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181 · May 2018
And for a moment, bliss.
insomniatrical May 2018
And for a moment,
My quiet became a storm.
All I thought went from old to new.
And all I knew changed before me.

All I knew was that I wanted you,
All I know is that I still do.
179 · May 2017
Meanderance
insomniatrical May 2017
Wander in this softest subject
Your curious mind and questioning words
Meander along until you find what you seek
And keep your goal in mind
Never forget that what you're looking for
Is not so far away;
And every word you speak is gallivanting
Through a thick brush of thought.
As you make your way forward
And get deeper and deeper,
Explore the inner thoughts
Of every empty moment before you.
Every inner mind,
Every winding road
Takes you to a new place,
A haven within every depth of your most encompassing memory.
insomniatrical Feb 2018
I'd like to see a flower
Blooming in the snow,

    Bright as the sun
      Vibrant as a cardinal
        And beautiful in its frailty.

But I'd love to see a flower,
Living in the cold,

    Steadier than a stone
      Stubborn in the face of death
        And dignified in its stance.
To Every Person Out There - Beauty Does Not Mean Weakness.
177 · Sep 2021
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
176 · May 2017
In Emergence Of Uprising
insomniatrical May 2017
Great satellite, up in the sky,
We see you watching over us.
Imploring our evil natures
And luring demons out of our empty souls.
Ask not for possessions and triumph soon follows.
Wonder only if this 'protection' is worth the oppression.
Rise against the satellite at will,
If you dare be seen by all who wander in the dark
But work 'under the sun.'
And when the sky burns red,
Product of flare and bomb,
Of homes against homes,
Remember that 'protection' was promised,
And oppression was not a price;
Never forget that your 'freedom' wasn't really free.
it came with a hidden fee:
Your life.
174 · Dec 2017
Smells Like You
insomniatrical Dec 2017
Wolf Blankets
St. Louis Blues Throw
Axe Body Spray
Cotton Candy Vape Juice
Teddy Bear
Favorite Shirt
Batman Joggers

And at the end of the day,
These old things are new
Because each one reminds me,
Each one smells like you.
172 · May 2018
Addicted
insomniatrical May 2018
Wish I could say I'm not,
Wish I could say I wasn't,
Wish I could say that it never had that effect on me,
But I'd be lying, wouldn't I?
I'm just an addict to you and everyone else,
If they only knew what it was like to be addicted to you.
171 · Oct 2017
La Mort De La Lune
insomniatrical Oct 2017
I witnessed the death of the moon today
The sun, he made her swoon today
Himself he flaunted, he mocked and taunted
He invaded her space and went on his way.

She fought with valor
And glorious might
But when he smiled
She'd faint at the sight.

Magnificent rays
Of sunshine days
And the pale white light
Of the moonlit night.

We saw her try,
We saw her cry,
We saw him laugh
At the look in her eyes

But she came back
With a fiery red fight
And we witnessed
The birth of a new moon tonight.
171 · Aug 2018
Ohno
insomniatrical Aug 2018
I made a mistake,
An awful, terrible mistake.
I didn't think it through,
And now I'm full of hate.
For me, for you,
I don't know what to do.

I know that I was stupid,
I didn't quite think through it.
It was late at night,
I didn't think I'd do it.
And now I'm full of fright,
Because it wasn't right.

I made a stupid choice.
I should have used my voice.
I should have used my head,
I should have had some poise.
So now I feel a dread,
And all I see is red.
25 August 18
167 · May 2017
A Song For My Love
insomniatrical May 2017
I don't know how to say I'm sorry
So would you accept my beating heart instead?
I know it's not worth much right now,
But it soon will be in the end
If I could hold you one more time it's all I'd ever need
To get me through until my heart stops beating
Maybe tomorrow, maybe today,
I need to clear my agenda anyway.
167 · Dec 2017
By The Millions
insomniatrical Dec 2017
A million and one,
A million and two,
There's a million of me
But only one of you.

A million and three,
A million and four,
There's a million times
I'll say "I love you more."

