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Take away
               The air
                             I breathe
                                           Just  Leave
                                                                Me Poetry
Poetry is  important to me like breathing.
If I tear apart my flesh, my skin to reveal what's underneath..
will that be good enough for you?
If I bleed continuously through the thin fabric of my sweater..
will that make you happier than I possibly ever could?


If I slice open my veins, my arteries and spill the contents out into you,
will that show you how much I love you..
How much I care?
If my eyes resemble tsunami tides until I die, ****...
will that make you realize you are the only one for me?


Am I not enough?
Am I not capable of making you happy?
I am insane, ******* idiotic
for fooling myself into believing that I could ever be enough for you.
- j.j.s.s
I can't even write
Because my minds pre-occupied
Worrying about you
Your will to live
If the skin is split
Upon your wrist

when I wake, will you be there?
Or was the weight to much to bare?
You know I'd bare it all
For the beautiful girl who made me fall

So in love,
But I'm never enough,
To take that weight off your shoulder
You're going uphill carrying boulders
And I cant do anything but watch

With strained eyes,
As the love of my life
Is losing her mind
While I sit here and whine
Because I feel so ******* helpless

Why can't I save you?
You think that intelligence
is measured by words
by sentences
by essays
but no combination of letters you put together will be enough
to erase your ignorance.
grades don't define you.
My mother attacked me when I got in the car
About how homosexuality is dead wrong
How they should follow the Bible
Did she know when she said 'they' it was me
Was she suspicious and trying to scare me
Was she trying to scare the gay out of me?
I don't know if she even knows,
But I love who I love, and I'm sorry but
I shouldn't have to apologize for loving someone
It shouldn't matter no matter what the gender
Maybe I'll end up with a girl, maybe a man
But it sure as hell shouldn't matter to anyone
Your prizes are collecting dust by their phones
But pretty women you've won don't seem pretty anymore
There's a penny to your name but not one for your shame
Take a breath, restless one; your love-rut's back on
The conquest is done, your charming guile has won.

Come with me.
Pause with me.
Welcome this hollow with me.
Feel the ache from relentless chase.
Let's write a little
cry a little
moan a little
But love a lot.

I'll make you my favourite acid, little trips ever night
A giggle for a kiss a kiss for a giggle till we're giddy-light
You'll tell me lies, lots of pretty sachharine lies
I'll smile, invent a book worth of fiction for my mind
Then just when I'm chips in, cut my wings mid-flight

I promise, for you I'll cry.
And maybe the reason you feel this way is because it's so much easier for you to tear yourself down than it ever will be to hold yourself together. But darling, you can't keep destroying yourself forever.
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