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697 · Jun 2013
What's Under the Bed?
Katlyn Orthman Jun 2013
Twisted little lullaby
Do you hear the children cry?
Song lyrics laced with fear
A woeful cry a frozen tear

Under your bed is where he sleeps
Watching and listening while you weep
Waiting for the time to come
When the nightmares start and you begin to run

Keep your eyes closed because he can see
Into your eyes and in your dreams
Toying and playing, taunting you too come near
He can smell the stench of your growing fear

One bite is all it will take for him to claim your soul
One bite for him to devour you whole
One wrong move you make and he'll take your breath
One wrong move brings your death
696 · Nov 2012
Who is god in my eyes?
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
They paint pictures
Of golden gates cloaked in mist
Have you sinned?
How is it humanly possible
To never sin?
And if you do
You must beg forgiveness?
And forgiveness will be given
If you forgive yourself?
People portray god
As a man that gave his life for us
They say he wants all his children
To be happy?
But then they say he would never except
Anyone who is of the same ***
And in love?
In my mind it bounces from wall to wall
How could simple people
Parents, except their children
And love them
But a man so just and unselfish
Not?
Who is god in my eyes?
I can ask myself this all the time
But I don't know
We're deceived everyday
I can't allow myself to believe
That he would
Cast away his children
Because they chose to love
Just my opinion , I have a lot of people in my life that are gay , not saying everyone has to believe in gay rights but I choose to.  I've heard that the whole argument about gay rights was based off of religous reasons . I can't believe god would be shallow again just my opinion
695 · 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
692 · May 2013
Red Light
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
A flash in the sky
One question, why?
A small bit of fear
The feeling that it's near
The mentioning of stranger things
A presence from above the radio sings
The dark night sky filled by lights
Are the sightings right
The things that roam inside my head
At night when the stop light is red
692 · 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
691 · 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
691 · Feb 2019
The Room
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2019
It took me a minute
It took me a minute to open up my mind
My hand was shaking
Trembling as it hovered
Right over that rusted, squeaking handle
When my fingertips brushed the cool metal it was rough and rugged
The doors paint chipping away
What used to be bright cherry oak
Was now crumbling
But I was not deterred
I ****** in a deep breath
Gripped that cool metal tightly and twisted
There was loud screech as the once sedentary **** broke back into action
As I pushed open the door
It was dusty and burned my eyes and filled my lungs with jmpurities
It was troubling to look past the fog it had created
Old debris and dirt particles danced and twirled in the air as it descended back down to the creaking floor boards
I recall how quiet it was in that room
Lacking windows and furniture
Lacking security and confidence
But I was determined
I slipped on my blue gloves
A snap against skin like a war cry
I was ready to begin
I started by dusting the corners, then the walls
I swept the floor with gusto and will
I envisioned that room spotless
I envisioned windows filing that room with sunlight
I envisioned music playing soft tunes that pulled your body into rhythmic motion
I envisioned that room filled with people that I love
I envisioned us smiling, laughing
Pure moments of humanity shining in and brushing my skin with its warmth
Once the festivities come to end
I envisioned that room bright with the moonlights company
Until morning when sun rises and fills the room once again
This room represents my mind, and the much needed cleaning it needs of all the negativity that I've allowed to clutter it.
691 · Oct 2012
Do not fret
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Oh my heart wails for you
all that you've been through
rest child, I beg you please
these wretched shadows tease

Hold on child the darkness fades
into the light morning shades
surely your father will be back soon
oh my is it noon?

you must not cry
these men must tell lies
he couldn't! couldn't have died

oh, the world goes on
the days grow long
the bottle of whiskey you have is empty
all because he died, on friday the thirteenth

