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Apr 2016 · 370
Flow like water
Courtlyn Quay Apr 2016
I am a tinder man on fire
Burned alive by my every will and desire.
At my center a cracked heart fills to the brim
It bursts
It pours into my open wounds
this wrecked body is my boon
Because when you stand on barbed wire over fire.
When you take yourself to the lowest of low
Dragging your charcoal husk out of the funeral pyre
Just to see if you can take the next blow.
You aren't doing it for anyone other than yourself
Mar 2016 · 763
Drunk poetry
Courtlyn Quay Mar 2016
My mind spinning webs inside broken weaves.
My eyes full of black viscous blood.
I know no conscious, I know no filter.
Tonight?
That's alright.
I'm alone.
My head spins relentlessly on a dull point.
It's drunk poetry because it's satire of the personal self.
It's drunk poetry because tonight is the day I said no more.
the night I said,
relax... one more.
it draws me closer to a darkness I portray as the man  in the mirror.
The man that knows himself less than you think.
the boy that thinks himself less than you think
It draws me closer to being quartered by my own mind.
Relax... one more.
Relax
And that's all.
You light weight.
Feb 2016 · 360
Roar
Courtlyn Quay Feb 2016
His naked body thrown amid the papered floor.
Highlighted by the flood lights
His body amid a sea of the darkest night
Commiting emotion into broken phrases
He tries to communicate the best he can
It slides down the side of his chin
His fingers stained like a brush from the scratching
His hair and skin stained with last nights work
his legs bruised from the kicking
his lip swollen from fear
His body writhes violently with one final attempt
He tries to scream but theres no sound
Tears roll down his cheek and onto the paper
Feb 2016 · 271
Untitled
Courtlyn Quay Feb 2016
Take a step, breath, pivot with me like clock work invoking strings. Hold my hands like the moments are too long to bare, don't worry, I've got you.    Dip, upside down to the world, showing you new perspectives its my promise, Twirl under the golden cascading lights, to prize and cherish. The dust kicked up from the floor begins to settle, It was merely a man dancing with the shadows in his head.
Feb 2016 · 285
Melting Point
Courtlyn Quay Feb 2016
I must admire what I cannot see.
Stronger than sinew and bone,
Something skin deep laced throughout the body.
Into ribbons, into knots, holding it all together
I can see frays in the wire but never a clean break
I could never see you break.
The strain of an elegantly genius mind.
Like ice to a furnace I depart from the numb I once knew.
My body shaking from the cold,
The blush in my cheeks is because i'm warming up
Honest
I cant help it
When you talk to me.
Feb 2016 · 274
Cowardice
Courtlyn Quay Feb 2016
I've been blinded seven fold by a world that begs for compassion. I have tasted the waters filled with disease, I neglect them. I have heard the gun shots down the street, I haven't raised an ear. I have seen the impunity of brutality on streets I would call home. I've looked away. I do not feel shame. For this, I am sorry. But I can't worry about that right now, not with my own life on the line.
Feb 2016 · 264
Hate
Courtlyn Quay Feb 2016
Disturbed, twisted and putrid
Tar runs through my veins into my shallow beating heart.
A shadow chills my bones
a voice made of ice promises restitution.
My eyes as hollow and purposeful as a death in space.
  It makes my heart writhe like serpents being branded by Irons.
I have no room for this emotion.
Not anymore.
Feb 2016 · 368
Who are you?
Courtlyn Quay Feb 2016
A dim red hue over the proudest face a child could make.
A dancing light in the night that shatters into fireflies.
I am merely the kid who's head hit the concrete softly as you pushed.
Scraping my hand and knees
I am merely the man who plundered his own soul to support the ones he loved.
I am merely the person with less than an ounce of worth left who can look at the faces of those who have wronged him to say.
I don't hate you.
Every moment from before the moment I became who I am.
Yesterday I was somebody else, tomorrow will be no different.
Taking moments from years and starting only now to count my centuries.
And as the gibberish flows from my mouth and you are left with an idea of.
Ok.
I captivate one person only for the purpose of this modern day experiment of what comes next.
Merely to pass my days till the day I die.
That's who I am
Feb 2016 · 311
Hel en a
Courtlyn Quay Feb 2016
I split my hand open just to watch the anger in me grow.
I tore myself deep inside to watch the boy inside suffer.
I took the time to call you just so that I would cry.
I stood in the doorway to show you how little I wanted to be there.
I could have tried harder, I admit it.
No, that's a honest lie, I couldn't have.
