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Oct 2014 · 1.5k
Would You Understand?
Jennifer Weiss Oct 2014
Chilling thoughts**
No one sees themselves
outside of themselves
like they ought

to see myself as more than me
I self taught,
myself to see someone else
as more than my thoughts.
tired.
tired.
tired.
please surprise me soon life.
Oct 2014 · 541
I Have Children Everywhere
Jennifer Weiss Oct 2014
you grow up,
    (Hopefully.)                                            ­                                    
just like your mother
you want to be.
A beautiful woman
some day,
you sit
wish
and play,
with makeup
jewelry
and all these *things


Never aware,
as a child,
what these things
might bring.

You just want to smile
living in your dream.
of being a model
or fashionable icon
never thinking of
the ways these things
one day
will make you scream.

the men that want
to hold you, just
because you are
a thing.

so pretty
so "perfect"
What is this world worth
when we can't even let our souls sing?

For fear that
we are stalked
and murdered-
or God forbid
worse.

How do you teach a child
to cultivate dreams,
while worrying they'll
end up in a hearse?
as am I, the child.
Oct 2014 · 690
Notes To Selves
Jennifer Weiss Oct 2014
It's funny,
when you let go of everything
you start to see.
How expectations of what you should have
aren't what you really need.
and furthermore, everything is already perfect.
do you know what that means?
Everything was worth it,
So why wish you could change anything?
All of us,
all the time.
Oct 2014 · 298
Help.
Jennifer Weiss Oct 2014
how does one find
a solution to
discord*
between:*
body
soul
heart
ego
and
mind?
Jennifer Weiss Oct 2014
I've been racking my brain.
scared of falling asleep
while driving,

Sleep for five hours
wake up.
Do it all again.

And it's the never the same.
There are vast differences,
new lessons,
new joys and sorrow,
and tests that came

to pass
Now I'm done with that.
Taking what I need
I proceed with
just facts.

Because interpretations
can be misleading,
like you seeing
the negative
all the time.

What's the difference
between your
perspective and mine?

I see that life
does not just happen,
but is created by those
who dared dream up
a design.
Sorry for not being the nicest I could be right now....
Oct 2014 · 704
Disturbing News
Jennifer Weiss Oct 2014
Think, no more
What for?!?
You did, it was
therefore
what  were  you  here  for  ?

To teach us
careful what you wish for.
Oct 2014 · 1.1k
Behold The Eyes
Jennifer Weiss Oct 2014
ART*
is in
the eye
of the beholder.

Such as, youth
as one grows older

Warmth,
as love grows colder

And strength,
to go on
once it is over.
Just have to look.
Oct 2014 · 447
It Is What It Is
Jennifer Weiss Oct 2014
I wonder,
if you're even
aware of
what you did?

Cause I wasn't,
until I saw it
for what it is.
mhmmm.
Oct 2014 · 358
Sing Me A Song
Jennifer Weiss Oct 2014
Hitting my own nerves,
I subject myself to the reading of words
Before the curve,
Unheard
Does anyone take the time to heal
all the other wounded birds?

Aren't both sides gathering the nerve?
Weaved into the world,
Darkness
Clutched round their hearts and necks to preserve
like strings of pearls
A world breeding monsters
out of innocent little girls.

Real-
is the courage to wake everyday.
your heart refusing to not play
its song.
with a bountiful, limitless forte.
No mezzo, no piano.
Life is the finest concert hall and stage.
And I will never
ever
refuse to play.
Oct 2014 · 438
Daily Prayer
Jennifer Weiss Oct 2014
Acceptance is best.
let go of the rest.
because more is less,
don't ignore
your quest
lest you become
*moral less
that guiding light.
Oct 2014 · 843
Path.
Jennifer Weiss Oct 2014
The most important thing
we should realize is
I could never be me
Without you.
the whole universe is betting on it.
Sep 2014 · 904
Why Should It Stop Us?
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
In the face of one's dreams
there are many deterrents.
The river will rush and ravage,
just go with the current.
Just toss yourself in,
don't open your
eyes. The safety
you need
is found
in the
mind.

Ebola.
We will die,
so what's the point?
Terrorism.
We can't control it,
so what's the point?
You're white.
I'm still rolling,
so what's your point?
He's black.
No factors depend on that,
so what's your point?

