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311 · Sep 2017
New Order
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
What is love while you think of another man
I think you need to revise your plan
It's not working out
Your past clarifies that no doubt
Take that step into loneliness
And you'd stop being such a mess
Accept yourself and all your flaws
Only then your glow will drop jaws
Stop believing your self-deception
Leave yourself, go alone, and face self-reflection
307 · Sep 2017
Softly Spoken
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
"The only words I head, speaking it's you I need."
307 · Jun 2015
Perceive (10W)
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
I'm cold
I'm weak
I'm alone
I'm sad
You're **perfect
When you hit the bottom, most everyone seems so perfect.
306 · Jul 2015
To Cut the Ties
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
Someone else cutting the ties is painful.
        
                        But ****, cutting them yourself is absolutely excruciating.
Something I'd rather not do again.
305 · Jan 2018
Keep Your Wits
Lauren Leal Jan 2018
Nearly everything is a distraction, to prevent honest self-discovery.
Anxiety, Social-Anxiety, Communication-Anxiety, Lack of Self-Esteem, Chronic Depression. Drugs, ***, Alcohol, Smoking to relieve stress.

I wonder if technology is actually bringing us together, or slowly tearing us apart.
304 · Jun 2015
In Liquid Form
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
I experienced true love,
                        When I sipped my morning coffee.
A must in life.
303 · Sep 2017
This Anger
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
If there one thing driving me insane
Is that I still have the pain
Of my anger inside me
Anger that you can see
Why couldn't you give, to hear my plead
That I am in fear and in need
That this anger could overtake my mind
Who knows what you'd find
If you told me not to do that now
Or to find ways to figure out how
To quell my inner child's rage
But you skipped that page
and went right for my heart
Then wondered why I ripped you apart
You sought not to help with what remains
You forever sought personal gain
Let that sink in to your soul
You cared not to help a part, of someone that gave
themselves whole
302 · Jun 2015
Speak
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
My mind is in a fray
I can't seem to find the things to say
But when I do find them to speak
My heart shakes and my knees get weak
I'm afraid of saying something wrong
And I've waited too long
You walk away
Without hearing the things I need to say
I want you to stay with me
I just can't think, can you see
I want nothing but you
Please understand and love me like you do
Darling don't move along
Stay and read the song
Of what my heart may feel
But my mouth will seal
Know that I love you ***
That you are my Moon and Sun
This is someone I once dated. She had the hardest time saying what she want and admitted to me that she was afraid of saying something wrong or something that isn't enough. So, I got her to write her stuff in lyric poems and it worked.
298 · Jun 2015
Courage to Walk
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Sometimes,
           even in Darkness,
                               you can still find the most beautiful of things.

*It's just a matter of finding the courage to walk through such Darkness.
297 · Oct 2018
Loved
Lauren Leal Oct 2018
What is Love?
Does anyone know?
We all seem lost
With nowhere to go.

I'd rather sit and remenice
Thinking,
I miss this.
Adding 'Something Real' to my
Wish list.

My heart doesn't even want to give.
It's even failing to remember
Why it wants to live.
Thinking it gets better if you just
Forget and Forgive.

What is Love?
Does anyone know?
I just don't think
This was how it's supposed to go.
296 · Jun 2019
Lo
Lauren Leal Jun 2019
Lo
The nickname given by an ex
That made me realize I never
Want a next

I'd rather be alone
And forget how to care

Than to find someone for me
Only to find out too late
That it's not meant to be
295 · Jun 2015
I'm Letting Go for Good
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
I''m letting go for good darling
I'm sick and tired of the quarreling
You say that you love me ever so much
That you want to be with me and feel my touch

Yet you never answer your phone
you don't ever reply, you leave me feeling alone
You get mad when I then make assumptions
Then you come up with all these presumptions

You can't even follow your own word
When I call you out, you act like a coward
You come up with the same excuses
With that my trust it reduces

You are not the one I remember falling for
That one must have died crumpled on the floor
I can't see the light with us anymore
Which is unfortunate, because only you I could adore

I'm letting go for good ***
Consider myself dead and done
I was hoping for a better outcome

I can no longer love what you have become
Happened on my birthday at that
293 · Oct 2016
Unspoken
Lauren Leal Oct 2016
I'm nothing but shambles and the words I can't write.
292 · Jun 2015
Legacy (10W)
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Life is Death, but also the wake you have created.
I feel you have truly lived when even after death, the people whom you've touched along your way can't forget you and you 'live' on.
290 · Feb 2018
Wishing
Lauren Leal Feb 2018
I'm on a stairway to heaven
I wished for it at eleven eleven
Though it was a wish you'd figure
That it wouldn't be me to
Pull the trigger
289 · Jan 2018
Foundations
Lauren Leal Jan 2018
We tried to sail with a ship already on fire.
Have a healthy foundation before pursuing further with a partner.

