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207 · Apr 2018
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.
207 · Oct 2017
Work to be done.
kyle Shirley Oct 2017
Some people are not meant to find happiness.
they're not meant to have joy every day of their lives.
Some are meant to be built up with pain and anger, to finally rise up from depression on their own, and seek what truly is their bliss in life.
*I am not one of these people... But I'm working on it.
204 · Jul 2018
Dramtic irony
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
I know your home alone
And your crying on the phone
Your left with so much hurt
And I only see you in spirts
And it kills
It's shrill
But just imagine the thrill
The cold chill of the night
Don't hate me out of spite
I gotta do what I think is right
No longer can we fight
It takes all of my might
To stop that beast that's inside
The one you choose to hide
From the world you chose to help
But instead you indulge yourself
We both can't sink in this ship
And I'm just tired of your ****.
204 · Jan 2018
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
199 · Jun 2019
In a nutshell
kyle Shirley Jun 2019
All the laughter aside,
you looked me in the eye.
Told me all your feelings subside,
That last night you cried
that everything was a lie.

And yet I find,
repeating in my head,
without you I'm better off dead,
alone and suffering laying in bed
writting you a love song filled with dread. Leaving me wasn't the worst thing you did,
it was leading me on before you ran and hid..
kyle Shirley Nov 2019
After the last one we just kinda gave up, as a whole generation of people finding their one and only.
Both sides spilling poison into the water making each person hurt like we do inside.
Cheating on eachother because if it happened to us, why cant it happen to them.
Flirting with new people online because its harmless fun, I didnt make my significant other go to sleep this early and NOT give me any attention.
Sleeping with every person out there because self empowerment and being a ***** (both sides) merged into being the same thing instead of having decency and self respect.
kyle Shirley Jun 2019
Before I began writing about pain
The only letters I had, spelled your name
Even now it still feels the same
Writting about, my new flame.
Yet it all started with you
Had time been kind
I'd write something new.
Remorse filled the room
As my writing wrote of gloom
Saddnes and woe filled the page
Truth laid out and nothing's the same
Before I began to write about pain
It all started when I herd your name.
196 · Apr 2018
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
195 · Oct 2019
When to be loved
kyle Shirley Oct 2019
In the bathroom stall crying, wiping away tears
It will be alright you say
Behind the closet door as distant shouting continues
It will be alright you say
Touching hands on the trampoline star gazing
It will be alright you say
Another night covering up bruises instead of a ER visit
It will be alright you say
Putting your heart to someone after all that pain...
It will be alright... you say.
193 · May 2018
Tales from the deep
kyle Shirley May 2018
Depression speaks in tongues only the weak and lonely can understand.
It's schizophrenic whispers in your ear when you know no one is there.
It's comforting when it's your only friend to talk to.
It's mumbling shadows on your wall
Telling you it's ok to end it all.
In the end I was there when no one could
No one understands why your so misunderstood...
193 · Aug 2018
Blackened in defeat
kyle Shirley Aug 2018
No one can see our Mental scars,
But they are far worse than physical ones
The abuse the past brings
Damgages us for the future.
Laying in bed with crazy
Leaving the toxic atmosphere behind
Finding hope with another
Only then, crazy slips back in
It Drowns your hope
Rapes your future
And tells you
I'm what you need...
And you listen
So no one else can get hurt.
191 · Oct 2019
Happy birthday regret.
kyle Shirley Oct 2019
How do I say I'm sad that the one day that's supposed to be for me, is the one day I feel the most alone. That I want to be more noticed by one and yet invisible by the rest...

How do I say that I made great choices in life but in love I'm so poor, that when the after life hits none of the riches I've made could equal to the loving memories I could tr make with me.

