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145 · Aug 2019
Massacre
kain Aug 2019
****** teeth
Dripping in the sink
Watching all that pain
Drain away
So perfectly
Summer sun
Lights up my white
Tattoos
Putting pins and needles
Up and down my spine
Painting out
My chalk outline
142 · Nov 2018
The Dead Zone
kain Nov 2018
Sunlight
Faint as ghost feet
Caress my brow
Hold my sleeping form
Dainty dust particles
Are the flies that fill my room

Dead dry earth
No snow, no birds
Just the click, click, click
Of keys and muffled screams
He's swearing now and
I leave
That room is dead to me

Each heart holds a song
The beat of life
Trapped in a vessel
Thump, thump, I sing alone
I am no one's song
I am no one's symphony

Feet move here
Wood cries out
We are alive but this house is not
No words, no love
Just a funeral song

Her eyes will not meet mine
My cold hands cannot touch her
We are all dead now
I wish I had left in November
Shouldn't winter be a happy time?
142 · Dec 2019
Sleep
kain Dec 2019
I'm laying down
Head on my pillow
Wondering you're doing the same
Knowing you, probably not
I can close my eyes and picture you
Easier than I would like
Sitting in bed
Watching tv and
Eating lukewarm ramen
I shouldn't miss you like this
We never had anything
Yet I still hold out hope
That we can change that
So uh... remember how I was talking about how I wasn't gonna be selfish? Yeah... bout that...
142 · Aug 2019
Day Twenty-Nine
kain Aug 2019
I miss you
I wish I could see you
Remembering
Your smile is
The highlight of today
I have an idea of you
That I'm falling for
I know it isn't you
But that doesn't
Stop me at all
In an ideal world...
141 · Nov 2018
Early Morning Waking
kain Nov 2018
Wake me
Drag me up through layers
Ascending through sleepy darkness like
A fish from the sea
Stir me gently
Rouse my bones
Bring me back to this life
Where I live alone

Find me
Lost somewhere among dreams
A catalyst of my misery
Force me to light
Open up my eyes
To the totality of the sun
Keep me from my sleep
This sounds lovely and all but I'm so tired right now...
kain Mar 2020
Written, mostly because
It's all I know
I think about you sometimes
Not as much as I should
If I was really in love
But too much
For me to trick myself into thinking
That I've moved on.

I don't wonder about that night
I know how you feel
But I do wonder what you would think
If I told you that he ***** me
If I told you that my parents
Sent me back to hell
For the things they found under my bed
I feel spacey
Almost as high as Cameron Post
On the night she lost it all
I'm probably just tired
I'm always tired, after all.
I know you wanted conversation because you responded in a couple of seconds, but then Erin showed up and now you aren't even talking in the other group chat, so I guess it wasn't that urgent or you found someone else to talk to. I don't know who else you could find though, because I always thought that we were your last resort. I know you said that if our friends didn't all go back to the honeymoon phase, you'd lose your mind, but honestly, I think you're just passing time until you can get out of this town. You made that one offhand comment about us all moving in together, about starting a record collection and actually using yours and R's old record players, but I don't know if you meant it. We all lose our inhibitions when we go to sleep, and that's all it was when you stayed pressed against me. Moving away in the morning is what counts. I'm so tired right now. I wish we could stay friends.
140 · Jul 2019
Coming Home
kain Jul 2019
Come home
Go through the door
Nearly collapse
On the front steps
Slip off shoes
Crawl into bed

It'd be nice
To watch a movie
Or read a good book
But I'm drained
And tired
So I'll go to sleep instead
I'm so ******* tired I'm gonna cry and I still have stuff to do someone shoot meeeee.
139 · Feb 2023
Buffalo Chicken
kain Feb 2023
Nothing tastes right.

I can hear people talking around me
but their voices never quite touch me.
I’m alone in here
In this empty room
I watch a tv screen
It’s the only light in here
It’s what I see through the eyes of this body.
They’re all watching me walk
Watching how I move
but it’s not me. The person walking through the world is not me. It’s a prison. It’s a life sentence.

