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665 · Oct 2012
Trick or Treat
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Trick or Treat
Tonight you meet
The scare of your life
Hold on to your wife
I roam the streets
And you I'll eat
Just for fun
Before the sun
Comes out
No doubt
Were you excpecting someone else
Well you have me
So Trick or Treat?
Just a halloween poem,
665 · Jan 2013
Sonnet: missing you
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
Could it be that I have fallen from grace?
That I have lost touch with the universe?
Losing my grip on this revolving place
I can not tell if I've been trapped, or cursed
Loneliness in the bitterest of forms
I'm suffocating in the angry air
As I'm spinning in this fast forming storm
I can't help but notice you're not there
Pleading to see your face in this grey sky
I'm not sure why I still seem to miss you
After your deceitful, misleading lies
I really should have been utterly through
But still I sit here thinking of your name
Sinking father into my pool of shame
660 · Jun 2013
Natures Gift
Katlyn Orthman Jun 2013
Beneath the moons gentle gaze
The fluttering of leaves touching in the wind
Sounds in my ringing ears
The soft rippling water spilling from the earths skin
Drag my finger across the velvet surface
Calling the power only pure water such as this gives me
Close my eyes and concentrate
Feel the way the water hugs my emerged skin
Feel the way the water moves as though it breathes
The pale moon a reflection against the dark waters
Clusters of stars dusted in the sky
Shine down like dozens of lit candles floating
The cool scrape of the grass against clad knees
And the soft chirp of the awakening night life
All natures gift to me
658 · Jan 2014
The New Years War
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2014
Your tear drops hit the floor like glass
and everything you loved has passed.
There's a new found ache in your heart,
and it gnaws and claws you apart.
You feel the new year has brought you dead ends,
and you're too tired from last year to pretend.
Fighting for this will they say you own,
but you're standing on the battlefield alone.
This day does not end in laughs and smiles,
no it ends in tests and trials.
Measuring the strength you've been forced to show,
you can't hide it anymore because now they know.
You saw God crying in the face of your enemies,
and that gave you strength to fight endlessly.
Anywhere you would've followed the horizon,
but now you can rest your head,
for now you're done.
655 · Jan 2013
When the leaves fall
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
Buzzing softly
Rattling like slow beaten drums
The air grew thick
And the clouds hovered grey
Black spider like vines
Crawling
Chasing me
Trying to flee from this darkness
The memories keep it near
Keep it here
Running to the trees
But slowly the leaves
Turn black
Dripping like ink
Bleedin from the ground
All around
It's so dark here
The sky blood red
The moon a black hole
In the sky
The vines like barb wire
Rip up my legs
Cut through my flesh
My teeth mesh
Cold the wind grips my throat
The silent scream
So loud
As the soft grey clouds
Cry tears
653 · Aug 2012
The Queen who fell
Katlyn Orthman Aug 2012
Tall and glorious in all her beauty,
She will fall,
She points her blood smathered sword into the midnight air,
The moonlight slipping through her silky hair,
Victory amongst her face,
She will fall,
She turned her horse to face her lover,
But his eyes ounce kind,
Turned vile,
His mouth set with disgust,
He raised his sword and swung it towards her,
She had fell
652 · Oct 2012
Lone soul, lone heart
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Reborn by the stars
A lone soul
In an endless fall
Cold demensions
My finger tips burn
With my pain
With my hope
Brushed away tears
Muffled cries
Touched the seam of paradise
Before it was snatched away

A lone soul
Wondering
Waiting for some one to look inside
The windows opaque
With fake smiles
Fake laughs
Fake words
Okays
I'm sorry's
I'm alright's

A lone heart
Beating alone
Bleeding on its own
Surrounded by its own walls

Until the lone soul
Loses itself
No longer a soul
Just....
Nothing

And the lone heart
Stops beating
Stopped by pills
Jammed down its throat
And wrist bleed out

