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 Nov 2024 n
SkiJ
A Quiet Dream
 Nov 2024 n
SkiJ
I wish I was happy, but it feels so far, 
A light out of reach, like a distant star. 
Is it too much to ask, to find peace in this race, 
When I’m lost in the crowd, seeking my own place?

I want to be different, to stand apart, 
With dreams that burn fierce in the depths of my heart. 
Yet the world spins around, with a ceaseless hum, 
And I wonder if my time will ever come.

I see myself rising, at the top of it all, 
Where the doubts and the whispers no longer call. 
But happiness feels like a fleeting embrace— 
I chase it, but it slips, like wind in a chase.

Still, I dream in the silence, in the calm of the night, 
That one day I'll shine in my own perfect light.
 Nov 2024 n
Michael John
indecision
 Nov 2024 n
Michael John
indecision and doubt
dogs of creation
what god felt
keeps us living-

pray we never find out..
love can be dissapointing
a bad card dealt
devastation..
 Nov 2024 n
Yonah Jeong
Ink,
flavor that still tempts me
color green,
and black,
red,
but there is no white
like there is no black note
two flavors we cannot see
to make a better world
circle,
a triangle,
squares,
but we cannot see them
drawn in pen
words in ink will be
tomorrow?
 Nov 2024 n
MisfitOfSociety
I watch the rust gather.
And etch time into a stone.
Marking these moments until the bars erode.
I’ll bleed on my knees until my prayers are heard.

Incarcerate my flesh and bone,
Yet my mind is free to roam.
 Nov 2024 n
Nobody
Imaginary
 Nov 2024 n
Nobody
An unfinished poem
An unfinished song
A nonexistent place
Where everyone feels like they belong

An imaginary escape
Fake people with open arms
A mere dream of a place
With no hurt or harm

The real world with endless pain
The true world with tears and grief
The actual world
Where I'm not allowed to be me.
 Nov 2024 n
Jasmine Rose
Pity Please
 Nov 2024 n
Jasmine Rose
Open up my wounds
Drench me in my sorrow

With every waking day,
hand me another pill too hard to swallow

It gives me thrill
A taste of a dark state of bliss

For who can resist
another opportunity to wallow?

My very own mind made misery
A haven from the first sign of glee

Take me there
so I can go nowhere

Lock me in
the sanctuary under my skin.
Sometimes we self-sabotage simply because we enjoy a good pity party
 Nov 2024 n
Heavy Hearted
Oh, Genocide

A nation bathed in blood-
white flags now become
a leaf shaped body bag

With faded eyes, through  screams and cries-
we sift through falsehoods speech...
Colonial,
North
Holocaust:
Unatural Eulogy;

Ancient
Island
Soul,

Turtle's Mind-Spirit

The Land,
no slave to man

From far and wide, 
 oppress those left,
We sulk, in shame and greed.
To be read with the meter of the Canadian national Anthem- what a ******* international embarrassment.
 Nov 2024 n
Leora Llewyn
Nonverbal
 Nov 2024 n
Leora Llewyn
Your eyes are shining as you stare directly at the sun:
I just want to feel something
I don’t feel pain so why should I stop
Your voice is too far away for me to listen
I didn’t mean to make you cry
I’ll look at you
I’m trying to say your name but nothing comes out
“Mm.. mm..” can’t you hear me?
Why do you look so sad?
I’m sorry…I’ll be better
I’ll hug you until I can feel my arms, and stomach, and mouth
I want to say “I love you” so I pat your back and squeeze your arm
 Nov 2024 n
Leora Llewyn
Bookworm
 Nov 2024 n
Leora Llewyn
I’ve been reading about you
The protagonist in all my novels
The booming laugh
The mischievous smirk
The heartthrob that sometimes plays a ****
The desire of every woman on earth
I pretend for awhile that I’m your heroine
Knowing it will stop at the book’s end
So I read another book
Or two
Or three
If I just keep on reading I won’t have to set you free
I’ll just keep reading…
It’s you and me…
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