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Max Petersen May 2011
were just snakes who've already died
living in a single moment,
no time.
experiencing everything at once.
this is how life is lived right above.
Max Petersen Jul 2013
I will become you
in a holy type of death
which destroys what my body was
and allows me to become the things
that make up you.
Max Petersen May 2011
Lack of a name
doesnt make it worse than the pros
and their tame nature
cant see past form, or paper
technical and refined
your art has such fine lines
artistic living in my wild unrefined mind
Max Petersen May 2011
Trying to establish a style
i cant let myself run wild
refine your lines
and maybe with time
you'll see yourself
trapped and immortalized
within the paintings
that you drew
that other people where drawn to.
Max Petersen Sep 2013
so when the waves ask with forceful brunt of physical emotion
when the skys shatter with a terential light and booming sound
and the grass grows with a grace like a dance reaching towards the light of life
ill see the station of my world blooming like a shroom from the strands of energy that penetrate everything
Max Petersen May 2011
tissue box ran out an hour ago
using toilet paper to
wipe my nose
i know i seem to be so distant but

im just another **** up
im gonna be their laughing when you get stuck
even though ive been there before
i still howl
whats with you
cant you afford
to make it out
its so much better after the glass has left you
when you leave back all the bottles of lost love
Max Petersen Mar 2011
clench your body when you think of your past
sit back and ponder all the **** that you had
the good
the bad
those ******* friends that you hated
but it was fine because everything was elated
by the chemicals we shoved deep in our brainstems
made everything fantastic again
like were kids
running around
not trying to understand how we stick to the ground
ignorance is a blissful mindset
you don't have to think about all of the *******
if you don't see it
it doesn't exist
so lets run
and not have to worry about anyone.
Max Petersen Aug 2013
I sit in the dark
in the deep of night
with a cigarette
with a computer
with some music
wondering and reminiscing on myself
in the forest
in this magnificent forest in the clouds
on the mountains in some foreign country
and i think how
i am a life
i am a light
i am an intern of the world
just watching as it teaches me all it knows
slowly but surely
i will understand
maybe soon
maybe not in this life
but someday
i will finally understand
Max Petersen Jul 2013
once again
i can feel me
brought back by sound
sight
smell
thoughts
that have returned me to my soul
my awareness
of me
and everything else
that's near
i feel good now
i can forget what had been done
and sleep
Max Petersen May 2011
resting strictly to recuperate
my heads apprehensive to whats taking place
lying in bed watching the face in the cealing
am i as distant as im currently feeling
Max Petersen Apr 2011
Im sick of the routine
constantly keeping constant
day in and out
staring at the same thing everyday
******* i need some change
Max Petersen Oct 2012
There is a swamp in your heart,
Saturated and stagnate,
Who would have you,
I would,
Beside me laid still by our killer,
The moss takes over,
And the moss takes us in,
Invites us to join the floor of this forest,
No funerals,
No one finds the bodies left in the woods.
Max Petersen Apr 2011
Crab claw,
more strength than a martyrs speech,
It'll take your finger right off
so don't get to close
you curious little thing.
Max Petersen Apr 2011
this thing i have it's a part of me
this thing is limitless
it's my creativity
and when you live
it interprets things
as pictures or words
or other pretty things.
Max Petersen Apr 2011
The feeling sneaks up on you
          Like a ******* rattlesnake
     Except this wont **** you
Max Petersen Mar 2011
Take me to the center of your culture head
waiting in disbelief of where you have just been
lock the fire in its place and keep it around
stop it from consuming everybody in town
I know the buildings don't look so good from here
but thats your life now
so accept your task and do your best
so everything will be well.
Max Petersen Mar 2011
I cant remember things that happened a couple days ago
my brains in a fog and it doesn't know which way to go
chemical contemplation and geometric light shows
much more fun than anything the adults know.
Max Petersen Apr 2011
You and i
lets fry
watch our minds dissolve.

Edit reality
by thinking strategically
and using our will to form.

