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517 · Sep 2012
These tears I cry
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
I can't say that I was happy
Maybe the time we spent did mean something
Maybe the pain I felt was real and not just pretend
But I can't find the proof it must be hidden
                             My scars still hurt
                             My eyes aren't dry
                                  The tears I cry
                           There real, there real
We might not have been real but I can't say I didn't love you, I wish I could rewind back to the first day, back to when we didn't regret every kiss
                                   Between us
Why did we have to fall so far apart, that no glue
                          Could hold us together
               My hearts still beating but I can't feel
          My voice doesn't shake when I say your
                                         Name
                               But the tears I cry
                            There real, there real
                  Why can't you see you hurt me ?
                          Why can't you see me?
                         I'm falling from your grip
                          I'm falling I might slip
                      Catch me please catch me
                                My scars still hurt
                                My eyes aren't dry
                                 These tears I cry
           My hearts still beating but I still can't feel
       My voice doesn't shake when I say your name
                                  These tears I cry
           My heart still beating but I still can't feel
       My voice doesn't shake when I say your name
                                  These tears I cry
516 · Oct 2020
Misfit Mania
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2020
I put up curtains
So the sun couldn’t seep in
To hide the fact
That my pain was slowly leakin
Bleeding out
Felt like I had nothin to believe in
Opened up
And got kicked in the teeth when
I only had love
But soon jealousy would sneak in
We tried to front
But our hearts were only seekin
Custody of love in its entirety
And not just on the weekends  

And though we had it
It was laced with irony
Because love will slowly morph
Into a monster that tries to swallow me
And it’s not under the bed
Like they say in the movies
This **** lives in my head
And tries to control me
Like a puppet to its master
I feel strings at my throat
Because my emotions are always faster
Than I can cut the ropes

I’m a hopeless romantic too
In this wicked wild game
Which makes it hard for me to part ways with you
Because I feel this overwhelming shame

Because I’m mostly hopeless
When it comes to love affairs
Let the romantic slip my grip
When I feel like you don’t care

All I want is to know you love me
And to always prove I love you too
Because if you’re my reckless decision
I’ll always continue to choose you

Like a drug
You’re my strange addiction
I’m in constant need of you
A prisoner to loves conviction
Too blind to see the truth
That I’m not that wise
I’m infected by my youth
But I have to survive
And what else can I do?
But fight to stay high
And keep acting aloof

Here’s the proof

I once said ignorance is bliss
Until I learned the hardest lesson
That There’s love in every kiss
You can save the vague confessions
And there it is again
It’s slowly creepin in
The jealousy that takes my words
And slides out from my pen

I suppose thats my fatal flaw
Which adds development to the character
So I should be real evolved
Because I’m full of flaws and failure

Yet I try to give my all
In everything I do
But I always hit a wall
Wandering Far into the blue  
Lost Looking at the stars
To tell me what to do

It’s the only place that ever feels  like home
I Can look up at the sky at night
And not feel so alone
So i wonder if the constellations
Can give me a consolidation
On the humiliation,
of my constant reconciliation
With my own temptation
Think I love living in damnation

I’m never patient

Remember I said emotions rule my world
twisting and turning my thoughts
Watch them twirl
Might give em a whirl
While they swirl
Out of my brain
In the form of rambling words
Maniac is the strain
Roll it up and lick the wrap
Spark it up and smoke that


Expand and deflate
My lungs are irate
Might choke up on the sentiment
And start to suffocate
Cause thoughts can be killers
They’ll cut the brakes too
When your mind is going 100
And there’s nothing you can do
Heading straight into traffic
Your heart will start to race
And you quickly start to panic
Now it’s terror on your face

Hear the glass around you shatter
Feel it digging deep within
Now the thoughts that never mattered
Are carved into your skin

