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504 · Apr 2017
Paint like tear drops
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
Thick chilling lines
Trick trick trickling down the canvas
Swift passionate movements
A cold critical stare

The colors are entangled with passion
The paint lays in heaps of hard work
Yet you crash to the linoleum
Thrashing out your arms-

Then all is still and smells of lavender
The birds of the canvas sing
Their songs melancholy and hopefully
Yet they will never fly
450 · Dec 2016
Racetrack
Madelyn Landis Dec 2016
I'm slowly deteriorating into space
All I can see as I'm going is your face
Plastered up against the wall
Hidden on every hall in my mind
Your voice stretches to the sky
Telling me that I should try
Try to stay alive for what it's worth
That I've been surviving since birth
It'd be a shame to quit now
When all the voices ring loud
To tell me that I'm alright
Even if I get a fright
I can keep on living this life
And I can ignore the knife
That's implanted in my back
Because of the love you lack
My mind is now a racetrack
That goes all the way to the moon & back
And I keep repeating  laps

As the world hands me the presents I forget to wrap
Because you forgot to close the door
In hopes that you would lure
Away all the lies you've fed to me
In hopes that I would see
How different we are
Because you've got beauty and I've got scars
Left on the inside of my mind
Because someone was so unkind
As to leave these lies inside  
So now I'm just dreading the ride
Around this track of broken hopes
Because someone tied these ropes
Around my neck in hope that I would think it was love
And as I walk around the track once more
It's very hard to ignore
The knife cabinet with a wide open  door
That's now open to explore
Sorry if it's not very good it is my first time on here :)
422 · Dec 2016
Breathe
Madelyn Landis Dec 2016
******* in the air and filling up your lungs
Then letting it stay there as your tongue becomes numb
A slight dizziness arises in your head
And the feeling of your heartbeat as you lay in bed
A slight queasiness in your stomach
A tickle of your throat
And soon you have the sensation that you're about to float
A slight rise of panic
A simple yet complex thought
Then you exhale and the feeling is still caught
In the pit of your stomach until you catch your breathe
And the feeling is gone until your dying death
382 · Jun 2017
Drowning
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
379 · Sep 2017
Letting Go
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
371 · Apr 2017
Fire Sparks Wars
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
Inside its burning
Inside I'm hurting
Please someone let it rain
Calm my burning pain
Calm my insolent thoughts
Please let it rain

Outside I'm hidden
Outside I've ridden
The imperfections from beneath
I've made a mask
To cover up the past
Please pull off this sheath

Can't you see I'm hurting
Can't you see It's burning
Why won't you let it rain?

I've asked for rain you've brought a storm

Please make it stop I never asked for a thunderstorm

Inside its pouring
Inside I'm restoring
All the memories you've washed away
371 · Apr 2017
Silence
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
Heart beats like symphonies
Heads filled with wonder
Thoughts about suicide
Forever they ponder

A cruel antagonist
A subtle twitch of the hand
Fearful countenances

They linger and loom
Like a sky over the horizon
Slowly waiting to rise
For the moon to move away

