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Stand where I stood and tell me the world would feel different to you.
Stand where I stood and watch it all leave.

I dare you to walk the path I have walked, the loves I have loved, the battles I’ve fought.
I want you to share the people I’ve met, sights that I’ve seen, the dreams that I’ve dreamt.
Stand before the flames that I crossed, the pain that I felt, the moments I lost.

I dare you.
You, who criticize me.
You who holds a microscope to all of my faults.

Stand where I stood and watch the world as she leaves you.
Stand where I stood and try to hold it all in.

Because when it is over

You won’t be standing anymore.
Sometimes it is hard,
To understand the things,
Going through the mind,
When the heart sings.
 Feb 2016 Christopher Black
Torin
I only try to be
Not become
Change the way I need
Or the things I want
The best that I can be
Is free from expectations
My cup is empty
When the wine is being poured

Letting go is the hardest part
So I never really did
I just sleep whenever I can
Holding on makes a soul grow tired

Trade this water
For the wine
This honey for bitter poison
And hold on
to let go
Be what I can
If I never understand
And really then thats all I am
I let go
to hold on

Letting go
Is the hardest part
I never really could
But I know that I should
Its over

Its over

My cup is empty
And whatever flows
Comes and goes
And no one knows
Its so much

Its so much
I can take you to the stars.
I can fly you to the moon.
Name your fantastic dream and I,
Yes I can make it true.
With joined minds
We can reach new peaks.
As long as you believe,
We can set foot into fantasy.
Take a step into my mind,
And we can start traveling.
Step into my heart and
Swim my vast seas.
Slip your hand in mine
And together set hearts wings
To the vibrant horizon
Of mellow sweet.
My body aches.
My fingers tremble,
My body quakes.
My back is sore,
My heart hurts more.
Love's a builder,
Pain is what it makes.
The Winter's here,
The love is gone.
My body aches.
The best happiness I can offer

To my parents.

Lying am fine and

wearing a fake smile.

Isn't this what they want from me

They want me to be happy.

This is the way they disguised their pain

And paved my path and stood behind me

For years and still continuing the same
By: Cedric McClester

I love you baby
And that’s very clear
So you think that
I’ll always (I’ll always) be here
But you’re neglecting me
And I’ve been reflecting - see
I might just disappear
So right now (right now) we need to clear the air

I love you baby
You know that I do
I can’t take the changes
You’re putting me through
I’m getting tired
And I thought that you knew
So don’t act as if
What I’m sayin’s not true

You take me for granted
Just tell me you don’t
But we both know the truth
So I know (so I know) that you won’t
My love is my weakness
I’ve become convinced
And that thought alone
Has me (has me) so incensed

Tell me why do you do me
The way that you do
You once was my sunshine
Now you make me blue
I should call it quits
But I’m not over you
And I may never be
Completely through

I love you baby
You know that I do
I can’t take the changes
You’re putting me through
I’m getting tired
And I thought that you knew
So don’t act as if
What I’m sayin’s not true

What does it take
To be real with me
Tell me my love
Just make me see
We can’t ignore it
Or just let it be
You’re breaking my heart
Obviously

I love you baby
You know that I do
I can’t take the changes
You’re putting me through
I’m getting tired
And I thought that you knew
But you act as if
What I’m sayin’s not true

I love you baby
And that’s very clear
So you think that
I’ll always (I’ll always) be here
But you’re neglecting me
And I’ve been reflecting - see
I might just disappear
So right now (right now) we need to clear the air











Cedric McClester Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.
I watched him stalk through the evergreens
In his black top hat and tails,
Just like some figure, lost in dreams
Or a voodoo doll, with wails,
I’d heard that they called him Doctor Bones
And thought that I could see why,
With teeth that gleamed like white tombstones
And a hole for a missing eye.

‘You conjure him up,’ said Marceline,
‘You bring him back from the grave,
His ancestors had laid him down
He was much too bad to save.’
She called Darleen and she told her, ‘go,
Bring a ritual bird to slay,
We have to get rid of Doctor Bones
Or Marc may die today.’

I lay back on the verandah, and
I fell in a tranceful stare,
I looked on out to the evergreens
And knew I could see him there,
He carried a stick and danced about
Then bowed with a sweep of his hat,
‘He’s dancing upon my grave,’ I said,
‘Now what do you think of that?’

Darleen came back with a feathered bird
And she danced and swung it round,
Filling the air with feathers as she
Dashed the bird on the ground,
‘Get back to the grave you came from,’
Marceline screeched out to the wood,
And Doctor Bones responded with moans
Then sank to his knees in mud.

They said that they broke my fever as
The bird had screeched at the last,
They wiped its blood all over my face
Where it seemed to set, like a cast,
I rose up out of my torpor and
Saw Darleen clutching the cat,
While I was stood by the mirror, and
Was wearing his tails and hat!

David Lewis Paget
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