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This is the last thing, the final time,
No more words, no reason, no rhyme.
I won’t reach out, I won’t pretend,
This is my adieu, this is the refrain.
I’ll vanish far, where no one sees,
Where names are lost in distant breeze.
No one will call, no one will care,
And I won’t leave a shadow there.

Every memory
I’ll let it fade,
Like old songs that silence played.
I’ll forget it all, I’ll close that door,
I won’t come back, not anymore.
But the last song I once replayed,
The one I quietly screen-recorded and saved
That one stays, a soft goodbye,
A sound that holds what I can’t cry.

I won’t return, won’t turn around,
I’m searching now for quieter ground.
A place like Innisfree — still and wide,
Where I can breathe and safely hide.
So this is it
No need to try.
No second thoughts. Just one last sigh.
No one will notice, no one will see...
But maybe that's how it was meant to be.
Ceaselessly striving like an asymptote
 Aug 1
Lynn Stillman
I'm emotional
When I think of those I've lost,
without a goodbye.
beneath the cindering sky
a storm surge pummels

and plumes
onto broken grey stones

waves
in black rages

rip away the skin
of the day

you are shattered
and dragged further

and further from the strand
on a distance cliff

the lighthouse pitches flicks
and is finally lost

black chemical blood
sludges your veins

slowing your heart
fear feeds loneliness

ocean whole
you are swallowed

and sinking the darker down
breathe in the cold silence

peace
peace  
peace
  
be with you
19 stones in the satchel I carry.
Some are huge and lots are small.
I hoist them up each morn at dawn
And stumble through another day
Looking for a place to put them down.
ljm
Issues, life, well being.  All of it.
 Jul 31
Jason R Michie

Fingers slide, sensuous,
Tracing sunlit skin,
Caressing warm memories,
Etching my heart within.

Lips share passions,
Of word and kiss,
Tongues bare souls,
Fears, hopes, and bliss.

Dreaming in your embrace,
Arms encircle, legs entwine,
Drifting in your eyes,
Love reflected, in yours, in mine.

©2015 ©2025 Jason R. Michie All Rights Reserved
 Jul 31
Kurt Philip Behm
Science
has brought
us closer
to the edge of our oblivion
Nuclear fission
angel dust
processed foods
and smog
Two steps forward
ten steps back
ennobling every ***** fact
as children choke and cry
There’s one award
the Swede’s leave out
that’s missing
on their dais
The Nobel Prize
for mass destruction
as progress masquerades
— unchecked

(Sweden: May, 2008)
Is an action word , not of a sorrowing heart , but one of a change of direction like a stone bouncing off an immovable force .
 Jul 31
mini
god, i haven't texted you in months
i pop in unexpectedly
and you just can't hold it in
you go absolutely electric
"we missed you ~!"
well, i know you missed me !
you don't hide favoritism well, either
you totally didn't have to tell
everyone about my shoulder tattoo
the one i got for you
and then promise to text me
TAB OUT AND TEXT ME
so now everyone knows we were a thing.

don't get me wrong, i'm not mad
but we haven't talked in months
and we hid from everyone for six
and now you're airing my **** on your live stream

i'm not mad
i love your attention
that's what makes it so hard
because i anticipate losing it again.
ever have a thing with a twitch streamer, only to be polite and say hi, him apologize on his LIVE TWITCH STREAM in front of HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE about how i was so missed, blatantly tell EVERY1 about my tattoo ??? THEN YOU TABBED OUT TO TEXT ME LIKE OH GOD, I KNOW THEY NOTICED CAUSE YOU YAMMERED ABOUT HOW YOU DIDN'T MEAN TO GHOST ME UGHHH

now he wants to go back to how we were, babe, it's gonna take time....

i didn't care though, i swung in and gave him a song he reminded me of and added it to THE playlist no hesitation stream stunner by ten am i a yearner guys sorry can you tell i had soju it's a wednesday i think what wrong with me at least i can type hehe
They may not understand

Why you are the way you are

Or how badly it hurts to have to be

Or how hard you've tried to become

Or how often you fail to do what should be easy



They might not understand these things


But that doesn't mean that they can't see


Something else that's also true
I don't mean to provoke anxiety or fear

But maybe they're right about you
 Jul 30
Geof Spavins
I left, not because I didn’t care,
but because care felt like a
t   i   g   h   t   r   o   p   e    w   i   r   e
strung across your moods.
I tiptoed,
hoping not to f
                              a
                               ­      l
                                           l
into the c          m of your silence.
                  h    s
                     a

You say I chose.
And maybe I did.
But choosing peace doesn’t mean I never wanted you.
You wished I had stayed.
I wished you had seen me before the goodbye.

You speak in switches;
Yes, no.
Blame, regret.
Like you're still rewriting the ending.
Hoping the script forgives the sting.

You say you never betrayed,
but what do you call the slow erasure of effort?
The absence that smiled and said it wasn’t personal?

I remember the warmth.
I do.
But I also remember the chill that came after you wanted me to read between lines that were never written.

You weren’t my boss, no.
But you were a map I couldn’t follow.
Every step felt like trespass.
So I drew a door
|. |
and walked through it.

And still, I think of your games.
But I don’t play anymore.
 Jul 30
Maria
That's me what I'm now, my life is certain.
You'll call me, and I'll say: 'Hello, I'll call later.’
You'll answer: 'OK. I got it. No problem.'
And I'll left with a guilt that you're a waiter.

The time will trip forth, to feelings athwart.
And you'll await for my call all the same.
My answer to you is my heavy load now,
My refusal words and short tones after them...

And you'll await for my call until last,
Until your last profound sigh.
If I could turn all things around,
I'll call you back after a while...
Forgive me...
This poem is written in memory of my close friend. I'll never be able to say 'Hello' to him again... 😢
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