Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
499 · Jan 2019
Running in the shadows
AP Hastens Jan 2019
My lifetime was spent running blindly
As life the cruel mistress treated me unkindly
Me trusting people fully was really unlikely
Sitting down naturally and waiting it out idly

That was the case until last year
When i was given a wheel to steer
When my life was given a color smear
When i was given an iron spear

I was given a chance to fight
I was given a trail of light
I saw a glimmer of hope in sight
I saw a shimmer of what was right
447 · Jul 2020
Nature walk
AP Hastens Jul 2020
Trees everywhere i look

The flowing stream is all I hear

A scene out of a story book

All that is missing is you right here.



Walking on the gravel path

Chirping birds like wind chimes

Takes my sense away from life's wrath

And to nature's intimate sets of rhyme.



With the sun in my eyes at dawn

And the moon and stars at dusk

Diversity in flora and fauna

The scent of nature's calming musk.


Then back to reality I go

Knowing that I had good self-talk

Hoping to go back to nature's toe

And once again go on a nature walk.
288 · Jan 2019
Space with you
AP Hastens Jan 2019
The vast field of asteroids
The colors of its void
Foalting around with you near
Your voice in this vaccum i hear

All of the bright lights
All of these grand sights
Spending all my hours
Locked in the iron tower

Oh it is fun
Oh it is fun
To finally see the sun
And dazzling planets spun

All the sights we saw
Finally made my ice thaw
Like a piece of art made raw
It had left me in awe
#moments in a dream
217 · Jan 2019
A silent war
AP Hastens Jan 2019
It flows through seamlessly
A being that doesn't target aimlessly
A knife that aim fatally
It aims for a person's naivety

A person who acts tough
Will never get enough
A person who's acts a bluff
Will end up in handcuffs

As the tides shift
It sets the person afflicted adrift
Closer and closer to the rift
A feeling of being utterly stiff
211 · Jan 2019
My life story
AP Hastens Jan 2019
I was discriminated
Thoughts of me were criticized
They forced me to stay hidden
Until the pain left me bed-ridden

I ran and hid tirelessly
I searched and fought quickly
I ended my silent wars quickly
I did everything willingly

Until the day i found hope in this sphere
A chance to escape the pain and fear
God gave me an iron sheild
And a second chance to live

In the end I survived
I even helped people get their lost lives
I had their hopes revived
I stopped the cycle of run and hide
208 · Jan 2019
Two hundred and five
AP Hastens Jan 2019
Two hundred and five people
Two hundred and five chances
those glances i got from them vast like forest
But those pristine eyes caught me by surprise

Seven-hundred and thirty days
Of  talking to you and yearning with myself
In the times of early May or July
I was just with you in a room of our friends
Yeah the time of the clean slates sure does fly

Twenty nine classmates I knew by heart
Twenty nine new moments of fun
But when this all ends only one stays in this field of grass
The girl whom is the pedestal of the statue of us
190 · Jan 2019
Her
AP Hastens Jan 2019
Her
A mind deviating
A pain alleviating
A heart on a quest
That puts it to the test

The thoughts she express with brevity
Are important to me like gravity
I now know the utter irony
Of her kindness to give charity
179 · Jan 2019
Body of truth
AP Hastens Jan 2019
The eyes to see the truth
Very much but rarely seen
In all even youth

The ears to hear God
Are very unique to mankind
Though it may seem odd

The feet to spread good news
To the men who are in doubt
Hope they bid adieu

The mouth built to preach
The salvation and the hope
To those they can reach
The lack of human realization made me write this poem
175 · Jan 2019
A moment in you
AP Hastens Jan 2019
The first time we met
My destiny was already set
As a hope for love descended
I knew my cycle of sadness has ended

When we first spoke
I felt something in me broke
My boundaries non-existent in a single stroke
A feeling that you evoked

That beautiful face
Had set my pace
A glimmering diamond in my space
You and me in my secret base

