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Dec 2014 · 267
Untitled (10w)
eb Dec 2014
today was exhausting

then again, everyday is exhausting

for us
Dec 2014 · 247
something new
eb Dec 2014
You make me giggle,
You make me smile,
You make me wonder,
What have I been missing all this while?

You manage to break through the walls,
and even take the untimely calls.
For you, I will run a mile.
What have I missing all this while?

Am I worthy?
Am I pretty?
Am I kind?
Am I the one you had in mind?

This doesn't seem right.
This doesn't seem wrong.
But this won't be something I fight,
For maybe I deserve this all along
For you.
12/09
Dec 2014 · 804
Did you?
eb Dec 2014
When I dream about you
do you dream about me?

When I think of you
do you think of me?

When I miss you
do you miss me?

When I loved you
*did you ever love me?
Dec 2014 · 368
last time
eb Dec 2014
a cold night breeze
surrounds us; she holds my hand
i feel nothing, but im here
she doesn't understand
Dec 2014 · 268
Dear heart,
eb Dec 2014
Calm yourself
its only the beginning
of an adventure that is life.
Dec 2014 · 423
Moment: 1208
eb Dec 2014
A clock ticking
constantly. I'm trying --
forgetting, but not. It's ok.
Dec 2014 · 347
2
eb Dec 2014
2
Tiny piercing rain drops
all around. I'm ok. Live not
regretful, but brave --
Dec 2014 · 194
There is no such boy.
eb Dec 2014
"I just want someone to hold hands with"
He lies.
It was never just that.

Where is the boy singing, talking, living for me?
Where is he who leans on doors waiting patiently for me?
Where is he who will change a become a man for me?

He doesn’t live.
He doesn’t exist.
He is with someone else.
in between dating
Dec 2014 · 519
Memory: 0921
eb Dec 2014
i really did love you
but you were an addict


and i am more than a cure
Dec 2014 · 258
falling star
eb Dec 2014
I wish I could
fall in love
and turn into
a constellation
Dec 2014 · 621
Memory: 1204
eb Dec 2014
moonlight shines
a conversation
splashing waves
a kiss goodnight
Dec 2014 · 283
sleep
eb Dec 2014
in the cold of night --
appreciating the ceiling
breaking down
Dec 2014 · 189
Untitled
eb Dec 2014
complete silence--
a faint breeze
as her eyes close.
Dec 2014 · 281
Untitled
eb Dec 2014
she awakens
   as  darkness                    
                   shields light
anxious serenity
Dec 2014 · 267
Untitled
eb Dec 2014
When the sounds are gone,
the silence remains
When all the calls have ended,
the whispers drown the loneliness

Just as rivers flow,
so do tears
Just as clouds pass,
so come fears

Let go,
Let love,
Let life,
Let yourself.
Nov 2014 · 227
This is me.
eb Nov 2014
This is me giving it a try.
This is me wanting to turn back time.
This is me hoping that you will that you will stop making me cry.
This is me wishing everything is fine.

This is my pitiful attempt at wanting you back.
This is my stupid plan thinking you would maybe pick up the phone
This is my neurotic brain thinking you can fill what I lack.
This is my romantic heart feeling sorry for being alone.

This is me trying.
This is me breaking down.
This is me lying.
This is me leaving town.
Nov 2014 · 272
everyday
eb Nov 2014
i panic
seeing you,
hearing your voice,
feeling your touch;
just when i know,
the eyes deceive,
the ears mock,
the heart lies;
because nothing,
nothing is more cruel
than that,
that could have,
that should have,
that would have,
have been;
if only, if only
we waited,
we stayed,
we fought;
but we didn't,
we didn't.
Nov 2014 · 554
Forgiving
eb Nov 2014
is letting go
is moving on
is a cliche romcom plot line

means giving up
means running away
means losing us

is all those things
is leaving my everything
is accepting nothing
is what I need
Nov 2014 · 1.1k
conversations
eb Nov 2014
you: what isn't when there is
i: what is when it isn't


me: who left when there isn't any loss
you: who stayed when too much is lost


her: when will you leave
him: when will you stay


us: how will this end
we: how will it ever begin

*end of conversation
Nov 2014 · 226
Of songs and sadness
eb Nov 2014
I was so high I didn't recognise
the message you've always been saying,
the fire burning in your eyes
while I kept talking, screaming and crying.