Personal experience.
288 · Oct 2017
Daze
Lauren Leal Oct 2017
"I don't remember what it's like to wake up anymore."
To clarify: This was inspired by my own habits, I smoke, I drink, I smoke ***, and I drink coffee like a God. Always needing a stimulant, a surfacing symptom of depression.
288 · Jul 2015
The Bleeding Poet
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
Don't mind me, I'm just bleeding my heart out one poem at a time.
286 · Jul 2015
.
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
.
The current does not absolve you of your past.
285 · Jul 2018
Decay
Lauren Leal Jul 2018
You bore your wooden hatchet
Into the stump of my heart,

But now it's overgrown and
beginning to fall apart.

Your time has come to its realistic end,

As I watch the last of my wounds completely mend.
285 · Oct 2017
Rubble
Lauren Leal Oct 2017
If there's anything that you should know
Is that I never really wanted to go
I would have used myself whole
To help you, that's the goal

Then there would be nothing left of me
So, I had to leave you see
There just wasn't enough for you
I ran out and didn't know what to do

To come up with more pieces
I made deals with Demons like car leases
To full fill your needs
Responding caringly to every plead

The cost was my happiness
That made me a mess
I never got a chance to be alone
Away from you or my phone

I buried every anger and every sadness
Which lead to my madness
You never paid no mind to me
I can do this can't you see!

I was left in the dust
You were steel and I was just the rust
You only know what what I spoke
Or that too I make a joke

You never asked about my heart
So that's why I left, because I fell apart.
Enneagram Personality 2-1 = Me.
282 · Sep 2017
My Eyes Burn
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
Browsing women like a catalog
But I'm wrapped up in the fog
In the trail of destruction you left behind
You never look back so no knowledge you find
I think you need to just rewind
And learn to be kind
To yourself and all you consider a friend
Or you'll just be alone in the end
282 · Dec 2015
Ideals (10W)
Lauren Leal Dec 2015
"Once again, someone proved my ideal of love completely wrong."
(In a good way)
279 · Jul 2015
Poetry
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
It's amazing how I can show myself to the world,
without the fear of being hurt.
To the readers, you are amazing. I love you.
278 · Jun 2015
Simplistic Bliss
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
I swear, laying on her lap was heaven on earth.
277 · Sep 2019
Past Strains
Lauren Leal Sep 2019
Tremble to the cause
Far planes in my heart on pause
Lost to time and to the pain
My eyes stricken
From staring into the rain
Drip drop, I'm the sinking ship
Down into the water
I'll take a dip
And a taste of my regret
The table is set
I'm the main course
Served to my demons as
Remorse
277 · Sep 2017
Denial
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
"We are more similar than each other will ever know."
276 · Sep 2017
Fake Limbs
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
Some come my time to write
Do I just run or take flight?
I think of all I did wrong
Why couldn't we just get along?
We fed like vultures to prey
Wearing a new mask each day
With that same sad smile
That anyone can see within a mile
Riding high on that good ****
To ***** out what I need
Because I just wanted to help you
But just help you is all you would do
For 9 months no not 10
I don't think I could ever do that again
275 · Sep 2017
Simple Thoughts
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
Here I sip my amaretto
Sifting through what to let go
Listening to another indie band
Drink my drink, we'll see where I land
Reinvent a whole new plan
Whoever it was holding my hand
Sometimes would distort to less than human
But I fall asleep to the siren song
I let the waves rock me along
Why did it go on so long
Tasted like chronic from a ****
But that's as far as it got
Encased in fears trust is what we forgot
Hmm.
274 · Jun 2019
Hand full of Sadness
Lauren Leal Jun 2019
The only thing I know is sad
It's all I've been given and all I've had