I can laugh
when I forget about my body
When it’s just me and a screen
Seen through a screen

Is this what I wished for
the end I can’t escape from?
are my prayers finally answered?
Will this be the end?
I don’t know if I’m ready
If I ever even was
Maybe I really did want to get better
It’s day two
139 · Mar 2022
Halloween Suicide
kain Mar 2022
Easily disappointed
By my own too high too low standards
I hate my imperfect skin
I should be loving the flaws in me
But I can't bring myself to
Staring at the stickers
On the back of my teacher's computer
Waiting for time to pass
Until I can go home
Lay in bed
And wait for time to pass again
Title from the song by Afourteen and Regret Boy.
138 · Dec 2018
Thankyouforyourtime
kain Dec 2018
Look at me
I say
Sell me your smile
Take a penny for my thoughts
I have nowhere to go
But here

And you look at me
I haven't danced in so long
But you take my hand anyways
Why?
I don't smile
I have nothing to say to you

As fish swim, birds soar
Lifted up on drafts of hope
Dipping wingtips in sunsets
Clouds are butter
Sliced by talons
He is beautiful
And so is she

Answer the questions
That wallow in my mind
Struggling to raise up
Dead hands clawing through earth
Coming to the tears in my eyes
When you say

We like you
Write more often
Such emotion
I feel your pain
It's beautiful here
Because of you
I got such a response to the last poem, so I wrote this. I don't know why people have suddenly decided to notice me but I don't know how to handle it.
138 · Feb 2020
The Plans That Never Happen
kain Feb 2020
We're blasting tunes
From your car radio
Though this night surely
Will end in misery
I'm happy in the moment
With all of my friends
Gonna hang with the squad later.
Edit: It didn't even happen and I've had a generally bad day.
138 · Dec 2019
Falling Apart
kain Dec 2019
I don't know how to be
Anything but broken anymore
Left crushed and lifeless
I built myself back up
Into another fragile shell
Anything could tear me apart
I'm barely living
On the fringes of existence
Never truly taking part
Maybe I can't fall in love
But I can always count on
Falling apart
I can't love.
137 · Mar 2022
idle thoughts pt. 2
kain Mar 2022
there will be nights
and darker days
where we lay in bed
one head on another's chest
when it just rains
and the dim lights outside
will be blurred and distant

but my hands will be in your hair
touching your gentle face
and i'll love you to the end of it
you know that
135 · Oct 2020
Kiss The Ground
kain Oct 2020
You are everything I've ever wanted
You make me so numb
I should just let things die out
It'd be the happiest ending for us.
135 · Oct 2019
The World Is Ugly
kain Oct 2019
And everything will crumble
In the walls of my mind
In the halls of my inner eye
As we bleed out
Perhaps you'll see
How beautiful you are
Compared to everything
You're beautiful to me, and that is the least important part.
135 · May 2019
Rain Chill
kain May 2019
Wishing
Wondering
On windy days
Hoping for rain
To pick up
The dirt
And the dust
To wash you clean
To whisk me away
This was originally going to be titled 69 Days Later, but I decided that might not be that great.
134 · Jul 2019
Please Love Yourself
kain Jul 2019
I'm such a failure sometimes
I'm not even close
To perfect
I guess
I never will be
That's okay though
There's enough light inside me
To light up this dark room
And even if it's ugly
It'll have to be enough
For better
Or for worse
All these things
These flaws
These intricacies
Are only for me
I'm a mixing ***
Of all the usual things
In a way all my own
My life
Is a culmination
To the one I am now
To the one I was
To the one I will become
For better
Or for worse
I think I like the one
I am
Read this aloud.
134 · Dec 2022
Floating Island
kain Dec 2022
Melancholy
That’s one word for how I feel
Lost,
but peacefully
Drifting in between

My life is a tranquil pond
My lovers are lilies
Soft and fragrantly blooming—

I am adrift
A heady canoe, oarless
Without a passenger
I am a vessel for the life within me

And I digress
For all life is is a series of digressions
Slipping clumsy from next to next
Sending ripples through a pond
“Disturbing” a peace we will never know
we have always been a part of

