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304 · May 2015
People suck, Fact of Life
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
When we take the moment and see
That out of the corner of every eye
the image of those who dine on our hearts
Those who swallow our souls
Those thoughts of.
Maybe they're lying
They don't care
No one cares
That's that.
300 · Jun 2015
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
300 · May 2015
Give it some thought
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
or not, I could care less if this went on
just give me the liberty of whats next
before I go on
298 · May 2015
What's left to do.
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
Just give it time, that's all we ask
Whats it matter, just give it a moment more
or a moment less whats left to do when insanity is on the other line
298 · May 2015
My best
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
Come tomorow or the day after
If it be tomorow then pick up the pen and repeat
Come tomorow or the day after
296 · Jun 2015
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
295 · May 2015
What it means to be a man
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
To cry at the right moments
To be strong at the other ones
To lift others up
To never tear them down
To protect your loved ones
Ready to give your life for your cause
Ready to lay down the law
Ready to stand up for whats right
Being able to tell your kid no
Being able to once in a while say yes
Be honest, kind, and willing
That your tongue should be used for jokes
To tell the truth
And to always tell the ones you love
"I love you"
294 · Jul 2014
Don't say always
Courtlyn Quay Jul 2014
don't say you'll always be there
don't say you'll always love me
Maybe i'm being crass but i'm sure
change is inevitable it's what is pure
You will sometime lack the means to save me
You will sometime change heart and flee me
I know the words you say are true and what you mean
There is nothing more lucid then when we change each scene
I know it to be true, inevitable even that at some point
we will part
294 · May 2016
Dust
Courtlyn Quay May 2016
Softly sifting through the sands
Nothing of value grips to your hands
Zooming out the hourglass seems diminutive
Zooming farther the grand scheme is visible
The speck of dust thinks it's important
How cute
292 · May 2015
Trouble Makers
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
I dare not dance when caution is afoot
I dare not play when mothers stern
I should heed her words
She made her word law, we all heard well

"Foxs are foxs only time will tell"
290 · Jul 2019
Requiem for the Broken
Courtlyn Quay Jul 2019
When im sitting in the back of your car
And more than god wants to create I want to look into the rear view just to see your eyes.
But I can't look,
because what if I look and your eyes and they aren't looking at mine,
on top of that,
what if you aren't looking at me, because right now I need your attention,
I crave it like blood.
but I obstain like kryptonite.
just the sight of you not keeping me in your sights,
Alone,
In the car with you.
That fills me with an insignificance as insignificant as the star you passed on when you made a wish;
And I can't risk to feel that.
So I obstain from that,
out of preservation
Courtlyn Quay Apr 2016
Breaking the divide
Divided by loneliness
Bringing us closer
Discerning true friend as rival
Two people, two children
Purist combatants
Savage beasts dancing circles in the sand
Their actions catching the eyes of heaven
Clashing in quick succession
Just to fall in each others embrace
Chasing him the way death chases life
A few beats behind him but ready to pounce
Chasing her the way the Sun chases the moon
Patient and slow, eager to make a move

Their love
Like the kiss from unconsciousness
*It steals you
body and soul
289 · Nov 2015
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.
288 · May 2016
Nail my head to the post
Courtlyn Quay May 2016
Take the moment now
nail my head to a post.
When my body rocks in its tattered remains it'll come to me.
When the bullets soak up my blood
blood, iron and lead are one my veins.
The ways my story comes to life
is from the flash from my barrel
from the flick of my fingers
from the tip of my hat
holster and saddle up.
Nail my head to the post
Just to see the spirit in the sky
285 · Nov 2015
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...
283 · Feb 2016
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.
281 · Jul 2014
Somewhere Among the Stars
Courtlyn Quay Jul 2014
lost among the stars the planets play a symphony of otherworldly proportions.

A dying star plays the final chord of its solo so that someone somewhere would hear the plea to be something big.

And a percussion band of asteroids sounds the trumpets of gods as they clash heads  

As though there is one conductor that created this magnificent piece

As though there was one thing bringing this all together

I wish to thank you as I sit and watch the stars tonight
281 · Jun 2016
Angels and Demons
Courtlyn Quay Jun 2016
A fanatic devil in my bed
an acolyte to the color red

I cast my eyes upon the dirt you dragged in
I set my hands upon your horns

The tragedy shed in light is that you lived without sin
A face touched by god and a spirit that rivals hell
I take your crown off the bed post and wear your thorns

I promise to show you the mercy this world has denied you.
I promise the love that this world has showed so few
274 · Jul 2014
Watch your Watch
Courtlyn Quay Jul 2014
Once upon a time, time began once, once man decided to keep track upon the sun, then man found time to keep time on his wrist. once this time came man began to see farther into time to a time in the distance called the future. But man looked forward in time and forgot about the trees and animals that were there once upon a time before it was mans time. Since forgetting that time and this one now called the present things went wrong. Everything that was not man or made by man like time continues to exist. But there were creatures a forest that covered the land and oceans where the sand is now. We had a beautiful earth, once upon a time
273 · Feb 2016
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.
273 · May 2015
"What makes you happy?"
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
I've played games
I've tried the outdoors
I've tried drugs
none of it, none of it helped
What makes me happy?
The voice of the one I love in my ear
The touch of the arms of someone I trust
The soothing caress of her hands through my hair
I know it's wrong to find happiness in someone else
But in a world so bleak
It can't be helped
272 · Dec 2015
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
271 · May 2015
Time again
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
Seasons change
Moments when I hate myself
Days when I love myself
When I lose hope
When I find new reasons to live
Times I break
Times I rebuild
no matter what happens
I know it's just time again
269 · Nov 2015
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.
269 · Feb 2016
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.
268 · May 2015
"How's your day"
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
In my eyes, i've seen the sun rise
the son die
then the sun set.
268 · Nov 2015
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
265 · May 2015
Woof
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
Consider me trained
emotion is my game
consider me house broken
my fair number of hearts broken
I'm young
teach me a trick
263 · Feb 2016
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.
262 · Dec 2015
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.
260 · Jul 2014
Untitled
Courtlyn Quay Jul 2014
To dine on a mortal soul calls no attention to flavor
For they are bland and call forth no attention or fervor
You will always have enough of these tasteless specimens
But to taste a soul so shrouded in sadness and regret
Now that is a soul of good taste.
Would you look at that.
It seems america has so many of those
So many tasty souls
Courtlyn Quay Oct 2020
Little known is the thought we throw to the side.
inside insidiously we tried
to hide the being with the wish I hope to confide.