A million and five,
A million and six,
There's a million things
We don't need to fix.

A million and seven,
A million and eight,
There's a million more nights
That we could stay up late.

A million and nine,
A million and ten,
There's a million ways
For this poem to end.
166 · Oct 2017
Hay Bales
insomniatrical Oct 2017
I can remember how I felt
Among the slush and mud beside us,
When our body heat mixed
And we intertwined like the branches of a tree
Twisting round and round
Each other
Like we never had any doubt about where we were meant to be.

I still remember when we kissed
For the first time.
And all the world around us
Made sense in rhyme.
And the moon in your eyes and the stars in mine,
We danced for two minutes that felt like a lifetime.
164 · Jul 2017
Monologue
insomniatrical Jul 2017
How can you just do that?
YOU LEFT AND I WANTED TO SCREAM.

You said you loved me but you lied.
YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME.

I think it's time to let go.
I STILL LOVE YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU BROKE ME.

I'm sorry.
I'M SO SORRY. PLEASE FORGIVE ME.

I never want to see you again.
PLEASE ASK ME TO STAY.
163 · May 2018
I thought I knew
insomniatrical May 2018
You are estranged to me
And you are more a stranger now
Than you were before I knew you.
I can't touch you anymore,
Even though I am always reaching out,
And I am always trying to grasp and take a hold of you to catch you.
I have always wanted to catch you when you fall.  
I have always wanted to to hold you when you cry.
But I don't even know who you are anymore.
Everything I thought I knew,
Well I guess it was a lie.
Because I took a few steps into your life
And I thought we were okay.
I knew I loved you, I thought you loved me.
I thought that I was helping you,
At least, I hoped that I was helping.
I hoped that I could be there for you.
I hoped that I could get you through the hard times.
I thought it was possible.
I thought I knew you.
163 · Mar 2018
What Is It?
insomniatrical Mar 2018
Leave,
Go.
So far away from here.
Run until you can't see
Walk until you can't be
Seen within the proximity
Of everyone and everything.
I never even thought
That you could quit the walk
That all the words in all the world
Would ever make you stop.
insomniatrical Dec 2017
"and then we'll head down there to get him, right?"



                              *why would you say that when you know i can't see him?
160 · Dec 2021
stan the man
insomniatrical Dec 2021
they decorated their trailer

that barbecue trailer

over there
159 · Feb 2018
The Photo in His Drawer
insomniatrical Feb 2018
Lovely girl
Young and wild
Show your true face
To me.

What a lovely girl
Young and sweet
Sing to me
A song

Tell me about him,
Lovely girl,
Save for me
His lullaby.

He hums these tunes of the one he loved,
And the fingers that once danced in his hair,
Share with me his breath
Because he has never shared it with me.

But once the drums have calmed
And the engine will not turn,
The sky will soon be dark
And the sleet awaits his arrival.

The picture that he hides from me
Never catches dust,
He keeps the drawer locked
So he can see you every night.

Tell me then,
You lovely girl,
Where are you hiding now?
He cries whenever he speaks to you.

So, lovely girl,
Tell me who you are.
Will you sing to me the song he hums
When I am gone?
159 · Oct 2017
I Am The Haunted Within You
insomniatrical Oct 2017
My needs are dark and demented;
I am the haunted within you

For every drop of blood you spill
Less and less the need to

You wander in silence and **** without cause
Hoping the shadows will hide all your flaws

But the ice in your heart is just too much to bear
Perhaps she found solace in another man's care

