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341 · Dec 2012
A dream of mine
M Clement Dec 2012
To look at a child,
And realize you had a part in
Her or his creation

To hold said child,
And realize this child would lack
Existence without you

You created, much like your Father,
A life, a human life
To be cherished, held, and loved
Like your Father did for you.

Beauty in each and every little finger
Curiosity lingering in each eye
The world has yet to know you,
Dear child
What will you show them?
341 · Jun 2013
It only took a week or two.
M Clement Jun 2013
I deleted a picture of us
I think it's really over

You once said getting a picture with the guy you're seeing
Is the death knell of a relationship in your life

It looks like you weren't wrong.
340 · Jul 2013
Writer's block (10 words)
M Clement Jul 2013
There is no poetry in this sad, wrinkled brain-sphere
I count brain-sphere as two words
338 · May 2014
Existentially nonessentials
M Clement May 2014
A pack, a pack for you and me
Mainly for me

I'll chew it for you

7 more hours until I'm through with this news

But as I reach for a piece,
All I get's the blues.

******' last piece,
Man,
My last taste of silence
My last taste of solitude

I chew to black out the yous
and the whos

Who am I really, when there's none left to chew
******' last piece, what the **** am I supposed to do?

****, ******, burn it all in hell
I've nothing left to say, that would say it as well.

I've got no sanity left
I don't know who I am
Delving into darkness,
That last piece, again!
I'm reminded of my shame
I'm reminded of the agony
Where's my last ******' piece?

I swore it was in front of me.
I'm writing poems based off of suggestions on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook. The prompt was: The existential crisis of running out of gum one hour into an eight hour shift.
337 · Feb 2013
The River
M Clement Feb 2013
A river between two worlds
Of concrete, sometimes lava
On one side, a happy child
The other, a boy beat by Papa
They come together on the river
There they walk on water
They meet without knowledge
Of the other's father
Bruises aren't seen
Just play between two friends
Mothers play different roles
And lives will meet different ends
I very rarely pull stuff out of my notebook, but I really wanted to share this one.
336 · Apr 2014
Depression II
M Clement Apr 2014
His favorite part?
It feels like he's done everything.
Every.
*******.
thing.
And nothing seems to be doing jack

The silence is interwoven, locking out
All that he needs so sincerely.

There's just anger brewing in the black ***
And the kettle's there too... somewhere
-
334 · Jun 2013
To humanity or...
M Clement Jun 2013
There's a delicious taste in my mouth
But a sickening pit in my stomach

What's happened to us?
334 · Sep 2013
The One That Got Away
M Clement Sep 2013
Dearest, how good it is to see you.
Remember the “I love you”?
I meant it; I still do
But love changes
And so have you,
And being honest
I have too.
So where does that leave us?
I’m asking tú
Because, being honest:
I’ve no idea what to do.

You’re married now
Were married, how?
Where did you go for
so long?
I heard he was a replacement
You decided on engagement
And your wedding was the
happiest day of your life.

I’m happy for you,
I was, am, and still do have joy seeing you
But now I’m wondering
What in the world to do…
Now that you’re asking me to be with you.
Prompt: The one that got away comes back and asks you for a second chance. What do you say?

Based on a prompt given in response to "I Need Your Assistance".
M Clement May 2014
You store, my friend,
All that I care about.
You and I are not too far from similar... brothers perhaps.
We seem to like the same music
You seem to dig my literature
My writings
My every file
My pics, My loves, hell, even my cookies.
I'm sorry they aren't of the baked variety.
Thanks pal,
I suppose you and I aren't so dissimilar after all.
Now if only I were to become a
disembodied storer of data...
*We'd practically be twins.
Prompts of Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook; this prompt: affinity to the cloud.
331 · Feb 2014
My bed
M Clement Feb 2014
And yet she slumbers,
knowing not what goes through his mind,
and little more of what goes through her own.

Listlessness in terms of what to do,
and what not.

What's there to do when both the kettle and the *** are black?
Is it what many call love?

Why does it feel different than rom-coms
and everything that seems so well to point it out.

