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432 · Nov 2012
Rose (10W)
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
Deep violet red rose
                         Breath your
                                 life into my being ....
432 · Sep 2012
Waiting
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
The nights air danced on my skin,
I waited for him,
A smile on my face and my heart in its place,
I waited for him,
A knot in my belly, and a glisten in my eyes,
I waited for him,
Teeth on my bottom lip and perched in my chair,
I waited for him,
And when a car pulled up and he wasn't there,
I could feel my heart stop,
The man took off his hat and bowed his head,
And I knew it then,  my father was dead
432 · Mar 2020
Caterpillar Dreams
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2020
Crouching in tendrils of bright green grass
Two caterpillars set out on a daunting task
Hearts filled with hope to taste the fruit
Which had rendered so many full and moot

They slugged their way out beneath the sun
And laughed and talked of all they'd done
Distracted they never saw the bird coming
It swooped down much too close and sent them running

Once they were sure the bird was lost
They argued their plan and what it could cost
They were both still afraid the bird would come back
And this time that bird would precisely attack

But they knew in their hearts that they came so far
They couldn't turn back on their wishing star
So they hauled for the tree which was just in sight
When the bird swooped in and with all it's might

Bit a chunk from both caterpillars **** end
And with a mighty resurrection of power would send
Both caterpillars catapulting to the tree
Where both could feast and drink fruit mead

In a drunken stupor honey glazed thoughts soar
The caterpillars lost in slumber would snore
And in their sleep their body's tore
To be rebuilt with fine allure

They stretched out their legs, wings unfolded as well
Both stared in awe at the beauty, love spell
They leapt in the air and tested their wings
And rose to the sky to cheerfully sing

Two soaring butterflies dancing with the wind
They looked at each other and victoriously grinned
They had beat the bird and ate all their fruit
And may never had if they left that route
430 · Mar 2013
Monsters Under The Bed
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
Are there monsters under the bed?
Is this the terror they shed?
Will they rip out your heart?
Tear you apart?
Or eat your flesh instead?

Are there monsters under the bed?
Is this a trap that you've been lead?  
Will they make you scream?
Or is this a dream?
Or simply crack open your head?

Are there monsters under the bed?
Or is it just us eating away
Could it be our monsters are us?
At the end of each day?
428 · Dec 2012
Whispers
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
Quiet and dark the room was empty
Waiting quietly for sleep to take me
I was falling when my ears heard it
A voice so quite
It has to be my mind
Because when I looked no face was to find
The absence of sleep must be playing tricks
Because I closed my eyes again and I heard it quick
My heart sputtered to a pound
As I listened for a sound
Closer it came only when my eyes were closed
The owner must not want me to know
I bit my lip and shook with fear
I couldn't stop the soft flow of tears
I rather be alone
But the whispers here would roam
They spoke so quite I couldn't define
I wondered if it was my mind
But I was silent and the whispers grew louder
But never did they shout, never
I'm praying for sleep
But the voices they never sleep
They never rest
It was an evil test
To keep from pulling at my hair
But I heard them, heard them there
I wanted to scream
But nobody could know of the whispers
They'd never understand
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
The raindrops fall and splash with sound
I watch out my window as they hit the ground
The sky's are grey, behind the clouds they're blue
The sun might not shine, but in my sight is you
And that's enough for me
That's all I need to see
Your eyes sparkle in the light
The color blinds me its so bright
Like the reflection off the sea
Like the lovely salty breeze
Just stay, and the weather won't matter
424 · Jan 2014
Drowning in the Storm
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2014
The wind pushes against the glass
the rain pounds inside your head
you wait for the storm to pass
but it gets worse instead

The sun has gone away
the clouds fill the sky
the warmth won't stay
this life has gone awry

You wait for nature to take its course
and take you from this misery
but you're sunk down
to drown
beneath the current

Resuscitated before death can claim you,
each breath is without air
lungs filled by salty waters
filling and tearing your lungs bare

Panic fills your mind
and you thrash to get out
but you are held under
unable to die and unable to live

In circles we go
around and around
when it stops you'll never know
at the bottom of the ocean you'll never be found
422 · May 2013
Behind her eyes
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
Those eyes
Full of despair
The way she felt
It wasn't fair

So full of pain
She was drenched
It falls with the rain
So drenched


So bitter with the taste of fear
Sitting in her mouth, just sitting
With the taste of tears
Spitting it out, spitting

Abandoned left all alone
Neglected her heart left at home
Without anyone around
It lay broken and beaten into the ground

Black eye and bruised face
Her wings broken in last place
Smiling still she was dying
Falling broken her children crying