Tear drops turn to Whiskey
They fall so fast these days
Please tell me that you miss me
To help and ease the pain
515 · Nov 2012
On top of towers
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
Built up from the ground
I was here
Planted the first seed
To the master piece
Tucked away my pride
And came out of hiding
To grasp the hands of the man
Who sat against the wall
Not one to beg
Only watching
With a blank face
I couldn't help but to take his hands in my own
And lead him to his savior
Fed him tell he was full
Bathed him until he was clean
Taught him until he knew
His eyes where wise and kind
Reminded me of mine
I was young
So young
They told me I was naive
To let in a man poor
Said that he would take all that I had
But I had little
And it could be replaced
I knew he would never
His eyes told me so
His smile so shy
He had been set in my path
An angel for me to nurture
Because I woke in the morning
And he was gone
All that had been left
Was a crisp white feather
And a note that told me
He'd returned to his tower
Where he stood a top
To feel the winds power
I was not bitter
I had given all I had
For one that had less
And in return I had an angels eye
To watch over me
515 · Sep 2012
House in the night
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
A house in the night,
A flickering light,
A loud screeching scream
Fits the nightmare theme
Shock in my veins
Blood in the rain
An owl flys above
A white dying dove
Fragile no more
The thundering pour
Right past my eyes
The truth was a lie
Lying on the floor
Her life was no more
515 · Sep 2012
Goodbye
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
She was dying,
There in her mothers arms,
Nothing had prepared her mother for this,
The terrible realization,
Struck her like Zeus's lighting,
She had never thought she would go like this,
She stood over her mother wishing she could rest her hand on her mothers shoulder,
The utter gut ripping pain,
That she would never be alive again,
Seized her,
It debilitated her and in a sudden rush ,
She faded
514 · Sep 2012
Falling
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
Left and right I was surronded,
I couldn't breath,
The air that managed to fill my longs,
Was opaque with dust and clouded,
I felt like I was falling,
And there was no wings to catch the wind,
And pull me up to soar,
I thought this fatal fall was something made up,
A myth to scare the kids,
But right now though I was planted to the ground,
I was falling,
With no control
513 · Jan 2015
Life Is Cruel
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2015
Rage is like an angry tidal wave
Roaring up the shore and destroying anything in it's wake
Rage is whats burning inside my heart right now
Rage is what has evoked these torturous traitorous tears
Life breaks people in half, and crumbles them on the floor
And for what? For what am I living for?
If this is the price I must bare
Tell me what is the reward I reap?
Afterlife is a joke
Darkness is all I'll know
But anything is better than this grievous hole
Gaping and festering in my heart
Anything is better than this pain
My sister miscarried the first child she's ever been pregnant with today. I can't explain how much it hurts or even understand her pain.
513 · Aug 2018
The Beginning of The End
Katlyn Orthman Aug 2018
Beginnings and endings
Marked by unique tombstones
Each a fingerprint
Of great creators
513 · Apr 2014
Imprisoned Inside
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2014
I sat before the court
Only each face staring back at me,
was my own

What are you dreams?
How about your goals?
What are the mountain tops
you climb to make you whole?


I closed my eyes
I tried to think,
but the harder I tired
the farther I start to sink

My only goal is to find my way out
This place is cruel and evil
Intentions are always stained
with some ulterior motive

Love is always killed by hate
The light becomes the enemy
It leaves me in a broken state.

My dreams were crushed,
before I ever dreamed
I stare in my own eyes,
and wonder what it's worth?
There's no love for me,
nothing here for me on Earth.

Sometimes I figure this place is hell
No way to prove it, so no way to tell
I fight the urge to torture myself
Somehow it's like settling my debts,
Debts that were dealt with someone
I've never met


The gavel smacks once
And the jury decides
I'm already imprisoned
In the prison inside
512 · Dec 2012
Habit
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
Rabbit rabbit
I formed a habit
I'm walking fast
And watching time pass
The need is grabbing
This pain is stabbing
I need to have it
I'll die if I don't
This smooth addiction
***** me in its deception
Won't let me go
I must escape
I'm falling apart
My seams ripped apart
Rabbit rabbit
I formed a habit
And I can't find my way out
511 · Jan 2015
Take It All Away
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2015
There's a line dividing  you and me
It felt like an impossibility
That something could break me so easily
To leave my bones sore and my eyes leaking

Small, I feel small in a room with you
Insignificant, alone, dismounted from anything I was
My chest squeezes with the pressure of tears building
My head swarms with images

Take it all away from me
To take a blade would be so easy
To derail this pain with blood
To unleash this growing flood
It would be so easy
511 · Sep 2014
Memory of Who?
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2014
You there with that sad smile
with those angry emerald eyes
your heart is bleeding on the carpet
so full of the misery you deny

You there with the gentle touch
with those crystals in your veins
you talk tough but don't hit hard
you're just drowning in your pain

You there with those jagged edges
with those loose pieces of you
in those shattered frames, those broken pictures
left from when you were you
511 · Feb 2013
A prayer to the stars
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2013
The stars have finally spoken
My heart is on the mend
My soul no longer broken
As you gave your hand to lend

