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Barker May 2018
People who make you laugh are more precious than all the wealth in the world.
Friends are reflections of the best parts of you.
You are worth more than anything in the world.
Talking to strangers is how you make friends.
Love is only as real as you want it to be.
Rain is beautiful and so are you.
(c)ibarker
Barker Oct 2017
Everyone has a reason
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
Your heart is like a record and your soul mate will be the needle
Listening to the song hidden in the scratches
(c)ibarker
Red
Barker Oct 2017
Red
As I draw on my wrist with red
A line followed by another
Until my entire wrist is filled with red
Some say I'm a *******
I say **** them
(c)ibarker
Barker Sep 2018
Regret is one of the worst emotions out there.
(c)ibarker
Barker Oct 2017
I don't care about what you look like or what your social status is.
If you are nice to me I'll be nice back
(c)ibarker
Barker Dec 2022
Roads lead people to a certain place,
Whether it be in the past, present or future

Roads sometimes split,
And you're faced with a decision,

Roads sometimes end,
And you have to wander alone lost before you find another,

Roads sometimes cross paths,
From there you find someone who means something to you,

My question is,
Will your road cross mine?
(c)barker
Run
Barker Dec 2022
Run
I ran fast and far hoping that everything would fade away,
Hoping that if I ran far enough
Perhaps I'd be able to rest for a little bit,
At least before the storm caught up to me.

I ran until my legs became weak and my lungs started to burn,
I ran until tears were falling from the excruciating pain,
I ran until y body went numb and the storm swallowed me
(c)barker
Barker Dec 2017
Sometimes I wish we never became friends because then I wouldn't take all your troubles and put them on my back. I wouldn't have to keep taking bullets for you and I could finally be at rest.
(c)ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
The saddest thing that I've seen in my life
Is seeing someone who used to care
Not care anymore and accept the position they're in
(c)ibarker
Barker Oct 2017
It's not you that I'm scarred by.
It's the relationship we had which scarred me.
(c)ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
Death doesn't scare me
Hurting those closest to me
Scares me
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
I'm scared of being caught up with life and forgetting,
How much I love you.
I'm scared that one day,
I'll choose my work instead of you.
I'm scared that I will become so caught up with things I have to do ,
That I will forget the things that really matter;
And that nothing compares to sleeping and waking up next to you.
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2018
You said you would protect me,
Yet you don't know what I am fighting.

I'm fighting someone smarter than me,
Someone who knows my every move.

I'm fighting someone who has known me longer than I have,
Someone who knows everything that is haunting me.

This "someone" I'm fighting is not someone you can protect me from,
Because how can you protect someone,
When the person they are fighting are themselves?
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
I sit on the window sill looking out into the night.
The sky is stained dark pink from all the city lights.
It makes me sick to know that I won't see the stars,
But it's also comforting because it reminds me of all the good nights,
I spent in the city at night,
With my friends and with my family or just by myself.
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
I lay outside in the sun,
Soaking in the warmth of the sun.

It is hot out,
But I still feel cold.

I’m cut off by the world around me,
The distance between my mind and reality is increasing rapidly.

Soon I will just be a hollow shell,
My mind lost in the past and the future.

I need you to bring me back to reality,
I need you to bring me back to you.
(C)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
I just realized,
How many small things had to occur,
In order for me to have met you.
All the small accidents,
All the causes and effects,
Everything I went through,
All had an impact on me finding you.
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2017
I write- while she reads and despite the fact we are each doing our own thing, we occasionally glance up at one another and just smile.
Barker Sep 2017
There is a problem with our society
There is not a problem with our kids
(c)Ibarker
Barker Sep 2018
One day I might walk out the door and leave for a couple of days.
Don't take any offence to this. Sometimes I just need to be alone to reflect and be by myself.
Please don't try to come to find me.
I just need some space.
Don't worry I'll be back.
I will never leave forever without saying goodbye.
(c)ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
It ***** to know that there is something out there
That can take away all the pain
(c)Ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
Back at home,
Downstairs playing the piano,
But for some reason it’s not the same
As playing piano for you
Back at the Psych Ward.

Back at home,
Playing that song.
Which I taught you,
And where you asked me to sing for you,

Back at home,
Away from you.
(c)ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
That pain that you feel
Will be a source of
Power
That heartache that you have
Will be a source of
Strength
(c)Ibarker
Barker Mar 2019
I don't know what's wrong with me.

I feel..off, like I'm watching reality from a distance.

I feel...empty, like I've been drained of all life.

I feel...anger, like someone did something very wrong to me.

I feel...pain, like someone stabbed me with needles repeatedly.

I feel...tired, like I haven't had a drop of shut eye in my 17 years of existence.

I feel...not myself, like someone cut a piece of me out.

And I don't know what's wrong with me.
And that scares me
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2018
If you care about someone
You should never hide your feelings.
Fear could be keeping you
From experiencing
Something
Incredible
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
The sick cannot heal the sick
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2019
Thunder storms,

The sound of rain hitting the ground.
A lightning bolt extends from the sky as if it was trying to touch the ground.
There is a smell that seems to be connected to the sound of rain.
A cold gust of wind comes in through the open window.
A blanket is wrapped around us as we snuggle,
A cup of hot chocolate and the presence of a good book,
This feeling that I have,
I never want it to leave.
(c)ibarker
Barker Apr 2020
I know I'm lost with no motivation to find my way back.
I led myself down a paper trail of the pages of my mind,
Now I want them back.
I'm somewhere between no courage among the other things I lack.
Lost in desperation where an ember turns to ash.

