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M Clement May 2014
It's hard to write
When one lacks desire
Just as much as it's hard to go on
When one does not feel the need

So what's there to do?
Find distance
How?
That's up to you
Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook prompts; this one: distancing oneself from apathy.
M Clement Sep 2015
I left my brain to the left of the stove.
I think it's on fire.
M Clement Mar 2013
Another, another! My fine-feathered brother
Tie me to the post and set me alight
I read the many poems you wrote
Please gag me with a spoon

I expect around 6 inches. Hoagie rolls of Garlic and cheese
Subway to the nearest, newest country
Let’s build nuclear weapons
Burn this mother down

I tore my shirt open when I looked at your mouth
The **** that I saw was more than I could handle
Let’s get crazy, baby
Let’s play schizophrenia

Foreplay, moreplay, doorplay, whoreplay
Rhyming is the second cutest thing you can do
With your mouth
Start yelling, I will, I will!
Champagne drownings
It's weird; I recognize these don't make sense, but there's a piece of them I feel. I do hope you enjoy it.
M Clement Jul 2013
It's not about you; I promise
M Clement May 2014
Narcoleptic sober *******
#Letmewatchyoudoyou
Too honest?
Just getting started
I listen to this music when everything goes to ****
Does it help?
Maybe,

Does it help that you weren't there?
Did it make you feel good when you accused me?
Put me on edge?

There's two different you's and too many for me to choose from.

Struggling against my own apathy
At what point does depression stop
And my own hamstringing begin?

I have nothing to show for today.
Some prayers, maybe
I spit in His face a couple of times

I'm lonely as ****
I'm ******* weird, right now.
And the sky is dark as ****.
The outside is dark as ****.
And I'm scared.
#pityparty
What if this **** was never meant to work out?


I see all the beauty in everyone,
And ****, you're all amazing.
I'll be here...
I could use that from time to time,
because I'll be ****** if I can do it for myself.
Just mental brain splatter. Needs more wit, less depressive, but there it is anyway.
M Clement Apr 2013
Eventually, all of me will wither
                                     And fade to dust
M Clement Jan 2017
Hollow bodies all toil in compassion for something they truly want,
but we speak as if the truth were individual, subjective; there's no line in the sand into what's bad unless everyone agrees.

Who's really wrong? What's really wrong?

Can we ever hope to draw a lion?
I ****** up a serious tone with a joke.
The last line really says it all.
M Clement May 2015
Writing,
Reflecting the inmost being, or simply what's wallowing at the top of the subconscious.
Consciousness, divinity, split pea soup shredding through me.
Mental perceptivity and **** beads: better out than in, I always say.
Check yourself before you Shrek yourself.
Green Onions tell me in grocery stores, "It's never Ogre."

I once thought the world to be flat. Maybe you thought that, perhaps you didn't.
Fluid change of though patterns strike at the heal of the what wasn't.
Wasps leave me be. I drained the pool where I used to be.
He told me the other day; he told me nothing.

Hugh Jackman's nasally in the Les Miserables film.  That doesn't rhyme with anything, it's just true.
Weeeeee
M Clement Oct 2014
Writing is soul less as Icarus finally
touches the sun

Burning, burning Willow trees
my mind is yet undone

The smoke illuminates nothing but
the fragile frame

I wrote, I wrote, I wrote for this
and yet I still feel the same
M Clement Jun 2013
There's a delicious taste in my mouth
But a sickening pit in my stomach

What's happened to us?
M Clement Sep 2013
Ne’er has gold tasted as sweet

Nor the silk cloth felt as soft

And as she inhaled the passion of the gods

They exhaled her bones and the dust that covered them
I started writing one way, and it turned out totally different. Go figure.
M Clement Jul 2014
I exchange one vice for another
Skin for Skin
Or pixelated emulation
I seem to only care for the end effect

Am I the only one who dislikes this?