Because I am the haunted within you;
No one will love you like I do

You and I, together forever
Just you and me, I'll make you forget her

Between love and lust and diamonds and gold,

A demon's bond with their human never grows old.
159 · Feb 2018
"I Can"
insomniatrical Feb 2018
Everything I touch is destroyed
Why is time like quicksand?
It slips through my fingertips
It's getting out of hand.
My dreams burrow themselves in the dark
And hide until I can find them,
Until I make a spark.
The flame in my heart
Reignites and I start
To find myself believing
That no longer I am grieving,
The words in my head
Form these strings and these threads
That I'm better off dead
But I fight them again
And with bravery I said:
"I Can"
insomniatrical Mar 2018
And though simple is my request,
It is a feat to fulfill.
An outsider's mind may see it as they perceive it,
And I may see it quite differently,
But one only sees what they want to.
Their mind's eye is no stranger to its own selective viewing,
A strange feeling at first,
However quickly adapted to.
155 · Feb 2018
My Hoodie
insomniatrical Feb 2018
I am so sick and tired of
The poems
And the journals,
And the words,
That I write
That are not me.  

I am so sick and tired of
The sighs
And the noises,
And the breaths,
That are not
Mine to keep.

I am so sick and tired of
The dreams
And the talks,
And the conversations,
That never last
Long enough it seems.

But I can't find it in me to be sick and tired of
Your heart
And your eyes,
And your hands,
That know just how

To love me.
154 · May 2018
Poe Boy
insomniatrical May 2018
He's a little Poe Boy - always a little off,
He's a little gruesome, always in his thoughts.
He's always so sad, overthinks more than he ought,
But he's a little Poe Boy - guess he wasn't what I sought.
153 · Jul 2017
???
insomniatrical Jul 2017
???
What

Do

You

Do

When

You're

Terrified

Of

Everything?
152 · May 2017
Stone Heart
insomniatrical May 2017
How can I admit that
I've been lonely all this time?
Trying to forget your face
When it's burned into my mind.
How could I have known
I'd be unable to let you go?
So tell me then, please,
Is your heart really made of stone?
150 · May 2017
I Wish To Be Young
insomniatrical May 2017
Let me go to bed with you
Exactly as I used to do,
When I was young and I only knew love,
But I never knew pain
Before I knew that life would be this way.
149 · May 2017
Long Enough
insomniatrical May 2017
I want to be profound,
But I fear I won't be around
Long enough.
148 · May 2017
Trust Me
insomniatrical May 2017
You said you still liked me
But that you didn't know if you could still trust me.

And you said that you were sorry
But you still got up and left me.

You said you didn't know what to say
When I only mentioned his name.

But he was just a friend,  
And you are still my love,

Never had I cheated,  
I'd never given up.

I know that trying to save you
May have cost me dearly.

But there is so much more to love
Than loving your looks clearly.

There is so much more to trust
Than only feeling lust.

And there is so much more to you
Than I ever thought before.

You've been broken,  you've been bruised,
You need me but I need you more.

I know that trust is earned,
And patience must be learned,

But dear, look at my face,
Your trust in me won't be misplaced.
148 · Mar 2018
All I Ask Of You
insomniatrical Mar 2018
I will admit,
I am an addict.
I am a liar.
I am broken, I am bruised, I am beaten.
I am needy.
I am dumb.
I am hurting, I am haunted, I am hopeless.

But you ask me to be everything for you, and so I am.
I must be comfort.
I must be understanding.
I must be stable, I must be stone, I must be strong.
I must not get mad.
I must be patient.
I must be love, I must be kind, I must be unperturbed.

And all I ask of you
Is that you are there.
148 · May 2017
My Name Is Untitled
insomniatrical May 2017
The truth is,
I can act like I'm okay,
But I'm not.
Sometimes when I smile, I am dying.
Sometimes when I smile, I am actually happy,
Because sometimes I forget,
But then it comes back.
My smile fades.
You come flooding into my head,
And there's nothing I can do to get you out.
There's no alcohol strong enough to wash out your memory,
No drug cancerous enough to **** the thought of you.

You are always there.
Even when I think I'm okay,
Turns out I'm not.

I'm always thinking of you,
And I check less often these days,
But I still feel the urge to.

We never got that dance, you know.
It should have been as sweet as our first kiss,
But we both know
That no matter how hard we try,
We can only be as smooth as crunchy peanut butter.
It's a good thing, in our own way.

I might feel like we fit,
But you might think our pieces are a bit rugged,
That we may never meet and lock into place.