Come on just last the year
are words I've been repeating,
pour a little salt we were never here
I hear you singing as you were sleeping.

Just come over and lie here with me
Were you lying?
'cause I'm just about to set fire to everything I see
I was crying.

Goodbye, my hopeless dream*
I kept repeating, and
I'm trying not to think about you
until tomorrow morning.
While listening to songs sang by them, this poem came.
Nov 2014 · 266
A reply
eb Nov 2014
I'm sorry I can't
love you the way
you deserve;
how I want to;
how we need to be.

With all regrets and sincerity,
I scream my pains into a pillow
because I can't
be yours

With all the excuses and the reasons
I remember that I can't
because I can't
be with you
Sep 2014 · 9.2k
I am air.
eb Sep 2014
I am air;
I am everywhere.

I am the breeze in the trees,
I am the moving clouds above,
I am the wind,
dancing as I pass

I am air;
I am everywhere.

I expand;
I decompress;
I warm;
I cool;

I am air;
I am everywhere.

I am the breathe in you,
I am the swirling feeling in your stomach,
I am the oxygen,
encompassing every part of you.

I am air;
I am everywhere.

I am in the heavens,
I am in the balloons,
I am in the rivers,
I am in the reeds,

I am air;
I am everywhere.

I am invisible,
but I am there.
I am nowhere,
but I am everywhere.
Sep 2014 · 237
If only someone did
eb Sep 2014
She doesn't understand,
He doesn't understand,
They don't understand,
No one understands,

the crying,
the suffering,
the constant conversations,
the loneliness.

Overwhelming anger comes over me,
She says she is trying, "trying her best",
"But its not enough to try, sometimes," I want to say,
"I want you to help or get help.", That is what I want.

But no,
she doesn't hear,
he doesn't hear,
no one hears.

the silence,
the noise,
the pain,
the depression.
Sep 2014 · 382
Purity (10w)
eb Sep 2014
If love is not ***,
then what is between us?
Sep 2014 · 451
Stagnant
eb Sep 2014
in a pervasive feeling of drift.
Sep 2014 · 317
Snippets of love
eb Sep 2014
I had love once,
a love that was meant to be lost,
a love once had that can never be again,
a love to be had.

To a love so great,
For a love so grand
Of love so gracious
until its not meant to be.

For love that doesn't last
is a love still had.
This is about love that's lost.
Aug 2014 · 584
Grief
eb Aug 2014
breathes come,
numbness follows,
but nothing,
yet everything;
                         same but different

slow ringing sounds,
melodies overhead,
silent,
yet chaotic;
                         same but different

anger,
longing,
denial,
surrender,
                   ­      same but different

unspoken words,
sporadic gestures,
screaming laughters,
hugs and goodbyes
                         same but different
I will be sad forever;
and a day;
deeply
Jul 2014 · 510
Mix & Match
eb Jul 2014
I can't;
think/
feel/
sleep/
eat/
breathe/

past/
since/
without/
within/

yesterday/
us/
you/
the emptiness.
Jun 2014 · 242
23:58
eb Jun 2014
Overwhelming it is
to read your writing
to peak through your life
to know that your struggles are real

Drowning I am
in tears bursting with the memories of you & I
in blood overflowing from wrists that you used to hold
in thoughts exploding over the letters you wrote

Paralysing it is
to have you near me when I am invisible
to hold you close when I no longer sense touch
to hear you scream my name when I am mute

