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Dec 2012 · 655
Hope
Lisa V Dec 2012
Hope dashed
To play with
Drenching drops which
Mirror her thoughts
The world cries with her
At the injustice
The wars and hunger
Fills her heart
I call after her but she
Is already gone
There is no hope for us
Unless we become it
Dec 2011 · 604
Untitled
Lisa V Dec 2011
****** from this dry earth
Where your soul once flourished
You were stolen

Suddenly your body failed
as your daughter watched on
You were gone

No one to console her
She cries for her mom to come home
Now an orphan
In memory of Mary, a loving mother and beautiful person.
Dec 2011 · 1.6k
Infinity
Lisa V Dec 2011
My vocabulary is not large enough to contain you
To figure you out and narrow you down

I approach problems with a calculator in hand
To be precise in my answer

But you have no numbers or bounds
You are infinity

Too hard to wrap my head around
and something science cannot explain

There are infinite number of feelings that swell up inside me,
and an infinite number of words would be too few to describe you

Some people narrow these feelings down
and call it love

I would rather search through those millions of words
before settling on four small letters.
Dec 2011 · 788
Finals
Lisa V Dec 2011
Their way:
Nothing final about it.
They will haunt me for the rest of my life.
Getting into a good school
Earning a good living
What would I do without a white collar job?
A fancy car?
A perfect life?

Mine:
I will write poetry while everyone is in a fury.
I will try, but I will not take it too seriously.
I believe in grades as much as unicorns.
Do I do well? sure, but I know something they don't
That life is more than numbers and dollar bills.
It cannot be boiled down to physics and chemistry
We might be governed by laws and rules
but I refuse to let them predetermine the rest of my life.
Dec 2011 · 763
Expectations
Lisa V Dec 2011
I am     suffocated     by their eyes.
    These watchful expectant glares keep me trapped inside.
My mind fails me as jumbled ugly words project like slimy *****
     What they expected is fulfilled and in that fleeting instant all hope for me to
                                                              ­                   change in spite of myself is lost.
    And the d
                    o
               w
                      n
               w
                       a
                 r
                        d   spiral commences, they look away and shake their heads as their thoughts manifest.
There is no hope for me now.
Dec 2011 · 695
Used love
Lisa V Dec 2011
I cannot write sappy love lines. I have no use for them.
They will not feed me or clothe me or bathe me.
Therefore, all I can say is I have no use for love.
It only leaves and takes and breaks.

No one needs love, especially not mine.
The love of an unlovable is never enough for anyone.
And I try to explain it to you, but you won't listen
Love has poisoned your mind... Just like it did mine not too long ago.

You reach out to me, but the man who came before left a six foot four fortress surrounding me.
I'm left cold and hard to escape the silly sappy love that I would rather do without.
Dec 2011 · 594
Life and Death
Lisa V Dec 2011
Smokey room clouds my mind.
      I reach for you as the outline of your face breaks the fog, but my hand only meets the damp air.
          Instead you e  x p  l  o  d e  into sparks of gold and red.

The dim light captures the shimmering cascade which now surrounds me.
       I look to the clouds on my left and begin to scatter you throughout the night sky.
             I have not abandoned you for no matter where I am the sky is always with me.
                   Longing and desperation fills me heart from dawn till dusk....

but at night we shall be together
      And when I die we will share a permanent home in the sky among the stars
Dec 2011 · 592
Dreams or delusions
Lisa V Dec 2011
I feel an irritating tick     in the back of my head.
A ghost whispers your name in my ear,        with urgency and a
fierce persistence. I crave to drink in our        silence as we intertwine in
warm thick sheets. We would stay in our         own world, where we only have
each other and we live without food or water.         United we don't even come
up for air. Instead, we live off each          others sweet sweat which is more
than enough to sustain life on this          musky afternoon. Together we are
transparently aware of our selfishness in       each other but can't seem
to pry ourselves apart. As Life would          be, however, you haven't
called and if you did what        would I say. I'd rather
live as a figure in         this still life than find
out       that it can't come
true.
Dec 2011 · 3.5k
Seashore
Lisa V Dec 2011
White foam drifting, turquoise waves swaying gently
to the shore. Looking out to open endlessness. Feeling
insignificant and vulnerable, yet relaxed as the sand
between your toes massages away every pain.
Carelessness fills up your rosy body as heat heals
your bones. Dancing overcomes you as you spin alone
on the crest where sea and land embrace. Your mind
is finally blank in thought and peace settles throughout
the delicate shades of the bright blue horizon which
is reflected by the sun deep down into your soul.
Dec 2011 · 389
Untitled
Lisa V Dec 2011
I take back every secret I told you
and all the laughs we ever shared. I really
don't even like you that much. I don't
like your perfect white smile or
your honest eyes. I can't stand looking at
your rosy lips or your towering shadow
next to mine.
But most of all I hate how you look
at me because I know it will
never be with the same passion
I have for you. I can't stand trying to
convince myself against my love for you.
It's easier not to care, but it still hurts to hate.
Dec 2011 · 468
Trapped in my mind
Lisa V Dec 2011
I
have locked you away safely.
Once my head hits the pillow I close
my eyes to see your face. Lines
come together as an artists hand
flies across his sketch. Starting with
your eyes, down your cheeks and the
nape of your neck. But last are your
lips which I manipulate into my own
fantasy. I get a chance to hear all the
things I secretly wish for in the depth
of my heart. I fall into slumber and
awake to you. You are ever present there.
Dec 2011 · 510
Bedtime
Lisa V Dec 2011
Cutout smile pasted to my mouth
as my head hits the pillow.                         I feel at peace and myself.  

This effortlessness of our time spent is
like a diamond to be treasured and
coveted.

I float on our memories in
my thoughts and dream of the day
when I will be with you again.
Dec 2011 · 514
Effortless Love
Lisa V Dec 2011
Never have I felt so at home with a stranger,
I am awakened by your laughter,

I have always known how to be yours
...and you mine.
Dec 2011 · 687
Long Distance Lovers
Lisa V Dec 2011
You follow my outline
sinking harder into my flesh
stoking the flame
that writhes deep inside me.

My body aches for your touch
that I once knew so well
I can almost feel it.
Dec 2011 · 700
Wallflowers
Lisa V Dec 2011
Green vines sprout from my finger tips,
they etch themselves into the gritty cement.
Like a **** to never surrender.

The vines persist to lay their tracks.
Seeing other flowers begin to bloom,
makes me dig deeper never to be pried.

As they intertwine, a fury of untrimmed roses suffocates me.
Instead I choose to fuse with the comfort of this wall
I have no need for flowers, I am here to be alone.

— The End —