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In this world of hate and haste and greed
When everything was in fast forward
And I could never catch my breath
In the middle of it all, I held out my hand
Trying to touch the surface of reality
And as my longing hands met yours,
Through the mirror of all things unknown
I saw in your eyes, dreams of yesterday,
And tears for tomorrow.
In our hearts we forgot the world
The speed and the rhythm,
The show, the blitz and the chase
I saw in you what you saw in me
I wrote lines on lines about you
Songs poured out like lost symphonies
Found.

And in this world of hate
I stood by you in the shade of life
Watching the waves kiss the shore
And return back as transient tides
Never again the same, never again right
I look into your eyes and see the stars
That burned out long ago in our lives
Some say they were our dreams
Most say they were the light of our souls
That lost their way in the darkness.
The shadows were never inviting
Always darker than the darkest black
As I touch your face, every moment
Every breath stops, silent as time
Frozen.

And as I look into the mirror
Tears cloud every field of vision
On the other side, a figure stands, lone
Searching, for someone as lost as her
I see myself, a man, a woman, helpless
Alone.
  Jul 2014 Bernhard Tischler
DK
Slowly,
Surely,
Filling my thoughts and dreams,
I was so sure when we met,
So sure when we kissed,
So sure until this,

She told you to make your choice,
But will it be the one I want,
Will it be the one that will make us last,
Or will it be the one to rip us apart,

For us to continue,
Something has to give,
With it creeping in,
Will you choose us,
Or lose us,

I can not wait around,
Waiting until,
You decide to really change,
Because part of me,
Being eaten away by it,
Thinks people don't change,

You think,
I will push us apart,
In reality it's you,
I just don't know what to do,

I am simply being drowned by the **DOUBT
  Jul 2014 Bernhard Tischler
Caitlin
It doesn't hurt any more.
I don't see your face when I wake up.
I don't crave your arms at 2:21 am-
when I can't sleep.
I don't close my sleepy eyes and,
wonder where you are.

I'm happy for you-
and the love you have found.
Isn't that when you know that it's over-
and you've moved on?
When you can be genuinely happy for someone.

I hope you are happy for me too.
I'd hate for us to get stuck in the same old loop.
The cycle of us wanting what we can't have.
Be happy for me and I'll stay happy for you.
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