair.
Don't waste more of my time saying you're crying,
because I've wasted too much time caring.
I'll find someone to care just like I do.
where you can find someone to hide with knifes just like you do.
Watch me as I walk away.
Because at least when I do you will get to see it.
*****.
Really quick poem, the poems of resent about a girl well it's all done with.  Now I am a little ******, but not sad.  Spineless ****.
Dec 2012 · 1.1k
Leaving Las Vegas
Michael Ryan Dec 2012
I could never tear my flesh
never see the flood begin to spread
I could never be numb
never letting pain subside
I could never spread my feelings
never truly telling how deeply I burn

I can walk in the realm I deserve
can punish myself for how I feel
I can bruise my body and bellow it's contents
can punish oneself to reach my ends

Seeking for a hand bruised as badly as mine
seeing only a refection
Seeking a twist to turn this plot
seeing the end I envision finally change

I turn to the shower to fine pain
turning to sleep to never forget
I turn to people for rejection
turning to sleep to never remember

Tonight is not a night I will forget.
nor will my flesh as I begin to bleed.
"Leaving Las Vegas" is a movie where the main character slowly kills himself.
Michael Ryan Dec 2012
You know what fear is?
Would be a grand expression.
Girl, you are the only one that I fear.
and I am everyone's greatest fear.
Sorry to say but you do not fear me.

The fear runs underneath every word that trembles out.
Perhaps the mumbles are my stifled voice.
Grasped by an ever clenching throat.
Each "I'm here" fills my lungs with another desperate breath.
I approach my foggy glass door smiling at your ghostly shadow.

My flesh does not peal back nor blur into a gnarly wound.
Scents of plush comfort and feeling of opiates flourishing.
Granting my hemoglobin, plasma, and marrow.
One does not fear ones flesh but the eagerness to provide.
Fearing not the donor but the blood they give.

Pledging to yawn and inhale your tranquility
while expelling my own insanity
Finals. I think they may be rotting my mind, if it's not already gone.
Michael Ryan Dec 2012
Give me harmony and I will build.
Tranquility will grasp hold of life;
only taking what only peace can give.
Building a life.
Give me life before you take my harmony;
Happiness will prosper.
Leave me happy.
Harmony and I will build.

Pleasure will corrupt my mind,
telling fancy tales of delight.

Let me take hold a smile,
and my fancies will make it glow.
Life grant me what I plead,
Harmony to build with.
Sometimes I wonder what my real reasons are for things, other do not know nor I.
Dec 2012 · 463
Existance
Michael Ryan Dec 2012
Memory will fade
like all else does
once my demise has come
not even memory will keep me alive
nothing will know
my unrequited feelings
nothing will know
my longing for companions
all that will be left
will be this
although it will not last in memory
at least it exist as such did I
Really quick poem.  Just putting out constant content pretty much.  Give a sense of some feeling that I feel at random instances of my day/night.
Dec 2012 · 374
...Thank You
Michael Ryan Dec 2012
I wanted to tell the world my feelings
but also let you know them.
I ended up trying too hard, but trying.
I could explain all the ways.
I could make some fantastic poem.
For once I won't.
Instead...                         *Thank You
Nov 2012 · 353
One Deep Breath--What am I
Michael Ryan Nov 2012
Evanescent
is that the word
am I that word
hopefully not
Interminable
That is the word
you are the word
hopefully so
so funny
the word
sounds beautiful
showers with pain
so sad
the word
sounds terrifying
bask in hope
This would be bare bones, but you never know who is reading these days.
Nov 2012 · 699
Metabolism
Michael Ryan Nov 2012
Fire that needs fueling
a place set and ready for burning
where a flame needs to ignite
needing so rightly to be kindled bright
popping and crackling
looming and glowing
so much timber settles the flames
leaving embers to start this fire
Instead of doing stats in stats I wrote this poem and texted.
Nov 2012 · 436
No good when going Good
Michael Ryan Nov 2012
I wish I could write
something about all my nights

