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895 · Nov 2012
Blue rose
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
Blue rose
Deliver love to me
Deliver prosperity
I just need a sense of accomplishment
I've been trying to swim in cement
Stuck
But still trying
Bring me love
So I can feel whole again
Fix my heart
I'm tired of being apart
On the floor
Forgotten
Pull me up by my heart strings
Give me a melody to sing
I just need a reason
To raise my head
And feel
Fed
By


Loves passionate touch
893 · Sep 2012
Without you
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
Troublesome headache wont go away
Pain in my heart, and my left leg
Tears in my eyes, coffee in my hand
I walk on
Like I am invincible
As if Im not afraid
As if I dont fall down
As if I dont get hurt
Angry, throwing things around the room
It's to empty
No echoes of our screams
I want to breath with out the sob stuck in my throat
I want to close my eyes
And not see you
I want to lay in my bed
Without the company of the hot liquid down
My broken face
I want to be me without you
But I'm torn
I need one more hug to assure me
That you dont really hate me
I want to feel strong again
Instead of ill
892 · Nov 2014
The Sleeper
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2014
The light fades behind the moon
My heart is once again tainted
It is as if the darkness assumes
My soul is to be repainted

It's claws thick and stained by blood
Like a werewolf it howls sadly at the sky
I thought then it understood, but
I plea, I beg, dear god tell me why

I become this monster in my flesh
When the sun descends and retires
I become overwhelmed by death
And give myself over to haunted desires

I am asleep inside my own mind
These acts are not my own
I wake horrified to find
That inside I'm not alone
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2015
My heart is soiled, and filled by ghosts roaming
Traveling the blackened gouged out pathways
A horror t'was to see their mouths foaming
And watch their spectral broken bodies sway

T'was laughable to see me jump in fear
As the moans and groans of tortured souls cried
Their clear eyes become another worlds mirror
And whisper of my regressions I hide

Yet I know I only face my jury
They come hiding behind many dark masks
Locked away in this hell of pure fury
I  close my eyes and take in these cold facts

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
Hell hath no fury like a demon torn
885 · Mar 2013
My angle
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
Torn by the ***** of thorns
Surrounding my garden bed
I sleep here, and silently mourn
My soul that has been dead

I weep into my dirtied hands
Stained by the blood of my own heart
I know that no one will truly understand
The pain of which I wish to part

My tears are black just like my soul
They smear across my face
Inside I knew I'd never been whole
Used words and meaningless things in its place

This emptiness inside, will there ever be a cure?
I used to sit up at night and wonder
There was no way I could ever be sure
In all my ignorance I'd blundered

Because beyond the pain and the tears
I looked right past your face
You where standing there defeating my fears
And it was you who would fill that place

I owe my heart to you
My angle
I owe my life to you too
Because in the end it was your love that filled
My empty soul in the end
882 · Sep 2012
Reflections of the forest
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
The forest quite and peaceful, 
Swarming with life, 
The trees are alive, 
The animals are alive, 
I finally feel alive, 
The sun breaking through the tops of the tallest trees, 
Bouncing of the fresh dew,
Moss thick covered trees, 
Wet sodden forest floor leaves, 
Natures song ringing in my ears, 
The crickets soft chirping chours, 
I am at home here, 
Tentative creatures poke there head out to observe, 
I coo to them, telling them it alright, 
And a small shivering pond, 
Beauty and all, 
Reflects the forest, 
And the tress unimaginably tall, 
I look peacefully at my reflection, 
My eyes glowing green, 
And no hint of my earlier distress, 
But a new happy sheen 
Slowly the forest animals come out of hiding, 
And I am again at home
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
I have walked with this smile in place
But beneath the surface ,
I I'm burning in my hellish inferno
I'm tortured by memories
I'm tortured by the faint touch
In every corner of my mind lays a monster
I'm trapped in a house of nightmares
There's no escape ....
I can't breath when phantom hands
Are wrapped around my neck
And yet while I lay here dying
I'm forced to stay alive
And yet I Kay here crying
My tears I'm forced to hide....
I've been strong enough
My arms are growing tired
I rather let go
But I'm chained and barred down
The clouds are out if my reach
This razor blade ...
Is my only release
Pain let's me know I'm real
And that this isn't another dream
Growing up to fast
Dying to slow
The sun doesn't rise in my world
And evil never dies
I'm stuck behind the bars
Of a prison
That I am trapped
Lights are in the sky
They bid me goodbye
I am alone ...
To wave goodbye
863 · Jan 2013
Just another let down
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
You look me in the eye
Say you love me
That's a lie