Jan 2016 · 305
Waiting to Die
Courtlyn Quay Jan 2016
I have a **** magazine to my left.
The pictures, they don't do anything.
The games on my computer.
Analyzed and stripped of any recreational value.
I don't have the want for people
So I make no effort to call them
I'm wearing 4 layers
tanktop, tshirt, sweater, jacket.
I'm still cold, very cold.
I've trained myself to be patient.
"time will pass."
So I sit here on my bed.
Cold, and numb.
Waiting.
Courtlyn Quay Jan 2016
Standing in between two bodies. One is the same and the other I'm not too impressed with. What gives me this lump in my throat is knowing that I may never see either of these two again if I don't choose. I hold each individually. A warm tear rolls down my cheek onto the boy that lay in my arms dying. His red and black jacket that hid his worst fears. His torn jeans I couldn't ever find the time to sew for him. Never finding time to listen to his stupid insecurities.  His breath slowly reaching the point of no more, The feeling of holding back what I need to say to him burns almost as bad as the heart break he faced the day he was left alone.
I hold him close. If only I could have explained to him how stupid he was being. I sat there, I could hear the footsteps. I can feel Myself begin to walk away. And so he lay bloodied and bruised. Alive, but very much dead. I turn to Myself who is already halfway out the door? "Will he be alright?" I ask Myself. Taking a longing look at the boy on the floor.
I couldn't lie to myself anymore. I walked over, my eyes became solid,  no more blue and green with a sense of instability in my nature. Just a solid cold blue. I put my hand on my shoulder with a half ***'d grin. "No,but he's better off dead anyway." I look at the buzzing flies crawling on the boy, the supposed man holding him close. I know i'm only wasting words on a soon to be dead idiot.
I don't take anything with me, And maybe this explains my lack of baggage. But i'm just too tired of watching myself die with each passing chapter. I'm sick of the "soon to be" and the "potentiality important" person I always seem to be.
Jan 2016 · 350
The truth comes out.
Courtlyn Quay Jan 2016
The motions of your lips as they wrap around the words you say. Respectively disrespecting every piece of fact as fiction that no one knows what to live in anxiety is like.
What it's like?
What is anger but the misguided targeting system of a fathers hand to his sons face.
What is denial but a sweet cherry with a pit you chew on remorsefully. The sadness you feel is a bitter memory of every memory you had standing next to me.
like confectioner sugar
like snow in the worst of storms.
You covered us up like a scandal for double homicide when in actuality you left wounded
I lay on the ground gripping my skull hoping it would end.
What was the point of all the sweet words you spoke,
when you left with a wet cheek and raw throat
Jan 2016 · 311
Medication
Courtlyn Quay Jan 2016
Vaccine in the chamber.
Bringing down the hammer
Ready for the medicine.
"I'd throw up the sickness, but my stomach is withered"
"I'd cough up the disease but my lungs are bleeding"
"I'd cut out the corruption but it's already gone to my head"
No change in our pockets
only Posies
No heat in our house
only holes in the ceiling
When your world comes crashing down
When your mind just wants rest
Bitter words hang in your ear
"The American Dream"
Jan 2016 · 247
Untitled
Courtlyn Quay Jan 2016
I wont lay down and die
I wont read your poems and weep
take my hand.
Life *****, sure.
It even gets worse.
When you race against the reapers blade
Why would you stand still.
Why would you wait to die
Get up
Grab your pen and paper
This is your taxi
There is his horse
Lets go
No time to waste
Jan 2016 · 327
That one song
Courtlyn Quay Jan 2016
We love to hate
What we find purist in hearts
When in truth is a lie hidden by society
Yet,
the truth is
We hate to love
That the purist of hearts are not yet alive
to see this hell on earth
Dec 2015 · 262
Pride
Courtlyn Quay Dec 2015
I am the temper in your steel
I am the steel in your resolve.
let there be no other like me
and there will be no other like you.
Trust me and I will show you new heights
Betray me and I will let them tear you down.
Dec 2015 · 274
Goodnight
Courtlyn Quay Dec 2015
To the world they left Behind, they sadly bid adieu
To the nights that were kind, they wept away like tears
For the night that swallowed them whole, their thoughts are gone
And with them, their dreams
Nov 2015 · 349
Stitch 2
Courtlyn Quay Nov 2015
My memories meddle in forbidden affairs
My eyes reflecting the sheen of the past
I open doors I thought I'd have the strength to close
bleeding hands teach me the lesson of what not to do.
