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  Sep 2018 delilah
Edmund black
Everything in my life
Falling apart
And
Simultaneously
everything in my life
pulling itself together
The truth is
life breaks everyone
life breaks everything
Nevertheless
I choose positive thoughts
I choose adaptability
I choose compassion
I choose gratitude
I choose love
I choose humility
I choose courage
I choose to keep moving forward
I choose to create a beautiful life
within the ugliness of it all
I choose to reach inside myself
and ignite a fire that will burn
forevermore
And at the end of it all
I know I will emerge victorious
within those broken places
delilah Sep 2018
i am petty
petty beyond belief
over what should have died with time
i am a *****
a ***** because i can't keep my mouth shut
and i love to cause a scene
i am an attention-*****
attention negative or positive
i'll do what it takes to gain it
i am a hot-head
little actions throw me into fits
fits of rage larger than need be
i am selfish
though not with materialistic things
that would be better than emotions
i am a crybaby
every inconvenience pushes me over the edge
every good and bad makes me ball
i am many
nasty
ugly
crude
and cruel things
but
i am also a work in progress
working to be more
more than teenage angst
more than excuses
more than
eh
  Sep 2018 delilah
Bee
they told her
“your poetry
is hidden within”

so she took her pen
carved into her wrists
and watched the cherry red words
bleed out


x.
delilah Sep 2018
i never thought of myself as someone with school spirit
but
i'll spend my fridays
decked out in purple
dotted with black and white
i'll dance in the crowd
while the band plays us out
i'll work on losing my voice
while we head to the tailgate
i'll work on numbing my feet
while we dance to knock-off dj beats
i'll jump to my feet
when our team takes the field
i'll join in on the cheers
when our band shows up
i'll worry about my voice tomorrow
cuz right now
we're losing it over touchdowns
i'll worry about my clothes tomorrow
cuz right now
we're laughing while the rain pours down
i'll worry about it all tomorrow
cuz right now
we're dancing under stadium lights
honestly in my first two years of high school i didn't give a **** about football games
but i went to my first two games in my junior year and the vibe is just amazing
so now as a senior of course i was gonna show up at our first game
especially since it was against our rival school
and yeah our team hasn't one in five years
but that hasn't crushed anyones school spirit
we lost 29-22
but we were still cheering in those stands
  Sep 2018 delilah
Amanda Kay Burke
There is one lesson you taught me
Sticks out more than the rest
And that is to love myself at my worst
Not only when I am my best
Its okay to be a work in progress
delilah Aug 2018
i love like all others
my love is no better or worse
my love is ordinary
so i must compensate
by loving the most
spread my love thin
over all that i love
  Aug 2018 delilah
Bethie
"I wish the rain would pass us by,"
They say as droplets fall from high
I nod my head as if to say
I think so too, but as it may
I love the rain, the life it gives
The way it makes me want to live
Inside my head, so deep inside
I murmer out an "I don't mind,"

"This freezing cold is hard to bear,"
They say with hats upon their hair
I smile back, pretend to be
What they seem to expect of me
But where the cold is colder still
Inside my mind, the freezing chill
I whisper back my icy side
"But I don't mind, no, I don't mind,"

"I can't stand when I'm all alone,"
They cry out with a striking moan
I laugh inside but nod my head
(Their trifling ways are better fed)
This time I whisper oh so slight
An, "I don't mind, no I don't mind,"

These people, they don't understand
That life does not go as it's planned
And we can choose our path we take
And sometimes ones that we don't make
So take your path, and you will find
That you don't mind, no, you don't mind
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