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 Nov 2019 Jacob Reilly
Discoh
Is it good enough?
Will it ever be good enough?
A work of art is never finished,
only abandoned.
 Nov 2019 Jacob Reilly
ChrisG
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 Nov 2019 Jacob Reilly
ChrisG
I am an open book,
but everyone keeps reading the same page.
There is more to existence than the bare extremities,
Bursts of happiness and then rage.
I hate it,
When someone looks at me,
and tells me that since i dont know alot of trucks,
that I'm not a man.
You know what *******!

Just because I don't know as much about trucks than you,
doesn't mean I'm not a man,
You just proved to me that you are not a man.

I worked my *** off to better myself as a human being,
I learned from my mistakes,
I been in this world longer than you,
and I have seen **** that you probably won't even see in your life.

So you might want to learn that from me,
Next time you say that to someone,
They might lose their temper like I almost did,
and they just might hurt you.

So you are very lucky today,
I'm not going to let this weigh me down today,
Or anyday.
Light...
There is no light here,
At least not to my knowledge,
I've never been allowed to experience it,
The life I've lived for 17 years,
The people who adopted me 16 1/2 years ago,
It was never a part of my life and they never let it be,
I always went behind their back,
But I still have never experienced it.
Promise you love me,
I Promise I love you,
Promise you care,
I Promise I care,
Promise you will always be there,
I Promise I will always be there,
THEN WHERE ARE YOU??!!
When you need me the most,
At anytime of day,
Just check your front porch,
I’ll be sitting there,
Waiting for you to smother your burning torch,
Just crawl into my arms,
And you will see,
I will always be there,
Waiting...
 Nov 2019 Jacob Reilly
unnamed
Poetry is not about
How many words
You write

But rather
What words
You write

 Nov 2019 Jacob Reilly
Joshua
I think,
I love you..

But it's better not to tell you,
Not because I'm afraid of rejection,

I just think I can't make you happy,
The way he did..
 Nov 2019 Jacob Reilly
dog pillow
It finds me first
In the space beneath the lungs
A rapidly cycling movement
Trickles down, seeps like a sponge

The pressure lifts my breath up now
Faster
Faster
In and
Out

The feeling I have punches my gut,
And claws its way straight to the mind.

I wish what I’d found weren’t so devastating.
I wish I didn’t find it this time.
i'm a cheat sheet
a cheap sheet
look to me for answers
learn nothing yourself
maybe you tried before coming to me
or maybe you just forgot
i'll help,
i'll help,
no cost at all.
i have the answers
and you'll use me.
then discard me
and forget me.
just a last resort anyway.
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