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kyle Shirley Jun 2017
It took great strength to forget you and leave you behind, you have me that strength which is unbelievable irony.

I break down every day.
I struggle every day.
I see that glimpse of lying hope, every day.

I cry because It was real.
I clench my fists in agony
I'm done trying to feel.

I lose sleep, I can't eat, I die every day inside, just the pieces of you.
My body and mind are trying to fight this infectious disease, the love and idea of you.
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 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...
kyle Shirley Jul 2016
Im a stupid ******* drunkin mess.
A ******* whom can barly get dressed.


Illusions of love break my soul,
Nothing is left but a lump of coal.

I drink, drank, drunk stumbling around,
These days Im done being a ******* clown.

Humiliation my poetry brings,
She laughs in my face, **** all these random flings.

God shes a stupid ******* marry popins *******, im done rhyming...
**** your feelings
It's all about the cash n grass now
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 Jul 2019
Like the lighthouse standing there alone
At the end of the pier
I too have
My hopeful light on
Still searching this endless abyss..
The rolling tide continues crashing in
Night after night
a bombardment of waves hit,
yet I Still stand.
Maybe I'm a beacon for that lost traveller
To finally come home and see my light
Or maybe...
Being alone
to guide everyone home
Is my purpose...
kyle Shirley May 2016
Take away the pills, I have more.
Oh im not good enough?
Just look at my sister, flithy *****.

So iv developed a few new habits,
Poppin pills, and alcohol. Might as well start lookin for caskets.

They think I do this to numb the pain,
What they dont know is im tryin to remember what it feels like...
Kissing her in the rain.

Last thing I saw before I was tied to this hospital bed, was the last drop of jim beam and the tree branch next to my head.

It's 3 a.m. And I just want to sleep,
Grasping for my pills
These rope burns hurt my feet.

Drugged out prince is what they call me
More like broke loser
Begging to be set free...
kyle Shirley May 2017
Much like Forrest and Jenny, gatsby and daisy, or Johnny and June.
I'm a man so love stuck by a woman my world looks like the heavens and earth meet at her feet.
Ive chased and chased much like my fellow romantics waiting till she accepts me for the love i have to give.
A million no's so far, but all it takes is one yes.
Because if there's anything you need, I won't be far away.
kyle Shirley Feb 2017
Flew to close to the sky.
Yet again her rejection will never die.

Like the clash, should I stay or should I go?
Her guessing may not be worth it, ya know?

Two weeks and your gone like that,
Two weeks your feeling went splat.

One day is not enough to make a decision,
Nothing left now but division..

Separate ways from here on out.
Feelings rage, makes me shout.

This is where I end things.
kyle Shirley Jun 2017
These late stages of depression ive been lonely.

I'm now starting to realize that I have hope, but not for me, for you.

I hope you found what you were looking for, while struggling to keep it together with me.
I hope you can be yourself around him, and not this monster you have shown me.

I hope he sees the love and life in your radiant eyes as you look up at him, the eyes haunt me still.
That smile when he makes you laugh will be the backbone of all conversations, because he will be lost staring at you while your deep in a story, and your smile will bring him back.

I hope he sees your power to up lift the ones around you, and the ability to bring ones you love close together.

Most of all, I hope he sees the future with you, the one I've been addicted to for so long. The white dress, the dancing under the blue moon... and I hope he loves your kids with a love that's more than love...

I've been in pain for so long, I can't even remember what happiness feels like.
kyle Shirley Jun 2017
It's the only way I can decompress my thoughts,
Problem is when I unravel them I see you.
All that's left is you.
You were the one I talked to, to untangle my past, my present, you were my future.
When does this self loathing and blaming stop?
I'm better without you that's for sure, you were always a drug to me, and I'm still waiting on the text or call from you to get me high.
I won't be there to pick up the phone. I wont be at your beck and call.
I'm better alone.
I cant trust that the next girl whom catches my eye.
Wouldn't want her going off and pulling a you, but this loneliness won't leave me alone so she will have to do.
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 Nov 2019
I've had a lot of first kisses since you
None have shot stars to the moon
Fireworks when I close my eyes
Shivers walking down my spine
None other than you.
Too much time has passed
I miss your face like hell
I guess we are going to better places
Move on, we might as well.
I see your eyes in other faces
I miss your face like hell.

