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M Clement Aug 2013
There was little that dribbled from my pen
On the night where I desired it most

And your ghost haunted my fingertips
And the words I said haunted my lips

And there was nothing left but silence
And emotions that no one felt

And there was nothing left to say
Because the air swept it away
M Clement Sep 2013
Welcome, welcome
Father and son
To alcoholics anonymous
And God bless us,
Everyone

There's little sincerity here
And I can't help but wonder
If that's what should be intended

Lost in a flurry of emotion
And misdirection
Turn feelings into anger
Set on high for 3 min.
Let stir

No one said this would be easy
And no one said this would be easy
And no one said this would be easy

And broken records repeat
Like a stutter
Mind open
No shutter

Attach words to feelings
Spread them on my brain
Butter

God help me to Love
For I know not what I do
And I do what I know too well

And in doing I forget
That there's meaning behind
Doing
And Spirit behind good
And evil behind bad

And maliciousness in thoughts
Sometimes
Care to weigh in?
M Clement Jun 2013
Mad cap
Mad hatter
Just tap
My bladder

Story makes no sense
But kids pay no mind
And declawing kittens
Is a weird sort of chore
There was more to the
Story
I think
Maybe
I wrote
Ill
To you
Me?
Thank you kindly.
I'm unsure as to what I just wrote. Scribbled? Driveled. Pity.
962 · Dec 2013
Bled out [it's really okay]
M Clement Dec 2013
Trying to bleed out every last word that's sitting behind the brain barrier.
I'm afraid I'll lose composure if I get rid of all that juice.
Steroid in my can
I'm juiced.

I heard a good tang/space reference.
Let's pretend that I'm good with wit.

You could be a comic
You're a funny guy.
I sense turbulence
You caught me off guard.

You're not wrong
You caught me off guard.

Let's break up
You're not wrong
You caught me off guard.

I want you
Let's break up
You're not wrong
You caught me off guard.
---
I have somebody else count it.
Throw a brick, and miss.
I meant to do that.
I meant to do that.

Drown out self importance
Drown in self impotence
Drown in self importance
Drown in self

Not that it matters, but I'm not really impotent
Impatient, maybe, but not impotent
Erectile dysfunction
I only relate with the latter of the two words.

I'm done. I think that's it.
Bled out
959 · Dec 2012
Is coffee still good?
M Clement Dec 2012
My senses once again fail me
In this wooded place

My eyesight left long ago,
Leaving me to fall on my face

My sense of smell quickly left the building,
Though the flora produced such sweet scents

My hearing went soon after,
Allowing me to sit, and lament

My sense of taste followed suit,
I tried to eat some blackberry's but flavor they lacked

Not long after that,
My sense of feeling came and went,
The rain was feeling oh so soothing

Now I am senseless,
But that's what I get for singly
Coming to this place.
957 · Dec 2012
Kneeling in Mass
M Clement Dec 2012
I realized, in Christian thought
If I prayed as much as I wrote
As much as I swore

If I read the Bible
As much as I make innuendos
Fake inappropriate with friends

If I spoke to God
As much as I speak to friends
As much as I spend time on the internet
As much as I listened to music
As much as I filled up every moment with noise...

I'd be a saint.

But I'm not.
I don't pursue.
I don't wake up saying,
"Lord Jesus, help me help others.
Help me be a better man."

Sure there are weeks
Then there are weaks

I'm left clutching a beer
Glass of ***
*****
Shots of Tequila

Wishing I was a better man.
Hoping I can be a better man.
Yet, when push comes to shove,
I do nothing.

I love You Father.
952 · May 2013
Pole-position
M Clement May 2013
Hive-mind in poor times
Good could be undone
Will be
Won't be
Silly me
Good "should" be undone
Not personal opinion, mind you
I prefer the oppose
Opposition
Proposition
Pole-position
I prefer the oppose
Rearrange my thoughts
Unfortunate alignment change
Strange
Mange
De-range
Unfortunate alignment change
Evil as good
Good as evil
This stuff is broken
Sharing is caring...
I'm pretty sure I've not posted this before.
M Clement May 2014
Dear *** of lake placid
You're making me flaccid

Give me something to chew down
Bite on

Give me that fire Burnin'
nightlong

Shake it like an earthquake
Polaroid picture

Givin' me heat, babay
This elixir

The bigger the badder
The flatter, the sadder

Girl, show off your ASSets.