Never give up
Hope is in the dark
You don't always need a light
To see
648 · Dec 2012
Songs of a bird
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
Hello little bird
I hear your musical song
As you dance and prance
Upon your frozen branch
A smile lit on my face
As you sing and look down on me
With a laugh I lay down in the snow
Beneath the tree that hangs low with age
Over the small barn
Peacefully I close my eyes
Oddly warm within the snows blankets
And like the sky was crying of joy
Small flakes fell and landed so gracefully upon my face
Finally at peace I fell asleep
648 · Oct 2014
We've Lost Ourselves
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2014
Little one
A few years old
Arms bound, soul chained
Auctioned off and sold

A picture on the news
This girls been gone four days
Death is almost certain
The murderer escapes

A man with a cross
Settled proudly on his chest
Victimized for evil deeds
A rusted blade tugging against his flesh

Young girl
She walks alone
***** and beaten
On her way home

Poor child
Holes in his shoes
His stomach growls
It's nothing new

Tears mean nothing
If you turn a blind eye
Every minute we're silent
Someone else will die

We lost hope in humanity
Brought down by brutality
This worlds reached insanity
Our hate is our own fatality
I turned on the news tonight, the world has gone to ****.
645 · Dec 2012
Cremate my heart
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
My bones are bones
My flesh will rot
My soul will fly
But I will not
My heart will beat
Beneath the earth
When time defeats
And the universe begins rebirth
I will lay
Eyes rested
Doomsday
Moon crested
Cremate my heart
I rather not be cold
I've broken many apart
Being cold
Many nights of sin
Empty bottles of gin
Broken chairs
And glass
Litter the floor
But sealed shut is my door
I'm so...
Dead
644 · Apr 2016
Indigo Dreams
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2016
The flowers were tinged in red
The all mighty has fallen again
A dark ring has fallen around the sun
It grows bigger as each day is done

Shadows linger where we used to be
Our dreams casted out into the sea
And the indigo moon is hoisted up high
As it watches the light in our eyes die

As it watches the leaves fall from trees
A place our hopes used to be
In the branches of the old kings and queens
And the Earth opens up wide to swallow me

My lungs fill with dirt decay
In this soil belly where I lay
I feel the soil sink between my feet
In a place where light and dark will always meet
A  sullen smile as raindrops fall in reverse
And I forget all that I have rehearsed
The role I play has gone off script
Somewhere down the road I had tripped
And now my heart beats but it skips

Hopscotch heartbeats and sunken in eyes
Why did the sun and moon die?
Where are the stars that once shined so bright?
The emptiness is just not right

And now I sleep beneath indigo skies
My eyes shut tight
And now I have indigo dreams
They're full of tangled webs and screams
644 · Jan 2013
Angry storms a room away
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
Sitting in my room
Blue walls facing white
I listened to a tune
To deafen out their fight
A mother and a daughter
No longer see eye to eye
Her mothers cries don't stop her
As she spouts out more lies
I wish that I could stop this
But I am powerless right now
I wish that I could fix this
But I really don't know how
I listen to the lyrics
He sings about his wife
About death and how he fears it
Since his wife took her own life
So sad this world has felt all this pain
And we simply feel a small part
But we burry deep all our shame
And we throw away all the bad into the earths heart
So quietly I'll swallow it down
Not so fast
Because I don't wont to drowned
Beneath this devouring past
641 · Apr 2013
Beauty and Love
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2013
There in your eyes
There was a beauty so divine
There was no explanation to why,
Your gorgeous eyes would shine
So bright like nothing I've seen before
And it outlined your soft face
That contributes to your beauty's soft allure
It has me spinning off into space
The way you lay by my side
And whisper in my ear
The way you duck behind your hands to hide
And say every word I long to hear
This, what I'm feeling, is a love without bounds
So pure and bright
Something rarely found
Laying plain in my sight
641 · Oct 2013
The World Isn't Right
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2013
The sun doesn't shine anymore,
it's been dark for a while.
When the day looks like it might be good,
the weight comes crashing down.
Sending me spinning in this hell,
with my heart stapled to my sleeve.
The voice in the back of my head is yelling,
telling me when it looks better it'll only get worse.
Tragidy everywhere that I look,
like torn pages from a book
where is the end?
Not at the end of a rope
or the last drop of hope,
it can't be that last single tear
or when you are numb without fear.
When you're missing ignorant bliss
back when  you didn't feel like this.
When you keep yourself up at night,
thinking of all the things that aren't right.
Back when the sky was always blue,
and you didn't question everything you do.
When your body wasn't sore from working tell you're dead,
back when you weren't scared but fearless instead.
Where have the days gone?
When everything in the world didn't feel so wrong.
I bet alot of people can relate
640 · Oct 2012
I shall go
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
I shall go with a heavy heart
My heart feels torn apart
But I will live through this haze
With a sigh, to remember those summer days
warm with a slight breeze
nice, maybe seventy degrees
love burns hotter
but this gap between us
has thrown cold water on
the embers
I can only hold my head up
And close my eyes
Ignore your comments
Ignore your lies
I can be strong
And I can be wise
But right now I might need a hand
To help me up
From this rut
I shall go tonight
With a heavy heart
But I will not fight
640 · Oct 2014
I Was Alive
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2014
I was alive for a moment
Truly felt the wind brush my skin
Felt it thread it's fingers in my hair
Felt it caress my heart from within