Everydays a new issue
And you break me up
Just another crumpled tissue

You promise me sweet thing in my ear
Then tell me that they were fake
Everything that I hear
Is putting my feelings at stake

How could you **** me like this
When I give you everything
How can you shove me
When I just wanted you to see

But you're blind
And just won't listen
I wish that I could find

I hate that I am drowning
And you don't even care

I hate that my words aren't ryhming
Because I can't see or hear through my tears

And my hands are shaking
Because I hate knowing you're here

And that you can hear my sobs
And you just don't.... Care
861 · Nov 2012
I rather be alone
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
Last night I talked to you
It's been almost a year
And to hear your voice...
Tears me up inside
I want to ask to see you
But if I do
I won't be able to let you go
I was crying ..
But I covered up my sobs
Tried to laugh
But I can't stop the pain
That leaks through
You ask if I'm ok
I just say
I've got a cold
When you say goodbye
I feel a part of me die
And realesed it
Through my sigh
Curl up one my bed
And cling to my head
I might just explode
Crumbling like old stone
My heart has no insurance
It was just a loan
That's why I know
I'm better off alone
859 · Oct 2012
You i'll miss
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Piano covered in dust
keys out of tune
room filled with doom
dark shadows on the black and white
checkered tile
I'll just sit here a while
Wipe my foggy eyes
this masquraded demise
hidden in the best desgiuse
as love
that i thought came from you
as you brushed your fingertips
down my back
but true feelings you lacked
push you away with tears
in the green pools
hurt
betrayed
never again
the room begins to spin
ice in my lungs
my heart breaks in two
and i turn to leave
but i see her shadow
her pictures on the wall
i begin to fall
this heart ache grips me as i crawl
this pain i feel
it sends me reeling
a mask i glue in place
concealing
my hurt and tears
all the love id spent for so many years
and now i am poor
my love is no more
i spent everything i had
and i feel so bad
i cant truly feel so ...
no words to put on my emotion
my heart caused a commotion
im sad that i feel this way
only pulls me further down i must say
when did it get this bad
when did i feel this mad
how could i feel any better
just take my scarlet letter
i rather leave this realm
than feel like this
i shouldnt feel like this
...... but you i'll miss
856 · Sep 2012
No hope in failure
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
Lying on the floor
Arms wrapped tight
My heart hurts more
I lost our life long fight
Tears slinking out
I can't stand this aching
Whole life engulfed in doubt
My souls for the taking
The lights flicker on
I blink the spots away
At the brink of dawn
Cant stand the sight of day
Just want to lay in my sorrows
And broken tattered dreams
No hope to see tomorrow
Life's not as great as it seems
855 · Apr 2013
Suicide
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2013
The signs on the doors are flipped to open
The stores turn on the lights
We pretend like we are safe
Like we can all share a smile
While we slowly **** ourselves together
As the wars get worse
Bombs blow up
People die
And we dare stand beneath the clouds
Questioning god as to why?
Innocents are killed
For the reckless of another
It was revenge
One eye for the other?
We won't need them anyways
We're all blind
I've finally lost hope
Lost faith in myself
And in mankind
853 · Oct 2012
Love stories
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Violins play in the backround
Of this black and white film
A love story
Boy meets girl
Girl falls in love
But this love is different
Than any high school
Love story
But it's just that
A story
Every one has an end
This one ended
With smeared mascara
And two halves
Of a heart
That used to be one
Just feel like writing about love tonight <3
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
I gave everything I had and you just let it all blow away in the wind,
like nothing had ever crossed our once star struck paths, I was struck in the heart,
That blow should've killed me,
I shouldve drowned in the open sea
But you resuscitated me
I would have died you see
I can't look in your eyes
I know that's  were my heart once lied, ,
I begged for you to be,
One hundred percent true to me
But you couldn't be
You hurt me
Left me bleeding into the ground
So lucifers hungry souls could feast
You were an evil beast
I miss the warmth and peace

