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On this island,
I'm suffocating.
Dying of thirst,
walking aimlessly,
with nothing on the horizon.
I need to go somewhere
not encased in death
or depression.
Somewhere I can't drown.
Somewhere the tidal wave can't reach.
Somewhere with sunshine.
Somewhere dry and endless.
Somewhere I can get lost,
and never be found.
With all unknown faces, new.
Not this trap I'm stuck on.
Everyone knows each-others business
but no one knows it.
I want to know
I'm unknown.
© M.S.
1.) Get up
2.) Look in the mirror
3.) Ignore the stinging of your eyes, and smile
4.) ***** that smile in
5.) Wear it the rest of the day
6.) If anyone asks, you're "okay"
7.) Come home and don't let your guard down yet
8.) Midnight -- let your thoughts rush back
9.) Start it all over again
You whip me around
And you turn me on a friend
Because I wouldn’t turn against you.
How do we find the balance
Of knowing everything
About each other
When everything you tell me
Only serves to destroy me.
Tear me apart
Inch by inch.
And taking something indifferent
And making it matter
Making it ugly, distorted
And so that I am torn in two.
One half under your watchful eye
And the other long dead, lost in
Collateral damage.
Of playing the guilt,
And when I try and fix it,
Deny my apologies.
And make me beg forgiveness.
You call me out
On your sins
Because you cannot deal with them.
And do not see that I am treating like for like;
You know this forbidden territory
Better than I do,
And I wander lost, until you seek me out and catch me
Because you have trespassed many times before
On the territory
That you find me on
And hunt me down
Just to put a bullet in my chest
And then tell me
To say I am sorry for not stepping out of the way.
And when I do
You invite me
To tea
               But in the end, what you don't know

will only destroy you
              
                  Because I will not go quietly…

And I am not your puppet like you think.
A house is built
Without foundation
This house will fall
In full cessation

A house is built
With flimsy frame
This house will fall
Who’s to blame?

A house is built
Without a roof
It’s needed parts
Have taken hoof

A house is built
It’s all intact
This house will stand
If we react

Let’s build this house
From rich to poor
Let it stand
For ever more
Slander wears no muzzle
Fragmentation
Void of couth

Shove born from a nuzzle
Insinuation
Shoddy sleuth

Guilt turns into guzzle
Fermentation
Robbing youth

Scattered jigsaw puzzle
Imagination
Pseudo truth

No lies can bind the hearts of all
No anger heals the scars of all
No ale can hide the shame of all
No eye can see the truth of all
The purpose of life is to discover there is no purpose
The goal of life is death
The universe is not the center of all that exists
The soul is just a breath

I search for answers that someday I will forget
And I will be forgotten
All I know is that I’ll know nothing at all
When my flesh is rotten

I hope that life exists beyond the grave
Hope is all I have
To wake up in the cradle of eternity
Hope the soothing salve
Words
Forged in the mouth
Executed by the tongue
Cut deep without compassion

Words
Hewn from bigotry
Stained with hatred
Abandon love in every nation

Words
Change a friend to foe
Pierce the truth with lies
Are weapons of our destruction

Words
Divide us into faiths
Encourage self righteousness
Paint a picture of mass delusion

Words
Can be melted down
Can turn into plowshares
Can be the crux of our salvation
In what mind does perfection exist?
In the mind that thinks it knows the answers?
Or in the mind that always searches and never becomes stagnant?

In whose thoughts must I structure my words?
In my own or perhaps I should buy the mold from you
So that my mind can become like jello

If these are the words you are looking for
It doesn’t take effort only the feeling of rejection
But it is what I see in your ink blots

Unsavory words flung about in madness
Miscalculate, unworthy, and even insincere
You don’t want the truth, you want your truth

So here are my words flung up in the air
No real thought, and no effort
Let’s see where they land
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