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Long To Sail Feb 2016
i once was twenty one
my life was up in smokes
she asked if i remembered
but i forgot the day i awoke

my memories are healing scars
they do not depict a clear story
but i remember a time of chaos
a time i stood in glory

there was static in my hands
and fire in my eyes
when the smoke had cleared and fire died
it was a tad too late to realize

but fire is no more a friend
now gardens grow far and wide
she is the rain to wash the ashes
the moon, the mood to my tide.
Long To Sail Dec 2020
Foreword:
Husbands too should be addressed but this letter is specifically for the wives.

Dear wives,
Do not cheat on your husbands.
Hold strong to your marriages and speak good of your partners.
Protect the sanctity of your marriages.
Do not fall prey to the wolves who only see you as meat. You might be left with only bones to hide.

Dear wives,
Do not cheat on your families.
If you fall prey, ensure you are protected. Do not birth a child with a possibility of it being another man’s without checking.
For your husband and your families will love that child like they have never loved before. It is unfair to any person.

Dear wives,
Do not cheat on life. For when your husband discovers the child he has loved and lived for is not his own, the devastation will break him. His whole world will crumble. It will feel like a kind of death has happened when he realises the person he has given his entire being for never actually existed. Not in the way he believed.

Dear wives,
Do not cheat on yourselves.
For a moment of euphoria, can and possibly will, give you a lifetime of regret and sadness.

Dear wives,
Do not cheat on your offsprings.
Do not bring life to a world you built on lies and deceit. Innocence does not deserve such torment. Remedy what is wrong with right, with the truth.

Dear wives,
Trust my little message. For my eyes have shed tears like the hidden oceans of Europa and in my chest sits a thorn shrouded heart. Every beat piercing to the sound of “my” son’s name.

Dear husbands,
I hope you never have to feel like I do. And if you do, don’t you ever, never ever hate “your” child for they only know love for you. Feel as you must towards the mother but give only love for the child for your love might be the difference between their future being sun rays or dark clouds.

With love (or whatever that’s left),
A man with a broken heart who has just found out he isn’t the biological father to a beautiful little boy and doesn’t know what to do.

Not thinking about what you have because you never imagined you someday won’t - Lang leav
Long To Sail Jan 2014
I am no poet
I lack skill to compose
But in my head, filled to the brim
I've too much to say in riddles it seems

But you, oh you, you'll be a star someday
I hope i inspired in substantial ways
Maybe soon I'll thrive
Maybe a poet
Long To Sail Jan 2014
The constant need
for you to judge me
will instill a new
doltish form of misery

The methods I've taken
blame's on you
Fought my carnal desires
because of you.
Long To Sail Jan 2014
Is that what I think it is?
It is!
Have you reciprocated?
You have!
Will I overthink this situation?
I won't!
But have I fallen unintentionally?
I have!
And I don't even know your name.
Long To Sail Mar 2016
There's a little black hole at the end of my room.

Where a little black man sings sorrows to the moon.

Now a little black spot on my heart springs my doom.

But little won't stay little unless she comes home soon.
Long To Sail Aug 2014
Why do you still sit there
Don't you know you don't belong?
Wait, don't get up.
Maybe if you stayed, it wouldn't  be wrong.
Does it make sense,
if I want to finger draw incoherent lines down your spine?
But I don't want to touch you.
Cause I have to stop wanting what isn't mine.
Long To Sail Jun 2014
Everytime I confess
to missing you
I let go a little
more of you.
Long To Sail May 2014
Fall in love
and don't hold back.

Even if the past
is all you see in the present's eyes.

Soon enough, in the future,
the present will be the only past.

Like stars that once shone,
fade unhurriedly from the skies.
Long To Sail Dec 2014
As of now,
you are like Schrodinger's cat to me.
Both good and bad
if I don't take a look.
But could it be
that the outcome might be judged
by my actions too?
Or am I foolish to think
that me being good
will result in
your reciprocation of good?
And in this confusion
in search of truth,
I too am Schrödinger's cat,
both alive and dead
at the same time.
Long To Sail Jan 2014
Would you judge me?
Do y'know i wont judge you?
Can I be anything I want to be?
Or are there rules I have to conform to?