Do you remember the melody
Your heart once sang with me
It was a masterpiece
It was truly unique
The gods bowed their heads in the presence
I used my last regrets
I promised That I wouldn't forget
That song that we once sang
Ill remember that day

When I saw you leave
It was so hard but so full of relief
I was sad for days
I resented the month of may
On may 28th
We'd sang out song
I remember how you smiled
I had felt at home for awhile
But you had evicted me

Do you remember the melody
Your heart once sang with me
It was a masterpiece
It was truly unique
The gods bowed their head in the presence
I used my last regret
I promised I wouldn't forget
That song that we once sang
I'll remember that day
849 · Jan 2015
Life Was Easier
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2015
It's as if I closed my eyes and time passed me by
I wish that I could rewind

I miss the feeling of being careless and free
But now I have responsibility shackling me

I miss the days that I could play without stress
But now my life is just a mess

I miss the world inside my imagination
But now it's become my damnation

Every thought is centered around what I need to get done
There is no vocabulary in my life to define "Fun"

And I am not alone, but I feel deserted
I keep calling out, but fear no one heard it

I feel like I am lost inside my mind
And I am searching but I can not find

The way out of this Hell I've been sentenced to
Life was easier before I grew

up.
846 · Dec 2012
I am not afraid of death
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
I am not afraid of death
It's peaceful like the trees
I am not afraid of death
It can consume me
Lips locked around my viens
**** away my life
Bids away all the pain
Bids away my strife
Tonight I close my eyes
And dream of the afterlife
Tonight I lay to die
And softly say goodnight
845 · Jul 2016
In The Silence
Katlyn Orthman Jul 2016
In silence I only hear my thoughts
The overcrowding of voices in my brain
The overwhelming rush of blood in my veins

I breathe deep

In silence I only hear your voice
Echoing in my head
The overcrowding feelings
Coat my heart in cement

And in the darkness I only see your memory
A faint light tethered to my heart
Beating in accordance to yours
Which used to beat alongside mine

And we were dreamers in the night
With wide ambitions and future sight
And now we're silent screamers
We're locked away

With so many opinions
and so much to say
yet my mouth is sewed shut
By the voices that play on repeat inside my head
they play and play and play and...

In the silence all I hear is you

In the silence which has become so loud
I feel lost inside this imaginary crowd
843 · Oct 2012
Untitled
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Frozen dreams 
Words echo in my ears distantly 
Can't be afraid of the dark 
Promises old and broken 
Lay in the shadows 
Jails hold me 
In my head 
The bars are so cold 
I freeze my hands 
Please these nightmares 
Let me go 
I've been here to long 
I became your home 
Drowning in past tears 
Judgements gate  leers 
at me with those angry eyes 
Let me untangle from these lies 
I'm innocent, not guilty 
Not to be blamed 
Yet I'm still ashamed 
I could've hid better  
This is my fault 
Locked in this vault 
I'm scared but have no fear 
I don't understand 
My own feelings 
I can't take back my past 
Every moment might be my last 
I should live 
But I'm not Alive 
I probably won't survive 
But I can never die 
This whole life scene is a lie 
And to say that I'm confused 
I really wonder why
Can't think of a name
843 · Nov 2012
Warriors bride
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
Dear love , my dear
I hold you in my embrace
As the fire dances amongst the trees
Casting shadows on Decembers lawn
A blanket of chill
But it shall not snake it's way against your skin
While I
Hold you...
You ask me of my past
But my past is not my present
I have escaped
Its angry cloak
I would rather make moments to be
Remembered
Now
With you so soft
And small
A warriors bride
For you are glass with a core of steel
And your cracks always heal
Your brown hair
Curtains shy eyes
To insucure
To gaze at mine
Though I can feel you want to
Just let go
And let the stars guide you
Katlyn Orthman Aug 2012
Oh how they have torn me,
They have burned the bridges to my heart,
And yet I keep my head high,
Even if inside its my heart that dies,
They ask me to trust,
They ask me to open,
But how do I manage after the many times,
I have been broken,
Holding on to the fact that I must live,
There are to many that need me,
I cannot allow my pain to selfishly,
Take over me,
So this graveyard that is my heart,
Must rest,
And I will get up from the sodden ground,
I have been sitting in,
It's my time to straighten my shoulders,
And move on,
Maybe then my heart will rise,
From the graveyard,
And beat again
839 · Apr 2013
Resentment of Myself
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2013
Fragments of a child with no fear
A child without a tear
Lay on the ground
Spinning around
Tainted by that man
By that boy
By that girl
Broken people
Stepped on toys
Thrown away
And taken the next day
Silent nights spent in dispair
Waiting for the comfort that's never there
Struggling to keep on
Watching the lights of dawn
Settling for a broken home
Inside myself I'm so alone
Abandoned by the one true person I can trust
The one person keep I must
Me, myself and I
But that person has died
A ghost of a careless being
Drifts off into a dream
So surreal and empty now
It's all gone now
Wrap my arms around cold skin
This time I let the darkness win
Deeper and deeper I feel myself sink
Before the dark I dare to blink
Just another poem about a broken soul
Crying about never being whole
I can taste resentment on my tounge
Why should I care?
Reasons? I can think of none
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2014
This is just another fight
we refuse to back down from,
another stain of blood
on the ground before our feet.

