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 Mar 2016
Mike Essig
A competition of realities. Every narrative a life. Choose.
You tells yer story and you takes yer chance. Gambol.
No one knows the truth but you and you don't either.
Truth as Hydra. Lop off them heads to no avail.
Grey cat on bookcase. truth. Pain of broken heart. truth.
First morning cigarette. truth. Collapse into ******. truth.
Millions of truths conspire to create The Truth.
     We are fabrics woven of infinite strings
     Complexly simple in this world of things.
 Mar 2016
Purple Rain
Grandfather,
If you can hear me now;
Would you be proud of you baby girl; Growing up in the cold, cold world.
Would be proud of the way I carry myself,
Even though inside I'm not much of a women
Sometimes I dress like a man despite the words that people say
"Don't touch her she's gay."
The tears roll down my face each and everyday
I wish the depression would just fade away
Sometimes I think of you,
And wonder if you ever think of me
After you died my life has been broke as can be
I cut on myself to see how much I bleed
I can't take this life,
for what I am not cut to be,
Stands right in front of me.
Grandfather,
Would you ever look me in the eyes again?
I know I've done wrong
But I ask for forgiveness,
From someone I haven't seen in so long
 Mar 2016
Babu kandula
It's not blood anymore

But your heart that keeps me alive

It's not breathe anymore

But your thoughts that keeps me alive
Am not exaggerating

Yes, for you my world is always welcome

You are the driving force of my kingdom

Your sight is a command and we shall follow

Your word is an order and we shall follow
 Mar 2016
Peter J Thomas
A moment lapsed,

The gaze was lost,

Our lives diverged,

Eternal cost
 Mar 2016
b for short
“Let it go,” he said.
So I release it all slowly,
like those 99 red balloons that saved
our little misled souls on bad teenage days.
Release it, and watch it float up and away
in 99 different directions,
in 99 different shades of ruthless red.
Let it go, and instruct yourself
to set fire to any and everything
it’s ever touched.
Burn the bridges, scorch the paths,
cauterize the arteries that
pumped warm blood for its purpose.
Set the fires, and let the light
from the florid flames
illuminate the corners
of your newfound smile
as you watch the embers
dance themselves
into white, meaningless ash
above your head.
© Bitsy Sanders, March 2016
 Mar 2016
Samuel Hesed
When today's burden weighs you down-
To the bottom of Hell's ground.

Know that I will be waiting on the bay,
Wishing for Sunday.
Copyright © 2015 Paul Forbes All Rights Reserved
 Mar 2016
Purple Rain
Dark tracks of you follow me,
Taking the breath out of my lungs.
I choke on the thought of you;
Till my heart uplifts
To let you go.

Although you may think,
I'm Never to shed a tear for a past love;
I have shedded many
And felt unworthy of...

If you knew
How it made my heart feel
Each word of criticism
Peeling a layer of me off
leaving my soul left in the dark*
"Never to be loved for the scars of past loves."
I thought it would be best to get out all the feelings of you. ©2016 Isabella Rose
 Mar 2016
Dream Weaver
I was the type of person
Who held onto things too tight,
Unable to release my grip,
When it no longer felt right.

And, although it gave me blisters,
And my fingers would all ache,
I always thought that holding on
Was worth the pain it takes.

I used to think in loosing things
I'd lose a part of me, too,
That slowly I'd become someone
My heart no longer knew.

Then one day something happened,
I dropped everything I once held dear.
But my soul became much lighter,
Instead of filled with fear.

And it taught my heart that somethings
Aren't meant to last long,
They arrive to teach you lessons
And they continue on.

I didn't have to cling to people
Who no longer made me smile,
Or do something I've come to hate,
If it isn't worth my while.

But you were my light,
And the hunt you make
Hurts in the moment
And takes away my breath.

That sometimes the thing you're fighting for
Isn't worth the cost
And everything I ever loved,
Was bound to be a loss.

But that's what addiction does
To crave, to ****
To **** out our souls,
To increase enmity between hearts and woes.
 Mar 2016
James Alai
someday I will see things for what they really are
the essence
the outside of everything.
past the tears and smiles and blushing and winks
and words and laughs and yells and snorts
the meaning of what goes on outside the self.
the world beyond the mind.

someday I will know the truth
masks peeling off
facades crumbling
reality as it is. reality of the real.

who are you? what am I?
a thought? a dream? something in between?
a truth? a lie?
can it be known at all?

someday.
one day.
when I cross the line.
to world outside the mind.
 Mar 2016
Babu kandula
I cannot make the  whole world

Jealous of my unconditional Love.

But, what can I do is

Hold your hand till I have my last breath
Holding in the sense not leaving you in any difficulty

Internally am jealous of not having

Infinite Love.

A simple caring filled with a bit of Love

Is what am having with me

Simple is just a complex word which looks simple apart from actual complexity
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