Spaceman cowboy hippie gangster stoner rockstar chef painter poet
playwright carpenter inventor scientist mathematician author actor
gardener tailor sailor musician comedian doctor pilot barista volunteer
partyplanner spiritualist director engineer psychologist beautician

Please do forgive me but there's more.
I'm greedy, I know, I want it all.
Immense experiences galore.
Money to me means null.
Long To Sail May 2014
Chap you better
straighten out
before you reach
the pearly gates

That's the thing
my parents
my friends
and lovers often said

See I'm not
that deep pocketed
man that any
lady wants to date

Just a raw
average looking
gentleman
they want to see in bed

And it's not
much of a wonder
there's only two things
that I've got straight

My ******
orientation
and the endless
thoughts in my head

But before you start
pointing fingers
or blaming this
on fate

Or thinking
that not knowing
what I want at 24
is a little too late

You have to
sit with me
Meditate
Articulate

Know that what
matters most to me
is my family and friends
and food on our plates

And all the world
is a friend
means I only wish for peace
and an equal share of bread

Yes, I differ a little
but I'm just like you
Cut me open
I still bleed red

And when time ends
and the world stands still
Just like you
I too will be lying dead
Long To Sail Jul 2015
The amorous history of you
that she so well denies,

sometimes reveals itself,
though she hides it from her eyes.

I do not hate you.

Though I envy you,
I do not hold a grudge.

I only hope she has shed the skin that once resonated your touch.
Long To Sail Mar 2014
I let the negative vibes
Devour me for a bit

I had to

Cause only with the sour
Can I appreciate the sweet

Without you

With every victory
There is an opposing defeat

That'd be me

Yes I've lost this time
Play me that southern beat

Good vibes I foresee
Long To Sail Mar 2014
Exhausting
That's what it is

Cold and heartless
Like a blade to a wrist

To pull it all nearer
And watch it slip away

Just to feel your worth
The search for a better day
Long To Sail Aug 2014
Clouds roll over
the morning sky

Reminds me theres no
turning back time

Life is a journey
No sitting idly by

You can't skip chapters
You can't rewind
Long To Sail Apr 2015
Take me back to the days
where i was careless and free.

when the wind was what pushed
me as i ran across fields

when the stars were bigger and
i stood for justice for who went first on slides

days i did not understand
why there were any reason to fight

i wanna go back to the time when
i believed my folks knew what they were doing

where every word they said were
of wisdom and every bit of it deemed true

if you can take me back
i wish to bring my brother

for the playgrounds now come in forms of pills and potions
and i, the fearless, am scared shitless that i might not know what to do.

to keep him safe here.
Long To Sail May 2014
You were the story
           everyone loved hearing

The story we all knew
            noone could live

The one that anyone stupid
             enough died from trying

All the attention to the
              impossible with no ***** to give

A little empathy to
              your main character

Only partially cause all
              were born in different skins

A fiction to the fraction
               that never mattered

But real as reality has ever been.
To the you that you never dared to be.
Long To Sail May 2014
The script ends here
'tis the death of a playwright
The curtains crash down
A surrender without a fair fight
Respects to the thespians
Rendered lost by such a plight
I exit stage left
Cause only you were always right
Long To Sail Oct 2017
Tonight the lump in my throat has become a boulder
If my eyes decide to bleed I will not find a shoulder
Tonight my veins know not what runs through it
Rage? Anger? Confusion? Sadness? Old lies new heat

Soiled in your fuel of lies I held my fire high
I'm running out of strength to constantly try to try
But now my arms draw near as I soon hold myself in disgrace
And it is now the time has come, I have set myself ablaze.
Long To Sail Feb 2014
Stop asking me
these questions

I have not
answers for you

I'm not your
desired reflection

Just a drug for you
to abuse
Long To Sail Jan 2014
In stories of love and conflict
The greatest were of me and you
The influence of hydroponics
Done unravelled a thing or two
Like the perfect slurps in life
Are of chowder not of stew
And the perfect us derived
From the balance of me and you
We basked in endless reverie
Though the years were but a few
This reality of fantasy held eternally
For today
     my love
           today
                I bid you
                                                Adieu.
Long To Sail Jun 2014
We were the ones
who were bred in the fire

