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291 · Nov 2019
Untitled
N Nov 2019
Blood is red
Veins are blue
Mix the two colors together,
and they will leave a bruise
The knife is purple too. Sometimes black.
283 · Nov 2019
An Apology Letter
N Nov 2019
You tried sailing
to my shores,

but I was
drowning
in a sea of my own

I still am

Forgive me,
I couldn’t let you
sink with me
An actual letter I sent to my ex lover..
283 · Nov 2019
Bittersweet
N Nov 2019
I have been buried
and grown used to
utter darkness

But I dug myself
slowly
out of my own grave  

I could finally
kiss the sun,
and taste the flowers

I hope it lasts
I hope I last
283 · Mar 2020
Untitled
N Mar 2020
I wrote a poem about her and
held it against my aching heart,
it sang to me a melancholic tune
282 · Mar 2020
Come!
N Mar 2020
Come,
and lay down your sorrow
along with my solitude,
my heart is yours to break  

Come!
let us abate this
intolerable agony
with lavender tea
and beautiful poetry
278 · Dec 2019
Untitled
N Dec 2019
Keep thy head underwater—
staying afloat will not
quench this thirst of yours
275 · Aug 2019
A Promise
N Aug 2019
Tonight,
I’ll keep an empty stomach
enough to carry
my deathlike solitude

along with a cup of
coffee by your company
273 · Mar 2020
Fire Worshipper
N Mar 2020
At night,
aching and alone

I learned how to worship
the glittering fire of my mind

And in return,
it wrote this
poem for me
272 · Dec 2022
Her Scent
N Dec 2022
A home
can be a grave,
or a lover’s embrace

I want to return to a home
where the air smelled
of only her scent
271 · Jul 2019
Only After Your Departure
N Jul 2019
I’ve found that love tears me
like a papercut
sharp enough to draw blood

And I hold a heart
that’s been torn apart,
but it still beats over the
rhythm of your name
267 · Dec 2022
4:14
N Dec 2022
The closest thing I can reach for
is this harmful glowing cigarette

I tend to worship the
things that burn me

You burn me

I burned for you,
but my love’s flame
was suffocating you

Our hearts were
scattered ashes,
I’m sorry I couldn’t
carry yours gently
264 · Oct 2021
Harmful Kiss
N Oct 2021
My ugly mouth is stained
with cigarette kisses

It knows only the heat of a burning match
lighting a harmful kiss after another

I long
for my fingers to smell of her
and not the cigarette smoke
263 · Dec 2019
Even If He Moves You
N Dec 2019
I whispered to my heart
filled with yearning,
“Be still”

Even if the curly ropes
of his hair
leaves you trembling
with an unsatisfiable hunger

“Be very still
dear anguished heart of mine”,
but as a leaf
I quiver
clinging desperately
by a bleak bough

For soon I’ll flutter
with the wind,
and fall down
along with my sorrows

As the fallen leaves
withered and loveless,
I shall crumble and disappear
N Jul 2019
Goddess of Love
I worshiped
the poetry of her

Her voice sounded
like a soft prayer
Able to convert
an atheist to a priest

She’s Aphrodite
and I’m a Sapphist

Who wrote poems
like unheard pleas
from a tormented soul—
sentenced with death
soon to be beheaded

I invoked thee,
my Aphrodite
I’ll be thy Sappho
if you’d answer to
my pleas poems

And in them,
I’d implore you
to abate this intolerable agony, and
allay me in this deathlike solitude
with thy godly presence




I swear on love letters
and you
for it’s the last poem
I write about you
260 · Jul 2020
Yellow
N Jul 2020
At nights when I can’t utter
a word from my ugly mouth

My eyes pour out the words,
and I make a wish to be yellow
255 · Oct 2021
Confession
N Oct 2021
Tonight,
I am grieving my self

How I let my hair grow
How you let me go

How your cold absence burns
more than the heat of August,
more than a cigarette to my lips

I cannot sleep,
I think I’ve become my grief,
I admit you make me weak
252 · Nov 2019
Unrequited Love
N Nov 2019
I played their favorite songs,
I wrote them endless lines

I gave them my mind to haunt,
I used my wrists as bait,
and they were thirsty for blood

I shrink as they grow,
I dissolve as they emerge
249 · Feb 2020
An Ode To Her
N Feb 2020
A longing-pain
took hold of
my anguished heart
for I’ve missed you terribly

A rosebud
bursts into bloom,
and my thoughts
wander towards death
249 · Nov 2019
Ashtray of Cries
N Nov 2019
I heard you call my name in a dream
Did you need me, my dear?

