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...Some are afraid to die in their beds
But I afraid
To die in their heads...
Tonight
I want to learn
How to cry
Let me see
How it feels
To burn my wings
I crave to hear those voices
In the dark
Let me see how it feels
To be insane
Letting it out will be a sin
So I will keep it in
Teach me now
Then disappoint me again
That moment when you're so low that you let your inner demons out for all to see.
As I lay down in the soaked grass,
The mud squishing into every crevice and nook,
I imagine myself melting.

Like leftover snow in early spring,
When the first showers come and erase the remains of winter.

I am the winter.
The rain dissolves me with every drop,
Until I am nothing but an element
Absorbed by the earth.

And the world forgets I was ever here...
 Jul 2018 Hisham Alshaikh
M
You don't know
just how you've
destroyed it

Just how you've
created spaces
replaced it all with air

Just how you've
let the dust settle
in between the floorboards
and our fingers

Just how you've taken
all the thunder
and left
nothing
but the rain
is like having a
soap opera mind.

it's so dramatic.
stories all over the place.
strange confessions
and amnesia.
Don't be a prisoner of your thoughts,
Break away,
Untangle the chain's,
Do whatever you want.
I just want you to understand something
That my life has changed and it's because of you
Even if I do not have you here by my side
Or I never had something with you
I know my life is not the same and it's because of you
Why...
Because you have me madly in love
You have me madly hypnotized
You bring me madly excited
Of you
 Jul 2018 Hisham Alshaikh
Trish
In the shortest of sentences, I feel the weight of your words
The tone
The implications
Even heavier are the words unsaid-
What I read between the lines
It's 3am

I'm on the phone
No one's awake and I'm alone

It's 3am

The radio's on
Songs are played on lonely station

It's 3am

I'm in my bed
My eyes are open and sleep has fled

It's 3am

I'm on the balcony
The sky is dark and just quite scary

It's 3am

Some windows have lights
Could they also not sleep tonight

It's 3am

I'm still awake
When will life ever give me a break
Insomniac nights are the worst. And it's been going on like this for quite awhile.
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