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91 · Jan 2022
Killer
birdy Jan 2022
A killer kills
to fill
a conniving cavern
of inner calamity
90 · Jan 2022
Your First Memory
birdy Jan 2022
Birds calling to one another
Weaving a web of whistles
90 · Jan 2022
Where did it go?
birdy Jan 2022
the warmth in your words
now barren.
90 · Mar 2022
Open Book
birdy Mar 2022
I'm a book without a cover.
Just raw words, and half-baked thoughts,
Without a title.
89 · Jan 2022
"They're just Words"
birdy Jan 2022
Under the streets luminescence
"I don't love you."
...
I breathe in the words
Suffocating
89 · Apr 2022
The Guilt we All* Face
birdy Apr 2022
I choose to be ignorant,
the world too cruel.
Most choose to avert their gaze
out of guilt
and I am no better.
*most of us choose to be bystanders, waiting for a hero to emerge
88 · Jan 2022
Him
birdy Jan 2022
Him
He likes to collect feelings
the angry ones
the sad ones
the happy ones
His mind grows heavy
with this adamant passion
He sleeps knowingly
and without peace
as if he can sense the bad
creeping around him
ready to pounce
You watch
wishing
you could help
wishing he could know
that he's safe
because no matter what
you'll always protect him.
88 · May 11
“I love you”
birdy May 11
empty words.
until I found you
to teach me
what it meant
83 · Apr 2021
Maze
birdy Apr 2021
Soft oak eyes,
I hear rustling leaves when you meet my gaze.
Magnificent branches wrap around you.
Perched musicians who chirp mesmerizing tunes, ******* me in like a siren's song.
I see you through my purest eyes,
For not to corrupt your pristine haze.
Your beauty is a maze.
I'm lost
82 · Apr 2022
Untitled
birdy Apr 2022
Do you choose not to feel?
Like a hand with a glove chooses to not touch.
81 · Jan 4
Breathe In, Hold On
birdy Jan 4
I went to that bridge,
the one nobody knows.
To stand on the railing,
in my pretty white clothes.
Then imagine the falling, falling,
the letting go…

Have my sins be forgiven
by the deep blue waters.
To which so many
lose sons and daughters.

Splashing,
crashing,
thrashing away.

I find myself still alive.
But beaten up enough,
that it’s easy to give in,
hard to survive.

An open escape,
yet I’m still desperately pleading.
Gasping for air to
breathe in,
breathe in and hold on.

Hold onto the sorrow.
Hold onto the pain.
Hold onto the life that drives you insane.
Feel the tension,
a storm in your brain.
Lightning cracks,
scream and shout.
Holding.
Holding.
Breathe it out,
out,
out,
out.

My plans, plans,
never really unfolding.

Mind chose to prevail.
Inhale, exhale.

My plans, plans,
never really unfolding.

Like when I fell in love,
with a boy who can’t be.
Cold feet, only getting colder.
Temperature dropping, dropping,
and you’re only getting older.
Time will keep passing,
now you can’t even hold her.
Your fingers still, limbs frozen over.

Your mind is dark,
I can’t find the match.
For the candles, candles,
and the spark won’t catch.

Happier alone,
that’s what he said.
Isolated from you
I feel six feet under,
dead.

Talkin about you,
like you’re already gone.
Mourn a man,
whom I’ve only fawned.

Oh how I wish
I could say good riddance,
let his death be a dawn,

To a new coming sun.
Breathe out his poison,
with a simple yawn.

Yet I still breathe in,
breathe in and hold on.

Hold onto the sorrow.
Hold onto the pain.
Hold onto the man that drives you insane.
Feel the tension,
a storm in your brain.
Lightning cracks,
scream and shout.
Holding.
Holding.
Breathe it out,
out,
out,
out.

Oh how I wish
I wasn’t so drawn
to deep brown eyes,
his siren songs.

Waters so alluring,
eye of the storm,
can you see me?
Do you watch me perform?

Make a fool of myself,
in my pretty white dress.
No longer so warm.

Are you hiding?
I’m pleading, please.
I need some confiding,
and I know you can see.
Please tell me…

Will I ever be free?
80 · Jan 2022
Home
birdy Jan 2022
Light splayed out across the roof like paint.
A sweet glow, I never want to go.
80 · Jan 2022
My mind
birdy Jan 2022
The air rings red,
all attentive to your
bright red lips.
79 · Dec 2021
Untitled
birdy Dec 2021
Grotesque yet beautiful,
sharp angles and twists.
The decaying sunflower, dissolves under the most delicate touch.
Some things aren't built for love.
68 · Apr 28
I Think of You
birdy Apr 28
The sky fades into the earth,

Between which
city lights and stars
flow seamlessly

Lights
impossibly small
hold vastness that I will never know
worlds I will never touch
souls I will never feel.

Seeing all this infinity,
I think of you.

Abstruse darkness
with millions of lights,

But only one is yours
and only one
can bring dawn
to my night
60 · Apr 28
Heart Burn
birdy Apr 28
Puffing smoke
to try and burn up
the weight on my heart

Now I'm only more jaded
than I was to start
54 · Apr 28
Father
birdy Apr 28
Time ticks away
tying tears tightly
to my tired eyes

bound to me now
till the clock is unwound

knots going back farther
I cry for my father

        Please untie me!
        Untie me,
        untie me from the pain!
        Release the child
        imprisoned in my brain!
49 · Apr 28
“Are you well?”
birdy Apr 28
I wish to be enthralled
by still waters,
as I am with thrashing waves

I wish I felt contentment
without the urge
to throw it all away

Happiness
spurs sabotage
in ways we can’t explain

Stability and boredom,

are they meant to feel the same?

— The End —