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 Feb 23 Whit Howland
Tom D
Yesterday a hazy memory
Tomorrow is but a dream
Today’s expectations working hard
to build a head of steam
The painting speaks to me
 Feb 23 Whit Howland
Bryan
The worst they could say is no.

Every time.

For decades.

The worst.
 Feb 23 Whit Howland
Kat M
What if I miss
A list
Flurries in the wind
Jumping out of hand

Lucky-opportunist
Grating against the limits
Beyond the town
Falling out of pace
Feedback Welcome!
The days are the worse
Because I am awake
I only own the curse
Where I find you in my sleep

There all is unchanged
All is flawless
I am not deranged
It’s my solace

I find comfort in your smile
It warms the coldness within
Even if it’s all a lie
That cheeky ******* grin

The days are the worse
Because I am awake
I only own the curse
Where I find you in my sleep

The dreams are never ending
On repeat, it’s a torture
My mind pretending
It gets colder…

It’s morning...my body awakens
My mind, lost in there
My heart, it yearns
For it still does care.

The days are the worse
Because I am awake
I only own the curse
Where I find you in my sleep

Oh Lord end this curse at last
Let me slumber peacefully
Let me not live in the past
And replay it constantly

To search fears and desires
Many long for a dream so deep
I just want to **** these fires
For I wish to dream a dreamless sleep
 Feb 23 Whit Howland
Monika
Give credit where credit is due,
And time will **** it all for you
... But all in good time —
It's patience at its prime

Stop feeding your internal strife,
You've been killing time all your life
Waiting for the world to shift its tide,
Unaware time was always on your side

I finally get it — better late than never,
Now I'll become the game, not just a player
No longer trying to beat the clock,
Ready for action not just cheap—*** talk

Can't turn it back, so I won't look behind
Mistook it for an enemy for never being kind
Believed if I had more of it I'd surely touch the sky
Never waiting for me, I hated that it could fly

But as it goes by I've got less and less to spare
Instead of it getting easier, we learn not to care
They promised I'd get it once I come of age,
But if time's money, I only have loose change

So Ima take some time off while it heals all my wounds,
Gave me a hard time even when I followed the rules
I wonder if I'm just wasting time until I'm all out of it
Guess only time will tell — poetic a bit

Anyway, I promise it's the last time I'll ask
This time, I'll even take off my mask;
Could you find the time,
To make some time
For me to try
And make it in time
This time?
 Feb 23 Whit Howland
Sammy
February is leaving
without a warning.

And I'm not ready to move on,
to welcome spring
and all the pain it brings with it.

My shaking hands
can't skip the page,
end the chapter
and await the uncertainty of the future.

Time passes too fast,
and I'm just an expectant
who doesn't know how to contribute to life.

February is leaving,
only the second month
but still I would get on my knees
and beg for January to come,
have a new restart.
 Feb 23 Whit Howland
bellamy
I thought we buried this alive but my fingers are raw and ***** from digging just to find an empty casket; it died long before we could ever bury it, and no amount of dirt or digging or wood and nails could ever bring it to life again

it died a unceremonious death, no one aware enough to mourn it because they didn’t know it was dead

we sat with the corpse because that was how it lived; silent and still but with a unfamiliar stench that everyone around can smell, but never know

if no one is mourning it, did it ever die?
wrote this on my notes app in like late 2023, posted it on medium then forgot about it till now. I would usually edit and change something like this before posting it here, but I think it's flaws and errors can show the emotional state i was in while writing more transparently than a perfectly edited and grammatically correct poem
Our nakedness had little to do with the most immediate creatures deciding not to **** us. Eating grew on the tree of loneliness. A cigarette is a star de-aged by god.
The poem says so little.

Food is a ghost that saves my mouth.

Hi, all my gods stop dreaming at once.
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