And your voice is still like music to me.
I might not hear it,
But I still remember it.
And every time I know someone else is hearing it,
My heart breaks a little more.

And I know I can never be that person you need,
I can never have that beautiful face that you deserve,
And I might never have that captivating character,
The one that keeps you glued to me.
But, despite all of that,
You are still perfect to me.
And yet you still thought you were never enough.

I still cry.
When you said you loved me,
You built me.
You broke my heart with every kiss,
Every syllable,
Every breath.

You are my amortentia and you don't even know it,

                                                                                                                     Do you?
147 · Oct 2017
Down This Lonely Street
insomniatrical Oct 2017
Is it okay if I hold your hand as we walk down this lonely street?
It's cold and there are only a few lights,
Please, I'm scared.

I cannot apologize enough for what I'm to do in the upcoming weeks.
For leaving you,
Ignoring you.

I am sad because his year has brought me so much, brought me you.
But my head will not let me keep you.
I must let go, for I am afraid.

Beyond, in fact.

I am terrified.
That this year will trap me.
That I will have no idea who I am.

But little will I know,

I am no one without you.
147 · Mar 2017
Life Retirement
insomniatrical Mar 2017
Roses and sunshine and trees and light.
Who could I be?
Why, I'm Life.

Normalcy and happiness, and hardships and strife.
Look, it's me.
I'm still Life.

Anxiety and fear, going under the knife.
I'm still here.
It's just me, Life...

Alcohol and drugs, addiction gone rife.
I'm so tired of this job...
I don't want to be Life.

Then let me take over,
It'll be alright.
Settle down there,
Find yourself a wife.
You're so overworked,
Aren't you, Life?


Yes, I am,
And who might you be?
Why do you bear me such empathy?

My name is Death,
And I've been watching you.
Since day one,
I've seen all that you've been through.
So here I am to say,
It's my turn.
I hope that's okay.


Let me think it through, first.
Let me think of what to do, first.
Should I take a day,
Or continue my work and stay?
Hmmm...

I must say,
A break's long overdue.
Tell you what, Death,
I'll give this one to you.
Do a good job, now,
And don't play the fife.
Sound it once,
You'll end all life.

*Good, then, Life.
Saunter off now,
Waste not a day.
Want not a week?
Then have it your way.
I will not play the fife,
But I won't spare my scythe,
Good day, then friend.
Take your leave, then, Life
146 · Dec 2017
The Incredible Affliction
insomniatrical Dec 2017
~ ~ ~
     I want to run my fingertips across every inch of your skin and watch your bones dance beneath your muscles as they work together to move you forward.
     I want to feel the movement of your hips as we dance across the room and sing our favorite songs as loudly as anyone can, because we are in love and know no shame.
     I want to breathe your breath and share your space, even if you're in the shower at six in the morning and I have to go so bad that I can't hold it in anymore.
     I want to teach you everything and learn from you because I'm a ******* about how much I know but I am still clueless and I still have so much to experience.
     I want everyone to know about you but I also want to keep you all to myself because no one else is allowed to have you but you're too wonderful to not talk about.
     I want to watch a thousand suns set with you and I never want to watch you leave again because even if you're just going to work, I know I won't see you for hours.
     I want to experience everything with you because you are my life and you always have been, it's undeniable, irrevocable, unalterable, immutable, and irremediable.
146 · May 2018
Where Did She Go?
insomniatrical May 2018
I've got blood on my hands now
And I don't know who it's from.
I've spent so much time ripping heads off
But I tore out my heart,
What about you?
I'm so angry I never realized that you heart was torn out too.
It's really so weird,
Thinking that life goes on.
When you and my heartbeat were the only things that told me I was alive.
Where did everything go wrong?
And it makes me feel stuck, the fact that I'm so numb.
Shouldn't I feel more?
145 · Jun 2018
Hey, Love
insomniatrical Jun 2018
Hey love
Write me a song
Tell me about when the hard times are gone
Sing me a lullaby about true love and being free
Whisper in my ear "I'll always love you, baby"
Call me your princess and call me your girl,
I want you to know that you'll always be my world.
So I should sing a song about you, about us
About everything we went through,
About every little lust,
About every fallen tear and about every little doubt
I love you no matter what,
I loved you before, I still love you now.
144 · Mar 2018
The '96
insomniatrical Mar 2018
The 96 is gone,
And with it,
You seem different.
The 96 is gone,
And without it,
I doubt it,
I doubt it would
Feel the same,
If he ever came back
If he he never came
If he returned
Please, please return
And be who you were
But no,
I can't wish that
I can't wish for
The past,
For history,
To repeat itself
One more time for me
Are you the same?
Please be the same.
I'm going insane
I'm losing my brain
144 · Jan 2018
Next Time
insomniatrical Jan 2018
Don't you care if I am ******?
Wouldn't you care if I got ticked?
Tell me you'd care if I just dropped dead
Tell me you want to just lay in bed.
Tell me you love me and tell me you care,
Tell me that you wanna take me anywhere.
I wanna know, is this some kind of dare?
Please don't hurt me, it's too much to bear.
144 · Mar 2018
Annoying Girls
insomniatrical Mar 2018
Annoying girls in my class,
You cause me a festering hatred of all that my generation is.
I am pained by the lack of apparent brain in your heads,
You mindless drones,
You brainless robots,
You plastic dolls,
You "do-what-you're-told" barbies.
I think one day you shall find
That drones can be defective,
Robots can malfunction,
Plastic dolls can burn,
And barbies get abandoned.
insomniatrical Oct 2017
And now that I think of it,
The deed was not so hard done.
Given the conditions,
Given how perfectly it was laid out.

