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104 · Sep 2021
Every day texts
Landon Keys Sep 2021
Good morning, Lovely!
How did you sleep?
I hope the night's rest
Carried the worry away

Good afternoon, Darling!
Have you eaten yet?
I read that a salad
Is best for stress these days

Good night, Beautiful!
It was a great day,
Talking to you my friend.
In the morrow
I'd love to borrow
Your time again.
104 · Jan 2021
If you see Her, say hello.
Landon Keys Jan 2021
If you see Her
Say hello
With velvet eyes
And skin like snow
Hath piercing beauty
With fortune's  glow
If you see Her
Say hello
104 · Jan 2021
Mono
Landon Keys Jan 2021
My thoughts are achromatic
Indifference is the bane of poetry
Hard to write when you can't feel.
Hard to feel since, well, You know.
103 · Feb 2022
Asmodan
Landon Keys Feb 2022
Sympathy
Empathy
Just an epiphany
What if I died
Without writing a symphony
That doesn't sit with me
Now it is time to be
But I'm too blind to see
Strangest catastrophe
Far away galaxy
Why are you mad at me

Voice in the fan

I'm not Peter Pan

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!
Landon Keys Feb 2022
Selfishness resonated in my mind
Regret flirted on my tongue
In silence I sat
As dawn crept near
A lingering feeling of dread
I didn't want to end

Heartache in a chaos of joy and confusion
102 · Jan 2022
Aberrations
Landon Keys Jan 2022
Silver white
Darkened hold
Being withheld
With what we're told
Stories of plight
Tears and sorrow
Begging God
For another tomorrow

I don't believe in God
But for you I will
Tonight I pray
For your soul to still
Thoughts of Light
Fears to cease
Hope your torment
Be released



I love you. You'll get through this.
101 · Jan 2021
Wet
Landon Keys Jan 2021
Wet
I lived life and enjoyed it the same
but always
there will be pain
just when it looked up
the thunderstorm came
but there's nothing like the gleam of the street
just after it's rained
100 · Feb 2021
Bittersweet
Landon Keys Feb 2021
The familiar smell
The subtle sound of a drizzle
The bustling people
The sound of a street band in the distance
The memories
The reveries
The realization
The end
97 · Dec 2020
Determination
Landon Keys Dec 2020
It's 1:00pm
Drowsy
Alarms ignited
Eyes stuck half shut
The world- one o'clock half struck
I'm not afraid of exhaustion
At least not today
I've got the answers
In my cup
95 · Jun 2023
Carbon
Landon Keys Jun 2023
When I die..

Do not mourn
Celebrate
For I now know the secret
The great mystery of the cosmos

Do not mourn
Rejoice
For I now reside
In the great celestial bodies of our night sky

Do not mourn
Accept
For in my earthly absence
I gained the immortality of the universe

Do not mourn
Take solace
For I am once again stardust
And I shall mend the hearts of the forlorn and lost
94 · Dec 2020
Wandering in Wonder
Landon Keys Dec 2020
Sometimes I wonder-
Where you ended up.
Sometimes I wander-
Not caring where I go.
Wondering if you wonder-
What happened to me.
Wandering in wonder-
I guess I'll never know.
94 · Aug 2023
ntitle
Landon Keys Aug 2023
These words are not enough
The sky, and stars
And the heavens above