This is just another war
we won't give up
another ******* contest
of whose the best.

This is just another scar
slashed across flesh
or embedded in our minds
no one can see them but they're there.

This is just another tear
we refuse to let fall
because we're too proud
to look so weak.

This is just another disappointment
that builds in the corner
where there lies all the
forgotten promises.

This is just another example
of the world we live in
where hate comes more often
than love.
828 · Nov 2012
Let me forget you...
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
It was under the warmth of the sun
That the first tear fell
It was the beginning of "done"
And the opening of my hell

You had broken my soft trusting heart
Crashed into my wall
You pulled me apart
And made me fall

I want to forget your eyes
That haunt me now
I want to forget the lies
But I don't know how

After every chance I gave
You wasted each one
After each path I paved
You hit me where it stung

And now I'm crying to myself
Because you called again
It's not good for my health
You aren't now, you weren't then

I wipe your face from my dreams
I want to escape
It's harder than it seems
It's like your on tape

Replayed in my head
And when I tried to press rewind
I pressed play instead

Won't you just let me forget you?
Your tearing me down
I'm pushing through
This unbearable crowd

Watching me sail across the sea
Sinking into the waves
Watching the sky fall on me
As my world caves

You won't think to reach in
I can see your back as you walk away
It's this breaking with In
That told me you'd never stay

Pushed farther beneath the current
I'm fencing with the shards of my heart
This times different
I was broken from the start

Just let me forget you
I'm better off that way
If I do
And you don't stay
820 · Oct 2012
Sweet October,
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Grassy fields
A scarecrow
In the middle
A silent scream
From sewn lips
Frozen terror
In frozen blood
A dark sky
Thin clouds
A cold breeze
On my shoulders
Blood tears
A soul unleashed
The devils soul
So dark
So sad
So hateful
Finger tips can brush his pain away
Dark wings
Black feathers
Wishes he could be different
Wishes he could feel
Wishes he was real
Wants to have dreams
He's not always what he seems
He wants to feel love
But his blood , a tainted dove
Pulls him back to his jail
Sink their claws in his skin
Pulls him back to his sin
Sweet october
Release the monsters
817 · Jan 2016
Optic Chasms
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2016
I took a note of the serenity
The peaceful quake of silence
The candid chatter of simple thoughts
And those eyes

I fell head first into those romantic chasms
A regal beauty dwelled inside
Swimming in the complexity of those orbs
Always examining

Taken by the deep green mirrors
A perfect image of a rainy forest
They drizzled with a wisdom
Beyond

So very beyond this human earth
Transcending into the deepest means of matter
Into something that takes form
But no meaning presented to such simple beings

An enigma in those eyes
Watching with such jagged edges
They cut like the smoothest blade
A bittersweet injury

One may fall captive
Beneathe the brush of those black lashes
To the tops of rosy cheeks