Until she opens her eyes
Someone new in her place
The years she spent dying
That person left with no trace

She was dead
After the years she bled
The goodness of her left shed
Left a broken soldier instead
422 · Dec 2012
Moons rose (10 word)
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
A rose fires the moons
Smile, caressing the earths heart
421 · Dec 2014
December Throne
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2014
Trees bend beneath the lazy wind strokes,
Snow flakes twinkling in the twilight glow,
Spring was near, but winter awoke
Destined t'was the phantom Snow

He lay his head along the grassy lands
In frosty, bitten slumber
He wisks away summers lush with his hands
And briskly sits upon his throne of December

Oh phantom Snow with his long iridescent strands of silken hair
And eyes fairest of blue
No woman, man, nor God compares
To the beauty that is you

He chuckles amused by words of flattery
Hubris in his winter might
"Allow me, to show thee,
A wicked snowy sight!"

He rose tall and sharp with an icy glare
And stepped down from his throne
He didn't see his brother Summer there
Awaiting to steal his home

"I am the king of the lands,
My winds blow near and far
Give me thy mortal hand
And I'll show you the winter stars"

In laughter the mortal took his hand
Chills slithering down her spine
Summer cackled, everything had gone according to plan
"Alas the throne is mine!"

Snow stepped out side with a grin in place
His heart still cold as ice
The mortal girl with a pretty face
Was now his to entice

The mountains of snow impressive in size
Dripped from dawning heat
Snow spun from the girl as he realized
That Summer stole the defeat

Summer grinned at his brother with an awful sting
Knowing what he had stole
Little did he know his little brother Spring
Was waiting for his plan to unfold
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2013
This heart left unbeating
Soul slowly depleting
The skies blood red
I feel like I am dead
Just walking among these streets
As every night my tears stain my sheets
This hole in my heart
Strip by strip I fall apart
Alone I was always alone
With my mother is my home
A title makes you nothing to me
Just people living free
Swirling now inside my head
You were better off dead
Atleast then I wouldn't feel so hurt
So hello, now goodbye
There's the door
419 · Jan 2013
No title to fit
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
Oh this demon was in disguise
She was made of all these lies
And I thought she was sweet
Then on our first meet
I realized she was planning her demise
Yeah she sidled up and laced up her words
And sweetly poisened me with her standards
And I knew that I would never meet them
I could barley begin to brush the hem
It was then I had to approach her
But she was supposed to be my best friend
Until I finally realized that this might be the end
418 · May 2013
Look into cracked mirrors
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
Opening unaware eyes
Staring into the sad reflection
Every aspect a reason to cry
Made up of imperfections

Every fight and every beating
Every tear and cry
Left bleeding
Why do I try?

Every failure and regret
Every cut every bruise
Every reason I wept
I always lose

Remains of hair that used to flow
A dried up memory of the vivid glow
Every scar against broken skin
Every battle I will never win

Every word burnt into my being
Eyes unsure of seeing
Eyes left dull green bleeding
A strong soul left fleeting

History just keeps repeating
418 · Mar 2013
Watching the clock
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
Days going by slowly,
Passing by the seconds as the clock ticks lonely
Sitting here at this empty table
Watching the clock
The broken hearts
And failed apologies
In the middle
Chairs in disarray
Angry words left behind
The only kind words are mine
Trying to reconnect a broken family
One that used to be so strong
Now there's only accusations and wrong
Like a war battling in my living room
The damage left cant be swept up by my broom
And I just sit here and watch the clock
As time goes by
We sit here screaming wasting our time
And I'm just praying that we're going to be fine
But that wish is only mine
417 · Jan 2013
Sonnet: Cast from Heaven
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
The shackles were like hands cold as black ice
Holding me in its steel prisoning grip
For I had been cast away more than twice
The floors were icy in hell I would slip
My story began with the seed of lust
The feeling, the rush was none to be known
For I craved the feeling, have it I must
The path would crumble it was made of stone
And I danced so hard it began to chip
It was dark there without the lights to shine
The angles they found me, my wings they clip
Because of a girl that was never mine
I sat in hells cell and there I would rot
I never regretted the lesson taught
Not sure if I did this right, it's in the rhyme scheme pattern of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, and 10 syllables per line, written in iambic pentameter (duh, DUH,duh,DUH, duh, DUH, duh, DUH, duh, DUH)
414 · Mar 2013
Breathe
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
Just breathe
As you sob
Just breathe
And lift your head
Bury the pain
Don't fall again
Don't bleed to feel sane
Keep faith
Even if your not ok
Smile and wait
It will go away
Like the monsters beneath the bed
This pain is in your head
You have to let it go
Even if dosent feel right
Even if your heart fights
Just breathe
It'll keep you alive
413 · Apr 2013
Face the Mirror
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2013
Sometimes I pretend I'm someone else
So I don't have to be me
Until I open my eyes
And face my reflection
411 · Oct 2014
Sixteen Going On Sixty
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2014
I'm sixteen going on sixty
I can barely see the point in life
I will live a short life,
Accomplish nothing spectacular
And then die
Forgotten like the rest
409 · May 2013
Oh Love...
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
Love you forbidden storyteller
Won't you come to me tonight
Whisper a story in my ear
A little louder so I can hear
So when I open my eyes
I might believe in the lies
So that when I'm left for dead
The pain might seem small instead
And you can come back the next night
And tell me another story
So it can happen all over again
408 · Apr 2013
Sleeping with heavy eyes
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2013
The waves of sleep lull over me
My eye lids so heavy
My blankets tucked around me
Keeping me warm
I say my prayers before I shut my tired eyes
The dark so quite around me
Pressing against me
Sometimes suffocating me
But tonight it sooths my soul
And gives me the strength to breathe
406 · Dec 2013
The Wild
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2013
I want to join the wilderness
where the trees watch but don't talk back,
where the water shows your reflection,
but doesn't point back and laugh.