He hurt you, but he cannot hurt anyone else now.
He cannot ruin another young child's life and he can never reach down the pants of anyone again.

Call me mad, call me crazy, but I have done what no one was prepared to do.
I listened to her and I became livid.
What he had done, what he had said.
His actions and what he told her to say,
How he told her to 'keep quiet',
'It's a game.'

Now tell me old man,
Are you laughing as I watch above you,
scarlet streams travelling down your neck and soaking the mattress beneath you?
Do you think it's a game,
Awakening to a knife at your person,
millimeters away from taking whatever air you have left in you?

Now you can laugh no more,
You cannot hurt anyone again.
While the blood oozes in the sheets and you lay there dull,
Shadows cast themselves across your face
And I find myself also wishing that you are ******.

And now, I must clean up. Or better yet,
I will stay here. I will sit here until someone comes to check on you.
And then they will see the scene and I will not need to confess,
I will not plead not guilty.
The deed was done by me and I am not afraid for whatever comes next.
I am not afraid of the consequences,
They can do whatever they must.
I will tell them of what you've done.
I will tell them why I did what I did,
And I will not apologize for taking what was left of the miserable life you had.
insomniatrical Dec 2017
Rip me apart,

You're so beautiful.

Rip out my heart,

Done so undutiful.
143 · Dec 2017
I Can't Factor
insomniatrical Dec 2017
Whoever told you that life would be easy is lying to you,

But if they also told you that life is meaningless,

That's a lie, too.
143 · May 2017
Miss-trespasser
insomniatrical May 2017
And in times of great distress I find myself wondering
If you found true love in your mistress?

She came in and took your heart,
She walked by and her scent lured you, but she was unwelcome.

Like candy in a van,
Like candelabras to a modern home.

Acrylic to canvas,
Adding a color and vibrancy that was not there before.

And, like a thief with gold and no intention,
Another abyss she was, and she aimed to take you with no purpose.

Now you are hers alone but she won't have you,
And now you are chasing to keep something which was never meant to be yours.

Her lure is gone,
Her scent eradicated,

Don't come running back,
Don't even think about it.

You left,
You made the choice.

You chose Miss Trespasser.
143 · Dec 2017
A Sky Full Of... Cars.
insomniatrical Dec 2017
I bet if you could have any wish, you'd wish for a sky full of...
Cars.