It is silent they say
As the clock is ticking down
The minutes
As our thoughts are processing
They scream louder than words
In this "preserved" silence
358 · Sep 2017
Love perhaps?... maybe. No
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
353 · Jun 2017
A pitiful ending
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
321 · Apr 2017
High above the ground
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
I stare at the moon-from the moon
And look myself in the eyes
Through the mirror
Where my thoughts reflect
The meer image of curiosity
The lack of answers lingers-
Yet my imagination grows
Like the depths of the ocean
I plead to know
And then I sleep...
And then I dream....
And then I am safe.
314 · Jun 2017
Anxiety
Madelyn Landis Jun 2017
Overwhelming waves of paranoia
Headaches that linger for days
Uninvited feelings of nausea
Nothing to do but lay
In your bed feeling trapped
Feelings that aren't so nice
You appear to have almost snapped
Maybe once... or twice
Don't worry they say to me
Oh but sweetheart, have you met my anxiety?
313 · Jun 2017
Feelings
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
309 · Aug 2017
Heartbreak
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
303 · Sep 2017
We don't know
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?
280 · Dec 2016
Hiding
Madelyn Landis Dec 2016
Hiding in plain sight
Is better than hiding in black and white
Because putting on a mask
Can prevent you from doing the task
That you were sent out to do
Because you stand out when your blue
And people can recognize
That there's something going  on inside
That you've covered up with plaster
Because you've become the master
At hiding your feelings deep inside
Where you think they will not find
The thoughts you store away
That will haunt you another day
So you're left to make a choice
To either speak up so they can hear your voice
Or hide within a crowd
And if it gets too loud
Mumble something that they can not hear
In hopes someone is near
To see what's deep inside
So you can finally take off your mask
And focus on the task
You've been destined to complete all along
271 · Apr 2017
Shattered
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
Broken disassembled fragments,
a fragile moonstone radiates brightly
It's color reflects off the splintered mirror
Shattering it's own happiness
It self destructs
It has chose it's path
A scandalous course
A mediocre lesson
A heartfelt decision
Yet it longs! To put it self back together
The glue does not hold
Scattering in all directions,
The pieces fall to the gelid ground
264 · Mar 2017
Beautiful
Madelyn Landis Mar 2017
A slight skim
A simple trace
A quiet peace
A harsh taste
A bold expression
An abstract mind
But a head so detailed
You can hardly ever find
What you're looking for
263 · Apr 2017
Photographs
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
A clear film cover stretches over the image
Cool, crisp, clear visuals
Lingering heart-wrenching memories
Preserved in sheer peace
Desperate crying and wishful thinking
You're trapped in your head
252 · Apr 2017
Moonlit Window
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
Deceiving were they
Peering out of every corner
They would never stay
Despite the desperate mourners

You took your broken hearts
And traveled on your way
You took away all the parts
Never could you say
How much it hurt you
To turn your back and leave
There was nothing I could do
But lay and grieve
236 · Dec 2016
Eyes
Madelyn Landis Dec 2016
They shine bright like a star in the sky
Your hair is bold and calming like a cool autumn day
Your words are refreshing and you speak with a subtle tone of wonder
And your laugh is those of a thousand singing birds
When you smile it fills my stomach with butterflies
And your cherry red hair reminds me of the cherry tree we used to sit under and laugh at all the little things we loved
202 · Apr 2017
Colors
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
The pale colored sky
Looms over the bold colored town
It dreams of falling,
Of its pigment coming down
Thrashing and moving with uncertain grace
Yet it is unable to stick to a pace

Colors are flying
As spirits are too,
But there are many differences,
Between me and you
200 · Mar 2017
Lights
Madelyn Landis Mar 2017
When I enter that state
It becomes hard to wait
To see the colors all fade away
Into something so beautiful
It's like staring into the sun
The day had already begun
And you've seen everything before
But now it's so different
You've melted away the colors
And brought out something even more magnificent
196 · Apr 2017
Still Water
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
The still water sits
The still water waits
For someone to stare
But, not to glare
At what it's reflecting


The still water cries
The still water stays
Forever in silence
Despite the several quakes
That disrupts its thinking

The still water breaks
The still water falls
Its waves crash on the shore
It is very hard to ignore
The loud disruption of the peace

Nobody looks
Nobody cares
They all turn away
They cannot be swayed
For they are not Still Water
194 · Apr 2017
Turn Away
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
Oh how could you turn away!
As I was pouring out to you
Everything I've learned
How I was suffering-
You turned your back
You faded away!
You took what you wanted and left
I was stranded alone- all by myself
As a result of your cruel theft
183 · Apr 2017
Beauty
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
The light shed down on the barren rock, greatful! Finally for recognition,
The rock found beauty in itself where others could not
The scars, the marks, the scratches
All the imperfections
Made the rock so much more appealing
The pink glare and blank stare it held
The rock was art to her
However no one could see what she saw;
That the rock was truly destined to become something special
176 · Apr 2017
Yellow
Madelyn Landis Apr 2017
It was yellow
Cool colored yet bright
Warm colored yet dark
And the essence of its glow,
Was forever sharp
The vivid images replay in sheer silence
The palpitations of thoughts overwhelm
Reality emerges- only to shed a layer of tears
Till new emotions overcome the old

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