I listen to music
I talk to other men
And I consider what I'm doing to be some sort of sin
No one else seems on my side.
So here I lay
Struggling in silence

Disappointed in self

And what's worse is I'd drag others down with me
If she'd let me.
And no one I've met is able to pull me out of a whole
Have I just kept digging? Is that the issue?

There's been prayer, there's been suffering

And in the end, I am just hoping this can be used for glory
Rather than condemnation
Because God knows if I could blink, and everything would be fine, I'd do it, and never struggle again.
But maybe that's where the glory rises from.
M Clement Apr 2014
Then there's that moment
Comedians have spoken about it
Friends have mentioned it
Girlfriend's have noticed it

And he can't get rid of it
It's like it's innate.
Maybe that's how he wants it
Just a reminder of how ****** it feels
Used without the proper permits.
M Clement Dec 2012
Have you ever stared at yourself in the bathroom
Given yourself a good look

Caressed yourself
To know yourself more intimately
Understand the areas
That get your heart beating faster
Someone may thank you later

Have you ever used the restroom
In front of
A mirror
Just sitting there
Staring while you ****
Staring while you ****

Makes me think of nature...
There are no mirrors in nature
Just reflections in the water
I was trying to tip-toe my way around ****** functions, but couldn't think of the proper words; I just went with what worked at the time.
M Clement Apr 2013
You scratch my back,
I'll scratch my back.
Funny thing about my **** is it's on my front
Would you rather?
I would lather

I need to shave
Worse than shearing sheep
Norelco needs to hook me up proper
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 May 2013
I read what you said, and I kind of agree
Baby, baby
You're no good for me
And I'm not for you
But I'll be ****** if I don't want to be
And pretending ***** ****
I hope you're not mad at me

Talking is ******
Because It feels like it used to
And you're too **** pretty
I've already told you

I'm writing and I won't give a **** if you see
Cuz baby, sweet baby
This wasn't meant to be
You're broke as hell
And I didn't want to let that be
But your shard of glass was put up to me
Like ransom
"Stay away
It's better you see?"
But I'd be lying if I said it felt better to me.

The risk of life is getting cut sometimes
And experiencing falls
But that being said
I don't want to be there
If you feel no emotion at all

So, I guess you're right.
We'll pretend our lips didn't fit together
And I'll try and forget the nights we spent on each other
Over
Under
In
Out
I gotta be honest
It's not what love's about.
You're ****, you're beautiful, and hot **** you're fine.
But I will go on with life
Knowing you're not mine.
And I'll be ok, just give me some time
But until then, take this verbal pantomime
M Clement Jun 2013
A day without you...
I don't even know if you'll read this
And part of me is ok with that

The worst part is realizing the thing that you love
or the person
is what you're suffocating yourself with,
enveloping yourself in

I was drowning myself in you
And a day where I am me was what I needed
I prayed
I worked

And I let the soil
Wash away my clean

Tonight, all I want to do is smoke
And let it linger
Like your scent
Or your presence

I still love you
My feelings haven't changed

And last night, I was about 80% sure we'd be together
But we have to grow
And we have to help each other do that
But before that happens
There needs to be an understanding
And an absolute desire to move forward

I asked Our Holy Mother to envelope you in love
I asked for Christ to guide you
and me

And one day, we'll look back on this and laugh.
And I'll be 80% sure it was the right thing.
M Clement Apr 2013
There's someone else guarding your heart, dear;
I can't help.
M Clement Mar 2013
The prison of my prison
is my mind
I often forget things can be said with so little.
M Clement Dec 2012
1, 2, 3, and 4
Sitting in class, totally bored

College was supposed to teach me things
I'm left here, still wondering.

I don't regret, I'm happy I'm here
But now the real world is what I fear

After it's all said and done
I'll leave this room, but there will be no sun.

