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2.6k · May 2021
Insomnia of the soul
Rose Cliff May 2021
I suffer from an exhaustion where sleep offers no remedy
Rose Cliff Dec 2021
𝙸 πš•πš˜πšŸπšŽπš 𝚒𝚘𝚞.
π™±πšžπš 𝙸 πšŒπš˜πšžπš•πš πš—πšŽπšŸπšŽπš› 𝚜𝚊𝚒 πšπš‘πšŠπš
πš‚πš˜ πš’πš— πšπš‘πšŽ πšπšŠπš›πš” 𝚠𝚎 πšŒπš˜πš–πš–πš’πšπšπšŽπš πš˜πšžπš› πš‹πš›πš˜πš”πšŽπš— 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚜.

𝚈𝚘𝚞 πš πšŠπš—πšπšŽπš πš–πšŽ 𝚝𝚘𝚘.
π™±πšžπš 𝚒𝚘𝚞 πšŒπš˜πšžπš•πš πš—πšŽπšŸπšŽπš› 𝚜𝚊𝚒 πšπš‘πšŠπš
πš‚πš˜ πš˜πš— πšπš‘πš˜πšœπšŽ πš—πš’πšπš‘πšπšœ 𝚠𝚎 πš‹πš›πš˜πš”πšŽ πš˜πšžπš›πšœπšŽπš•πšŸπšŽπšœ.
π™³πšŽπš•πš’πš›πš’πš˜πšžπšœ πšπš›πš˜πš– πš˜πšžπš› πš‘πšžπš—πšπšŽπš›.
1.2k · Mar 2019
old habits
Rose Cliff Mar 2019
old habits die hard

and when he doesn't die
he craws up next to you at night
arm on your waist
voice in your ear
"why haven't i seen you lately
my dear"

old habits will be the death of me
every time i get free
he knocks me down
onto the floor
he screams just do it
old habits has opened his door
just complete the ritual
just do it
no one will know
it's our secret
old habits
please keep it

old habits, old prisons

old habits die hard
i thought it would be fine
i gave into his lies
just one more time
but this time
i thought i was dying
i felt like i was dying
hunched over crying
i knew he'd never let me free
old habits has enslaved me
1.2k · Jul 2021
Suffocation
Rose Cliff Jul 2021
Please,
someone
tell me.
What do I do
If I can’t die
Because I have hope in the future
But I can’t stay alive
Because the present is so much crueler
1.2k · Mar 2020
i hate my birthday
Rose Cliff Mar 2020
some people believe birthdays
are a time of celebration
whilst mine forces me into a
sobering reflection
each year the withdrawal
becomes stronger
for each year my life keeps
falling
apart
and each year i cut my hands
trying to assemble the broken
pieces
of the past
892 · Jan 2021
Bouquet of death
Rose Cliff Jan 2021
Every flower I touch wilts
And decays
That is why I carry a bouquet
Of dead flowers
Because you cannot **** what is already dead
I am so sorry that I will break you but death follows me around
850 · Mar 2019
your target
Rose Cliff Mar 2019
I am the Target that is placed on a wall
You are the arrow shot from a bow
813 · Aug 2021
Eternal sea
Rose Cliff Aug 2021
I want to find the eternal sea
Where the horizon dare not touch the sky
But they exist ubiquitously
773 · Mar 2019
if only it was that simple
Rose Cliff Mar 2019
I opened up to you,
about my struggles, my destructive behaviors
and you said just don't do it.
If i could "just not do it",
I wouldn't have any secrets to be sharing with you.
I wouldn't be so depressed that I needed you.
596 · Jan 2019
Drowing in straight lines
Rose Cliff Jan 2019
I can feel it coming back
The hollow cavity, once again
Has claimed residence in my chest
I can feel it suppressing each breath
It weighs me down, I am carrying lead
It poisons my blood stream
I try to scream
Nothing escapes because my lungs are filling
I can’t breathe
The viscous liquid is killing
The world has drowned
Or possibly
It was me

Like quicksand, the more I struggle
The more the sand buries me
Inch by inch
Gasping for breath the small sediments
sting my throat
there’s no way out
only down
only the ground
that fills my lungs
I can’t breathe
No more sound
The world has drowned
Or maybe
It was me

The grains of sand fly through the sky
The wind picks up
More and more sand flies
It whips my hair, it stings my eyes
The wind gains strength
Calamitous glory
The grains meld together
They move together
They pulsate and writhe
Seemingly devoid of time
They fall and rise
A sea of sand dunes takes the skies
I can’t breathe
There is no more air
The world has drowned
Or conceivably
It was me

