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Ryan McNeely Jan 2020
Love is not one
To be easily
Given up or forgotten,

Those you love
Are not those you
Fall in love with,

because
Sodden grapes get
No praises but
If you're looking
For raisins..
You've got to
get out of the game.
Ryan McNeely Jan 2020
When you're tired and looking for home
When your soul is so lost and alone
When your feet drag against the dry grass
And the birds have already passed

When the streets have started to frost
Or when you find yourself lost
Your life you can't bare
When you need me
I'll always be there
Ryan McNeely Jan 2020
I have no resolution
When the clock strikes midnight
And 19 turns to 20
When the moon shifts slightly
Or the fire lights the sky in colors
Hiding the beauty of the stars
And how they dance
Or how the people scream of a
“Happy New Year”
As if to start a new beginning
And end a chapter of their lives
But little do the people, or the animals, and nature know
That a new number is not
Equivalent to a new life
There is no clean slate or new promises
But to only learn from your actions
Of the past year
After a long reflection
And break the barriers you oh so-
Sought after when you thought
The world was ending
Through grief and strife
I have no resolution
Except to accept the past
As it was
And create my own new chapter
At my own time
Not when the clock strikes midnight
Ryan McNeely Jan 2020
You sang sweet
Songs under
Starry skies
And sweet love ties
I fell for you.
Your brilliant smile
So sadistic but
Hiding secrets
I could not discover
So undercover
Behind your disguise
And all your lies
I’ve found you.
Your bittersweet lips
And hands on my hips
You traced with your fingertips
The dips
In my back and all that i lack
You sang sweet
Songs.
I was broken up by my now ex, after 2 years of perfection... and after he left I found out every bitter lie covered up between bittersweet lips dripping in honey
Ryan McNeely Dec 2019
Depression,
A lot like skydiving.
You take the jump,
Breathe in the adrenaline rush
As you head towards the vast plains
We call the grounds.
You see a grid of the world below you
The grasses and trees beneath your very being
You rush towards death.
You reach to pull the string
The lifesaver
The parachute
Being the idea of hope
However it does not open
It does not save you
As you hit the pavement
With brute force and feel your body,
Your heart
Scatter into pieces
Remnants
You cannot put back together
Without hurting yourself first.
Ryan McNeely Oct 2019
A year and Nine months ago today.
The world I knew was torn from my grasp.
I no longer knew who I was.
And who i still am.
And it's not easy to get over
The man who fingered me
As if to scoop out cantaloupe seeds
Aggressive
Forcefully
And i try to understand why it still affects me
Why i can still feel him through all this time.
All this ******* time.
He told me he loved me
That no one could ever replace me
I was unique.
But honey laid on his lips
A sweetness
To mask the bitterness he had hidden
A bitterness i could never see.
To this day
I don't know who i am.
I only know my name.
Ryan McNeely Oct 2019
I thought that when I saw you,
I thought it was love at first sight,
But I was wrong.
It was youth and hormones,
Which brought you to lies,
And destruction of us.
And for that ,
You will never be forgiven.
But I want to forgive you,
To hold you and tell you its okay.
I thought that when I saw you,
I felt danger rise from the pit of my stomach,
and it told me to step away,
I didn't fall for you,
You pushed me.

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