Depressing clouds,
Bleak misfortune

I came to learn things
Not to talk about the weather.
Uhm
M Clement Apr 2015
Uhm
A pawn
It sits atop a white square
its blackened wood contrasting

The lawn
the dirt and rooted mixture
Sitting atop, or simply 'is' Earth

The people
all alike and different
casting shadows, shapes, and 'morrows

This poem
a collection of words and phrase
fitting neither in reality nor falsehood.
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 Feb 2013
It’s been about seven days since I wrote last
And every time I try and write this,
It ends up much like the last time
Unfinished
Unspoken
Unaccounted for
These words in a space
not physical but non-ethereal
Spiritual?
Unsure
Unknown
Uneventful
Every day is tricky,
This dichotomy of emotion,
And rock solid demeanor
I just wanted to write,
Say, “I’m here”
And walk away again
Here in word,
But with unspoken distance
M Clement Aug 2017
Why even consider this a poem?
Unwrite it.
Take it back,
but it's too late.

Ink scribbled on rustic pages,
or pages made to look rustic.
Let's face it: you bought this notebook at a bookstore.
It's got to look special for all your elaborate gifts to the world.

You're that special snowflake, yeah?
Your writing against the world of oppressive darkness
surrounding your poor brain, boy.

Write your way out.
****** Toons the wall, and make sure your escape.
M Clement Feb 2013
"Essentially,"
She said to me,
"we are not to be."
So, I killed her.
"So it'd seem,"
He said to me,
"your account is overdrawn."
He never saw another dawn.
"Dude you lost;"
Said my friend,
"Time to pay up."
I murdered him and his pup.
I murdered him and...
I murdered him...
I murdered...
I...
He...
He said...
He said to...
He said to me...
He... she?
She said...
NO
She said to me....
"Time...time to take your medication."
I hate medication
HATE
Seething hate
Like fire
Fire to schools?
She... she sent me to... school
Medication
She said...
Medication
She... said...
Sharing is caring
Not sure what to name this one, any ideas? Winner gets love.
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
M Clement Mar 2013
Yellow jackets’ yellow jackets
Licorice made of Venison
Stand over there, quite queer, my dear
While I drink a handle of Jameson

**** wizards and Eddie Izzard
Speak to me in glad tidings
Astronauts, sweet lizards' space gizzards
Jump over the back of book bindings

***** the misconceptions
Drive off the road into gravy
Split the checks, and **** on decks
Mistake my sound perceptions

Habeus Corpus
Parlay with ***
Start with darts
And move to the porpoise
M Clement Dec 2012
Surrealism in life
Harsher is the reality of the mind
Enter my sphere of influence
Take time to unwind

I awoke too early
You know my temperament
I awoke too early
Let us all sit and lament

Speak to me in voices
You and I don't understand
Speak to me in voices
But I will not grab your hand
M Clement Apr 2014
You monster.

Skippable story
For the glory of something else.
Meg Ryan's everywhere.
Another movie with Meg Ryan.
Natives, man.

Indian Jewish
Pork and I stewish.
I used to write to side-track myself.
It's back again.

Purple footed ostrich
****** for me
You monkey faced animal

The who wants my flesh?
The you wants my mess.
Thanks Meg Ryan, you're everything.
The ants go marching.
We're watching Joe and the Volcano, or whatever it's called.
M Clement May 2013
Travelling
I don't recall this tire
This ache of a call to sleep
It's making me criminal
Insane, feeble

In secret gardens
In worlds so very far
I wish I had no feelings
Facing would be easier
And longings would be non-existent

I guess there's good news
I no longer
experience feelings of days past.
New pages written
New books to be filled.
And this is just the first day

Welcome, weary traveller, to the arms of Love.
Three more weeks.
I hope to find you there.
I'm in Iceland! I've had so many poems run through my mind, but so few made it to paper (due to lack of available paper). So this is what I got for today. I'll write more in private, and maybe post them later.
M Clement Jun 2013
I am seething regret
I am the walls of the terrace which you broke down

Filibuster my longwinded-ness
And break the backs because of your freedoms

I am seething regret
We call it freedom of the body
I call it ******, and **** it, I will not be silenced

I am sick and ******* tired of children dying
I am sick and tired of mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers crying.
We are so selfish, that we refuse life, because we believe our bodies have that right.