How do I say I love the way you look at me and we haven't even met, I love the way you make me feel warm yet we have never touched, how do I say hello when you have yet to hear me...
190 · Sep 2019
The fall of summer
kyle Shirley Sep 2019
And just like that the sky blooms
with the colors of fall,
the tops of trees started to change.
The soft blue sky washed the fiery Orange clouds with a pink cotton candy blend, together making the 1st sign of fall.
The smell of rain and Carmel apples
Filled the air
Spooky time was near
The hours of day running fast
Like the wick of a candle
winding down at last
The flannel comes out in full bloom
Matching is our red blossomed checks
As we see our first fall full moon.
190 · May 2019
Internal battle wages
kyle Shirley May 2019
I could walk through fire just to give her a drink, and she would turn her nose up at it.
I could be Odysseus and travel across the most rigorous sea and I wouldn't be enough.
When the dust settles, the mountains have been moved, when the moon brought to her feet.. You are simply not what she is looking for...
187 · Jun 2018
Love of an addict
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
Come on you ****
It's time to wake up
Get another kick from that ***** rush
You sloppy drunk
Here you go ahead lighting up
Another blunt?
Don't you think you have had enough?
I know staying awake is tough
When you wanna feel numb
When your head pounds like a drum
From the day befores ***
It's time for work here comes the sun
Out the door I run
Back again tonight looking to ***
Ready for some fun?
Wait whose this ***...?
187 · Dec 2018
Our fouth of july
kyle Shirley Dec 2018
To be loved by you
Was greater than time
Reminiscing old photographs
And watching home movies
I am reminded of the love you gave
Hearing your voice
Seeing your smile
Makes time irrelevant
You gave me a home to hold on to
When I have nothing left
kyle Shirley Feb 2019
I took a trip to the unknown
Now the darkness has a hold on me
I'm starting to feel it in my bones
No longer is it a mystery
Hold me closer darkness
For now I see
Love is blinded
All it causes is misery
185 · Feb 2019
No happy ending
kyle Shirley Feb 2019
I fell in love with the idea of love.
That the girl will save the boy from himself
That the powerful play goes on
And I was lucky enough to play a verse
That love chose me to portray it's injustice
But
It's gone.
The jar is empty.
No love was given
The lights of the stage never turned on
The chairs were dusty and folded
Not a soul in sight.
No star role on the main stage
But
An outcast
A nobody.
The story where no love was found.
185 · May 2018
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...
184 · Apr 2018
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...
183 · Jul 2018
Tragic lovers
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
As the winged serpents descended
And the smog filed death machine,
marched Towards their last breath
He grabbed her
Kissed her with everything he had left
And walked graciously onto the inevitable.
Something so permanent
an absolute truth of separation.
Couldn't change what he felt about her
The test of time made sure their love existed.
As she begged him not to go
Her memory started to fade
And all that was left, was a black and white photo of two strangers on the nightstand of the nursing home...
183 · Apr 2018
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?
181 · Dec 2018
Head games
kyle Shirley Dec 2018
Standing under a lone street light
Not a sound Or motion in sight.
Darkness blankets the streets
Masking people I've yet to meet
Walking aimlessly, corner to corner
Mind is racing thinking of horror
Asking questions to myself
Wondering if I'll ever get help
Out of the hall they swarm to grab me
Tie me up and back they drag me
Once again I've escaped my room
Once again the orderlies Loom
That Through all the pain
They tell me I'm insane
That no man could possibly endure
Loves departure.
180 · May 2018
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.
180 · May 2019
Tear that dont weep
kyle Shirley May 2019
Close the window on negativity you don't need to hear it

Shut the blinds to the outside world you don't need the distraction.

Lock the door from toxic people the closer they are, the more they hurt you.

Crawl into the isolated bed you have made
It's the only peace you have.
179 · May 2018
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...
178 · Jul 2018
The cancer of my heart
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
It's a wicked kingdom I have built
Watching my insides tear out
Plague walls crumbling down
No sign of my crown
No lady by my side
I mimic a captain and his ship
In my kingdom and I'll go down with it
Ivy spreads to the walls
Only echoes in the halls
It's like a silence calling out for help
A poker hand that was misdealt
So many mistakes were made
But you the one that made it all cascade.
174 · Apr 2018
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.
173 · Jul 2018
20 days
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
For 20 days
you called me ******
While you were calling him on the phone.
20 days
I was there for you
While in the back of your mind he was why you asked me to leave you alone.
For 20 days
you told me you were working on us
But you were with him talking about trust
For 20 days
I was giving you space to think
For 20 days
He was why we didn't speak
For 20 days
I begged and bled for you to notice me again
But all along it was a waste of my time thinking we would begin again.
172 · Feb 2019
Injustice
kyle Shirley Feb 2019
In the west
There's a chapel
Where a god sings
Through the stained glass
And the colors dance
In front of your eyes.
You can hear the lies
Through the warm pews
And all the faint cries..
Ive been trying new ways
to summon the devil.
To bring me what I want
because god has silenced my cries
And turned a deaf ear....
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
Alone in his kindom he wept
Moon lit nights he barely slept
Pacing the halls he never dreamt
His bride, his queen an untimely death

Trapped in the kindom with a ghost
Madly looking at the ivory coast
Cruel intentions set into our host
The outcome of cancer Diagnosed

Her memory to others was jaded
Even the tombstone was faded
This wasn't the life he thought he created
Depression quickly invaded

Up at the castles tallest tower
was our kings final hour
Without his queen he had lost all power
The rope tightens quickly as the last tombstone reads "to my beloved wildflower".
170 · Jun 2018
No lessions for sinners
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
I'm just a broken boy posing in men's pajamas
contemplating life like Obama's
traumas
This new reality I've made
Is nothing close to mundane
The drama is at every turn
Telling lies, when will I learn
A broken man with many horses at his stable
But no loyal knights around his table
Is my life only chalked up to fable?
Or is this last poem fatal?

