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'So easy'
some would say,
the one who never had his day spin in a silent night or turned
his back to find he looks upon himself.
So easy,
like the spasms of the first ****** the beginning of the fall
and in the falling getting smaller, smaller but finding as the crow flies South in fact you're getting taller and the circle that you're in is the thing that's getting smaller, so you flex your limbs and climb and it's easy climbing over, getting over walls that try to keep you in, they never get to teach you that in colleges or seats of learning,
it's like they'd rather leave you yearning, wanting more and burning with the want of it.

But you never pluck your eyes out to see what lies behind because those learned fellows tell us that to do that makes us blind and if that's so and we take heed we'll never know, I'd rather bleed to death than waste my breath and then again I know that breath is just a roundabout of which a death is just one turn-off,
several light years, where the teardrop drops and all time stops to catch another breath and death is just a taste on the palate of some ancestral waiter,
I wait another turn foregoing all the pain and pleasure of that once in a lifetime final seizure,
I am my own and I am Ceasar in my home, a caliph to sit upon the throne and who can tell me no?
even so
I fall and fall and small or tall without a doubt it evens out
in the end.
I was whole
                        Not broken
                                              Before my soul
                                                                          Took this body
                                                                                                      For its own
 Jun 2015 gregory obrien
Q
I stole a box of band-aids from the Rite-Aid,
The beat-down one ten minutes away.
In a gas station bathroom by the wash basin,
I cut my arms up, whispering, "Stay."

I was shivering badly, my lips chapped and ashy,
The whole box of bandages didn't quite do the job.
With my sleeves unrolled and a confident stroll
I walked out pretending I wasn't terribly lost.

Home is the kind of torture my mind chooses to blur,
Domestic fairy-tales that never come true.
Staring at the ceiling entranced for days with a popcorn maze,
Thinking of questions no one's ever had an answer to.

I stole a box of band-aids from Rite-Aid
The day I opened an artery with a knife.
The cashier would have listened; would've called an ambulance
If I'd had any inclination to restore my faith in life.
Minsan isang araw tayo’y magkikita

Mga ngiti’y mamamalas - sa pananabik ay lunas

Mga mata’y mangungusap na tila ba nangangarap

Tangan ang isang hiling - Pag-ibig yaring hanap.



Minsan isang araw tayo’y mag-uusap

Ihahayag ng puso - natatanging pagsuyo

Ibubulong sa hangin - aanurin sa baybayin

Paglingap at hangarin walang sawang sasambitin.



Minsan isang araw ika’y mayayakap

Ikukulong sa ‘king bisig, tila kalong ng ulap

Nanamnamin ang sandaling walang kasing sarap

Aangkinin ang ligayang wri’y abot alapaap.



Minsan isang araw ika’y mahahagkan

Kasabay ang damdaming pagsinta kailan pa man

Mga labi’y magniniig habang dinig yaring himig

Walang humpay itong minsan ‘pagka’t ika’y iniibig.
 Jun 2015 gregory obrien
Delaney
I have to be strong for other people.*

This is all that I know.

I cannot, must not, break down
in front of another human.  
My pain takes a backseat to theirs.
Cast aside, on my own comand.

I still feel the pain, however.
And when I'm alone...
Sometimes, when alone,
I remember.
I break.
I hurt.

Then I walk out.
Ready to take on another person's burdens.


(d d.b)
i am a happy happy happy dude

if you say i am not happy your being rude

cause i am a happy happy happy dude

every single day of the year

computer people can be happy too yeah yeah yeah mate yeah

i am a happy happy happy dude

i can’t stand negative *****

cause even in times i don’t look happy

i am the happiest dude around

happy happy happy dude, as i do my art

my art makes the world really positive

and that is what i try to be

fruit salad yummy yummy

right now for my tummy

people who tease me are negative *****

who use their big boy power to get what he wants

cause i am happy individual; as happy as can be

i don’t have a job but i still am so happy

if your happy and you know it do a ****

if your happy and you know it do a ****

if your happy and you know it

and i rather stop bothering me

cause i am a positive person every day

come on negative and truthful ***** show us your cool side

partying is only for positive people like me

if your happy and you know it do a ****

if your happy and you know it do a ****

if your happy and you know it, and negative ***** should *******

away from me, with their negativity

cause i am a positive dude, better than being all rude

i hate you if your negative, ya stupid old loomarri

i am so positive, i am really positive

the messiah is the messiah of death

and i am the king of living life

yummy yummy yummy i got love in my tummy

i think that saying i am a bigger boy is negative

and i am positive, really really positive

dad a tad negative until he grew old, but he still believes in fighting

i don’t believe in violence i am too positive for that

i believe in being nice to everyone we meet

come on aussies be positive like brian allan

come on buddhists be positive like brian allan

the messiah teases like a negative ****,, AND I AM NOT NEGATIVE

I AM EVER SO POSITIVE, NEVER BE NEGATIVE IF YOU WANT TO TALK TO BRIAN ALLAN

I CAN’T STAND IT, dudes
8 months have passed and I still miss you. It's getting easier though. Our song played today and I didn't cry. Should I be worried?
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