And, ****, I lack chivalry
I'm taking suggestions on twitter, facebook, tumblr. The prompt was: big butts.
918 · Mar 2013
Look, we've made triplets
M Clement Mar 2013
The one-eyed man
With his one-finger hand
Told me the one secret to life

Live by twos
And find two truths
And hopefully, never find two lies

Three people can join
While three can soil *****
And three pairs of pants will be needed

Four mistresses
Take four distresses
And pop four pills a piece

Five dollars is all you need
For five pound of speed
To do, for five days, about nothing

Six skin flicks
With six dude-chicks
Make six uncomfortable scenarios

Seven is what you need
Seven of the kindest deeds
And then you'll find perfection in seven.
Mentally, started with the first 3 lines, wanted to continue with numbers, this is what I got.
M Clement Dec 2012
Hello to the Tin Man
Said the body of various organs

Warriors sit in fields of fire
Braving heat, metal, and fury
Kneeling in the battlefield
Swords to stomachs
Bullets to brain cavities
God Bless America

Unpatriotic
God Bless the World
What's so **** special about the U.S.
We have freedom,
That's well and good
But why can't we wish for blessing
Across humanity

Avoid warriors in fields of fire
Stop braving heat, metal, and fury
Don't take a knee in the battlefield
Don't even approach it
Put down the Sword
The bullet can be unspent
Thank you soldiers for the fight for freedom,
But God Bless Everyone
Not just the winners
Not just the losers

The Tin Man's bent to hell
He's seen too much
This body of organs
Would like to stay intact
But the saving of the soul(s)
Is far more important
This is a poem regarding a hodge-podge of ideas that I've had recently. I hope I've appropriately spelled out my thoughts to a place where they'll make sense.
916 · Mar 2013
The Canvas of Golden Linens
M Clement Mar 2013
I desire to frolic in land mines
Toxic compatriots desiring little past flesh

I talked like moving my mouth was compulsory
Word *****
Actual *****
Alphabet soup

Teenage mutant ninja hurdles
I think most of us have failed those
Switch my mind from off to on
But you can keep your ***** hose

Destructively productive
In all the things that don't matter

Pope brings glad tidings
Of what the Holy Spirit's after

Let's talk about ***, bay-bee
Let's talk about running free
Let's talk about all the mistakes we've made
Let's talk about Sexually transmitted infections
Let's talk about my music collection

20/20, John Stossel
I don't care if I get your name wrong
Justin Timberlake
Dances through your mind in a man-thong
Bringing Sexyback
914 · Mar 2013
Fever in the Forest
M Clement Mar 2013
Strap me up to an I.V.
And let the words flow deep into my blood stream

As everything seems to leave
I cleave to words
Words, words, words

I sit on islands
There are multiple
For multiple deserters
The sand an
Aggravating reminder
That one's loneliness is
One's own issue

Truly, if one were to realize
We are sand
That person would realize the multitude of people around
Instead, individually,
We fall through the hourglass
In a pile of loners
Some, reaching towards others
Others, just proud to be at the top for a bit
Still others are left at the bottom
Remembering what it tasted like
To be at the top,
For everyone to look at you.

The hourglass sits beside me
On the newest island
That I swore never to visit again
913 · Jan 2013
A million and one
M Clement Jan 2013
Here lies X,
Presumptuous isn't it?
A little bit of pomp in lieu of starting a poem
Written for everyone to see;
Nonetheless, here I lie.

This isn't a suicide note
I'm not dying tonight
This is a desire note

A desire to see the man I am die.
This isn't a pity party,
This isn't a threat to me, and please don't worry

This is religious.
I won't claim it as any other.
I wish to see me die.

Me
The "man" who sees a cross
And looks away
For fear of changing what I'm doing
Because, honestly, it makes me feel good.

I look to a crucifix on Sunday
Believe in Transubstantiation
But I still can't get enough of women fornicating on the web.