to convey all the fears
not only drown in beers

I want to speak my heart
not hide in the dark

not escape the pain
but let it wane

to let my imagination grow
to pile up just like the snow

my handy work shows my thoughts
all of them seem to only be wrought

Only sounding pessimistic
when all should be optimistic

I am no good when things are going good
all is too easy to be understood

All the words lack the passion
only biding; looking like fashion

I only want to express joy
although I can not, since I am a boy
I want to express something other than the usual, but I cannot.
Nov 2012 · 455
Stats.
Michael Ryan Nov 2012
Math is so complex
using probabilities
got me all perplexed
Don't know how to do my Stats work.
Nov 2012 · 560
The Delightful. The Rotten.
Michael Ryan Nov 2012
You are my Best Friend.                                             You are my Worst Enemy.

Some days you are the best.                                      Some days I hate you the most.

All I want to do is shout, my love for you.             All I want to do is scream, the pain out.

I am lucky that you grace my world.                       I dread the very sight of you in this world.

Enjoy the laughs that we share.                                Anguish the fights that entomb us.

Sharing each and every thought.                              Keeping secrets of it all.

Touching every moment.                                               Repugnant to the slightest touch.

Eyes always relishing what they spy.                        Tongues always hissing their distaste.

Taking everything for the delightful.                         Giving only the rotten.                        

Inside only warmth; weird what is weird?              Inside only pain; weird what is weird?

The days are mine to share.                                       The days are yours to share.

And the rest I wonder why I am not there.           And the rest I wonder why you are not there.

How did we end up here?                                        How did we end up here?
You are really only the worse.
Nov 2012 · 601
Only a Girl
Michael Ryan Nov 2012
While I still have the emotions.
I must write them out.
Because soon, I will once again become so stout.

I continue my writings from my other day.
I protest that I am fine, of which I am.
All I ponder is do you think I am some scam.

Are you going to run n hide or accept, forward motion.
Carrying your pantheon heart and my own carnivorous groan.
Will you walk this walk or throw a stone.

This the last of your poems unless you decide to stay.
Tomorrow, maybe you will make me cry.
After the fact you are just a girl, and I just some guy
Simply put, she's just some girl.
Nov 2012 · 470
One Last Shove
Michael Ryan Nov 2012
I would like the many all to know
that I am all ready to go
no I do not mean to my death
I do not want to take my final breath

I am ready to fall to my slumber
I wonder when it'll be my number
before my rest I'd like to say that I am not upset
I have done all I can do, I call it my best

I will see where my tidings have gone
all I can say is that we did have a great bond
maybe you have seen, so I will give you time
perhaps you have not thought it threw; you are mine

I care oh so much, but I accept my world
it may not be clear, it truly is all swirled
the truth will always find me soon
and to be honest I know it will bring my doom

I would like the many all to know
that if I had to, I can let her go
No I do not mean from my love
I will take that final breath after one last shove
If you read this poem and the four or three before this I made all of them in one day.  See the flux of my emotions I think they are pretty wide.  I've come to many conclusions today.
Nov 2012 · 616
One past Sunday
Michael Ryan Nov 2012
Months have gone and the pain does not pass
Friday was pretty harsh, maybe I missed the mark
It was life all in one glance, ours lives happened to crash
I can't say right now, but we met, and I was happy to leave the dark

Friday we both left our shells
We both shared our pain, but what did we gain
I feel like I brought us both to hell
I cannot say right now, but we met, and it still drives me insane

After our Friday thy continued into the night
she kept on crying, while I boozed mine away
I awoke wanting to speak of all the things we said in the light
I cannot say right now, but we met, as I slip into the dark, to my dismay

Honey I said we'd talk on Sunday
Am I ready to speak or should I wait till Monday
One past Sunday can't change much; should I wait till Tuesday
I cannot say right now, but we met, is it Sunday?
Okay this is pretty horrible.  Doing something makes me feel a little better so sorry for making you suffer from reading this.
Nov 2012 · 844
Just the Truth. Just a Lie.
Michael Ryan Nov 2012
You want me to be Brutal                                     You want me to be Brutal

or do you want me to blunt.                                or do you want me to be blunt.