close your eyes imagine him there
do not fret, he's right there
dad could not have died
they must've lied
691 · 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
689 · 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
686 · May 2013
Mothers Day
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
The morning light spilt in through the window
The birds chirped a soft melody
The curtains swayed with the breeze
And I watched the ebbing trees
Today I honor a woman I trust
A woman who gives me all
Today I honor a woman so strong
A woman who never falls
Fighting through all the blood and disaster
Fighting through all the pain
This woman fought for everything I have
And crazily she's still sane
I love you mom
Don't ever forget
That I love you with all my heart
And you fight for us even if we don't see it
And I will never forget
686 · 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
685 · Nov 2012
Someday I'll be there
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
A new face
You make me wonder
You make me laugh
From across the rows
Of desks
I feel your gaze
Bite my lip
To stay still
You watch me with courios eyes
But when I turn my head
Your gaze shifts off
How you make me want to
Just grab your hand
And place it above my beating heart
To feel your warmth
Leaking through my skin
To gaze into your eyes
To run my fingers through your silk hair
To feel you there
Just to breath
In your scent
Drink you in
Never releasing you
But I only smile shyly
And watch the ground while I walk past you
Someday
Maybe
I'll grow the courage
683 · 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
683 · 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
682 · 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.
681 · Nov 2012
Kindling passion
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
Your eyes are tame
Your voice is hushed
You look mundane
But your look makes me blush
Beneath your guise I bet you are
Soft and tender , all at the same
The type of person
That lives by one name
I'll remember you by one I choose
I don't pick winners , because they truly lose
I like your vibe , I like your look
Give me back what others took
Ill give you as much in return
Let our love and passion burn
680 · 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
679 · 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,
679 · 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
676 · Feb 2016
Poem of the Drunken
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2016
I can feel the tingle start at the tip of my tongue
I feel the burn in the pit of my stomach
The lightness washing over these heavy limbs
The weightless impossibility
The drunken bliss
A feeling I miss
With each shot I forget your face
Each drink of this liquid pain killer
Takes me a step away from the memories
That haunt me
674 · 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
672 · 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
672 · 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
671 · Mar 2013
Stains
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
Stains are like scars they only fade
They're proof of a mess from the past that you made
It sits there staring up at you
Toying and taunting to see what you'll do
And they keeping adding up
They never go away
They just sit their watching
Begging to stay
Making you cry a little bit longer
These stains have never made me feel stronger
Everytime I see a reminder of you
Every time you try to come back
You've been gone so long
I've made on without you
These stains have ruined the whole rug
Might as well throw that out too
669 · 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
668 · 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
666 · 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,
666 · 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
664 · Jan 2014
My Home: Sonnet
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2014
I felt a shift in overwhelming air
It tingled against my sensitive eyes
I felt the breeze run fingers in my hair
And I felt where the Earths heart really lies

The sun rested its arms against my face
And brushed away the shards blown asunder
Took me in and gave me a humble place
Beneath it's warm wings safe from the thunder

The rain washed away my dry salted tears
Held me in blankets of security
Erased my frothing belligerent fears
In a stronghold of true sincerity

This is the place that I call my real home
It's a place that I have built on my own
663 · 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.
661 · 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
660 · 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
659 · 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
658 · 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
657 · 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
655 · Apr 2013
Rain Clouds (Nonet)
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2013
Broken
My friend
Do not pretend
It hasn't happened again
I lie my head here
Just to rest for a while
Realese a shaky breath and a tear
Had been hours since I've manage to smile
Just have to wait, the rain clouds will clear
653 · 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
650 · 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
649 · 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.
649 · 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
645 · 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
645 · 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
643 · Nov 2014
At The Bottom
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2014
Iridescent eyes
Tsunami's crash inside
Is your heart breaking?
Like the sad story playing in those orbs?

Winter cold heart
Your love tore me apart
Like an Earthquake beneath my feet
You sent me falling through the cracks

Love destroyed us
Like a hurricane, it floored us
Stole my breath and left me gasping
It was your hand I was grasping
for

Down at the bottom
That's where I found them
Those whose hearts were broken like mine
And were left to drown, and die
641 · 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
640 · 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
639 · Dec 2012
Alone at the altar
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
The altar was a blurred vision
She wept
With every step
The room was bare
No one was there
Alone she walked slowly to the front
Where she invisioned her fiancé
The one she would vow her heart to
There was dust on the stairs as she stepped up
Bowing her head her vail was in place
She shook with pain
Her fiancé at war had been slain
She fell to her knees , shattered like glass thrown to the ground
The room spun around
Her world was crashing down
Her belly full with child
She was alone
No mother to guide her steady
No father to help her ready
Not a brother not a sister
Only faded memories of a family that was never hers
Only a gust of her unpledged husbands remains
She remembers how she had begged him to stay
And he only laughed telling her he would be okay
She wanted to scream
She wanted to cry
But she wouldn't die
For the child's sake
639 · 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
638 · May 2013
Flicker
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
Broken wings on a butterfly
Struggling to breath
Don't
         Let
                 It
                           Die
Cold stings frozen hands
No snow falls
No
            One
                                        Understands
Soft strum of your guitar strings
The fast flutter of quick fingers
Along
             I
                         Sing
In your arms I'm safe and sound
Just you and me
               No
                            One
                                               Around
Watch the sun drop before our eyes
The stars left hanging there
Lighting
         Up
                       The
                                     Sky
Close your eyes
Before what we have dies
Like a flame
Bending the same
We
                Must  
                               Ignite
                                                         Tonight
Before our wings give out
637 · 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
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