It seems these days that I just can't stop the blood
Nov 2015 · 291
Stitch 1
Courtlyn Quay Nov 2015
The slight smell of cigarettes
Alchohol
Cheap and expensive
It says where I've been.
Not what I've done.
Sometimes I wish it was more tragic
But I know that's just the kid in me
I grew up wanting adventure.
This is all I found.
Nov 2015 · 271
Thank you Mr. Frost
Courtlyn Quay Nov 2015
After a while the road becomes two roads.
We do not have to take one or the other.
We could choose to just sit there and think
The time may pass but take no notice.
As the leaves change colors and die
My glass goes from energy drink to wine
Today is the day I choose left.
Still Rob. I'm sure someday I might wish the other.
Courtlyn Quay Nov 2015
The fire in my heart will not be squelched, I am not a lamp lit by the wicked or pure
Call me a burn out
Call me a loser
Call me a basket case
But  You can’t tell me i’m finished.
I cannot make the stars bend
Nor the planets alig
But I will deny your reading of them.
You may put the fear of god in every child that fears to sleep at night but be warned
The monsters that we find under our beds is nothing compared to those we find in ourselves
That the scars inside my heart don’t make me different or broken but improve me.
If you’ve noticed the etchings on my body and look at me in disgust. well that ***** to be you
You said it was attention seeking behavior
Tell me this.
Who cries out in terror
Their heart in pain
But doesn't want to be saved?
I've found my Salvation
I'll gladly show you the way of the heart
The last thing It needs is your sympathy
All It wants is your respect
For living
Nov 2015 · 270
The Doors of life
Courtlyn Quay Nov 2015
Time and time again we find clues for keys to locked doors,
We turn the keys to realize the searching was meaningless,
Opening the doors we come to the conclusion that some are wrong
we take the time to think of what we've done. who's to blame?
Our ignorance?
Our curiosity?
None so devious as the curious cat
None as ignorant as a falling lemming
Who's to blame for a door without a sign
Nov 2015 · 331
Tiled floor
Courtlyn Quay Nov 2015
You promised I wouldn't find you in a bag
And you promised I wouldn't find you in the ground 5 years later
Our game of hide and seek was nothing more than a game.
For when I found you, you were on the ground.
When I found you, you were trying to hide yourself.
But I've found where you were hiding
You spilled your stomach in the bathtub, your blood on the ground.
The needle between the tile, your eyes pale.
You promised I wouldn't find you on the floor.
Here you are, I've found you on the floor
Yet
You've still won.
Courtlyn Quay Nov 2015
I hold my head high, my will strong, and my smile wicked.
I twirl and sing the songs that must be sung.
I dance for the company of beasts that I hold a single obligation towards.
I hold myself well in the presence of wolves and yet, I know I am but a piece of flesh for gnawing eyes.
So I dance with fire in my blood and ice in my eyes.
with amber in my hair and a clover in the back of my mind.
I dance to feed the wolves.
I dance to feed myself.
Nov 2015 · 242
Family
Courtlyn Quay Nov 2015
Your demons are not mine. But I do not mind.
Your triumphs are not mine. I do not mind.
Even the caustic rope that hangs your tormented mind.
These I have no ownership over.
But I will not stand idly as demons burn and scar your skin
I will not let your name go under rubble
I refuse to let you live a hangman's life.
I don't mind.
Nov 2015 · 286
Bury me
Courtlyn Quay Nov 2015
If you are to put me in the ground you must **** me
If you are to **** me, you must do it in one hit.
Because if you fail...
Sep 2015 · 229
Astronomer
Courtlyn Quay Sep 2015
I wish to paint using the night sky...
every star as important as the last...
So that pictures fill my sight...
So that stories cloud my head...
I cast my finger across the horizon...
My mind will take me there...
Some day...
Sep 2015 · 709
Skeleton
Courtlyn Quay Sep 2015
My demons dance on barbed wire
My sorrows sing in mellow harmony
My bones rattle to the dance of the necromancy.
My bones dance the macrabe waltz
Courtlyn Quay Aug 2015
Did you forget?
your god is one of love, not discrimination.
So, as I walk beside my love
That she could be he
Or he could be she
Or the one
It is the love of the soul next to me
That reminds me of god
Aug 2015 · 342
Burning skies
Courtlyn Quay Aug 2015
And there I saw it, the sky fell with burning cinders.