It hurts to write this down
But to those of you who read it,
I want you to know
I'm drowning

This is struggle.
Day-to-day
Hour-to-Hour
I don't want this
But everything earthly about me does

There needs to be a look
Outside of self
But I'm happy in this cottage
I need to get out
It's burning down
But the fire is what's keeping me warm

I'm not trying to play
Like I'm really ok,
Because fact of the matter:
I'm not

The absolute worst part:
I've said this a million times.
A million and one.
This is what I'm struggling with. I think I'm done, and there I fall again.
908 · Mar 2013
A Triage of Sacktown
M Clement Mar 2013
Gas station, masked man
   Save tolls for the gas can
Clean feet, ***** dozen
   Remedies for the cousin

   Sweat shops, floor mops
Save the blood for the dance floor
   Bewitched, leg twitched
Good Aiming Rednecks

Saving gay couples from the ***
I'm reading Michael Robbins, at the moment, and I find his style similar to what I wish I could write. Stuff that's open, a little ******, but honest and witty. Maybe that's what I already write; I'm not sure, but this is an offspring of mimicry.
M Clement Apr 2013
Ultimately, whether function or form
inevitability strikes at the achilles tendon of
anything with a pulse

There's a **** in my hair
Choke it out with a hangman's noose of silk
Platinum, diamond, and gold
Elderly women scrubbing under folds

This disgust, contempt, and ill begotten logic
of false idols, impressions, and spiritual fog
Breaking backs of lambs for the feast
And watching them writhe and struggle

Darkness
And on the sunny side of day
There's Ice Cream in my Snicker's bar
Spider-Webs
Lowered beds
I wish they had wheels
So I could drive by night
Assaulting with dreams and wonder
No nightmares here
Just night mares

Walking along the sandy beaches
Staring at the sandy beetches wondering
Why am I here?
Right now, at this moment,
And why for the life of me, can I not escape the demons on my back

The worst part of life is the truth
It's the hardest **** to swallow
Fiber for the human centipede

I wish my wit were a tad sharper
And my **** a tad longer
I had a mental image of a thumbtack...
then I thought of my ****
I'm not that small, honestly

Mental webs sprawling on paper (?)
No, this is the computer
I'm just typing ****
What happened to the days of writing in cursive
to show affection to one far away?
In the end, we send an text to close another day
"LU Q T, ILL BE GON 4 2 DAYS"

In reality it's me that's gone away
No sweetie, no honey
No baby here
Self-pity party for the rather queer

I am not what I want
And I am not who I should be, right?
That's the reason I fight this fight?
I need to be better, I want to be better
And that's why I'm writing this
Letter by letter
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. I know I feel it, but...
898 · Dec 2012
Sanity
M Clement Dec 2012
The stars,
****, the stars

I look at them,
From within this suit
In the envelop of space
Outside the atmosphere
Of the place I call home
Attached to the ship
Allowing me to roam

I walk across the nothingness
Looking at the vast beauties
I'm so insignificant

So

Incredibly

Small

Attached to this ship
In which I roam through space
Within this suit
I see these stars

So Insignificant

The crew should not have
Let me out
Repairs are what I should be doing
Healing the vessel in which we travel

But I'm so small

I'd rather just take my helmet off
The helmet

Off

My brains can join the stars
893 · Dec 2012
Behind the veil
M Clement Dec 2012
Slim regrets and
Fatal forget-me-nots
I like to write what
Sounds thought provoking
However, much like
the wizard of Oz,
My secret is my lack of power
Behind the veil you find
A man
No different from any other
In fact, my life is no tragedy:
I still have a father and mother.

So what am I, really?
A sham, a fake, a crock?
Fact is I am a man
Who can find a word
That rhymes with sock.
M Clement Jun 2013
HOMYGAWD
Your ears are burning
And I can smell the flesh

I never expected you to leave
But you never wanted what's best

There's comfort in silence
And comfort with your body

Back to flesh
And burning
We are
On fire

And I've never been hungrier for red
Meat me in the middle
And I'll meat you south

I've never been one for letting out ***** laundry
(**** lingerie)
But here we go, and there we were

And here I am
Searching for something else
Grasping at straws
And praying for a better way
Or the way that's most proper

You've made a monster
888 · Feb 2013
Eye of the Beholder
M Clement Feb 2013
Cataracts in her eyes told her differently
But the world continued to lie
"My dear, my dear
The world is so much better when you can see;
all you have left to do is cry."
For a good time, she believed
What she heard
Her blindness meant she was lacking
That she was lesser
She fell to self pity
Fell to self ruin
And on the brink of despair
She tried to knock on Death's door.

