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795 · Jul 2023
Awareness
Lauren Leal Jul 2023
My wounds runs deep
Steeped in time
Memories to keep
Into my prime

Testing my virtues
Taking a deep breath
Walking in my earth shoes
Feeling like ego death

I must stay focused
On what I desire
Despite this fire
Thoughts like a swarm of locusts

Time to embrace the new
That being with you
I refuse to be static
Time with you is chromatic

It's a complete headliner

With you it's all about the major and the minor
Overcoming the trials of past wounds
788 · Jul 2015
Spark of Insanity
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
These destructive thoughts are a calamity
Driving my mind to the brink of insanity
**** this
Oops, excuse the profanity

But this is the last of this thing called sanity
I can no longer be part of humanity
I am now so far from sane
My thoughts are simply not humane

Not quite sure what made things this way
Maybe the RedBull made my brain grow wings and it flew away
I don't really have much to say
This poem really has no point anyway

Maybe it's to clear my mind out
.
.
.
I am the most sane inhumane insane humane person, no doubt.
Don't ask.
778 · Jun 2015
To Her
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
For Her my heart feels
With Her my heart heals
The pains washed away
Leaving my horrid past to decay

With Her I feel alive
For Her I will strive
But I am still

Waiting

For Her to arrive
Thoughts
775 · Jan 2016
Self Healing
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
I have run out of thread to stitch my wounds.
I wrote this as not all wounds can be healed by such trivial means, something greater must be put forth for it to actually heal.
764 · Apr 2016
The Fallout of Anger
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
My anger is my nuclear fallout
It's what is killing me and choking me out
It's not only sabotaging who I am
But all those around me have faced the slam

The concussion blast of this vicious mood
Unable to control myself, only to know I'm *******
I can only sit and watch like a movie on display
What actions I take and the horrific things I say

These words reach out to those I have wronged
To those situations I only prolonged
These words are not a justification
These words are for you to have relation

This is my apology for what I could not control
I have gotten better and will never let this take me whole.
Anger, can be the most blind emotion alongside love.
756 · Jan 2016
Unto My Grave
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
If my life was to be taken away
                 All I would want my tombstone to say,
knowing this for sure,
                 Is that **"I got to meet her."
The one person who can and ever will know me for me and understand it all at the same time.
755 · Dec 2015
Landscape
Lauren Leal Dec 2015
This flat landscape,
          With a single flowing river
Met by your lips,
          Was forever changed.
Your touch evaporated the river
          and changed the landscape.
Though only for a moment,
          This flat landscape became a rolling hill.
736 · Dec 2016
Slaved Imprisionment
Lauren Leal Dec 2016
I'm a slave to my heart
I'm a prisoner to my mind ripped apart
Slaved to feelings that should have long passed
Forever shackled in my thoughts, I'm just in last
Someday I hope my heart to hear my cries
Someday I hope my mind, to understand I'm out of tries
At an impass in life.
735 · Jun 2015
State of Mind
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
My state of mind is disastrous
My words are jumbled and blasphemous
When I speak it's a catastrophe
I'm lost in this reality

My mind is in constant motion
To these poems, my fullest devotion
To share who I am inside
With my mind opened wide

These words just don't make sense
These thoughts I must condense
My mind is a bomb, so confused
With each rhyme it will slowly defuse

I must pour who I am into these words
My troubles will divide by thirds
I need to sort these thoughts out
Before I forget what my message was orginally about
So much on my mind.
724 · Feb 2016
Disparity
Lauren Leal Feb 2016
In the absence of hope, despair is the true King.
To an old friend that lost faith.
724 · Jun 2015
Once in Awhile
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
You say you are only ok
Here now and the next day
You should listen to what I have to say
So that you don't get lost in your own fray

I will change your mind
The right words I have to find
So that you can see
the happiest you can be

Doing what I can from afar
Leave your mind ajar
Your voice tells me everything
trapped to the ground with a clipped wing

Give me a chance to show you
What I can do
If you give me a smile

You will see, you can be happy even if it's only once  in  *awhile.
For someone in the distance.
715 · Jan 2016
My Own Prisoner
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
I'll lie down for hours in my bed
You think I'm asleep but I caged in my head
I'm getting tortured from the inside out
I'm getting thrown and tossed about

I'm a prisoner to my own thought
I am forced to remember ever ounce of pain I fought
It is a never ending reel of self-inflicted pain
I have no scars to show or retain

It's screaming and blood lust in my mind
On the outside quiet and peace, is what you find
I'm getting weak with every passing night
I'm slipping away losing might

