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 Aug 2013 Danger White
Just Anna
I'm holding water
Salty water
and
Its spilling out my hands

United we stand
divided we fall

I guess we're all falling
not together
but
at the same time

No matter how hard
you try to make things better
to cheer everyone on
solve issues
fake happiness

It doesn't work if I can
see through that
mask of smiles

To make someone else happy
you have to first
make yourself happy

because genuine happiness
warmth
and
love

can only be translated
and spread
If it comes from deep down
and
its
*real
Seeing you force it out
just makes me even more sad.
 Jun 2013 Danger White
Rasha Omer
We are all heads floating in a tunnel,
For split seconds on ends, our shadows fit perfectly with the holes,
In the walls.

Let us cheer to the sweet decay in
our childish dreams.
Turn up the volume and carry on
Stuttering, sulking, seducing,
Snarking or just swim against the current with all of the baggage of the
Morning still crackling through your eyes.

Hold onto the rails, and dance across the nightmare of endless consumption
Sandwiches upon sandwiches within
Sandwiches.

We are all shadows in motion
To the gods of gravity and brevity
Our lives on hold a midst the commotion of gasoline tanks whirring
And, the forthcoming shortage of ambition.

The war is marching on
But who's got time for war,
In between the decadence of these slime-y streets?

Who's got time for war,
When you've got to put the kids
To sleep?
A touch on my nose
The blink of a ghost
Stains of coffee
Marks of pain,
Love is gone
It will not return.
All that is left
An empty home.
 Jun 2013 Danger White
Meka Boyle
Mother dearest jumped the gun,
Thought she found the chosen one
In the reflection of an eager bride
Who looked too deep and died inside.
Bang bang,
Mary shot her down
And plucked the thorns from off her crown,
Aphrodite got too close
And lost her face beneath the smoke.
Time has never looked so sultry
As when she falls from noon with a nosebleed.
Mother Nature lost her mind
Trying to pacify humankind.
Ashes ashes, there's nothing real
When all that is, lives to be concealed.
So bury me beneath the ground,
Next to those who also drowned
In something of a sordid tune,
The funeral can never come too soon.
Helen brought her face of gold
Plastered in cement, frozen cold-
For, who we are isn't what it seems
And nightmares are but twisted dreams.
Wake me up so I can feel
The bitter pang of all that's real.
Momma has gone and leaped again
Deep into the lions den,
Down and down her figure drops
Until all at once, everything stops,
Torment has yet to look as docile
As when it rests upon her heavy smile.
So prepare my casket and let it sink
While I loosely cascade off the brink.
 Jun 2013 Danger White
Klvshp0et
I thought I didn't have to turn on the lights to find you/
I figured you'd be right here standing by me like you use to/
Now I am alone and crazy hoping all my wildest dreams come true/

What's the point in wishing for love?/
It's snug fit holds our heart like a glove/
From a doctors hand that reaches in and pulls out
A gift from above/

I hope my love for you becomes taboo/
So that it doesn't hurt so much when I look at you/
And songs on my radio that remind me of you fade away with you too.

If you came crawling back I would marvel your action/
And wonder what made your mind side with this faction/
You claimed you didn't love me/
So everything I see before me is acting.

I wish I knew love like the old folks do/
My mind would be fresh as the morning dew/
And I would know exactly how to love you

I wish I knew love like the old folks do/
So I would know what to do when I am around you

I just wish I knew love so I won't have to
Feel the way that I do.

The thought of staring in your eyes clouds my mind like a storm/
With winds that's sure to leave most of its contents torn
In the form of a queen who moves peacefully and serene/
In a flash destroying her path creating a different scene

I use to hate hearing "you got it bad" growing up/
Now when the first chord strikes all I can think about is throwing up/
You've caused me so much grief a blind man could see fields of the times I've given up.

Maybe I am just young and I still have much to learn/
And when love comes around again I will have my turn/
And the scars you left will no longer burn/
And the tears that fell will all dry away/
Making me anew like opening my eyes to a new day/
But until then

I wish I knew love like the old folks do/
My mind would be fresh as the morning dew
And I would know what to do when I am around you/

I just wish I knew love so I won't have to
Feel the way that I do.
 Jun 2013 Danger White
brooke
I dug too deep into that
wound and now I don't
know where I stand with
you, but I put myself here
so I can't complain anymore.
(c) Brooke Otto
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