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Mar 2016 · 282
Hurt
josh wilbanks Mar 2016
It's not that you don't love me,
I know that you do;
It's that you didn't love me
Back when i loved you.
Mar 2016 · 279
M10w
josh wilbanks Mar 2016
My life is just like my poetry.

A dissapointment.
Mar 2016 · 403
Nostalgic love
josh wilbanks Mar 2016
My love, my love.
You are a house made of cards.
Our love is built upon nostalgia.
I am starting to forget.
The love is fading,
The passion long gone.
It is time we acknowledge the wind has blown.
Im leaving her soon.
Mar 2016 · 1.1k
Petals
josh wilbanks Mar 2016
Wilting petals of my plants,
Show me how you do.
Barely hanging on to life,
I exist just as you.
Mar 2016 · 295
Wells (10w)
josh wilbanks Mar 2016
Today i found that wells aren't eyes.
Empty eyes sting.
Mar 2016 · 555
Her
josh wilbanks Mar 2016
Her
I feel within me an indescribable warmth.
It is the first kiss; the first love.
The first hello and the last goodbye.
The butterflies that flutterd for days.
The indescribable longing for more.

I feel within me her.
She was my first girl; my first hug.
The emodiement of perfection.
The butterflies that flutterd for days.
The one that stole my heart.
Hailie,
The memories are unforgetable.
Feb 2016 · 558
Love note
josh wilbanks Feb 2016
With eternal sentiment i sent you a note. "Dear lover, you have my soul." Yet as i sit waiting for response, i relize i wrote the wrong girl.
Feb 2016 · 376
Purpose
josh wilbanks Feb 2016
A slaughter house of emotions keeps my mind busy as this 145 pound meat bag just keeps getting heavier and heavier. I've begin to wonder if this is how it was always ment to be; trapped in my own thoughts. After all, not everyone gets to be rich.
Feb 2016 · 371
Blue
josh wilbanks Feb 2016
Lets try something new.
I don't think i'll right about you.
Instead of red, the color of dead,
I think i'll write about blue.

See i have always preferred blue.
It doesn't seem so, but it is quite true.
Drugs and ***** represent the shades of blues,
But this is nothing new.

I could sit and cry,
I could try to die.
I could wallow in pitty,
And forget my pride.

Or i could live my life,
Even if i'm high.
Care free, carefully,
Experiencing new tragities.
I would rather be high and happy then sober and depressed.
Feb 2016 · 592
Excuse
josh wilbanks Feb 2016
It's hard to understand how i'm feeling. It's as if i'm the first person to ever be paralyzed from the neck down. Around me are people who keep telling me "just get up" or "go take out the trash" then getting angry when they can't understand why. All my friends think i must just hate them, because i never go out and do anything with them. Not because i don't want to, but because i can't.

It's as if i'm drowning in a sea, surrounded by mermaids, who don't understand why i can't "just breathe." These mermaids refuse to let me go back on shore to the other people like me, the people who understand, saying i'll ruin my life if i go back on land.

It's as if depression is viewed not as a condition but as an excuse.
The people around me don't understand, yet they won't let me talk to my friends, who do understand, because they "bring me down."

I don't have to fake who i am around them. Nothing feels more amazing.
Feb 2016 · 865
Debacle
josh wilbanks Feb 2016
I love you for who you are.

I love the way you fight for what you believe is right.
I love the way you can't hide your emotions.
I love the way you bounce on your toes when you get excited.
I love the twinkle in your eyes when you get happy.

Why do you love me?

"Look at all you've done for me."
"You treat me like a queen."
"You've changed so much just for me."
"You helped me in my bad times."

I did things for you. You love me for what i did. You changed who i was. You didn't love me for who i was. You loved me for who i could be. For who i am.

What have you done? You don't help in my dark times. You made me quit talking to everyone who did. You made me loose all my friends. You made me feel useless.

You love me because you can use me.

Why do i love you?
Jan 2016 · 798
Condition
josh wilbanks Jan 2016
Imagine that randomly through out the day, your legs quit working. No matter how well you explain the science of it all, nobody really understands. "Why don't you just.. idk, stand up?"