I've never known
how to end these poems
when you're the subject..
because to me it isn't over.
kyle Shirley Aug 2015
As Rihanna once put it, she's in love with the monster under her bed.
Similar, I'm in love with the monster in my head.
I am addicted to the pain and stress,
I walk around at night nothing but a mess.
I dream of walks in the park and late night dates to sweep you off your feet.
Now all I am is a ghost, nothing but you being discreet.
The whisper of your name releases endorphins of hope, it all fades by the end of this rope.
A lousy text or call could have saved me,
I am ***** by loneliness, still that even  fills me with glee.
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 Oct 2018
He sacrificed her
For everything he ever wanted
Money, fame, women
It still wasn't enough
To fill his ego
When on his last days
He would pull out her picture
Glare at himself in the mirror
Shake his head
And put it away
She was the only thing missing
The old man knew his life
Would forever be
Incomplete
without her
kyle Shirley Feb 2016
The heart, it weeps to be whole again.
Cries nightly, longing for its better half.

I close my eyes, in a flash its whole again.
The blink is over, and heart break settles in.
**** them with kindness just like she taught you.
I hang up my **** dripping with the stench of *****, I throw away this one night stand playbook.
Iv taken my armour off of my heart and walk out into the open a free man, willing to risk hurt for love, it's not my fault I want every girl, I was born this way, but never given the means to control it until now.
kyle Shirley Jan 2015
as watch myself become infinite, the days go on by myself in the loop day in and day out the same thing over and over again sleep, work, by myself, sleep, work, alone. This infinite loop is a struggle, although I don't see myself in this loop forever, I don't know how to change it. I know where I want to be, I know what I can be, it's the motivation I don't know how to grasp.to whom that is reading this I have a question to ask you. Have you ever seen a TV show called Californication? The main character is named Hank Moody, is a writer alone in LA, with a daughter, chasing after his ex, who runs into the arms someone she cheated for. He can't write, he has no aspirations, no motivation. but we watch as he drowns himself in smoke, *****, and alcohol. It's so entertaining to the viewer because he is a walking case of misery and self-loathing. It makes ourselves seem like our lives are so much better, When they're really not. the strange thing is I see myself becoming Hank Moody and not the viewer, I get excited over new ***** but it doesn't fill the hole that I had for another. So my life becomes an endless loop. Work, sleep, ****, drink, alone, repeat.
infinite.
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 Jan 2015
at what point do I stop pretending to be Batman, like everyone wants, And I start living my real life as the joker and find my harley quinn? To love me as I am, strange, fearful, unpredictable. Not as a false idol, everything society sees me to be, what you love me to be.
kyle Shirley May 2015
When you boil it all down, this world is nothing but ******* lies and and false ideas. there can never be peace when war pays more. You say money isn't everything, id like to see you live without it. Money does buy happiness, just not for very long or practical happiness. Nothing sells more then hope, hope for peace, love, money, happiness blah blah blah.... Hope is the root of all evil. So when you boil this world all down to it... All there is, is false hope and lying about whose making the real money.
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...
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
kyle Shirley Jan 2017
I would be lonely if not for the moon,
Casting silhouette pictures into my room.
Who thought id have such gloom.
To have ghostly shadows fill my commune.
kyle Shirley May 2016
I find myself surrounding my life in things you once told me about.
Movies, books, poems, writings, and music.

I adore your art work, what light has shown through this tattered canvas of mine...

To have a taste to feel what you feel. To see these images and understand your mind just a little deeper.

Your lost. I'm on the same journey you took, and im on my way to get lost with you.
To the woman who has the wind to her back and keeps moving forward. Who is conflicted about emotions and actions
kyle Shirley Oct 2015
I want you to be the reason I listen to love songs again.

I want you to be the one I say cute pet names to.

Did you know iv been wanting you?

I want you to be the one I come home to.

I want you to be the Juliet to my Romeo.
(with out the ****** suicide part)

But im not gonna buy your love.

I wont change myself to be what you want.

I like you just the way you are.

I just want you to be the reason I listen to love songs again.
kyle Shirley Mar 2016
It's not like I dont think about you, I do.
But it comes and goes.

I think of another every **** day, everyday since day one.

I try to let her go but it's impossible.
So ill hold on to that tighter and know that it happened.

But I remember you.
kyle Shirley Jan 2017
Maybe I saw right through those victimized eyes, and saw only what I wanted to see, a future.

I looked atop peaks and down in valleys to find the kind of girl I was searching for, only to find you.

I think we made both the pain of the past fade away,  for a night.

now it's back to our ways on our separate islands, Anyone can Visit, but no one can stay.

I don't bother telling this to your face, rejection blows.

who cares that in one night I bonded with a person's mind and body, not just *** for hire.