The moments we spent together in heaven
Until the end of May 7
From the time of first impressions
Here's my heartfelt confession
To the girl that gave me direction
To the person whom i love
To the person whom i cherish
This is heartfelt
Up till the end
169 · Jan 2019
My love
AP Hastens Jan 2019
A face of gold
A beauty untold
I wish to grow old
With her hand to hold

A mind that is vast
A friendship that will last
Good like pop of the past
A magic spell she casts
156 · Jan 2019
Schoolworks
AP Hastens Jan 2019
The beginning is not always a breadcrumb
Sometimes it leaves the unaware numb
The floods of requirements are our stepping stone
To help keep our skills in
metronome

The life of an student
Helps practice being prudent
But sometimes they act impotent
And that is when the stress gets potent

The stress of that moment
those acts needing atonement
All of your patience spent
While waiting for it to end
145 · Jan 2019
Words of a broken heart
AP Hastens Jan 2019
My words of fear
It may sound sheer
But once she ****** her spear
You may start to tear

I had many attempts
To mold the reality I had dreamt
But the fear of love had crept
And utter doubt had swept

Due to this relationship of give and take
Our entire world started to shake
So for both our sakes
I had to let my heart break
141 · Jan 2019
the four corners
AP Hastens Jan 2019
the four coners of me and you
stuck, dreary in this ruse
those moments I bid adieu
to the one i call my muse
the four corners of life
a life of black and white
I desire your spirit feeling alive
A healing of life's blight
As life starts to get dire
I will keep you protected
From the inferno's fires
I'll keep you feeling elevated
To my inspiration
The one who gave me direction
135 · Jan 2019
A sonnet about you
AP Hastens Jan 2019
A face of gold
A brain thats vast
A story untold
A life with you at last
My wish and desire
Is your affection and love
I hope that our love burns like fire
With divine intervention from up above
But if God forbids this sacrilege
I will be okay with this decision
I will honor this sacrament
In spite of its emotion
But i truly hope for your approval
Though my actions seem futile
126 · Sep 2019
Yesterday can’t stay
AP Hastens Sep 2019
As time flew by with such haste
All those memories, gone without a trace
All of those efforts went to waste
All that was left was an unfinished phrase

No more going back to those times
Where we laughed, cried, and shared this pain
All that is left is this poem of rhymes
With hints of ink stains
124 · Jan 2019
The kinds of people
AP Hastens Jan 2019
There are many kinds of people
Those whose optimism colors the whole world like a masterpiece
Those whose pessimism clouds blacker than a car heavily tinted
Those who are only pedestals to the true stars
People who were born as the gold in the pile of steel
And those born tarnished but can still glimmer like the shiniest alloy
But in all those kinds of entities we all share similar qualities
And thats what makes us a unique mosaic
118 · Jan 2019
Untitled
AP Hastens Jan 2019
Memories
I remember moments where your face had made my eyes glare
Cause people like you are rare
I keep you treasured down here
68 · Jul 2020
Life after the war
AP Hastens Jul 2020
Life, love, and happiness

all these things I had before today

Now I go on knowing of the darkness

For the sake of families in the grey.



Bloodshed, war, and sorrow

A ****** plain filled with bones

Uncertain of a future or a tomorrow

Fighting in a field of sticks and stones.



All that I have is a gun and a blade

Against opposition twice our size

Bodies buried in masquerades 

Husbands dead without a goodbye.



If ever I make it back

I would carry a lifelong scar

A part of my dreams turn to pitch black

While I live a life after the war.
67 · Jul 2020
F A T E
AP Hastens Jul 2020
When you are with me

I would make kings and queens kneel

For you I would part the seas

And make  mountains fall to your heel.



I ask not of you money

nor will I ask for sacrifice

Because you alone are sweet as honey

And that alone will suffice.



I may not know much about romance

nor how to make a girl mine

but I shall stand up with guidance

To make you mine and mine alone.

— The End —