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 Mar 2017 jmtamis
cait
repentance
 Mar 2017 jmtamis
cait
ten days i will spend
asking for forgiveness
praying for redemption
getting down upon my bones
and whimpering at your feet.

please
kick me while i'm down.
to feel the snap of your toe
against my ribcage
is better than nothing at all.
I would rather be abused and forgotten
 Mar 2017 jmtamis
Corvus
I love the idea of healing,
But I'm not just suffering from symptoms,
I am the sickness,
Punching myself black and blue,
Refusing to stop until I'm soaking red.
I'm better off suffering from the thing that kills me,
Than cutting away parts of me until useless fragments remain.
Like the captain that goes down with his ship,
I will never see salvation from this point onward.
This disease has seeped into my cells
And now I'm more sickness than human.
If I took away the biggest part of me,
What would I be left with, but emptiness?
 Mar 2017 jmtamis
Samantha Lee
The anatomy of a wish
an embryo of a dream
a cardiovascular increase
as it sails the bloodstream
the nervous system takes hold
and sends shivers down the spine
action to be taken
when muscles and bones combine
lungs fill with air
oxygen finds release
another breath exhaled
as we find inner peace
this new life makes me
more afraid than the first
because
now
i know what it feels like
to love and to lose
Some call it bi-polar
I prefer manic-depression
It fits us better with adequate expression
We live our life in swooping loops
We strive at our peak then it droops
And the doleful drudge is destitute
Until all progress stops and stoops
To a halt, face down in mud and roots

And then we rise
Called back to life by a guiding light held deep inside
Sorely self-aware, we work until we burst
Droll desperation, at our best when at our worst
"Wow you got your **** together you lost and soulless ruffian."
Then we hit our peak and it all starts back up again

— The End —