My mind almost speechless
"Oh ****"
Jul 2015 · 896
The Indifferent
Courtlyn Quay Jul 2015
From ash and bale
bones splintered
souls raving
to fields of asphodel.
Dance by and by
spin an echoing moan
dip in scenes of the past
the shades waltz.
Jul 2015 · 234
Untitled
Courtlyn Quay Jul 2015
I am simply the means to put an end to all my worries
Jul 2015 · 311
Dusk
Courtlyn Quay Jul 2015
The world will always keep on turning
The sun will come up,
It will rise
It will fall
And so too will man,
We shall rise with the dawn
Burn through the sky by noon.
dig our graves at dusk
Jun 2015 · 306
soft wake up
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
The curve of my body
The shadow that paints my bed and floor. My window tells me the tale of how the rain falls. Sometimes when I listen, It's a sad story. sometimes it's not. Today the rain just fits the scene. My eyes open slowly. My face shunning itself from the light for the sake of dreams. A childhood memory,  That I can't entirely recall. But it's morning now. Time to put that behind me. Time to wake up with the summer rain
Jun 2015 · 503
Dillusions
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
"Once more," Richardson said grabbing his hat and throwing it into the air. the  ball cap slid up through the air slicing the light from the moon and stars. The sky clear on a french night. The soft smell of a bakery near by.  All that one could hope for was in a night like this. And as I came back from thought. I could see the corners of my room. holes, beaten and torn. Here I am, lying around. in this **** smelling rat den. Where some coke head chose to go round two with his *****.
Jun 2015 · 222
Legends of old
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
Let me regal you with a tale. About brave adventurer's from long ago, That would seize the day as their own. At night they sat by a grotto, it's waters light was on their face shown. Looking up to the night sky. Stars began to fall around them, some. Until they swallowed one whole. Up they awoke to find themselves whole. Never being able to remember the tale
Jun 2015 · 241
Guilty Conscious
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
I look out its nice out. But the sun. The sun shines in my lightless room
reminding me of everything I own which is sad, so I frown. But I forget when it leaves, My room goes black, right when the demons come back.
Jun 2015 · 609
It's hard to explain
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
It was that night we slept over at your friends house, when we had a room to ourselves, It was probably the best night I will ever have. A lot of things awoke inside of me. Passion, little lionheart, Curiosity of my self, and feelings I couldn't explain for you. I was still little lionheart, to be honest.  I was scared, I could only take baby steps, afraid of where strides would land. Because At that moment, when you woke up at the dead of night. You grabbed my head from being on your stomach and pulled me up to your heart. You said, "I still hear your voice when you sleep next to me." I replied after a grin, "I still feel your touch in my dreams". We both grinned. "forgive me my weakness but i don't know why, Without you its hard to survive" . belting the last sound at a low moan of tiredness. We laughed,When it went silent, then you lifted my head and kissed me. At the same moment I passed out, I'm pretty sure I wanted to be perfect for you. That's the best I can explain it.
Jun 2015 · 397
Fallen From Grace
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
Look,
there you hide.
I see you between the stars..
between the blackness..
Past the void..
That's where I see you cower..
Between nothing and everything..
Fallen from grace, Angels search for you in spite.
All over one answer we needed, I needed..
Why weren't you there with her?
Between David, Jesus or Lazarus,
how was this...
too much to ask?...
Nevertheless,
the angels are hunting you for the lies
you told to us.
I guess when you'r dead we'll talk,
Until then, I have a cigarette to smoke.
Jun 2015 · 335
Dear god
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
I'm nineteen, You were supposed to keep this world together
My cigarettes  remind me of my last nights of freedom.
My friend and I caught on to what your selling.
We aren't buying.
We realized in the cold of night.
God can find you, and you can find God.
There's no difference to the situation.
It doesn't make a difference. You still see a *******.
You were supposed to keep the world in order.
Just a silly word of power and nothing more.
Jun 2015 · 298
Untitled
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
If we do not kiss goodnight a goodnight
Then it will not know what name to come to when called so sweetly again.
Do so, keep in mind to call
If the night was good
Jun 2015 · 308
"Who are you?"
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
Simply the one who could not become what you wanted
So I became the next best thing
Here I am.
Jun 2015 · 247
Doesn't Make Sense
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
There is happiness found within simplicity
Yet, we deny it so simply.
We need food,
So we get jobs, so we can pay bills, so we
pay to eat food under someone else's roof
because where your standing when you read this
is owned.
Makes perfect sense
Times again I wish I was a kid
Jun 2015 · 301
Good to be King
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
Socks off, shoes thrown away.