I'm still a prisoner to my ******* brain
I think It's time, I step out of that lane
Always thinking of the worst, but being so good at hiding the visual pains that cross my thoughts. Only to keep moving with the will to live.
707 · Jul 2015
I Did it Again
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
I said I was okay,
                and another person was deceived.
704 · Mar 2016
Blossom in Your Heart
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
They say you have a heart of gold.
I say you have a heart of dirt,
Because your heart is the soil I need to grow.
Finding someone whom lets you grow.
704 · Jun 2015
Neverending
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Awake in nothing
Hands shaking
Eyes darting
Heavy breathing
Not your own
Blind darkness
The ringing
In your ears
The scratching
The knocks
The voices
Driving you
To insanity
You run
They laugh

What to do?

*You awake
In your room
To look over
To see that they caught you.
Those dreams that don't end when you awake
692 · Apr 2016
Lie
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
Lie
My defeat will be the lies I fail to deceit.
Not being able to fake your own lies.
691 · Jun 2015
Alone
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
I’m alone
In a cold dark room sitting by a unplugged phone
Waiting for your voice to bring me to you
So that you can hold me like you used too
So that I can feel the calm
And your hand in my palm
I’m alone
In a cold dark room wanting to hear your loving tone
Lay down with you and hear your heartbeat
Like a melody, the sounds so neat
I do really need this
It’s you I want to be with
I’m alone
In a cold dark room listening to the moan
Of the person I used to be withering away
Thinking of you every passing day
I need you by my side
I hope we haven’t died
I’m alone
In a cold dark room where I roam
Waiting for you to come back
And fill my heart with what it may lack
I miss your every touch
So, so very much
I’m alone
In a cold dark room which is my only home
I need you to come back and save me
I’m falling to oblivion, can’t you see
These trials I know we can beat
For you are my light and heat,
I’m alone…
684 · Oct 2015
My Own Hell
Lauren Leal Oct 2015
How do I escape my own hell
there is no way out that I can tell
I'm lost in the torment of fear
The roars of my demons is all I hear

I don't know how to get out
All I do is get lost about
Til I crumple to the ground
Giving up because there is no hope to be found

This hell of mine is claiming me whole
I will eventually take the toll
They will soon catch up to me
My demons face to face with me

I am close to caving in to their demands
Lost is this land
Of my own personal hell
Though reality and this have no difference as far as I can tell
Some more thoughts I picked up while pondering
677 · Dec 2015
Let's Go
Lauren Leal Dec 2015
Let's go with nothing planned
Just me and you hand in hand
Let's enjoy the little things now
Just us being the way we know how

Let's go on an adventure
Get lost then, for sure
Let's take over the world one city at a time
Get cheap things for a penny and a dime

Let's not let a moment slip past
No moment can be the last
Let's do what others are scared too
Conquer it all just us two

Let's be that team no one can beat
Because you know, we are pretty neat.
Adventure is life.
676 · Jun 2015
Accept (20W)
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Accept Love, don't fight it. Fighting it would be as if trying to **** Cerberus with an old wooden sword.
I made that mistake and I lost.
673 · Jun 2015
Was it a Dream? (10W)
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Those dreams that leave you terrified even in the light
Too many occasions I have lived this.
668 · Jun 2016
Habitual Lie
Lauren Leal Jun 2016
Life's grip on the spine,
don't lie, with I'm fine.
665 · Apr 2016
Growth in Pain
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
May the pain we feel, be the growth we reveal.
Pain can symbolize weakness, and may we grow from that weakness if capable.
659 · Apr 2016
It's So Very Sad That
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
It's the darkest of words we are most related to.
When it's clear that only the negatives in life seem to have more connections with people than the positives.
651 · Jul 2016
Poet (10W)
Lauren Leal Jul 2016
My legacy will be the blotched ink on these papers.
651 · Jun 2015
War In My Heart
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
There is a war in my heart
When did this start?
I feel like I'm caving in
to myself from within

Such a heavy weight on my chest
Can someone take a little and leave me the rest?
But there is no one in sight
Just me outside and alone on this starry night.