It was a moment
Fleeting in it's wispy form
It was a moment that I felt
reborn

It was then I could raise my head
But alas, the moment past
and again I was dead
639 · Sep 2015
Goner
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2015
Into the trees
Into the darkness of the trees
My pain, my tears they follow me
To slip away from the world
Slip away into the trees
Where the leaves will carry me
Into the darkness
Into the darkness of me
My heart, my chest is swollen
I chip away with this disease
Where death will carry me
Into the trees
Into the trees I'll never leave
639 · Sep 2012
Opportunity
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
Close the door to opportunity
I was so close
but it was like running in a dream
Trying so hard
But I feel locked down
My finger tips brushed it
But it slammed in my face
Sent me flying back
I fell over
I couldn't get back up
I was frozen in the essence of my failure
If only all was fair
But it isn't
So wishing on an empty sky
Is pointless
I have to pick it all back up
And start again from the beginning line
When the bell goes off
I'll run until my feet bleed
And my heart stops
639 · Sep 2012
Tainted
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
Haunted by the ghost of what you used to be
Tainted by the love we used to share
Scared to be anyone else
Hurt by experience
Afraid to take a chance
I stay to myself where i know I'm scared
Wont open my mouth and sing the words
Ones I'm dying to sing
I am terrified to look in the mirror
Rather stay in this state of mind
Where the past doesnt exist
That I am okay
That I dont scream to the heavens
That I dont feel alone
It's make beleive but It's safe
636 · Sep 2012
Hate
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
You were suppose to protect me
From evils crooked hand
You were suppose to love me
Not leave me with this man
The one who leaves me bleeding for everyone to see
The one who has no bounds
And doesn't give a **** about me
Hold me down
Make me pay
I felt pain
That very day
Almost broke me to the bone
Weren't his words or his stones
Hate him more every day
I wish I
Could make him pay
For the blood that I had shed
For the care that he misled  
Every tear that fell
I hate this dark angry hell
Iive like this all the time
Frozen pictures, of what all was mine
Stay away from my dreams
Your  minipulative scandalous schemes
Goodby forever you wicked illusion
No mistake no confusion
635 · Jul 2014
Fatal Lullaby
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
633 · Sep 2012
Shadows in the day
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
I have been careless
I used to move with wind beneath my feet
The eyes of no man could see
I was part of the night
Which no one had found
A shadow with no end
Looming across the skies
Gracefully perched in the black of night
No eyes had set
Upon my beauty
No hand had laid
Against my silk skin
Plush lips never brushed softly
Hair unbound only by myself
But the night with its star filled sky
And the moons luminous gaze
I was not alone
I was completed by myself
But the wrong move,
Was my own undoing
I could have quietly picked the shattered
Pieces and put them back in place
But I liked the freedom
Of the light
The heated gaze of the sun
I could see clearer
And the opaque window
I had been gazing through
Wiped clean
Revealed me to the world
But I was okay
631 · Mar 2015
Background Noise
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2015
Remains of lost hopes and dreams
Sleeping in this endless stream
Ubiquitous the sound of screams
A place they were last seen