Disregard your feelings.                                        Realize your feelings.

Let me crush your soul.                                        Let me find your heart.

I'll show you the real me, once again.                I’ll show you the fake me, once again.

I just want to hurt you.                                         I just want to care for you.

Do you enjoy my truths?                                     Do you enjoy my lies?

I would speak truths upon truths for spite.      I would speak lies upon lies for love.

I'd share this poem.                                              I'd share this poem.

To break your spirit.                                             To embrace your spirit.

The truths only breaks you.                                The lies only breaks me.

I could never speak them.                                    I could always speak them.

I would fall to pieces.                                           I would fall to pieces.
She'll never see this so I can name it directly after her, but I didn't anyway(almost though). Only if I could change my feelings.
Nov 2012 · 862
Only a Monster
Michael Ryan Nov 2012
I just have one request
I have talents, skills, and compassion
I have a heart, a mind, and love
I can share, feel, and learn
I can keep secrets, challenge, and inspire
All the things that I can do
All the thing that I want to do
Like a werewolf I want your heart
Like a zombie I want your brains
I see how different you are just like King Kong did
I see you Beauty, because I am the Beast
Baby you think I am a monster
Babe you think I treat the world like this
Try to see for what I am
Try to understand where I am
I think that you lead me to the depths
I think that you are the one with the torches
I know that you have taken all I possess
I know that you enjoyed taking it all
I just have one request
-"to be continued"- this is it's continuation
Just want me.
Oct 2012 · 476
To be Contiuned
Michael Ryan Oct 2012
Mixed amongst my nightmares is one much more terrifying
Yet this one brings me serenity when I need it most
the nights twist and tear my heart and overwhelm my senses
my senses drain out the wounds they create
She exist in the worst of all, because it is only a dream
we share our hearts and our bodies mingle
for all the pain I may receive-- its rewarded ten fold
*unfinished
Not done.   Maybe since my feeling aren't fully realized yet.
Oct 2012 · 461
The Greatest Reaction
Michael Ryan Oct 2012
The Greatest Reaction
could be the simplest of things
oh, the things that it may be
The Greatest Reaction
could be the most complex of all imaginable things
oh, the things that it have limited themselves
The Greatest Reaction
could be no-thing
oh, the things that allow this simplicity
The Greatest Reaction
Could be all of these
oh, these things could be none of them
The Greatest Reaction
Could start with The Greatest Action
oh, the things that deserve A Greatest Reaction.
free Time--Never well spent.
Oct 2012 · 587
For the Words
Michael Ryan Oct 2012
My words form a humble abode
only if the words would form when prose
words crave to expand when exposed
I never grant them the ability to unload

    They complex to lyrical nonsense
    Ravage my identity towards confidence
    knows nothing about prudence
    they insist upon clairvoyance