I want to join the free
where the hills are at your mercy,
where the wind encases you,
but doesn't knock you down.

I want to join the primal,
where you can be what you want to be,
where the night can be your guide,
and the forest can be your sea.

I want to be anywhere but here,
the place you can't see clear,
through the abundant amount of tears,
that fall without my say.

I want to slither into the dark,
where no one will find me,
and I don't have to be
the perfect everyone wants to see.
406 · Oct 2012
love is poison
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
dont drink the           poison it kills
love blooms slow,  hate blooms fast
your heart   drinks slowly
and the effects
never
last
406 · Dec 2012
No Room for Shame
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
He was a demon
But I was drawn
He was evil
But I still watched him
He moved with grace
And his eyes were green
He was mysterious
So pristine
I could see his soul
masked in shadows
But it never stopped me
No room for shame
No room for tame
A lion crazed
Can't help myself
My fingers yearn to touch
No room to think
No room for room
I was closed in
I was scared
But it never stopped me
From claiming his heart as my own
Deep in the abyss of his soul
Was a light
Pain and fear had made him
So chained
So pained
I unbound him from his fate
Loved where there was hate
No room for shame
When you claim
His heart
406 · Jan 2013
Raging war
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
Beat to beat
Voices yelling all around
Stomping stomping feet
Shaking, quaking, breaking the ground
Jabs, and blows thrown in every way
Blood stained the marble floors
I really didn't want to stay
But broken bodies blocked they way
Trapped in here I rest my head
As voices scream and skin is broke
People falling dead
I begin to choke
Raging wars at the scene of the crime
Breaking bones, and stopping time
Overwhelmed I want to run
But I'm forced to stay to see what's done
405 · Nov 2013
How to Say Goodbye
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2013
A broken picture frame
lay in the corner
My face without a name
because I don't matter
Your motives shine through your eyes
you don't have to defend yourself
I hear the truth ringing through your lies
and I understand now
The only reason you're still here
is because you don't know how to say goodbye
403 · Mar 2013
Sun in the shadows
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
Clouds form in the untouched skies
Rain falls as the angles cry
Tormenting those below
There's no sun, it won't show
Disbelief and dispair
Grey winds through brown hair
Broken grounds all littered by tears
Twisted trees all soaked in fear
Goodbye, goodbye summer haze
Say goodbye to them days
The cold snow and thunder storms
I'll miss the days when it was warm
403 · Dec 2012
Night watcher
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
Wind rushing through the open windows
It's cold but I disregard the bite in the air
The moon is hardly peaking our from behind the snow frosted woods
I can hear the faint whistle as the wind swooshes my curtains
The stars are scattered across the sky
Pulling me into a mesmerizing view
I don't know the names of the stars
Or what they mean
I only see there beauty
And that's what holds me in this spell
Utterly flawless
Burning hot in the moonlit darkness
I was born to watch the night
403 · Jun 2015
You're Just A Face
Katlyn Orthman Jun 2015
You're just a face
That I am passing by
Another place
That I must survive

You're just a face
That I passed by on the road
Matter filling space
A piece for my story to unfold

You're just a face
That is always in the background
Always misplaced
Always around