Instead, it's a hunger; it's a hunger to do more for the sake of her.
For the sake of self, and more for the sake of the one who created them both.

*Let us pray
330 · Jun 2013
The Sand
M Clement Jun 2013
I was going to write something
But my mind turned desert
For there was nothing fruitful to say
And the fount from which I drank
Ran dry
329 · Apr 2016
Period professionals
M Clement Apr 2016
I use periods as often as a pregnant woman
This is only true in prose
I guess, I want you to fit in these words
where you fit best

I write for me, but on a grander scale, for you
Yes, you, the one staring at these words
letting them soak into the creases of your cranial-matter
I've gotten past the membrane now

Now you're thinking
What the hell is he sinking
into this mind of mine
The answer is gibberish
always has been
almost always will be

I travel down hallways to capitalize properly
I burn the gardens of sincerity by striking the match of clarity
I even pricked my finger on a safety pin, once

I call this prose,
but who really knows
and who can clarify?
These are words
jumbled together
to form a mind-worm
I hope you're infected
328 · Jul 2014
Night greetings
M Clement Jul 2014
You plague my dreams
I hope you know
From back and forth
To to and fro

Don't know which ring of hell
I'll go
When you
show up to greet me

A wistful hello you drop to me
Hoping I'll retort with sympathy
But after all you've done to me
I can hardly manage greeting

I wish you all the best,
You know
From joyful days
For knowledge flow

I just wish you'd leave me be
Absolute
And stay the furthest you can manage

Leave the rest to me.
326 · Sep 2013
Call it Halloween
M Clement Sep 2013
There's so many things
that go bump in the night
So many creatures
Wanting to cause you fright
And all I will do
Is cackle in delight
Given your slow, terrifying
plight.
326 · Sep 2013
Opposite day(s)
M Clement Sep 2013
There was a time that I swore more in written word
than in spoken.
I think the turn has tabled.
M Clement Jul 2014
I could lie about my day
I could bury all my feelings in you
I could leave everything at the door
But then I wouldn't be breathing
anymore

Hangman's noose just ain't funny like it used to be
[as if it ever was]

Reminiscent echoes in my mind
Like high heels down a hallway
Like high feels down the mid section
Like thigh feels on a late night session

There ain't nothing wrong with a little foreplay
Lone way

I feel the best in company
Instead, I'll sit in the dark for a few hours
Some of these lines rhyme with outside influences
If only I could **** out my problems
If only I could drink out my pores

If only I could talk about
Or be comforted by biblical verses

Every time I remember God can see what's in my heart
I nearly break down.
322 · Mar 2013
From Russia with Love
M Clement Mar 2013
We don't own money
It's True
In Capitalist society
Money owns you
Sharing is caring
320 · Sep 2013
Laerning
M Clement Sep 2013
There was a small strand of sympathy
when he let go; however,
in order to do so, he knew what had to be done.

He cut all ties,
for himself, for preservation.

He's better, one could suppose,
but one dealt-with situation opens
the door to so many more.
You'd think he'd learn that by now,
wouldn't you?
I feel especially poetic tonight. Blame the red wine?
I've missed this.
320 · Nov 2013
Status update:
M Clement Nov 2013
I look at the page
with no desire to write anything
I haven't written anything in over a week or so.
316 · Feb 2013
Death Machine Pt. 3
M Clement Feb 2013
"Patience is a virtue"
My mother used to say
I wonder if she'd say the same
Seeing as it will be my demise
Three long weeks since I got that slip
I wonder how long I'll have
To wait...
Sharing is caring
The final piece of the Death Machine trilogy; once again, it's been written for a long time, I just never shared it... sorry about that.
315 · May 2014
The sun was one of you
M Clement May 2014
Drifting
Ever so slowly
Around You
Me
Drifting
Ever so slowly
Around Me
You
Drifting
Ever so slowly
Closer
Closer
Closer
You//Me
Me\You
Closer
Closer
Closer
Drifting
Ever so slowly
Coming
Ever so close
Until one of us collides
Creating a fiery inferno
That ingulfs
You//Me
Me\You
Flame
Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter prompts. This one was: orbital decay.
314 · Dec 2012
Music shows in elementary
M Clement Dec 2012
Take me to the skies Dad
I said silently
Hoping that today would be different