Maybe they're the captured last moments
Before the lights inside went out
A last resonating shout
That never ceased it's breathing

It comes alive in the dark
When the shadows tag along
And the stars whistle
To an unrepentant song

Background noise fills my mind
It seems my memory has closed the blinds
On the thrill of reality
And chosen a new mentality
631 · Jul 2013
Waking Dead
Katlyn Orthman Jul 2013
There and gone again
Where are you?
I whisper in the quiet of the night
Hypnotic stars blanketing the sky
In the shadows do you lay?
Where are you?
My fingers barely brush the veil
Before you are gone
Again
I am in your trance
Following your heartbeat
You I smell in the fragile breeze
Soft and sweet the aroma fills me
Where are you?
Come out come out
My searching heart begs of you
Show yourself to me
One who manipulates the shadows
And dances with the stars
I hear you, smell you, but cannot see
Why must you torture me
Give yourself to me
So I may rest again
From the earth I rose
Necromancers
Spirt dancers
Find me I must see
This heartbeat that has woke me
From my sleep
629 · Sep 2012
My mother is strong
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
My mother is strong,
She raised me and my sister,
Alone ,
No one to help her,
My mother is strong,
she threw away,
All the evil men that had tried to bring her down,
My mother is strong,
She never cried in front of us,
My mother is strong,
She learned to laugh when things got hard,
My mother is strong,
She help be our light when things were too dark to face on our own,
My mother is strong,
She never left a moment dull in our lives,
My mother is strong,
She made things fun even though we didn't have money,
My mother is strong,
When my sister left she lifted her head and smiled
Even though I knew she was breaking,
628 · Dec 2012
Cliff hanger
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
Silently she hung her head
And drifted loaftly off to bed
Sadly she laid her head down
Her face was frozen masked by a frown
Her heart had grown dreary from the cold days
And her love kicked out there was no room to stay
She often stood about a cliff
As she listened to the ocean drift
She heard if happiness lying there
As she stared into the waters glare
Not every story ends with love
Not ever story releases doves
Her story was met with an ending of life
Consumed by pain and swallowed by strife
628 · Sep 2017
Split
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2017
There's no silver linings
No light at the end of the road
And I've been searching
...all on my own

The trees are losing thier leaves
Much like I am losing my hair
And the grass is growing it's weeds
And I'm seeing things that aren't there

Its these chemicals balanaced in my mind
That prompts me to find
Such sad little beings
Who love and live
As thoughts in my mind

I'm seeing faces in the shadows
Love in darkness
And happiness with the smoke in my lungs

And I'm done

So done with this constant ache
This soreness in my head
This brutal awakening
That I am dead

Not physically so because I still breathe
But inside of me, I bleed

I look in the mirror
And hate what I see
"Well change yourself!"
But that isn't me

And now I'm slumped on the couch
Listening to slow songs
Watching the room spin
Out of control

Wishing these thoughts weren't there
628 · Oct 2012
Untitled
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
I am one
In a sea of a thousand
I swim among myself
Because I cannot go on
Pretending to be
Some one I am not
They ask us to morph
Our beliefs to fit theirs
With no care of how we
Feel
Only of how they can gain
From our blood sweat and tears
How they can take
From us
But never give
Its a one way street with them
And they won't stop at the
Lights
Because they don't mean a thing to
Them
Our rules don't apply to them
Because in some way
That I cannot see
They are above us
If I could raise my voice
Above the uproar
I would ask how
How they think they can push us down
Why they think we deserve less
Is it because we make less?
Now how is it our fault
When work is bad
And gas is through the roof
My mom is barely home
She comes home with bleeding fingers
Only to make just enough to pay the bills
I know she hurts
And she thinks of leaving
Everyday
But I'll be the one
To stand for my mother
When she's to weak
I'll speak for her
When she can't
I'll be her eyes
When hers won't see
I'll lead her from this world
Of this trumps this
To one that could care less
If you can afford to waste money
On things that mean nothing
Things that are expendable
That can be replaced
I'll live for a world of peace
Where differences make us smile
Where love is for anyone
Where we all respect each other
627 · Sep 2014
Resurgence
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2014
I figured my blood was clean of this sickness
Thought the light had banished the dark
Fought to break free of what lay underneath
But these wounds are reopened
Bleeding beneath my skin
And the tears fall again
I hope I won't break
this time
627 · Dec 2012
Untitled
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
Breath darling into my heart
For I will never part
You I hold inside my grip
And never will you ever slip