I am a man, yes, that is true.
I cannot speak from a woman's point of view.
But I guaran-*******-tee you
That my viewpoint would not change
If my genitals sank in rather than pushed out

I could spit tacks
And I could break backs
Watch me seethe and writhe

I don't want to hear your point of view,
I want to hear the sound of silence
Because no more children would be dying
For freedom
This is a harsh piece, but they are true feelings. If you'd like to discuss, please don't be put off by my anger. There are few places, save for poetry, that I can accurately express my feelings; I don't want what is written to be a deterrent for positive discussion.
Thank you.
M Clement Jun 2013
I remember that time,
You know,
That time when we were side by side
We'd done it many times together
Clothes on
But this was different
We were vulnerable
We were quiet
And we were flesh

And now, I'm sitting here
In a jumble of emotion
Replaying everything
I am an absolute ****-***

I've eaten
I've slept
I don't know what the hell's wrong here

I miss you
And yet I'm so angry
I'm failing
And I need a crutch terribly
I'm looking for anyone to lean on

And right now, I'm faking being ok.
And I'll keep doing it
Because, in reality, I could be a total ****
And this is me unraveling
Everything that's causing me the least bit of stress
Watch me burst at the seams
Scarecrow with mental issues

I am beyond ****** up, and you're still around?
Why is this happening, and why are you here?
More than that, why am I writing this
Sad sack of ******* that is called a poem?

Poetry is beautiful
Poetry is poignant
I'm being annoying
I'm being childish
I'm being immature
I'm being ridiculous

And God, God why are you so near?
But you feel so distant...
And I feel like I have all of hell's respite on
my back
And there's nothing
******* nothing that's doing a **** thing for me right now

Not liqour
Not love
Not happiness
Not Joy

I spout off at the mouth
And people think I'm more ****** up than I feel
That situations are worse than they really are
I need to work at this communication thing,
Or maybe I'm as ****** up as people think
Or worse...
Maybe I'm completely normal
M Clement Dec 2012
Give me your thoughts
For which I'll pay
$25

Meat Sellers walk
To doorsteps
Buy large stacks
Meat
Meat
Meet the salesman
As he walks to your
Dining room

Put them in your
Freezer
These large stacks of steak
Pre-cut
Pre-packaged
Do you know
What you've signed for yet?
M Clement Mar 2013
I was once a great tree
My circumference wide
My branches long
I reached to the heavens
I yearned for water
and drank heartily
And the sun,
the sun greeted me daily

There were days
Us trees
We would lounge about
Being trees
After a time; however,
I saw so many leave
So quickly
Cut down at such ripe ages

The teeth
The teeth
The teeth they gnashed
They tore into the flesh
To the bark
I was a tree
And there were many with me
But slowly, we disappeared

The teeth
You brought
The teeth
They gnashed
You held nothing back
And ripped apart my flesh
Just like the many before me
M Clement Dec 2012
I am happy for mutual understanding, thankfully not mutual destruction
M Clement Sep 2013
There's nothing left to be written
on paper.
For it's all been said,
And it's all been read;
Most of its writers: dead.
Sharing is caring.
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.
M Clement Dec 2012
Drink me away
Drink me away
Drink me near

Where's you fridge
I need a beer
To help forget
And to add more calories
I didn't eat today
I hope my momma's proud of me

Give me love
Give me life
Give me *** for memory

***** and redbull
Is my frenemy

Bring me to waters,
Early in the morn.
Bring me to waters,
Two doors from the dorm.
M Clement Jul 2017
Hey girl, I’m a mess.
You’re a “private ****” with a holster
I guess.
I’m a private **** undercover;
I jest.
All I want is to **** and be heard.
I’m sure I can go without the latter;
Just **** me like I matter.

It’d be easier if you’d have your life figured out.
That line goes for us both, I suppose.

I keep thinking it’s easier to drive her away,
I’m not enough.
So I’m looking through a window, at a woman I don’t really love.
Wondering if she’s the secret key,
Like there is one.