Just try to hold back
i know you want to react
to every chemical forged
By mens hands
working to find
the best ways
to kickstart the mind
and show us what were here for.
Max Petersen Apr 2011
What a surprise
i ****** up again
im causing my own demise
im so self destructive
i cant let myself win
i just putt off
and inevitably **** it
and throw it off.
Whats the point
lets just live it
this life
because theres not much more time
because i know i'm gonna die
the best part is
Ill know exactly when.
Im sorry i disappointed you
so many times
your the only people
i cared about
knowing too much
about my life
Max Petersen Mar 2011
whats it like to be ignored
its not so bad
but i do get a little bored

however its amusing to see
things from above
from the view of a tree
watching the drama unfold beneath me

below me drift problems
that float in a sea
thats coursing
through the majority

people argue
people cry
people fight
people lie

I know its unappealing
its just another thing
to get used to while you wait
and hope to see
the good people set free
from everything
that ever made them crazy

"if we don't get attached
we never lose anything"
Max Petersen Jan 2013
It not their fault
the lonesome lovers

just to far apart
to really
enjoy
each other
Max Petersen Jul 2013
Don't be afraid
the love i feel is real
and will remain real as long as my sweet dream continues
here in the world i am constantly dreaming
maybe i'm already dead
Max Petersen Jul 2013
dragging
on me
on that cigarette
i hope your well
wherever you are
whoever you may be with
i hope your happy
sitting
standing
walking
running
dancing
carefree of us
and everything
that has or may happen
Max Petersen Apr 2011
I saw your ghost walking around at night
I was dreaming that you were dreaming
in the streets
in the town tonight.

No need for words
dont keep a tempo
your routine goes up in flames
cause your dreams can see over the tops of the mountain range
far past the point were the sun peaks
Max Petersen Mar 2011
Bizarre and oblique
this world doesn't speak
but dazzles in ways of knowledge

we learn how to fly
and how to identify
with our body and our minds

so lets fall back into it
and have a dialogue with an alien
maybe learn something that hasn't been
back at the place we all wake up in
Max Petersen Mar 2011
Well grow off each other like branches from tree
in small groups discussing philosophies
we ourselves will have the ability to become energy
and open up to endless identities
we are now residing in a world of limitless possibilities
this is something every man should see
but it takes chemicals
to get where we are residing.
Max Petersen Jul 2013
measures taken to keep the peace
within the mind
the head is nothing but  a shell
filtering through memories
but mainly experience
its what were here for
to take that experience with us
to join with something bigger
god
maybe
but more likely a cloud of awareness
that encompasses everything
our soul is an awareness
and the world keeps us preoccupied
with great things
but now
we keep ourselves preoccupied
with other people
with wretches
with stars
the potential comes from the earth
and our potential is seized
by focusing on these false idols
these other people
Max Petersen Apr 2011
Oh i missed you when you came around
and i cant seem to find anyone else
to sing along
as i strum the chords to my song.

I didn't see you
when you came around
and thats my fault
cause i cant follow a plan
now i'm alone and i feel bad
because you said that you couldn't find me
and that made you sad

it's my fault cause i wasted time
on people who live on lies
and don't see the real prize
they just pride themselves on their own greedy lives
they're not like us
we see that the real prize is in each others eyes.

Im sorry i missed you
but i was high and slightly aroused
an ignorant mindset
maybe i should get treatment
but ill still love you
and think of you
almost all the time.
Max Petersen Jul 2013
the flowers stare
on the mountainside
my vision destroyed by the fog
im in a cloud
and the dead trees
i see nothing
they breed new life in this ground
the flames react
taking form
and making dust
containing everything that has been here
and everything that will be here
watch the world burn to new ground
watching it burn proud and hastily
this flame eats and turns
to a fabric flowing in the breeze
i am a fabric
or a snake
waiting to find my home
where i will burn
and become
once again
the air and the ground
Max Petersen Apr 2011
my heads in the air but my eyes face the ground
not much of a view and theres nobody around
its not lack of interest i just need to think
no time to gawk at the beautiful green

your stems all twisted round so your flowers face the ground
why cant you keep up with my needs
your general love feels like a crowd

what will i say when i get another chance in time
ill just read another line from some book i had stuck in my mind
you'll love my words
you'll remember them when you die

you'll chose to be forever with me
as long as im alive

just cruising along
waiting for someone to get on.