You're just a face
399 · Feb 2019
Images
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2019
Images
Flashing Bright
Inside my mind
Filling me up inside
Filling my lungs to the top
Cutting out all my air supply
Slowly suffocating, will I die?
Images in my mind
Filling me up inside
Flashing Bright
Images
398 · Mar 2013
Our song
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
You make me want to be someone better
You give me reasons to smile
Sometimes I think you deserve more
Before I think that this is worth it all
You can take my heart, please take my soul
Because without you I would never be whole
I've fallen into the cracks that spelt out love
A feeling so overpowering it rang above
I think I'd die without you
I finally realize what it feels like to give in your all
I'm giving you my everything
Please don't leave
I just might die
I'm listening to our song
And as I listen to the lyrics I cry
Because I finally understand why it's ours
I finally realize why your mine
398 · Dec 2013
Novacane
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2013
Don't feel the pain,
Like novacane
it numbs the ache

Dreams turn to ash,
I'm coming in last
every single time

Twist and turn I struggle to breathe,
under the weight of a new way to relax

I don't want to feel any more.
397 · Jan 2014
Time to Change
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2014
I don't want to be the victim anymore
I want to be the hero
397 · Mar 2014
Floating Without You
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2014
Hold me down
Be the one to keep me on the ground

Stay with me
Be the love I've never seen

You're my heart
You glue the pieces that fall apart

Just...Love me
395 · May 2015
Legion of Shadows
Katlyn Orthman May 2015
Darkness hovered over the dreary sky.
The storm clouds gathering in the skies black eye’s.
And like the tears of the innocent, I watched the sky cry.
I watched the lightning shock the sky back to life.
Then watched a tornado gut the Earth like a knife.
And I watched the Bulimic Earth hurl up the ocean
And I watched as the Earth died
394 · Dec 2013
Come Back To Me
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2013
Days seem dimmer while you're away.

I had not, will not, ask you to stay.

Though my heart woefully cries out for you.

I'm missing a part of me I was never meant to lose.

Although tears do not fight for the will to fall free.

My unwavering eyes are blind to see.

These ears and hands will guide me back to you.

But I hear not, feel not, the words that belong to you.

Have you faded along with the wind again?

I just want this pain rooted deep inside of me to end.

Give me the strength to rise with each sun.

Come back to me before the damage is done.
392 · Sep 2014
The Road of Woe
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2014
I have wandered this road of woe
I have rested these old eyes upon the wonders
Watched the evils unfold from the ***** of darkness
And the goodness prevail although it never lasts long

Yet these rusted bones are starved of the warmth
The cold has frozen these joints into place
Left my heart in fragmented splinters that pierce my flesh
And leave my insides bruised and sore

This soul that has seen the lithe clouds of paradise
And felt the stinging wash of Hell's devouring seas of fire
Will wait no more for the fingertips that will rest it's warmth
And bring me back from this state of living dead

Reincarnate the parts of me that have long since found their earthy bed
And wake the memories that have faded from this feeble minded head
Set ablaze the fire that once burned inside my being
And vanquish the icicles that have made a home in my bones

Just love me
391 · Dec 2012
Another pain full day
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
BOOM**
The sound of my heart erupting
And pooling around my feet
CRACK
The sound of my heart breaking
And me dying a little more
Am I a monster?
390 · Oct 2012
Smiles and tears
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
I see him in the hall
And my heart speeds up
I don't know what to say
But I want to get to know him
He looks at me and smiles
And I get feelings I haven't felt for a while
I smile back then look I away
Can't let him know he made my day
But then my friend beside me
Tells me that she's gonna ask him out
My heart stops then shatters to the floor
I just nod and smile
Even though she knows my feelings for him
When she leaves my side
I let the tears  soak my eyes
Just one more ruined day
388 · Nov 2012
Goodbye Dear love
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
You told me once
That I was the center of your world
That I was the only in a universe
That collided softly with the stars
You saw In my eyes
You once tenitivly brushed my lips
With your finger
To silence my words
Before you lowered yours so close to mine
That I could feel your heat
As if our lips were already locked together
You once whispered your love in my ear
Told me you would cross hells path for me
I never once doubted you
I never once forgot you  
I lay these floors on your grave for you
Red roses
Like the ones you gave me
The first time I met you
I'll miss you
386 · Apr 2013
Goodbye for Now
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2013
It's time to really look at myself
Look deep into my eyes
Look at the pain I've caused
And heal
Even if it sends me somewhere dark
Even if I'm scared
I have to right my wrongs
And fix myself
Before I can move forward
From all that I have lost
I am taking a break from many things, I have to spend some time fixing things that have been broken.
386 · Feb 2013
Untitled
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2013
I'm so tired of all the anger
I'm so done with all the pain
This world is getting stranger
I'm wearing all the shame