When happiness feels temporary
It's hard not to feel the contrary

I've got a hand full of sadness
That I dont want anymore
But I've always had this
So its tangled into my core

Woven into by bloodstream
Making life and living

Simply a dream
Mood. Expression for decompression.
274 · Oct 2017
In Time Passing
Lauren Leal Oct 2017
"You are now simply a dream, so it may seem."
273 · Sep 2017
Its all part of the Show
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
I'm the puppet, you the puppeteer
A master in how you control and steer
But the problem with being a puppet doll
Is that we don't know love at all
We simply do what you need
And hear ever plead
When we try to walk away
It's you that gets the last say
It's always I love you, said just the same
As if it's some sort of game
Of cat and mouse
But I'm a puppet, so you tightened the strings
Once you saw them you clipped my wings
Captivated by that siren song
It's okay I'll follow along
Written for another and being able to relate.
273 · Jun 2019
Heavy Hand
Lauren Leal Jun 2019
It's hard to write
When its only for me

It doesn't feel right
It's an empty plea

Each word forever pasted
Just seems like my time is wasted

It's so hard to write
With this blight of grief

It's hard to write
When it's not a relief
It's not helping the same.
268 · Jul 2015
Coincidences
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
It's funny
          how the day
   I realized I could write,
                        Was the day
                  
                                       she left.
267 · Sep 2017
No Advice
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
God be mad that I'm disappointed
That it was you I appointed
To receive all of my guidance
Like that last dance
Anger in each step made
In the fantasy of other men to be laid
In one ear and right out the other
Chances? Really, another?
We'll see what you really are in time
If you are reborn or stuck in grime
That you secretly created
To help you seem so sated
But I know I am real
But there was a gap in the deal
267 · Sep 2017
Heard Again
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
"I've run out of words, It's all something you've heard."
263 · Oct 2016
Motionless Emotion
Lauren Leal Oct 2016
For the first time I can't write
My mind is still, not willing to take flight
No emotions to express or show
So weighed down, no confidence to follow.
I'm trapped in a standstill
Of being nothing or having the will
Of once again writing with emotion.
but my heart is a desert and my mind is dead,
My pen still in my hand, remaining with no motion.
263 · Jun 2015
Love:
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
The only feeling that is literally a heaven and hell.
261 · Oct 2017
Fallen Leaves (Haiku)
Lauren Leal Oct 2017
Autumn leaves burn red
Crunch and snap from where you
                                                             tread
Nap to rest the head
261 · Jun 2019
Demonology (20w)
Lauren Leal Jun 2019
Life gets hard when you get closer to your demons, then ever getting closer to someone who cares for you.
Expression for decompression
261 · Dec 2015
People (10w)
Lauren Leal Dec 2015
"I hate everyone, you just have to prove yourself otherwise."
Reality
261 · Jul 2015
Stuck in Limbo
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
My heart tried to write something happy
My brain trashed it as fallacy
260 · Jun 2019
Wooden Walls (10w)
Lauren Leal Jun 2019
My walls are my fortress, but also my personal coffin.
259 · Jul 2015
Not to Be Done Alone
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
Love is a poison.
              But if used in unison, each other is the cure.
256 · Jun 2015
Exchange
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
Sometimes,
I wonder.
If I am,
noticed.
If I'm just,
another spec,
out of
focus.
I feel like,
I wander,
alone.
Simply moving,
forever
on my own.
Since nothing
seems to
change.
Life and Death
Will do
Their
Exchange.
Memories of an old friend came to mind, whom I wish I could have saved.
252 · Sep 2017
After this Time
Lauren Leal Sep 2017
"It's at your side, that I should not have left."
251 · Dec 2015
Essence of Time (10W)
Lauren Leal Dec 2015
Time is of no essence for two that are unstoppable.
251 · Jul 2015
The Feeling
Lauren Leal Jul 2015
Love is the finest and most dangerous double edged sword.
250 · Jun 2015
Love (10w)
Lauren Leal Jun 2015
The most Horrifically Dangerous yet absolutely Wonderful feeling ever experienced.
Love
Despite it all, I could never turn it down.
249 · May 2020
The Good and Bad
Lauren Leal May 2020
"We quote the good, but are poetic of the bad."
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