This swirling in my heart
As you hold me in your arms
This feeling of a fresh start
Knowing you will keep me from harm

The way you make me feel
And the smile that you leave
It's almost too good to be real
So good it's hard to believe

I never thought this would happen
It never occurred to me
But I'm so glad it did
With you I feel so free

You never try to change me
I never try to change you
It makes me so happy
And I know I make you happy too

Tonight I'm thanking the stars
For replying to my prayers
Tonight I know who we are
And I can give my heart to share
510 · Jan 2013
Trouble
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
It was the first time I had talked to you
That I felt it spark alive
A tingling shock; I'd thought that I'd died
Like a switch
I was ready for trouble
And troubles my specialty
509 · Jan 2013
Nonet: Broken
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
It's was a broken dream of "couldn't"
It was a lie that always burned
All the things that I shouldn't
I still did on my turn
I am now broken
By my mistakes
Unspoken
Couldn't take
It
506 · Mar 2013
The Perfect song!
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
Today I wrote a perfect song
The lyrics just right, not a beat wrong
I sang it until I could sing no more
I sat there starring at the carpeted floor
Thinking how is it possible to feel so right
How is it possible to not have to fight
Just sit here in peace, and sing my song
The one with the lyrics, and no beat wrong
The piano it rang, though the chords are unknown
It's better that way, to me more beauty is shown
That song is so good, I want to sing it to the world
When I sing it, it feels like I'm in space and I'm being hurled
Flying and diving, ducking and spinning
This time, I'm surprised, but truly I am winning
506 · Jan 2013
Church bells
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
The frosty bite of the winters chill
Brought me from my daze
I was brought forth to a white painted hill
To look upon the trees that made up a maze
A fine winter indeed with a splatter of sorrow
As the ravens scream ahead
Because someone who will not see tomorrow
Today has been pronounced dead
The church bells sound with a booming ring
And the trees look desperately bare
And the choir overhead I can hear them sing
So I know you've gone safely there
To anyone who has lost someone close to them
505 · Feb 2013
Brother Coyote
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2013
The moon hung in the sky
Above the quite world
The cold breeze shuffles the leaves
And whispers in my ear
Walking along the woods
A growl so soft is spoken
A coyote's eyes so bright
Shine brighter than the stars
I smile and whisper back
Hello there brother
He growled again but softer
As I softly sang to him
He slowly backed away
Knowing he was in no danger
I say goodbye to the creature
And go along my way
I never forgot that coyote
That I saw that day
504 · May 2014
Six Feet Apart
Katlyn Orthman May 2014
We've traveled these long roads together
Battling these monsters hand in hand
Along the road we came to terms
We began to understand

We've seen the sunset
And watched the moon rise
Laughed effortlessly together
And disguised our hopeless cries

Time seems to have passed us by
Because I've seemed to forget your smile
Your eyes are a dim memory in my mind
I haven't heard your voice in my head in a while

I sat beside your grave
And even brought you flowers
I gazed up at the moon hoping I'd see you
As a shooting star in the highest of the star towers

I sat there all night
Wishing you'd just return to my embrace
Crying as I wished I could go back in time
And tell you I loved you, and memorize your face

Because those little things that never seemed to matter
Matter so much more than they ever did
I need to see every flaw and perfection
That you ever hid