She's lucky Death doesn't like solicitors

Instead she walked back to herself
From spirit back to flesh
And with a gasp of life, she realized how precious
The things around her were
Not the "things"
Not her possessions
But the people
The life she can give
And that people give to her
She has cataracts, sure
But she sees so much more.
M Clement Jun 2013
The leaves on the trees
They speak in the breeze and ne'er
Do they tell any lies
M Clement Dec 2013
I came and then I came to
And all those things I said about you
About me
Maybe that's why I'm here
He thought, while the darkness around him swallowed him both physically and spiritually.

Tonight didn't end quite like I thought they would
Endings taking the form of sea men being shanghaied into the nearest boat
No alcohol this time
Just pure ambition, or the lack thereof

Writing is the only thing keeping me up
That and spiritual distress brought on by the royal we, man
[insert pop-culture reference]

Unsure if you'll read something that was truly meant or me
{
And the hypocrisy that I find when lambasting someone for using the Internet as their diary, when I do the same, but cleverly disguise it as poetry
}
This is block text with no form.
There is no rhyme scheme nor is there timing.
I stayed up to write. Can I poet now?
M Clement Apr 2013
I'm a ******* wreck.

Call the Captain, his ship'***** shore harder than anyone expected.
There are times when I don't want to break up lines;
I think it's more poignant as a whole.

Hole

Heart-shaped
Boxing belongings
Following the followers of the followed
Allotting allowances for the anonymous

I have books overdue
And talks long past stale

We could stay up for eternity, and not touch... and I'd be fine.

I'm slowly realizing how much I don't want ***.
Not that it's not a desire,
Don't misconstrue
I just don't seem to need it as much as you, or you, or you

Call it implausible impossibilities
Dear Billy the Opossum

I'm watching over shoulders
That are not my own

Sitting in abandon cabins
Crying for home

And with every red streak on my face
Is another mistake I'm attempting to erase
Suicide sounds best in depressive tonalities
If I played the xylophone would you still be proud of me?

I'm loved for reasons unknown
And spiritual for reasons I don't speak of
Intimacy
A part of me
I'll soak you in
Like fine atmosphere
Or finer wine

I'm white carpet
You are Pinot noir
I'm feeling less creative, and more willing to just cryptically (or not so) speak about my life. I hope it's still as enjoyable as it is confusing. That's truly what I am for.
876 · Jun 2013
Hashtag Confessional
M Clement Jun 2013
God, You feel distant, though a physical representation sits on my dresser
Right next to me

I want to **** away bad feelings

I am not who I am today.
So where's my head?
On my shoulders, mostly, but on days like these?
No one knows.

There will be no tears today
Just crying
Out

I feel better when I'm swearing,
Like I'm letting off some secret,
Unknown steam

I'm mostly ****** up.

If a bottle were near,
There'd be a real inner battle
And I'm honestly not sure who'd win

And as guitars serenade
I suppose
I should start looking towards the blessings
Afforded to me
They aren't few
I've apparently decided not to bathe in them.
Maybe it's long time for a bath.
Therapoetry
876 · Sep 2013
Robbers and thieves
M Clement Sep 2013
No class on Friday
Time to get bombed
No time on my day
Time to get rhombed

Square Slightly Angled

Thoughts slightly mangled
Longer lines rigged to the gallows
Hang with rope to break into
the afterlife
and rob it for all it's worth.
875 · Mar 2013
Oceanic
M Clement Mar 2013
I search the shores of San Diego
Couples embracing
Rocks bracing against the wind
Lonely hearts embracing the
massiveness that is the Pacific, Atlantic,
whichever
I watch as surfers awaiting the next gift
that the ocean will bring
I watch the waves,
they fall into themselves like a man losing everything
And slap against each other like a man slapping his own knee
hearing something too comedic to leave be
I watch the birds as the encircle but a measly patch of land
covered in sand
and others encircle but a small, infinitesimal speck of ocean
I watch the pier stand firm in face of waves that threaten
the stability of the entirety
and people, like ants,
walk up and down the way
The infinity of the ocean is something that I take no part of.
Like a child that doth not wish to take part of a game in the schoolyard
I traipse along the sand
looking towards infinity.
875 · Jul 2013
Stress Sleeping
M Clement Jul 2013
I had a dream last night
A nightmare is more apropos.

