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Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
This way following that
That happened again.
Folly, stitched neatly this
Predictable wavey pattern
Weaving in and through out
What was once was not
Again the words I try after
Not to hold not to lock away
But to borrow as they too do
Hate me as only you so deserving
So by I won't strung along
Loaned words that elude
To draw the inner rolling hurt
I've gone this time the last time
I won't write how badly I
Won't.  Write without broken
Intent, coiled up and strewn about
As I once relished bitterly engrossed
Forcing my selfish failings
Won't discribe or talk away guilt
Seeking praise or atonement
I am in this place where alone
Drapped upon shaking reluctance
Is the smothering blanket of my life
I won't write to run and hide
As I've done to you, time again
This time, again.  I won't
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
It's intensity is consuming
Frighteningly all incompassing

Flashes of bright brilliant need
Hunger and heart crushing pain

Boiling new and old ache
It rises and is my world

All at once, all I know and how
It demands that pressure be bled

Straining containment
Poetic explosions errupt
Volcanically ejecting line after line

All I can do is attempt sense
As I let the beast go

Screaming silently at the world

To get it out before
I am but embers, dieing out

Amidst the smoke and wind
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
I let a fool hearted notion in

Same as before,
now I know it

That half of me, never quits

It only wants
as it does, love

Knows no end to patience

Feels not this ache,
nor this weight

Simply that the loss is not

The way the foolish man ends

So I suffer again
and I know it

the ****** up fact
that I'm an idiot.
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
Go
The fainted notes of told you so
Across parched and brokened lips
Smile so buried As if to never afflict
While dry eyes blink buying time
To confess or bargain degrees of neither for nor relations I alone go
For I am no loss, no second soul
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
Sweet bitterness is this recollection

I am hurting in countless ways

Outwardly this shell I witness
Has begun it's declining dive

To depth of self loathing deep

Knowing that I am alone

Still it is my own sadness

I hold on to even here at the end

The precipice I hesitate in aching

Mourning over my choices

Over you
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
Let loose my moral dialogs
Income such as tears bring
Feeling blindly out feelings
Ending so much of this opaque
Rise and falling inhalation
But for not at all what I want
Was not this knot about my
Perspective of the faded
A moment to reflect is paid
Words like my mind are tired
Midnight working at tearing down
What was built upon so much
Time slipped away and lost
I can't get this right, I am nothing
With empty air, thoughts can't say
That I running away to another
Reflected sunrise as I end
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
A gift of Calm
foretelling storms
Turn gray bright horizons
inward melancholy wants
I see truth
Feel Sorrow unforgettable

Happiness the breeze
like the trees
I vainly want
Reaching
and swaying
Never holding onto

It is all around me
the wind plays
free and happy
always moving
Never still
never my own
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