Words manipulate to suffice
although I contort them to be precise
they matriculate to my vice
We both only want to be concise
I shall only see what my mind can handle and my words are only what I am right now. Teen.
Sep 2012 · 1.4k
Rebuild
Michael Ryan Sep 2012
I don't see memories
or predict the future
I can't tell you what has happen or will happen
I see only what is
I see the scars of the world
and ponder what has happened
I see what exist, and the aftermath that it is
I see the rocks erode, and tides hide their knifes
I see ripples across peoples flesh, and the formations made
I do not cringe at the pain, but realize that it has helped us grow
I see buildings, but I don't, because now I see the ruble
I see rocks, but I don't, because I see the rise of a city
I see from the rise of this city the rise of a nation
from this nation the rise of the people
and from the people I see all else I could see before
I see prosperity, devotion, familiarity, and the ambition from before
I see from the rise also the fall
I see the sun come up with the blinding light, and then I look away
because when that beauty falls and the moon shall reign
I will cease to see what I came to know
I will see, but I don't, the scars of any other any more
I will see, but I don't, for the windows have been shut to that world
as my own pain grows so big to bind my eyes closed
as my eyes closed and as my heart was swallowed whole
Pain will lead to insanity, and the need to free myself from it
from the memories I have built I will find myself
and with that found, I will scar myself
to know that I too will rebuild
Your past will build your future--Spoken word poem
Sep 2012 · 505
Stage of Life
Michael Ryan Sep 2012
Life, one stage after another.
each stage just one step bigger.
one step up is really one step forward.
one step forward could be even one step down.
the stages don't really get bigger, they just change.
really the stages don't change either.
the only thing that changed, would be your mind.
the thing that all people share, one as competent as Einstein.
one just as smart as a Nobel prize winner.
minds are all the same all that is different is the emotions that control it.
the stages of life. where are we and where am I.
I am on the same stage I have always been on.
it's the same stage, because the stage never changes.
the mind has and now it says to make an impression.
don't retreat, don't be neutral, be there to fight.
leave this act having people to love you.
leave this act to have others to come back to.
leave this act to begin the real you.
begin to think and use the relation that all have.
explore the mind and it will not be a stage of life.
but the connection of the life between all.
Do not fear.
Jun 2012 · 851
Flip the switch
Michael Ryan Jun 2012
Click
light, energy breathes in
the machine comes to life
knows nothing, new and fresh
see symbols, hear clicks
one room full of ONE thousand friends
facebook, twitter, reddit, youtube
tweet, like, spread, watch
program after program
you spread what you thought
another mega byte out of your life
data stored in the "cloud"
past saved in imaginary space
enter the net to endure a flix
another box opens but this ones RED!
open another portal and jump on in
tab to google to find your best friend
can't ask for direction it shows where you live
words of the past, "call me"
now instead skype, oovoo, tiny chat ME
glitch in the system, there's an upgrade for that
version 1.29875CYBORG
complete!
*click
the energy goes down and your world is DEAD
walk outside when you want ONE real friend
I doubt it is any good like anything else I make.
May 2012 · 2.0k
The Darkness is Coming
Michael Ryan May 2012
Hollow points break to pieces
memories are liquid gold
time is the jet of life
school the prison
unbound from these links
the reaper looms over the fallen
like polar bears--those released are the new homeless
Chernobyl shall be our name
Alcatraz has abandoned thy past to repeat
A heart as strong as Hank Williams
in the end we are the England Patriots of 2007
but before that sorry night
2012 will be Disney World
This is about high school and how it is ending for me right now.
Apr 2012 · 1.5k
Mindless monster.
Michael Ryan Apr 2012
I'm just a lonely fool
Don't know what to say so I act like a tool
though my words speak volumes
my mind speaks in tongues
all tangled up by some tough knots
my ideas are more realistic
always fleeting never staying
being intercepted by themselves
my mind ravishes ghouls
and explores the emptiness within
taken back by thy hollowed self
Earth only with one layer
Lithosphere but no juicy center
a lollipop with only a crusty beginning
body without heart only mind
depth like an ocean
never ending like the space above
pointless with no one exploring
breaking open barriers only to find fiends
through the looking glass all is bright
the eyes seek redemption and explanation
but they're Romeo and Juliet
can't see each other
Caves without torches hides the secrets of old
and only the mind can grasp hold
Know nothing want everything
just leave me alone
its what the monsters are best at.
High school what a disappointment it was in the end.  1 month left no turning back it began the same way as it ends only worse.
Mar 2012 · 502
Whispers from the Dark
Michael Ryan Mar 2012
Know what you are saying
lies spur the embers to life
the flames of deceit ignite
as black ash fills the lungs
and decides to take a life
despair reins supreme over your mind
and no the thoughts wont be kind
your insides will be slain
and the outside will know no pain
your body will be made of glass
since you showed no class
smoke fills the crevasses in the heart
and finally it decides to not start
Never say what you don't really mean because in the end it will always come back to haunt you.  I may not be great friends with this person, but hurting anyone always hurts myself more.  

