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Josiah Wilson Jan 2014
Late night sadness
Always haunts me
Thoughts of you
Are so depressing

When I wish that
I could hold you
And I don't know
What to do

Creeping shadows
Lonely moonlight
My companions
So late at night

Late night sadness
Darkens my room
But don't worry
Morning comes soon
Josiah Wilson Aug 2014
Quiet clouds drifting across the night sky
The world is quiet, as everyone sleeps
The moon above like a half eaten pie
Majestic and bright, her vigil she keeps
Josiah Wilson Jan 2016
The scars you've left upon my body
Will probably never fade
And they're engraved upon me
Part of what you made

I can't bring myself to let memories
Fade away to dust
They're all I have left of me and you
Of that once held trust

I'll drown myself in this blood
Filling my chest
And choking on my life
With these last breaths
Josiah Wilson Aug 2013
I'm only a man
So why do you think
I'm more than I am?
I don't know

I can't save the day
So why don't you want
Me to go away?
I don't know

I don't know
Why you want me
Or keep me around
I don't know
Why you pick me up
When I fall down

All I know
Is I'll stay here
As long as I can
And I'll love you
But I'm only a man
Josiah Wilson Nov 2013
Dark and dreary
So depressed
My mind in shambles
My room a mess

I need to get
This through my head
But I'm just lying
On my bed

No energy
Or will to live
I have nothing
Left to give

So please,
don't leave me here
Please
© Josiah Wilson
Josiah Wilson Mar 2014
Coffee rings stain my desk
And your fingerprints mark
Where your hands lingered
Last night in the dark

The morning sun shines bright
And your hair spills across the bed
I can't focus on anything
As you fill my head

Your arms stretch towards the ceiling
And I smile as you catch my eye
I think to myself again
How I never want to say goodbye
Josiah Wilson May 2015
I wish you were here
I'd hold you in my arms
And if you were near
I'd smile all the time

So lonely without you
The days are dragging on
I'm so glad that I have you
Without you life feels wrong

So please don't leave me
I don't think I'd survive
I wouldn't be happy
Without you in my life
Not my best, but it is what it is
Josiah Wilson Jun 2014
You have the most beautiful smile
I haven't seen it in a while
But you know I miss you so bad
When you're not here I get so sad

It'd be nice if you'd come around
All the time I'm wearing this frown
It's so grey since you went away
And it gets worse everyday

Please come back
Bring color into my life again
Please tell me
It's not over, this is not the end
Please come back
I'll do anything to make you stay
Please tell me
They're all wrong and we won't end this way

You have the most kissable lips
You make my heart start doing flips
I can't be sad when you are near
You make me smile from ear to ear

It'd be nice if you'd come around
'Cause since you left I've been so down
The sun has set and gone away
And it gets darker everyday

Please come back
Bring color into my life again
Please tell me
It's not over, this is not the end
Please come back
I'll do anything to make you stay
Please tell me
They're all wrong and we won't end this way
They're all wrong and we won't end this way

Not today, please stay, don't go away
Please stay, don't let it end this way
Josiah Wilson Mar 2018
That night you left me,
Two weeks ago
You left with my heart
With my feelings, with my love

I almost died.

Now life seems hazy
Surreal, fake
Like I'm not quite living it

Or like I'm in a dream
So I pinch my arm
Please, wake up
But it's still
Real

The clouds are lifting though
Slowly, bit by bit
I'll live again
And I'll be here
When you're ready
Josiah Wilson Nov 2013
Sometimes
I just want to
**** myself
Josiah Wilson Oct 2013
You know
You've hurt me so much I cry
You know
Sometimes I just can't get by

And I wish
You were dead
That you never
Came up in my life

You know
That I gave all that I had
And you know
That you make me feel so bad

Like I failed you
And I've never ever
Been good enough

So tonight
I'm saying *******
I'm walking out of here with head held high
'Cause tonight
I'm getting drunk
So I don't remember how you say hi

Because you made
Me feel ecstatic
And like I was amazing
But now I'm
Absolutely nothing
So *******, and everything you were

Because
I'm good enough
Without you
Sorry
But I'm good
So I guess, this is my last adieu.
Josiah Wilson Dec 2013
And I thought
That I got
Something good

But I was wrong
All along
Just as always

So I will
Drink away these sorrows
'Cause **** what comes tomorrow
I don't care anymore

And you can
Do whatever you please
Just don't ask for **** from me
I don't care anymore
Josiah Wilson Feb 2018
After all this time you have to know
You have to know how much you mean to me
You have to know that my heart still skips a beat
When you say that I'm your favorite
You have to know that I'm telling the truth
When I say that I would move heaven and earth for you
My world is dull and faded without you
Colors bleached like a painting left too long in the sun
Everything that held life and happiness is drained
Replaced by weak, pallid substitutes

All this really is...
Well, it's just an attempt to explain
That you are my home, my heart, my love
And that without you my life has no meaning
The future that we planned dashed upon the rocks
And scattered to the winds