I am adrift
In between
In the gaps where life exists
133 · Mar 2020
The Tea
kain Mar 2020
I start telling you a story
You break out into song
You say you're not around
Because of that one special person
The one you hate oh so much
Everyone else believes you
Frankly I don't care anymore
You bring me nothing but apathy
I'm tired of getting excited
When you say we should go thrifting
Then we never do
I might care about what you think
If it was more than empty words
Every time you speak it's nothing
Meaningless interrupting
Say whatever you want
I'm not listening anymore
I frankly just could not give less of a **** about what's going on with them anymore. I don't care whose fault it is. I'm ******* sick of this.
133 · Apr 2019
Alternate Timeline
kain Apr 2019
Cold evening
Setting out late
By the water
Who knows what lies there
Buried by waves
Thousands of moon
Created
I run and
I run alone

The wind is a frightful thing
It dribbles through my fingers
As I run
Cold legs kicking up
Not quite numb
The air is a tangible thing
In my hands
Try as I might
I cannot grasp it

Water laps gently
Like a stately cat
In the sunshine
At the edges of my mind
Sometimes I think I’m dreaming
I’ll never wake up
It is not a bad fantasy
To be running alone
On the edge of the earth
Went on a run with my dad and maybe this happened somewhere else.
133 · Jul 2019
Halfway Survivors
kain Jul 2019
Breaking waves
Of wind against
The glass
Ocean tides
Marked by time
Marked by suicides
Of young dive bombers
Too scared to see
The sun
Too proud to take
The lower road
Too alive to face
Death
In any other way
This is based on some people I met once.
132 · Aug 2019
Colours
kain Aug 2019
I'm so alive
With your face
Next to mine
I see you
In dreams
Feel your breath
Against my cheek
You're just so green
Exploding
Beside me
And I'll never see
Anything besides
Those colours
Stained inside
The back of
My eyes
Replaying
A thousand times
While a hundred
Springs fade
Into summer
Everglades
And a hundred leaves
Tumble down
Around me
You're so green
I'd give
Anything
To watch you
Burst alive
Into bloom
Music makes my dreams come alive.
132 · Jul 2019
Run
kain Jul 2019
Run
It's a dusty
Terrain
Sad to say
It's always the same
Breaking down
In the slightest of ways
Never not
Waiting for rain
Sharpened heels
Dig into my thighs
As everyone runs
And I am left behind
Smothered in the clouds
Abandoned sky
I am their's
They'll never be mine
Maybe this isn't my world after all.
Inspiried by Daughter's "Run".
131 · Jan 2020
bored.
kain Jan 2020
Everyone thinks
Being bored is cinematic
It's not
Just boring
Cuz what's so cool
About sitting in my room
Next to a massive pile of laundry
Thinking idly about doing things
Knowing I won't
I don't see the appeal
It's not that I hate this
I'd just rather
Be doing anything else
Do you like my edgy, uncapitalized title? Yeah, me neither. I'm gonna go figure my wall out.
131 · Jul 2019
Take A Deep Breath
kain Jul 2019
Take a deep breath
Let it out
Look down at your hands
Turn over your palms
Trace those lines
They're real
And you're the only one with them
Whether you believe
In palm reading
Or simple idiosyncrasies
Or the monotonous diversity
Of humanity
You have your own lines
Your own life
And the way you see your friends
Beautiful and wonderful and
Lovely in their flaws
Is how someone sees you
You're astonishing
You're a ******* work of art
Maybe you can't see it yet but
Someday that veil will lift
And you'll see how much you are
You are enough
You are so much more than enough
There's a lifetime in those palms
And it isn't over yet
So take a deep breath
And open your eyes
Inspired by the song Forget the Lies by Quietdrive. Here's a link for my fellow Spotify users: https://open.spotify.com/track/06LZcxlNSBZmYQGdgKTfzQ?si=GfLYqFS6REKMemsURIbuSQ
131 · Aug 2019
Day Eleven
kain Aug 2019
It's
Been
Eleven
Days and
I'm ******* tired
So close to falling apart
When did I become such a disaster
Wow this isn't ****** at all what are you talking about?
131 · Apr 2022
Honeysuckle
kain Apr 2022
You make my throat hurt
Aching up from my core
Slick and soft and smooth
Picturing you kissing and licking into my mouth
130 · Aug 2019
Cat
kain Aug 2019
Cat
My dearest streak
Of onyx lightening
My favourite blackened
Silhouette
The lovely shadow
That stalks my home
And rests her warm
Soft head
Down on my thigh
Raising a dainty
Porcelain paw
Complete with stained
Rosy paw pads
Up to my hand
For an occasional treat
Curling up next to me
Such a little thing
Slow motion blinking
And twitching ears
To convey her feelings
A feline ambassador
To the human race
My cat has lived with me since I was five years old, and I think she knows me better than anybody else. We having a really special connection, and I love her to the end of the world and back. There's so much to say about her; a novel of poetry couldn't suffice. But this is a start.
130 · Jan 2020
We'll See
kain Jan 2020
Turns out that one good week
Was too much for me
But someday, I know
My heart will mend my soul
And I'll be better again