You are like a flower in my garden
And If I mess up I'll ask you pardon
Our vows to each other may last forever
A bond so tight to never sever

Two hearts conjoined as one
Then blessed by the wails of a first born son
A kingdom rich and lavished
And a mother who learns to manage
626 · Sep 2012
When the nightmares reality
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
That night I was so young,
My eyes took in a gruesome scene
Fresh years wet my eyes
I wasn't ready for her to die
I hate that man for what he did
He yelled and screamed and hid
The lights and sirens loud a firce
I run for safety and let them in
God help me I am so scarred
Just don't let them see
This trembling pain inside me
And as I thought that she was dead
Her life flowed back inside instead
And time went on and now I feel
As if my life's fake and not real
Treated like dirt, spit on,
She's not thankful that I saved her life
623 · Sep 2012
Villalobos
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
I wish to roam among them
Loyal strong and prideful
Together a body
Which moves as one
My dream to look Into their
Hunters eyes
So full of truth
But this Villalobos is burning down
Scattered running
Their paws hit the ground
Smoke fire chaos all around
I stand in the middle and watch the flames
My heart is breaking I call their names
How could we do this ?
Let this be?
Did this happen because of us?
Because of me,?
Bothers stop they matter to
Their foreign to us
Because they don't speak our language
Respect to you lobos
Because you are free
That's something above all of us
Even me
For those who don't know villalobos means village of wolves , lobos means wolves , just a poem about how we tear down their homes to make room for ours and I wish we didn't
622 · Apr 2013
Our Story
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2013
The first kiss
The gift of bliss
The beat of my heart
How I can't bare to be a part
The way you laugh
I know your my other half
How you get so excited for Dr.Who
Just you
The names we call each other
It's not right with another
The way your eyes sparkle and shine
When I say your name I know your mine
How you own my beating heart
And you have since the start
The way you always make me see
The way you make me happy
How I look forwarded to seeing you
And going to school too
The way my friends all say we'll last
And me praying we will never be a past
How I thank god for you every night
And how I hold you tight
And we never fight
Because you're just right
This is how I know  
This is love
<3
622 · Oct 2012
Death
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Little girl falls down
And hit’s the ground
Tears in her green eyes
Doesn’t know of lies
Only the sun and the wind
In her hair
Doesn’t know Deaths hand
Is there
About to take her away
She only feels the pain
In her knee
Later on she will see

Falling from the tallest of mountains
She was shouting
For someone to save her
As Deaths hand swept her up
Put her on his wings
Made her sing
Made her sing

She had trusted that thet would keep her safe
But that day
She died just a little inside
She tried to hide
The memories away
She couldn’t know that
Someday They come bring her pain
Back
She would remember
The cold nights of December

Falling from the tallest of mountains
She was shouting
For someone to save her
As Deaths hand swept her up
Put her on his wings
Made her sing
Made her sing  

And the cold nights air
Sent chills down her spine
Her mind was mine
We were one
The damage had been done
She was Death
I was her
We were one
Nothing left but the shadows
But we had eachother

To rule the night
The spirits will fight
But you'll be alright
Reaping the dead
It's in her head
She was born to be
She was part of me

Falling from the tallest of mountains
She was shouting
For someone to save her
As Deaths hand swept her up
Put her on his wings
Made her sing
Made her sing
622 · Aug 2014
The Worst Feeling
Katlyn Orthman Aug 2014
Why am I so disappointed if I have everything I want?
*Because I have nothing I need.
621 · Oct 2013
Heart Strong
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2013
I am alone, beneath the skin of a smiling girl.

