Nightmares - Hello Poetry

Jan 2015

Tide Islands

Wrecked

Whenever someone
offers me a ride,
I always refuse, and
they are confused as to why.
They don’t hear the
screaming inside my head
or see blood-soaked
sheets on a hospital bed.
They never saw your
black and blue skin
or know that it’s killing me
somewhere deep within.
They don’t understand why
a wreck’s called a wreck.
After it happens,
you can never forget…
Sure, chances are
it won’t happen again.
But I can’t stop thinking it will,
so I won’t get in.
Besides, I don’t mind walking
home in the snow or rain,
No one can see that I’m crying;
it disguises all of this pain.

#death

Jan 2015

Mercury Chap

Escape from Nightmare [Haiku]

I run fast to jump
Off the high and lofty cliff
To wake up from sleep.

#haiku #sleep #nightmare #wakeup

Jan 2015

Hayleigh

Untitled

I've been down to the depths of hell
And danced with the devil on
Many occasions.

Jan 2015

Calvin Alden

from below

sea-drowned dreams bubble to the surface
lost and broken fragments diluted with the horrors of the abyss
Once sweet melancholy and pleasant conflicts
now distorted monstrosities fused with thoughts we hold dead

Jan 2015

princess

emptiness

how can emptiness be so heavy

#sad #depression #lonely #sadness #up #lost #be #break #you #thought

Jan 2015

Deborah Brooks Langford

Savoring the Invisible

As she savors the taste of the invisible,

she realized the day was long as it looked so bleak.

She had to get a hold of herself.

The longer she waited and waited

the harder it was going to be to let go.

The chase was old; she realized she was just way too old for the race.

Driving the old highway of life

The destination quite unknown!

She saw him standing there

Not menacing

Maybe a little mousy

What a coincidence

Wherever she goes

There he is!

Somehow she is not frighten

Of a shabby scarecrow of a man

She feels just as vague as a leaf

Now the fear is no longer vague

The terror is really there!

Has a form

He was beckoning her

He wanted her to die

She didn’t know what to do!

Stabbing little thoughts frighten her brain

Ugly frighten thoughts!

Projecting of tomorrows and the next day

It is all nightmarish alone

Towns fly by like a nightmare

Scared out of her wits

Holding her thoughts like a movie

The story is yet to be told

She is left all alone!

No birds singing

Just the cries of the lonely

He was so different from the mousy man

A man of a caring nature

She somehow trusted him

Wanting him to be near her

Taking him for his word!

An enemy of her dreams!

She needed someone to help her

A warm familiar voice

So she would not lose her mind!

Where would she be?

Very odd

The fear has left her now

She is numb

It’s like someone has pulled a plug out of her!

Everything, emotions and fear has drained out

Now she is a cold shell

She is conscious what is around her now

The vast night

The stars that look down from the darkness!

A head of her stretching a thousand miles

Of empty land, mountains, prairie and desert

Somewhere he is waiting for her

Somehow she will find out what he wants!

Just now

For the first time

Looking out at the night

She thinks she knows!

With every breath she breaths

He took it her last with him!

Savoring the invisible

Was to her demise!

"Three can’t keep a secret if two are dead!"

Benjamin Franklin

By: Debbie Brooks 2014

love lost sad

#love #sad #lost

Jan 2015

Liz And Lilacs

Pity for the prey

Creatures of the night,
Seduction in our voices,
My prey caught in a web of lies.
Open your eyes, you naive creature,
I've captivated you with
my enticing words,
But look into my eyes,
See the distance, the coldness.
I am a monster.
You should fear me, and yet,
you allow me to bewitch you.
I have the instincts of a predator,
But I feel sorry for how helpless you are.
Powerless, naive, open your eyes,
See the truth in this monster's facade.

Vampire legends are quite interesting. Beasts in human form.
(Once again, playing with perspective. Put yourself in someone else's shoes for once.)

Jan 2015

Liz And Lilacs

I am a vampire

I am a vampire and you should fear me,
But not because I'll drink your blood.
You humans got the legends wrong.
I don't want your blood,
I want your emotions.
I want to drink in your joy,
Your hope, your sorrow,
Every last sensation.
I cannot experience it myself,
so I shall steal it from you.
You should fear me,
because I will take your humanity,
and all that will be left of you,
is a numb, empty creature; cold and distant.
You will be a vampire, too,
And they will fear you,
Just as they fear me.

but don't I fear everyone?

Jan 2015

Liz And Lilacs

What more?

What more do you want from me?
I've given away my time, my hope, my trust,
And you stole everything that remained.
Now nothing is left inside me,
but you came back for more.
I don't have a **** thing,
I'm just as empty as your head,
and as shattered as your soul.
Nothing remains, but the pain of what's lost.