This is only temporary
So I'll leave you to your feelings
And work on being kinder
Open up my eyes and
Wait until you find you

In the end
This is not the end
You're only one bit
And you don't deserve
The things I did
So I'll be quiet
Go back to my old ways
Of dreaming about
What's behind your eyelids

This will end alright
I think
I just feel it
I'm trying way too hard, and I'm still learning how to stop. I'll get there though. I'll do what I want, and if they want, maybe they'll join me.
We'll see.
130 · Feb 2022
The World
kain Feb 2022
Rain in a creek
The water's cool but you are warm
Your face is so close to me
From here I can see the world
Libraries and the smell of coffee
Open fields
My feet
High in a tree
Flowers 'round our faces
Lips and kisses and your fingers in me
Us in the stairwell
Of a lonely apartment building
Your nose all pink
While there's snow in my hair
Baking and walks
The making of playlists
The quiet intimacy
Of shared headphones
Igor and Melodrama
Always on repeat
Butterflies and strawberries
Drawings on the fridge
Pinned with funky magnets
Shaped like our inside jokes and dreams
Drawing on sketchpads
Sat on the floor
2 AM and we've never be closer
Waterfalls trickling
A lone fire escape
Sitting together in that night light
I see the whole world
I don't want to leave
130 · Jul 2019
(I Like You)r Everything
kain Jul 2019
I like your shirt
You like my hat
I like your hair
You like my necklace
It's not mine
But you could be
Sorry
I'm cheesy
That happens sometimes
I'm not screaming you are.
130 · Jul 2019
Fountains & Wells
kain Jul 2019
Some days
There's a fountain
In my soul
Shooting up words
And thoughts
Clear fresh water
Droplets on a page

Some days
The well goes dry
Eyes burning
Free from tears
No words
No love
This is worse somehow
There used to be a third stanza but it was so bad that I deleted it.
129 · Sep 2022
No Sleep / Healthy Relief
kain Sep 2022
The sun outside is bright
Lighting up the pavement
The patchwork brick walls

But inside

It is night for me

Blinds drawn
Only a lamp on
Sitting in yesterday's clothes
Shaking like a leaf
Swept up in the hurricane
Of my spiraling thoughts

Please
please.

Don't leave me

The thought of those memories
Sitting in your garage
Sunlight shining in
Surrounding your outline
An angel playing guitar
Singing so softly
and sweetly

