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I love him
I tell myself
I know that
We will be together forever
I don’t believe that
We could be separated
My thoughts tell me that
He’s the love of my life
Sometimes my heart lies and says
I could live an eternity
Without him
Like my friends say
“We’re perfect for each other”
And you can’t tell me
He’s not the one.

Now read from bottom to top.
i picked a sunflower
not because i wanted to
because i had to,
it reminded me of you
now you see?
see what you have done
done to me
I'm trapped in nest
nest made of you
you,
your smile,
your laugh,
made of you.

the sunflower is dead now.
i try to bring it back alive
i really try it
nothing brings it back alive
nothing makes it alive,
maybe aliveish
not alive.
but maybe is that all i can get
aliveish
maybe that's fair enough
enough alive
Who are we?
What are we?
Do we have a purpose?
What is that purpose?
Are we good?
Why is there evil?
Why is there hate?
Why is there discrimination?
Do we all go to Heaven?
Is there hell?
Do we live in hell?
Why are there natural disasters?
Are they natural?
Are they man made?
Is there a reason?
What is the reason?
Why do bad things happen to good people?
What about good things?
Are there good things?
Are there just bad things?
Am I right?
Am I wrong?
Are you wrong?
Do you agree?
Do you disagree?
Do you believe?
Do I believe?
What does anyone believe?
Is there ever a right answer?
Are there only wrong answers?
Are you confused?
Am I confused?
Do you love?
Do we love?
Do I love?
What is Love?
What is right?
What is wrong?
What is good?
What is bad?
What is our purpose........
                     Why does it all happen.....
     All the questions, that are unanswered
The stars try to shine
Down through indifferent clouds.
Her tears mix with rain
and water her path
defining the moments
Of forever.
Love is the fiercest part
of her being.
Though she struggles to
find it’s authenticity
Hiding her codes
behind barbwire and thorns.
Her hands are bloodstained
in the hours of time.
She is mysterious
With many latitudes
Calling from a different
Kind of universe.
Yet she walks that path of stones
Believing she is a different
Person than the one she leaves
on the trail .

Walking away from that
Hushed comfort of
understated majesty.
Hearing music amid
The squalor of verse
With strangers who love
among the poetic’s
of language.

I grow tired of the
Deep waters
I’m learning to navigate
the shallows
Where purring oratory
Captures me and leaves
Me spellbound beyond
All measures and time .
 Oct 2018 Keith Mitchell
celesti
i wrote you
a letter every day
letters to tell you
just how i feel

written in neat, curved
writing i told you
just how sweet
i thought you were
how you made my heart
glow

letters in which i wrote
with various colors of ink
pouring out my whole being
to you

i wrote you
a letter every day.

i wrote you letters in which
i told you how you made me
bloom.

eventually
i found myself
pressing harder on
the paper
than i had before.

creating tears in them
similar in shape
and size
as the ones
inside of me.

i began to send
letters
with creases
and bumps
and stains
splattered with tears

pouring
from my eyes

as i wrote
the anger
bubbling within me.

my last letter
addressed to you
contained
no words

but was blank.
because
i had none that

could reach
as far

and deep

into the cracks
of my
heart

to describe
just
what you

had left
of me.
a draft i decided to finish because it took a totally different turn than originally intended.
*      *      *      and you are      *      *            
   *           *  just­ like the moon *      *          
*        *   *      -----so, alone-----      *      *    
   *      *    but you shine bright  *      *    
*     *            at the darkest  *      *     *
   *      *      *     of times  *      *      *      *    
*           *           *           *         *          
 Oct 2018 Keith Mitchell
Omnya0
If you're not in a relationship
you're lonely
We forget about friendship
A much larger trophy

Romance comes and goes
Like a bright red rose
Friendships stay for longer
And are much stronger

I will not deny
that a partner is nice to have
to sit under the night sky
And cuddle

Sleeping next to them every night
But it is not the only light

We must not rely our happiness on it
And remember our friends
Too many people say they'll die alone and forget that friends will also be there.

— The End —