Because now your six feet too far
And the ground is far too cold
I can't reach down and pull you up
Your bones are to fragile to hold
501 · Oct 2012
Lymes Disease
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
I don't know what I have done
To be punished today
My joints ache
My skins deformed
I cannot feel warmth
I want to cry
But I simply can't
Believe I've tried
I feel as though
I've been taken over
And my body will not move at will
How could I
Ever feel like this
It's sickening to feel
I just want to be warm
I just want the things go away
I'm tired of it , but it's
Determine to stay
497 · Mar 2013
Being Human
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
The skies are dark
And my heart is sad
My screams echo
And only make the neighbors mad
My tears mean nothing
The never did
Slowly they unravel
My feeling I hid
I am bare
Before the crowd
This pain won't cease
And the roars are loud
I'm falling faster
Than I have before
I pray you save me
Before they seal the doors
Can you hear me?
I'm screaming loud
Can you hear me?
Above the crowd?
Please I lay here
Unshakle me
I'm dying slowly
As you watch me bleed
I'm not a monster
Though I feel I am
Because any things better
Than being human
496 · Jul 2015
A Light In The Dark
Katlyn Orthman Jul 2015
Headlights
Blinding me
Coming towards me
Now I can't see
I am not afraid anymore
To look death in it's eyes
My arms are outstretched wide
I see a light
Coming towards me
Blinding me
Headlights
495 · Jan 2013
Petals in the wind
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
I held a flower petal in my hand
And softly let it go
I watched it fly above the land
And wondered where it will go
Sadly I thought of the flower it used to be
And how I loved it so
I watched as the petal left without me
And left me here so low
I have a garden filled with flowers
I really shouldn't be sad
I have a million of them that I could shower
But I missed that one I had
Soft tears ***** my frosty green eyes
As I watch it blow away
So sad I wonder why
My flower couldn't stay
494 · Dec 2012
Phone call from Satan
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
I answered the phone
I was happy
Then you said hello
My smile fell from my face
And I sat down without grace
Because I know your voice
I hate you
It's the only time I'd say such a word
But no other could describe how I feel towards you
After all that you have done to me
Can't you just leave me alone?
After all that I've said to you
Can't you go home?
I don't want to talk to you
You've broken me, and I'm stone
Please I am begging you
Stop!
I've asked you how many times
I've cried too many to count
I'm a mess already inside
Just leave me alone
I don't want to think of you
I don't want to hear you
I'm trying to get stronger
I'm trying to stay alive
So if you ever cared for me
Then you'd hang up the phone for good
And hand back my heart
494 · Jan 2013
Tanka: Star Spells
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
Bright stars staring down
Me staring heavily back
Can't help but feel awed
Their beauty so amazing
Tugging me into a spell
492 · Dec 2012
The end is near ...
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
Little angle in my arms
Crying tears
Brung up from harm
Soiled by fears
Eyes are wide
Duck beneath the shattering glass
No where to hide
As he massacres the class
God was weeping today
Evil had sprung across his soul
Not long to stay
But it had took its toll
The end is near
I can feel it in the air
It's close enough to hear
I can feel it there
I close my eyes and wait
There's no way out
We cannot escape our fate
I will go out
To the sound of an orchestras roar
Once last silent tear
I will open deaths door
Without fear
I will be reborn again
So long farewell
I'll wait for you there
When we all meet again
491 · Sep 2012
Stir
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
Clouds close around me,
They pull and tell me who to be,
It's dark but there is light,
I close my eyes and fight,
The wind blows,
And my true identity shows,
I'm scared to be so vulnerable,
But I have to open up into reality,
I can't hide behind a fake me,
But I hate who I am,
I hate knowing they can see me,
This storm inside billows and roars,
Like a shaking quivering shore,
Like a satin dress that's torn,
A cracked board keeping score,
Like an old clock ticking on,
Like a dry and dead lawn,
So here I am,
Layed out to you,
Scared and vulnerable but hopeful
490 · Feb 2019
Images
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2019
Images
Flashing Bright
Inside my mind
Filling me up inside
Filling my lungs to the top
Cutting out all my air supply
Slowly suffocating, will I die?
Images in my mind
Filling me up inside
Flashing Bright
Images
490 · Jul 2015
Isolation
Katlyn Orthman Jul 2015
Trapped between these prison walls
I watched, in dread, the angel fall
Innocence crushed like autumn leaves
And blown away by sad wind heaves
Hands are scarred from picking up pieces of this broken dream
Paralyzed mentally, ignore my screams
Darkness shrouds the corners of my heart
The foundation has crumbled into parts
This isolation will freeze my bones
Insanity taking over so no ones home
I just want to live alone
489 · Jan 2013
Torn in half
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
She loves him
He loves her
Everything should be perfect...
But it's a broken picture frame
Littered by broken glass
I stand here in the middle
Which way should I turn
They are both mean so much to me
Their to worlds collide
What should I say
What should stay secret
So close to tears
I can't solve this problem
Maybe its not them
Maybe...
It's me?
489 · Nov 2012
Reality split
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2012
Your words break my heart 
Every piece 
Tore my world apart 
You had a feast 
Scared and trapped 
No where to go 
I almost snapped 
My sanity let go
Burned the bridges that we had built
Taken gravity
I felt the world tilt 
No stopping me 
I've been unleashed 
Tonight I roam 
These darkened streets
485 · Oct 2012
Hiaku's Of Love
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Take me to your heart
Lead me from this place of doom
Take me to your soul