Hyperventilating
It's the crash after the dissociated rush of adrenaline

I almost lost you
Title from the songs by Keepitinside and Poppy Tears.
129 · Jan 2020
But I Like Bitter Endings
kain Jan 2020
This waiting period is strange
I'm not eager to fall in love
I'm alright for now
Not really working on myself
More so
Just existing
Feeling things more or less thoroughly
Than before
I don't know if it ever quite hits me
That this is now
And it's all I'll ever have
And someday I'll be in love
And it will be enough
It doesn't feel real
Thinking of love and me
I'm me
So solitary and full of imperfection
Just like everybody else, I guess
There's no one here I love right now
There are little aspects
I can appreciate
But I can feel that there's someone out there
Someone who manages to fit
My idealistic unrealistic vision of a soulmate
I guess that's childish
Thinking things like that are real
But some part of me can't help
But believe in them
Late nights of imagining them talking
[And by them I mean us]
In a small humble apartment
Gives me space to breathe
And as I'm on the edge of sleep
I feel warm and real
Happy to be alone
This is from my heart and my head.
128 · Apr 2019
Tick
kain Apr 2019
Waiting
I swear
There's a clock
In my head
All I can do
Is stare at my face
And wait
I have absolutely no idea what to with all this time.
128 · Aug 2019
Apathetic Checklist
kain Aug 2019
Get up
Shower
Vacuum
Laundry
Homework
Make my bed
Shave my legs
Eat actual food
Put on real clothes
Clean out my whole room
Do what I'm supposed to do
Be a good daughter for once in my life

I'll get around to it eventually
But not today
I wish I could just go back to sleep and forget about everything.
127 · Sep 2019
Princess
kain Sep 2019
You come first
Forever and always
I come second
With feelings it tow
127 · Mar 2022
idle thoughts pt. 1
kain Mar 2022
I can close my eyes and see it
Feel my hands in our sheets
The soft mattress under me
I could look up and see your face
If I wanted
Watch you sit down next to me
Wrap your arms around me
Fall back
On our very own bed

We will have a space that is all our own someday
We'll be there soon
With LEDs and black and white pictures
I printed out from my family's home computer
Posters and your knives
A closet full of black clothes
Boots and high tops lined up near the door

It'll be our place
We can kiss and cry
And talk on the phone
Stay up all night wrapped up in each other
Sometimes talking sometimes
Just breathing
Feeling the beating of our hearts
So so alive

Watching the sun rise
With bleary eyes half closed then opened wide
Witnessing beauty
With one awe
That we share between us
127 · Jun 2021
New Aesthetic
kain Jun 2021
Faded eyeliner
Empty monster cans
Tears unspilled
Clouding up my vision
While everyone in class
Laughs around me
Hip hop songs about suicide
And dark trap about death
Clothes strewn across my floor
Bed left unmade
Uncomfortable classroom chairs
Flannels and sweats
Big hoodies and pajama pants
Dyed hair with the roots growing in
Fingers torn and ripped to ****
Eyeshadow on my arm
Masquerading as bruises
Bad skin and dark circles
Gently faded scars
That's my new aesthetic
The face of resenting you
127 · Jun 2021
You're An Asshole
kain Jun 2021
You're an *******
Why did you have to lie
When you held my hand
Did you know it would end soon
Did you have plans of how to break it to me
Instead of plans to break it to them
Why did you agree to tell our friends
Maybe you knew how they'd react
Maybe you wanted an easy excuse
I don't know
It doesn't add up
Either way
Get ******
127 · Aug 2019
Violet Wedding
kain Aug 2019
Stones in your
Sunshine
Wildfires
On my palms
Burning up
The lines
Of times
I never did
All those clothes
Piling in
Breaking up
Our words with
Mint leaves
And moths
On the ceiling
You're my
Magic eight ball
My stained glass
With glitter
On the rim
My okay
See you
I'll wait
For you
My lovecraft
My darling death
Let me be
Your final
Destination
Your King
To your Queen
We're a
Horrifying
Rhapsody
It's not
All that funny
Let's get married
Inspired by Creek Blues.
kain Jan 2020
I'm devastated
That you were just an excuse
I was used
As were you

I always knew you were never real
We were just two girls, playing pretend
Sending loveless souls
Across the code
But I loved you
In some perverted way, I loved you

You ****** me up
And by that I mean
I ****** me up
You were my image
My northern star
When you were gone
I was willfully lost
Decided it was time
To destroy it all

We played our game
For far too long
Letting go was a relief
An excuse to be
The ****** up kid
I'd always dreamed of
Back when my dreams weren't nightmares
And my nightmare wasn't my reality

It wouldn't be fair to say you broke me
You didn't
You chose me
Just as I chose you
My perfect self destruction
And like him later on
We were a force together
We tore holes together
We were the people
You don't write home about together