Forced to reconsider
our primal desires

Wants and needs stood still
in the want and need to survive

A place we were taught to ****
From the day we first arrive

Told that guns don't **** people
People **** people

But people don't ****, bullets do
So stop speed mailing bullets people

Having much of everything
Yet still doing the taking

And making those who have nothing
Give and keep on giving

Not just reaping harvest
But even lives, loves and futures

Taking away tomorrows
We are a man in the dessert
And they, they are the vultures.
Long To Sail Jan 2014
I drown myself with
Everything but love
Tell myself
I don't need you
Truth is
I don't
Yet our realities are
Self fabricated
And in my reality
I do
Need you

Every word accompanied
By ear pleasing sound
My mind slithers back
To thoughts of you
You. You. You.
But the truth will set in
And it'll pull me back to
Logic-constructed reality
I don't need you
Not till I think
I do
Need you
Long To Sail Jan 2014
Brick by brick. I have built a wall around you.
Alas comes he, demolishing what I've constructed.
Little does he know, I erected not one but a few.
Some walls, I doubt, even you knew existed.

Just like the rest he'll tear them down with kindness.
Cause, oh tender love, all you seek is some attention.
Estranged, these men truly think I have left you loveless.
Selfish me, only with me shall you embrace affection.

They pursue with presumption that they came to save you,
They pursue with presumption that they came to love you.
The robust walls they've destroyed imprudently to seize you.
Unknowing my intention was to protect them from yours truly,               **You
Long To Sail Jan 2014
Another place
Another time
It is I who holds
the picket sign

No more nights
No more days
If you keep up
Your wretched ways

No more nights
No more days
My little picket
Sign would say

You took what's mine
And made it yours
But my demise
Will be your loss

I gave you life
As mine fades grey
An end will come
And with me shall you lay

Love,
Mother Nature.
Long To Sail Jan 2014
Significance, nothing we do has any.
Stop and feel the world go by.
Twist and turn.
Lost all sense of continuity.
The eyes tell all I need to know.
You cannot hide.
24th September 2012
Long To Sail Mar 2014
This is it
The end
I was uncertainty
You were a misleading bend

Let it go
Unfound
I was the accused
But it was you who let it drown
Long To Sail Jan 2014
Like the beauties that my eyes
adore on Turner Classics.

Your picturesque demeanor yanks on my
heartstrings every chance I face you.

By poise, by grace,
by articulation and physiques.

I shan't deny existence of such splendor
in others but definitely one too few.
Long To Sail Jan 2014
Full bodied. A crimson blend.
Sugar and milk. Woah, transcends.
The sweetness over your toasty brew.

Years taken away. So was murky density.
Just sugar infused. Tis was culminated destiny.
Has elimination brought enhancement?

"Black. Just black"
Am I for real?
I embrace you for you. Smell. Taste. Feel.
Less for more. Will I soon drink an empty cup?

I'm appreciating nothing as everything anyway.
Long To Sail May 2014
Hello,
I'm the broken one.
And I noticed you are too.
Let's put our broken bits together.
If it fits we'll build something new.

Sincerely,
The stranger sitting behind you.
Long To Sail Feb 2014
I could
up and go
any day I wanted

I should
forget this
Design unrendered

I will
let it pass
Slip through the cracks

Cause I am the evil to you
Of misconstrued facts
Long To Sail Jan 2014
Nearly two month's gone by since we last met.
Seeing you now reminds me how I've missed you.
The crinkle at the corner of your eyes.
The way they deepen as you smile.
And your eyes disappear.
Smile.
You always do.
You never fail to make me too.
We'd argue. We'd laugh.
These little things make me remember you.
You are my reason I live life gently.
But never soft, like a real man should be.
This time it's my turn to buy you breakfast.
And I'll try to see you more, I love you Daddy.
Long To Sail Jan 2014
You're practically together,
Yes a million Yes, I hate that.
You try to impress him,
For that I'll tip my hat.

