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Dec 2023 · 102
a trip to the beach
insomniatrical Dec 2023
I wonder,

When my wellspring of tears
Flows freely on your shores

Would you dip your toes in the icy water,


Or only bask in the warm sand?
insomniatrical Nov 2023
Long time, no see
Little monster I set free
Terror rampant on the earth,
And I set loose a banshee

The lock is stuck,
And I've lost the key
I became something
That I should never be

Not at least,
What thought was me
But a freak, a beast
On a homicidal spree

Sprawling through the mud,
Crawling on my knees
I ask for any redemption
I beg for any relief

Save me from myself, I cry
Hang me from the trees
Anything, oh anything
To finally feel at peace
insomniatrical Mar 2023
Birds sing and fly
With a freedom not for I
As my heart's stinging lullaby
Sounds like a despairing cry

For I can see the sunshine
Brightening the sky
And yet I am confined, again,
In the darkness of my mind.
Mar 2023 · 141
silent spring
insomniatrical Mar 2023
Hello again,
Little one

It's been five whole years now,
Can you believe?

How time passes with the falling of each leaf,

How I always got to love you
But we never got to meet?

I get sad sometimes,
Thinking of your little feet

The way you might have cried so much
That I would never sleep

But it's that time of year again, little one
And once again, I weep

Because you are the greatest love
I never got to keep.
how can you say goodbye if you never got to say hello?
...
L.A.O
Oct 2022 · 164
HOT KOOL-AID??
insomniatrical Oct 2022
how does it feel to be this cold?

so much now
that not even
the raging flame
of your self hatred
can keep you warm anymore
Forgive the title, I'm lacking in inspo but I still like memes
insomniatrical Oct 2022
Once again, it comes again,
Chase away the hunger with cigarettes
And don't give in

I watch the numbers bob up and down,
A water park of emotion
And I feel that I will drown

Watering myself like a plant,
I need only sunshine and water and that's it,
And I wish I could stop but I can't

Every day the numbers get smaller
I start to feel so little
But the demon in me grows taller

My mom loves having 'skinny kids,'
Never mind my health
I just have to see my ribs

I think I'm cursed

It got into my head,

It's never been worse

I won't eat until I'm dead.
10.29.22
Jun 2022 · 158
white heels
insomniatrical Jun 2022
no
oh god, no
leave me be

dreams of you are ruining my sleep

run away,
far, far, away

in those terrible white heels i see

plaguing me
you wore a baby blue and white boho dress

and it wounds me
as it sits in my closet
because I haven't touched it since

it was yours, in my mind.
always yours
from the moment the fabric graced your hips
and that smile spread on your lips
and you turned into someone new

there was something about the ensemble,
later that night
inhibition melted away and I saw the real you for a moment,
or a few

strange that you are so many complex people
wrapped into one shallow being

that you would be scared to show me again who you were once truly
as if the entire world watched through my eyes

but I can promise, friend no longer,
it was only myself, and my whole self,
who watched you
in hatred and admiration
Mar 2022 · 164
Pumpkin Pie Surprise <3
insomniatrical Mar 2022
so happy lately
maybe it's you baby
write me a song about hazy days
we sing and we dance on the daily
aren't we crazy
reaching so far for the stars
we get spacey
you're singing to me in the car
how did we get so close to home
by running so far but never alone
speeding and crashing together in the snow like
your arms are where i was destined to go
and my soul is the only one that you wanna know
we're spinning and feeling
unreeling and healing
if i was a liar i'd claim that you were stealing
my heart but i can only scream at the top of my lungs
that oh, Sunshine
my Love, my Light
i am giving it to you
eagerly,
entirely,
every day
and every night
jc
Feb 2022 · 245
a constant concert
insomniatrical Feb 2022
He liked one of the songs I played
So much
That he saved it
He plays it
Doing the dishes

He sways against me and sings in my ear
Softly, sweetly
Like a person discovering love
He sings songs he knows,
And songs of his own

Twisting his fingers with mine
Dancing,
Intertwined
Smooth and warm
On the palm of my hand

He is a constant concert,
I dance and hum in tune
The rhythm of his words
From the morning
To the afternoon
Jan 2022 · 219
Places I Can't Go Anymore
insomniatrical Jan 2022
i'm on my knees now,
please stop existing
some way, somehow,
stop existing to me
Dec 2021 · 110
When Will May Come?
insomniatrical Dec 2021
My want grows for the
Bright crystal dawn,
Beautiful, she!
To rejoice in the morning,
Her dewey blades of grass
And echoed birdsong,
Crisp cool on the nape
And aglow her yellow hues,
Her little gray clouds
Strewn about the sky

