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No matter how hard she tried
she could not be like them.
They had sunflowers,
She had dandelions.
Their words flowed,
Her words stumbled.
They moved gracefully like a poem,
She moved like a broken sentence
with awkward pauses and a clumsy pace.

Oh how she longed to be like them,

Oh how she longed.
 Dec 2013 Alex Silva
not tanya
Txet
 Dec 2013 Alex Silva
not tanya
You replied
She meant something

You smiled
She meant something

You asked
She meant something

To you
She meant something

And that's why she's smiling
She means something
 Dec 2013 Alex Silva
Anais Nin
Risk
 Dec 2013 Alex Silva
Anais Nin
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom.
 Nov 2013 Alex Silva
K D F
Lately I've been drowning in my unspoken words
forbidden to exit my mouth
they have risen above
and turned into a dark cloud

it follows me around
it seeps into my everyday
sometimes I've forgotten it's presence
until the burning returns

i am ripe
i will burst
the actions forbidden by my body
leave me swelling
i do not know the aftermath
the conflict of not doing
holding tightly
leaving me breathless
leaving me tense

the words rest heavy on my heart
my mind races through it all
only pieces come together
and when called upon
this collage does no good
 Nov 2013 Alex Silva
Lexi
Obsolete
 Nov 2013 Alex Silva
Lexi
am i
blackness, shrouding, crowding
darkness, coldness
breathless pouting
am i
lost, goneness, wrongness
searching, urging
always missed
am i
ever, ending, pending
lovelessly
beseeched to rending
am i
hell, cloudless, doubtless
doomed fortune
eternal kiss
am i
fending, slowly, bending
timeless, fightless
vilipending
i am
blackened, shrouded, crowded
breathlessly
divulge the clouded


am i, i am
i won’t know.
This received second place in my entire sophomore class's annual poetry contest.
 Nov 2013 Alex Silva
Gary Foreman
There lives in this world a flame
It burns with a wild and free spirit
But with grace and gentleness
Captivating, beauty personified
It doesn't roar but it purrs
My life was blessed to have been touched by its soul
When the world saw to test my body and break my will
The flame would comfort, caress and embrace me
No matter the trials I faced it's warmth would empower me
If I was far from home it would guide back to its love
In my arrogance I forgot to tend the flame
It needed fuel to burn so bright
Compassion, Understanding and a foundation
Without these a gap began to form between us
Now it caresses and comforts someone else
And I am left alone in the never ending dark
A void and dessolate dark
Where I have no protection from harsh realities and demons
What was once majestic fire has manifested itself nightmares
I can still sense the flicker of the flame
Dancing its delicate dance with him
Closing my eyes I reach out to it
But the very force that once sheilded me from hurt
Becomes the very impliment to inflict it
Burning and scolding with a fury to match its beauty
Every lash feels like my death coil
But still I reach out
Hoping, praying that I will be once again envolpoed in its refuge
I know it is through my own carelessness
That my hands are covered in scars
But still I reach out
When I ask myself if should continue, all I can answer is
I regret my failure
I regret that I only have two hands to butcher

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