Losing I am
from battling your past
from listening to what is right
from promising not to want you/*us
Jun 2014 · 262
What is (10w)
eb Jun 2014
What is
eternal love?
What is
taking someone
for granted?
Jun 2014 · 384
b u r d e n
eb Jun 2014
heaving,
panting,
weeping,
screaming,

sinking,
hurting,
aching,
­silencing,

questioning,
wondering,
blaming,
talking,

walking,
l­eaving,
disappearing,
ending.
Phases/Faces of burden
Jun 2014 · 1.7k
Pain
eb Jun 2014
Can't be seen,
Can't be touched,
Can't be smelled,
But it's there

Constant & consistent,
it grows.
Powerful & persistent,
it revels.

is everywhere:
In my heart,
In my mind,
In my daily life.


takes over life,
takes over people,
demands death,
demands people.
May 2014 · 308
Overthinking
eb May 2014
Here I am;
trying to welcome imagination,
asking reality to take a pause,
waiting for familiarity among sweeping glances.

I am stuck;
climbing up and down the cruel ropes life,
grasping for air & light,
succumbing to the darkness.

I wonder;
where the sounds come from,
when silence will come back,
searching for harmony among the noise.

And I am lost again;
in the vast vague plain,
through cycles of happiness & loneliness,
wandering all alone constantly risking flight or fall.
Part 1 of 2
May 2014 · 333
Dear M,
eb May 2014
You are sunrise,
I am sunset.
You are the earth,
I am the waves.

Giving hope to others;
You listen and find goodness in them.
Letting others go;
I build walls and push people away.

You’ve always been the better one;
I’ve always been the dark shadow.
You were light;
I was darkness.

You are gone;
I’m here.
Why’d you leave?
Why’d I stay?
For a friend
Apr 2014 · 7.8k
Tears
eb Apr 2014
fall endlessly like raindrops to the ocean;
Like little soldiers, one after the other,
They fall just as the enemy targets them.

Why am I here?
Why do I tell you this?
Why do these fall in my face when my insides feel nothing?

Then again, what is a smile with happiness in it?
Apr 2014 · 492
Nice
eb Apr 2014
a verb
a lie
a figment of the truth

an excuse to make face
an unacceptable character
an immovable force

not me
not you
no one
What is nice anyway?
Apr 2014 · 310
no attachments (10w)
eb Apr 2014
"Hi there, Welcome!",
she exclaimed;
"Just passing through"
he whispered.
Apr 2014 · 649
S t o p
eb Apr 2014
Your bouts of literary thoughts spewing all over do not make sense.
Your incapacity to formulate a whole and worthy thought has gotten the best of you fooling you into thinking that someone, somewhere is listening.

Stop.
Stop. you must stop.

Your insensitive belief that everyone is falling head over heels for your talent, popularity and deep sense is proving to be a lie. I say all this sincerely with hatred, love and everything in between because I won't be good enough for you.

So stop.
Stop. Stop existing in my world.
Apr 2014 · 282
04/14
eb Apr 2014
a steady warm air
passing through ones hair
endlessly cool nights
and feelings of fright

the emptiness inside
nowhere to run or hide
overflowing sadness
underlying greatness

hope is nowhere
darkness everywhere
creeping loneliness
masked by happiness

questionable essence
endless existence
ultimately nonsense
*evanesce
Feb 2014 · 389
Of the cat & the box
eb Feb 2014
I'm the cat inside the box.
I don't know what the world outside is
I'm trapped in my box
Rescue me

I'm the silenced voice
I'm stuck knowing nothing beyond these walls
With the square and the monotone
Hear me

I'm you
I fear the box
I fear the cat
Fear me
Three personas inspired by Schrodinger's cat
Feb 2014 · 398
her journey
eb Feb 2014
For all her life eve walked alone
Blindly searching for her home
In darkness she roamed
As daybreak came she moaned

Whizzing, whirring the sounds pass
She wondered how long time will last
Her journey is the destination.
02/01/14
Jan 2014 · 407
reply
eb Jan 2014
You say you're always left behind.
You say you're the one who works so hard to keep another.
You say you're always the lonely one.