Affronted with something else
Rather than happiness
There's a biting edge to the words
I'm sorry I'm ten year's old

It's always been on me,
I'm not sorry that I failed you
I'm sorry that you expected miracles
From a human child
314 · Oct 2016
Lineage
M Clement Oct 2016
Life seems darker as of late,
Is it the change of seasons,
Or have the rose-colored glasses fallen off my face?
I’m still not sure how many days I have left;
I’ve wanted to unhinge my jaw with a revolver for the past week and a half.
I ain’t no ghetto’s son,
I am a privileged white male,
Out the ***.
It’s ******, but it’s true.
I mean, sure, I grew up on a street with no lights on outside,
And I got a knife pulled on me in front of my house, but what’s that say about me or you?
I am a counter-cultural mess and a half.
That’s what it seems like, from my end of the teeter-totter.
I thought I was my father last night, but that bullet’s dodged… I ain’t have no daughters.
I feel like my prescriptions read “desperation”, and the puffs that I blow read “sloth”.
But I’m just doing what I can, being cut from the same cloth.
M Clement Dec 2012
You can’t force art
Said every artist ever
Well I force it
I force it
Force it
It
Force it
I force it
Well I force it
Said every artist ever
You can’t force art
309 · Feb 2013
Poetry knows no bounds
M Clement Feb 2013
I wrote
and wrote
and wrote
and wrote
and wrote
and wrote
and wrote

And you read
And kept reading
And said so many things
And most were not hollow
But in the morning, we're still
Across borders
Across highways
Across Oceans
Separate lives
303 · Jun 2013
The Dukes of Plumbtree
M Clement Jun 2013
I think I need a walk
I need a walk

It is to clear my head
To clear my head

Of all the echoes in silence
The echoes in silence

I can no longer hear myself
No longer hear myself

And thinking is never the same
Is never the same

I keep writing the same words
Writing the same words

I hope to get them out
To get them out
of my brain
M Clement Jul 2013
I haven't written in some time.*
He said, as he glanced longingly at the pen
Knowing, tonight, just like any other
He would leave it lone, to gather dust.
Just a lot of stuff on my plate. Haven't written in a while. Felt it was good to jot a few lines down.
296 · May 2014
Waiting for a storm
M Clement May 2014
Cacophonous waves smash the ever-breaking sides of the boat
And there is nothing but doom on th' horizon

Rain soaks the faces of men and women as the ocean rocks us ever so turbulently
Not letting go of the new wooden toy, she's found in her hands

The sails give way
The ship cracks and creaks
As water pours into the, now, frail frame that was once, long ago, so strong.

There's nothing but peace among the peoples; however, and this so delicately contrasts the violence surrounding.

Gripping crosses, Bibles, family, Love.

Love and Peace surround the peoples with rain soaked faces
There's light in the distance
And no one feels cold
There's light in the distance
"It is well with my soul."
Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter Prompts: God in the Storm
295 · Nov 2012
I think I broke it
M Clement Nov 2012
I try to find myself in a bottle
It isn't working

I used to consider myself a part
of a bigger picture
I don't think that's how I
would define myself now

It hurts
Hearse rides
A journey to someplace greater
That's what I believe
It's what I've been told...
Or is it the other way
Around
Around
Around

