Snow Selmon: Poems

132 · Dec 2020

rays

Snow Selmon Dec 2020

rays

stingrays trace the rivers
flat against the ground
and they don't have to worry
because their souls will live
in the between
where the lights know their name

#nature #stingray #spirit

129 · Mar 2023

Strangle

Snow Selmon Mar 2023

Strangle

When the flowers intertwine
They strangle and pull
Neither one can win
If they both lose

122 · Apr 3

Padlocked

Snow Selmon Apr 3

Padlocked

Trying to break these
Padlocked lungs
Trying to just yell help
But yet I still can't speak

118 · Nov 2021

rose

Snow Selmon Nov 2021

rose

we were roses
never meant to be
thorns upon thorns

I'm not a rose
a lily
floating along the current

your turbulent waves
you said we weren't
to be together

as I see it your, chaotic
and I'm calm
you took me on a ride

I ended
on the rocks
your words

they cut deep
breaking me
like your lies

114 · Apr 14

Stand still

Snow Selmon Apr 14

Stand still

Can't the world stand still
Just give me a minute to stop running
To take a breath and stand still
All I need is a second
To see the beauty of life again

When all we do is run, its hard to realise all that your missing.

113 · Mar 2023

What would happen…?

Snow Selmon Mar 2023

What would happen…?

Sometimes I can’t help but think,
What would happen…
An open question
Yet a statement
With Infinite answers and possibilities.
I just wonder what would happen.

111 · May 2021

driving

Snow Selmon May 2021

driving

could I borrow a few more miles
my wheels are flat
and it's getting dark
and the pink of day
is fading to grey
a few more miles
is all I need
a tiny distance
that feels like light years
and I'm waiting for someone to pass
maybe their waiting on me
to get out of the dark
and stand in the light
to put up a fight
but these tires are deflated
the lights are gone
I dream of your arms
ones that felt safe and like home
where I was someone and not bare bone
you are my power
even if your not here
you are energy you are everywhere
you are my destination
the place I'm stuck in between
the place I can't go
is where my home is
so I'll wait out the night
and inflate my tires
go a couple miles
until I find you
even just a glimpse will refill me
I'll be on my way
humming my love away
so that you can breathe it in
so you can see what I couldn't say
you can feel what I was scared of
so I'll drive
far, far away
so I won't hurt you no more
bye, bye my angel
I hope the light treats you well

106 · Mar 2023

Follow

Snow Selmon Mar 2023

Follow

I follow
Not because I have no leader.
I follow because
If the world had to end,
I would want you beside me.
My eternal flame in this wasteland,
We call home.

105 · Sep 2020

fallout

Snow Selmon Sep 2020

fallout

i think about the fallout
the pressure pushing me down
I think about the fallout
the emotions wearing me down
I think about the fallout
my body breaking all day'
I live the fallout my body cracking glass

102 · May 2021

Beauty

Snow Selmon May 2021

Beauty

Arrogant Bliss

101 · May 2021

if only I remembered this

Snow Selmon May 2021

if only I remembered this

I can tell but you could also pinch me you know

because you see you did want it if only you didn't lie about it

100 · Sep 2021

tired

Snow Selmon Sep 2021

tired

always running
without water
not a single drop of dew
a little river
is all I ask
instead of this land
I live in
where water
is just for the lies
that blossom

100 · Apr 2021

shadow

Snow Selmon Apr 2021

shadow

I was covered
a backdrop
a veil of night
and when the light
blinded me
I fell into love
like a smothering force
I drank it in

100 · May 2021

wind

Snow Selmon May 2021

wind

lay down feel the wind
a soft constant found within
and somehow it whispers your name
E.T.H.A.N
every syllable in every language
and it seems to mean the same thing
that Love is an angel it will burn bright
with a Te Amo
I hope it finds you on your darkest nights
so it fills you with strength
and it can light the darkness
and help you escape

100 · Oct 2021

Ocean talk

Snow Selmon Oct 2021

Ocean talk

we can not understand how
rivers and oceans talk
how they wade through
troubles and hard rock of
problems how they turn
us against ourselves
and unite in one breath
how they overflow
taking us with it

99 · Oct 2021

hop

Snow Selmon Oct 2021

hop

going between emotions
bursting against each other
trying to find a grip
where their are no hand holes
no one to help
where you just have one choice
to hop to the next step
hoping it doesn't snap

99 · Apr 2023

Let me stand

Snow Selmon Apr 2023

Let me stand

I’ve been wondering.
Why do I, always get…
The burden of all your ****.

