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Katherine Laslie Jul 2016
I can't get a single word out
Before everyone's problems flood over me
Overwhelm me
And drown me
I can't find the words to say
To make myself feel better
And it's hard
Because when I try
Nobody wants to listen

Every one else
Has problems
That are one thousand times worse
When I tell them my own
They don't listen
Not like the way I listen to them
Time and time again
They brush me aside
Don't ask me if I'm alright

People are selfish
You see
They only care about themselves
And don't bother with anyone else
It's the ones who suffer silently
That go off the edge
It's the ones who suffer indefinitely
That stick a bullet
In their head

The ones who are silent
The ones who are selfless
Speak little words
But are so broken
That they grow tired
Grow tired of waiting
For somebody to finally share
All the pain they've been facing
Grow tired of
the extra problems
That they finally
Cave
And commit the unredeemable
Act of sin
And cheat themselves of this life
And all it has to give
Katherine Laslie Jul 2016
A light of hope
For the hopeless
A shred of humility
For the proud
A simple act of kindness
To everyone around
A moment of silence
For the fallen
A lifetime of happiness
For all the small things
What will it take
To truly see?
A world that is failing
Tearing apart at the seams
It takes a world to fall
But one person to stand
Or to bend at the knee
And no one realizes
Most of the problems
Are all in our heads
  Jul 2016 Katherine Laslie
Flo
A young man
Uncertain of his talents
Seeking glory in former poems
Scared of failing his own expectations

The hardest critics, given by himself
Afraid of lacking quality in midst spotlight
He can't meet up to his former pieces
New poems remain unpublished

Uncertainty
Detaining him from creation
Letters remain unaligned clusters
Wasted potential all along

If only he was more confident
To search that spotlight once again
Maybe he could be an impact at last
Influencing other poets
Katherine Laslie Jul 2016
My body
Trembles
And my chest starts to ache
I don't know what to do
Or know what it will take
To break this cycle
To shake this pain
As the days slip me by
They feel a waste
Like I'm running in circles
And cannot find my way
My life is progressing
Yet something is missing
Inside of me
Something just doesn't
Feel right to me
I can't pinpoint this feeling I have
But I suffer the silence
As I slowly lose my head
I wish I could cry
To release the pressure inside me
To remove this emptiness that binds me
But I always end up
In the same dark place
Forever trying to find my way
Katherine Laslie Jun 2016
I'm sorry you're upset with me
And feel like you need to be
But how much I care, honestly,
Is fading without reasoning

I tried so hard to do my best
But wound up creating a large mess
And now I have this pain in my chest
Because I left you in distress

You love to take things out on me
Always your target, don't you see?
You always try to make me cry
Knock me down on my knees,
But I never bleed

"Sometimes in life
You've got to be selfish...
Otherwise, you suffer"
I guess my words
Never sunk into your thick skull
And now we're both the selfish ones
And I've got words that shoot like guns

I guess the reason
I'm truly upset
Is not that I feel bad
But rather
That you make me feel bad
And feelings are things that I can't stand

I'll say this now, my words,
Forever, hold them tight
Tonight I'm leaving, and nothing can change my mind
Goodbye for now
Goodbye forever
If you're acting this way,
I'll see you never
Katherine Laslie Jun 2016
My body is failing me
And each time I stand,
I feel like falling
My body is growing weak
Every day that I live
It seems like I'm dying
But I have so much left to give

Sometimes I wonder
if someday I'll collapse
Wither away into nothing
Because I'd have no strength left

Perhaps, I could be better
If I had the money
To help myself
But sense I don't
I'll just suffer in the silence
Only to cry when I'm alone
Katherine Laslie Jun 2016
Falling faster Everytime
Slowly slipping through the lines
Screams are slicing thought the night
Hitting harder by each impact
My ears start to bleed from the sound
Uselessly trembling
Mindlessly murmuring words that dont make sense
Rocking back and forth
This seems to comfort me
When Im lost within insanity
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