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 Dec 2015 arlikid
jalc
Untitled
 Dec 2015 arlikid
jalc
It's been years since I've written
Sat down and gave shape
To the words that would come unbidden

I don't have the time
I'm not doing this right
I can't rhyme
Every effort was a fight
A struggle of: I'm
Not good enough

So I kept everything in
All my thoughts and feelings and the mixed up things
But the stopper wore thin
And all the creatures in my head kept clamouring

All the pent up emotions
Every opposing thought
And their little explosions
Forming a new knot
New little poisons
That I can't undo or expel

The words don't come as easily anymore
I'm rusty from disuse
But I'm retaking this floor
 Dec 2015 arlikid
Mariah Cormier
My thoughts desire to be loved before they even begin to exist. My mind is made of things I cannot use words to describe. Because I feel thoughts. I do not simply think them. I think in feelings. My thoughts are plagued by emotions bigger than themselves. Let me explain; My thoughts are pure nothings without feelings, however my feelings are more than thoughts, therefore I cannot possibly tell you what I am "thinking" without first conversating with my feelings about what they are thinking. Rather they are not thinking, but they are feeling thoughts.. The feeling thought is called a "fought". All fights end with one final "fought"
It is easier to telling you I am not thinking of anything, than to explain this
 Dec 2015 arlikid
Tea
Reincarnation
 Dec 2015 arlikid
Tea
I've spent centuries
in this agony
My body changes
but time stays still

All this time I've passed
waiting to be found
like a bird inside a cage,
my feet chained to this ground

I can't keep my monsters at bay
but I can't run away


In the eye of each soul
all I see is fear
and my own still whispers
"I'm not from here"

By now I thought
I'd have more power
But at the end of each day
"it" still devours

Even though there's love in my heart
I still feel like falling apart


Each fight feels like
dark mirrors inside a maze
and all I see in this reflection
is my own empty gaze

My mind is light years
away from this place
Still the only thing that saves me
is your warm embrace

And when it feels like I have no choice
I recognize your voice


I'm so tired of this fight
But your love still keeps me warm
Together, we'll win this battle
Together, we'll breathe through the storm.
I don't like history repeating itself
So I'm starting over
I just hope you'll be a part of my future
 Dec 2015 arlikid
A
Set to the impossible task
Of being yourself
When you have been taught
To have a heart full of mirrors
 Dec 2015 arlikid
MS Lim
SELF
 Dec 2015 arlikid
MS Lim
I am
I was
what would I be
tomorrow?

how would I exactly know?
but if I set the compass
of my heart in the right direction
I won't be lost--I'll somehow endure

It'll be the same me in most measure
but the scenario will not be
if love, faith and charity are with me
it would be a day I'll count happy

then follows the dawn after tomorrow
and I'll again face another day
I'll still stand steadfast and do what I should
I won't be lost and will never turn away.
 Dec 2015 arlikid
cf
art
 Dec 2015 arlikid
cf
art
the art
of moving forward,
or dare I say- on
is the type that is too beautiful
to ever be drawn
acted
or done
the art of moving forward
is the sweetest kind
and if you ever figure it out
please teach me

because art,
  was never my strong suit
 Dec 2015 arlikid
Delaney
Feeling
 Dec 2015 arlikid
Delaney
I feel
forbidden to live properly.

I feel
like a waste of oxygen consumption.

I feel
shackled to my insecurities.

I feel
as if I no longer want to feel at all.

(d.d.b)
 Dec 2015 arlikid
aviisevil
there's something out there
in the air that isn't ours
we can drive ourselves mad
reason about it for hours


you cannot see the evil
more transparent than glass
and you wonder about questions
questions that were never asked



but it wasn't meant to be
that's how the story goes
you can dream about it
but nobody really knows


dust will consume the fire
water will cut the stone
dark shall swallow the light
and rust will eat the bones



it's just something in the air
withering everything in its path
you can see it everywhere
no-one is ever meant to last


a skeleton shall dance naked
wearing his skin bare
rejoicing a mother's burial
with children those don't care



all there is and will be
shall be left behind in a while
there is something in the air
that is rotten and vile


there's something in the air
it is out there as I speak
and nothing can save you
if you do not stop to breathe





**stop breathing
 Dec 2015 arlikid
Suhani Arora
This is a farewell song,

The last words that I’ll ever exchange with you.

It’s a goodbye.

The end of everything.


Treat me as a stranger now and I’ll return the favour.

If some day, you run into me,

Do not take pains to smile or say hello, because I won’t return it.

Because a part of me won’t let me smile even if I want to.

Because my veins will tie my hands and stop me to reach for you,

to wave at you,  to embrace you, like I once did.

Because this is the end

It’s a goodbye.


You murdered my existence

There’s a part of me that’s always going to hate you,

A part of me that’s always going to remember you,

And remind me why storms are named after people.
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