Why can’t I speak
Ain’t I worth it

Why can’t it for once be me
Why can’t you stand me

I can’t do this anymore
The burden is falling down
And with it I’ll drown

So help me out
I’m just trying to live…
With myself

95 · Jul 2021

running

Snow Selmon Jul 2021

running

always going around in circles
and you never once came
to show me the way

94 · Mar 2021

burning

Snow Selmon Mar 2021

burning

I could feel the metal
burning and changing
into a vice
and it held me close
it was warm and nice
until it burned my home
and I was left alone

94 · Sep 2023

Makeup

Snow Selmon Sep 2023

Makeup

Sometimes it's hard
To pretend
To put on make-up
And play a game

93 · Mar 2021

I did love you

Snow Selmon Mar 2021

I did love you

I loved you, you were my world
my sun
the universe to me
I revolved around a axis
turning to your voice
and then you left
a pain shattering pain
that will scar forever

92 · Sep 2020

leaving

Snow Selmon Sep 2020

leaving

I'm leaving the city
that buzzes with sound
I'm leaving the smoke
that seems to follow me around
I'm leaving the friends
who bullied me all my life
I'm leaving the haze
that wronged my judgement
I'm leaving my mind
the only way I can leave my past behind
I'm leaving my worries
it's the only way to escape
I'm leaving my fake smile
so I won't remember the pain
I'm leaving my hands tied
so I can't fight back
I'm leaving the city
so I can live and smell the air

92 · Oct 2021

the mail

Snow Selmon Oct 2021

the mail

the letter came today
chasing thoughts
from my head
scattering them
constellations
of what I dream
my deepest darkness

92 · Aug 2021

Rust

Snow Selmon Aug 2021

Rust

I lied in the rain and slept
when I woke
your arms pinned me
I was too heavy
plastered with rust
to which your laugh sounded
all around my head
pinned to you
unable to move
my rusted heart

91 · Mar 2021

Ripping

Snow Selmon Mar 2021

Ripping

rich crimson painted rust
glistening due painted red
shadowed droplets
red eyes tainted smile
reaping chasm
drop right in
open jaws
jagged teeth
tear your skin
and lick your lips
and wait for the pain
for your soul to be
ripped apart

91 · May 2021

traces

Snow Selmon May 2021

traces

skin laced drinks
marring thoughts
bright sunshine
liquid kisses
gone in a second
drugs and pain
all day traces
laced with pain

90 · May 2021

ghost

Snow Selmon May 2021

ghost

I'm getting high on fumes
shooting with eyes closed
trying to **** with a smile

I'm playing with a ghost
so I'm not alone

taking drugs by the miles
drinking my sorrows
hoping I'll die tomorrow

I'm playing with a ghost
so I'm not alone

take a flower see it bloom
ghosts reminds me of you
always there in the dark

I'm playing with a ghost
so I'm not alone

fighting sleep, passing out
counting sheep, eating out
close my eyes dream of you

I'm playing with a ghost
so I know I'm alone

I am alone with a ghost
looking through sunken eyes
look left, look right

I'M PLAYING WITH A GHOST
AND IT'S YOU

90 · Jul 2021

Untitled

Snow Selmon Jul 2021

Untitled

you
in my eyes
burning imprint
why won't you leave
in my heart and mind
I never knew you had so much power
but now I'm lost
in eyes so dangerous
and without a cause

I am not a slave to you
I am my own and I will not
be tied down by the words
of a demon like you

89 · Mar 2021

guilt

Snow Selmon Mar 2021

guilt

I've always been weighed down
by tons of ocean water
drowning me
and it was always building
getting heavier and stronger
and I was taking my last breath
and seeing my memories flash in the fire
the ocean was on fire
and the guilt was the culprit

88 · Aug 2021

still

Snow Selmon Aug 2021

still

I still think of you
your arms around me
and the safety of home

87 · Feb 2021

Martian

Snow Selmon Feb 2021

Martian

I wish I lived in the beyond
on mars
where I couldn't hurt the people I love
where the people were safe
I am a scar and I will not heal
I wish I was gone
so they wouldn't hurt

86 · Jul 2021

mindless

Snow Selmon Jul 2021

mindless

always thinking
of escape
from the one place
that is safe

85 · Sep 2023

Silence

Snow Selmon Sep 2023

Silence

Theirs a difference between
Radio silence
And a comfortable quiet

85 · May 2021

choices

Snow Selmon May 2021

choices

I was left in backwash
breathing in you
trying to enjoy it
till the blood was boiling
and I had no choice
but to love you
boiling till bursting
but I was careless
and something else burst instead
and it was my choice
that left me alone