Imagine that randomly through out the day, your nervous system shuts down. No matter what you say, explaining time and time again the science of it all, nobody really understands. "So you're telling me that you can't feel? That's stupid. Just start feeling. You're fine"

Imagine that randomly through out the day, you feel like killing yourself. No matter how many times you try to get help, nobody really understands. "Nobody just feels like killing themselves. You have a good life, you're happy. Just cheer up a bit."

If my disability was physical instead of mental, everyone one care alot more.
Jan 2016 · 494
Hailie
josh wilbanks Jan 2016
At 2 a.m. on a warm summers night, the thought of you still lingers in my head. The smell of that musky roof top brings back more than just memories. It's been years since the last time we've spoke yet i can't help but feel as if i still love you. You were my first. Somewhere, sometime, you'll see these skies and think of me. I'll be sitting here, thinking of you. Reminiscing under lonely stars.
For my friend, my hero, and my past. I will never forget your name.
Jan 2016 · 848
Empty
josh wilbanks Jan 2016
Depression has me longing for the day that you walk out of my life again because atleast then i'll know why i'm hurting. Life drains me of my soul; you are pumping a desert, demanding water. I love you with everything i have. I hate the way you abuse it.
I am at a point in my life where i feel as if leaving her will **** me, yet staying with her tortures me.
Jan 2016 · 761
The one that got away (10w)
josh wilbanks Jan 2016
With the words i never said, i let you go.
Jan 2016 · 331
Old boy
josh wilbanks Jan 2016
It's just lost it's magic.
What you remember is it full of passion.
What you remember is what it's lacking.
That timeless action.
The one that kept you so attracted.
It's all just turned to chores and acting.

Where is my pride and joy?
Who took my youth from me?
Made it all feel make believe?
Reminscing painfully is taking all my sanity.
What a tragity, taking back my past from me.
I can't come to see what my youth has gone on to be.

I miss you.
We all have that one thing thats just not the same
Jan 2016 · 722
Unatainable
josh wilbanks Jan 2016
She once told me that i should write about what makes me happy instead of what brings me down. I could write 3 works a day for my entire life and still not completely describe her to the paper. What a flawed system; setting unreachable goals.
Dec 2015 · 425
Marionette
josh wilbanks Dec 2015
You never supported me when i would show my true colours. All you wanted was for me to fly your flag. Play by your rules. I can’t tell between friend and foe any more. This civil war has been dragged on for far too long.
According to her, the things that make me who i am are the worst things i could do.

Anger has turned my blood a shade of red it has never seen before. I'm heated.
Dec 2015 · 694
Unknown
josh wilbanks Dec 2015
Even though it’s not true, it helps to believe some where, someone is going to look at my life, and get inspired.

Don’t nobody look at the **** i write. Not here, not in notebooks, not on poetry pages. Nobody looking, nobody judgeing, so why not?
**** it.
Dec 2015 · 576
Bitter sweet
josh wilbanks Dec 2015
The eternal drought brought upon by wasted tears has left me in a state of rememberance. No matter how high i get, your dripping love still has my mind captured. The wonders of your touch still keep my heart in trance. Your name no longer leaves my mouth in longing but in defeat. The night has grown to last all day.
Dec 2015 · 571
Opinions
josh wilbanks Dec 2015
It seems as if the lips around here are useless. After all, whats the point of talking when no one cares to listen? If words were thought about as much as thoughts leave the lips, maybe then i would open up. It's evident that no one cares, they simply want a "you are right."
"You don't hate yourself"
"Drugs never help"
"Cutting is just for attention"
"You should see a therapist"
Dec 2015 · 380
Feul
josh wilbanks Dec 2015
No matter what, i'll still think of you every morning. I can't control it. You are everything my mind longs for. Everything my heart begs for. Everything my body aches for. My feul.
Oct 2015 · 825
Butterfly
josh wilbanks Oct 2015
So gentle, so innocent. Young butterfly, i love your soul. Carry that nector, and carry it careful. Without you, life lacks beauty.
I feel so strongly for her beautiful patterns
Oct 2015 · 395
Cocaine
josh wilbanks Oct 2015
With knives to the heart you destroyed my mind, crippling whatever peace i had left. Yet here i am, running back to you.
Running back to the feeling you give me.
Running back to the past.
You're my worst enemy,
Yet my greatest friend.
I'm addicted.
*******.
Oct 2015 · 851
Planting
josh wilbanks Oct 2015
The seed of passion is a delicate creature. Water it with to much love, and it will drown. Plant it in the roots of hate, and it will shrivle. The soils of time are the perfect location, yet too much soil, and the plant becomes smotherd. Give a good man all your love, but don't become dependant on him. I believe in you, young flower. Soon enough, you will be a giant bean stalk. All you need is right in front of you; if only you' be smart about how you use it.
I will not fail again.
Oct 2015 · 601
Eyes
josh wilbanks Oct 2015
I could always see her soul through her eyes. Those brown rings telling tales of passion. Love had never been so simple. Two kids, frozen in time.
I don't want to live without her in my arms.
Oct 2015 · 446
Nemesis
josh wilbanks Oct 2015
I am a man of logic. I always have been. Equations and formulas and problem solving have always been my greatest strengths. I love myself for this.