Somewhere along this path, I crossed the line,
Broken promises I've made without thinking twice.
I left my second thought and reason behind.
All in the name of making you mine.
Yet you left me alone and shattered my heart into a million pieces,

And now I keep asking myself
Why do I think that I have to live this life alone?
I know I'm lost,
I thought that when we lose ourselves,
We find each other,
But I guess I was wrong.
Now I am back to that feeling of heartbreak
Barker May 2021
I wish that one day we'll cross paths
Walking along the street
And you'll hug me like you did
The last time we saw each other
(c)ibarker
Barker Mar 2018
I’ve been so caught up with the stress of life
That I forgot how it felt to be me
(Ibarker)
Barker Jun 2018
If you are strong enough to harm yourself,
Then you are strong enough to live.
(c)ibarker
Barker Oct 2017
i'm Sick and tired of not
being Understood
I'm done playing this game in
this Cruel world
If i Die today i will just be another
unimportant Event
(c)ibarker
Barker Jul 2018
Summer reminds me of the feeling of freedom and no worries.
It reminds me of the smell of camp fires and the sound of the water.
Summer reminds me of all the sunset and sunrises.
The sound of the wind.
It reminds me of warmth and all the fun of being around your friends.
Summer reminds me of myself
(C)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
Tension was created between us by an argument we had,
Still unclear about the status of our relationship,
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
The joy and the chaos,
The demons we're made of,
I'd be so lost if you left me alone,

You locked yourself in the bathroom,
Lying on the floor when I break through,
I pull you in to feel your heartbeat,
Can you hear me screaming "please don't leave me"?

Hold on, I still want you
Come back, I still need you
Let me take your hand,
I'll make it right
I swear to love you all my life

A long endless highway, you're silent beside me
Driving a nightmare I can't escape from
Helplessly praying,
The light isn't fading
Hiding in the shock and the chill in my bones

They took you away on a table
I pace back and forth as you lay still

I don't wanna let go
I know I'm not that strong
I just wanna hear you
Saying baby,
Let's go home
(c)ibarker Hold On
Barker Jun 2018
When my life came to a shattering stop.
I hung onto the edge of the cliff with one hand.
And I waited for someone to help me,
But when I saw no rope or hand there to help me.
I realized maybe no one wants or cares about me,
Because I don't want or care about me,
And maybe that's how the healing process starts.
It starts with me.
Sometimes you need to be your own shoulder to cry on,
Wipe your own tears,
Those times will feel lonely,
But it will teach you how to stand back up when no one is there to help
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
"How many times can a heart be broken?" I asked,

You replied, "How many times can a heart heal?"
(c)ibarker
Barker Jul 2018
I just had a vision. 3 years from now, one late night at my university campus, I look out the window to see the moon.
I ask the moon to send a message from me to you saying,
"I love you and I miss you."
And I know that wherever you are, you'll look at the moon and hear my message. We'll spend the night having a conversation through the moon and I'll make a wish, just like Brendon Urie once said,
"Hey moon, please forget to fall down. Hey moon, don't you go down."
(c)ibarker
Barker Oct 2017
I'll live for something worth living for,
Otherwise life is pointless and death is the point.
Barker Jul 2018
We dance in the street with no music,
But we listen to the same song  in our minds.
It's our song,
The one that we made with our love.
Our hearts beats in sync,
Our body is lost in the flow of the rhythm.
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2018
A shot can be heard through
Followed by a thump

A boy’s lifeless body
Is laying on the floor
Limp
(C)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
While my mind may be clouded with darkness,
My heart is always pure
(c)ibarker
Barker Dec 2019
It would be too simple and too wrong to say I love someone.
You see it's so much more complicated than that.
After you weave through the layers and layers of walls and barricades that I have put,
You'll see that when I love someone, it isn't just that I love them,
It's that I love how they speak, the way they can manipulate words with their tongue.
That the words that they speak capture the attention of everyone in the room.
It's that I love how their smile seems to sparkle and the way their lip seems to tug more upwards on one side than the other.
That the world seems a bit happier when they smile.
You see when I love, it's more like that feeling when you find a really good book that never seems to end and that you don't want to end.
A book that you can never really put down for that long without feeling lost and empty.
I cannot tell you exactly how or why I love them and I cannot tell you why I love them the way I do.
I just do.
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2018
And while the world is full of waves of people.
Some waves might bring you down,
While others will carry you back to safety.
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2018
You are everywhere but here and it’s killing me
(C)ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
You think you treat people equally
(c)Ibarker
Barker May 2016
Time changes everything - it creates ruin out of beauty over and over until the two become so intertwined one cannot tell them a part.
Barker Sep 2017
We always think we have more time
(c)Ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
Time is our greatest ally and our worst enemy
(c)ibarker
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