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5.1k · Nov 2014
Daydreaming (10 words)
Bennet Sarkis Nov 2014
Another day spent dreaming of you,
Another night spent awake.
3.5k · Oct 2014
Drowning (10 words)
Bennet Sarkis Oct 2014
Because of you,
An Olympic swimmer is drowning in alcohol.
1.7k · Oct 2014
Affair
Bennet Sarkis Oct 2014
I'm sure you've heard this all before,
I'd bet I'm not the only one.
I don't know how you do this,
Because I'm not sure if I can.
I know talking isn't what I'm paying you for.
But I don't think it would be fair for you
To be left in the dark.

I'm not doing this out of spite,
I'm not doing this because I hate her,
If anything I'm doing this because I love her.
The problem is that she doesn't love me anymore.
She thinks that I don't know where she goes
When she says she's "working late".
And I just can't seem to wrap my head
Around why.
Why would she cheat on me?
Why would she do this to me?
Why am I not enough?

And people talk about me all the time,
The perfect guy, the perfect wife, the perfect life.
If only they knew how messed up I was, how messed up we are,
Then maybe they wouldn't have too much to say.
So maybe, I should give them something to talk about.

But I'm not doing this for me, I'm doing it for her.
She hasn't said goodbye as I leave for work in a week,
She hasn't kissed me goodnight in a month,
She hasn't slept in the same bed with me for a year.
I was hoping that this would make me feel some kind of love again,
But all I feel is guilt.
Because maybe I still love her,
Maybe she still loves me...

I... I'm sorry. I can't do this.
You can take the money.
I know talking isn't what I'm paying you for,
But that's all I can manage.
1.5k · Oct 2014
Put your Hand on My Heart
Bennet Sarkis Oct 2014
I put your hand on my Heart,
When I was too afraid to speak the words.
So I let you feel my heart beating instead,
Show you how it raced when you were there.

I put your hand on my Heart,
When you laid down in the grass beside me,
Looked up at the stars with me,
And asked me if I loved you.

I put your hand on my Heart,
When you held me in your arms that first night.
You asked me if you and I could make we,
So I showed you how my heart already beat for you.

I put your hand on my Heart,
In place of the vows I could have said.
Because every feeling and emotion I needed to tell you
Was answered by the rise and fall of my chest.

I put your hand on my Heart,
When we held that little girl in our arms,
I smiled as for the first time
You put my hand on yours.

I put your hand on my Heart
Everytime you asked if we were going to make it,
Reminded you of the promise I made to you
With every fiber of my being.

I put your hand on my Heart
When you asked me if I was going to make it.
I just smiled, and held your hand in mine
As my life-force flowed ebbingly on.

I put your hand on my Heart,
Perhaps even without you knowing it.
Willed you to press your fingertips to my breast,
One final time before they sealed my coffin shut.
1.5k · Oct 2014
Blizzard
Bennet Sarkis Oct 2014
Sometimes I will stand,
Out in your raging blizzard
Just to feel your cold.
1.3k · Oct 2014
Take Me Down
Bennet Sarkis Oct 2014
Take me down to the seashore;
It's days like these
When I just want to take a break,
Stop being who I should be for just a moment
And take a walk along the beach.

Take me down to the seashore,
Roll up our pants and saunter along the coastline,
The breakers crashing against our feet.
The seagulls calling our names.

Take me down to the seashore,
We'll sit in the silt until the sun goes down,
We'll watch the fireflies weave a tapestry amongst the stars,
And bury our toes in the sand,
Hand in hand.
375 · Oct 2014
Glimpse
Bennet Sarkis Oct 2014
A glimpse of the light,
Rays of sun floating freely
Beneath the dark clouds
Originally uploaded to poetry.com
354 · Nov 2014
Live a Lie
Bennet Sarkis Nov 2014
I just can't do it, I can't face the pain.
I've lost everything and I can't find a gain.
Tell me I'm wrong,
Tell me you're right,
But I know that I can't...
I can't live a lie.

I've spent so much time trying to keep it inside,
But it's harder to hide from yourself.
I can't make this up, it's just too much to bear,
If I could I'd go back and change it
But I can't.

So tell me I'm evil, tell me I'm a mistake,
Because you're right
But only in your eyes.

I'm not saying to believe me, but please hear me out
I can't live with your standards if I can't live with myself.
Let's make this clear,
I'm not a freak or a creep,
I'm just me.
And I can't live a lie.
326 · Oct 2014
Force of My Love
Bennet Sarkis Oct 2014
Can you feel that?
Among the thousands of hearts forcing themselves against you,
Can you feel the force of my love?