My lust for women's touch
Make These intentions too much
For lying comes in clutch
When honestly has put me in this rut
Crying for help with my eyes shut
170 · Apr 2019
How it is.
kyle Shirley Apr 2019
Dad is not doing okay
Mom hasn't awnserd the phone in a few days
Girlfriend throwing a fit not getting her way
Yet the outside world still turns
Putting ashes in fancy urns
And every day we still dont learn
To love eachother don't wait for the past
Live everyday like it's our last
Life's a play and your gone in a flash...
169 · Apr 2018
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...
168 · May 2018
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.
168 · Jan 2018
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.
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
When it comes to poetry,
You were the center of my writing.
My inspiration was your strength.
When you left,
It was like learning to write all over again.
This time I learned to think for myself
And when to close the door on us.
167 · Jun 2019
The distance
kyle Shirley Jun 2019
The distance between us is farther than miles
Frustration brings us on the verge of exile
One touch, one look brings us close
Two many days apart and we begin to choke
First comes fighting then comes silence
A little communication would bring guidance
One date, one kiss is all it would take
love from you, would end my heartbreak...
kyle Shirley Jun 2018
Nothing like being ignored
When your bored
And they are out there being adored
Like some social media *****
Take a step out of the light and explore
It's always a battle waging war
Mind racing till it's sore
Screaming aloud to shore
No vocal cords
You won't hear from me no more
167 · Feb 2018
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.
167 · Dec 2018
Gone girl
kyle Shirley Dec 2018
I just have no will to fight.
Whatever is missing
It's gone for good.
It's left me in my bed
Alone
No tv or radio
No pictures or books
There is no light.
Why when it's missing is darkness related?
167 · Aug 2018
I am not lost
kyle Shirley Aug 2018
A lonesome traveler notices
the break in the sky,
The tear form in the eye.
The dance of joy flutter
Between two lovers
Many travels have taken place
Yet none was more beautiful than her face
He kept her close
in a pocket book
One look
To find home
Saddness creeps
His arms felt weak
Chin held high
He whispered
True love never dies...
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.
164 · Jul 2019
Intervention
kyle Shirley Jul 2019
Why does it feel like drowning?
I have nothing but air around me
Yet it's so hard to breath
Even tho all this pain is only skin deep
No one there to awnser my calls
Walking dead around these halls
I feel every silent scream aching out
Everyone I know see's me walking about
Acting fine no need to get attention
However I could use a social session
To wake me of this oppression
And out of this long lasting depression
164 · May 2019
To my Valentine
kyle Shirley May 2019
Don't dream of me when I'm gone,
I wanted nothing but to stay.
Yet here I am passing
You have nothing left to say.
Looking back through the glass
Of where my picture lay
My memories before they pass
Showed happiness portrayed.
Broken, useless, covered in dust
For all the gifts I payed
Your the one I trusted
This poem is what I have to say
You lied, you cheat, took me for a fool
You sought out lust.
Used me as a tool
Heartless beauty with skin so divine
I'm sorry loving you was my gulity crime...
164 · Apr 2017
Melted ice.
kyle Shirley Apr 2017
I'm in love and it breaks my heart.

I could stand close to you yet we feel far apart.

I have waited for you to text or call.

Not a peep from you, no nothing at all.

How could you ignore me all day?

Iv texted and snapped you lots, not even a hey...

Iv bought this time with you,  didn't matter the price.

Now your out with friends and I'm drinking here alone watching my glass full of...
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...
163 · Jul 2018
I wait.
kyle Shirley Jul 2018
I saw heaven in her eyes
A meadow of daisies in her smile
God's voice when she spoke
She was an Angel
Handcrafted for me
The beauty of love
Was such a gift
She was the light in every room
She was the song
Everyone else danced too
She was mine
I was hers
We gave hope to the poor
Magic to the touch
She is my dying wish
Too bad death won't visit me
161 · Apr 2018
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...
161 · Apr 2018
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.
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