The point is life is a delicate process
it never stops existing,
there's some kind of progress
it cycles through birth and death
all the time. There is no sense
to fear, stress, or worry.
No sense of any kind.
Sep 2014 · 392
Soulverse,
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
They thought I was cruel
they thought I was bad.
They just hadn't been through,
everything that I had.
So I am asking you,
before you assume,
do you really know that?
Soulverse
Sep 2014 · 272
Before You Read This Poem,
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Please observe these photos first.*
theawesomedaily.com/31-images-that-show-the-true-face-of-the-world

I just gave a speech this morning,
about how the ordinary best friend
I have named Sam.

Guided me to my light
Reminded me who I am.
Enlightenment is the term I use,
Hoping to not sound like a sham.
I just knew it when I knew it.
The experience was
everything
I am.

And I look at these photos from the link above,
feeling compassion,
sadness,
and burning love.

My dreams are not to be graded
or judged,
or have others love me
because of what my words
touched.

My dream is to do everything little thing
In my power to make your soul sing.
To make you open up your eyes,
if life, for you, is just a guise
you have yet to realize.
We too were hypnotized
by societal lies.

But from the ashes the phoenix doth rise,
freed from the cycle of rebirth,
he takes to the skies.
thank you for reading.
Sep 2014 · 661
What They Say Is True
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Depths of self death
Never loved self
unless,
self loved someone else first
now self be depressed.
nobody gonna love you
until you do.
Sep 2014 · 541
The Creator
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
There's no good
no bad.
just whatever may be.
You can scoff at that,
or laugh
at me.

But I know,
you want to know
why thought
is key.
Because emotions
are a reality
you cannot
see.
Sep 2014 · 345
Untitled
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I agree wholeheartedly
be who you wanna be.
But is that who
I outta be?

Is there a prophecy?
Will anybody
be proud of me?

Cause I can't rely on self.
If I'm looking to feel
satisfied, I am
of no help.

Always hungry.
If ambition is my bread,
then what is the
lunch meat?
Sep 2014 · 1.8k
This Is An Anxiety Verse
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I'm scared of being the worst.
Because my best words
won't be enough
to save you from my  curse.
Sep 2014 · 605
You Inspired This.
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
There are so many beautiful beings
Out there right now,
I see you all just being
So fascinating and passionate now
And maybe I couldn't see it
Cause I was clouded in darkness
But once I started to be it
I forgot about feeling heartless.
You.
Sep 2014 · 385
Fear The Hand In Need
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Fear knows no home
Inside this vessel.
I struggle to not run,
In any of life's levels.
I am no longer scared of the one,
but of everyone else.
Somebody tell me how to help the world,
when the ones who have hurt me
are the same ones who need my help.
Sep 2014 · 241
The Numbers Always Add Up
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Call me a pretty bird,
For I know to fly.
Call me whatever you want
You are always on my mind.
Don't let us slip too far into sadness
I'd hate to be unable to find
The reasons for the seasons
Happiness guised as madness
You are everything all the time.
Blue dream.
Sep 2014 · 1.1k
There's No Evil In My Dreams
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Sometimes people
                                   don't know how to take,
                                                                ­           the works of art that I create.
            
I don't understand
                                  how knowing who I am
                                                                ­           causes the problems at hand.

They think that I am
                                    living in a dream,
                                                              bu­t  there's truth behind what I say,

AND how they make me seem.
                                    I can still say to the whole world
                                                           ­       I know the meaning of C.R.E.A.M.

But cash rules nothing in my world,
                                     I care less for the dollars
                                                                ­   And all about the DREAM

But I wouldn't mind the paper
                                and I am flattered by the follows
                                                       Because not even evil is all that it seems.
Don't judge till it's you.
            Not everything society demonizes
                                                  Should be demonized.