All of the fastest ones,
All of the coolest ones,
All of the most souped up ones.

But I bet,
That even if you got your wish,

No matter how remodeled the car is,
No matter how cool the car is,
No matter how fast the car is,

You still can't seem to find a way to be here when I need you.
Not actually mad. Just an idea.
142 · Mar 2018
"Weird"
insomniatrical Mar 2018
There is a fire within him
And there are sparks to light it
They only have to get hot enough
To finally ignite it.

But I am told my heart is cold
And I will never warm him
There's ice in me that grows so fast
I know that I should warn him.
142 · Mar 2018
Algebruhh
insomniatrical Mar 2018
Calculators,
Instigators,
Take the easy way out-inators.

Protractors,
Bad actors,
Won't help me find the right factors.

Scratch paper,
Senseless caper,
I want to jump off a skyscraper.
141 · Nov 2017
Missing Assignments.
insomniatrical Nov 2017
I need a short time away from you.
Maybe only two days, no talking.
As hard as it is to say,
And hard it may be to admit,
But my day starts and ends with you.
Because of this, I get nothing done.
Not even missing assignments.
141 · Mar 2018
Boredom
insomniatrical Mar 2018
Apologies for the boredom
The snooze-dom
The lack of presence.
I'm not all here
I'm not all there,
Sometimes it feels like I'm not all anywhere.
141 · Mar 2018
We'll Be A Bestseller
insomniatrical Mar 2018
Let's write a story, you and I,
In words and touches and looks and kisses
Let's fill the pages
Of this book of wishes.
Can we dance across the words of the pages we make
And love in the corners of every paragraph break?
140 · May 2017
Dear M,
insomniatrical May 2017
I know I've said it before,

But I will say it again,

That every second of my life spent with
you

Would still not be enough time spent

In your presence.
insomniatrical Feb 2019
I'm not sure how we ended up this far
From what we wanted to be
We used to aim for the stars
It's so crazy
To let the one you hold dear
Tell you the biggest lies
Become your biggest fear
We used to dream of a life
Where we would be alright
But that's all gone now
You had your head in the clouds
Now you got both feet on the ground
And I'm scared that your mind is working against you
I can't keep hold of you
You're gone, you're lost, there's no trust
In what we once had
Was it only lust?
I feel you slipping away
Day after day
You say that you'll never leave, that you'll always stay
You'll always be there until the very end
But those are only words
You break when you bend
You're so easy to manipulate
With the drugs and the girls
I thought it was our fate,
To go against the world
To prove them wrong
To put up a fight
But you're stuck now
Locked up another night
Another scream coming from my closed mouth
You call me when you're in, but never when you're out
You say that we can be friends
But it hurts too much
Is this really the end?
I need to feel your touch
But I can't
I'm in a trance
I need to run away
As far, as fast, as I can get in a day
Or two
However long it takes
To be free from you
And all of the lies,
All of the mistakes
That I made
When I gave up and gave in
To every excuse that you made up
I wanna be rid of you now
I'll say it loud
That I'm so glad, after all this time
Of me and you and you and me
I can finally see
Where I ****** up
You're no good for me
I took so long
But now I'm moving on
I don't need the lies,
The ties
To you
That kept me up all night
Just crying
In the dark
I wanted to save any spark
We had,
You mad?
You were always making me sad
You know
That we can add
All the times you did something bad
But I stuck around thinkin we'd make it through,
Looking back now
If I only knew
That it was never us,
It was only you
It was you who went to jail
It was you who needed bail
It was you who told tall tales
We always knew this love would fail
It would fall into a hole
This was the coffin's final nail
We never had a solid goal
Because your plans are always changing,
They're ranging
From like to love to lust
You're always breaking my trust
But I think that it's high time
I got the ***** to say goodbye
We'll never be "us" again
Since you wanna be "just friends"
'i gave my life to you but i wanna be through'
This is an idea that I had a while ago... What if I finally was through?
What if I really did walk away?
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