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 May 2015 AFJ
Trupoetry
She
 May 2015 AFJ
Trupoetry
She
& There she was
the subtle reflection without a mirror
quiet
kept
reserved
strong
my soul sister
with words to offer me
that once choked my esteem
silencing the bull horn full of my insecurities
you are enough
you always have been
you always will be
& the second I tried to question the truth
it spilled out and over me like rushing water
cleansing me of the layers
piled up
from years of laying underneath potential
I can breathe here
above expectations
amongst my faith
I know that life is worth living here
I know because I've felt the air thin
Like rustling paper in a silent classroom
I've been too embarrassed to be seen
too unsure to be viewed
but you
my sister
you ignited the fight in me
stretched my smile  
like turtlenecks over the heads of school age children
more protection then fashion statement
I remember now
That my words pulled the same tears
from my face
from the eyes of strangers
trying not to be seen
in crowds across the world
sitting
while I stood on stage
& stripped myself of all the ill feelings
all the dark nights
and bright moments
short lived
I will never forget why I chose love
why I can't settle for less
than
more
then
a reason to live
I don't know you
yet I'm familiar with me
I, you, we... &
S.H.E
 May 2015 AFJ
Jennifer Weiss
Save the words that you don't mean,
like holding back water that begs to explode in laughter
from your lips.

Save the hurts from which you cannot be redeemed,
You'll regret the unforeseen things you can't control
if you let them slip.

One day you'll be fine and serene.
Yet the moment "Sleeping" hits you at 4:44
you will be fine no more. No, you'll be a mess.

Friend, sadness does not stay at bay.
Regret doesn't live forever, either.
but one day...
One of them will stay. Though you'll choose neither.

You'll sit with it instead of the one you love.
And you can't hug regret, for it's not the same stuff
that you are made of.

And we're not supposed to live this way,
I've been doing a **** fine job. But when
I picture your face...
and the life we planned to have...
I just feel robbed.

But I know it is my own doing. A path I chose that got me here.
And just know it is myself I was *******, to be without your love oh, my dear.

It's a better life I'm pursuing. Free of fighting...free of tears.
And I know that's both of our doing...
Both of us that got me here.

God can take all the credit for what I'm doing,
and I hope he's helping you the same.
You were the brightest part of my life,
until unto Jesus my soul came.
 Apr 2015 AFJ
Madeysin
Pyromaniac
 Apr 2015 AFJ
Madeysin
If this is all but a dream, I'll wake up tomorrow & go back to sleep. Praying you'll be, in the seams of my love...
 Apr 2015 AFJ
Courtney Gaura
A.D.D.
 Apr 2015 AFJ
Courtney Gaura
It's more like having
Too many ideas
Half formed
They sound so brilliant
Until page two
Having ideas for page
Two hundred and eight
Or the best ending
For the story
That has two
Lines down
I can't write anything
If has a title
Write ten minutes
On this
Write that scene
That's in chapter three
I'm writing chapter one
Thirty on going ideas
Most seem to have it
I need to finish one
**please
 Apr 2015 AFJ
B
I Wish
 Apr 2015 AFJ
B
I wish someone could have warned me about this astrological being that would change my entire world. I wish someone could have warned me about those calloused hands that have held an inconceivable amount of ***** bottles which he used to repel the voices whispering inside his head. I wish someone could have warned me about those tired, blue eyes that have seen the most unthinkable things which he wishes he could erase from his memory, but the horrid thoughts of his past keep replaying over and over in his mind. I wish someone could have warned me about his bitter tongue that spoke more lies than truths.  I wish someone could have warned me about those cigarette kissed lips that would soon have me addicted to their nicotine.I wish I could quit, but I crave them more and more as the hours drag on. I wish someone could have warned me about how his ears have heard the slam of the door when his own mother left him behind with his ******* father. I wish someone could have warned me about how horrifying his thoughts were that even I couldn't drag him out of the sea of horrible memories. I wish someone could have warned me that I would have fallen so deeply in love with this person that I wouldn't know what to do with myself when I lost him.


B.S.
 Apr 2015 AFJ
Nicole Ashley
Stars are old light
But they still go on
Like the sun and moon
Just like how every night
The sun dies for the moon
To let her live
It happens everyday
Every night
I'm drowning in my own galaxy
At my own hands of destruction
In my own wings made of fire
While my own heart eats me alive
While my mind splits me in half
And make my eyes watch it all
In a mirror at the bottom of the ocean
While the moonlight trickles down to me
And tells me it's okay
Because the sun will come again
The sun needs the moon again
It can't be right without her
Because every eclipse relies on her
Relies on him
It can't be right without her
And every darker night without the moon
Is a day where the skies are the darkest greys
And where silent drops of rain are the loudest tears to cry
Back into the ocean to create a flood
An arch for the piano to play
Every wave
Every raindrop
Every tear
Colliding in collisions of notes and sounds and rythms
I'm drowning in my own galaxy
An ocean filled with static white noise
Where the sun asks for the moon every eclipse and day and night
Waiting for the moon to spark the stars
And bring daylight on the darkest days
Because stars are old light
The sun reminds the mirror at the bottom of the ocean to tell me
Wrapped in my own fire wings
That they are still going on
Upon galaxies
And that I should too
But there's always that fear....
And all I could hear
Was the frost wind from another dimension..
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