Breath your life in me
Lead your children to the war
Give your life to me

Caves in the dark pits
In the deepest parts of you
Can't take my sight away

It's you that I love
Please don't deny me the same
Don't let my hand go
485 · Dec 2013
Novacane
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2013
Don't feel the pain,
Like novacane
it numbs the ache

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

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

I don't want to feel any more.
484 · Oct 2012
Untitled
Katlyn Orthman Oct 2012
Had I been born a bird
With my outstretched wings
I would fly
Away from my hurt
Away from my past.....
Had I been born blind
I wouldn't have seen the
Glitch in my life
The one that ate me up
Inflicted so many sleepless nights ....
Had I been born deaf
I would've never heard
All the screams
That caused so many nightmares ....
Had I been born fast
I could've outrun the shadows
That engulfed me
In their arms
And burried me beneath
The surface
480 · Dec 2012
Goodnight moon
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
Goodnight moon
Ill seen you soon
Tuck me in
The stars will win
I rest beside a hill
Where I have been killed
I roam the fields at dawn
I sleep but do not yawn
The rain will pour through me
I will simply exist
I have forgiven you winter
I know you had to come
And I know it was not on purpose that you had done
But I live only with the sun
My petals fall when your gust calls
Flowers only live with warmth
478 · Sep 2012
A mess I can't pick up
Katlyn Orthman Sep 2012
In this torrid darkness
I cannot find my way
I've gone so far, I can't get out
Look what I've done to them
Look what I've done to myself
I've made a mess
And a fool of myself
477 · Mar 2015
Chains
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2015
Release these chains
But leave one remain
This one runs deeper than blood
This one lives embroidered in my veins
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2012
The day had started under the sun
First day of kindergarten,
I would have fun

I told mommy and daddy goodbye
The feeling felt funny I don't know why

But I'd keep my head up,
I must be nervous
I'd get through today I'd stay tough

Until the door broke down
The teacher on the ground
I looked all around
But I'd stay strong

I didn't know where I was
My first day, was this right?
God was there, now I was scared

He took me in his arms
Said child please be strong
You didn't do anything wrong

My family all cried
I figure out I had died
But I had tried
To stay strong

He told me they'll be alright
It's there pain
they'll have to fight
But rest your eyes
Child

Until the door broke down
The teacher on the ground
I looked all around
But I'd stay strong
Wrote a song for the children, they all rest in my heart
476 · Jan 2013
When it's cold outside
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2013
Breath dancing on the air
In swirls of clouded heat
My face is cold
And the winds are blowing
And here I'm stuck waiting for a bus
And I'm humming along
To my favorite song
I look across the street
Empty, quiet, not even a heartbeat
I look at the ground and pretend I'm not there
And that I'm gone in a far away land
Dream of the heat and the sun
All the summer fun
That I miss and I long to have
Oh sigh, so miserable, why?
When it's cold outside
475 · Nov 2014
These Words
Katlyn Orthman Nov 2014
What words do I write?
I put them down, but are they right?
Do they paint the picture, give you sight?
Do these words empower, give you might?
Do they illuminate, give you some light?
Do they cling on, hold you tight?

What message do I send?
Do these words make sense, are the pretend?
Do these words give you hope, give strength to lend?
These words are in my mind, they are my only friend.

These words are my blood upon a sheet
They're where reality and imagination meet
They are my defenders, my enemies they defeat
Without these words my heart would retreat

But do they make sense, when they fall upon foreign eyes
Do you feel my pain, my love, do you realize
That these words are my soul not my lies
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2014
Long pale fingers
dance across the old white piano keys
A sorrowful melody sings

The room is lit in candles
like a dream
and the darkness swells with passion
what does this mean?

One step towards you
feels like two steps back
how can I love you
when you can't love me back

The rain outside
covers the pain I hide
as I dance around the room

This mansion built on top of hopeless fears
is empty as I yell for you
no one hears

I just keep dancing
to the song you play
each note remains
in my head

I keep falling for the same thing
over again

You're the one that torments my dreams
and strings my heart along
with the same old
dance
and same old
song