Maybe we will just let go before we even held on.
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.
kyle Shirley May 2016
Dear to whom it may concern,

Thats how it starts... Iv been thinking about Us (with a capital you) the story of us. How the **** do I sum it up? Has it been perfect? Hardly. Any story with me at the center of it will never be anything less then a big smiling mess, But here's what I know for sure, our time in the sun has been a thing of absolute ******* beauty. The nightmares, the partys, the hangovers, the wedding... This magnificent shimmering insanity in this world of ours. When for months I woke up to you leaving because you cant sleep till 2 pm, I roll outa bed telling you im sorry, I'll do better, then proceed to disappoint you and repeat till you walked out for good.

As writer I'm a hopeful sucker for happy endings, the guy gets the girl she saves him from him self and they live happy ever after.

As man who has loved such girl, I realized there is no such thing, there's no sunset, there's just now, just the two of us which can be ****** scary and ugly sometimes.

But, if you close your eyes like I have and listen to the whisper of your heart, if you simply keep trying and never... ever give up. No matter how many times we get it wrong, maybe till the beginning and end blur into something called, until we meet again.  Thats.. Thats all I got, I didn't know how to finish it, but it's not finished it never will be with me and you.

I wrote you, because every single time I try to speak, something stupid comes out of my mouth, and the words dont mean what I want them to mean, or even half of what I want them to mean.

Its, It's never over for me. Never.
I say I love you but what does that mean when I only ever let you down...
kyle Shirley Sep 2015
I ripped you off like a band aid and it never felt so good.
Im glad you can find happiness in him and with my friends because I know they will be good people for you.
Iv haven't felt this great without you in my life and I honestly dont need the attention from another to relieve my loneliness for a day or two. I figured out how to be happy on my own and its a good thing your on gonna weigh me down any longer.
I havent found the light yet, but I have found a path, it will take awhile out of this cave I built but ill do it and come back better then ever!
Never hope, just do!
kyle Shirley Apr 2020
And then he walked Graciously into the inevitable
no white light
No pain
just peace
as he ascended
he watched those below
gather around with love sorrow.
He Turned to say one last thing,
"I gotta go" with a smile
He stepped out of sight
Calm with heavy hearts
Until we meet again.
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
kyle Shirley Aug 2015
Im done being sad,
Moody.
Lonely,
Hateful,
And ungrateful.
Im done with new beginnings,
No phone a ringings,
No more tears and hopeful late night beers
I want her, but im done.
I need her, and her cute little messy bun.
My life is a story, about love.
Her life is an adventure about something more then love.
She wouldnt know why I would choose to stay and wait.
Just like ill never know why she would choose to go and never look back to see if im staring.
Im finding myself
My mind
My heart
And
My life.
kyle Shirley Mar 2017
He didn't come from money or a loving home...
He didn't have a nice car or a big house...
He didn't even have a job to be proud of...
            But she loved him anyway.

He remembered her favorite things and spent time with her.
He made her laugh and smile with ease.
He let her be wild and goofy bc she was happy.
            This is why she loved him.

He wasn't classicly handsome...
He wasn't too smart or athletic...
He wasn't even that great in the bedroom.
      But she loved the way he treated her.

He wonders where he went wrong so many times.
Thinks about it when she's away...
His old jokes don't work, she has new favorite things, and she's more mature now.

She left him behind much like a old toy when you become too busy with such things.
He waits for her to notice him again..
But with no money, no family, no good looks or nice things... what would she even come back to?
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 Sep 2015
Thanks Bruno mars, she does make me feel like iv been locked out of heaven now.
I hate that I love you, and I love that I hate you, you make me feel like I know what love is, this pain I constantly feel, it never numbs or goes away, iv just learned to deal with it.
I stay close to you, because if I ever let go fully, id loose a best friend along with a lover. Its karma, I thought I knew everything there was to know about you in auch a short time, even now im finding things I love more about you.
I love that I hate you.
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 2020
Two strangers meet at first glance
But all he needed was just a chance.
No obstacle could get in his way
Only mystery would make her stay
He could read her like no one could
She always felt so misunderstood.
He Traced her skin as his fingers crept
He watched as Her Goosebumps wept
Who knew blondes could have so much fun
Only when kissed with the west coast sun
kyle Shirley Apr 2016
eyes
Lips
Kiss

Hands
Sweat
Lust

heavy breathing
Passion
Love

soft  touch
Cuddling
Remorse
Thoughts, time after time.
kyle Shirley Dec 2018
She was it
Salvation at my finger tips
Had I not lost my grip
Maybe she would have stayed and sit
But Shes floated away
And that love went astray
In his arms she returned
Now my lesson was learned
kyle Shirley Oct 2015
With desire in my eyes, I wake up out of the ashes, I rise and walk up the steps to my Empire.