Just be a good person.
Sep 2014 · 590
Just A Little Song
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Yeah, I may be different.
Maybe I'm out my mind.
But I know you're listenin,
you're all so kind. You see
the light. I know you're
behind, the good I have in
my mind. You help me feel
like me, all of the time.
Reflecting on the pleasant spot I am at.
Very nice to be accepted
through all of the hate :)
Sep 2014 · 323
Of The Garden
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I think every flower starts with a dream
To help the others
Grow tall
To live with esteem.
Sometimes there are weeds
who come between.
These flowers and all
the pretty things
they could bring.
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I struggle to not unravel,
but this path I have walked has led me
through some troubling travels.
So I click "Add A Poem",
as I have done for years.
I pen down cleverly worded
accounts of my fears.
But as I walk this earth still,
I ponder.
How long I can avoid this
encroaching sonder.
For all of those orbiting my path.
I just want their sweet ignorance
of these evils to last.
For the greater good,
For happiness,
For love.
For the fact that if I save the world,
this is not what I want them
thinking of.
I will end the suspense here
For time has run out
On the clock telling me to face my fears,
Now I have no doubt.
I can tell you all:
I was *****.
And he got away.
And I have buried it deep
Until just today.
I noticed myself stuck in this pattern.
Of things that I thought didn't matter.
But I noticed how I had become him.
Creating the chances to do over
and over
and over again.
Things that weren't right
to myself within,
For me I call these actions, sin.
To explain in detail I wouldn't even know where to begin.
I compromised myself
to give others what I thought they wanted.
I became trapped inside my own devil
an angel haunted.
I have let myself and others take away
parts of me I will get back today.
I am sorry to myself,
and those around,
I am sorry because I hid all of this
feeling as though I let all of the universe down.
Sep 2014 · 287
Why Am I Wearing This?
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
This vessel that contains me,
does my spirit no proper justice.

I hear it creak
Feel weak,
And never rested.
It aches and takes,
my struggling breath away.

It catches here,
limits me there.
Invites that which is not wanted.

I live in the shell of a young,
happy woman.
Who should be oblivious,
that this is just a body
*haunted.
Sep 2014 · 1.5k
Meet Me By Hole #6
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
If you meet me by the lake,
Don't worry if it's a mistake
Look at all the things we could create
Over here by this lake.

If you're looking for the tree,
That's where you'll find me
That's where you become free.
Us, just sitting in a tree.  

You could push me on the swing,
Look at all the joy that'd bring.
You're not thinking about anything,
Swinging on the green.

If you could manage to find hole #6.
That's where all of this exists.
It's in our minds, it's not myth.
Dreams of hole #6.
golf course.
Sep 2014 · 1.2k
Flaws
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
There are two truths I cannot seem to realize at the right time:

I am all alone.
I am never alone.

I can't even make it a decent rhyme.
Sep 2014 · 3.8k
I Have A Future Reality,
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I am never not surprised,
when someone else has the courage to look me in my eyes,
to tell me bald-faced lies,
that say I am too dramatized
as a white girl trying to equalize
and see the world before me rise
to say we're not satisfied
to say with honesty we despise
a government who seems to tyrannize
its citizens into fearing they be deprived
of food, water, and electricity. So they have to believe in the guise.
That we are a nation paralyzed.
By lies.  
I am just a twenty two year old, Caucasian female
addicted to the idea I can help you see we will prevail.
Our nation teeters on the brink.
Help me save our souls,
Before they take us out like MLK, Lennon, JFK
All with a blink.
;)
Sep 2014 · 739
B.O.R.
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
One day, I will march on the lawn in Washington.
I will say my peace and progress on.
I will tell a million stories
that faded with history.
I will tell FACTS and cold, calculated truth.
I will inform the old and the youth.
I will bring peace to the world's people.
And you.
You may decide if you are with us,
**or with evil.
Sep 2014 · 351
Untitled
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Is this a call to action?

I certainly think so,

I started as a chain reaction,

I am moving more towards ebb and flow.

I need the help of you all,

Otherwise these words have no where to go.

Without you they would fall,

dead.

Much like the nation we call home.
Sep 2014 · 727
I Hope The NSA Reads This.
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Everything else for me ends here and now...
I have found the way,
and I have discovered how.
Exactly what I will say,
and hope you all realize the time is now.

We must unite to take back what is ours.
We must work for the greater good.
We must DEMAND a fair and beautiful nation.
Where no one is judged on beliefs about creation,
Where no one can tell us we have to do this.
Where no one is born into less than livable conditions the government lets persist.
WHERE NO ONE IS HATED FOR THEIR RACE.
Where no one can stand to hate while looking love in the face.
WHERE NO ONE IS BETTER THAN THE POOREST MAN,
JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE MORE WEALTH IN THEIR HANDS.