And the mischievous grin
Which up turns such wicked lips
816 · Oct 2012
Death breather
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Soul snatcher
Death breather
Eyes evil , blue
Soulless monsters
Dark forces
Do their biding
Blood on their hands
Skin, never seen the sun
Face splattered with blood
Hide behind your sheets
They walk your streets
They hear your heart beat
They'll be discreet
Close your eyes

Brilliant soul
Shone above them all
No prayers are heard
When they roam
Evil  feasts
Your alone
With the beast
806 · Sep 2012
Untitled
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
At the top of the cliff,
Feet at the edge,
The salty breeze in my hair,
One hand grips the flower,
A brilliant red,
The one you gave me,
It's cold,
My feet are bare,
My hair loose around my shoulders,
My eyes closed,
I remember every moment,
You and me,
Laying on the beaches cool sand,
The water ebbing,
You said you loved me,
You lied,
I said I love you too,
I meant it,
Squeezing my eyes tighter ,
To stop the tears ready to explode from captivity,
The pain in me,
To much to bare,
Blades against skin,
A new pain,
Sweet release from yours,
But when that doesn't help,
And nobody listens,
What choice do I have,
A deep breath,
Lungs full of the oceans air,
I open my eyes,
Spread my arms,
And leap,
One last thought,
* I'll miss you
805 · Dec 2012
Spirit wolf
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
Sleep is growing harder
Always the forest
Spirt tell me what you need to
I want to sleep again
It's been years since it happened for the first time
The dream had replayed ever night
The stables were on fire
They pounded after me
I was scared
Running from the snarls
And snapping of teeth
I ran into the flame swallowed stall
But I wasn't afraid
They engulfed me
And the sad eyes of a wolf
Looked at me from the other side of
The stable
Why child? Do you **** yourself?
It always
Ended in those words
I was scared to understand those words
But now years later
I run the forest through
Searching
Always searching
Until I can find them
The trees all bow to the ground
I was home
I could run freely with them
Why child? Do you **** yourself?
These words haunt me
As the wolves eyes burn me
I decide I will name the him spirt wolf
Sprit wolf take me home
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
I was afraid time had taken me
Farther then allowed, I would
Be trapped in this hellish dream
                                                             Forever
Unable to call for help because
Only I am here , all on my own
Caged and trapped with only my
Thoughts to hold in my sanity I
                                                                  Was
Scared to reach out my hand and
Feel the damp stony walls, I was
Scared of the deafening silence
That had swallowed me, it was
Too overwhelming it had been
                                                                   Too
Quite, almost as if I was being
Drown in noise, filling my lungs
Pushing against my heart, and
Blocking my throat, chocking on
It, there was the slight sigh in
The breeze of the air, where the
                                                                 Long
Pause broke through my body,
I was disintegrating slowly
Stuck here forever alone, no
One there with me, just the
Killing silence, my thoughts
and dreams
This one is kind of confusing, but I had dreamt I was in a stone wall room alone and it had been so quite it was loud, and I kept thinking that I would be stuck there forever with just my thoughts
797 · Nov 2012
Just another love song
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
At the tip of my fingers
I wipe away your tears
Your pain lingers
It has for years
Always scared to close your eyes
Against the dark
But tonight ill be your guide
So follow me

Take my hand and place it to your chest
Warm beating heart
Beneath the moons crest
You said I love you
I said I did too
I just pray you won't hurt me
Because ill die if you do
Call me your love
Sing of the doves
A song about forever
A happy ever after
Just don't break my heart

You whisper in my ear
Sing to me my lyrics
Ever syllable I'd love to hear
Your magical in my eyes
Don't you realize

Take my hand and place it to your chest
Warm beating heart
Beneath the moons crest
You said I love you
I said I did to
I just pray you won't hurt me
Because I'll die if you do
Call me your love
Sing of the doves
A song about forever
A happy ever after
Just don't break my heart

