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If there wasn't pain
There would be no poets
For we write about things
That hurt us, damage us, break us

Right?
 Nov 2014 Barkley Layne
RMatheson
I am just a ghost in your machines
low as binary, weak ink traces
a lost little girl
justice is never wrought
the leftover heart break I thought
and you still occupy
the cracks in my heart.
 Nov 2014 Barkley Layne
Just Melz
I used to compromise often...
That's why I've been so hurt,
Always giving a man just what he wants
Never getting what I really need.
So, I'm done being a pushover...  
From now on,
I'm getting what I want first
Then possibly giving in
You know what?
From now on,
I'm gonna be a *****...
You've been forewarned...



Regret has me in a chokehold
Fear has me on a leash
Fill me up to block it out
And I'll be just fine
Am a ***** who slept wit all my feeling locked inside
Am a ***** who slept wit different faces of you
Am a ***** who wore a artificial smile on my face to just keep you Happy
Am a ***** who Been with you soo many times though u hurt me
Am a ***** who was Never loved
Am a ***** who u made me really belive that I was supposed to be a *****
But why cant a ***** have feelings?
dsnt this ***** have a heart??
dsnt this ***** deserve anything?  
As she carried all the pain in her nd remained the ***** she was supposed to be..
Loneliness
Is such a hard thing to carry

A backpack full of stones
That we add to
With each day that passes

How can such an empty feeling
Be so heavy?
 Nov 2014 Barkley Layne
RMatheson
to the rhythm of "Miss Muffet"*

A lone little girl
sat in her room
holding her stuffie so tight.
The terrible shadows
wrapped close about her
forcing her sad eyes to cry.

she cut at the shadows
but cut only herself
wishing the shadows would leave.
she dreamed of a plant
that could bloom over her booboos
where she had made herself bleed.

Her shame was so mean
and crawled bout the corners
where all the mean memories lay.
"Can't sumbudy save me
an chase out the night,
befow I cut mysef away?"

When suddenly to
her surprise and delight
the door opened, pouring in light.
The shadows hissed cruel
as they slinked off in fear,
cursing and suffering blight.

The sound of His voice
was all that it took
to chase the bad memories away.
"Come to Daddy's arms
my sweetest of treasures,
Daddy's now here to stay."

"you will not be scared.
you will not have fright,
as long as you hold Me tight.
Daddy will be here
to cuddle you close,
all throughout the night."
 Nov 2014 Barkley Layne
RMatheson
I am a piano, slightly out of tune
but my dissonance makes you notice me.

I am a steady nurturing rain
and I keep you cool and wet.

I am the sunlight on a blackened world,
that brings the music of memories
and the life of fresh precipitation.
 Nov 2014 Barkley Layne
RMatheson
I am empty
with nothing to fill me.
Empty me out
but nothing to pour into.
Just tip me over,
and out nothing comes.
Drowning and empty,
my scream from the lungs.
No wonder God Didn't select Man to give life
As he could only Destroy and never give Life
Destruction is cruel so is He
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