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310 · Jun 2016
I Break Hearts
Ignatius Hosiana Jun 2016
That's what I do best
I'm a hard ground awaiting
so only fall if I'm worth the pain
knowing I might not catch
you on your way down

I break hearts
*I won't break your fall
310 · Jul 2016
Reality
Ignatius Hosiana Jul 2016
May not always be poetry
*But Poetry's always reality
Just a reaction thought to a trending poem...
I don't believe in first draft
and second in poetry...
to me that first thought I pen is the poem...
what you afford to note...
Just my opinion
310 · Feb 2016
LIFE WAS
Ignatius Hosiana Feb 2016
The more I read
the less I felt dead
310 · Apr 2016
Simple
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
the
more
poetry
I've
read
the
better
poetry
I've
written
308 · Apr 2016
...
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
...
A happy face is a cheap cloth
I can always afford to wear...
what
I
hardly
can
is
the
beautiful
silk
of
a
happy
heart...
308 · Jun 2016
Remember
Ignatius Hosiana Jun 2016
Rivers and roads
have the straight & the bend
Friendships,
the beginning and the end
308 · Dec 2016
Reality
Ignatius Hosiana Dec 2016
We’d sing a song, we’d walk along
we’d ring a bell, so loud a gong
I’d be a king, with you my Kong
but this reality’s harsh and wrong
308 · Mar 2016
Isn't it Confusing?
Ignatius Hosiana Mar 2016
Some
live
to
love
to
love
to
live
others
love
to
live
to
live
to
love
308 · Mar 2015
SILENT WHISPERS
Ignatius Hosiana Mar 2015
It isn't that years later
I realize you deserved better
I always knew, nothing new
That the best is what's meant for you
It's difficult swallowing my pride
Yet I for so long tried
That I need you now's a secret
Which I badly pray you're told
Otherwise It's the undone I regret
I hate that instead of warm I was cold
I hate that my arms were a den
It should have been different then
The mask of the endless pain I bear
Is right underneath the smiles I wear
But I'm proud to say our being happy together
When we wrote hind every picture "Forever”
Is worth these times I cry alone
Though it seems for good you're gone
I've fought thoughts about you thousand times
While I secretly write you rhymes
Hoping that somewhere out there
Silent whispers tell you I still care
307 · Jul 2016
Wisdom
Ignatius Hosiana Jul 2016
Is having the courage to say
the nothing you know.
*the foolish
are muted by fear
yet they know so much more
307 · Jun 2016
Mayhem in June
Ignatius Hosiana Jun 2016
Maybe the world wants to unite
but there's no leader
maybe the pages want to be flipped
but there's no reader...

maybe peace is cheap
but there's no bidder*
maybe life's precious
but there's no figure
307 · Apr 2016
I
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
I
have
run
out
of
means
to
prove
I
Love
you,
it
doesn't
matter
though
cause
you
have
never
believed
me
306 · Jan 2017
Unnecessary Company
Ignatius Hosiana Jan 2017
Nothing Is lonelier than a breeze of desolation in a crowd.
306 · Feb 2018
Grief
Ignatius Hosiana Feb 2018
Nights were long, days were brief
ding ****, don't jump the cliff
he wasn't strong to bear his grief
he sung a song, find no relief
306 · Aug 2016
Forget About Me
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
But never forget my philosophy for
the moment about the thing could
be the thing about the moment**
*Forget about me... but remember
my jungle rumble mumble jumbos
306 · Aug 2016
EveryonE
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
Said I'd find love again
Nobody mentioned the
reoccurrence of the pain

That's why I will
love Nobody forever.
*only Nobody is worth
the sacrifice
306 · Jul 2016
Tired
Ignatius Hosiana Jul 2016
Of being lonely**
I'm waiting for the
perfect one no longer...
ain't waiting for
true love. I'm
taking the
imperfect & moulding
her into a masterpiece...
so that I can consequently
learn how to
love it.
306 · Jul 2016
Cobwebs
Ignatius Hosiana Jul 2016
of the past are allover the
walls of my heart.
*my efforts to clear all
of them have been
in vain for these
memories are
spiders which
keep nesting
again &
again &
again
306 · Nov 2015
SUCH IS LOVE
Ignatius Hosiana Nov 2015
Life was one song playing over and over
The morning sun starting her journey through space
Every euphonious dove and cacophonous ******
Letting earth feel less of an empty place