I am weak, underneath the tough words.

I cry when the doors are closed

and I lie when I'm vulnerable.

I'm scared of the entire world

I hate to know pains cold fingers

they linger their frozen touch on my heart

and it's there I know I am falling apart.

I break like glass thats already cracked

shattered asunder, just like that.

Sometimes, while my lips quiver and my eyes shine with unshed tears

I think about what there isn't to fear.

What is the reward of this wayward place

Ridden in hate

I cant walk a mile in anyone else's shoes

I haven't even ran in my own

My heart cant bare the thought

Of stepping outside it's home

Oh yes, it's been broken

And yes, it's done wrong,

but that imperfect heart

that broken, hurt swollen heart is strong.
619 · Feb 2013
Round and around and around
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2013
I'm scared to love anyone
I'm scared to let anyone in
I'm scared that all the memories
Will press play and begin
I'm scared to let myself feel
I'm scared to leave this dream
I'm scared to feel something real
Life's harder than it seems
I miss the silence
I miss the feeling without pain
Who am I kidding?
It's always been there
I've never been free
Pain is a part of me
There's only one way to break the chains
Of this eternal pain
This burning flame
This overwhelming shame
Taking the easy way out
Erasing this cloud of doubt
Erasing me
616 · Jun 2013
I just want to cry
Katlyn Orthman Jun 2013
I just want to cry
Wishing that I'd die
This anger deep inside
Hoping just to hide
Hating you for hating me
There are scars that cut so deep
******* pain inflicting me
These ignorant people never see
Broken inside this fragile wing
The broken song I always sing
Why is it so hard to let go
Of the railing, of the rope
I'm dying already
My heartbeat unsteady
Until it all goes blank
Deeper and deeper I sink
Just trying to cope
615 · Sep 2012
if only
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
if only i was the person i pretend to be,
the one that can take the blow
the one that smiles at the joke
the one who doesnt need to wipe her tears
the on who doesnt hear their murmured voices
of disgust, dissapointment
the one who didnt drive them away
if only i could be stronger
take the words shot like a gun
the one who doesnt break a little more
everytime they say things like
who are?
why do you believe in that?
how could you be friends with them?
if only i could bite my tongue
not lash out at them when they attack
only makes them come back
if only i could lift my shoulders
and smile in their faces
be nonchalant of the things they do
but im not, so i guess i rather be me
a fake smile, fake strenghth, put aside
614 · Feb 2013
Never going back
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2013
Burning up the streets
Watching the flames eat
Feeding them with my anger
With my pain
Never going back
Fueled by my shame
Tossing away the keys
I'm leaving behind the old me
She's no longer my home
I'm ready to be the riot
Never keeping quite
I'm ready to be insane
Never being tame
Releasing the crazy in me
She's been chained up
Never being able to feed
I have this bloodlust controlling me
And she won't rest, she's too hungry
She'll take your soul
Eat it whole
A smile on her face
But there's no room to care
The fireworks explode
The river runs free
Letting this crazy feeling run through me
Throw my hands up
Tilt my head back
Scream to the sky
Let the stars take me
Laughing tell I cry
Crashing through the flames
Never going back
Never chaining myself that place
I'm on fire
As I tear up the streets
In the dark
614 · Jun 2013
Forget Me Now
Katlyn Orthman Jun 2013
I am the forgotten,
Leave me here where I shall stay
Forget me now
My memory will only fade

Torn inside, like shredded paper
Unfixable just go
Rip me more,
They will never know

A blank page every time you turn
The dusty cover aged and fragile
Leave me now on this shelf
Where I will stay  
Where I shall fade
614 · Mar 2013
Other me
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
There's someone else inside of me
Alone in there I hear it breathe
It's me, but a different side you see
It awakens and destroys the weak

Eyes open to the purest red
All the innocence gone its fled
Full of rebillious thoughts in my head
The old me could be gone and dead

It laughs it breaks it taunts
It takes it steals it wants
Beware of it, it haunts
Just give in to it
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
Oh the sky's were weary
Storming like the sky was crying
The day was dreary
The trees were dying