I should hate you. Yet no matter how hard my brain begs, i will always adore you.

You are the bane of my existance. I hate the way i love you.
Oct 2015 · 571
Endless
josh wilbanks Oct 2015
I have always been alive.
Before i was born, i was inside my parents.
A possibility, destined to become creation.
Before my parents, it was their parents.

I will always be alive.
When i die, i will decompose.
The rock cycle will rejuvinate the earth i occupy.
I will become one with the ever loving earth.

Matter is neither created nor destroyd.
Life is never taken nor given.
Why stay hurt, beat down, broken, when i can become something much bigger?
Oct 2015 · 184
Untitled
josh wilbanks Oct 2015
Yet as i cry myself to sleep, i cannot hate you.
I love you.
I am here for you.

You ******* destroyd me.

But i will always be here for you.
I will always love.
That ring on your finger is our forever and always.

You might not stay true forever, you might not always think about the things you're doing.
Yet even though you let him take your first time,

I will love you. Forever and always.
Edit: i wrote this to attempt to get out my emotions. Right now, this has 12 reads. At my lowest point in life so far, even writing couldn't help me. I think that's the most poetic thing about this work. How nobody likes it.
Sep 2015 · 525
Frankenstien
josh wilbanks Sep 2015
Nothing makes me love like in the old days
Nothing but my old ways
You got me changing all my actions
Now you wonder where my passion
You wonder why i'm slackin
I don't love you like my past man
Cause my past man got put on blast, then
My emotions whent to trash
Now i'm living in the aftermath
Void of all except for clash
My heart's been torn apart and slashed
My brains been turned to **** and bashed
My personality turned into ash

My love whent with my soal when you put it over gas
Sorry all my poems are **** now. There's no emotion to feed off any more. Simply null.
Sep 2015 · 219
Mistique
josh wilbanks Sep 2015
The first time you buy a painting, it is the pride of your house. You put it on display because this painting made your day. But as days turn into weeks, you get tired of Mistique, the painting of your dreams. You take it off the center spot and put it in a bathroom lot, where its beauty gets defaced and its colours start to fade. But Mistique is still standing. By month ten you've been through more then one painting, and Mistiques sitting in some old bend, remembering it's friend, just waiting for the end.

You're looking for some dread but found Mistique insteand and remember that first friend, who's torn apart by now. You tape a glue and colour it all new but on the inside,

Mistique is already dead.
Aug 2015 · 645
Dull
josh wilbanks Aug 2015
Down a dark alley,
Your lies have taken my soul.
Life has become grey.
It's as if she left with my emotions and then returned with a demand for more. Does she even know what she's doing to me? Does she even care?
Aug 2015 · 1.9k
Fearless
josh wilbanks Aug 2015
When i first saw you, i saw your soal in your eyes.
A soal that took my breath away.
When i first held your hand, i held safety.
The touch that takes away all thoughts.
When i first heard you say "i love you", i was afraid.
True love is petrifying.

As i lay here in my own self hate, remeniscing on what we used to have, i feel empty.