Oh, how I long for the spring
To come again
Dec 2021 · 330
little curls
insomniatrical Dec 2021
nothing can ever be
what once it was
a sad truth, yes
you must accept it
nonetheless
Dec 2021 · 116
Blue Is A God Awful Color
insomniatrical Dec 2021
I ******* miss you
I just wanna kiss you
But you're not around
Haunting like a ghost upon the grounds
Of my mind
And I can't find you
To remind you
What it was like to love me
What it was like to be happy
And I hope you know
That I know
We can never be what we were
And that's okay

We weren't meant to be anyway
Dec 2021 · 98
I'm Alright, G
insomniatrical Dec 2021
please go away
leave me alone
thoughts in my brain say
'they'll find you when they get home'

what do i do?
i cannot hide
the searing pain in my chest
ceases to subside

so there i am sitting,
debating where to go
stay for another scene
or join the cast below?

far beneath the waves,
into the deep black
if i should choose to go,
i wont be coming back

anxiety floods me
saturating my mind
never letting me be
is this goodbye?
don't worry, im good
Dec 2021 · 103
i'm disgusted by you
insomniatrical Dec 2021
Come at me with your abhorrent prose,
Your words which disgust and defile
All those who claim the displeasure of hearing.

Your detestable voice,
The likes of which causes a homicidal rage
To grow in me;

How truly deplorable you are
Dec 2021 · 7.9k
✨🌕✨
insomniatrical Dec 2021
Moonlight,
Set me free
I beg of you,
Hear my plea
Take this darkness
Away from me
Give me a brand new
Epiphany
So Mote It Be
Dec 2021 · 228
What Last I Wrote
insomniatrical Dec 2021
I'm sorry.
It's just that my heart hurts.
I love you, and I want to make it work with you,
But I'm afraid of myself.
I worry
That my fears will take me over.
I'm scared
They already have.
Dec 2021 · 99
ooh, shiny 💎
insomniatrical Dec 2021
What god awful radiance you exude
That dazzling glimmer you drip so casually
Your smile of diamonds threw rainbow shards on my heart
How infectious it was at first,
That I became brilliant for a moment too
Even the sparkle in your smile caught my eye
As you said you loved me for the first time
But lo, whenever came just as you said it would
Did you know??
And I suppose now I see that you are not a bright, shiny gem like I thought
You are but a mirror, a false facet in the stone,
Intended only to reflect the light of another
And when their light dulls,
A more brilliant one you seek out
insomniatrical Dec 2021
oh, please take me away,
i cant live with all this pain

find me a new home
somewhere to call my own
somewhere i'll be alone

without your memory to haunt me
let me GO already!!!

take me me back to a time
when i didn't call you mine
and have me walk the other way!!

could you have existed without me
or were we destined to be this way?

let me go,
let me go,
let him go!!!!!!

let him go
insomniatrical Dec 2021
i never could've been,
could i?
the one you wanted,
the one you yearned for

and i knew it
all the should'ves in the world could never have saved me
and all the doubt i feel would be the death of me
i wasn't attached until i was

and somehow the moment i was
it was over
goodbye

like never a word was exchanged between us
like we had never known each other like we do
how can you know me better than i know myself
and now be a stranger?

how can i know you like i do
and never be allowed to say a word?
you said friends and here we are,
you've made a fool of yourself and

i still miss you,
which makes a fool of me
a fool indeed,
a fool who loved you a way she didn't understand

an absolute jester, a clown
someone for you to laugh at
i wish i had more self respect
than to still need you

or feel like i need to
talk to you every day
when the reason we're here
is because we had nothing to say

because we were no one without each other
but not even ourselves together

and i was pained by you,
the fact that we weren't who we wanted to be
so now i am without a warmth to hold me again
because i must learn to be my own

you ruined me
but i am determined to find myself for the first time
in my life
Dec 2021 · 113
:)
insomniatrical Dec 2021
:)
you are so evil
that grotesque grin upon your face
sends me into a fit of rage

give up your act
******* child,
you've got no idea, do you?

what was poured into you
the time someone else wasted
just to be thrown away

oh, you'd rather not
wouldn't you
admit that you don't know as much as you think

because then you'd be accountable
look me in the eye
and tell me you love me

just like you once did
i'd feel your touch
cold as ice

cold as it was from the beginning
when you held me
like you were reaching for someone far away

and when i could never reach back with the same hand
you ran
so fast and so far

i'm not sure you even existed
in the first
place
Dec 2021 · 109
why is it so damn hard?
insomniatrical Dec 2021
I think this is too much for me
Having to know the person I am becoming

Who is she, I wonder

A wild and carefree bird,
Waltzing with the wind?

A bright and daring fire,
Who warms those around her?