I lost my virginity in a fit of depression
And never cared then after

But I lost it to you
And you were enamored with me

And every time I looked in your eyes
I saw longing,
I saw desire

And I returned none of that
Before and after

I left you to be used by a beast
That had so secretly fed upon and destroyed my soul

I could not bear to see you in pain
So I withheld my secrets
And I let you keep looking
For a love that I , secretly, never gave

I used you.
-
And then I awoke,
and felt absolute heartbreak
for I dreamt of the man
I have always feared becoming.
This happened to me the other night. I woke up horrified. I think it took half the day to get over my own subconscious thoughts.
M Clement Apr 2013
"Uneasy hearts weigh the most,"
Is it not the truth?
866 · Jun 2013
Back to the drawing board
M Clement Jun 2013
My love for you
Fades
Slightly
With each passing day

Rewrite: The way in which I love you
Changes
Greatly
With each passing day
And I can feel it moving from
Bed sheets
To "besties"
And I'm not sure
how I feel about that.

Rewrite: I'm completely
sure how I feel about that
I'm just not sure what it means.
866 · Nov 2012
As if it didn't matter
M Clement Nov 2012
As if it didn’t matter
Please, spit again
I’m all but flattered

I’ll pace
I’ll wretch
Let me turn inside out for you

Oh, the time you said we could meet
Didn’t work out it proved

Sweating bullets to clockwork
Let’s imbibe until we *****
Can’t handle myself
Let’s get this cleaned with comet

Screaming double standard
Please, return to your normal emotion
I’ll keep my cool
Rocking on this **** colored ocean.
863 · Jun 2013
The skeletal mating dance
M Clement Jun 2013
My flesh is sewn to the muscle
And the muscle fused with bone
As life dances through my marrow
I wonder if I'll ever find my way home
862 · Aug 2013
The progression of things
M Clement Aug 2013
Let's drink
Libations

Whiskey and Gin
Expectations

And everything that flows forth
When the drinks spill, pour

She looked
This way

I tried, my best,
to play

The game

Let's flirt
Play in the dirt
We can be nature
Let's be mature
And do what mommy and daddy do on vacation
859 · Apr 2013
Inky, Black Silence
M Clement Apr 2013
Sometimes, what I really want
Is to be engulfed in silence

To blink, and open my eyes
Greeted by nothingness

Just gentle nothingness

I'd blink
Close
Open
Eyes
And still
Nothing

And I'd just sit there
Silence holding my everything
Caressing flesh
And allowing nothing to pierce my thoughts and hearing
Save for whatever I decide to allow

I'd see nothing
No one
Ne'er a voice nor another body

Sometimes, I wish to be engulfed by silence
And allow it to become my everything

I'd finally have time to cry
To decompress
To allow every pain that I've experienced
Every frustration
Every curiosity
Every emotion
To be released
And once I'd done mine,
I'd ask for yours
And if you'd let me,
I'd throw all your pain into the silence
And we'd never hear from it again

The silence

For if one allows engulfment for too long
One truly must face self
And this I assure you
Insanity follows
Without others
Without Him
Without friends, families, lovers, strangers, acquaintances, enemies, bosses, & coworkers
Silence is nice

But I'm glad I am where I am
Because I can wish for silence
Desire engulfment
But secretly be so blessed,
That while I wish
I do not truly desire.
859 · Jul 2013
Trodden paths
M Clement Jul 2013
After every step
The grass attempted to
Recuperate
To bring itself back standing
But certain patches
Had already given up that dream
Long ago
Sharing is caring.
M Clement Apr 2013
Poignant
Time spent
Writing and wishing and dreaming

Alive or dead
Sit with bed head
And hope that I'm mentally streaming

I take this
I hope for you
I dream of calmer things

I write 4 lines with I as the starting of all things

Piece by piece
Oh puzzle Lord
Take away my mind thoughts

Break apart King Lizard's arms
Let's bring arm-ie support

Break the back over the creek of ill begotten thoughts
Let's walk the bridge
To forlorn, and ill-placed rots

I ought
I'm not
I've never been before

Break away from yesterday
Let this not be a bore
I got tired of writing 10 words... I challenged myself to write more.
855 · Jul 2013
The Calm Meadows
M Clement Jul 2013
And in the quiet moments before daybreak,
when nothing could break the silence
and even fewer would dare to try,
there was beauty and tranquility.