I wish you would scare me.
I wish i wasn't fearless.
Sorry it's ***. I'm going through some things and just needed an escape for a bit.
Jul 2015 · 4.5k
Typical
josh wilbanks Jul 2015
Wake up.
Think of you.
Remember you've changed.
Video games.
Avoid texting you.
Video games.
Spend money.
Feel terrible.
Video games.
Spend more money.
Text you.
Video games.
Forget to eat.
Video games.
Ponder suicide.
Day dream about death.
Video games.
Feel ******.
You don't help.
Check fridge.
Drink.
Video games.
Think of you.
Drink.
Video games.
Drink.
Find my knife.
Drink.
Consider.
Drink.
Text you.
*******.
**** me.
Drink.
Just one cut.
Think of you.
Drink.
Drink.
Drink.

Wake up.
Think of you.
Ouch.
"Just one cut."
Woops.
Text you.
You still don't care.
Drink.
Nap.

Rinse.
Repeate.
Average day. I hate how you changed.
Jun 2015 · 341
Differances
josh wilbanks Jun 2015
A sky, once filled with your clouds from hell, has been replaced with my smoke stacks of lighting - ready to burn down everything you have built.
Dispite how you have ruined me, i refuse to ruin a house built on straws.
Despite how you crumbled me, i won't leave you when you need me most.

That's the differance between me and you.
That's the reason you no longer deserve me.
Funny, how the roles have swapped. I could never put you through the hell you made me live.
May 2015 · 842
Heaven
josh wilbanks May 2015
I finally achieved the woman so many ****** nights and ****** poems were wasted on. I thought this would bring utopia. The hardships have left a taste of malignity in my mouth. I don't want to be in "heaven" any longer.
She came too late. The titanic has already sunk.
May 2015 · 376
Useless
josh wilbanks May 2015
I used to be a god of words.
I now pray to god someone even notices my writings.
I used to be a friend to many.
I now have troubles befriending myself.
Nobody reads these anymore, anyways.
May 2015 · 284
Fire
josh wilbanks May 2015
I love unconditionally.
A love that could outlast infinity. Burning stronger than a planet of coal set on fire. Focused only at one, for only one loved back. A true love given, a true love recieved. But then everything changed. The oxygen left. I could not breathe, let alone show my burning love. She left. She returned, only to dump pollution. 1, i still loved her. 2, i didn't mind. 3, for old times sake. 4, i'll just start drinking. 5, i'm hate you. 6, i can't stop drinking. 7, i can't stop hating you. 8, you return.

As if nothing ever happend, i attempt to reignite the fire. A fire without oxygen. A fire without fuel. A fire without heat. A fire in a pool of water.

I used to love unconditionally.
I thought i got my lover back. All i recieved was an empty soal. I can't take it any more. She has taken everything from me. My insides can no longer function.

I need out.
Apr 2015 · 445
Bubble Life (10w)
josh wilbanks Apr 2015
Repremands for experiencing out weigh living in fear of punishment.
Sorry it's been so long. Lost my fuel.
Mar 2015 · 340
Bottles
josh wilbanks Mar 2015
The bottom of a bottle doesn't seem so scary when your thoughts are full of fright.
Take my too my special tree and tie the knott up tight.
Sober i can feel the pain so sober i take flight.
Dangling for infinity makes the bottle quite alright.
Jan 2015 · 358
Tonight
josh wilbanks Jan 2015
A single slip,
ever so slight.
Another cut,
not quite so light.
Tally your **** ups,
let's set them right.
Draw your blade,
it ends tonight.
Every **** up by day will be dealt with by night.
Jan 2015 · 465
Cassie
josh wilbanks Jan 2015
On the brink of lies holds a whipped hearts confession -
Here in my arms is the girl of obsession

Yet pain is void from her beautiful lips possesion -
Love has returned to beat my depression
Last week i beat my depression for the first time in 6 years. Today, the love of my life returned.
Dec 2014 · 325
Murder
josh wilbanks Dec 2014
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to ****?
To take the life out of someone?

"I'm leaving you"

Those three words struck deeper then any bullet,
any sword,
any ******* missile
Throw a ******* train at me and ill take the blow,
for you

You are the straw that broke the camels back
The one drop too many
The end

How does it feel to ****?
She is back. It still hurts. So i guess by default, i am back.
Nov 2014 · 565
The return
josh wilbanks Nov 2014
And as clouds formed, all I wanted was you.
And as rain poured, you walked away.
Down my cheeks, clouds where emptied.
Down my chest, a heart was broken.