As fluid as the creek
And just as stubborn?

Or she could possibly be

Like a glittering earthen crystal
Hardened by pressure?

But oh what it would be
to know even a little of me
Dec 2021 · 187
stan the man
insomniatrical Dec 2021
they decorated their trailer

that barbecue trailer

over there
Dec 2021 · 108
An Old One
insomniatrical Dec 2021
You drive me wild
with your nicotine kisses.
You keep me calm
with your pipe-dream wishes.
you have me feeling some sort of way,
You have me waking up another day
To see the sun, to smile, to say
That I Love You
How dumb would it be to say that
You're my sun and I am your moon?
When they're always chasing each other but rarely meet.
It's more like you and I are Yin and Yang
to each other, the reverse
Yang and Yin,
Longing forever,
Eternally cursed
this one's old af
insomniatrical Dec 2021
"AMON, or AAMON, is a great and mighty marques, and commeth abroad in the likeness of a wolf, having a serpents tail, vomiting flames of fire; when he putteth on the shape of a man, he sheweth out dogs teeth, and a great head like a mighty night hawk; he is the strongest prince of all other, and understandeth of all things past and to come, he procureth favor, and reconcile both friend and foe, and rule forthy legions of devils"
From the PSEUDOMONARCHIA DAEMONUM, an excerpt on AAMON that I enjoyed reading.
insomniatrical Dec 2021
oh, you hapless *******
love with a hasty touch
and throw me for a loop
crying and saying sorry
shaking with urgency
come close and unfreeze me
take my body and warm it
better yet
don't
i hope you cry and keep crying
petrifying
in that house alone
hallucinating you had someone
to love again
would you love me again?
i can find someone new
someone not you
someone who
brags about their love and not their conquests
someone to help me heal this heart in my chest
and i knew you couldnt do it but i hoped
at the very least i thought you could help me cope
but you can't even deal with your own ****
saying im unhinged
when you chain yourself to drug and drink
downing all that moonshine
drowning inside your mind
and not having time for anyone but yourself
i wish i knew
you'd turn into the old you
once more
Dec 2021 · 99
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
insomniatrical Dec 2021
so now i always, always, always
have to be dressed to impress
i can't let myself dress lesser
running out of clothes in my dresser
to wear
so i can appear
worth anything to anyone else
you should have felt what i felt
when you tore into me
saying im disgusting
how was i so naive
how was i so trusting
Dec 2021 · 97
hoe phase
insomniatrical Dec 2021
you're cute,
******* boy
so sticky sweet
come in and put me in a chokehold
make my heart beat
like a thousand drums
pounding away
chase me around the sheets
turn night into day
Nov 2021 · 87
Update: We Broke Up
insomniatrical Nov 2021
Oops - I guess I called it
But you and I
Just wouldn't work, I knew
Between I and you
There's a distance
Where you are stuck and so am I
Miles away,
Your day is my night
But now I'm rolling down the road
When I somehow pass your exit sign
And I came to know
Something about me,
That maybe where you're at
Isn't where I want to be
Nov 2021 · 140
Untitled
insomniatrical Nov 2021
If you plan to go,
Go with everything.
Leave nothing
That I can wallow in,
Leave nothing
Worth remembering
Leave only with the knowledge that I
Loved you more than all the stars in the sky
Nov 2021 · 328
I guess I'm not.
insomniatrical Nov 2021
Hurt me
Just hurt me already,
I'm tired of waiting for that part

If you're going to do it
Do it quick,
And stab me through the heart
Nov 2021 · 99
<333
insomniatrical Nov 2021
Sometimes
I hear a gravestone calling my name
Joyous is the day when I answer
insomniatrical Nov 2021
It's been so long,
Hello old friend
Writing me a song
In your crimson red
Reminding me of sunsets
And destructive fire,
Of sparkling garnets
And dying poinsettias
Oh how I missed you
But that's a total lie
I was so much better
Without you in my life
Now look what I've done
Hurting myself again
Waiting for all this crimson
To be washed away by the rain.
Nov 2021 · 102
A draft I've had
insomniatrical Nov 2021
Am I

Your moon in the sky

Or just another star

Passing your eye?
Nov 2021 · 318
Oof
insomniatrical Nov 2021
Oof
Thought of mine,
Stinging lie,
I implore you,
Leave me be.
I have no time
Nor the patience
Or the mind
To let you influence me.

-is what I wish I could say
on a day like today
where the clouds roll in
and I feel the darkness
grow.
Nov 2021 · 88
Untitled
insomniatrical Nov 2021
Please,

Could you forgive me

When my name can no longer be spoken?

Could you forgive me if I'm not open

With you?

