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Nov 2013 · 5.1k
Black and White
Silver Lining Nov 2013
A black and white world seemed simple enough.
Two colors.
Two tones.
Two outcomes.
Two options.
         Two.
But in reality it is more complex.
People use black and white when describing     something that is clear as day.
But the endless shades of grey, the endless tones of black, the endless combinations of white.

How can we use black and white to describe something that's suppose to be simple?
      We can't really.
Try to describing the color red, when all you see is a shade of grey.

How would you know when two colors go together?
I guess they all would.
Grey matches grey.
White matches white.
Darkness, matches darkness.
So maybe, seeing in black and white is more clear..
       Maybe..
Nov 2013 · 550
Disapp ar
Silver Lining Nov 2013
A common th m  with th  way th  way that p opl  t nd to think, is that th y ar n't important to anything. That th y could disapp ar and not b  notic d.
Not b  miss d.
   But th y ar wrong.  v ryon  matt rs.  v ryon  is n   d d. W  all hav  a purpos  to fulfill.

So why not stick around for awhile longer?
Oct 2013 · 540
Gone
Silver Lining Oct 2013
The results of the MRI came back
Absolutely nothing
Again
We still don't know what's wrong with my knee
The blood test results came back
All were negative
We still don't now whats wrong with my stomach

Thousands of dollars just gone
If I hadn't been so weak
If I had just ****** it up and delt with the pain
I don't eat anyways.. So that takes care of my stomach
All I am is a financial burden to my parents
If I left things would be so much better
My mom wouldn't have to worry about whether I had eaten
She wouldn't have to worry about the pain
She wouldn't have to worry
It'd be gone
It would leave with me
I'd be gone
Gone like everything else.
Goodbye,
    I'm gone
Oct 2013 · 1000
Daytime
Silver Lining Oct 2013
Some people wake from a nightmare relieved that its over.
But have you ever gotten woken into one?

Stuck in a house with glass embedded in the walls
No door
No windows
Blankness staring back at you until you wake up
But how do you wake up when you never fell asleep?
In a dream when you get hurt you wake up.
So it makes sense really.
Trying to wake ourselves up
From this nightmare we live.
Sep 2013 · 319
In a room
Silver Lining Sep 2013
Have you ever wondered how total silence would feel?
Would you feel at peace?
Would you feel suspended in space?
Or would you simply go mad with only your thoughts echoing?

Imagine a room with no distinct color, no smell, no sound.
What would you hear?
Jul 2013 · 335
I wonder..
Silver Lining Jul 2013
I wonder,
How awful must it be to be a danilion?
They are so hated when alive.
People poison them.
Cut them down.
Throw them out.

I wonder,
How awful must it be to think that the only way you could bring a smile, was by dying?
Jul 2013 · 664
Hide and Seek
Silver Lining Jul 2013
This is what I am
I have been for quite sometime
Lost
But aren't we all, really?
We try to find ourselves
Like hide and seek
And some truly treat it like a game
Like a gamble
We are here to find ourselves
Aren't we?
Should we treat it like a child's game?
Perhaps not

Everyone wants to be found
But no one wants to be lost
You can not find a toy, unless you lose it first
That's what we need to understand
Maybe being lost isn't all that bad
We just need to be patient
Then we can be *found
Mar 2013 · 343
A friend
Silver Lining Mar 2013
No one ever knew
They never saw
Not through the mask of smiles
and laughs
They just kept going on
Until..

Until this year
I met you.
You saw right through the mask
You saw the hurt and tears in my eyes
The ones that everyone looked past

So what made you glance back?
And ask?
Mar 2013 · 481
Wish
Silver Lining Mar 2013
It was springtime, I remember this now.
We sat singing under the orange tree.
Some of the blossoms softly falling down.
We let them rest on our arms and faces.
The smell in the air as sweet as sugar.

Our reality frays at the seams.
Blending it with our perfect dreams.
Stars fall as we lie beneath our big sky,
from the big world. Time set in stone.
You can not erase time, so why wonder?

We sing of possibilities wasted.
Of times that we wish we could change.
Why should we wish on things that have been?
As we dream and wish, time pasts, flying by.
Our laughs run together with our tears.

Our voices grow tired. We sing softly.
The sweet citrus fills the air once more
we come and go to the smell this sweet scent.
Slowly we fall into a deep slumber.
The time comes when we can walk away.
Mar 2013 · 394
Fire
Silver Lining Mar 2013
A thing of beauty
A thing of destruction.