Please
I am begging you with everything that I have left
Please do not leave me here alone and dying
My heart ripped out, my life trickling away
My hope gone

Please
I just need you, and only you
And you once said you felt the same
So if you can
Find that again
For me.
Josiah Wilson Mar 2014
Under the shining lights
Horns and trumpets blare
Take in all of the sights
This city has come alive

People stroll down the street
Rain splashes on the sidewalk
Tap your foot to the beat
As the music fills the night

Get on the floor and dance
The sax man does his thing
This could be your chance
The swing band's letting loose
Josiah Wilson Aug 2013
I want to cut and run
Say that I don't care anymore
But I know that you know that I care too much

I want to say goodbye
Act like I don't feel this way
But I can't bring myself to tell you any lies

So I'll stay here
Almost miserable
'Cause you act
Like I'm invisible
But I've got nowhere else to go
So I'll stay here
And take it slow

I want to take your hand
And pull you away with me
We can go anywhere, we can do anything at all

I want to hold you close
Feel your body pressed against mine
But I know that you'd never let me get that close

So I'll stay here
Almost miserable
'Cause you act
Like I'm invisible
But I've got nowhere else to go
So I'll stay here
And take it slow

Yeah, I don't know
So I'll take it slow
How long can I wait
On you?
Josiah Wilson Oct 2013
That feeling I get
When he's there
Taking your attention
You've got none left to spare

Makes me want to scream
To the sky
How much I want him
Just to go away and die

Because he is
Everything I hate
And he knows it
He thinks that he's so great

But I just want to
Smash his face in
With
A really
Big
Rock
Josiah Wilson Feb 2014
Red hair, soft lips
Eyes closed tight
Let me be the one
Who wakes you up tonight

With a soft, soft kiss
And a gentle touch
Girl, I need you
So very much

Just open your eyes
And hold me tight
Let me be the one
Who stays with you tonight
Josiah Wilson Jun 2014
The is a ******* wasteland
Dead and dry as a bone
Just miles and miles of sand
And I wander here alone

I'm never gonna get out
The sun burns at my skin
I trip, fall to the ground
Is this how my life will end?

This desert will not **** me
I still refuse to die
Despite the burning heat
I stand and keep up the fight

Step by step I carry on
Toward my salvation
Feeling in my feet gone
Pain a fleeting sensation

I'll walk until I can't stand
Then I'll crawl on my knees
I won't die in this land
One day I'll be ******* free
Josiah Wilson Jun 2014
A harsh wind howls over the mountains
But I stand tall, alone and unbowed
With my wild hair and pelts
I am the barbarian, fierce and proud

No weapon can fell me, no man can best me
For I vanquish all with my axe and my shield
Flee now before my might and wrath
To my power surrender, to my fury yield

Like the wild north wind I come
Laying low all in sight
So cower in fear, you soft ones
And flee fast into the night
Josiah Wilson Oct 2014
You're just a substitute
Someone to hold in her place
'Cause if I close my eyes
I can still see her face

And I kinda like you
But this sure isn't love
'Cause when I fall asleep
It's her that I dream of

And it's her I want
When I'm alone at night
But you're in my bed
When I turn out the light

So I'll hold you close
But my mind isn't here
It's wandered away
Wishing she was near

You will never be her
I'll never be content
Because inside my heart
I know it's not meant
To be
Josiah Wilson Jul 2014
How does something so completely right feel completely wrong?
How does something make me feel at ease, yet make my dread so strong?
It's this complicated, complex problem tearing me apart
This paradoxical, puzzling thing that's ripping at my heart

It confuses me
So easily
Tap
Tap
Inside my brain
This is driving me
Insane

How does something I love so much make me feel this uneasy?
How does the thought put my head in a spin, and make me queasy?
It's this intricate, enigmatic problem I can not solve
This mysterious, mystifying thing around which I revolve

It perplexes me
So easily
Tap
Tap
Inside my head
Makes me wish that I
Was dead

These voices arguing inside me won't be quiet
No matter what I do or say
And they all belong to me
And I just wish that they would
SHUT.
UP.
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Josiah Wilson Mar 2014
Tales of the shadow
Creeping in the night
Tales of the hunter
Searching with keen sight

'Tis an endless dance
The pair of them make
The hunter to save
And the shadow to break

The Soulstealer comes
In the witching hour
While people are dreaming
His chosen prey cowers

The hunter steps light
With his weapons in hand
When he finds the dark beast
There he'll make his stand

For 'tis his sworn duty
To guard and to save
From the dark in the night
And the shadow in day
Josiah Wilson May 2018
Every night I sleep alone
I think of you
And I die a little more
Josiah Wilson Jan 2014
Under the mountain
The dragon does sleep
His silver and gold
Under guard does he keep

Make haste, flee away
From his fiery breath
For his eyes they see far
And his claws they bring death

He flies through the sky
With a vengeance filled mind
An anger undulled
And unwearied by time

His enemies burn
From the flames of his tongue
He slays one and all
From the old to the young

And once he is sated
He slumbers once more
And pray ne'er again
Will we hear his great roar
Josiah Wilson Apr 2018
I am lopsided
I always have been
But I've never felt it so sharply
As I have since you left

Now I feel like I am tipping
Barely balanced on one foot
Waiting for a brisk wind
To ******* over

You aren't here
And I don't have anything
To keep my equilibrium
So I tip, tip, tip

Things falling off
As I desperately try
To keep them all balanced
And I tip, tip, tip

And wonder
What will finally knock me over
And I know
I won't get back up
Josiah Wilson Mar 2018
When you left
I broke
Josiah Wilson Feb 2014
Here I stand
With the world in my hand
Yet somehow I feel so empty...