If I fell today,

If I went away

What is the first thing you'd do?
Nov 2021 · 95
!
insomniatrical Nov 2021
!
Hurt myself?
Don't mind if I do
Of course it only hurts
When it has to do with you

Will I ever feel like I'm enough?

Nothing hurts as much
As the thought that I could never be,
Enough for you,
Enough for me.

Perhaps the end is closer than it seems
Always,
Barrelling forward at maximum speed

So that no one would know,
Until the time came
Quickly,
Quietly,
I would slip away

I could scream no longer,
And the hurt would finally fade
Sep 2021 · 197
a note for you
insomniatrical Sep 2021
I'm so sorry

I wish I was as in love with living
As I am in love with you

But I promise, I will stay
Just a little while longer

Because that is all you ask of me
Sep 2021 · 279
because i am sad
insomniatrical Sep 2021
perhaps i should just give

and then continue to give

and then give until i am no more.

for i am Second,
and you are First,
since the beginning,
and until whenever.
May 2021 · 103
xoxo 🗝
insomniatrical May 2021
When will the sympathy come
For those like me
Saturating themselves with all the negative emotions they feel
Who never were permitted to release themselves from their own prisons?
insomniatrical Apr 2021
your voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard
the way it sounds makes me angry

when you just won't shut up
when you think you're so smart over something you know nothing about

just leave me alone,
you're not as great as you think you are.
Mar 2021 · 132
Self-loathe
insomniatrical Mar 2021
I want to be Heard
but you don't listen to me
God, I want to be heard.
When I say I am mad,
When I tell you what bothers me.
I want you to LISTEN to me!!

I want to be Seen
but you don't look my way
I just want to be seen.
When I wear something nice,
When I wear nothing at all
I want you to NOTICE me!!!

I want to be Touched,
but you don't put your hands on me
I want you to touch me
When I lean into a hug,
When I'm starved for your attention
I want you to APPRECIATE me!!!


I want to be Wanted,
but you don't seem to want me,
or my words,
or my face,
or my body.
I just want you to WANT me!!!

But I could lay myself out for you,
naked and eager and beautiful and sweet,
and it's sad that
you would remain
entranced by anything else in the world
but me.
Mar 2021 · 99
8==D~
insomniatrical Mar 2021
You make me kinda sad
You make me kinda mad
When ever I come on to you
And you don't want to ****

I wanna know the how
And all the ins and outs
To try to make you want me
But I haven't had much luck
Jan 2021 · 137
Untitled
insomniatrical Jan 2021
And here I am,
Once again screaming out
But I fear that no one
Can hear me.
What if
They just don't care
Anymore?
Jan 2021 · 102
help?
insomniatrical Jan 2021
It matters not the words I say,
Or how I scream out for a hand,
Anyone's,

To help pull me out of the dark
Where I have so long resided.

It matters not how far I reach
Or how hard I long for a feeling
That doesn't threaten to destroy me,

The way of the world is such
That not a single soul emerges unscathed.
Jan 2021 · 135
Friends I Once Knew
insomniatrical Jan 2021
Hello friends,
Or friends I once knew,
How are you?

I wish I could reach out,
But the words won't come-
I'm long past seeing the light of the sun

All the people close to me
I can count on one hand
I forgot everyone else via my own command.

For that I apologize,
Sometimes I miss you guys.
And sometimes I wonder where you are and what you're doing with your lives.

Surely you're doing better than me,
Who can't find the words to say
Or the ***** to even begin speaking,

Perhaps you miss me, perhaps not.
For this is up to you,
All I can say now is that
You're friends that I'm glad I once knew.
Nov 2020 · 75
whenever
insomniatrical Nov 2020
Now I see the sky

And before I had convinced myself that there was no sky to see.

There were no stars, and no sun.

The entire world was below at my feet,

And I had never thought to look up.

I no longer stare at the ground,

Because now I see the sky
Sep 2020 · 82
We Are Not Here
insomniatrical Sep 2020
I become fearful sometimes,
That I am my fear,
And my fear is me.
A terrifying thought,
That I should be my own end,
Or even that I will be.
Sep 2020 · 81
A Good Day Signing Leases
insomniatrical Sep 2020
I almost forgot what good days were,
That it didn't have to be extra to be extra special.

But today we are lazy,
And we are at home,
And we haven't done anything at all.

You're making food,
I am watching a movie,
And today has been a good day.
Jul 2020 · 102
Oh, How We Change
insomniatrical Jul 2020
The warmth you lay out for me
In this new bed I know,
A blessing among the curses I once lived
And thought I was meant for,
I see clearly now
That the night will become day
And the weather will warm
To brighten my life with new flora
And new memories.
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