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For Jack**

Lost in a tide of a million emotions,
pulled down by the weight of my unsteady heart
left to drown in an ocean of my own creation
as saltwater depths from mine eyes did depart.

I looked to the heavens for signs of my passing
then swallowed my pride with my last gasp of air
hoping for silence and peace everlasting,
no more would I cherish, no more would I care.

Then through the darkness a soft voice did beckon,
sweet cleansing comfort in it's knowing tone
a hand it was offered to aid my protection
and to help hold together my world weary bones.

As the ocean receded my heart broke the surface
I reclaimed my soul then rejected the tide
Your heart was a beacon of light in the darkness.
Sweet unending friend, in my heart you reside
Thankyou.
 Sep 2014 Le Lotus
EJ Aghassi
I want to love you
warmly & freely

and make the bed
in which we lay

I want you to hear me
see me and need me

I want you to tell
me that you'll stay
 Sep 2014 Le Lotus
Nevermore
Why

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Let's
take
it

s  l  o  w  .

Courtship:

the
­
best

part.
I know this probably sounds crazy
but our love is not what it seems
I know everything about you
and you're always in my dreams.

but yet you love her
and I fade into nothing
I long for your touch
beg for us to be something

the way you look into her eyes
is how I pray you'll look at me
hold me close to you
and we'll drift out to sea

lose our pain in that ocean
deep within the tide
and you will love me dearly
and I will be your bride.
 Sep 2014 Le Lotus
Tallulah
Gasoline
 Sep 2014 Le Lotus
Tallulah
I found you between touches on screens
through swiping on pocket machines
and I met you in the long shadow of sunset
you smoked a cigar and I a cigarette

We put the stars in our eyes
and found ufos and Russian spies
and gave ourselves to the not knowing
but knowing this wanting to keep going

So at one am we kissed at Chevron
with a smirking cashier looking on
and I did so without a second thought
because, honestly, how could I not?
 Sep 2014 Le Lotus
Aisrah Misch
I told God,
"Write a poem please."
he looked down,
pointed at me.
"I already did."
 Sep 2014 Le Lotus
Brianna Elise
This is my truth:
I fall too easily in love.
Like the tall thin golden grass,
I bend in the winds of admonishment.
The slightest touch will snap me,
The lightest breath will move me.
I sway toward whispered "I love you's"
Lean in toward sighed "I want you's"
Break at sobbed "I need you's."
I am a fool for heavy-lidded gazes
And lazy touches in the dark.
I slay myself over and over again,
I bleed out for empty words.
I cannot define myself outside
The context of the words you sing.
I have lost my identity somewhere
Between the cracks in your voice
When you beg me to come back home.
I can only stand the sound of my name
When you breathe it down my throat.
This is my truth:
I fall in love too easily.
I define myself by the terms set
By sad boys with empty hearts
And tired eyes.
I fall in love for convenience,
So as not to be alone.
My love for him was borne of a need
To sate the hunger I felt when you left.
In truth, I have always been yours,
And that is all I know how to be.
Please still be waiting.
 Sep 2014 Le Lotus
Kapil Dutta
...

I cannot tell you what I feel like, but I can try.
You left me hanging in mid air, but I still cannot fly.

It's like the Cupids arrow is stuck in my throat.
I can not swim, but I still can float.

I am broken, but I will survive.
When you left, you forgot to say Good Bye..

It's like I'm far away, but I am still near you.
Even though you left, I can still hear you.

Ours could have been a fairy-tale love story,
But you din't wanna walk on the road less traveled with me.

I was locked in a cage while you walked away with him.
I regret, because I know I can love you more than this.

I can forget the history, but I can not delete the memories.

I found my peace in you, but now you are gone.
In your leave, has chaos been born.

I was on the journey to reach my destination when I lost the way and became a Wanderer.

I am broken into pieces, Scattered on the ground.
Evaporated into Nothingness, Listen to the Quiet Sound.

Only if I could consist you within me..

Only if I could preserve you for eternity..

Queen.

...

-KD
I suppose this poem is pretty self-explanatory.
Listen to the quite sound of my absence.
Queen.
#ifeellike
Will you love me when I'm 80
When I walk and talk real slow?
Will you love my wrinkles
If I let them show?
Will you hold me every night
And kiss me in the morning light?
And when I see my last sunrise
Will you hold me when I die?
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