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Joshua Helmuth Oct 2014
Laughter. There is joy. There is convenience. There is safety. There is healing. There is challenge. There is love. There is Change. There is beauty. There is mystery. There is wonder. There is greatness.

What have I brought?
Am I only to consume? Destroy?
Ordinary. Plain. Carbon Copy.
What am I to give to this world?
My only impact may be the hole where my journey ends
Nothing to show.
Just another Faceless who lived to win
But was destined to lose.
Joshua Helmuth Feb 2014
I can't sleep
Not now, not ever
My mind wanders
Hoping, searching, dying for answers
To questions that have none.

I am afraid
Not of death, but pain
Lost in uncertainty
Hoping, searching, dying for comfort
In this murky sea of anxiety

I need to know
Where I will finish
I can only look back
Hoping, searching, dying to know
If these are the right choices

So I can relax,
Put my mind at ease,

And finally get some sleep.
Joshua Helmuth Jan 2014
What do I believe?
What do I believe?
WHAT. DO. I. BELIEVE?
Stop it!
I don't know!
I don't know...
It is I which is broken
Not the mirror
I'm incomplete
Full of holes
What am I missing?
No more please
No more questions
I have no answers
Joshua Helmuth Sep 2013
The dim light fades
Darkness feels ever expansive
Yet it crushes.
Know the sting of the beast's teeth
As it tears at your heart
Opening you up

This is not a foreign pain

I know all too well

How it feels

To be

Forlorn
Joshua Helmuth May 2013
Rain that calms and soothes
The trees that sway in the wind
And the stars of night
Joshua Helmuth Feb 2013
Good morning to the rising Sun
It's nice to see you again
For that means I'm still breathing
And made it to night's end

Hello to the resplendent moon
A light to shine in the void
My closest friend beyond my reach
Ends the day. I'm overjoyed

The Beginning and the End
To you I'd forever cling
Because there's nothing that I dread more
Than what happens in between

So lift me up, rising Sun
I do not wish to come back down
And raise me higher, resplendent Moon
To the stars all around

Please hold me fast with your loving glow
As I watch you each ascend
Although you both are lifeless
You spark life in me once again
Joshua Helmuth Jan 2013
Falling to the ground
Smoldering wings are broken
At least I'm not you
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