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insomniac
couldn't sleep
but never stopped dreaming
kissed the lips of a thousand bottles trying to forget the taste of you
she swallows the ocean with hungry eyes
she simply can't bottle it beauty

overflowed pockets and scraped hands
picking up bits and shells each more lovely than the last

she looks to the unexplored
amazed and frowning

she just cant capture it all
Broken record
Dreaming on train tracks,
Try to chase the sound
Slow and easy, treading water now,
Drown

You never knew you let me down
Stop sulking up there
Wear your filthy crown

You cling to the beat of the drum
You're the bottom feeder, ****
And I bet you never had a thought of your own
They got you at gunpoint, run
Run, because you don't wanna get caught
Run because they want what you haven't bought

Snake eyes and a lethal smile
Poisoned heart, wishing you'd stay a while
I've lost you, you're somewhere between the needle and a hay pile

Dried up and *******
You never had a clue
I never thought
I'd be missing you
 Jul 2015 Ameliorate
Doofinity
I bet you can't stop, must read to the end because I wrote this for you.
You, yes you, sitting there scrolling through poems. Do you like the style, the words, maybe the message?
Does it call to your mood today, or would you have loved it more yesterday, live it out more tomorrow...
Because it said something, said anything to you?!
Maybe you're looking to relate, or for inspiration.
Maybe you are inspired, but just drawing a blank?
Depressed, in love, happy, mournful, angry, joyous, betrayed or elated?
Doesn't matter...though it ALL matters! Otherwise you wouldn't be doing it, feeling it, denying it, any of it....reading it, hearing it, writing it, singing it...
So you, yes you...don't hover over if you like or don't like enough, you gave and had time to be here, sharing this EXACT moment with me...And all I have to say, is thank you. Thank you for spending one moment with me, making me a little less lonely.
 Jul 2015 Ameliorate
Doofinity
Pressed against the wall tasted better pressed against the door.
 Jul 2015 Ameliorate
Doofinity
I thought I had it all figured out...
I knew life didn't always go as planned, yet I became expert at making the most of what was served, and feasting.
I thought I'd filled the void in my heart with such an eclectic array. I know I had, without regret to this day.
I just didn't realize I'd missed a hole, a perfect silhouette of the cliche puzzle piece.
The empty space camouflaged so well amid my life's treasures.
Then I met you, a passer-by, exchanged hellos of mere acquaintance...but then I met you again, and your eyes, looking back at me, reflecting back such a magnificent light.
You, so... So desirable, with such a passionate, heartfelt, sincere, honest, forgiving, accepting and loving grasp on life...perfectly broken.
I could draw for hours, days, eternity tracing and connecting the lines into speechless works of art.
Your shattered pieces glistening, emitting the most elegant aura I'd ever seen.
Foreign to me, such grace from pain.
I thought I'd mastered that, thought...
Until I looked into your eyes, and met greatness.
I found myself lost in gaze with you.
****** into another realm, through twisting wormholes of iridescent glows, contrasting with the pitch black of eternity surrounding...spinning, up then down, left then right, backward and forward...Until I was spat out into an eerily silent crisp white serenity.
There, I was faced with your soul, and I saw myself.
They say there's only one face you'll never meet, and that is your own, yet there we were, face to face.
The missing puzzle piece to the void in my heart that I'd worked so hard to cover.
The eyes are the mirror to the soul?
I found myself in you, and watched as you recognized yourself in me.
Each finding the exact of what was missing, what we needed to find, not a moment too soon, not a second too late, but just as it is meant to be.
Two sets of shattered glass, pieced together, gleaming as the fragments intermix harmoniously, into an intricate phenomenal masterpiece.
And when the darkness surrounds us, melded together we find the slightest sliver of starlight to dance with hope, and light the moon.
And when the light shines, we warm our world, with a most ardent soft glow.
I know now, I see now...
I see you, I see me...
Us, stained glass of broken souls, amalgamated as one beautiful reflection of love.
I will never again question when you're lost in gaze with me, for upon reflection I now see.
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