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Connor Simms Dec 2017
So much noise.
Pinging your ear drums like pellets.
Ricocheting off of every head.
I didn't think there was a purgatory.

/Booooooooooop/
Leave my dreams at once
Connor Simms Dec 2017
In a state of confusion and blood,
those men fought.
What am I to feel?
They died for something they believed in.

So did others that didn't,
the innocent always have to pay
For the heroism of the brave,
if you want to call it that.

Surrounded, they fell
Surrounded, they died
Surrounded, they tried to fight
Surrounded, they surrendered.

Was it right they died?
Was it right they killed?
Was it right their act of defiance to the tooth
slaughtered the youth?

I...
I can't say.
You'd think it was simple.
But history needed to change.

History is ever-flowing,
like a river it runs violently,
but these men,
these men used it to create a stream.

With that stream, came an ocean.
With that stream came our fathers emotions.
With that stream came a generation that knew peace,
who knew their country.

But can I say if that was right?
No. I never can, nor can you.
For any change, surely the innocent must pay.
Connor Simms Dec 2017
My brains all goopy,
Like a thick soup.
Chunky, and wholesome,
And you wonder.

...

How it got that way,
Content+Consumer=revenue.
These are the trends,
I should be trying to sleep.

...

Waiting for the ads to end,
Another little video.
Just another smidge of content,
It won't hurt at this time.

Were I to ring a dealer at this time,
Some would say I was addicted.
Addiction phones social media sleep
Connor Simms Dec 2017
I'm really trying to remember.
Every time you stir the brain.
You're re-imagining it for the for first time.
Every memory you treasure, is not yours.

At first it was...
...then it wasn't
then it wasn't again...
...It sure isn't now

So then why attach yourself?
Why even say, 'Remember when...'
It's not your memory, it's your memory
of that memory.

Funny thing is though...
It comes back with an ebb and flow.
The cold biting through...whatever I was wearing...
The way the wind, rushed into the spaces provided.

I think it was in a smoking area?
Does that sound familiar?
How I felt is what I remember,
And oh, yeah, there was rain.
Connor Simms Dec 2017
Hello, father dear,
I'm not sure what to say.
But when is any son,
When we only have the day?

Hello, father dear,
But sure isn't there a lot to be said?
Man is strongest in silence.
Especially when overfed.

Hello, father near,
How ironic!
This is the closest we've ever been,
All you had to do was get sick.

Aw Jesus.
I'm sorry.
I'm so so sorry.
Can we start over?
Connor Simms Nov 2017
You're starting to
feel better about all
the things that worried
a delicate mind in fall

When you feel it
try to put it out of mind
and please don't choke
on that delicious find

Oh you'll be better soon
Sure why would you worry
You're privileged.
So don't complain.

Never try to whimper,
You'll only feel pain.
Connor Simms Sep 2014
I'm all packed up and ready to go, no goodbyes.
Now all that is left is to close my eyes, and breath.
She motions her way to me

Grabs me...
Pulls me in..
I feel my heart start to beat...
I feel my eyes open...
I feel alive.

This is what it is like to live, with her, in her heart and her eyes
For so long I've felt no blood, seen no vein.
For it seemed that all that I had to give was drained.
With her I am renewed.
But now I have to leave her

And life puts me in the stranglehold again.
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