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May 2018 · 168
New morning sun.
kyle Shirley May 2018
The love for a girl begins a new.
The sun breaks and the dawn strikes,
Shards of the sun Pierce the darkness
She is mine
The day is mine with her rays to blot out the dark recesses of my mind.
The heart bleeds to live, to love, to hurt and feel.
To embrace life undaunted with her smile lighting the way.  
Hands held close,
music of the wind sings the tune of death
Life goes on
The wrinkles of our love decay with time
Soon once more
She will light the fire in my heart
The day beings a new
          the love is passed on.
kyle Shirley May 2018
The feeling is fuzzy,
everywhere but the pit of my stomach.
It aches, more or less moans at me.
Yells so loud the guilt must be herd by my head and the heart nurtures such sympathy.

It rings in my head when it's quiet,
when I'm alone its louder,
like multiple gun shots to the tune of a symphony.
It's sleepless nights,
fighting back hunger
and worse of all
its lying to a loved one.
May 2018 · 156
Our own filth
kyle Shirley May 2018
We continue to do the things that **** us, poison us.
Be it addiction to drugs, alcohol, tobacco or even love.
We fuel the pain, why is there so much pressure in the wrong?
The toxin fuels our weaker selfs, never listen to reason.
We push aside rationality for the want of pleasure.
May 2018 · 164
Sting of disease
kyle Shirley May 2018
Like piranha, darkness eats away at the sky leaving pink and blood orange clouds in its wake.
Guilt eats away at me.
The sickness, the urge... every breath of lust
In my direction, I must have a taste.
Happiness is an illusion of the sick drivin, by what ales them.
Itching at their skin just for another taste. After the hit, the bump, the rush, clarity fills our mind. We start to make sense of why it's wrong why it ruins our lives... till the next time...
May 2018 · 171
Truth always finds away.
kyle Shirley May 2018
I did the unspeakable
I rushed to the lavatory
In desperate need to clean the sin off
Wash my filth over and over
"Come clean" I shrieked
Panicked, holding my head in my hands
Kneeling on the marbled floor
Only A towel drapped over me
Shivering not cold but frantic
I breath in. Stand up. Exhale.
I wipe the fogged mirror
Look into it with mournful eyes
I watch the figure stand before me
Not my reflection I see
Startled as it took shape
Regret formed into goose bumps.
Down my body as it traveled, multiplying.
I break as I see the picture in the mirror
I look up one last time
I marvel in disbelief...
May 2018 · 147
My little adventure
kyle Shirley May 2018
She was my adventure
My peaceful car ride.
The music loudly flowing through the speakers
She was the sun in my eyes
The jolt of the steering wheel
The abrupt stop of the car
She was the tree that wouldn't move
She was everything in my passenger seat.
She is but a painful memory of moving on.
Apr 2018 · 139
Unknown shadow
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
The shadow in my room creeped closer
Whispering don't be afraid.
It Let out it's hand closer to me
I quivered in fear of the unknown
Slowly the shadow sat down.
It's name is what startled me the most
It spoke so highly of me
With a gentle voice.
The ghostly presence seemed to soothe me
Everything about it looked scary
Till I let the shadow in
I felt warm like I had seen the light
It disappeared so quickly when others came,
I cried it's name over and over...
"Love, don't go. come back"...
Apr 2018 · 159
For eternity not ever after
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
Immortal
was his love for her
She was his Oasis
Without her his travels
It pure chaos
Everlasting hope and promise
The vows they made for each other
Death couldn't stand in the way
Even when it ceases to pulse
Love knows no bounds
When souls finally find each other
And beauty begins to decay
Love is immortal.
Apr 2018 · 184
All the songs are sad
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
Today the chill of the wind
Spoke your name
I mourn.
The breeze gentle and swift
carried your scent.
I mourn.
Spring butterflies dance
to our song
I mourn.
The grief for your lost love