And even if you leave
Off to fight in war
Ill wait for you to come home
And sing to me once more
Your life is in my soul
And your body left my hands
Your my soldier you must know
And you fight for our lands!
Just I song I wrote not the best but thought I might as well put it up
795 · Sep 2012
Perfect poem
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
I can't think ,
my pen suspended above blank paper,
I can't put to words these jumbled feelings
I hate not knowing what to say
Hate not knowing the words
I need to let all my confusion out
I just want to creat the perfect poem
But I will never achieve the impossible
I want to write until my pen becomes dry
I wish I could put every word, verbatim as it enters my mind
But I can't, I wish I could put this down
But my pen doesn't press against the paper
Fireworks do not egnite as I write
No one wants to listen
No one wants to feel
How do I translate what I feel to words
I hate that I read over past written words
And feel pain exude
I want to write the perfect poem
I need to
But I never will, maybe my dreams will never
Be fulfilled, these words mean nothing
Only to me, only I feel these words
Only I hear me shouting these words
In a room full
Maybe wishes get lost
Amongst the rest of the unfulfilled dreams
795 · Apr 2014
Keep Holding On
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2014
Keep holding on,
they tell me thoughts are but fleeting
wisps chanting for your attention

Keep holding on,
they say that in finding peace you're beating
the darkness that surrounds you

Keep holding on,
they praise the light, but maybe it's the light
that makes on suffer when wounds are
clear for everyone to see

Keep holding on,
they tell me, yet they've never dangled in fright
of the clutches of the unknown

Keep holding on,
but I can't
789 · Mar 2013
Round of Applause
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
Bring to me the sweet sound and echoes of the piano
Which ring about the stands
Quietly they await the song
I start out slowly, a bit shaky at first
And I grow with power I grow with strength
With the sweet adrenaline running through my veins and my heart thump thump thumps
The beautiful sounds ringing threw unexpecting lips
And when I sing out the last word
They crowd erupts in a glorious applause
I sang in the talent show just yesterday and it was amazing!<3 everyone was amazing
788 · Mar 2013
The cave
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
In the deep of the forest
There lays a cave
No man, no women
Came out of that grave
They say evil lurks
Beyond the drench and the smell
They say that cave
Is the gateway to hell
Cocky adittudes and ignorant smirks
Never lasted long
Every turn every step
Could be the wrong
I stepped foot in that cave
And lost the other
The evil there
Is evils mother
So heed my word
Don't go in on dare
Because you will die
By the hands of evil there
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
My heart like dry wall
Vandalized by you venom paint
Cover the bruises

Only you don't leave
When you tell me you are through
What else must you take?

I have grown weary
Of being pried by your hands
Every single day

Please just leave me now
My ill beating heart can bare
No more of your tricks
781 · Mar 2014
Intertwined
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2014
In the end my death
will not come sailing on the wings of my own pain
But on the eternal burning misery
of a friends

Their tears
shed as my own
Their broken hearts
become my tattered home

Their misery
seeps into me
Pain engulfing,
swallowing me into it's unforgiving sea

But God forgive me
When this pain just becomes to much in the end
I have crawled on these broken bones
But I cannot pretend

That I wish the current
Would just pull me in
And take this
Life of mine

Because these tears
This pain
Our souls
Are intertwined
780 · Jan 2016
Here's to the last Hello
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2016
You started off as a beacon
A shred of light in the dark
You started off as a song
One with the perfect melody
One with lyrics that fit my skin
And a tune that stroked my heart

You started off as something new
Something gorgeous in my eyes
Something that became my only truth
And erdicated all the lies

You turned into a heated kiss
One that warmed the pieces of my heart
And transformed into my passion
One that could never be torn apart

And now these tears that lie soaking in my bed
Has left these traces of voices in my head
Ones that tell me I'll never be good enough
Ones that fill me with an evil sort of stuff

A voice so empty it leaves shivers in my spine
A voice so broken because you had never been truly mine
778 · Sep 2012
Friend or foe
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
Whispers crawling across my skin
This world that world
The veils so thin
The slightest nudge they might collide
We'll be ******
We all will hide
Oh but when we're found
What will we do?
Can't make a sound
Or see through the dark can you?
Friend or foe
The question remains
The answer we'll never know
Just a smear on our conscience
An eternal stain
Not the best poem , but I couldn't sleep
776 · Sep 2012
Faceless monsters
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
Hello,
Is anyone there
I'm looking for someone
To take away this pain
I dream of a faceless monster
I cry in my sleep
Somedays I wake up screaming
Trying to get away
Please let me rest!
My throat is hoarse
I've been screaming for you to leave
And yet still you won't
Please god save me
Why are you let this happen
My tears have drowned me
My sorrows swim around me
I wish this wasn't me
But it is
Maybe my nightmares will fade
I can only hope
773 · Oct 2012
Broken glass
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Broken glass,   Not meant
To last, try  to look past
The anger , try not to
See some
One