I wouldn't know if you,
have or will taste the lions groin.
But games over my friend,
Insert another coin.
Long To Sail Jan 2014
Her beautiful door
He came in hate and anger
Splinters on his hand
Long To Sail Feb 2014
A day will come
When you will learn

That nothing matters
And all things burn

Will you invigorate
The world with good

Or prevail with malevolence
Because you know you could
Long To Sail Jan 2014
I sleep closer
to the edge of the bed
so I don't see the space
you've left behind

I dive deeper
in my fantasy
to push you further
into the back of my mind.

I watch the waves
rollover each other
and try not to envision
our own destructive habit.

I fight these memories
in my head
bottle-bottoms harness strength
for me to brave it.

In time I'll walk
back on dry land
and a path of my own
I'll try to find.

If only I can wipe you off,
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
Long To Sail Jan 2014
The most arresting finery
Oh heart you have been warned.

Tempted are my eyes to see
Every moment you are donned.
Long To Sail Apr 2014
I am not lost in this world
Though I care not where I go

The music may play fast
But my heart, it beats slow

And if you ever wonder
How I know the things I know

I've lived the highest high
And withstood the lowest low
Long To Sail Mar 2014
The experience in our lives
We collect like stamps
Some more precious than others

To give meaning to being "me"
A vision to those around us
Some we've hated like lovers

It is our own conscience
We learn to understand
Raise and nurture

A child from the past
Living in the present
Unaffected by the future.
Long To Sail Jan 2014
The daily routines we lead,
Have now come to lead us.
The opportunities we often plead,
Will soon come to feed us.
Hypocrites we hate to need,
Conscious struck, they need us.
The memories of bad seeds,
Now burnt, scarred, bleed, rust.
Long To Sail Feb 2014
Follow him as he roars
His friends you've learned to adore

The ones you knew of mine
Are now strangers you've left behind

Keep your excuses and shush
But take your time don't rush

Cause only time will tell
The rightful owner of ringing bells
Long To Sail Jun 2014
If there was a lesson,
if its a lesson at all,
that I've learnt from indulging in Kerouac's oeuvres,
it'd be to know that I too am lost in this world and in this life.
And being lost is ok,
because I, I 'dig' life.
Long To Sail Sep 2015
Oh dear lover, how your tongue is so sly.

When words can come so easily.

-

But how strong your pride is more than your tongue is sly

When you can say all but "I'm sorry"

-

But guarded is this heart from such strength in pride

For when both of us put you before me

-

Maybe if you look into your heart deep down inside

You'd find being wrong is not wrong unless you stand for it unjustly.

-
Long To Sail Aug 2014
If I could fall in love
I'd fall in love with you
I'd carve your name onto my heart
And have you sign it too
A contract between two fools
Treading cautiously this time around
In a cesspool of broken hearts
Clearer visuals clearer sounds
Well if I could fall in love
You'd be atop of my list
But my hearts locked up right now
And I've jumbled up the keys.
Long To Sail Feb 2014
I ask for no opinion
Require no chances

For

in this life

of uncertainties

Every being yearns for

**answers
Long To Sail Apr 2014
Here we are
Stuck in this life

Where a pen and paper
Kills more men than knives

Where ease of life belongs
Not to helpful men

But to those who
Affordably can
Long To Sail Feb 2014
Small talk over coffee
can end your day right

Even hearty conversations
can please me any night

As my fingers flick these ashes
puffs easing me from plight

The sun kissed moon remains
the most appeasing source of light.
Long To Sail Feb 2014
Sometimes i feel
Like giving up
Smoking up
Just let me drift away

Shove me on ship
Just shackle me up
Wake me up
I'll be a stowaway

Hide me deep
Beneath the ground
No sight and sound
With maybe just a shovel

With tranquil mind
Less profound
More lost than found
I'll throw in the blood drenched towel.
Long To Sail Feb 2015
I'll shave the lions mane
Dare me and I'll do it
Fight a million Cobras?
Headfirst into the pit

I fear not pain nor suffering
For my heart is but a stone
I could survive amongst the billions
And I'd strive being alone

My heart and mind is strong
But weak is my mere soul
The suffering it has plowed through
Has thus turned it cold

Searching far and wide
Not a thing could cause reform
For a clear location untold
Where lies another's warmth
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