Is strong today, like a funeral,
Buried and forgotten.
I mourn.
Apr 2018 · 159
A new plague
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
Basic human kindness is a plague.
Only Society provides the Cure
It feeds off of graciousness
Effecting others in its wake
Every smile you take
Disrupting the work place
Human kindness is disease
Quick run and hide
As the internet bleeds
Soon as it starts
everyone is along for the ride
But who will be patient zero?
Apr 2018 · 102
The inner journey
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
years ago,
man made words
To describe feelings,
To help while you feel lost,
While searching for the words that fit,
live a life.
Apr 2018 · 155
We all die alone
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
I never said I was an easy man to love.
Most days I don't even like the skin I live in let alone love myself for it.
When I see you, you make the days bearable,
You make the face looking back in the mirror smile at all the flaws, the insecurities.
But you left...
You left me worse off than when you found me.
you were my home, not just four walls.
I had a full heart and a empty mind
Your touch was silk, hugs wrapped me like warm Linen, gentle and caring.
Now it's restless fighting with myself,
It's banging my hands on the table to stop from crying at 3am
Its Wondering what flaws did i have that you couldnt accept.
What did I do to push you away, what did my love do?
Was it too forthcoming with my anxiety? Was it waking up at 6am checking all the doors and windows to make sure you were safe?
Or..
Was it simply me loving you when you only liked the idea of not being alone...
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
You say you wanna man
But your not willing to open yourself up
You say you want love
But your not willing to love the flaws
You say you want romance
But your not willing to give
You say you want trust
But your not willing to bleed
You say these things
But no action has been deserving of a man
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
I can't seem to find
the difference between
Beauty and lust
Love and Trust
Happiness and disgust
I like you
But
Do I love you?
Not a day goes by that I don't
Miss being your man
now I have another chance
To be someone's first glance
not like my past
Because that couldn't last
Torn the with memories
And
That will last for centuries.
Apr 2018 · 152
Spellcaster
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
She is but a lonely spellCaster
love sewn in her Linens
to touch is to fall in love.
With luscious silk
draped down her smooth curved body,
her hair fell like gentle rain on her robe.
I can feel the poison
coursing through my body
love has its grip on me.
A knight, turned a feeble old man
Wise to loves touch,
Yet never learns his lession,
for the Sorceress gets what she wants.
As my persistence dies trying to fight
so does her enjoyment
Making me jump through hoops
to get her to notice me..
and I'm released from her vicious spell.
I'm  left with nothing but emptiness and shame
for my love still lingers
for the treacherous spellcaster...
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
Unto the breach dear friends
together we fight depression
May we ask ourselves
why they don't want us?
The real question is why
do they only want themselves?
Even the mirror struggles looking at such indifference
they're emotionless desire for Beauty
has left them blind and bitter
yet we still wish we were special enough
to feel Grace from their presence.
Apr 2018 · 146
Atlas
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
Finally after she left
The world turned it's back on me
Everything dead to me.
Like a puppy in the rain with no collar
No place to call home
Stranded
After she left
My bed grew in size
At first it wasn't a heavy burden
Time with out her seem to still pass
now after dragging it around
all these years
The weight of her absence felt like the world.
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
They didn't command pain with grand masses,  They simply came to take back
what wasn't mine to receive.
The four horsemen trotted into my chamber
Void
Despair
Punishment
And finally...
Death

