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 Jul 2016
Sjr1000
Everybody goes away
Everybody goes away
You might go on home
But you're gonna find
Everyone goes away some day

The parents of parents, they went away
Parents, they go away, far to soon
Children, too, they go away

Everybody goes away one day

When you're caught in the middle
It might seem like forever
Always thought I'd be immortal
Now I know my foot is on time's throttle

It might be cruel, it might be unkind
It might be a blessing in disguise
It might even drive you
straight out of your mind
It's going to change your life forever

Just like all those people in any 1950's movie

Everybody goes away
Goes away some day

Maybe that's tomorrow
Today is already becoming yesterday
The only thing for certain
I've already paid my taxes

Everybody goes their way
Everybody goes away some day
Everybody goes away one day.
 Jul 2016
K Balachandran
An original creation, that's what  you are
in vibrant colors nature carefully assembled,
as you sashayed through your time,till here
now all across the front page one can see you
arousing  pleasure that moves me deeply,
done in bold sweeps of a brush immersed in joy
making onlookers stand agape, thrilled
mumbling inanities as none has the grasp
of the quicksilver aesthetics that rules you.

And I, obscure , at the best like a crop circle
done in the secret hours after midnight,
or a cryptic mural on a dull wall, long past it's prime
doodled by an interplanetary traveler gone astray,
a drawing in grey fading slowly in to oblivion,
yet to be deciphered is the benediction,
it carries from light years far away,
it will be gone soon as the light from galaxies far
want to make it their own, little by little each night
Am I not transient  and  to be forgotten soon?

But you are steadfast and adamant
very rooted in your reasoning
sprung from a center devine, we both
claim together.
                         "Am I not a woman and lover first?"
Your eyes, gleam, exuding  a timelessness that speaks to me.
"I would only dream of lying naked under your
sweet heaving heaviness, to receive the nectar,
the transient ecstasy that gifts me the precious seed
that'd grow to heights immortal,on the bank of the milky way"
 Jul 2016
Tim Emminger
The waves come washing in
The wave go washing out
Like so many times before

Footprints and seashells in the sand
You can see near and far, like so many times before
The waves come washing in and out, like so many times before

The sunset rises up out of the water
People gather on shore, like so many times before
The waves come washing in and out, like so many times before

The waves come washing in
The waves go washing out
Like so many times before
 Jun 2016
Francie Lynch
My life has always been about us.
Not a group us,
But the me in us.
The I, me, mine.
Wear my things, I strike out.
I buy duplicate gifts,
Compliment with vacuous airs of envy.
Invitations are scarce. A dollar a stamp.
Then you appeared
To show me the you
In us.
Tip of the cap to George Harrison's "I, Me, Mine."
 Jun 2016
r
Far into the night
I spied a long dead star
like that dark light
I saw through the pane
of your window,
like a signal for me
that it was all clear now
to move on to another exile,
another woman, another
island to banish myself,
another liaison with dawn.
 Jun 2016
Qasid Ali
Love again


Calling the night
In your heart again
Showing storms the way
To your heart again

Telling your heart to
Suffer the pain again
Letting your hopes fly
Like wandering birds in the sky

Says the brain to heart
You selfish son of Cain (murderer of his brother Abel)
You can try loving again
But I'm sure you're in vain

Love has lain the sword
To **** my heart again
Says my heart to me
Come on let's die again

It's an honor to be slain
In the way of love again

God help me if you can
I'm in love again
My heart has suffered much
In the name of love again

Why do you allow love
To enter your heart again

The melody my heart sings
Of the beloved's eyes

You don't need to drink
Just a Glance of love again

You don't need to sing
Just the voice of love again

No need to give a smile
Just the memories of love again

Like a little child
Standing below the sky again
Hoping to see a fallen star
To wish for the love again

He sees no Fallen star
Goes with tears in his eyes
Like a free bird
Fallen for the trap again

That stupid heart of mine
Tells me all the time
Let's keep hoping till we die
That it's going to rain again.......
 Jun 2016
Qasid Ali
Hey buddy you're funny you make me smile
Oh yeah well why don't you sit with me for a while
I'll tell all about my fake shattered smile


Found my brother
******* about me at my back
Why call him a brother
When dignity he lacks


Well I want to stick in his face some darts
He ain't nothing, not worth a real brother's farts

Oh well yeah that's a funny one


Someone weeping said to me
I have a broken heart
I said to her well
I have one too..!

What do we get when we combine two broken hearts?
She smiled and said softly a new heart

I smirked and said no lady that's two broken hearts...



Just the pain shared
Die a thousand times love dared...


A small doubt that someone cared
Expecting some help being scared



The humor is just a mask
The sarcasm just does the task
Why so serious you ask?
Try living in havoc's flask.
 May 2016
Vicky Evans
Cold, smooth and gleaming.
Your body jests me with
My own reflection. Each
Key and note releasing your
Voice and song till you speak
Louder than any human.

Aged worn lacquer glimmers
In mirth as notes as deep as
The everlasting ocean
Are released to waltz upon
The air and embrace my ears

With its melodic magnetism.
Fingers on valves moving
As if all the time in the world
Were allotted to this one
Tune. Each note clinging to
The ear and whispering

Sweet nothings. Light seems
To emanate from the bell
As the melody draws itself to
Its grand finale. Each note
Punctuated till…..
 May 2016
niamh
Im lashed to the tracks
Waiting
For the trains that come
With no warning whistle.
The air is crushed from my lungs
And my heart shatters.
Still I lie
Still I wait
Still I live.
Sometimes I laugh
Before I cry.
Mercy travels elsewhere.
My gorgeous nephew died just over 7 weeks ago. Whenever I think of him, I struggle to realize he's truly gone and it genuinely feels like I can't breathe
 May 2016
niamh
For tears that fall
On hollow cheeks
When the weeks feel like years
And the years feel like weeks.

And you sit by a grave
Where the roses grow
But the rose that you seek
Is buried below.

You have my heart
Heavy with sorrow
For the velvet rose
With no tomorrow.
Absolutely over the moon (if a little shocked) to see that this piece made the daily.  Thank you all so much for your comments - I promise to reply to you all individually at some point soon.  It was an extremely emotional, difficult, but ultimately cathartic write. Dedicated to our wee Shane, who we will never forget ***
 May 2016
jane taylor
today i want the darkness
fatigued with life’s
fictitious smiles

the forest
beckons me
to melt within it

disappearing
like mist
in the wind

i could dance on lightning
fall off a cloud
and become rain

i’d mold down your face
as i fall on it
and be one with you

©2016janetaylor
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