It fills you with warmth
It fills you with desire

But being filled with fire is dangerous
Because fire can be anger and resentment

It builds and piles until it comes out
It pours out in an uncontrollable stream

Fire makes you see red
Fire makes you want to BE red
Mar 2013 · 4.7k
A Well Liked Outcast
Silver Lining Mar 2013
A well liked outcast, a unique oxymoron in and of                 itself
But that's me
Unique
I fit in everywhere and nowhere
I AM a well liked outcast.
Mar 2013 · 470
The Storm
Silver Lining Mar 2013
I feel the Thunder inside me
Crashing around
I see the lighting in my eyes
It lights me on fire
But when will this storm destroy me?
Completely, it has done damage
I'm afraid that I could never be repaired
No one knows
But that's what makes a storm so deadly
Unpredictable, uncontrollable
There are earthquakes and floods that follow
The rain runs red and the earthquake calms
I pray that this storm will pass
It's been so long I don't remember a time before it
This is what frightens me the most
Silver Lining Mar 2013
When the air is calm and warm the white man would tell us stories.
We would lay down and listen.
The tall green fingers holding us gently.
The stories always change.
He told us of his adventures.
He lets out a sigh a the story changes.
Ever changing.
There is a rhythm to the story, making it a song.
The beat comes from the blue reflection.
She moves willingly, gracefully.
The light begins to fade.
Soon our story must come to an end.
The blue reflection beckons us back.
We must go.
The white man slowly turns pink as the light begins to fade, soon he will be grey.
We sit up, out of the fingers.
Looking back we see the prints they hold, tomorrow we will return on the blue reflection, just as the white man always returns from his black slumber.
I will always remember the days when we go back.
Back in the blue reflection to the fimiliar green fingers.
The white man will always be there, never growing old, never growing tired.
He will tell his stories around the world for all to embrace.
But are they not all the same?
Mar 2013 · 618
What Lies Beneath
Silver Lining Mar 2013
I remember jumping into my bed at night
In fear of the monsters beneath
I never knew what they looked like
But they had a voice
There were two of them
They would bully eachother
And blame eachother for not catching me that night

Every child had a monster under their bed
But where did they come from?
We never knew
We  only knew that they were there.

Have you ever thought that maybe we put the monsters there ourselves?
That they were left over guilt and lies
Maybe we took the monster from inside us and placed it there to hide from the world
But in doing so we only taunted ourselves more.
If we can get ride of those monsters can we finally sleep?
Mar 2013 · 394
Falling apart
Silver Lining Mar 2013
Be careful what you say, Be careful what you do
Because what you do unto them will be done unto you.
It's not just a tear, it's not just a scratch. Because noone will see the loosening patch.
A smile, a laugh can't we just leave it at that?
A choke, a cry why did we have to say goodbye?
Drowning, bawling.. It felt like we were falling.
But we wait for the gain to come from our pain.
We wish, we miss.
When comes the bliss?
Defiantly not the best, and the rhyming is all over the place.  Feedback, good or bad would be appreciated.
Silver Lining Mar 2013
Music hits the pavement, shattering the silence
Making clean what has been poisoned by man
Pounding a precious beat that makes us dance
Only those that truly listen, hear it
I sit with huge ears and a guarded heart
I just wanted to feel the dance in me
To feel the rhythm play throughout my bones
And watch the notes splash to form a light song
This song, will soon end passing too quickly
The music itself won’t come to a stop
It will slow, causing our bodies to freeze
If it did not stop, we would surely drown
The music becames soft for a moment
Changing from the drums we feel inside us
To a piano that tickles our skin
My hair stands on end as the plinking stops
A sudden rush of sound hits, like trumpets
Starting to play a new beat to finish
The trumpets die out as the violins trill
Symbols crash following a tremendous flash
Leading us to the end of this small phrase.
I entered this, and my first poem, into a contest called Poetry slam at my school. It was a required assignment, but I am especially proud of it.
Silver Lining Mar 2013
The paint danced across the canvas

With hues as bright as the shinning sun

The colors burn, but are cool to the touch

They run and jump telling a long story

Small details melting together as one

They wanted to say something without words

To touch someone without them listening

Words are complicated, with rough edging

Paint speaks every language without a sound

Looking at a blank canvas, a blank world

Is that not what has us dreaming of more?

The dry layers, crash through a closed mind

Maybe not crashing, but testing the seal

The question is, will they let it break through?

Emotions show through the artist strokes

Although not intentional, we see them

The paint drags, thickening on the canvas

Strokes appear deeper in the cool paint

Expressing how they felt without a voice
I entered this, and another poem into a contest called Poetry Slam at my school; it was an assignment, but I had fun writing it anyway. This poem means something to me because I love to paint. Oils, waters or even just a solid color on the wall.

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