I stayed up night after night
just to hear your I love you’s
just to hear your repetitive lies

Won’t you come back again?
Lie to me my dear darling one

I beg of you,
my dear,
my light,
in the shedding bleak midnight,
come to me with your wounds

Or at least get me a cigarette,
and leave me to drown along with my sorrows
247 · Nov 2019
Picasso’s Son
N Nov 2019
1.
The boy lived his
childhood inside a casket
His own private hellscape

His face was distorted
by the age of eighteen,
he wished to be unseen

2.
The son of a glorified painter,
an unused color on a palette
               faded and forgotten

He’s been dead
to his father
before he died

3.
At last,
his wish came true,
no one saw the similarity
between his distorted face
and a Picasso’s painting


4.
Drawing road maps on his skin
was his only consolation,
he chose the color red
to mark his missing path

Scars between his thighs
like hidden treasures
centuries deep
away from people’s sight

5.
Each morning,
he awoke with thousand faces
none of which are the one
he started out with

The boy who is now a man
grew restless of crashing into all
those foreign versions of himself
every time he drifted to sleep

6.
After seven years of insomnia,
he stopped measuring happiness
based on how many nights he slept
A funeral rose in his heart as he wept

He muttered the word
suffering
as if it were
a prayer
or a lullaby

7.
The man longs
to be a boy again,
he couldn’t endure
another day inside—

the claustrophobic casket

—his head

Lone firefly
slowly burning away
Every repetitive lullaby shall linger,  
the boy aimed for a long night’s sleep
246 · Feb 2020
A Ruined Birthday
N Feb 2020
You have forsaken me
in May,
now I know that every
love is prone to decay
246 · Feb 2021
Lazarus
N Feb 2021
The day you left
Azrael himself wept

And the suffocating silence of your
absence was deeper than your grave
243 · Mar 2020
You
N Mar 2020
You
Death is like you,
silent, cold, and
doesn’t love me back

If you are death
then I long to be dead
238 · Dec 2022
A Gentle Burial
N Dec 2022
Oh, what I would give for your grace,
if only you ask of me

I am an ocean of sacrifice when
it comes to you, my day and night

And so I shall bleed for you
till you ask me to stop

And I will still love you
even if you ask me to stop

And I will keep yearning for you
till my breathing stops

And if the day comes where
my love does not move you

Then I beg you to rid me of this old thing,
hold my heart, and bury it gently next to yours
233 · Nov 2019
Untitled
N Nov 2019
I wrote a poem
and named it after her
because it ends too early
233 · Mar 2020
Unanswered Pleas
N Mar 2020
Will you help me carry my sadness
and throw it away in a deep well?

Will you visit me in a dream and help
me face my heart-wrenching dreams?

Will you wish me goodnight
before you leave me tonight?

Will you handle this foreign heart of mine,
or are you going to abandon it for another refuge?

All I ask is, will I ever be
welcome in your heart, again?
233 · Nov 2019
Untitled
N Nov 2019
Dearest one to my heart,
you’re so far,
and I’ve forgotten what
the word warmth meant

Maybe you are  
the word warmth,

or maybe you are
the word silence

I talk to you,
but you don’t talk back
I’ve rewrote this poem twice now
227 · Feb 2020
Untitled
N Feb 2020
Those eyes,
those cold almond eyes,
that once were welcoming
at the sight of me,
like a warm welcoming home

But now they swallow me,
like the sea swallows
an old forgotten treasure
About a curly haired barista I once fell for.
225 · Dec 2019
Untitled
N Dec 2019
When my eyes met
hers for the first time,
they spelled the word “love”
Another poem I had in a dream
224 · Dec 2019
Untitled
N Dec 2019
I am nothing
but a swordfish

sick of living
underwater

sick of living
221 · Oct 2021
I Wonder
N Oct 2021
If the filed of lavenders
sighs when it yearns for her scent

If the sunflowers worship
her raven hair, like the sun

If the moon weeps with
longing when she’s asleep  

If the cherries bleed in her
mouth like my heart when she left
218 · Mar 2020
Leave Me Tender
N Mar 2020
If the sun rises and I don’t
see your face tomorrow

Know that you were the
only tender guest that
visited my fragile heart
without tearing it apart

And if the sun sets and dies,
and you’re not by my side

My eyes will forget how to sleep,
and I will remember you and weep

And if a year passes by
and I don’t hear your voice

My heart will no longer beat,
and I will surrender in defeat
216 · Nov 2019
Untitled
N Nov 2019
I break myself with each line
I write because I can’t make
pain rhyme with happiness
I don’t know.
214 · Feb 2020
Untitled
N Feb 2020
Why shall I stay alive if death is my fate?
212 · Mar 2020
Dream State
N Mar 2020
I can’t tell if I’m awake,
or not done dreaming

All I ask is, when will I awake
from this never-ending nightmare?