Each leaving a part of themselves to make sure ill never love again.
Void, whatever I consume will never fill my emptiness without her.
Despair, wallowing in self lothing, itching at the skin without her touch.
Punishment, keeping me in a prison of isolation, slowly the pain of my loss tortures me and all I have left to do is beg for death.
And finally death... death leaves me stranded here, alone. Finally making me realize that I loved something more than I loved myself. Real death is dying everyday loving someone who doesn't love you back.
Apr 2018 · 168
Change is required
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
She is but a memory now.
I see her in all her beauty
But she's different

My love for a girl
Is lost with age
Not even lust
But more of an idea

She will never be
And I will never be
What once was
Never again

Yet I'll run right back
At her beck and call
A slave to the known
Apr 2018 · 99
The madness grows
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
With love
Even when your losing
your still winning
Love doesn't quit
Man does
Love is endless
Till man gets greedy
Even in the darkest of times
If love is still a glimmer
You still have a way out
But if you turn your back on the light
You have lost your way forward.
Apr 2018 · 95
Fear of madness
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
My mind has departed from this land
maybe my soul still walks the Earth,
either case they're not on the same plain,
they seem to be traveling in opposite directions.

No destination in sight
my mind is restless and my soul is lonely
my heart is caught between the Middle.
Too much like separated parents
fighting over which one can have the love don't they know there is enough to go around?
Apr 2018 · 146
Clash slam poetry
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
You don't understand how unpredictably unstable I can be
I'm more than just a body, for hire
If I chose not to work im fired
I lay awake at at night waiting for a fright that might wanna take a bite
Of poor old lonely me,
tiny,
knee high to a tree,
whom can barely read
let alone feed a family creed.

I'm poor, I'm a joke.
That's why I can't stop taking the last ****
Before I stoke, these
Heavier drugs like coke
I'll bloat if I don't diet
It's pretty silent, it's quiet
Until the riot breaks out
And traps the sun
Ain't it fun?
We are all just believing we are number one
But isn't that the loneliest sum?
I feel lost
But at what cost?
The coin I had to toss
In a well
To get swell
For better or for worst
This love is a hell...
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
I have nothing to offer but my body and even then its on loan.

The divine heavens above or Mercurial Sepulchre below
will cash in on this investment soon enough.
Spoiled are my liver and lungs,
no good for harvesting.
The heart,
decaying tirelessly,
for its been unacompanyed for far too long.
Which lives the soul...
tamley caught in a custody dispute
on wherever this balladmonger belongs.
Apr 2018 · 121
Misery with no company
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
Single file
The coke lines
act like friends
Gone in a blur

Inhale another hit of the nitrous
To feel any thing else but pain
hallucinations to keep me compamy.

The intensity of the television
Casting silhouettes along the wall
Distract me from silence

I feel empty,
so I drink till the bottle feels empty,
that way I'm not alone anymore.
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
With one last attempt
He reached out to her
The words came out numb, as he spoke
Destiny hit like lighting bolts
Striking down with divine force

The world paused when they met
Colors were vibrant
Senses all in tune
She smelled of fresh rain in april
Had a luminous glow of sun shine.

She told him its too late
he was her hardest heartbreak
with a blur she was gone.
An end to an era...
The wind began to blow

Songs of sorrow hit the tops of trees
Colors ran together and faded
The dark side of love was clear
Light has escaped his soul

his body was an hour glass, and his broken heart infinitely fell like the sands of time.
Apr 2018 · 155
Kismet.
kyle Shirley Apr 2018
Just then, i watched as the angel who perched on my right shoulder began to change. Gradually, the wise and all knowing expression faded from its face and horns began to appear.
It whispered in my ear and began to lead me into the darkness,
for the devil was right here all along.
kyle Shirley Mar 2018
Everywhere I turned
I saw her.
She became death.
Hunted me with visions
Hidden within bladed objects
The sweet release of steel on skin
Brought me that much closer with her.
Her voice begged me to pick up the bottle
It's the only way I could feel her pain
And numb my own.
Soon death with take me
I already feel the cold chills pour from my vains.
I'll be Hand and hand with my love again soon enough.
Mar 2018 · 262
Kalamazoo starlight
kyle Shirley Mar 2018
She must know how i feel when my time under the Kalamazoo sun has finally reached its purpose.
That when the end is in sight
the tears that fall are the last memories of my love for her.
With each drop comes happiness
cloaked in a blanket of melancholy
streaming down my face.
That when she looks up at the star lit sky searching for the awnsers in her life,
she sees my shooting star, finally making her wish come true.

This love never changes
         This love cannot be broken
                  This love is endless
.
Not a day goes by I'm not reminded of our time together, not a day goes by I don't shed at least one tear for lost love.
kyle Shirley Mar 2018
This wrinkle in time has given me lapse of judgment in this esoteric, illusion of love.
This glimpse of the unknown is tragic
Like a void shooting up ******
Filling it with anything It can to feel whole again.

The time left is only a fraction of the time spent chasing fancy cars and stardom.
With gravity beating down on my back
Crawling to break the shackles of my past...
Mar 2018 · 247
Red Roses to the door
kyle Shirley Mar 2018
I didn't just fall in love with you,
it wasn't as elegant as that.
I tripped,
stumbled and bumbed my head.
when I awoke I saw heaven staring at me.
I heard a voice of grace
whisper a loving melody.
You make my body ache and shake
Your the perfect cup of coffee to start my day
Your the bed I come to carry out my Sundays
Your the childhood memory of a tire swing
You are my super nova,
my rain drops bathing in a puddle
The sun to my moon.
There will also be me in the story of you.
The behind the scenes
No rewind button
Just a fast forword screen.
Mar 2018 · 200
Goodnight my fear
kyle Shirley Mar 2018
Many moons have past since you and I.
When the twilight of the dark noon hits
I daydream of you when the world is asleep.