P.S. if you read this please send a "i'm sorry message from michael ryan" to her on FB
Shawnee Martinez lives in Modesto
Mar 2012 · 636
Value
Michael Ryan Mar 2012
Liar liar
I have a special telephone wire
there is not fire for you
just the inexpiable pain
because my eyes will not burn through you
nor will my words curse your name
there is not more fish in the sea
because we are on land not in the sea
neither will they say to let them go
because you are not a bird to let go
not unwanted or unloved
all was lost in the end
because my friend
the sun is gone
and the night is on
no one will know that you are gone
because I am you and you are me
and none are here to see.
what they really need.
More randomness that doesn't really make sense.
Mar 2012 · 2.9k
Agony
Michael Ryan Mar 2012
Words can not describe the agony
because agony is not a word
and words do not feel
people feel
people feel agony
because agony came from words
only people can describe agony: they started it
I don't think any thing I write is good, but I have nothing else to do so I do it.
Mar 2012 · 477
The discussion
Michael Ryan Mar 2012
I am not a voice

change my tune

I am a choice

sounding like the afternoon



Kid sitting in the back

head down on the desk

thinkin about some nick nack

I'm not tryin my best



ideas are flowin

all the other kids chatting

the wind outside is blowin

their words combating



like the old do to the young

they just want them to be quiet

they just can't stop their tongue

all they want to do is riot



I exist:

kinda like a tree

something that wants to be free

I just gotta find my need



back to the kid

he makes a few bids

can't find himself

he'll end up on the shelf



In the end

his head is down

ideas used to defend

all is goin to the ground
Just more randomness.
Mar 2012 · 3.5k
Recycle
Michael Ryan Mar 2012
We live in a cycle

my name is Michael

little kid rides a tricycle

while a grown up rides a bicycle

I have a sickle

to my right ventricle

some kid found a nickle

some grown up is being fickle

the red flood starts as a tickle

and ends at a trickle

little kid believes in a miracle

a grown up only sees an obstacle

my name is Michael

We live in a cycle
This wasn't thought out well, but I liked it even if some it is forced and would have to be read with my voice to fit better. Oh well.-----I did make the form fit what I"m talking about though :)
Mar 2012 · 416
One of Many
Michael Ryan Mar 2012
Every thought may have already been thoughten
Every word may have already been spoken
I may be in the pack
I may be out of the pack
The end I form the thoughts
The end I mold the words
I craft them together to be original
I alas have not forgotten(yet)
"One of a Million"- Monica Belle Brand...response to her poem
Aug 2011 · 628
How it begins
Michael Ryan Aug 2011
The garage opens
light floods in
the sky is blue and solid
the ground is black and clear
the bike is white and prefect
strangers ignore it all
the bike is moving
passing my own view
cars keep chasing their own tail
the bike doesn't hesitate
into a white car it goes
the car isn't white, but red
strangers stare at it all
there is no bike of perfection
the ground is also not black, but red
the sky is dark filled with lights
my view is darkness
and the light cannot flood anymore
Every time I ride my bike I wonder if I'll get hit by a car and just maybe I wish I would.
Aug 2011 · 1.2k
Be the effect
Michael Ryan Aug 2011
Add effect
synthesize
bring together ones soul
simple rhymes make us fold
leave behind the familiar mold
believe that you're made of gold
this is what my father told
grow to be young not old
the world is  not cold
love can not be sold
life isn't on hold
be the bold
revolutionize
We all blend no matter how different we look we all end the same.
Aug 2011 · 455
End
Michael Ryan Aug 2011
End
Waste away tonight
knife escape my own fate why
tomorrow is not
You don't make it to tomorrow it just is not.
Aug 2011 · 494
At the top
Michael Ryan Aug 2011
Standing at the top.
I wonder if I'll fall.
really.
I want to fall.
to be,
broken.
I want the world to stop.
really.
I want to be seen.
to be,
wanted.
I want a friend to listen.
really.
I want a lover.
to be,
loved.
In the end.
I.
walk away.
really.
I just stop typing.
to.
maybe die.
This is what I think when I stand at the top of my stairs.
Jul 2011 · 1.8k
Friendless halls
Michael Ryan Jul 2011
We have walls that you can’t see and we bleed to keep them up