I AM BEGGING THE WORLD TO SEE ME.
*I just want us all to be set free
Because I have been through and seen enough.
I AM DONE JUST TAKING THINGS.
Sep 2014 · 364
I'm A Wanderer.
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
We are all just living a dream.
limbo. limbo. limbo.
This is just the in between.
circus. circus. circus.
All is not what it seems.
heaven. heaven. heaven.
We are all celestial beings.
Try as you might
We will never be free.
life. life. life.
a spiraling dream.
I am just a wanderer, baby.
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I thought I was a gladiator
no suit
but able to save Rome from the fall.
I thought I could bring peace to us all.
But  I  am  the  fall.
I am Rome.
With no team to call upon.
I am burning and burning,
madly playing my song
and here there are no homes.
and no meaning given to a throne.
I am pillaged.
I am plagued.
I will be this burning city for the rest of my days.
And I could never ask you townspeople,
(Who loved my city,
Who worshiped in my churches,
Who dreamt of lives here
)
To be able to be peaceful
and forgiving of my ways.
to live with no fear.
I am Rome
Made of ashes, smoking quietly here.
I am alone for the rest of time,
I truthfully fear.
I am Nero.
I am the corrupt government.
I am the Mongolians.
But they all came to pass....
Sep 2014 · 844
Washing Hands
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
If you were my friend then,
you are my friend now.
Don't get so wrapped up,
in the why or how.
If I can't be there for you,
Or you can't be there for me.
Take comfort in the fact
we need no apologies.
My friend, find a way somehow.
There is no then or when,
just a chance to try again now.
Okay, I literally wrote this while washing my hands haha
But I am addicted to the word play!
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
We are all burning at both ends.
Some more than others,
On the clock we must depend.
Let's hide under covers
and never give in.
Let me wear your bad days.
Celebrate you when you win.
It makes for a beautiful dance.
A Childish romance.
It all depends on more than just happenstance.
It's the kind of work you carry in your spine.
"The back breaking, soul fulfilling, leave me supine" kind.
You know it's something worth it when it transcends time.
Like if we could just have this forever, we would be fine.
I never want to give up what must have taken all my lives
to find. Something that is truly one of a kind.
Don't think about it too much.
Sep 2014 · 480
Let Us Never Forget.
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
There's nothing I can't face,
Nobody but me decides my fate.

I know it seems my head has been out of place,
But winners always seem to look that way
Right before victory
The whole world seems to trouble me.
Lingering insecurities,
Banish themselves when I just let myself be.  

I know nothing is perfect,
but that means it kind of is.
When you don't give up searching,
You learn what timing is.
You learn to fly within.
You finish fifth but still find ways to win.
Darling, that's the world I'm living in.
It's always worth it, beginning, middle, and end.
trust in yourselves and the universe.
it is all happening for you, for this moment.
Sep 2014 · 243
Soul Song
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
If I could just sing these words to you.
If I could use my voice to inform you on what I went through.
If I could oohhh and ahhh, and melodically coo.
I might be able to believe I can get through.
I might let my words convince me and you,
That I know in this moment,
Exactly what to do.
Sep 2014 · 3.4k
Biology 101
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I do not understand how we can be unaware.
I read it in this Biology text book,
on page one, it is right there

We're all just molecules and atoms,
How dare anyone think they matter,
More than the next collection of matter.
Just because they managed to gather,
all that wealth.
Sep 2014 · 477
Best Wishes
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I hope wherever you are
You're falling for a new star.
I hope she gives and holds you near,
And never keeps her love too far
Out of reach.
I hope she knows how to teach
you to love again.
She needs to be a fighter
to fix what I broke and couldn't win.


And I know that I changed
your already beautiful heart.
But I hope you get a new love story,
Of which sadness has no part.
I really, really hope you're as happy as me.
You always said this was for us,
thought you were lying, but I just didn't want to believe.
I always lacked that trust
because I couldn't see.
Everything I had then in front of me,
Hopefully finds its way back to you
And sets your heart free.
I couldn't fix what I did.
Nothing but love. I'm sorry.
Sep 2014 · 824
To Get Through,
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Things are not always as they should be.
Even though I'm happy,
It's still a struggle, you see.
Whether it is: Day by day.
Night by night.
Week by week
Decade by decade,
You'll get through.