In the end
We were just kids
I can't say I regret this
I don't know what to say
Except that I meant it
There was a piece of paper that I had, it probably got recycled back when my room was purged in January. It had a border of highlighter flowers. I showed it to my two friends at school and they knew it was about you.
I wonder what it said. I don't remember anymore.
--
I wrote this with meaning and feeling, but now they're just empty words, just like these will be. I wish it wasn't like this.
126 · Apr 2019
Dreams
kain Apr 2019
Dreaming of you
Awake at night
Bathed by the moon
Haunted by your complexion
Silver streams

I bet you have the prettiest face
Silken hair
A body I'll love
All my life
If you let me

Words fall out
I'm a fountain now
You're my reservoir
Deep and clean
Still untapped

Sing for me
I don't care if it's bad
Dancing in the shower
Slipping in soap
You always end up in my arms

I'm not too comfortable
But I'd fall apart for you
To dream of nights with you
Night spent with
Wedding rings

Lovingly
A friend and I were talking about our future wives and now I can't stop thinking about it.
126 · Sep 2019
8:44 PM
kain Sep 2019
Drained
But somehow still nervous
Dancing on the edge
Of finally finding
My purpose
No rant for tonight. Not here, at least.
125 · Dec 2018
No Love Lost
kain Dec 2018
She was the loveliest woman
I could ever meet
But she changed
Slipped into a sea
Of bitter ecstasy and
Hazy schemes
She began to scream
Pound on the doors
Twist her head
Like an exorcist
Speaking little
Only to rear back
Teeth flared
What a snake she has become
I cry for her
At first
Cry for no man
For no God
Tears only last so long
She hides away
In that miserable hovel
Of a cave
The sympathy stops
All dried up
That ***** she screams
And screams
Slamming doors
Playing piano until
Three in the morning
Even in my dreams
She comes for me
Calls me down
Then drags me out
To ****
I couldn't love her anymore
Not if I tried
Eating her more scraps
Back to us
Facing away from
The only one
Who ever loved her
I am sure she cries
Still
In this late night
But I no longer care
Something has poisoned her veins
Nightshade, perhaps
Or a stray doctor
Whatever insanity has taken her
It has left is with nothing
But a rage with which
To burn her body
So... this is an edgy one for sure.
I just love when you care about someone who loses their mind.
124 · Nov 2018
A Letter
kain Nov 2018
Big brother
Where art thou?
In the coiling mess of confusion
Bloodied wrists and sunsets
Have you already forgotten?

Big brother
Feel my pain
Set me free to roam
Bathe me in ecstasy
Or let me fall

Big brother
Love your neighbor as you love yourself
Give
Give your life
Why do you hide from them?

Big brother
What is the veil you wear?
Dancing where I cannot see
Where I cannot roam
Scattered across the globe

Big brother
Forgive me for I have
Lost all hope and direction
Gotten swept away in the current
There is no love

Big brother
Hold her close with starry arms
And metaphysical limbs
Love her in the pages
Spread like a seed

Big brother
I do not love you
The leaves on the trees come to the ground
Is that the last bow of nature?
Or an unspectacular event?
124 · Sep 2019
Time Traveler
kain Sep 2019
The year is 1945
And I exist outside of time
The year is 1989
And I have not a clue why
I feel ******* high.
123 · Apr 2020
Nothing Left To Say
kain Apr 2020
If I'm your closest friend
Then you deserve someone else
Someone who won't fall in love
When there's no love to be had
I'm sorry
Two more years.
123 · Jun 2019
I Dreamt
kain Jun 2019
Beautifully
Indecent
Lost in foggy dreams
Your face is still
The only thing I see
When I close my eyes
To shut out the light
Of a cold
Harsh world
Without you

Every night
Is another night
Where you come home
As a wheelchair girl
Each night
Is a fairytale
Where I'm lost in you
Inside your world
Begging you
Upon waking breath
To lose your fears
And find me again
It's been three months since I last saw you.
122 · Nov 2019
Attempt
kain Nov 2019
They're funny
With that strange edge of sincere
I'm basking in their shadows
They're looking in my mirror
rllly don't like this but whatever
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