The sky has never been so blue.
If only sky's would stay.
Oct 2014 · 892
Change
josh wilbanks Oct 2014
Fake people in a fake town, wearing fake smiles, hiding real frowns. Plastic toys in a garbage bin like people in a school (where  education ends.) Drill the facts and **** creativity, paint the plastic and bull doze the nativity. Humans in a system like monkeys in a cage. Yet this is how we are expected to behave.

Snow fall in a desert would be a new type of nice. Yet i just keep raining on my own paradise. Let the winds guide me to my cubicle downtown, where fake people smiles turn into real people frowns. Yet "life is good!" wrings high from the voices, just who's in who vile screaming senseless rejoices. The sun will die, and with it our lives. What is the point when we all end in time? Why do we sing when the christmas tree burns? When little suzzy was ***** and thing three killed before born?

The world is dark like the back of the moon. The dawn is coming though not to be soon. I work to bring light, but what about you?
Let the fake fade when you decide what to do.
Sep 2014 · 911
Athiest
josh wilbanks Sep 2014
im no jesus but i can turn water into koolaid. take a hit of this blunt then i'll forgive you of your sins. show me how to swim on land and i'll show you how to walk on water. im no god, but luke i am your father. just go a little farther down the road so i can pretend we look related. i just masterbated. it feels pretty good to be athiest.
Sep 2014 · 635
Insomniac
josh wilbanks Sep 2014
I regret every second I am asleep because nothing hurts more then waking up to find out it was all a lie.
You are not mine.
You don't love me.
It's not three in the morning, you're not asleep beside me with one hand on my chest sending chills of fire straight through every bone, every vein, every single cell of this wretched body.
I am not sober, hearing your voice tell me that you could gaze into my eyes forever, thinking about how badly I want your soal to coexist with mine for the rest of time.
Your breath may not be mine but my thoughts are all yours.
Your touch may not be mine but my memories are all yours.
My infatuation is all yours.
My love is all yours.
My insomnia is all yours.
I can no longer fathom wich is worse: remembering what we had, or re-experiencing it over and over every ****** night.
Sep 2014 · 542
Alchoholic
josh wilbanks Sep 2014
I drink away the pain because I can no longer cut it out but give me a chance and I will carve your name.
I think about the day because I no longer remember the nights but give me a chance and I will forget the days too.
I smile when I remember our memories because they have always been my favorites but give me the chance and I will forget them all.

Let me stop drinking.
Jun 2014 · 439
Maybe
josh wilbanks Jun 2014
I am a fire.
A mighty fire.
I burn on passion.
You bring me hell.
Hell,
a fire pit of eternal pain.
You bring me a passion that hurts more than any other ****** up lie i have been lead to believe.

Love.
Joy.
Happieness.
Wanting.
Care.
A willingness to sacrifice everything to see you smile.
- The definition of passion.
You give it to me in over doses.

I love you.
So ******* much.
I hate this passion.
Because i am nobody to you.
Just another guy.
Another relationship.
Another "love of my life."
Another ******* lie.

Just a guy from the past.
Living in lost time.
Reminicing to a place Where he felt cared for.
Where he felt that passion.

Passion.
A beast to conquer all.
Brought down by the smallest of things.
Brought down by lies.

My fire is brighter then ever with you.
I love it.
Your touch burns down clouds.
Your absence brings the fire men.

Maybe I was wrong.
Maybe I don't love you.
Just the love you gave me.
Just your passion.
My flame is a puddle of blood these days. Thanks for making it rain.
Jun 2014 · 328
Two stories
josh wilbanks Jun 2014
There was happieness,
then
everything changed.
It
beat
the kid.
The lonely kid
wanderd into
a mindest,
desperate for it to stop.
The kid did what it said,
and
he cut every day.
He could
not
stop.
He beleived he couldn't.
He eventually died.
Depression finally beat him.
He has always struggled.

or

He has always struggled.
Depression finally beat him.
He eventually died.
He believed he couldn't
stop,
not
he could.
He cut every day,
and
the kid did what it said.
Desperate for it to stop,
a mindest
wanderd into
the lonely kid.
The kid
beat
it.
Everything changed.
Then,
there was happieness.
Don't ever ******* call me Joshua.
I am not him.
I will never again ******* be him.
I am josh/batman.
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