The key to any struggle, is to focus on that which works for you.
Be sure it's for real though.
Sep 2014 · 1.1k
Laws of Happiness
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
For now,
I want to write these happy words.
And I don't want to think about
How anything might hurt.

I feel a mind state reminiscent of Dr. Suess,
No feelings of worry about you
Weighing round my neck like a noose.

The difference between them and you,
I feel a glow of perfection. Maybe it is
Your love of my perspective
Influencing my mood.

Whatever it is, I want to see it through.
Though it's not really a choice
I'm glad it's something
I'm looking forward to.
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I think I've got this soul mate thing figured out.
I don't mean to sound boastful,
I just love the mystery in how
And why
Life happens as it does.
You see this epiphany gave me the realization
Anyone of us could fall in love.
The only thing keeping us apart is the will to be together,
If we had that with everyone we would remain in love forever.
You have to do whatever it takes to make it work...or it won't.
Sep 2014 · 343
Existence.
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I noticed when I started doing good, I got it.
I noticed when I gave away things, I got them back.
I noticed when I sat in silence, I got the chance to speak.
I noticed when I settled for defeat, that was all there was within me.
I noticed when I let go, I let life.
So why aren't you smiling?
Look at me.
I am here right now, with all you can and cannot see.
I lived death out loud,
I lived to tell you.
I drink from the chalice of life and I will never be full.
Sep 2014 · 204
We, The People
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
My heart aches when I think,
About the regret I have for every blink,
Because I hate to miss a second of this beautiful planet.
So few share my view, but it's right there- how do you not understand it?
The beauty in every messy, ugly flaw.
The song in every squawk of the crow's caw.
The ever changing painting of the sky.
So beautiful, and we're all so undeserving I can never understand why
So many of you won't give true understanding a try .
Sep 2014 · 249
I Can't Let My Light Hide.
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I love you, I love you, I love you.
But sometimes, I will just have to walk away.
I try so hard, I try so hard.
Goodness, do you see me today?
I know, I know, I know
There's things that can't be.
But I'm open as an ocean
Let my tides bring you out to me.

All that I am working with,
Is like the world's biggest magnet.
And I bury it with flesh and soft curls,
Emotions and the problems of the world.
I know my weakness is my strength.
I know you think it might cause me to stray.
But if I don't use my gifts today,
I'm sure that all I fight for will fade away...
they actually told me to stop breathing today.
Right before they said evil can never be saved.
I should have laughed it off and walked away,
But I took it with me.
Sep 2014 · 291
Seek Your Own Knowledge
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Don't ask me how you can obtain,
something you already know.  
If you seek a spiritual gain,
Only you can go.
Take in the love
Replace the pain.
Try breathing like you know,
The world won't be the same,
For any of us who let go.
mind.
Sep 2014 · 491
11:11
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Just because I write about you,
and sing about you,
doesn't mean I think about you too.

I'm just doing everything I gotta do,
Everything that let's me let go of you.
Everything is turning,
Oceans heated and churning.
Baby, what was I to do?

I loved so hard and long,
everything started turning blue.
and I hate it, man. Stayed faded, man.
Cause I started falling in love with blue, too.

I was crazy, that deep deep kind.
Weak and hazy, lost all of my mind.
Swear I didn't know what went down,
Or some days why we kept one another around.
I just wanted you to know, about the realness I found.
So different now.
So clear and out loud.
But the real me still hates,
how much I let us both down.
A sign.
Sep 2014 · 786
Water Sign
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
I'm swimming in an ocean,
far out to sea.
I've lost all magic potions,
to help me just be.
And when I'm scared
I close my eyes.
I picture a time when
everything is going right.
And...suddenly...I...see...

**Everything I could want, I will already be.
This catchy tune stuck in my head over some hummus.
Sep 2014 · 190
Untitled
Jennifer Weiss Sep 2014
Does any of the **** I do matter?
Type.
Type.
"      ".
More useless chatter.
More problems on a silver platter.
Type.
Type.
...
At least I'm a "poet" right?
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