I'm just a lonely spirit
drifting in this memory
of when you were the beast
and I was the beauty
473 · Jan 2014
Rainy Days
Katlyn Orthman Jan 2014
Rain pelts the sidewalk before me
cleaning away the past,
swept away like broken glass
leaving it empty.
472 · Feb 2013
Downward spiral
Katlyn Orthman Feb 2013
Cold
So numb
Almost dead
Breathe in my last
Running from my past
Spun out I would have crashed
So torn and broken I lied
This whole life, I was pretending
I cry to see it now ending
Troubled I run away from my heart
To find what had really pressed start
Glue that held my fake smile
Love that lasted awhile
Heart put on trial
Pain went viral
Love spiral
Smile
Gone
470 · Aug 2013
I Lost Myself
Katlyn Orthman Aug 2013
I had forgotten
The way it felt to smile
I let the memory fade
I haven't felt anything for a while
But worst of all I felt sorry for myself
This is what brought me back from the dead
I had forgotten to breathe
And had suffocated in my self pity instead
I had forgotten that I am not the only one
To feel lost and out of place
I think I forgot
That this life isn't a race
I let it slip my mind
That we're all in this together
That we stand as one
And suffer the same weather
I know I forgot the good things in life
Because I focus so much on the pain
I forgot about the sun
Because I always watched the rain
I lost myself in the dark
When the light was right behind me
I forgot to open my eyes
So I could see
Until I felt it inside
The music filled my soul
I felt it fill me up
Making me whole
I think I spent all this time sleeping
And now I've woken up
I forgot about fighting
And spent so much time giving up
Until I found the surface
Now I can breathe
It's been a long time since I've been on here. I really missed writing, I spent so much time wallowing in my thoughts and pain that I forgot the things that get me through it.
469 · Mar 2013
Untitled
Katlyn Orthman Mar 2013
I've been away for so long
That I had forgotten how it feels
To sit with family all around
And cook family meals
The laughter the smiles
All pick me up
It's been awhile
But I still love the way it feels
Though its cold out
We still dare throw water
And we know we might catch colds
As we fight in only shirts in the snow
But we live in the present
And forget the consequences  
Because everything is easier that way
Been a long time since I've seen my extended family in Wisconsin
467 · Dec 2014
December Throne
Katlyn Orthman Dec 2014
Trees bend beneath the lazy wind strokes,
Snow flakes twinkling in the twilight glow,
Spring was near, but winter awoke
Destined t'was the phantom Snow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Summer grinned at his brother with an awful sting
Knowing what he had stole
Little did he know his little brother Spring
Was waiting for his plan to unfold
466 · Aug 2014
A Slave for You
Katlyn Orthman Aug 2014
Go to school
Education is the key
It will give you
All that you need

Get a job
The money is worth it
It will buy all you want
As long as you don't spend it

Work
Learn
Work
Learn
When do we sleep?
Where is my life
Why do I weep?

They say cash is the prize
Work is the goal
But if these ambitions keep digging in
My heart won't be a whole

Work to the grave
Because really I'm just a slave
464 · Apr 2013
Breathe, It's Okay
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2013
Tall or is it small?
The quite whispers of the trees
They all talk in circles
Going around my head
The trees spin
And I sit
Within it's quiet company
Sleeping against the ground
Stroking the pain of my heart
I feed it my tears
It takes all my strength not to break
Holding on to my love
Holding on to the trees
On to the roar of the water
To the melting snow
To the reawakening birds
And the beautiful song of the wind brushing against the leaves
Holding on to the warmth that the sun pours
Loving us all
I walk ahead
Just to listen
And there as the birds all watch down
I want to live instead
462 · Apr 2013
Run
Katlyn Orthman Apr 2013
Run
I want to run away
Just to feel free
I don't have to run
From an empty family
I've got a mother who cares simply to much
Her heart the biggest I've ever seen
I just want to run
I don't want to run away to be mean
Simply to feel the rush
I want to run away with you
I want to watch the morning sunrise and watch the grass dew
I want to run just for the pleasure of it
Just to feel the wind
I want to run until I have to quit
I want to run just to come back home
Because when I ran I was truly alone
I want to run so I really know what I have
I want to run so I will see clear
I want to run just for the fear
Of being caught of being sought out
I just really want to run
Katlyn Orthman May 2013
The way I see it you're all ready gone
I push away so fast
The way I see it I'll be leaving by dawn
This night was our last

I'll be packing my bags and leaving soon
Don't worry you'll find much better
When the clock strikes  at the tip of noon
My eyes will grow a bit wetter

There's no turning back I try to believe
In these words that I say
It's time to go, it's my time to leave
I've been ready to do this all day

The train goes by
I wonder why
I never boarded that train
Maybe love is deeper than
This fear of causing pain
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