Covered in blood
This doesn't feel as it should
This victory feels so empty...

My armies flood the plains
Trampling bodies of the slain
And yet, I am alone

Above the crowd
I stand tall and so proud
But I am hollow inside,
Left with no fight
Josiah Wilson Jun 2014
Every thought of you
Is like a piercing thorn
Ripping up my skin
Leaving it cut and torn

Every word you say
Is like a poisoned knife
Stabbing through my heart
Slowly ending my life

Everything you are
Is everything I need
So I cling to hope
Although it makes me bleed
Josiah Wilson Nov 2013
Why don't you just
Rip out my ******* heart
While you stand there
Just watch me fall apart

Why don't you just
Tell me what I need
Instead of laughing
While I bruise and bleed

Why don't you just
End this here and now
Applaud your great work
Then stand and take a bow

Instead you just
Look on as I die
Collapsing again
As I'm screaming why
X
Josiah Wilson Oct 2013
X
X marks the spot where the blood bleeds out
So silent and thick, without even a shout
A man falls to a floor, so lifeless within
And worn on his face is a small depressed grin

He took his own life on this dark, dreary day
Now his spirit has flown somewhere far away
And his body lies cold on this hard, ***** ground
With nobody to mourn, for nobody's around

No rest will he have, because his soul is ******
To wander forever in the grey realm of man
But better, he thinks, 'tis to suffer this curse
Then to live one more day on this cruel, heartless earth
You
Josiah Wilson Sep 2013
You
I'm caged in
By these thoughts of you
So many things
I wish I could do

But you, you're holding me back

You're so young
So ******* immature
Seems like my life
Is passing in a blur

'Cause you, you're holding me back

I'm leaving now
Throwing away my key
This is the last
You'll ever see of me

Now you, you won't be holding me back

Don't say goodbye
I'm not listening to you
'Cause you and me
We're done and through

You cry and plead
And you're driving me mad
I can't even think
Of all the good times we had

See, this is why
I'm leaving you
So get a grip
You always knew

That you, you were holding me back
Josiah Wilson Nov 2013
You are
Everything I want
Being close to you
I just can't get enough

I am
A helpless fool
Falling in love
Madly with you

You are
Perfect, at least to me
And I know
That you're just what I need
Josiah Wilson Nov 2014
And you thought
That you could **** with me
Play with my heart, my feelings
And do what you wanted

Well I've seen past the ruse
And I care about you,
About as much as I care about the ******* form
Of this **** poem
Josiah Wilson Jul 2014
Home is a nebulous concept
Fleeting, like a cloud on a windy day
Where you feel most at home
Is where I think you're likely to stay

Some people assign a place as their home
And they never stray too far from that spot
But I feel that it's far too static
And they merely don't give it enough thought

Some people will wander the world
Never settling down in any one place
But I don't think that's for me
I appreciate a familiar face

I can only speak for myself here,
But home is wherever I'm with you
With you by my side I'm content
I hope that you feel this way too

Regardless of where I rest my head
Any place is home to me, if you're there
I can laugh freely, live fully, and relax
Because when I'm with you, we've love to share
Josiah Wilson Mar 2014
You're the sun that lights my day
And even when it's bad
You make me smile anyway
With just a thought

You're the cutest girl I know
So I asked you out
And please, let's not take it slow
That's just a thought

'Cause you make me feel alive
Though I'm so tired
You're the reason I survive
It's just the thought

You're always stuck in my head
Even if I'm busy
You've got me hanging by a thread
Inside your thoughts
Josiah Wilson Apr 2014
Purple hair, green eyes
Lips that mesmerize
You're my only one
You're my shining sun

Soft kiss, whispered words
Love that only I've heard
You're my darling girl
You're my whole world

Your love, warm glow within
It's all I want, beginning to end
You're the one I need
You mean everything to me
Josiah Wilson May 2015
I fight and die for my country
While the world sits idly by
It's not for fame or money
It's a fight to stay alive

I watch my comrades fall
Riddled with bullet holes
They're the ones who gave all
They paid their debt in full

We give our blood for freedom
Our lives and bodies too
We pray for help to come
And pray that we pull through

I'll fight until I pass
Until I'm finally dead
Until I breathe my last
With a bullet in my head

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