i can take you for ride anywhere you want to go
just don't ask me to take you home
cause there's no longer a home for you to go back to
im sorry but thats the truth.
Max Petersen Aug 2013
Cancer in my heart
as i walk through the hollow days
turning to your voice
thinking something will come
nothing but a disappointment coming
strange how the threats arise from all ends
killing and flaming in all sense
im dead in my heart
i feel as though i need to **** myself
in a way that will destroy the parts i have grown with
this means nothing
i have no hope in my past
but my future is wide and gaping
and i will do with it as i will
God
Max Petersen Apr 2011
God
This is your god now
so you know
you have to listen to me
or you will eternally be unhappy

Together
you and myself
reinforce my opinion
well trap them
double the ego
its a defense from insanity
and we cant have that, can we?
Max Petersen Apr 2011
Soul on fire
eyes wander
legs flail

cant focus on a single detail

pull out your heart
from your head

show it to all of your funny looking friends

i'm so gone i don't care
about anyone

i just need to remember to breathe

so far gone
all i see is a hallucination

chemicals are a curious thing
Max Petersen May 2011
What a beautiful flow
of the words you know
that you learnt over years
of standing on your toes

childhoods over
so get composed
the fun is over
your track is closed
Max Petersen Jul 2013
places i need
are not here anyway
just seeing whats there
and leaving
my stare fixed on the moon
the grass is felt beneath me
and a heartbeat radiating
from this thing ive come from
makes the warmth coming from me
mingle and harmonize
with the warmth of everything
Max Petersen Aug 2013
nothing but a dream
taking
scarring
capturing
everything that i am
i will take and leave and drink
i will hold my state and continue
i will do
as i want to
i will continue
like the frequency of a horn
carrying through this air
until the sound finally dies
on the ears of an impretionable boy
ready to take on all this thing has to offer
Max Petersen Apr 2011
don't stick to anything
defy gravity
creep up the walls of glass

no heat
super conductivity
zero viscosity

helium 2
your a super fluid
and you show that

drip out the bottom
of the seemingly solid mass

helium 2
your a super fluid
and you show that

redefining how i think
about cold liquid gas
The inspiration for this poem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6UJbwxBZI
Watch it. Its fascinating.
HMM
Max Petersen Sep 2013
HMM
Jailed in an incantation of growth
i change and my life stays the same
no longer satisfied by my home
the dogs howling in the distance
the microwave going in the neighbors
the screaming kids running like beasts down the streets
my madness
the asylum that im stuck inside
my mind pulsing with a thought of tragedy
this tragedy where love dies and the work goes on
i need to leave
escape this place and be the bird
my feathers mimic the colors i like
green, red, blue, and gold
bay head taking in the sea
empty glass ******* air
the resonance of the empty like a hum from the moon
the darkness like the breaking untouched night
things are falling apart
and im staying the same
my skin like the coat of the rich in the winter
i wear it with pride
i wont ***** myself with the repetition
i wont breed flowers here
taking a chance on the life of another
similar
wanting
a complement in time
you and i are the same
still recognizing the shame in routine
lets leave
and watch the birds drag themselves in the dirt
like the bees scraping fragrance of flowers
Max Petersen Jul 2013
I don't care
who you are
all i need
is your heart
tickling my own
bringing me back home
cause i'm always at home
with you
Max Petersen May 2011
A compulsion to navigate the unmarked range of my mind
a feeling compelling me to relive the stress
by taking what i know
from the sensory and the time
and create a story image or phrase
something appealing
and say it to the lot
bring them in to see
how hot my head turned out to be.
Max Petersen Aug 2013
I am
I am like a butterfly on the beauty of the flower
I am
I am like the cigarette burning down on the lips of your pretty face
I am
l am like the passion of a brilliant man who will never be anything
like the waves as they break and sink into this sand
like the birds song sung in the depths of the woods never to be heard by us
like the sky shattering sound of thunder in the middle of the ocean
like the blood bled by the soldier fighting for his life
and i am sitting here near the earth
wanting nothing
needing nothing
i will wait and see what there is to come
seeing the sun
dreaming like every other animal on this earth
hearing the beat of the light in our minds
and creating with it a wholesome type of world
that is fitting to us and us alone
I am alone
and so are you
we islands will see from a distance the kinds of things each other can do
and be astounded by it
I am in wonder by you
by all of you
please keep on
you know what to do
so keep on doing it
Max Petersen Jul 2013
Tracks delayed as i hesitate to step into the snow
my feet are cold and so is my blood
i'm stuck an ashamed of what i was
i'm anxious of who ill become
maybe the scheme will die soon
god i hope you'll see the fake
god i hope you'll see the sea
head towards it
walk in
never come out
watch the water move like air
as the air in you becomes old
like you'll do
like we all do
Max Petersen Jul 2013
take me
talk to me
i know
the connection will die
but now
i feel light
for all its worth
its all that matters now
Max Petersen Jul 2013
What looks?
if i were blind
i could feel
my instincts are truth
and to me
you will be to
i could feel truth with the sensitivity of a flower
cause i am a flower
no eyes
no ears
no nose
no skin
no mouth
no teeth
no nails
no feet
just truth for all its magnetic wonder
the majesty of god is me
it feels the truth pouring from you
and everything around
Max Petersen Apr 2011
Fond admission
of my own mistakes
but its not enough
to make you forget them