Love was sauntering through every Boulevard
In endless scrutiny that intends to see the find
Or the failure to go hard enough to deserve a reward
Such was love, love was unkind
305 · Apr 2015
BURROWED IN MY SOUL
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2015
I lost conversation on that fateful day
With all my confidence walked away
I lost my worth when you stopped to care
Breaking the promise to always be here
I dropped the trust along the way
I gave up on affection, joy isn't there
I lost my say at the sea of broken hope
Weather was rough,cost me you my crop
I lost my pride, which were my wings
Without you here life really stings
I miss your voice that softly sings
I miss the solace your embrace brings
I lost you my Angel and lost a friend
A tale I thought would never end
The grill of comfort to thirsty flames
I lost a jewel to untruthful claims
I lost my broken pieces at that final fall
I lost myself ,and I can barely recall
I lost my everything, I lost it all
Only found a burrow deep in my Soul
Notes (optional)
305 · Dec 2016
Page That will Never Flip
Ignatius Hosiana Dec 2016
Ever heard the chorus dawn does bring
when birds of the wild start to sing
and even the trees sway and try to sing along
yet nothing ever matches the beauty of their song?
That’s just how the voices in my head intone
When missing you starts to sting
And I stare at my phone waiting for the ringtone
But you’ve never called, maybe to you it was merely a fling
That’s how my heart does race when I reminisce
The handshake which led to the unforgettable kiss
And my soul wishes it also had a few beats to skip
Since you were never mine to keep
Ever seen the beautiful blue touch stolen from the skies
when the fickle waves of Ocean launch their fountain rise
while the audacious endeavour to ride high on her pinnacle
the path to their success being the perilous obstacle?
That’s what I saw when I gazed in the whites of your eyes
the ambience of an abstract paradise lay in them like a miracle
so am still trying to assure myself that there was some truth in your lies
still doing my utmost to reach you through every tentacle…
It’s what I envision when I try to force myself to sleep
that you are a page in the book of my love life that will never flip
from the moment I set eyes on you, lost my grip
and fell hard for you; I wasn’t supposed to but I fell in too deep
struggling to find myself in the ashen mire… you burnt me more than fire
yet haven’t even quenched my desire.
304 · Feb 2016
DON'T DOUBT
Ignatius Hosiana Feb 2016
I do...I miss you...
I just don't want to say it
over and over
it maybe be disturbing
Cause I miss you with
Every Heartbeat that goes by
With every breath and every sigh
I miss you more than Sun misses the sky
In the night
And Sky, her light
aware that the moon and stars will never be enough
304 · Apr 2016
Those
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
grotesque
wounds
will
one
day
be
beautiful
scars
303 · Apr 2016
Can't
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
say I won't breathe without
you by my side but that's how
your absence feels like...
the air of romance depletes
when you're gone, I suffocate,
I whizz, I struggle to breathe
through the chocking fumes of
loneliness and
even the gas masks
of hope are no
consolation enough
to keep out that smoke.
That's exactly what I
mean by
"you take my breath away"
303 · Jul 2016
We
Ignatius Hosiana Jul 2016
We
Both need love
Can't we try to find it
in us rather than crying
for those who clearly don't
need us? I mean... is there no
way two people can find the
satisfaction they seek in each
other rather than keep
hurting for the rightful
wrong ones. I'm
willing to try...
Tell me when
you're and
we kick off.
302 · May 2016
Was
Ignatius Hosiana May 2016
Was
crazy to believe you
hope you're
  crazy enough
to prove
I was right
to believe
in your
crazy
promises
302 · Jan 2017
Make Again
Ignatius Hosiana Jan 2017
If turning the hands of the clocks was turning back time,
there mistakes I'd surely return to and make again for
each one of them led me here, each one made me. Each
was a stone on the foundation to meet these castles am
building... and even if am not yet there, am closing in brick
by brick, grain of sand after grain... You see, every mistake
was an opportunity for me to learn and I was a good student.
I made lots of mistakes in my life, but each one set aside the
obstacles and paved my way, that's why am still walking this
road, trying out things, making mistakes, that's how it is...
301 · Jan 2017
This Life
Ignatius Hosiana Jan 2017
I can do whatever it takes
and can take whatever it does
300 · Nov 2018
Plenty
Ignatius Hosiana Nov 2018
There's more fish in the lake,
but I have let a million off my hook
because albeit there are plenty more,
they'll never be you,
you'll always be my favorite catch...
I'll never stop scurrying the waters,
even when it's clear we might
never hook up again...
300 · Aug 2016
How will I?
Ignatius Hosiana Aug 2016
How will I forget the much I remember?
How...
How will I burn the past that's clogging my now
And stop it from misting tomorrow?
How will I let go of the knot I'm holding on to?
How will I forget about everything
especially how you beautifully sing?
I guess I'll never know, just like you'll never understand.
300 · Jun 2016
Some
Ignatius Hosiana Jun 2016
are too fixed
to be broken
*others too broken
to be fixed
300 · Apr 2015
THE ODDS
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2015
How did things suddenly change?
The odds,from life mates to strange?
299 · Nov 2016
Thought
Ignatius Hosiana Nov 2016
I was born to love you until you made me learn the hard way
that you were born to inflict these wounds which may never heal.
*The annoying thing is I love you still even after it's clear
that you were just a stop over and not my destination.
299 · Mar 2021
You and I
Ignatius Hosiana Mar 2021
You know that place, where the glimpse meets the eye
on the glistened horizon where the earth hits the sky
you've seen to seams where the truth cuts the lie
that is how close the bond is between you and I
298 · Dec 2016
Lies
Ignatius Hosiana Dec 2016
Lies have no eyes
for Eyes tell no lies
298 · Jan 2017
But Love
Ignatius Hosiana Jan 2017
Because I had nothing to give and all
you wanted from me was nothing.
But Love
297 · Feb 2016
LIKE WIND
Ignatius Hosiana Feb 2016
You blew my Heart away
And a hundred poems my way
297 · May 2016
Many
Ignatius Hosiana May 2016
Will never understand
how I feel but even
millions wouldn't
count if only you
understood
295 · Oct 2017
You
Ignatius Hosiana Oct 2017
You
Gave me a reason for living
but none for leaving
294 · Apr 2016
But
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
But
who
will
love
me?
who
will
really
find
some
perfection
in
the
wreckage
of
my
broken
Heart?
294 · Apr 2016
Days
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
like these make me want to ask,
"what
material
are
they
who
succeed
made
of?"
292 · Dec 2016
Purpose
Ignatius Hosiana Dec 2016
I think the best thing in the world is
having friends who believe in you
even more than you believe in yourself
Those who push you across a shaky bridge
assuring you that it won't break even when they
themselves doubt the strength of its vibrating foundation
Friends who cheer you up the ladder
even when they lack the strength to support
your weight on the unsteady ladder
Friends who waive and smile when you are
flying even when they can't hold you when
your wings melt if you go too close to the sun.
if your wings melt... But it's even greater
having friends who stay with you even after
you hit the ground for they know the ball
always bounces higher when after impact
and they know that much as bones break
they also become stronger at the fracture point
when it finally heals... Friends who bring you
crutches when your feet can't carry you and
believe you will walk again even when
you can't make a single step
That's why I count myself lucky
because I owe every step I make in this race of life
to everyone who's ever cheered me...success to me
is having people to share it with, it isn't winning the medal.
Always be grateful to the people who stand by you
because not only are they hard to come by but they'll
someday stand for you when your feet are numb, they'll
narrate to you the moments when your memory's gone
they'll lower the rope of hope to pull you out of doldrums
they'll crack jokes when karma doesn't want you to smile
they'll cheer you past the finishing line, walk you an extra mile
they'll always remind you of your purpose in life midst strife.
and if you have such friends, count yourself lucky.
292 · Jan 2017
You
Ignatius Hosiana Jan 2017
You
Only miss the time when
Life was simply hard...
when it's hardly simple
292 · Jan 2018
THRU
Ignatius Hosiana Jan 2018
Because of all the pain
you put me through,
Am never going to love again
and if I do it won't be true...