It sounds different from the ocean
I can hear the movements of each grain
I can hear their commotion
The tide pulls my legs
The wind rips my hair
The waves crash down on my body
Thousands of tiny scratches cover me
Head to toe
My skin is sanded thin as paper
The current is swirling
The sound of sand rushes
Like the indistinct murmur of hushes
The wave rises
The wave rises
If a wave rises it must fall
The wave falls
I cant breathe
I am crumpled, a paper ball
The world has drowned
Or likely
It was me


The thinnest parts of me rip
I spill out into the sea of grains
Undefinable, my pain
Indescribable
I can no longer tell where I begin
And where the ocean ends
I can now see the way the sky bends
The water becomes salty from my tears
Or maybe the salty water is my tears
My fading gaze flickers to the horizon
It is just a straight line
The world has drowned
And certainly
It was me
but inconceivably
Its all just a straight line
566 · Apr 2019
My mind, my beauty
Rose Cliff Apr 2019
I want you to open up my mind
Look past this life’s lies
Ask me what colour did I paint the sky
What does wind look like through my eyes
And what is this force that binds us together
Is it the same force that compels the earth and moon to dance forever
Ask me and I will describe the way the sky bends
They way the moon mends
Each and all of my wounds
You see my mind is a beautiful place
It’s a shame to see you let it go to waste
562 · Aug 2021
Roads
Rose Cliff Aug 2021
I drove down the
roads I had driven
5000 times
but I could not recognise them
each street light,
each white line,
even the crescent in the sky,
they were all strangers to me.
These roads they were foreign;
then I wept.
For it is terrifying to be aware
while you lose your mind.
488 · Feb 2019
Trees
Rose Cliff Feb 2019
What is this tree
It is out in the open
But is it free
Is it hoping
To breathe
468 · Sep 2019
be lonely with me
Rose Cliff Sep 2019
they played with fire
because they wanted to get burnt

sad eyes blown away with smoke
sadder smiles drinking false hope

playing spin the bottle
trying to kiss the brokenness in each other

they were so lonely
but at least they weren't alone
468 · Aug 2019
Walk on water
Rose Cliff Aug 2019
With tears in her eyes
And nicotine in her mind
She stares out into an ocean
And wishes she could walk on water
466 · Aug 2019
Nothing
Rose Cliff Aug 2019
Your words mean nothing
Because if they meant something
They would mean everything
452 · Mar 2021
Switch
Rose Cliff Mar 2021
We constantly flip the switch
                                  footsteps approaching *
β€œHurry”
                                                 β€œShhh”
               *flick

They can’t know we live in the dark
Rose Cliff Aug 2021
I sometimes feel like I’m dying
And I think
It’s all finally caught up to me
421 · Sep 2019
Approve
Rose Cliff Sep 2019
I know you never approve
I always disappoint you
But this is my life
And I have a point to prove
Mood
375 · Jun 2019
Well of depression
Rose Cliff Jun 2019
You are the well my depression is drawn from
Never ending your shaft runs in my veins
Forever flowing, you ignite my pain
358 · Sep 2019
You never deserved me
Rose Cliff Sep 2019
I feel sorry that you left
Because you thought I wasn’t enough
So, you settled for even less
With someone I’m above
355 · Aug 2021
Asphyxia
Rose Cliff Aug 2021
The air is thicker than it use to be
It takes too much strength to fill these lungs
Why did they change the way we breathe
Weren’t we trying hard enough
352 · Jan 2019
screaming for chaos
Rose Cliff Jan 2019
I can not be ok unless my world is crumbling apart.
I can only stretch my limbs around your calamity
tie them in a bow,
if my eucatastrophe catastrophically collapses.

The more my mind becomes at peace,
the more I stay awake at night staring out my window
into the ink shadow,
And tango with the shattered moonlight.

Nostalgia consumes
Slip and plummet into a cataclysmic monsune

So I welcome you,
I beg you, rip my heart to shreds
make my mind a mess.
Defile my body and brake my sprit, burn my tattered shreds
in the blazing fire of your hate.

Look at it insanity, everywhere, everything
I will drown in it, I will drown in the screams.
Humanity clings
But pain, the saviour the messiah
is the only thing that makes me feel okay
the only way I can tell fantasy from fiction
pain is the only thing that keeps my devils at bay.

I am the creator of my own catastrophe,
I am the designer of my own tragedy.
Agony.
I am both my antidote and poison, the repercussions of one are felt at magananimous magnitudes of the other.
A never ending cycle.
Estranged peace, unwonted quite. Lock myself in a small room let darkness take me,
insanity break me,
my demons create me,
the evils of the world dance in that room,
they dance with me.
This is my estranged peace,
this is my unwonted quite.

I smile,
a smile so out of place,
put on my mask to cover my face.
I gather my shreds and sow them into a terrorizingly beautiful quilt.
I can only be human if mayhem is raging
under the surface of the lie I built
bubbling over
pressure building
scales tipping.