This pain is getting the best of me
fading away of what I used to be
I can feel the raging war
My heart grows fierce even more

I fall to my knees gripping my heart
It throbs about to burst apart
I sqeeze my eyes shut to the pain
Feel the water run down my face from the rain

Then I hear someone close by
I look up and begin to cry
For who I see in front of me
Is the couple we were meant to be

I wander to where I was last
I sit
I read
Your name, the dates on the stone in different contrast

There is a War in my heart
I pray it will be the last
To a friend.
645 · Oct 2015
Losing Track
Lauren Leal Oct 2015
I'm lost within the dangers of my mind
I'm unable to escape, scared as to what I will find
Stuck in an oblivion of hatred and fear
How did I end up here

Why is it I feel this way
Why can't I seem to make it go away
I am now unable to move stuck in place
It's then I realize me and my demon are face to face

Wretched and horrid the face of my fear
It stares at me hungry, knowing I don't belong here
but before this demon could take me away
I heard your voice so soft and loving say

*"I love you darling, you are going the wrong way"
Lost inside myself
641 · Jun 2015
Free (10W)
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Freedom is not having to wear clothes around the house.
Random
639 · Jun 2016
Reasoning with Perception
Lauren Leal Jun 2016
I figured out why it hurt
Why it lacerated me so deeply
Why my world couldn't convert
From the view of me.
You knew what your world had,
Friends, family a home.
While my world was oh quite sad,
Filled with anguish and more of a dome.
A shell that only surrounded me
Leaving me to my world to see

The reason it hurt so bad,
Because in your world,
I was just another cast in your shadows.
In mine, was you, for in which I would go to the gallows.
When someone is more deeply rooted to another, for the lack in their world.

In light of recent events.
638 · Feb 2016
The Beauty of Growth
Lauren Leal Feb 2016
You are the flower I didn't pick.
       *I simply planted myself next to you,

                *So that at least we can grow together.
This was based on a quote I've seen multiple times about treating the one you love like a flower, not to pick it if you don't want it to die. I found a much better alternative.
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
I've left my footprints in the sand
Feeling your warmth leave my hand
I stop to soak in what has come and gone
Feeling alone and withdrawn

I'm bombarded by vicious visuals of my living fears
and everything I could ever revere
I'm a glass tank with only one shot
For the pain, I'll give you what I've got

Take me and my lacerated soul
Find the glass that cuts the deepest hole
Just be gentle with your hand
I'm at my most vulnerable and at your command

In return I'll love you to a fault
I'll bath you in my returning light as a result
You save my life every day, with nothing to even say
I even fell in love with myself today

I left my footprints in the sand
And felt the warmth return to my hand
I stop to soak in what has come and gone
Feeling more alive every waking dawn
I wrote this is regards to how my mind operates. It will hit me with what it knows will **** me, than all of a sudden pick me back up, but higher... Sometimes, only to push me down again. It's something I don't even understand.
601 · Jun 2015
Speechless
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
That unexplainable feeling you get when you say, "I'm okay"

and they respond, *"No you're not."
599 · Jun 2015
This Feeling Called Love
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Can be so painful, but I find myself wanting more.
Once experienced, it's like a drug.
594 · Jun 2015
Power of Words (10W)
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
It's scary how words can make your heart feel everything.
Simply scrolling through HP realizing that I'll be happy, laugh, then really sad, then shocked. All by simply reading. It's an amazingly powerful thing that is misunderstood.
591 · Jun 2015
Bloom
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
There is a flower
blooming in my heart
waiting for the one
to pick it so gently
for now they hold
who I am now
their love is it's life.
but mine is still here
withering
shivering
cold and alone
It waits for your warm hands to hold
So many times have I let it get picked only to be forgotten. A flower can't simply be re planted. It will always retain past injury, but it still always waits, it still tries to live.
588 · Apr 2016
Causing Waves
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
This happiness is a drop in my ocean of contempt.
When happiness seems to only come in small moments.
583 · Mar 2016
Pyro
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
People who say love is beautiful have either never experienced it,
or are indeed pyromaniacs.
Love is chaos, not the beautiful kind.
579 · Jan 2017
Shattered Opportunity
Lauren Leal Jan 2017
How many times must I give you breath
Giving you my life to avoid death.
In your heart and mind
You're choking out, with darkness you find.
You suffocate on your pasts toxin
Heart heavy, head down, you're boxed in.
I'm always here to help you in need
Why can't you hear my own plead?
I'm a mess from head to toe
I've told you, how do you not know?
That I'm broken not knowing what to do
Because it was my pieces that I used to help you.
575 · Jun 2015
Close Friends
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
All I want in life is to live, laugh and love
To simply look to the blue skies above
and have no worries, even for just a day
but life keeps taking close people from me away

I'm surrounded by death and loss
people tell me to turn to the cross
but that can't heal this pain
only time can help it not to remain

I'm coming to my last breath
inches from what I feel is death
it's just merely my heart crying
wondering why so many are dying

one, two, three, four, five
I count less close people that are alive
It's such a burden to contain
No matter how much I pass on, I'm always in the rain.

