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Madelyn Landis Sep 2017
We like to think we know
      Know the difference between


Wrong
         And
               Right


But will we ever?

We like to think we hold the world in our hands

We like to think that we can control everything that is thrown at us


We like to hide behind masks and tattered sheaths of confidence

We all look at the world differently

And the world to you

Is not the world to someone else

So do we really know

What the world is let alone what is wrong in it and what is right?
Madelyn Landis Sep 2017
It clings to me when I walk
It's noticeable in my voice when I talk
It holds me back from my dreams
It takes away the gleam
From my eyes
And makes me despise
My own voice
My own face
Myself

It's inevitable it seems
These feelings, they deem,
Control over my mind
It's becoming so hard to find
Out how to make it stop
So I am no longer a prop
No longer a toy
No longer a victim
Finally free.

I'm learning to let go
To make it bestow
All it's false power upon me
To not let it change the way I see
The stage light shining down
And my voice that never lets me down
Madelyn Landis Sep 2017
That night we said a million words
One of them being I love you
And then I finally heard
You say you loved me too

My heart skipped a beat
My mind practically shut off
Little did I know it'd be bittersweet
Our love seemed to stop after takeoff

My love went on
But your love for me dwindled
It almost seems gone
But my love for you is forever kindled

You say you still love me
You say you still care
Why is it so hard for me to see
There's something still there
Madelyn Landis Aug 2017
I've loved you
I've loved you for a day
Then a day more
The weeks become longer
And I've began to ponder
Us together

You've never loved me
Not even for a second
Not even half of one
The truth becomes crushing
I now am rushing
To win you over

You never will love me
Not for a day
Nor for a second
But I will love you
I love all the things you do
And it will **** me
Madelyn Landis Jun 2017
Gasping for air
As the water fills my lungs
I can see your penetrating stare
As I listen to the songs the water has sung
The melody is not comforting
I can only remember your face
Your presence leaves me wondering
Of all the space
Filled with water
That's leaves me quarantined from you
I am a victim of your slaughter
There was nothing I could do
Madelyn Landis Jun 2017
The cement is covered in unwanted glass
The ceiling looks as though it may collapse
Suddenly I fall into an unwanted relapse
Where my mind floats in empty halls
Behind plaster and thin walls
Then the ground shakes
And falls apart
You cannot make
Anything of it
Or you're right back at the start
Madelyn Landis Jun 2017
they whisk you away
to a world of decay
where they build themselves up
and then return back to gray

they become tangled
in a twist of unexplained and mangled
Thoughts that resonate
And then soon dissipate
Into nothing but confusion
Sometimes they're nothing but delusions

Whether real or fake
We always will ache
When our feeling of love
Is shoved out of the way
And then we fall all the same
When it comes back another day
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