Stars at night twinkle, everlasting reels of our time together.
many moons will pass, before i relight the sky with you my love.
Till then, say goodmorning to the stars for me.
The cusp of the new day is swift.
kyle Shirley Mar 2018
I ain't ever gonna have that cash and June love
That love that no matter how much you endure,
at the end of days that woman says yes.
I ain't ever gonna die of a broken heart, because you gotta have one to break first.
Lost doesn't fit to the feeling I have,
It's more like disappeared.
Lost implys you will be found...
My love is at the bottom of a bottle
It's white residue left on a table
It's anything to numb my numb
To get my mind off you
To forget what life was when I had love
When everything else won't do..
Feb 2018 · 126
Modern Prometheus
kyle Shirley Feb 2018
Depression eats away like maggots.
Each day is a new day.
In the course of 24 hours
I'm on the brink of death..
I wake up
It eats me away all over again.
Slow and steady flash backs of you and us.
Rapidly getting worse as the day pursues.
With the new days sun,
hope of happiness eludes by noon.
Feb 2018 · 127
Diamond ring
kyle Shirley Feb 2018
As we part ways
branching into our own journeys,
I look back to see if you look back at me to..
When I stop and stare,
Waiting for any response,
I only see your head held high
never skipping a beat,
i feel foolish
for going on this long.
without the same care.
Without any desire for me.
I look forward
Memories rewinding in my head
Playing back the tape
To keep me company
On my journey ahead.
Feb 2018 · 143
Hopeful romantic
kyle Shirley Feb 2018
Abandon,
discarded,
cast aside by those I seek admiration from.
A beautiful girl..
a trusting friend..
gone.

At night I hear my own heart beat echo, crying out for attention and love..
**** I miss your face,
Your sound,
your touch.

Our songs still play in my head, those memories I still hold on tight to.
If I could take it back I would.
You still teach me lessions in your absence.
I know I'll still love you till the day I die.
And today i write this for you,  too let you know it isnt over for me.
D.H.
kyle Shirley Feb 2018
I believe there is some solidarity
in loneliness.
Like a shadow.
Lurking,
watching,
lingering....
Bonded to you.
Loneliness grips a soul so tight
Madness begins to spread.
Clawing new voices in my head.
Now I'm never alone.
I believe there's solidarity in loneliness.
Jan 2018 · 213
Self titled. You.
kyle Shirley Jan 2018
Breathing.
The one thing we take for granted.
Life's choices make it unbearable to breath.
Drowing in debt.
Time moves so fast the wind gets knocked out of you.
choking on regret.

Loving you was like breathing, I took it for granted.
Now all I want is to breath again,
this plague of loneliness has slept over me and your the only cure.
One hello, One look in the eyes One kiss
I breath again.
Jan 2018 · 319
My heart is a glass castle
kyle Shirley Jan 2018
What good is living in a castle
when it's made of glass?
I'm alone inside,
I chase ghosts and memories.
I look out at the kingdom
So free and pure
Yet in here any stone thrown
My castle tumbles down.