That's where I found You.
M Clement Sep 2013
Mixed emotions
Jerkcity
I'm happy for you
You hate me
And I'm happy for you

Freakin' with the left side of the mental image mastery
Brain's temporal temporus
Harry Potter wants his wizarding psychology back

In the end, there's solace in the One
and One for the solace
Inner Peace
Inner Peace
Just some thoughts mixed with random wording.
M Clement Mar 2013
Becoming what I'm not
And who I am isn't who I am
But might be a mixture of both being
and unbeing

Celestial lack of knowledge
Becoming learned by lack of sense
Watching birds on the porch
Pay the family recompense

Walking in a wheelchair
Aborted walk the earth alive
Amish on cellphones
There's something wrong, here.
I've never written a line that I've disliked more that "Aborted walk the earth alive". That being said, I'm not going to change it.
847 · Dec 2012
Just bleeding
M Clement Dec 2012
**** your unbecoming

Rant Like a child
Saying things far less mild

Feeding Soliloquy
Deep within the WillowTree
Keeping the third-eye satiated

Blackened remorse as we follow the course
Of the mare, riding into oblivion
Set with the setting sun
Break with the wind
Somber up immortality
Lessened by your falsities

We all believe in something
But it doesn't mean we're right
We all believe in something
I'm sure we'll learn to fight

"Blessed are the ignorant,"
Is a line I'll never say
For "ignorance is bliss"
Is a lie so far away
845 · Nov 2013
Lessons
M Clement Nov 2013
You are gonna come
And he's so spunky
They get so big and black
Only during Thursdays
I think he has time
He goes in and out
Be gentler with the littler ones
[something in another language]
He goes "I love you, sugar"
That's so sweet
He goes in and out a lot
Oh yeah?
I heard that when I was a kid.
Wait till they hit ten.
I guess it depends
[indistinct chatter]
She was a little ****
[Clatter of keyboard keys]
"Chai?"
I got super excited.
Easily 20+ times.
Brothers ****.
Prompt: Write a poem about snippets of strangers' conversations you overhear

A response to a prompt in "I Need Your Assistance".
M Clement Aug 2013
Dulling mind in comments and commas
And introspective melodramas
Draperies
And Cakeries
Rhyming what should be Bakeries
And taketh me
To a different place than this
With super-human strength
And sub-human lips
Crisp
Diner-level chatter
In the back of the mad Gavel's
Hatter
White Matter
And flow of the rainbow
Falls
Let's hike for five miles
And lie for seven
I wish you well
More than I'd wish you hell
But I'd wish both to no one
And I'd wish the latter even less
Than the bestest guest's guess
bag
Beer goggles to the hags
And rags on the bar stools
Cleaning up the bar fools'
leftover lunches
Left on hunches
Atop 4 long legs
Reaching up about 4 feet high
To allow patrons
to reach the bar
to tell stories
about long lost
loves
friendships
dogs
And country music
That some hate
And some love
M Clement Mar 2013
ah
gotdang
im tired of all these *******
not using proper grammar

for goodness sakes
this is brutal
i desire to capitalize
but in my minds eye
the goal was irony
irony for all the people who intend
and all who dont
to ***** up the english language
as many wont

its funny
im not mad
just be glad that we can type in the first place
and read and write
and understand and fight
for what we believe in whether or not we are wrong or right
in the end
this is for you dear vandals
dear robbers
dear crooks
robbing the english language of its odd sort of beauty
its backasswards
ridiculous
difficult
wonderful beauty
whether young or old
you make me squirm in the worst sort of way
i love you
God bless you children
because its taking everything in me
not to yell at you

instead
look here
ill join your ranks
i will mess up eery single grammar right
and do write by eery grammar wrong
no commas
one capitalization
no proper i's
and only one apostrophe
no quotations
no brackets, no parenthesis
no subtlety
only irony
and me writhing on the floor

bad grammar kills
This became drivel... I hope it's still enjoyable!
840 · Nov 2012
It's too early for this
M Clement Nov 2012
21-year-old sensibilities
If it only came with sense.