Perhaps death is
my only awakening
211 · Nov 2019
Shooting Star, Falling Rock
N Nov 2019
O, be the starry sky,
and I will be your
ever tender star

But don’t let me
be the lone moon
209 · Nov 2019
Untitled
N Nov 2019
Being mentally ill is draining,
so is breathing,
so is staying alive,
so is being hopelessly hopeful

But I will decay gracefully
for this pain is more than I can bear
208 · Mar 2020
Lullabies
N Mar 2020
My head is always howling,
so I never sleep,
I keep on listening
An ode to my beloved insomnia.
208 · Dec 2022
A Good Morning
N Dec 2022
The sun and I both
burn for his morning face

We await his cold almond eyes,
and crooked lips
to greet us each morning

But he’s sharing his light
with another soul,
but mine

I wish to know how many cigarettes
must I burn till my burning longing  
reaches his frigid heart?
206 · Nov 2019
Untitled
N Nov 2019
I’m breathing in
all the breaths I lost
over your gaze,

and exhaling every poems  
that rhymed with your name
202 · Dec 2022
Once
N Dec 2022
I never truly belonged to myself—
not even once
—ever since I met her.
I was hers to claim;
completely and painfully hers.
I began to disintegrate when
she no longer cared for me.
Every part of me she once traced
with her finger has crumbled.
Only her touch can mold me back together.

She wanted me to stay
with the living, and I obeyed.
I have the scars to prove it.
Look, darling, I am bleeding
and bumping full of life and desire.
Ask for me and you shall find me,
alive, hungry, and waiting for you.
Though it is my true wish to leave,
I will not disobey her command.
I am awaiting my punishment,
or reward for staying even after she left.
I wonder what my punishment would be
when she knows that I almost fell for another.
That I was someone else’s reason for staying.
That their breathing changed
the closer I got to their hungry flesh.
Even the deepest part of hell knows
that I still long for her impossible commands.
My knees are bleeding,
but I keep pleading for her words to posses me.
201 · Feb 2020
Will You Remember My Name
N Feb 2020
A heaven for an hour
for when I’m with her

A long desired kiss that
turns pain into a song
I have never heard

I would not long for death as
long as you remember my name
201 · Nov 2019
Dimmed Heart
N Nov 2019
I tried holding the darkness,
and imprison it
in a forgotten place

Empty handed,
I am the darkness
and the forgotten place

How does one choose to forget themselves?
How do I eradicate myself in order to mend?
How do I rid myself of something that lives within me?

A vicious war,

I won—

I defeated myself

—so why does my heart still
beats with so much darkness?
200 · Feb 2020
Maybe I Need You Tonight
N Feb 2020
Maybe my heart will
stop crying all night long,
and I will be able to sleep

Maybe you will stop
walking in my dreams
like you’re still mine

Maybe my eyes
will forget yours,
and I won’t weep

Maybe my skin won’t
crave your touch, and
my hand won’t ache
to be held by yours
I guess I will keep writing about my ex till I run out of words.
198 · Nov 2019
Untitled
N Nov 2019
Melancholy is creeping
its way back through
my veins forcing me
to open up old wounds

And I hope for
something more than
a sharpened knife,
and gushing blood
195 · Mar 2020
Before I Go To Sleep
N Mar 2020
I will write one last
poem which bleed
from my wounds

And in its final verse,
I will write a rhyme,
and say, weeping,
what my heavy
heart truly feels
Not a suicide note.
195 · Nov 2019
Untitled
N Nov 2019
I do not know
how to grieve you

So I will weep
into my pillow

Hoping you’d hear
my gentle sobs,
and forget how to dream
193 · Feb 2020
Suicide Note
N Feb 2020
Joy overcomes me
born out of agony

Still I am burning
underwater,
I cannot be saved

When my soul departs,
alone,
know that I am glad to go
191 · Dec 2022
About My Hunger
N Dec 2022
The cigarette hasn’t left
my ugly mouth
ever since yours left mine

Now I cannot speak
without pouring
as a frightening  rainy night
I cannot love
without burning
my heart and yours
I cannot breathe
without gasping for your scent
I cannot think
without remembering
the meaning behind your name

And I cannot eat
without being consumed
by my unsatisfiable hunger

For you,
I starve
190 · Dec 2022
Moon Sleeper
N Dec 2022
Be my moon
all-night long,
I promise I will never sleep

I long to sleep next
to your moonlight face,
if only you’d let me
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