You hold a grudge
for gods sake
you just cant live with them

I know you want to stay
but you need and explanation
well ill tell you why i cant pay attention
but you'll think i'm insane

My mistakes
the ones ******* up my days
come from the beasts
living inside my brain

my routines changed
i gotta make up some names
for my friends
who you nor i can explain
because their bodies
are in the same state as my mental brain

My mistakes
come from the elephant in the room

my friend ed

hes rather huge

400 pounds and hes getting bigger

12 feet tall and he's getting thicker

hes shouting loudly
his voice is booming

hes constantly distracting
hes always moving

going wherever i choose to go
making fun of whatever i know
and if i dont show some interest
he'll grow
get angry and throw
and makes a mess
make a show
destroy serenity
in this place you know

he gets upset if i don't give him some eyes
if i don't show him that i know he's alive
my awareness is spent
on his selfish cares
he always tries to give me a rise

so im sorry but i don't have time
i need to confine this beast of mine.



im sorry but your mind
i think its too late
you believe you see a man
who ruins your days
and steals your eyes
your gaze
is his prize
theirs no one here
but you and i
i love you
but your insanity
is no surprise
This poem is basically supposed to be a dialogue between a schizophrenic and his partner. The last bit there was meant to be from the view of a loved one or some **** like that.
Max Petersen Jul 2013
i cant stop to say hello with a mirrored glow reflecting in your eyes
i need to foget those things that make my memorys painfully harsh
lm new and will move like i am
born with a collection of who i was
but i dont know who i am
i was a boy strength no part hope just filling me
Max Petersen Mar 2011
I want to do something to make an impression
something that everyone will see was necessary

maybe sing another song about altering me
just so i can see
some things that wouldn't be visible in our daily reality

put on a show
make it something to marvel
bring in the crowds and await their surprise
when you tell them that they're there for a movement
and begin marching into the skies

now  show em' what you been doing
with the short amount of time
that you've been given to fulfill something
that will open all of their minds

sit back and hope for the best
nothings the same
and you begin to regret
the change

finally
everyones
on the same page
Max Petersen Jul 2013
which peices of me are real
carry weight
and feel things for what they are
the battles we face
are real
and should be taken seriously
everyday
we can become more or less
of the thing we are
i am god
to me
Max Petersen Mar 2011
as long as i don't talk
the words will continue to dance for me
as long as i don't watch the show
they'll show me how to create my own spectacle
as long as i don't want things
they'll show me what they really mean
and if i don't get attached
the words wont ever leave me
Max Petersen Mar 2011
So pristine and cognitive
show me something wonderful
in total awe of what you know
i lose myself in your dazzling show
im only aware of you my friend
my brains blank like copy paper
its ready for you to reprogram.
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