Some of these walls hold our pain back while others hold it in

My wall is a wall that you don’t even think about, obviously

I’ve been told too many times how I’m awesome and funny

Well where are you guys when I need a laugh and a friend

Where are these people that are my “friends”

I guess I have a wall that puts you all away

That makes me standalone even though I give you my soul

I tell you all what’s on the inside, but I still do not see what makes you

I do what I can, I’m involved in many things, but am left in darkness

A personality one of it’s own, one of strength, power,

Will, tranquility, but is left alone to Wallow
Jul 2011 · 707
Hopefully crushed
Michael Ryan Jul 2011
Defeat


The color of black n white just like a tuxedo, deceiving. telling others that your fine

something that you pick that looks delicious, but is rotten to the core

the smell of your own burning home. Leaving you with only smoke and holes

a village line up shot and killed. Never had a chance like your hopes and dreams

like asking a girl to prom and hearing the words that you don't want spoke

being infected by some never known disease, making you lose all hope


Defeat
Ran for ASB VP...
Jul 2011 · 2.6k
Paramedic delay
Michael Ryan Jul 2011
I remember the night that you couldn't move

my brother and I remember the pain we felt

as we both called for an ambulance that lived right next door

remembered every dreadful second they are as 30 minutes click on by

as we wondered if you'd die

we drowned in tears as we were left alone
Parents out of town my brother(12) and I(9) and my grandma who became sick home alone.
Jul 2011 · 656
Porcelain mask
Michael Ryan Jul 2011
The ground around you turns to ashes and light that was is no more

The flicker of light within has been snuffed out you tremble to no end

The pain fills the cracks and once again you are whole

That would be the irony you are not whole cracks filled with pain

Is like gluing glass back together it’s never as strong as it once was

You are in pieces that have been etched to fit, but not by your hands

The person you are was made by fools, ones of merely surgical mask and tools

You have become a pack mule to bend and break to the use of others

You’ve lost your voice an identity of yours hidden with a mussel

Wondering if you were ever to be who you wanted or if you were always their toy

A toy smashed into the ground thrown high up to hit the ground, or tooken to see what’s inside you

The insides back then had flesh, bones, organs, the blood of life

Now I am porcelain, empty on the inside and an identity easily broken to never find itself
Smooth to the touch, but sharp when broken.
Jul 2011 · 644
Life support
Michael Ryan Jul 2011
I am like a shelf the shelf that holds all things dear to you

you do not see me much since you hide me underneath the things you "love"

You don't even think of me even though I hold your world up

I hold the pressure of your world, but I do not change for it

and when you see me bare you will cover me up again.
Infrastructure
Jul 2011 · 1.7k
Fluorescent Heart
Michael Ryan Jul 2011
A heart that beats true, but it's only for you

A sky is gray, but you light up the day

A heart was kept in a chest, but they feel like it has gone out west

The sky is stagnant, and they fall for you like a magnet

A heart is in the dark, because you left a deadly mark

Like thunder and  lighting, you are just something

The heart is fluorine while you act like chlorine

You soak up the tears "oh, why" and when you come all you say is bye

My heart beats true, but it's NOT only for you
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