There is something terribly irreparably broken.
There is a darkness that was terribly irreparably woken

I can only be ok if my world is crumbling apart.

Because something inside screams for chaos.
338 · Aug 2019
Stars in your eyes
Rose Cliff Aug 2019
You said my eyes sparkle
To the stars they are tethered
Like the night sky
You could get lost in them forever
337 · Mar 2019
Sleep
Rose Cliff Mar 2019
Sleep is an elusive shadow that I will forever chase
334 · Mar 2019
Oppressed
Rose Cliff Mar 2019
We are supposed to express whatever lies deep with In this chest
But as soon as it get too much
It’s end is abrupt
And it is hushed
And it is shoved
Back into the recess of depression
Of which it was born
Of which oppression
Will finally adorn
Us who’ve been silenced
Us who mourn
327 · Feb 2019
Thoughts
Rose Cliff Feb 2019
At night my mind wanders
I think about the bareness of my legs
The soft rubing of the sheets against them
I think about my underwear the way it feels to wear it
I think about the way it feels to take it off
Then I think about you
Laying here in my empty bed
My empty pillow adorned with your head
Your breath dancing onmy neck
I think about the bareness of my legs
the way they feel against yours
They way your smell encases me
How your eyes melt into an million memories
And a million more emotions
How the thought of you causes such a commotion

Yet I’ve never told you I love you
319 · May 2019
Back
Rose Cliff May 2019
I lost my black dog.

Today he came home.
310 · Mar 2019
Autism
Rose Cliff Mar 2019
Among the grass there is a rose
Beautiful and intricate
He lives in a world of his own
Be he will never be picked
You see
Because he’s different
He’s labelled as a freak
"Touch him and you get a disease"
But they don’t get that
He is just a little boy
Not some dysfunctional toy
That can be sent back
To the factory
With a stamp saying
Broken
Reject
Spaz
People say kids can be cruel
I don’t know why they do what they do
But by saying this you condone it
So they never own it
when they’ve made a little boy question
"What is wrong with me"
When my little brother
Looks me in the eyes saying *****
"Why can’t I be normal?"
A part of me will die
As if normal is something you want to attain
If normal is taking the knife from your back
And stabbing someone three times harder
I'll refrain
His differences change
The way he sees the world
He would never deceive you
Incapable of malice  
He would never be mean to you
His differences will change the world
Albert Einstein
Where do you think he was on the spectrum line
Still people don’t see him
He loves everyone
Still people choose to beat him
To tear him down
Not all of this has happened now
But another part of me will die
When he goes to school
And I look into his eyes
Black and blue
Because he didn’t understand
that what he did was little strange
so, some kid raised their hand
and tried and rearrange
his beautiful face
the thought makes me physical ache
a person with autism is not disabled
no
they are enabled
to see the world for what it is
my brother
I would die
if it meant
Those big brown eyes
Are never made
to cry.
Sorry this is a bit off a long poem, but I feel that this issue really needs to be addressed. People with autism suffer in silence and on top of that they are being torn down and bullied for something that makes them beautiful for the way they were born.
303 · Feb 2019
What I would give
Rose Cliff Feb 2019
Oh what I would give
To be oblivious and innocent
Oh what I would give
To undo the things I did
Oh what I would give
To go back to being a little kid
277 · Feb 2019
Shattered glass
Rose Cliff Feb 2019
Why does one
Look at shattered glass
And assume
It failed to last

Rather
Wasn’t it failed by us
To be looked after
And loved
264 · Aug 2021
Empty…
Rose Cliff Aug 2021
It's a hollow kind
of happiness
But I'm addicted to
the emptiness
263 · Aug 2021
Mute
Rose Cliff Aug 2021
If I rip out my throat
You cannot hear me scream
If I blind your eyes
Can you cannot see me heave
Or my tears, you cannot see me cry

But you have bound my hands
And torn my throat
So you cannot hear my screams
But delight in watching
My contorted mouth cry silent tears
263 · Mar 2019
i need change
Rose Cliff Mar 2019
i am consumed by the overwhelming urge
to up root and change my world

i am sick of seeing
the same things i always see

i am sick of being
the same contempt me
259 · Feb 2019
Saving my life
Rose Cliff Feb 2019
It’s hard to imagine that by being yourself
You could save someone’s life
You don’t have to imagine
Because you’ve done it so many times
I know now you can’t understand
But when your older I will take your hand
Look you in the eyes
And tell you because of you
I am alive
259 · Sep 2021
This world is our disease
Rose Cliff Sep 2021
This world is making me sick

If I eat
I feel nauseous  
If I don’t
Nothing changes

If I sleep
I am exhausted
If I don’t
Nothing changes

If I cry
I feel agony
If I don’t
Nothing changes

It must be this world
This world is making us sick
Rose Cliff Apr 2019
How long do you want me to wait
20 minuets 3 years
I hate myself
Because I know I’ll wait for you until death appears
252 · Mar 2019
When you showed me you
Rose Cliff Mar 2019
We thought we kept our secrets well,
so on the past we dwelled
exchanging stories, memories and realities.