A singing wind
To caress the trees
A beautiful sonata  
Between birds and bees
A smell of ocean air
The bits of sand
Strewn in your hair
A concise and definite
Resolution
93 · Mar 2022
Chapter 3
Landon Keys Mar 2022
In every seeming way
When I'm with you
Not a thought in my head
Just focused
On admiring you instead
91 · Oct 2021
Train of Thought
Landon Keys Oct 2021
Four walls around me
A river flowing soundly
Look for peace in calamity
Like a pearl in a clam for me
Pumping, breathing
Everything you're needing
Even more
No less
The cause of a lot of stress
Setting behind a desk
I wonder
Do they still play there?
They took the merry-go-round out
Come to find out
A sad day in the hearts of the elderly
A sight so sad to see
A dog sitting on the beach with no master
91 · Aug 2021
v
Landon Keys Aug 2021
v
The Roses I planted
Picked and placed
In another ***
In another plot
89 · Dec 2020
Alteration
Landon Keys Dec 2020
It's 5am
Still awake
Desperation subsided
But still can't see
The world is deafeningly silent
But I'm not tired
At least I should try
I've got the answers
In my cabinet
89 · Nov 2021
Untitled
Landon Keys Nov 2021
With a broken heart I cried
Though sullen tears now dried
89 · Jan 2021
An Apple
Landon Keys Jan 2021
I approached this tree
something was strange about it
Almost as if it pulled me to its location
It was a fruit bearing tree
apples it seemed
But the color of the apples
was like nothing once seen
Against better judgement
I plucked one and ate it
It was the most delicious
tasty treat
When I bit into the apple
It made the world around me
bright
and vivid
It made me happy
I was unaware that such a thing
could bring such great feelings
I ran back home
Got a basket
Came back and plucked enough apples
for a year!
It was the best year..
Then
I ran out of apples
So naturally
I ran back to where I had found them
but when I got there
the
tree was gone?
I didn't understand how a tree
just left
it confused me
Afterward
I cut my losses
and assumed life would
return to mediocrity  
I was wrong
The year following
the best year
was the worst year
I longed for another apple
Any other food
made my stomach
HURT
It made me sick
soon enough
no other food was appetizing
enough.
but I survived
Two years after the best year
one year after the worst
life began to return to normal.
I went grocery shopping
for the first time in two years
I had a good time
I tried some things with different
recipes
Life was good.
When I returned from the store
I was putting my goods away
but then
when I opened my cupboard
my basket fell out
and onto the floor rolled
one of the apples
Apparently
I missed one
I picked it up off the floor
thought about it for the while
went to my window
and tossed it
it landed in my neighbor's
yard
His daughter
who was getting out of her car
walked over and grabbed it
but before I could yell at her not to bite
she did just that
and ate the whole thing
There was something about those apples
normally people wouldn't eat
a purple apple would they?
I felt bad for what I thought would happen to her
after she ate that apple
but it seems
she won the lotto
and moved to France
I must have accidentally
saved the best
for last.
88 · Jan 2022
Trespass
Landon Keys Jan 2022
The needment for oblivion
Amongst the chaos of the world
"The evil and the blessing will reach us all,"
Along the ley lines of serotonin and regret
87 · Jan 2021
Untitled
Landon Keys Jan 2021
"I know that doesn’t seem to make sense…
but somehow in my mind…
well, never mind, I don’t know."
Landon Keys Oct 2021
What was the name of that hat?
Can barely stay awake
Once I confessed I loved You
That was that.
You let me use Your toothbrush
I had forgotten mine
What a night that was
Two souls, passion divine
Long walk, 24th street
Secret kisses in a tunnel
Who knew so much emotion
Could be transferred with a hug
A piece of my heart
Will always be Yours
Letting go was hard
Walking down those stairs
******* I loved You.
******* I love You.
Where are You?
Where?
Landon Keys Jan 2021
It's the color of ****
******
I must admit
but never the less
it seems to make
the smiles of certain
people glow vibrant
rampant
It really is disgusting
I'd never put it
in a little kids
Halloween bag
Simply because
it makes me gag
I'd just assume
to fill their death sack
with apple slices
and baby peaches
at least that's what
they tried to teach us
to be healthy right?
but to me this is an
un-winnable fight.
For even I would choose
Butterscotch over
a .45 to the face.
84 · Jun 2021
Untitled
Landon Keys Jun 2021
Blurred vision
Circumvented revision
Nomadistic indecision
84 · Nov 2021
A
Landon Keys Nov 2021
***
Listen.
Yes, you.
You hear it?
That sound, the drumming?
Constant thumping in my chest?
That is the rhythm
Of my love
For you
Babe.
83 · Jan 2021
Untitled
Landon Keys Jan 2021
i've locked You away
Every place i've ever been
Only for You to be
On my mind again
i've buried You down
In the bottom of a bottomless pit
Regardless of how i dismiss You
On my soul You sit
80 · Oct 2023
Monkey Voices
Landon Keys Oct 2023
Hidden beneath the jagged remains
That sprouted from a multitude of my ill fated choices
There were legions of unrelenting monkey voices
Speaking in a thousand tiny languages that we may deem foreign.
Not 100% sure this is mine. Found it archived from a long time ago, but I liked it so I wanted to share
80 · Oct 2023
Hell
Landon Keys Oct 2023
Your absence left an unquenchable thirst in my heart
An unfillable void, not with all the riches in the world
A deep and unforgivable cold that could not be warmed with the light of A thousand suns
A day without you
An eternity in Hell
79 · Jan 2022
Untitled
Landon Keys Jan 2022
This is my letting go
Failed restraint
And over zealous

