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My friend is gone
We’ve gone our ways
So here’s a toast
For better days

I see your face
From time to time
Your heart beats loud
Along with mine

But I walk alone
Because life moves fast
Each day is gold
It won’t last

Enjoy the place
And people too
In the end
They’ll get you through

In this life
Or in the next
God, I know
Will give us rest

When I’m gone, please
Speak well of me
"I wish there were a way to know you're in the good ol' days before you've actually left them." - Andy Bernard, The Office
Ballerinas dancing up and down notes
Twisting and turning in things I never wrote
Great leaps and great dips into everything unknown
Weeping washes away anything we'd ever know
Musical symphonies sound like fresh rain
Pirouettes weaving love with the pain
Throw me a lift and I'll break away
Watch me grow wings as the sky turns to grey
I'll crush the stage I'll break the sky
Run away with me come on babe we'll fly
Don't ask me to stay don't ask me to go
I do what I want I can run the show
I'll dance if I want, but I'd rather fly
Please don't weep, please don't cry
I'll break out of your cage
And dance off this stage
I'm not in your music box anymore
My dress is left in tatters but everything's new
And I can see is the sky and it's blue
So when I find land I want green again
But not for so long-I want things to change
Green-brown-and finally amber
And grey will be only something I remember
in the rain-
darkness,     the sunset
being sheathed i sit and
think of you

the holy
city which is your face
your little cheeks the streets
of smiles

your eyes half-
thrush
half-angel and your drowsy
lips where float flowers of kiss

and
there is the sweet shy pirouette
your hair
and then

your dancesong
soul.     rarely-beloved
a single star is
uttered,and i

think
       of you
Maybe if I twist my cigarette a little more,
I can shift the world.

Maybe if I can just look you in the eye,
I can let you in my mind.

Maybe if you touch my hand a little bit,
the snow would melt off my fingertips.

My skin is a little chilly, ice-ridden,
you might just get frost-bitten.

But the fire in your eyes,
tells me where your intentions lie.

I'm in the mood for someone,
someone like you.
Amara Pendergraft 2013
I ask every man,
'Can you love me?'
They always say no
But then again,
I say it under my breath
And I only hear their answer
In the wind

How sad of me,
A tragic little girl
*Am I.
Amara Pendergraft 2013

I'm not here. But, where am I?
Can I just go on forever and never have to love?

Can I etch my eyes into the curves of my fingerprints?

When will my heart beat like the wings of a hummingbird?

When will I be enough for the ones that I touch?

Can I keep walking without a home?

I am overcome

with intense displays of emotion

sometimes,

In the pouring rain.

And I know it's in vain

But I carry on,

*Oh, you know I carry on.
Amara Pendergraft 2013
I am the sun & I have only just begun
To understand how to get up
Climb into the sky
Try not to cry
Keep the rain at bay
The way the world needs me to
I have nothing left to do
My bag of tricks are worn to bits
And I'm left, tumbling
I'll fall away,
And night
Replaces me, replaces the day
When I managed to make it up long enough to shine.
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