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Alone we stand,
Isolated and alone on the edge of destruction
Desperately clinging to something,
anything to keep us anchored
to the misery we call life.

We all seek someone
to call our own,
to fill the emptiness that lies within our soul
and to make us feel
that life is worth living again.

So we endure the pains and tribulations
of day to day life,
in the hope that our suffering
will be rewarded by someone
holding a light to break up the dark.

I pray that these things that we chase so desperately
do in fact exist,
as if life consists of is this constant numbness
sinking deeper and deeper towards our cores
and nothing more,
then we may as well be done with it
once and for all.
Can you keep a secret?
I am breaking
I am breaking every single day
I smile and laugh and love life when I'm around people
Then I go home and feel so alone.

I don't have June and the rafts and battleship
I don't have July and the sweet stars and music
And I don't even have August and the water.

Summer died a long time ago
Now it is February and I am broken.
 Feb 2013 Michael Pick
Brittani
I have to tell you that I'm joking
So that you won't start to shy away
I can't talk about my feelings
If I want you to stay

The thing is:
This isn't really working
It's almost like you're not even here
I can't keep pretending
I can't keep living my life in fear.
 Feb 2013 Michael Pick
ASB
Our lives are filled with many faces,
Seasons change and we forget their names.
Passing strangers         unfamiliar places
Someday soon you'll learn it's all a game.

Wake up        realise that there's nothing left.
Did she mean it when she said 'forever'?
Daydream   storm comes   every thing you have
Feeling things you always thought you'd never.

Once upon a time you had convictions,
Principles are only for the young.
Soon you'll find there's nothing to believe in.
Soon you'll find there's nowhere you belong.

Many years pass and everything changes.
Teardrops    oceans    every day it rains
Those we loved when we were so much younger
Leave us and only despair remains.

We were hopeful, we were optimistic,
Now we're old and tired and alone.
Those we loved have left us in the morning.
Empty bed, a house no longer home.

In those years most people give up hoping,
Only few continue to believe.
Those who loved once will live on forever.
*Find peace in your own eternity.
I'm not afraid of flying
I'm just afraid of falling down
But ****, if I knew how
I'd fly out of this town.

I'm not afraid of dying
I'm just afraid of its effects
I'm not afraid of trying
I'm just afraid of what comes next.

Will I succeed or will I fail?
Dive in the air and parasail.
And fly away.
Cameron Godfrey
 Feb 2013 Michael Pick
Silver
You’re on your way

Although you may feel this way
Because you were left behind
Cascade will your tears

Does it hurt?
Eventually it won’t
Forever is such a long time

Grieve shortly, for this will pass
Have a laugh and a smile please dear
I just happen to care

Just go on your way
Kings don’t rule forever, they will die
Long time awaiting for you
Momentarily has been forgotten

Never more shall you weep
Or stand alone in your fight

Please just listen
Quietly as you walk

Resist the temptations appearing
Stop questioning yourself
Trust in me please my dear

Unwilling you are to move on
Vacant your heart will become
Wade into the waters of the vast world beyond

Xenophobia is what you have contracted from this, you can’t meet new people for fear of being hurt yet again
You need a new beginning
Zero people can hurt you, as long as you don’t let them
 Feb 2013 Michael Pick
Anon C
One day, will I wake up in tailpipe dust
craving venom blossoming on poison vines
the dam had ruptured
and then I bled out
an oxymoron
afraid to die
fantasies of death's decay
when out of place
like acid drops on a docile leaf
withered away, receding
the flower melted seeping to the center of the Earth
the world having ceased
 Feb 2013 Michael Pick
Anon C
For a little sister I have always yearned
whose love never ending would be returned
a shoulder I would forever have to cry
and sweet words for my tears to dry
at last, I found her in a fairy wood
blood we may not be but she is just as good
I call her sweet Sunshine Fairy
I love her so and she always makes me feel merry
For sweet little Marian. A kinder sister one could never ask for!
 Feb 2013 Michael Pick
Anon C
There are many types of fruit in the Garden of Eden
you see, they breed in different colors
peach for the ones light of heart
turquoise for the daring of soul
green for the courageous
yellow for the timid
there is a vast array of fruit to be tried here in this never ending garden
but I myself
well, I prefer black
the absence of color
something unknown
no one knows what future the black fruit holds
so I sink my teeth in, close my eyes and pray
that God doesn't hate me fore being what I am
*human
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