I cannot give you the wealth of a thousand millionaires,
I cannot love you with the drive of a thousand athletes,
I cannot hold you with the strength of a thousand worlds,
For all I have is a heart.
A heart that yearns to belong to yours.

The force of my love is a single drop,
Amidst a pulsing torrent of countless others.
It does not stand out, but it can stand its ground
Amidst a raging current of empty promises.

Can you feel that?
That is the force of my love.
A ripple amongst the stagnant water,
But perhaps not enough to draw you in.
325 · Oct 2014
Baby Blue
Bennet Sarkis Oct 2014
When he was born, his eyes were blue.
Blue, like the sky and the ocean,
Free and limitless and unadulterated.
It was almost as if, should you look hard enough,
You could see into his soul.
Pure and untainted.

As he grew, his eyes became brighter,
Reflective of the yearning inside of him,
A symbol of his youth, his childish joy and wonder.
As if that sky had surpassed its boundaries and flooded into the heavens,
As if that ocean had overstepped its limits and doused the horizon.

He grew and grew, and as his body grew so did his heart:
He lived not for himself, but for others.
Those eyes, which opened directly into his sole, were wide with that childish awe,
Open to the sorrows of the world,
The sorrows which others blacked out from view.

A blink of those blue eyes and there he was, on a hospital bed.
Surrounded by people he once knew,
People he would likely forget.
They would come and go, wish him well,
Ask if he remembered the times when he did this, the times when he didn't do that, the times where he should have done something else.

And they left as night fell,
When the nurses came and put him to bed,
Alone, as he had once been, but now afraid, uncertain.
And he cried, for the first time, tears of baby blue,
Neon streaks upon his cheaks,
illuminated by the moonlight.

And by the time he closed his eyes, those vibrant blue eyes,
They were gray.
Originally uploaded to poetry.com
322 · Nov 2014
Solid Steel
Bennet Sarkis Nov 2014
I'm sick of you,
Running around,
Acting like you run the world.
Telling me who I can be,
Who I can't be.
Who you want me to be.

To you, my opinion doesn't matter.
My voice goes unheard,
Drowned out by all the voices in your head,
Vainly professing how wonderful you are.

Don't look at me like that,
As if I could choose to drop everything
And start anew,
Live my life
The way you want me to.

The simple truth is that I can't,
I won't change.
I'm not going to cater to your every whim
Just because you feel entitled
To stuff me into your idea of normal.
When really, you can't lay a hand on me.

Go ahead, say what you want.
That doesn't mean I'm going to listen.

Call me what you will,
But the simple fact of the matter
Is that I am not your slave.
I am not yours to order around.
You can try as hard as you can to bend me till I break
But I'll never crack, never splinter.
I am steel, not paper.

Throw your insults at me,
Throw your sticks and stones.
Try and cut me down to your level.
And then try some more.
Because as hard as you push me
You'll never knock me over.

My core is solid steel, unchangeable.
You can melt it down and reshape it,
Sculpt it the way you want it,
But you'll never change it's substance.
So if my substance, my core, my heart, and my soul is wrong,
Then that's a right I'm willing to sacrifice.
270 · Oct 2014
Gravity (10 words)
Bennet Sarkis Oct 2014
It seems like gravity
Keeps pulling me back to you.
257 · Nov 2014
Untitled
Bennet Sarkis Nov 2014
The look
The rush
The touch
The blush
The talk
The walk
The song
The kiss
The date
The smile
The food
The wine
The tip
The bed
The breath
The love
The ring
The yes.
The lie
The fight
The fist
The pain
The bruise
The tears
The thought
The climb
The breeze
The rush
The jump.
The hand
The save
The look
The release
The fall
Then nothing.
242 · Oct 2014
Dead Man Walking
Bennet Sarkis Oct 2014
They say that what goes up must come down,
But can the same be said of what goes down?
Because from the moment my mother laid eyes on me,
My life has been a spiraling hell-hole
Plummeting toward the Earth.

I can't cry anymore because I've exhausted my tears,
Amputated my wings and pushed me out of my nest as if I could keep myself airborne.
Every morning, waging a war with my reflection,
When I'm just so sick of fighting with a f...ing piece of glass.

I don't have any pride to swallow,
Don't have a faith to believe in,
Don't have an image to hide behind.
I've been knocked down so many times that I can't get up.

People say it's easy to leave your past behind,
But it weighs you down like deadweight around your ankles.
So no, I can't move on.
I'm a dead man walking...
Just walking. One f...ing foot in front of the other.
Originally uploaded to poetry.com
221 · Oct 2014
How Could It Be?
Bennet Sarkis Oct 2014
How could it be?
That something so beautiful
Could be so **** wrong?

— The End —