No more days away from my kingdom
That where I lay my head may you take
That where I lay my head pray you take
The king has come to tire.
I tire of peasant with swollen foot
Landlord troubles
Beggars of sought
I wish to make kings from the low
I wish to christen each a man of himself
Now please, leave your servant to rest
Jun 2015 · 441
Suave
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
Tap, tap.
So began the drum of our feet, our eyes meet,
so began the voiceless lingo, 
 your eyes dart to the floor and I,
your eyes dart between the seat and I,
but you see,
I,
am already out the door,
here you came,
I waited.
Just because I could tell,
You enjoy a good chase
Jun 2015 · 439
Wrong man's eyes
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
There's nothing more we can sell our bodies for
Nothing that we have been taught our inadequacy can compensate for
That the slugger is just a slugger, a boy who hits a ball hard
The only thing he's got going for him is his ability at swinging a bat
And so here lies my problem.
How do you explain
Explain to a 12 year old boy that we aren't what we used to be.
That the go getting, hard ***, approach died
How do you explain to someone,
its not over before it began,
try again
How do you look in the eyes of a child and say
I'm sorry
Jun 2015 · 220
Honest Man's Question
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
And so what is to conscious thought if we were to share a few words between you and I.
And if those words were to treat upon our curiosities then where would we lead.
Would you mind if I took you there?
To a moment in time
To a distance here nor there?
If I were to take you to now,
the blissful dance on moonlit boards
The dying embers of a passion so bright
The moments that gave you liberty to die
The seconds that showed you mercy to live
At the moment when all was wrong
that all it took was a kiss
"Come tomorrow, it'll still be us against the world."
come tomorrow, one of two wasn't there
To the moment in time
When curiosity grants us one more chance
now,
How would you feel being here as we are now.
If you where to answer the question no,
Would you be the same,
Or kiss the hand that gave you a second chance.
Jun 2015 · 804
A gram
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
Tonight, we tipped the scales.
The ones hidden between our emotions.
the ones embossed in our actions.
Weighted more or less with each choice of word or sliding of our hands;
Sometimes we longed to push them to see how far they'd go without tipping.
Sometimes we expected nothing,
but often times we saw that the wager made, out weighed itself so that the price of humility was more than enough to pay for the price of romance.
A brush of your hand against my arm, my voice hanging on the rim of your ear.
the smile of your face as I rubbed my thumb against your tear.
With each new dare we gave ourselves, we found ourselves out numbered by the emotions we bare.
Love, desire, a sense of passion cooled by blankets that serves as feudal resistance to the inferno inside, because the war we waged could turn a nuclear winter into a spring day.
the only price to pay was for a somatic spell.
sparing no time, knowing our conscious is guilty of our crime
we said it
nothing sounded more decadent
Than the thought that tonight we decided.
Lets change this.
Jun 2015 · 248
Movie Night
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
Today, I killed a man at the cinema. I exhaled softly watching the smoke catch itself on my words. He sits there in his chair. It's a shame it came to this. I guess I didn't have much of a choice. The end of my smoke ignites as I give life to the embers. I exhale softly. The movie continues to play. In honesty if god needed a reason for taking this mans life it was for his taste in movies. A smile escapes my lips at the thought. I pat him on the shoulder, confused he peers behind him and looks at me. I lean in close and reply...
This is the good part. lean back and finish the job. Smoke sticks to the air as I put my cig out in his hair.
Jun 2015 · 385
Do not speak, Roar
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2015
When you read this do not do so till you know it by heart.
Do not take such rich words and condemn them to thoughtless actions.
Take each word with its bite in hand and eagerly call upon the beast.
That today was not granted to you but it was seized by you. The moment u decided to open your eyes today you signed a contract. You signed under the clause, "Today is mine, I will take it by the throat. If I am to live today then so be it, If I am to die then it shall be on my own accord. That the will demonstrated today will be the call to my self to resonate within the reflection of my own image. That I will stand up against all odds daring those who stand against me to not do so one by one time.
After all, What is the point of taking on the world, if you expect it to come at you one by one. Your faults will follow you as long as you ask for the handicap. That when you rise to the challenge others will be there to challenge. That the time to act is now. And now does not have a later. You stand at the top of a mountain others wish to own, It is not the competitive nature of life that makes this so but your undying will to carry your loved ones upon your shoulders. Be proud of yourself because sometimes no one will
If you can read this and speak it, Then do it no disrespect and roar!
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