82 · Aug 2021

neon

Snow Selmon Aug 2021

neon

the dreams
come in light
bright burning light
evaporating my eyes
bringing darkness
a relief to the light
but a curse of blindness
who could've thought
dreams
would show me
reality

81 · Mar 2021

to a lost friend

Snow Selmon Mar 2021

to a lost friend

this is a whisper from me to you
and yet it spread like wild fire
so as the fire gets out of control
I blow out the flame that started it
and that is why i'm done trying

79 · Aug 2021

push

Snow Selmon Aug 2021

push

your push turned to shove
my heart stopped to beat
and my eyes teared at your face
you bring me back to times
when I was happy
and also so sad
when tears were welcomed
instead of feared
where I was wanted
not feared
I'm sorry I wasn't there
when it was needed
a sorry is all I can say
a push turned to shove
and I couldn't stand my ground

79 · Aug 2021

tide

Snow Selmon Aug 2021

tide

the moon pulls and pushes
the tides
directing the water and our lives
it's our lives
the moon doesn't care
why would it
it's not affecting its life but ours
we will always be controlled by outsiders
who don't know us and couldn't care
we are slaves
to our minds and those who control it

79 · Feb 2021

tired

Snow Selmon Feb 2021

tired

I've been laying in this bed for a couple years now
wondering if your gonna leave me for him
for the guy who treats you like ****
and I guess I should've guessed you would go
I mean you've been tired from the beginning
I guess I was just a drug
so you wouldn't tire

78 · Mar 2021

a whisper

Snow Selmon Mar 2021

a whisper

a little tiny whisper can **** you
a knife to the heart
a lighter melting you
I still have the memories
I thought you loved me
but you whispered
and I was gone
you said I love you the same day you left
how can a person be so cruel

77 · Sep 2023

The heart

Snow Selmon Sep 2023

The heart

Having a heart
Can sometimes
be...
A anchor
And you just can't escape

76 · Mar 2021

one wave away

Snow Selmon Mar 2021

one wave away

the sand is there
oh the sweet salt too
and you washed away that love
with hate
I knew it was you
with those electric eyes

75 · Jun 2021

smile

Snow Selmon Jun 2021

smile

one smile a day
is sometimes enough to
make the pain go away

74 · Aug 2021

quiet

Snow Selmon Aug 2021

quiet

stitch my mouth
one at a time

stealing words
from smoke

a dream
from my head

Quiet tendrils
Of smoke

Embraces meaning
Capturing thoughts

Never-ending night
Beaming moon

I wish on a star
As it passes through

To only receive a night
Full of nothing bright

The moon kisses me
It embraces me

Although it’s dark
The moon will carry me

The night is safe
Though scary

My home is with the demons
And with the ghost that is me

No one can take my words
And no one will take my home

The constellations swirl
Calling me

You were there
Always embracing me

Always smelling of home
Always watching the ground

I will trip I will get up
And I will run

I am no longer scared
I am strong and will walk

I am not your little boy
But the woman I am today

adding on to a past poem

74 · Jul 2021

insanity

Snow Selmon Jul 2021

insanity

a cold sad truth
I won't ever be complete
without you
or have I...
already lost it

74 · Sep 2021

pushing

Snow Selmon Sep 2021

pushing

you pushed and shoved
hands clenching
and legs tensing
I fell and you helped me up
just to push again and again
I let you push me
till I was over the edge
and the only push was
my heart against my chest

73 · Sep 2023

The thought

Snow Selmon Sep 2023

The thought

There has always been
The thought
It lingers
It spreads
It clings like a parasite
Why run
There's no escape
Just pain and suffering
But maybe that's okay

73 · Feb 2021

runaway

Snow Selmon Feb 2021

runaway

I feel like the runaway
leaving behind the stars
and starting in the dark

71 · Jan 2021

Dirty Past

Snow Selmon Jan 2021

***** Past

I must say these thoughts are venom
infecting with inborn criticism
I was born with ***** blood
I was born in the heart of the earth
and they didn't understand
I was her child
so I was destroyed within'
the heart of the furnace
I was burned to ash
not with the pressure
of diamond on my face
ash and soot
the only home I now know

71 · Sep 2023

Alive

Snow Selmon Sep 2023

Alive

When I said I was alive
It didn't mean I was fine
It didn't mean I wasn't hurting
It just meant I've left my shell intact