I'm the one who leaves people behind.
I'm the one who takes people for granted.
I've never been the lonely one.

How can I say I'm the right one for you
How can I say I'm here
How can I say that you should be with me

when you don't look at me that way?
when you don't see me in the same light?
when you don't know I exist?

This is a reply to 17-year old you.
This is a reply to the you I never met.
This is a reply to a stranger.
open letter to once an acquaintance, now, a stranger again.
eb Jan 2014
Words left unsaid
thoughts floating overhead.

what isn't when there is
what is when it isn't


Dooms, glooms, buzzing
deadly birds gleefully chirping.

where is when there was
when is when there wasn't


Lost in a maze,
search, stare and gaze.

*no sense, nonsense
present tense, past tense
Jan 2014 · 664
12 & 1/2 strangers
eb Jan 2014
Dear stranger,
I want to say I like you.
I want to say I like you
like no one I have ever liked before.

Dear stranger,
I want to but I won't.

Dear stranger,
I can't be sure it's you I like
or the thought of you
that just won't leave my mind.

Dear stranger,
I just can't
let myself hurt again
after what she did to me.

Dear stranger,
You & I are
in limbo.

Dear stranger,
You and I are
at different stages in our lives.
And many more excuses
of the impossibility of us.

Dear stranger,
I can't be
just another girl
for you.

Dear stranger,
I won't because I shouldn't

Dear stranger,
I shouldn't
be involved with you
when you just had a break up.

Dear stranger,
I shouldn't
love you this much
when we just met.

Dear stranger,
I shouldn't
feel this way
for another girl.

Dear stranger,
I won't
because you probably
don't know I exist

Dear stranger,
I exist
**I think
Of the many strangers:
each one different,
all the same.
Jan 2014 · 477
missed connections
eb Jan 2014
inner circles
Warm nights, Cool covers, serene muscles

outlanders
Cool nights, warm covers, throbbing muscles


your life
clean windows, open doors, soft beds

my life
broken windows, slamming doors, broken beds


possibilities
you, me, apart

*impossibilities
us, we, together
Two people living life through one moment, "what could've been?"
Jan 2014 · 565
Endless longing
eb Jan 2014
When the tears just keep falling,
What do I do?
When your voice keeps calling,
Can I believe it's true?

When the wind is howling,
Is that you?
When shadows are trailing,
Could it be you?

--
A love ending abruptly.
11/15/11
Jan 2014 · 1.1k
She wonders
eb Jan 2014
Feeling the earth moving,
movements of the clock ticking.
Each second a century,
Losing her presence daily.

Seeing voices in the air,
Touching smells everywhere.
Slow and steady she must go,
High and fly like the black crow.

Losing against gravity,
No more Ms. high and mighty.
Jumping up against the walls,
There she falls and falls and falls.

"Is this dying?", she whispers.
Her words floating in the skies.
"What is living?", she wondered.
Her once persistent voice faltered.
Jan 2014 · 690
tactful rhymes at 1:30am
eb Jan 2014
In the darkest night,
I take flight.
In the brightest day,
I dance & sway.

Outside these walls,
everything is false.
Outside the coves,
stumbling on troves.

Nothing more,
this is a bore.
And yet,
everything is met.
spontaneous
Jan 2014 · 294
Untitled
eb Jan 2014
we were lurking in the dark
we were breathing in bark

we were driving around town
we were always breaking down

we were dancing in the moonlight
we were out of sight

oh the stupid things we did
Dec 2013 · 440
why rhyme
eb Dec 2013
hope in my skin
sadness within
steps i hear
echoing here

words of positivity
growing in intensity
tension i feel
nothing is real

silence all around
screaming but sound
"you are beautiful"
"we were wonderful"

everything is creeping
ring ring ring
she is gone
there was none
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