The blade is growing blurry
And my conscience is butting in
I'm doing this in a hurry
And the guilt is kicking in

This hole in my heart is starting to get deeper
Hello hello?
Is anyone there?
The blood drips
And time grows slower
381 · Aug 2018
The Beginning of The End
Katlyn Orthman Aug 2018
Beginnings and endings
Marked by unique tombstones
Each a fingerprint
Of great creators
381 · Jul 2014
Dead End Pen
Katlyn Orthman Jul 2014
All these ideas swarming my head,
but my pen is playing dead
Writers block at it's finest lately -_-
380 · Dec 2012
The Emperor is Here
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
All that has spilt
The worlds at a tilt
Breath taking beauty
Eyes summon truly
Take my hand
Ill guide you through this land
Don't fall off the ledge
We live on the edge
Earth shaking memory
Life hurts temporarily
Don't fall for its tricks
The pain won't stick

All bow down! The emperor is here  
All bow down! And silence midnight cheer

Tall and striking power
From atop of thy tower
Lift it before it falls
Lift it before it falls
Shadows left clearly
On the night time walls
My eyes grow dreary
As my chamber softly calls

All bow down! The emperor is here
All bow down! Silence midnight cheer

The wind it slowly whistles, a soft and gentle tune
I know the castle will fall, so very soon
And we all must follow through with the lie
That if our castle falls, we will all die

All bow down! The emperor is here
All bow down! Silence midnight cheer
378 · Feb 2014
Failure Stings
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2014
Why do I try
When all I do is fail
It's a bitter thing
which taste so stale

Unlike these tears
Which fall in a salty haste
I can't seem to keep up here
As everything I do is at a unacceptable pace

Why am I giving a thought
when each one crash lands
I'm everything perfect is not
And I'm being crushed beneath expectations hands
377 · Feb 2013
Untitled
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2013
Did you ever wonder...
                                          Why we feel pain?
Why we fall easier than we get up?
                         Why the clouds part beneath shaky feet,
                         Why the snow falls in black and red flakes
                     Breaking
                         The
                      Coldest
                      Hearts
Why my music no longer flows sweet
                   And the foreign face in the mirror
Won't look me in the eye
376 · Dec 2012
Could this be the end?
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
I listen to the silent buzz,
watching the screen
I sort through the words,
to find what they might mean
The say the world might end
But I just don't believe
That's gods sign to send
That I can wait to see
But in the back of my mind
I wonder just a bit
Will the world end, before eyes blind
And the witty be out wit
Is this not in disguise?
Could this really be true?
Can this maybe not be a guise?
And appear out of the blue
I am unprotected without my rapier
I am defenseless now
In my hand I hold no spear
And before gods feet I bow
376 · Jul 2013
I hope I dream
Katlyn Orthman Jul 2013
My eyes are heavy
I can barely move
My body slowly shutting down
From the three straight days without sleep
I hope I dream if I tumble into the soft clutches of slumber
376 · Mar 2014
Rise of the Fallen
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2014
Give these broken limbs the will to walk
For I will not lay down beneath thee;
Give these silenced lips the will to talk
And I will let you see inside of me.

Hear the cries of those whoever tumbled
They scream of the battles they have lost
And though in my journey I have stumbled
I go on pushing through despite the cost.

I've paid my dues and they leave me broke
I have served my time and dealt my pain;
There's a warrior beneath my skin, she awoke
She wields the sword that leave my enemies slain.

Give me the chance to make this right
A chance to save your diminishing life
A second to spare you the gruesome fight
Just one chance to save you the strife.

For the Fallen will rise above this
             To fight again
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2014
Death was a promise just out of my grip
A rhythmic beating in my heart,
it was an unanswered prayer, and I was ready to slip
Hanging from the pieces of me, ripped apart


I’m desperately trying to prove myself to you
Trying to show you that I’m worth it
But no matter how hard I try or what I do
...you just don’t give a ****

I’m fighting against these words you say in haste
That I’m nothing, just built of wrongs
I keep feeling as if I am a waste of space
because I've been thrown away like trash for so long

The night has become my haven,
A place I can rest in peace
But morning just comes much too soon
And in my anguish I am already deceased


I’m not good enough for a father that beats his own
And I guess i’m no good for you too
I am nothing, I am just all alone
no matter what I do

The graveyard calls me to come where I am known
To sleep among the dead
How death would be my only home
It echoes in my head

Why can’t you love me
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