Because of the sad goodbye
won't entertain another hello
for I found myself a bitter lie
in a truth so sweet and mellow

*because of all forgotten time
am thinking loving is a crime
a green snake lying in the thyme
I'd rather piece another rhyme
291 · Dec 2016
Soaring
Ignatius Hosiana Dec 2016
Am just another fish in love with a soaring bird...
291 · Aug 2016
Much as
288 · Mar 2017
Emotions
Ignatius Hosiana Mar 2017
Are crevices through which people crawl in to hurt you*
And detaching oneself is self inflicting the hurt.*
We are dammed to either suffer loving
or suffer hurting in desolation.
288 · Apr 2016
Should
Ignatius Hosiana Apr 2016
I
be
grateful
that
the
hurt
you
brought
me
made
me
the
poet
I
am?
286 · Jun 2023
The Door of No Return
Ignatius Hosiana Jun 2023
Finally, the door emerged, bound in chains they stood,
Immobile and oppressed, their spirits misunderstood.
A blinding light ahead, rendering them sightless, blind,
Their burdened minds weighed by the ashes left behind.

Pressed together, yearning for one backward glance,
Denied even a fleeting chance, their hearts in a trance,
Before stepping through the door of no return,
Leaving lives and homes, forever spurned.

In that somber moment, sorrow weighed heavy on their hearts,
Facing the musky boat, unsure if a new day would start.
Crossing the threshold, bidding farewell to their past,
Embracing the unknown, the die of doom was cast.

With a resounding thud, the door closed, severing ties and fears,
Silent weeping, lost in the sea of their silent tears.
Bound for distant shores, spirits eternally broken,
wrapped in cold melancholy, their tragic story spoken.
286 · May 2019
Love Came Along
Ignatius Hosiana May 2019
I am afraid of being strong, I've been that before and it took
almost a decade to remove the barricades when love finally came along.
I am afraid of learning to be alone again
because once my mind learns of the beauty of desolation
it'll burn all the bridges and I'll shut myself behind closed doors.
Am afraid of learning to live with the pain of a broken heart,
I can't let my soul taste the bitter sweet of breaking apart...
I just want to be weak until I can find strength again,
I want to cry until there's no more tears for at the very end of grief lives relief.
I don't want to flip the switch, I've been down that road,
it's a very long one, this time I might not come back from it.
I don't want to be strong, strength is my weakness.
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