Like that novel you may have read
in high school
You know the one:
Pride and Prejudice

Is this making any sense, yet?
Good, I hope not

My goal, in reality
is not to short change you,
the reader
I know you're there.

I could lie of blissful ignorance
Like cows in pasture
Chewing grass
and filling my own stomach(s)

Water reflections
Tasty confections
In the form of words
or embodiment in the soul

I could eat you up.
839 · Apr 2013
I deflated my brain sac.
M Clement Apr 2013
Explosions in the sky
Wildfires in my eye
As I realize my composure's
Slowly dying

Alligator tears
And puppy dog fears
Bring the children
To the edge of madness

As I reside
A bedside manor
Filled with fears
Ghost stories
Lies

Break me down
Freddie Brown
And bring motivation back
Escape, Escape
Away I say
And Press Enter to confirm

I hope that someday
I'll write a hook
To please the great
Ear Worm
836 · Nov 2013
It’s freezing
M Clement Nov 2013
Outside is a meat locker

33 degrees Fahrenheit

And we are all cold cuts
Preserving freshness
Through breathing
Thoughts and stuff as I walk around the city/campus.
M Clement Dec 2012
I've been away
All day
With little left to say

Sitting on tan couches
(the boringest of colors)
Letting bitterness wash over
Like a fine wine
Or the drunkenness
That one feels after too much

I realized,
I can't do intimate.
I can do faux passion
I can do infatuation
But
Can
I
Love?

Great question, let me answer with another?
**** me?
827 · Jun 2013
Honest
M Clement Jun 2013
I find an unrest in you
That I've never found elsewhere
I think that's what perturbs me so
M Clement Oct 2013
With the clocks aligned center
And the candles melting off my eye sockets
And the fingers of my lovers intertwining down my spine
And the thoughts of crows affecting the coffee that I spilled down the floorboards
And the mental images that blow through the TV screen
The imposition that breaks my messed up fingers,
pounded by misogyny that I named a hammer.
Greatness awaits the brunettes
And the fine

Unbeknownst to me,
There's nothing in my mind worth words.
There's nothing in my mind worth words,
Unbeknownst to me.

And there's nothing left in these nerves
And my bones decorate the walls
And my mind is plastered where my head lays
On my bed
And, oh, as tears leave the ceiling
Dripping on passersby
I silently hope
For unbecoming.
This was a product of deciding, *I'm going to write* and blaring music. I always love that exercise.
824 · Mar 2013
Unicorn Palace
M Clement Mar 2013
I walked through a park, today
There were a lot of trees
I walked in the park today
I started to daydream

The fog rolled in
As the trees stood listless
Not speaking, but being devoured
By the moss that covered their bark like
A terrible skin disease
The fog was oppressive
My spirit depressive
As the fog spoke
Telling me that nothing beyond it
Existed
No one lay beyond the fog
Experience loneliness
M Clement Aug 2013
It's been 5 days since I've written anything
And the scraggles of hair that line my jaw
Show that it's been 5 days since I've done anything
Rhyme anything with anything
And hope to bring some silence
To the demons in my mind
And the silence surrounding

Never have I thought of this
As being the life that I would live
But now that it is what it is
I'll always remember the kids

And watching your avoiding eyes
As I say "Hi"
You say "Goodbye"
And that's the end of history
That's the end of herstory

And now I'm wondering
Where the hell I'm left at
And what the hell I'm left with
On the corner of confused and confidence
I just realized how long it's been since I've written. Not that you've expected anything, but I'm a little disappointed that it's taken so long for me to feel like writing. I guess it is what it is.
817 · Mar 2013
Children's Playtime
M Clement Mar 2013
One, Two,
**** in the shoe
Makes walking
Hellishly uncomfortable

Three, Four,
You'll find me a bore
If you spend enough time
With me, unfathomable

Five, Six,
You make me sick
And I know that we
Won't be the same

Seven, Eight
Tell it to me straight
Because, frankly
I've already lost you

Nine, Ten
Said again
Missing you
Is the last thing
on my mind
This is to no one in particular; I just wanted to play with the number rhyme scheme.
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