Circles spinning
Clockwise
Counterclockwise
Pillar in the middle
Isn't nature beautiful?
292 · Dec 2012
Let's be honest (10 words)
M Clement Dec 2012
Let us face it,
We are all terrified of this
285 · Aug 2013
El Rey
M Clement Aug 2013
We once spoke of a King
who never gave up reign
                                         He still hasn't
                                         Though we oft make believe He
                                         Exists not
He doth still reign
Now and forever, shall He
Sharing is caring.
283 · Jan 2013
Wit to go
M Clement Jan 2013
Trying the small ****
Dog park rest stops
M Clement May 2014
I wish there was something to say
To accurately dissect what's been happening,
but I think the fact that I can write says enough.
281 · May 2013
Call it a block (10 words)
M Clement May 2013
I dare not die, no,
    I simply cannot write anything
Super blocked up in the writing dept. I have some on the backburner that I've meant to put on, but I just haven't had the time. I'm still alive guys. I hope all is well.
278 · May 2014
Little ants in a line
M Clement May 2014
There's a funny thing about the world,
About people.
We look for explanations for everything.
There's a reason for this, a reason for that.
I go to because y, and I go fro because x.
And away we all go, due to our overwhelming explanations of all things necessary.
But we forget about the truth regarding the lives we live, the reason for living.
Love
"Love thy neighbor as thyself"
Love thyself as thy neighbor
What more to life is there save for an overwhelming commandment, and a daring example?
Live, Love, Love more
Truly, if we are to do everything out of Love
And Love alone
What room have we to error?
Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook prompts; this one: What it really comes down to.
278 · Jul 2013
Never had a name
M Clement Jul 2013
It's that moment,
where you realize
how broken you really are

And all you can say is sorry.
M Clement Dec 2012
Dear convictions,
Lose me friends
I knew it'd happen, truly
275 · May 2014
Women
M Clement May 2014
The muse,
the body of my work
The body I desire

What's left, then, when
I have no one to write for
To
For
To
Left?

What's left?
Thank you, random UK woman, for being wonderful, beautiful, and intelligent. You inspired this.
274 · Nov 2012
I was thinking about us
M Clement Nov 2012
Let’s be ghosts together

Wavering between the physical
And the spiritual

Resonances of what we once were

Not to give any less credit to what we
Were

But ghosts

We could be that
Together

Forever

Not even death will
Do us part
271 · Jun 2013
So close
M Clement Jun 2013
With ink and pen I write what
I believe to be true
I once typed that I was nearly
100% sure I was to marry you

But now I feel
It's not fact
And I will
Probably
Never get you back
And nearly 100% of me
Is ok with that.
M Clement Jul 2014
I would have to say
By far the worst part
Is I still can't look at your face
Without feeling hurt.

I could still take a bullet for you
But I cannot linger around you any longer.

Is that what forgiveness is?
270 · Apr 2014
You still got it.
M Clement Apr 2014
I question confusion
How one can see a world so clearly
The other, as if looking through dirt
#someaningful
There's a steady measure of sarcasm
I hope that gets across in text

I wonder about the world through the other
I wonder how you perceive it
Am I alone in that?
How do you feel?

I remember;
I have memories
I forget;
No longer burdening

I had a dream last night
It was exhausting
Just like it used to be.
I woke up feeling just as used
Just as flustered as I used to feel.
*You still got it.
269 · Feb 2013
What I Am
M Clement Feb 2013
There needs to be a change in the way I act
I'm wasting my time here
Videos, games, internet, facebook
Whatever I can get my hands on

There's a greater destination here
Of that I'm (mostly) sure
There was something there
Something felt
I don't want to be the man I am
If 'man' is the proper term for what I am

I can claim nothing
For I am nothing
I am no greater than the least of these
And I never have been
Take away all that I am
Strip me of everything I claim

From dust to dust
Ashes to ashes
267 · Jun 2013
Another night
M Clement Jun 2013
I don't deserve Your forgiveness
Nor Your attention
But I will keep asking for it
And hopefully stop falling
265 · Nov 2013
I wrote a letter
M Clement Nov 2013
I hope to turn it into a poem.
We shall see.
That's pretty much it.
This is a ****** poetry.
More a status update than anything. I think the last line makes up for an otherwise terrible piece.
M Clement Apr 2013
By far the worst part about today,
            Is that I want to completely lose myself in you
                              And part of me is completely all right with that.
252 · Jan 2014
...
M Clement Jan 2014
...
I've written for a long time,
In the silent pauses between words.
251 · Apr 2013
Evenings alone (10 words)
M Clement Apr 2013
Holding onto you was like
             I was holding onto life
M Clement Jul 2013
Is it really okay that I am tired of you?
242 · Apr 2013
I feel you. (10 words)
M Clement Apr 2013
Though we both are dead
          Let me sip of bitterness
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