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Winter comes again,
and with it comes the snow.
Freezing in a living room
sits a broken man alone.
He stares at the television
looking for a reality
he once knew was there,
but soon faded into calamity.
A hole-filled blanket covers him
trying to fight away the cold,
but you can't fight what lives inside.
The bitter man grows old.
His eyes still fixed on a deceitful screen.
His mind non-existent for his thoughts aren't his own.
A man dead in life lies still on the couch
while he searches for reality. A reality gone.
Ashes on the ground
what was lost would never be found.
Thick, dark smoke
swam in and out of our guts,
the searing pain at the sight of it ingrained in our hearts.
The buildings were razed to the ground.

Early hours of yester years
christmas period, he recalled
at the stroke of mid-night exactly
the disturbing sounds came.
Voices and chatter was at its loudest,
sirens blared
he curiously stepped out of his apartment.
His sight was greeted with smoke,
his nose awoke fully the rest of his half-asleep senses.
Fire, he saw.
Walking people on fire
He froze,
stood still and stared
unable to run forward and help.

His ears vibrated at the sounds of the approaching foot-steps.
He could see people pouring buckets after another
on people and the buildings.
Soon, the police
and the fire men came.

The fires vexed.
The screams we heard from those inside the buildings ceased, those who worked late into the night.
Hose after hose
Ladder after ladder
till the second hour
when it flamed out.
It grew higher and higher,
darker and thicker
till the third hour
when the white smoke prevailed.

Yellow stripes made by the police contained the curious crowd.
Ambulances struggled to revive the fainting people.
Some where in the crowd the man stood.
He kept his head down
a tear trickled down his face.
He had seen fires kissing flesh
and properties transforming to ash.
He witnessed live death
and fires blazing bright.
He saw what he saw.
The National Business Center would be greatly missed.
In Memory of those who lost their loved ones and valued properties in Fire accidents.

May God grant you all the fortitude to bear the loss.
Through the bars I could make out your face
and I began pacing where I'd once lay
Chasing you endlessly in my dreams
No longer able to fall asleep
Out in the yard
I'd trail behind
As we walked the dirt paths carved out in time
and although I was trapped
I didn't mind
As long as I had you in my sight
I imagined us digging our way to freedom
The rain kissing our flesh like it does in film
I could envision us rejoicing and retreating together
Where we could forget the trails we've faced and weathered
It was a summer day in the midst of winter
It was hope found in hopelessness
We could entangle and enrapture eachother
Our tale a constellation told amongst other star gazers
We'd inspire them all to revolt
they'd sing our song while mapping everything out
You've made me believe our time here could be worth something
and a believer I was not
the old moon smiles at me
every night as I walk on the lonely beach
where hundreds of ships has washed ashore
and thousand feet have walked upon
cold wind blows from the waters crashing
on the white dull sand
bringing promise of freedom,
a sweet yet sickly feeling erupts in my stomach
I doubt whether my wishes will come true.

whenever the winds blows, I look at that way,
but never towards my house, or the town,
because all I want to see is a faraway adventure
just within reach, if I could grasp the star
that sits silently and still in the navy blue sky
beckoning me to follow and find
my own journey, as long as I run away
leaving nothing but the last traces of
my light footsteps,
wanting them to be washed away by
the coming tide.
just like how I hope all memories
of this place
of my entire existence here,
will be erased,
as I need room for new acquaintances, dangers, exploration,
feelings, discoveries, tastes, smells
sights, sounds to come and stay

when I leave to travel where
The Wind Points That Way.
I always think of the title before penning the poem.
Something is worrying me,
Something that would at first seem laughably trivial,
but really isn't.
When we meet, as we shortly will,
Should I take you in my arms, like I desperately want to,
Or maintain a careful distance?
So much has happened.
And you say you regret everything, every day,
But I'm not sure I believe you,
And I don't share your regret.
I am scared that you will read the truth
In my embrace,
And that's the real dilemma.
I don't want to lie to you
And I don't want to lose you again.
Here in a conversation
Her face in your mind
Her name on your lips
But there is nothing to find

She hides a secret
Only that we know
She wont say a word
Wont let it show

You asked me once
You asked me twice
No more gambling for me
I'll roll the dice

I liked you can't you see?
I still do
She took that away from me
She took away you

I asked for a favor
A simple act of kindness
For her to watch out for you
Not take you in blindness

She let me believe everything
All the lies she told too
I'm still hurting from it
Are you?

Until this very moment
On this very day
I was scared to tell you
Scared you would walk away

But I have no more fear
I know what I must do
Say how I feel
And waht my heart feels is true

I still like you
I'm not even sure why
But when I think about it
It makes me want ot cry

Obviously I care about you
Your happiness and all
i'm going to try and forget
Everything that made me fall

The way we act when we're alone
Your body close to mine
And how you looked at me
The way your eyes shinned

I want it to be done
I want you out of my head
I second guess eveything you do
If only you caould have said

Said what you wanted
And what you wanted from me
That last night on the lake front
Where it went from us to we

I wont forget you
Not in a million years
but I'm done crying over you
You don't deserve my tears

Funny thing is
that you don't even know
How I'm writing this poem for you
And how it made me grow

I understand the reasons
I don't think you do
Because one day you will find her
The girl that completes you

Fall in love with her
Give her everything you can
Because one day she will be gone
You'll be left a lonely man

One day you'll see what I mean
My wish will come true
That we could have each other
I could've been with you

Don't know when it will happen
Or how long it will be
Maybe the universe will do it right
And make us a we

Goodnight and good day
I wish always for you
To hope you find someone to love
As much as I loved you.
YES
ironing, ironing my life, my shirts come first
the reason is doubtful
the strain is huge
heart on my sleeve
but no creases
i only want you
past mistakes are only fuel..
to you.
loss is my burden
strength diminished
but you are my life
to give
to love
to laugh
its ALL YOU
yes
yes
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