Let alone the disillusioned idea of property or love owned by the self.
let alone the thoughts we've left canned on the shelf.
Like a man with no remorse I open those cans with a thought in mind.

I hope I can find your love inside of at least one, with empathy of my task in kind
259 · May 2015
Your opinion
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
In thought when I write
I didn't ask for your opinion
but wouldn't mind if it was given now and then
256 · May 2015
Today
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
Do me the favor of kissing my broken bones
Help lick the wounds that I try best to heal
Stitch up the heart that knows the touch of ache
Show me how my heart can play songs
Modern melodies of what could be
Today is the day I cast eyes upon you
Sit down so I may put my head in your lap
I am the weary traveler today and I need you
My vision blurs when I stand so today I need you
Today I am weak and I cannot be the beacon
Please today, I need you to be my beacon
253 · May 2015
Rain
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
Its raining again. Just like before
Not that its heavier or lighter.
The smell still smells like a city
The thing that makes is like last time
The feeling that I'm alone.
That feeling that even though I'm surrounded.
The rain reminds me how no one listens
252 · May 2015
True loneliness
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
What leaves me more sorrowful than adder's venom
is the way you tell me you love me
when no ones around
The way you appreciate me
when no ones around.
That You could say the same to a fly
when no ones around
251 · May 2015
Scales
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
As long as you know mine is the same
That I will always honour your honour
and love your love
Understand when you pay me in venom
I'm only doing kindness, to pay you the same
249 · May 2015
Not actually sorry
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
I'd dare not say it
I mustn't I wont
That stars cant shine brighter
I said it, sorry i jest.
247 · Jun 2015
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.
247 · Jun 2015
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
245 · Jan 2016
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
245 · May 2015
Ode to the shower
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
You owe me a shower
If you thought you could deny this from me
I understand what it's like to go without
But if it never existed in the first place
I'd kick your *** for a sorry excuse of a  "creator"
242 · May 2015
To the guy next to me
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
Our words are our own
Our words can be sown
But learn to live and sow seeds lightly
For life is yours to reap
After you learn
242 · Nov 2015
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.
240 · Mar 2018
Forsaken / Found
Courtlyn Quay Mar 2018
I'm lost in a sea of my own troubles.
My family's picture grows blurry.
I lost my sense of direction.
its gone so soon like ashes in a flurry. my troubles are quadratic the weight it doubles. This life's enigmatic, the pressure it bubbles. Lost at sea without a paddle. A good god, godless, ripped from the saddle. I don't know why i put so much stock in make believe. Gee maybe i don't know, hopefully it'll be a dream That'll be conceived. Possibly ill received, because greatness is disbelieved, rarely achieved, grandma's dreams cleaved, All the children are ******* grieving. Deceiving our selves, packing the shelves, we're leaving.
Stop.
I have to find my bearing.
Stop.
The waters are cool. The wind is blowing softly.
Right now, just hold her hand.
Listen to the wind.
239 · Jun 2015
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.
239 · Apr 2020
25 to 30 for death
Courtlyn Quay Apr 2020
When I asked you what I should do. you told me...
"Yeah, I guess it would make sense to end it now."
I could feel a crippling cold in my lungs mid summer
my heart is no stranger to a strangers lack of care.
It's just a summer ******.

At least when left alone, let alone the thought of being lonely, I never consider taking my own life before its meant to be taken from me.

At least when I talk to you, you remind me like your reliquary for lost tears, you tear through me unraveling my armor to all my inner most fears.

Giving myself a gift of agony inside of antagonizing images of my self.
Ambition and bravery give way to craven humility. disguising howls towards the moon as laughter laughed to soon. I dug my grave today just to give prayer to the future,

I piece myself back together with my words like a surgeon who's done this a thousand times.

He who is practiced in the way of emotion suture

His hands never getting steadier operating on the child inside him with his rhymes.

It never gets any easier
it only gets worse.
After all,
how can you do your job,
when you run out of thread
and there's a thundering in your head.

When you've got twenty-five to thirty for life to become death.
You kind of want to be in control of your last breath
Self reflection
237 · May 2015
What do I do?
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
We don't know what we're doing
it wasn't me
hands full of gems
eyes full of lust
we didn't know what we we're doing
please help us
eyes full of tears
theres no one to trust
236 · May 2015
"What's going on"
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
A two hour delay
crowded in a school
Hot as hell
I'm pretty sure I'm in hell
That's alright.
I'm sure to make friends
233 · May 2015
My cat
Courtlyn Quay May 2015
You tease me when I want you
You ask for more when I deny you
The feeling that you have your own agenda
is all the more reason I adore you
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