I suppose that’s why **** is so easy, right?
You come with me.
It doesn’t matter what I have in my pocket,
What the bad things I did today were,
Who the **** I am.

I’m just a private ****.
Tonight's listening: "first take"- Travis Scott
M Clement Nov 2012
I feel like there’s something in the dark for me,
Waiting,
Lurking,
Searching for a victim.

I feel like there’s something in the dark I see,
Breathing,
Lurching,
Perching on bedposts.

There’s something in the dark I know,
I can feel its presence on the back of my neck.

There’s something in the dark for sure,
but I simply can’t come back to the light yet.
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
M Clement Apr 2013
The unwritten words and unspoken thoughts
Are what threaten to destroy anything I've built
Including all you've had a hand in

It's funny
You know?
The thing that threatens is that which is not allowed physical existence
Philosophy
Filled with me
Thought upon thought like the final piece before
The Jenga Tower falls

Stacked
Backed
I'll take flak for whatever's necessary

I'm terrified
More than I've ever been before
I went to bed, and all I thought of were demons
Staring at me in the bodies of children
But they lacked eyes

Somebody cut my brakes
I'm in a downward tailspin
Don't worry, I'll give in
But hopefully not to what I want
What You want

I'm praying today, tomorrow, and the day after
I might even say the rosary
(I never do)
But I need this.
I need this relationship
Double the meaning
Bring on the bleeding

I'm so scared to die.
And I'm terrified to die to self.
My life is crazy right now, and though I love it, this is a complete reflection of what's on my mind... I think.
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?
M Clement Apr 2016
Illiterate alliterations
Of Farcical fascinations.

I fancy myself a wordplayer
if not a word-sayer
Though the paper gets far more love than the air

***** what's nearest the toaster oven.
Vile Bile, Jim, by at least 3 miles.

I took the tapeworm from yesterday's sandwich
Gave it to the secretary, who continues to *****
She's a labrador
I'm a matador

You'd be surprised how much bulls ****.
I haven't had the capacity nor the desire to write in so long. It's good to be back, though I don't know for how long.
M Clement Jan 2013
Bones before antlers
Let's see the splinters

Irritation propagation
You really know my buttons

Walk around once
Walk around twice
Can't stop unless we say

I remember this being far easier
Yesterday
M Clement Aug 2015
The shells and mortar plink and blast around him.
Razor wire stretches as far as the eye can see.
Pitfalls, muddied dirt, and God only knows what else
is all within the path that is entrenched before him.

He took up his rifle a long time ago;
pledging to do what he had to,
pledging to defend what he ought.

He took many laborious steps alone.
He crawled beneath the wires.
He dodged the mortar shots,
though the debris was a much harder hazard to avoid.
He even fell into some pitfalls,
but managed to pull himself out of that muddied dirt.

He felt alone on the battlefield.
And from where he was positioned,
bullets rained down upon him.
He sought safety behind a wall of the very same
muddied dirt that had been his hazard.

And just when he felt he could go no further,
a hand reached in front of him, offering to pull him to
a safer place.
It was a hand that all at once seemed familiar and foreign,
known and unknown.

And the man to whom the hand belonged simply smiled at the soldier,
and said, "We're moving on."
So, I'm trying to be a little more thoughtful when it comes to writing, and this is the first time I've written in a while.

The inspiration comes from the idea of life being a battlefield, but God being with you there through it all especially when you feel hopeless.

I'm open to edits... I'd like to make this better. Just let me know, I suppose.
M Clement Sep 2013
Caught up in emotion, lack of thought,
or what else?

There's little worse
than looking back
toward your past,
seeing the good out of your missteps,
but still regretting them
all the same.
M Clement Jul 2013
Then there was nothingness
And as she looked between branches
and tree trunks
She saw little
For the interwoven tapestry of wood and leaf was too dense to peer through

She took her first few steps
Hearing the crunching of leaves and brush beneath her feet
Breathed in a deep, cool breath of fresh, mountain-air
And she passed
With one, silent breath

She became one with the brush
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...
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