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Katlyn Orthman Jul 2014
Behind a curtain
Blind to the eye
To this I am certain
The Dead Land resides

Watch with my soul
I seek thee
I stare into the scrying bowl
I see thee

Crying these diamond tears
Screaming your name
It falls to deaf ears
Darkness you remain

Knocking on the livings door
You want to be known
Your heart beat, no more
Like a bad call through a phone

You're fading in and out of life
The light no where to be seen
Shadows impale your being like a knife
And you're silent as you scream
Katlyn Orthman Jul 2014
My bodies heavy
Craving sleep like a drug
Perhaps these pills coursing in my veins
Have no effect on my immortal mind

The mind that howls at the moon
While my mortal body begs for slumber
Begs these midnight hours
To release me from this sleepless prison

Day turns to night, night turns to day
And yet still my eyes remain open
My mind buzzing, buzzing, buzzing
Questioning me

The darkness strains my eyes
And this tiredness drains my limbs
Insomnia, I'm minutes away from crashing
Let me shut down!

But no my mind simply restarts
And I'm back to square one
In this helpless coma
Where my thoughts hold me hostage
Katlyn Orthman Jul 2014
Looking at you, looking at me
from the end of your gun
Eyes that used to search my soul,
the eyes that made us one
Now stare back at me in dismay,
so full of this sure terror seeping into my bones
It's too late to reason and much to late to run.
The arms outstretched are no longer my home

Your face sends my mind spinning
twisting this surreal moment until I could cry
The room moves while my feet
are planted onto the ground
Falling out of control
Like theirs no bounds

This bullet biting into my heart
it's shredding my flesh and devouring my emotions
But I stay so still
too void to make a commotion
I should have said it all
when my fingertips where so close to you
Should have said the words
Like I was supposed to do
Katlyn Orthman Jul 2014
A melody as black as her heart
Playing like a theme song to despair
Dark it dives into your being
Filling your bones with cuts and tears

Singing as color drains and the picture turns to black
Ashes fall down, down, down
A tear of indignation curling it's shapeless body, falling
How does death move so silently making no sound

This fatal lullaby that drags it's poisoned body along
Infecting our minds as well as our souls
Leaving us at mercy to our own sicknesses,
We created upon years of singing with this song
Katlyn Orthman Jul 2014
Who am I?
It would be easier if you asked me
Who I want to be
I'd give you a thousand answers
that will never come true
because who I am
is no where near who I want to be
Katlyn Orthman Jul 2014
I wish I had the words to explain myself,
if I did everything about me would be easy to understand.
But my explanations don't have words because there is no meaning.


yet
Katlyn Orthman Jun 2014
I fear oblivion
the unknown waters
that inevitably we all will drown in
It's pointless, **** near pathetic
to believe in forever
although even myself has fallen victim to the promise
That selfish hope that I might not cease to exist
that along with forgotten I will fade with nothing to show for myself
I will only become the nourishment for new life as mine becomes a lost memory among the rest
Death oblivion life
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