As a stranger,     as an intruder
Try to look   past their
Differences That
divide Them
From

Each other , that keep
Them so separate
Broken glass
Never
Meant
To
Last
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
All alone in an empty room
Nothing left but the memories of when I had my best frIend
I don't know how we ended up here
I don't know but it's never been so clear
We made a mistake, dear.
And I see the broken glass in front of me
I see your shadow hangIng over me
And your face, I can see

Through the trees
I wIll find you;
I wIll heal the ruins left inside you
Cause I'm stIll here breathing now...
I'm still here breathing now
I'm still here breathIng now
UntIl I'm set free.
Go quiet through the trees

I remember how we used to talk
About the places we would go when we were off
And all that we were gonna find.
And I remember our seeds grow
And how you cried when you saw
The first leaves show.
The love was pouring from your eyes.

So can you see
The branches hanging over me?
Can you see
The love you left inside of me?
In my face
Can you see?

Through the trees
I will find you;
I will heal the ruins left inside you.
Cause I'm still here breathing now
I'm still here breathing now
I'm still here breathing now
Until I'm set free.
Go quiet through the trees.

Cause you're not coming back
And you're not coming back
You're not coming back...
You're not coming back...

Take my breath as your own
Take my eyes to guide you home

Cause I'm still here breathing now...
I'm still here breathing now...
I'm still here breathing now...
And I'm still here...

But you're not coming back.
And you're not coming back.
Cause you're not coming back
Until I'm set free
Go quiet through the trees.
One of my favorite songs <3
772 · Nov 2012
Listen to me!
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
I have spent my life being silent
Sometimes I'd break down and get a little violent
But I'm tired of your words
All your 'ya I already heards'
I've been shouting at the top of my lungs
My lyrics haven't been sung
Won't listen to me please ?
Just me ! Just me!
This is unjust ! Unfair!
That you think you can school me because you've been there
Stop! Just let me speak
I am not this weak
Thing you've made of me
If you opened your eyes you'd see
That I am no phony!
I've been standing on this stage
But the curtains are always drawn
I've been waiting for my dawn
That I would be heard
I hate you!
You have never listened
I hate you !
You don't ******* care!
I hate you !
I wish you dead!
I hate you!
I wish i wasn't here
You ruin everything in my life
You cause my head aches and my strife
You know nothing of me anymore
I hate you, you worthless *****!
You said you would protect me !
You said you'd never hurt me !
But it's you whose slowly killed me !
we are family!
You always take they're side
You just run away and hide
Even after I defended you?
Ha I thought you'd do the same too
I guess I was asking to much
I'm not worth your prescious time
So I guess you can go your way
And I will go mine
Sorry for some of the language just needed to get this off my chest.  Me and my sister are in a terrible fight and I rather put here than where I could regret it
772 · Feb 2014
Just Like Poison
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2014
You get inside my blood stream
turning my veins to black
You make me yell, kick and scream
because you always turn your back
on me

I breathe you in
to feel you again
Underneath my skin
You feel like poison

You haunt me while dreaming
I can't keep track
On how many times I've woken up screaming
But then fall asleep hoping to get you back
because

I breathe you in
to feel you again
Underneath my skin
You feel like poison

But I don't want to be saved
770 · Dec 2013
Ghost of McBeck
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2013
Click, Clack
Click, Clack
Footsteps echo

Darkness fleets
within the corners

Shiver, shake
turn and look

No ones there

Click, Clack
Shiver, Shake

Finger tips graze skin,
Paranoia within?

One step, One chill
One fear, One thrill

A shrill screech

A thunderclap in the distance

The lights flicker, flicker

Then go out

Breathe in fast

Breathe out slow

Heart beats a tattoo

Fingers clamped tightly together

Look left

Look right

No one in sight

"Your soul belongs to me,"

A whispered promise

Unwilling fear swelling into terror

Click, Clack, Click, Clack!

Footsteps faster against the floor

Where is the door?

Don't know anymore

Clap, Clap!