That's what it feels like in my skin
My castle made of glass is my heart
I see everyone happy and full
Yet everyone sees right through me
I'm so fragile,
No one dares to enter
So I sit alone and empty.
Jan 2018 · 247
Burned tears
kyle Shirley Jan 2018
I want you to notice when I'm not around.
Would it take for me to **** myself
Or to scream till you can't hear sound?
I'm lost,
inching closer to the edge of the abyss,
where insanity lingers,
escaping this crisis.
My loyatly to love has been betrayed
Emotions set aside,
feelings have been frayed.
Torched agony
With sinful tears
These winged serpents carry me though life
Alone I'll be for many years.
Jan 2018 · 192
Tears of a clown
kyle Shirley Jan 2018
I'm laughing on the outside.
I'm crying on the inside.
Screaming in aging agony.
Clawing at my mind ripping away depression
Tearing down what makes me human.
Like a clown always pleasing others,
filling up with happiness
but never wanted or touched.
Emotionless
Jan 2018 · 151
Heart strings
kyle Shirley Jan 2018
I was dumb.
Just a poor boy looking for love in someone.
How foolish can you be,
to be hurt beaten and torn.
Love doesn't exist anymore,
It died and was reborn into likes on Facebook.
How this disease of love,
effects every move I make towards anyone. Creates doubt, fear, and self hate.
I may never see the light of love again.
Dec 2017 · 135
Electric love
kyle Shirley Dec 2017
What I've gathered in my time under the blistering sun and in the coldest of winter Tundra, love is the light.
Love has warmth and hope that anything is possible, that when you leap and close your eyes love catches you in full embrace.
Open your mind and cast out shame and ego, find love. Find that spark in your life and chase it as if its a live wire to the soul.
Love gets lost along the way of life, but search for it again and again like you did for the vary first time. Don't cast away something special because it's too hard, embrace the rough patch to find that love is greater now than it ever was before.
kyle Shirley Dec 2017
Soft jazz warms my cold heart as love begins to fill my vains.
Thick, bold, and beautiful love loosens these lips as i spill every notion, and flirtation she throws my way.
A pedal dance plays intertwining these two lost souls, it's been life times since they have gotten to dance.*
My eyes awake, i gasp for air for I have found life's calling. *Bathing in loves embrace soothes every wrong I ever did.
kyle Shirley Dec 2017
When my life goes amok your name drifts into my head. The what ifs rush to conclusions.
It's more than I miss you it's I'm lost without you.
Life has been going at my pace, but dull ever since you left.
I salvage a "relationship", it's more of a charity case at this point.
Trying to right a bit of the wrongs till karma catches up with me.
I see you with him and it brings joy into my life, it's true what they say, if you love them let them go... I just wish your freedom came from me.
It spend the next 50 years of my life making a time machine to right my wrongs but I know at the end of days... You will find him...
kyle Shirley Dec 2017
You're my 12-step program
You're my addiction in the afternoon.
You're my rush when I have you
You're my reason to feel again tomorrow

My withdrawals give me shakes
Tremors make me weak
The floor is my new bed
And your name is all I seek

I'm coming down from my madness
Leaves a bitter taste in my mouth
I need my fix again your kiss
But the well has ran out.
Dec 2017 · 128
Life
kyle Shirley Dec 2017
Although it was short lived,
the ride is what brings excitement to the journey. ~Life.~* -kyle shirley
Dec 2017 · 331
The rush from like to love.
kyle Shirley Dec 2017
It's a swift and rapid river.
The current is too strong to fight.
So you give up and let it pull you in.

At first it's terrifying,
Guiding you on a uncharted path.
But then this rush over comes you
Bliss, surpasses the fear of unknowing.

Through the twist and bows of the current
You embrace diversity till it happens.
The waterfall.

Do you fight this unnerving battle?
Escape before the plummet capsizes you?
Or close your eyes and ride out this heartbreak?
Nov 2017 · 227
Happiness
kyle Shirley Nov 2017
This elusive term is like
A bright red balloon at the park.  
You have to hold tight,
because if you loosen your grip just alittle... it's gone.

Happiness is a sail boat
Keeping a float
In a vicious sea
Carelessly free

*Basicly happiness is
in the eye of the storm of life.
In order to keep it,
you must change with it.
Nov 2017 · 548
War on love.
kyle Shirley Nov 2017
My heart pounded like the battle drums marching on the field.
Her words pierced me like bullets,
all life pulling through.
Love is a battle field,
and war never changes.

I'm fighting this up hill battle
losing hope and grip.
Tears stream down her face
this battle field has me losing faith.
I hope there isn't any more casualties
I've already lost enough.
Nov 2017 · 291
Drunkin clouds
kyle Shirley Nov 2017
She is the weather.
Ever changing my mood
Happy as a sunny day
To a vicious cycle of rain
I'm clueless what to expect
She is fun when we play
other days
she rips through carelessly.
I steer clear and watch her destroy.
She is the weather.
You can always count on the weather to be..
*Weather.
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