Our broken currency.

We wished we could drown
these pasts is the ever-present
sound of our
background.
But they never left us.
So when you spoke,
my heart broke.
I denied it, tried to hide it,
tried to confine my mind
leave these feelings undefined.

But you gave me a apart
of your heart
which was broken into shards
and yes, it was sharp.
But from that night,
no shattered hearts
would ever tear us apart.
250 · Jan 2023
Vessel
Rose Cliff Jan 2023
I am no longer acquainted with hunger.
This flesh has forgotten his name.
This vessel has lost its way.
241 · Jan 2023
Minimalist
Rose Cliff Jan 2023
We strive for the minimal,
Simplicity is safe.
To be bold is to be vulnerable;
An unsteady state.
240 · Mar 2019
devoid and voids
Rose Cliff Mar 2019
I am devoid of something,
I am a void of nothing.
238 · Aug 2019
Empty promises
Rose Cliff Aug 2019
As she drained the bottle of wine
She realised
It was empty just like
Everyone's promises
238 · Sep 2021
Indefinite motion
Rose Cliff Sep 2021
I could not breathe.
So I gambled with God
And put slits in my throat.
I no longer needed to breathe.
  
But now I cannot stop moving.
Inflicted with indefinite motion,
I am out of chips.

Then Exhaustion tortured me,  
He hit me when I closed my eyes.
My skin stung when I stumbled.
Hand on my throat,
Voice in my ear
He whispered,
β€œThis is how you die,
My dear”

Making sure I will forever drown,
Begging to have died the first time
β€˜round.
236 · Jul 2019
Wedding speech
Rose Cliff Jul 2019
When we were kids
We used to dream about
Finding love
Our first kiss
Having somebody to miss

You would dream about
Finding a love that encapsulates your soul
As It cascades down your body Trickling through each fibre of your being
Each heart beat sends a melody
that drips through your blood stream
Now your heart beats differently
entwined with another's
Infinitively
Both Love and blood share the same descendant,
The colour red
Maybe because they both flow through our veins
Maybe because they are the same
Indistinguishable

For a long time we dreamt about this day
But what if it wasn't a single day
It was a perpetual journey
You found yourself loving this person more each day
in ways that are undefinable
this kind love was indescribable
You find that your cracks are filled by their imperfections,
mending each other with your flaws
You find their presence is a kindling fire of comfort and warmth
Their smile fixes every inequity
Their eyes melt into a million memories
You find this person is home
230 · Mar 2019
i dont even know
Rose Cliff Mar 2019
I am so confused.
Confusion is a precarious state.
I feel so depressed
into the oblivion of a thousand lethargies I plummet.

I don’t know how to let it out
From sadness I cannot rest
so it rolls on for perpetuity.
It rolls on unexpressed

I could slice my flesh
Paint a beautiful artwork with red
but I’m so tired.

I could eat my feelings, then purge,
Until my stomach aches, hands shake
but I’ve already done that.

I could lash out in an epoch
of hidden rebellion
but I can’t escape my fortress of living hell.

There are no ways out

I don’t have the motivation to exist.
I don’t have the motivation to breathe
But I’m too tired to sleep
I’m too tired to die.

I am supressed  
I am oppressed
I am depressed.
227 · Aug 2019
Orchids
Rose Cliff Aug 2019
Every where I go
Orchids they grow
In the known unknow
Orchids they grow

I can't pick which path to chose
I don't know which road to use
Into the know unknown
The roads they go
225 · Jan 2021
Finality
Rose Cliff Jan 2021
Finally,
I have the strength to say goodbye
Time brings all finalities and now it is time for ours
220 · Jul 2021
Waterfalls on her cheeks
Rose Cliff Jul 2021
Sometimes I wonder if
My eyes water so much because
My body is trying to cry the tears
My mind won’t let free
213 · Nov 2021
Vocation
Rose Cliff Nov 2021
Death was her vocation.
It infuriates me that they cannot appreciate the true nature of her [Plath] art because they are to occupied in entertaining pity or resentment.
204 · Aug 2019
Fellings for you
Rose Cliff Aug 2019
Drowning in the ocean of your eyes
you leaned in just too far awayΒ Β 
Your lips taunting me
You had me playing mercy
I was begging you to take me
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