It was a sort of deathly day
The streets smelt of tears
The crowds crowded in the streets
Blocked the way

There was no birds in the sky
There was no sign of sun
The gods had cursed us I don't know why
But something had to be done

Whether I had to crossed the seas
Or swim the firey lakes
Or whether the answer would come to me
Or I had to fight to take

I would save my dying kin
Because I would give them my life
I rather put my soul out
And admit that I had sinned

I rather lay bare before my god
Then let them all be slayed
I rather bathe myself in guilt
Then live while they decayed

I raise my gauntlet to the sky
While the gods cry
I hope tonight won't be the last
But if it is for them I will die
611 · Feb 2013
When angels die
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2013
When angels die
They leave no mark
When they go
There is no spark
No tears are shed
No hearts are broke
No pain mislead
No words to choke on
When angels die
The leaves won't fall
When they go
No loved ones call
When angels die
The world grows dimmer
The pain is stronger
And love is slimmer
When angels die
The pain haunts easier
The face of evil
Grows sleazier
When angels die
The pain puts you down
You fall a little faster
And you hit the ground
609 · Apr 2015
Dead Inside
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2015
I am defined
By these blood stained lines
That map out my pain on my arm

I am denied
By these voices in my head
The ones that keep screaming "Harm"

And my head is throbbing
From the tears I have shed
And my heart is throbbing
From the blood staining my bed
And I am hanging
By a very thin thread
I'm just reminded
By my arm, which is red
That inside of me
I  am very much dead
609 · Jul 2014
At A Loss For Words
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
607 · Mar 2013
Where I roam
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
In this cold forest
Where I roam
The thick coverage billows
For a moment I feel at home
No worries, no stress
No tears to fall today
This cold that lurks inside
I hope it dies today
There's no whispers in my head
There's no pain inside
Maybe today ill show my skin
And I won't have to hide
604 · Oct 2012
House of screams
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Shadows linger on the white carpet
In the night it hid the blood
That slipped from a cut throat
And seeped out from the side
The stench of her draining life
Filled the dreary room
And walls that used to hold memories
Have been wiped blank
The open window
Lets in the breeze
To bad they muffled her screams
Death remains a permanent stain
On the face of the house
Once happy with pastel walls
Now... Dark and gloomy
The paint runs off the walls
A mourning dove perched on her couch
Cries tears of blood
The crows will soon pick her flesh
And then there will be nothing left
601 · Mar 2013
Losing Faith
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
I count the scars..
The ones I try to hide
The ones I am so ashamed of
The new ones and the old ones
Thinking how easy it all could end
How easy I could shut off the dreams
The ones I have every night haunting my sleep
The ones that make me scared to close my eyes
In fear that I'll see his face
I know it's already over
I'm counting the days
To be brave enough to do it
To fall off the edge I'm dangling
I'm so alone..
People all around, but I can't scream
In fear that I'll drag them down with the rest,
Of my victims
I'm already so cold inside
I long to feel the warmth
And I know I'm hurting everyone around me
But I'm blinded and I can't see
The light that used to be there
I just sit drowning in my pain
Seeping into me and spreading like venom
I keep messing up, making a new mess
There's a trail that I'm so frantic to clean up
But the past has been written
I cannot rewrite the ink
It soaks into my skin
There reminding me all the time
Screaming at me
What purpose is there for a failure?
For someone so damaged?
So dark, and broken?
I can't see it
And I can't feel it
I think I've lost what matters most...
My faith
Not much of a poem
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
Ominous winds dancing on my bare arms
Fencing with anger to calm down my heart
Frozen winds help to blow away the harm
Searching for something that tears me apart
Looking through windows opaque with dark dust
Fighting with the curtains to close the blinds
Locking open doors, there's no one to trust
Secrets behind me I rather not find
Wind getting colder, cold I do not like
Missing the heat that used to warm my bones
Two things so different used to be alike
So separated in far apart homes
The parts that are broken are tossed away
In the dark casted shadow it will lay
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