I wait for the day for that person to cross my path
That can calm my darkness's wrath
To simply hold me close to their heart
and to see the sun and the rain clouds rip apart.
I've lost many people that were close to me. It's a weight difficult to carry. I hope by sharing this is takes a piece off, even if it's just for a little bit.
573 · Jun 2015
Darkness
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
The Darkness follows my every step
Making me remember each tear I wept
I can't seem to let it go
It's the only thing I seem to know
It consumes me every passing day
With my life I'll pay
I need you to grasp my palm
Pull me to your calm
Don't let me slip away
In your arms I wish to stay
Whisper to me things will be alright
and maybe this Darkness I can fight
But you are too far to see
I just needed you to save me
The Darkness so black and cold
The only thing my hand can hold
I stay alive with the fire in my heart
That your love got to start
I await your warm touch
Which I long for so much
May you forgive me for what I've done
But I believe the Darkness has won
This is in relation to all the things I have experienced in life. Most people who I date, I get very attached to for their ability to pull me out of my own thoughts. So when that person leaves(Especially without a reason) I fall into my old self, which is very, very lonely.
570 · Jun 2015
Scar (10W)
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Some of the most scarred hearts create the deepest poems
From experience.
565 · Mar 2016
Stardust Legacy
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
Stars show their absolute beauty, in the aftermath of destruction.
554 · Dec 2015
The Old Me
Lauren Leal Dec 2015
I've been chewed up and spit out
Dropped like a bad habit and slapped with doubt
I went inside myself to rid me of shame
Yet I'm looked at and easily blamed

My past forever left a burn
Melted and scared away, with no more places to turn
So I dove inside myself and threw out the key
Hoping that no one will ever hurt me

In that time all I needed was someone to try
To gather my shattered remains and rid the tears I cry
I longed for someone who could bring me to my feet
and bring back my dying heartbeat

I don't want to stay here anymore
Please find that key and open the door
Tell me that I'm truly needed with no doubt
and teach me what life is really about
Thoughts
552 · Mar 2016
Rarity to Behold
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
Her soul was so kind,
                           But near impossible to find.
I wrote this one in the thought that honest people, good people, are so rare in today's society. It feels like people are become more and more susceptible to the pressure of others which drains from human decency.
552 · Jun 2015
Intertwined
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
When a heart shatters to pieces
It takes someone of a similar break
That can simply pick up all the shards
and put all them back together.
Whether the pieces are right or wrong
Both have a fixed heart that will beat
and forever be intertwined.
Sometimes the pieces don't matter, it's as long as the heart can beat again. Those people are ones you can not simply forget.
552 · Jun 2015
Bittersweet Memories
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Curled up in a ball tears falling in darkness
                 arm stretched out reaching through nothingness
                                            hoping to once more touch your face

I quickly draw back my arm
                  remembering that you had left this place
                                            when you gave yourself a shove
                    
Falling

Slowly

**God, If only you had landed in my arms love
An old Memory that decided to show face.
550 · Jun 2016
Black (10W)
Lauren Leal Jun 2016
I'm used to the dark, because she was my light.
When you lose that one that seemed to bring you up from the depths.
545 · Jun 2015
Insane
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
I must be suffering from insanity
to me a calamity
I'm overwhelmed by such tragedy
Please redefine sanity?

I'm sure I'm not that crazy
These creatures of thought are obstructed and hazy
Out of order and not in shape
Can I fix this with duct tape?

No I'm definitely insane
Still driving in the wrong lane
Oddly I feel no pain
Though not receiving anything to gain

I still wonder what the bases is
Is there some sort of sanity quiz?
Let me take it
I have quite the wit!

I should open my mind and look inside
peel my brain back open wide
See all the creatures and beings inside
'Here is your sanity' they lied.
There has got to be someone that sees me as normal, right?
537 · Jul 2015
Talking out of Anger
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
Anger is nothing but terrible.
                    It quickly burns bridges to other people.
                                                           and it sets you on fire.

*Leaving you alone in eternal pain.
534 · Mar 2016
Shattered Writing
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
I wish my writings could get noticed more.
Words bled out of my heart, right to the floor.
Finding someone to relate is so rare,
As I write choking on hopelessness and despair.
Yet knowing this I keep bleeding out,
But curse with this constant doubt.
That these words will never find an end,
And my gouged heart looking to mend.
Writing that gets lost.
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