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 Dec 2013 Fel
Jacqueline Akers
Home
 Dec 2013 Fel
Jacqueline Akers
Home is usually defined as a place where one lives, a physical structure, or where someone was born or lives for a long time.

I started thinking of what home was to me.
A place where I really feel safe and secure.
Somewhere I find complete comfort and feel like I can really be what I am; lazy, stupid.
Where I can cry and scream and laugh with complete sincerity.
Where I know I can run to for a strong shelter.
Where I can hide my feelings and emotions at when I leave in the morning
Where there may be leaks in the ceilings or cracks in the walls, but I learn to cope and move on.
Where, really, what I need to survive lies.
Where I want to be all the time.

Then, thinking of you, I realized home can be a person.
Who's your home?
 Dec 2013 Fel
Arthur Chapman
When I go
Do not follow
You belong where you are

When you go
I will Follow
I don’t belong anywhere
 Dec 2013 Fel
Marleny
Expectations
 Dec 2013 Fel
Marleny
Being the older sibling
I'm left with responsibilities
and in certain situations
I can't respond with hostility.
I am my brother's keeper.
I am his protector.
If I fail showing him what's right,
he wouldn't know any better.
Why does he look up to me?
I really do not know.
He's a repeat of me,
so he will have a ways to go.
If I ever wanted to run away,
I knew that I couldn't,
because I can't leave him behind
and it would be selfish if I took him.
I'm not the best older sister,
but all I can do is try my best
to shield him when I can,
so that one day, he can handle the rest.
 Dec 2013 Fel
Tara Westmoreland
You'd think you hear a sound when the most painful moment in your life passed.
Like you'd actually hear the snap of the tight wire you call your mental stability.
Maybe if you looked hard enough you could find some mark on your body.
Something to tell how much pain you've tried to get through. To get over.
Like how can I hurt this much but not have a wound to show for it?
As if I could mend my mind with medicines and pills
Trying to fix the problems I've been inflicting on myself.
What I've been inflicted with.
I feel like I've had an amputation instead of leaving someone behind.
And every time I think about it the places that I've stitched open up again
and I lie there bleeding.
I wish I could've heard the sound of me breaking when it happened,
To define it as the moment I walked away from someone I loved.
The moment I lost my true happiness. And I wonder, if I'll ever get it back.
 Dec 2013 Fel
Lisa Randall
Always I want to be with you
tangled up in a world for two;
one where we can lie on limbs amongst leaves
where your worries and mine couldn't climb the trees.
Our world would be one lived at such great heights,
all that could harm us would bark with no bite.
And our darkest of moments would be just that of night
with still the stars as our ceiling and each other's eyes for a light.

And here in these trees we would have all that we need;
my comfort in you and yours, in me.
And think how content we would keep in our canopy
with our bodies pressed together, puzzle-piece-perfectly,
where even in the thickest of rains
our arms wrapped tightly would remain the same.
And when that rain would turn in to the wildest of storms,
only to come closer would we change our form.

We would live and we'd love holding on without stop,
we would rock- and you'd call me baby- in our own tree top.
We would sleep as we please and wake with no haste,
having only the time to get there as time to waste.
So I'll go and I'll wait, rather eagerly for you
to join me there in our world for two.
One made with you, and only you, in mind.
One where you would always and only be mine.
 Dec 2013 Fel
Kelsey A Nicholson
I breathed it into my mouth
And it slid down my throat
Into the pit of my stomach
And that raw, raw feeling
Is burning my sides while
I sit and pretend the world is not falling.
It is an unknown substance, a feeling.
I smell the air and it’s toxic
And it singes my lungs and
Makes my eyes spill tears.
I am horrified and exhilarated all at once
The emotion is pure and clean and real
Like the world around me
But it’s all haze, like fog
Blurry and misshapen and I try and blink it away
But it’s like I’m underwater and I’m floating upside down.
The world is like a kaleidoscope
The pictures look different every time.
I am one with every sense
All five of them blazing on fire
Like I was on overdrive
Spinning, spinning like a tea cup at a carnival.
All the while laughing like I was young again
Because I feel so alive.
I wish I could show you just how amazing
It feels to be human.
 Dec 2013 Fel
Emilie
so
 Dec 2013 Fel
Emilie
so
this isn't a poem
it's just a thought
I was in the shower
thinking
like we all do in showers
when the hot water makes our pores and minds expand
wide as the universe and we're so small in our thoughts

and I realized something

I am no one's number one
in the long line of people spoken to
laughed with
sitting with
I am not number one

you see we all have a group of people who we would go to
when we're alone
when we want to be with someone
and maybe someone will come to me
but they won't stay
someone else will come along
and eyes will wander
and thoughts will change
and the world will turn to face another side
all but for my portion of it
until I'm alone again

it's not a nice thought
but I never said it was
 Dec 2013 Fel
Lewis
I'm in a place
 Dec 2013 Fel
Lewis
Like a kiss from the earth,
autumn breezes came sweeping across your face
a wisp of a memory taunts you briefly.
it's in the way she held my hand
its how she looked and smiled
but she never said.
what was there to say?
I'd had an hours worth of your company
and it brought down
every
single
wall
I had been reinforcing these past months,
you didn't know better.
and I didn't know how to say it.
Getting thoughts out
 Dec 2013 Fel
Jan Vincent Chioco
The moment I saw you I instantly knew
You are my greatest dream come true
You are the girl that was meant for me
The promise that has come to be

Finding you seems like forever
Reminds me of the time when I never surrendered
And now that I have already found you
I am so sure that this feeling is true

The pain and hardships have come to pass
A reminder of how broken my heart was
But now you have healed my heart
I swore to you we'll never fall apart

I never believed in the word, "forever"
Until I found out that we're together
Oh my love I wish it could be
Together, forever only you and me

Destiny is one of a kind
The rarest peron you'll ever find
And with that I should let you know
That girl, I never ever let you go
 Dec 2013 Fel
Sara VanderMeer
Evoke
 Dec 2013 Fel
Sara VanderMeer
Evoke emotion, make me cry

Anything to make me respond

For I'm comatose

With a yearning to feel, to move



Evoke inspiration, make me feel

Anything to have me write

To writhe with inspired words

Pouring from my mind, unto paper



Evoke love, make me stupid

Anything to make me fall

Passion flowing through these veins

A snake of deceit and contentment



Evoke in me anything

Response, feeling, falling, coldness

Make me human

Before this animal takes over
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