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 Mar 2022
The Misconstrued
Craving for that quick fix, the euphoric yet momentary feeling of being loved,
Mustering up enough empathy, love and kindness to give, even though I am starved,

Walking down dark alleys, searching in all the wrong places,
Quick taste of the sample has me blurring out all the bad memories and faces,

Until, I am yet again brutally mugged,
Robbed by people often disguised as friends and family the minute I’m sufficiently drugged,

I wallow in pain and self-pity,
Over and over, it’s the same story,

Falling from a new height to an even newer low,
There’s heartbreak wherever I go.
 Dec 2021
The Misconstrued
And in my head, when I'm gone,
I'm the only one to mourn
update Dec 2021 - Did not realise this was in my drafts for a few months -
June/July 2021 - Had these lines with me for a while.... Thinking they would be involved in something much bigger... But I thought I'd leave them here for a while
 Dec 2021
The Misconstrued
A web intricately designed to accept this warped reality,
Demanding what I deserve, I've now lost the ability,
Trapped in a labyrinth of fake promises and smiles,
Ever so often, a new can of worms I am handed from familiar aisles,

Yet I am made to believe it is all in my mind,
I desperately need to leave this life behind
 Dec 2020
The Misconstrued
My death
Would be my last attempt to get your attention
 Mar 2020
The Misconstrued
It was not me you wanted to be with initially,
To give up on your fantasy.

I wasn't her and she wasn't me,
Over and over, different faces, same story.
 Dec 2019
The Misconstrued
How is that you were able to nonchalantly walk ahead while I walked back and now sit in the middle of the six years of space we created?
If you had only waited..
 Aug 2019
The Misconstrued
Slipping through time endlessly,
Come closer, get a better look at me,
Maybe this is as happy as I'll ever be,
Or just maybe I'll wake up from this life if I close my eyes and count to three.
These lines just popped in my head and had to pen them down before I lost them.
 Jun 2019
The Misconstrued
As I sit here shielded from the rain,
My mouth laced with the cigarette and the coffee I just had,
Wounded and in pain,
Suddenly, the sun shines amidst it all telling me it can't be that bad,
Oh but love! It is!
Life is vicious
 Jun 2019
The Misconstrued
Rip out my heart,
Carve out my brain,
I just want to stop feeling or thinking ever again.
 Feb 2019
The Misconstrued
I want to stop taking all these pills in all colors, shapes and sizes
I want to stop taking all these bad vices
If only someone assured me that just being you suffices
Sometimes i want to die, burning to ashes
feeling low
 Jan 2019
The Misconstrued
How can I learn to love myself
when all you taught me was that I am not worthy?
How do I start?
What do I do of the festering wounds that decorate my body?
 Jan 2019
The Misconstrued
Riding back home from my short lived adventures,
into the dark oblivion.
The starry night holds no promise of a restful sleep.
I am returning to my pain that I cannot seem to escape,
that dance behind the curtains almost teasing me
till I fall into an almost fitful sleep,
where my demons come engulf me yet again.
Lost. These sentences may not make sense to you but make perfect sense to me as I relate a scene from my life. Time to light up another joint...
 Jan 2019
The Misconstrued
Had by all,
Yet, none can have me.
Go figure.
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