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Tenaj Lee Taylor Dec 2015
As the sun sets,
Stars begin to sparkle.
Hidden away from the clouds and the light of the sun.
Stars of the millions,
Lighting the sky.


As if the sky were a house,
And the stars merely Christmas lights.
The sky illuminated with all of the stars.


But they soon disappear as a new day arises,
When the sun starts to rise out of its slumber.
To let us know that a new day has began.


But one star still shines bright.
Brighter than any one star.
Brighter than the sun....


That is her,
My one true love.
The princess I have longed for.


Who knows me like the back of her hand.
She is a star,
And I will protect her and let her shine forever.
She will shine atop of my Christmas tree.


She will be by my side,
As I rule my kingdom.
And we will live happily together,
Even after our story has been told.


Tenaj L. Taylor
Tenaj Lee Taylor Dec 2015
Darkness,
Is what scares me the most.
No light...
No hope...
Lost in the shadows of the world.
The shadows that haunt my dreams.
Darkness is an impossible enemy that I cannot defeat.
I, scared, hide away toward the smallest flicker of light.
Shaking in fear.
Darkness overcomes the light.
No light...
No hope...
Waiting to be lost for eternity.
Tenaj Lee Taylor Nov 2015
I don't want to sleep.
The nightmares are coming back.
I don't like the voices.
The voices are telling me to do bad things.
I don't want to get another addiction.
The addiction is craving for more of it.
I don't like to feel alone.
The loneliest is returning.
I don't want to feel unwanted.
Thoughts occuring.

Depression is catching up again.
Go away!
I don't want to be lost in the void again.
Someone help me.
Please, please.
Someone.

No one there to save me.
My hand stays empty
Open to clasp on to a helper.
Its almost to late.
I have little time left.
Please, please.
Someone help me.

I don't want to lose anyone anymore.
Tenaj Lee Taylor Nov 2015
My heart has been broken for many years.
Shattered inside my body.
Everytime I try to fix it it cuts me and I feel more pain than before.
I've been waiting for someone to help fix it.
But no one has succeeded.
It's never going to be fixed.
Might as well keep getting cut trying to fix it,
Rather than waiting for help.
I try my best to help others.
Others never reach out to help me in return.
I've been told many lies.
Lies that caused so mich pain I'm numb to the pain.
I'm mono tone.
I have no emotions to express.
Why should I?
Why do you care?
You never cared when I was hurting myself on the broken glass of my heart.
Lost and Forgotten.
My heart may never be complete again.
  Nov 2015 Tenaj Lee Taylor
ab
Can someone please tell me
why everything
has to be so
complicated
all
the
time?

Why we overthink those
bumps
in the dark,
we hear our names whispered
from every corner?

Why we think that something
can not,
should not be,
when it really wouldn't
be that bad
just to try
this once?

If you could just tell me
what would be so difficult
about giving it a try
just this once...

Let me hold you.

Let me kiss you
on the nose
and giggle softly
at your dumb jokes.

I'll hold your hands in mine
while we contemplate
the universe,
or anything you desire
because I just like talking with you.

Or we can just sit in silence,
staring at the sky
thinking to ourselves
"This can't get any more perfect."

And that will mean everything to us.

For no matter how many times
I look into your eyes,
or how stupid I feel
writing these poems,
there's one thing that won't change.

You really matter to me.
  Nov 2015 Tenaj Lee Taylor
Helen
I know the little boy
that walked for miles
in everybody's shoes
and I know the Man
who speaks only
when he chooses to

I've met the laughter
I've wiped away the tears
I've sat silently
as he diligently walked
through broken years

I've met the comedian
I've met the larrikin
I've met the musician

I've met the old soul
that tells tales of woe
but cries silently
counting every tear

I've met the body
that wakes up every day
angry with the universe
but with nothing to say

I've met
the troubled heart
the irreverent lark
the messed up kid
but comforted
the messed up adult


I know my best friend
and I'll be the one
to tell those
that just saw
one side of him

That they didn't look so deep
they have no right to keep
their memories that are shallow

I've met my best friend
and...
you're wrong
just so you know

I know him
he's so strong

Stronger than the shadows
that haunts him in real life
I know him,
*he's stronger than you or I
dedicated to my best friend... you understand why I had to share... I hope you do...
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