Lightning roars

The bolts shine through the windows

"You're mine!"

They scream

A frightened shrill erupts from clogged lungs

Cold clammy hands

Wrapped around a pale and creamy neck

This is the ghost of McBeck
First time I've ever written anything like this, is it any good?
767 · Feb 2016
Play Pretend
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2016
My lung expand
Slowly they deflate
I'm breathing in
Just a bit too late

My heart contracts
It beats inside
My lips are raw
From the pain I hide

Biting at them
I chew to think
My nails were perfect
And now they shrink

These thoughts are constant
They never end
I wear a mask
And play pretend

My stomach is empty
I hate to eat
I loathe the feeling
It's too complete

And I am broken
A jagged mess
After all these feelings
You confessed

I'm slowly gathering
My parts again
To build my mask
And play pretend
767 · Mar 2013
Wicked
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
Walk the aisle
On my way to death
Flowers hanging above the alter
Marry the truth
Divorce the lies
Hands holding a single black rose
The thorns twisted and sharp
The audience is dead
Watching me as I turn and bow
The groom lies in a crumpled pile
Drained of blood
The white carpet beneath him wet
With his last bit of life essence
Pushing back the black veil before my face
I whisper I do into grooms ear and smile
A wicked wedding
For a wicked bride
Not really sure where this one came from
767 · Aug 2013
We Are The Broken Ones
Katlyn Orthman Aug 2013
Through their eyes,
They only see what we show,
They don't see below,
They don't realize
That our hearts beat
But they are breaking
From all the hits they've taken
From all the defeat
They don't hear the strum of our guitar strings
They don't here the lyrics we cry
I wonder why
They never hear us sing
They don't see that we're becoming so helpless
As everything turns so wrong
By the chorus of the song
That this melody is regressed
They don't feel the sorrow that falls from our lips
Or see the tears we brush away
When the sun goes down at the end of the day
And we start to slip
They don't see that we are the broken ones
That hide behind words that can only mean so much.
766 · Oct 2012
Even Angels Fall
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
At the break of dawn
the curtains are drawn
The doors are closed
The sidewalks hosed
The sun breaks the clouds
The music is loud
And the clowns wake up again

Put on their masks
to join the masquerade
Their pain begins to fade
When they hide
And quietly slide,
through the day

The jokers fallen
from the deck
The angels have fallen again
This world is never perfect
Not even in the end
764 · Nov 2012
Moonlights starry eyes
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
Starry night
Stars in sight
Beneath the moon light
Eyes watery with forlorn sadness
Mirrors in the water
The small lake before me
Not quite still
My sad eyes
The key to my soul
I'm looking deep into them
What cause this pain
That has burried itself inside of me
Lowered head my brown hair curtains my face
It makes it a bit easier to look at my reflection
But whenever I dare the look
I feel angry
I hit the water with all my might!
But the water simply sloshes
Then settles back into is not quite still state
I feel like screaming
But I don't understand what's wrong
I only know that I feel disgusted with myself
I just wish that I could wash it all away
Wash away the pain the regret
My mistakes my flaws
My tears
My blood
I just want to restart
A new beginning
But my story has yet to end
I stand before the lake
And glance at the sky
Before I step into the cool water
And before I know it I'm summerged
I scream everything out
Until I run out of air
I kick to the surface
And take a deep breath
My throat already felt sore
But I could still feel the nagging anger
So I summerged myselfr again
And scream
Scream raw
Angry
Hurt
Ugly
Stupid
Not enough
So I scream more
Scream worthless
Failure
I scream until I choke
I scream until I begin to cry
Until I'm lifeless
I just lay thee out of energy
On the bank
Of the lake
Beneath the moon
And her starry eyes
I lay there and I just wish
It were all different
That I was better
That I was more
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
Why must you trouble my already aching heart, 
Why when I'm in the midst of  my happiness 
You must trample over it with your stampede of troublesome words 
Why must you control me with your
Heartbreaking speeches, 
Of how you have changed, 
Of how you can be better, 
But I've heard this many times before  
I will not fall for your pitiful attempts to pull me back into your deathly grip, 
I'm tired of these circling games, 
I'm done with your nonsense, 
So I bid you farewell
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