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Michael Pick Nov 2013
My happiness was just a misprint
The timing can't be more awful
I rebuilt myself up from the ground
I expected that I'd grown from it
Yet somehow I've regressed to when
I let shadows seep through cracks
I've just left myself vulnerable
Is there a cure for hollow cries

Where hope could spill I swim in fear
Of retracing my oldest of habits
The future was once an invitation
And at this time has been rescinded
So I hide in my corner and wait forever
That I'd flow with the courage I lack
But as everything is taken from me
The unknown is deadlier than I wish
Michael Pick Nov 2013
Guilt isn't something you get rid of
I know you're feeling the weight right now
You can try different ways to forget
Ask your memories to not make a sound

You can bury me in the backyard
So that you can't see my face fall off
Just know that you have killed me
And my agony doesn't stop
Michael Pick Aug 2013
Time seperates more than you'd imagine
I'd swear every day feels like a mile
We've become out of touch now and
You're out of my reach yet again
When all that I ever wanted was your hand
Time allowed me to have it only once
But you'd be mine, I could see through my eyes
I could imagine it for that moment
And I imagine that moment in daydreams
Infinite hearts crossed in my head
Our lives played out like campy broadway shows
But daydreams are nightmares in waking hours
The pain of lucid moments like grasping empty space
The cup will fall, the water spill
It's stepping on glass just to breathe
I have years of memories to draw upon
Times spanning distances that'd bring us closer
But memories are like looking through a telescope
So time seperates more than you can imagine
Michael Pick Aug 2013
What can be said of a man who never sleeps
Than perhaps he lives a fuller life?
Yet, a lesser would seem more fitting
When every moment woken is a contemplation of wrongs
Breathing would lose purpose without dreams
All while nightmares paint on eyelids
Leaving each blink a tragedy
Bloodshot dementia crawls through your head
When all you dare ask for is a calmer scene
You lose faith in tasks and track of time
A moment slept becomes the silver stag
Sought after and grasped for but never caught
As the volume steadily groans about
Voices in and out with solemn style
Broken glass to feet leaves faint traces
But all feeling had since departed
You'd wonder, if thought weren't so illusive
Are you even awake at all?
Michael Pick Apr 2013
i can feel the space between our hearts
in the earth beneath my feet
and know that where emotions lay
distance will never steal
into your night like i would
and i'll be there while you sleep
if you close your eyes
feel my chest, hear me speak
i'll trace patterns through your dreams
the spaces distance cannot steal
I dunno I don't really like this one or understand where it came from?
Michael Pick Apr 2013
It's hard for me
To understand
How we all think
We've got time on our hands
We like to live
Like we're dying slow
But in reality
We've never lived at all
Michael Pick Apr 2013
didn't you ever know what it was like
to be just so sad and lonesome
like touching your face was another stroke
on the wrong key of a broken old piano

there are those who'd understand
the thoughts running through your head
but there are those who'd soon forget
cause it's too hard to try and help

so you'll feel like you're the wrong one
for anybody else to love
cause wasting their time is so wrong
when there's better things to be done

and you'll push them away at once
then you'll bleed a little blood
cause why leave a mark on the world
when you could leave another scar

but soon enough it'll be too much
and they'll say it was so ****** sad
that you were always so hopeful
why'd you go and do a thing like that

cause people miss even the quiet ones
it's your presence that comforted them most
but without a word of their approval
no way you'd get a word of your own
I dunno, I feel like it just kinda... stops *_* I like it otherwise, though
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