Pain I surely know
My love goes faint
And heart grows jealous

Eager for the flow
Ebbing from the pain
And echoes of my chelys
76 · Oct 2021
Text between friends
Landon Keys Oct 2021
"Who do you think is going to die first?
                                                                ­                   "Me, without a doubt."
"Why do you say that?"
                            "Because if you died first then have to be sad forever."
Landon Keys Nov 2020
It was busy that day.
The odds were against me seeing you.
Never-the-less we brushed shoulders on the bustling  sidewalk.
I stopped and turned.
You did not.
“Namaste.”
I thought.
I pressed my hands, and bowed my head.
A gesture you never saw.
I am one to never pass up any opening in meeting someone.
You should never know who will change your life.
Also, never take shoulder bumps for granted.
As I am the one with gum on my shoe.
72 · Dec 2020
Untitled
Landon Keys Dec 2020
To me- She was the Sun
Giver of life, colorer of worlds
To Her- i was but a grain of sand
On which She walked
Landon Keys Jan 2021
As I replicate my thoughts
recollect my intentions
and
re-seize my emotions.



I find that
Time has a funny way of distorting things.



It
revives the life that
reveals the truth that
reviles a saint..



look at now
not then..
not when..

The only way that
time makes sense.



Man, men
mice, moose
it doesn't matter really

lose that thought.
70 · Nov 2020
Untitled
Landon Keys Nov 2020
my thoughts
digress in a demon like departure.
my feet are simply no longer beneath me.
While You have both; i have none.
God really does have Her favorites.
70 · Mar 2021
Emancipation
Landon Keys Mar 2021
It's 7:37pm
Excited
I get to see her tonight
Eyes wide open
The word is busy with itself
But I'm not worried about them
At least not this evening
I've got the answers
In my hands
68 · Dec 2020
Midnight
Landon Keys Dec 2020
Bleak and weary
Oh so dreary,
lost under the moon.
Walking the corridor
In which fairies were strewn.
They danced and flew
a fantastic View.
Green and red,
yellow and blue.
They show for me,
and not for you.
In the corridor
Under the moon.
63 · Nov 2020
Realization
Landon Keys Nov 2020
It’s 4am
awake
I am desperate
I am color blind
The world is black and white
but I’m not ignorant
at least not tonight
I’ve got the answers
in my pocket
62 · Nov 2020
Eventuality
Landon Keys Nov 2020
Here I am again
Longing for resolution.
There You go again
Sublimating absolution.
You remember when
We laughed about it then?
I recall now
Thinking naively
In the end.
Here I am again
Content with life's endeavors.
There You go again
Faking lover's fervor?
That tunnel
The stairs
All memories held fair.
Though maybe I should admit I know
I always knew you'd eventually go.
54 · Nov 2020
Inquisitive
Landon Keys Nov 2020
Describe the alpha
with that piece in which
we cannot describe
If it make sense then
it loses its meaning
All ways but one
we see that pretty clearly
but what about what we do not see?
Close your eyes and remember it
if you can’t
open your eyes
and realize it’s not there
but where did it go?
51 · Dec 2020
Donde
Landon Keys Dec 2020
Another day I wake up
Realizing how absolutely astronomical
It was that we met.
The series of events that had to occur
For us to cross paths-
The eventuality of our friendship.
It's mind boggling.  
You slowed down time.
Your smile dimmed the sun.
Your heart was unmatched in it's ferocity for love.
He destroyed you.
Now you're gone and I've no idea where.
Love you.
I hope you're ok.
34 · Sep 2024
Work in the morning
Landon Keys Sep 2024
Last night I was dreaming
I was an astronaut
Soaring though the night sky
Flying through the heavens
And looking down to see
The whole world
Sleeping so peacefully

Moments later
My alarms went off
Wearily I awoke
I sat up
And rubbed my eyes
Through a slightly blurry gaze
I realized what that dream
Means to me
As I stand up looking down
At my whole world
Sleeping peacefully
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