I have learned many things in my trials, the only thing you can do is believe in yourself, trust yourself.

Love is a crime, the wrong love can rob you of a wonderful life. Mug you of rising far beyond your limitations. ****** you of your hopes and dreams. Just because a you fell in love with the wrong person at the  right or wrong time.

But thats the beauty of love, the best teaching tactic life can give you. Hurt.
Im alive again, waking up, seeing my friends perk up at the sight of my smiles
kyle Shirley Jan 2016
In the darkest moments of my life I was always able to rely on friends more then family at a young age.
As I grew older I sought out many beautiful women to settle down with, as my best friend to rely on.
In the past coming months, iv lost my best friends, and my girl. I sit at home calling and calling on them in my time of need, no answer.
Im a simple man, I love a girl whom I made  childish mistakes with, she no longer loves me. I enjoy my friends company, they are a great group. I abandon them for my love, when I came up short with her, I had no one.

As a romantic I tend to find happiness in the darkest corners of the world, lately... I cant even find happiness right in front of me.
I talk to my woman everyday, she grows tired of letting me down day after day.
"Im sorry i dont feel that way" it's never gonna happen again" "dont get used to us talking, I wont be here forever"

Every new day I find a new way to have her take me back. Although I know it will never be...
kyle Shirley Feb 2015
When did talking to the opposite *** jump straight to flirting or cheating.  If your in a relationship and your significant other wont let you even add a man or a woman on Facebook because they think you like them and are flirting and cheating on them, theyve got some issues... and on the reciprocal end of things if your single and you have a person in a relationship add you or talk to you... thats all they are gonna do until they start flirting... and you will know because you will start smiling more often talking to them then anyone else... just because you have technology now with Facebook at your fingertips dont freak out about the opposite ***. Some girls find it easier to be friends with boys then girls... mostly due to the attention they attract from them. For guys we are programmed to talk and look at woman, that being said we were rasied to be gentlemen and learned to just talk, and by that friendships happen. So calm the **** down nd learn to trust will ya?
kyle Shirley Oct 2015
Love lost is beauty found.

Her happiness is all I want.

My love for her is still profound.

My memories she will taunt.

Down the road ill finally be happy

I dream she still smiles,

Although the day has been ******

My poetry about her drives me miles.
kyle Shirley Sep 2016
Have too many feelings but never anyone or place to put them in.

Sacrifice a day for plans with people who always seem to let you down or bail on you.

Accept the hurt and live in it.

Become over joyed and too hopeful too easy.

Lay awake to wonder and ponder love and life, restless legs never allow me to rest easy.
kyle Shirley Dec 2017
Although it was short lived,
the ride is what brings excitement to the journey. ~Life.~* -kyle shirley
kyle Shirley Apr 2016
Comes into my room as quick as light. Love.
Turned on with no fright.
Laughing and loving not a care in the world. In my arms you curled.

Strange feelings set the mood.
My love you feel the need to elude.
Now in a flash have you changed.
Somehow your feelings towards me have rearranged.    Selfish

Struggling to keep you gripped tight.
You tell me it's not right.
I sit here telling myself its not over,
Fearing the worst you let me cry on your shoulder.

No words to be said
Just tears  I have shed
I stand, sit, lie down as I plead
Asking every explanation I can bleed

Crushing blows I take away
Fire to darkness you play
Your light flickers in my heart as I twitch
You're unpredictable like a light switch...
Tails.

I'm tired of living with these demons, because they always inviting more.
kyle Shirley Aug 2016
If I loved you, the day I saw you, in that moment, you were going to be the center of my happiness, would you ignore me? Shut me out for feeling too passionate about a moment? Or could you learn to love me as I do you?

How about If i tell you, I no longer could hold grudges or speak ill, because you have taught me life it too short, and iv lived too long without love to burden myself with such pain.

I dont look at your beauty. when I said I loved you the moment I saw you, it wasn't about seeing beauty, it was about seeing right though you. It was seeing my life with you in 30 seconds flash to 30 years. Ups, downs, fights, children, and learning more about you each and everyday. That look for 30 seconds told me everything I needed to know in a person, trust.
New beginnings
kyle Shirley Jan 2019
I have just found you
This hidden treasure
No map
No clues
Just that red mop on top
That marks the spot

It travels at my fingertips
Rushes through my body
Like a rapid river
Traveling to the center

I have just found you
Now what are we
Gonna
Do?
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