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560 · Jan 2014
Confusion
MKF Jan 2014
I'm lost,
I don't know what to do.
I've got this hammer in my hand
But I'm pounding on a *****.
I've gone too far
There's no turning back.
Even the fundamentals,
I lack.
My head's spinning,
And my tears begin to flow
But through all of this
I'm grinning
Why?
I don't know.
Smart's gone crazy
I don't know if I'm asleep or awake
What once was clear is hazy
And I don't know if I'll live.
550 · Jan 2014
Just a Dream
MKF Jan 2014
I walk down this road all alone,
No one’s problems but my own.
But they’re too heavy to carry.
I stumble, I fall.
Can’t stand up so I crawl.
I’m drowning in tears
Overcome by my fears.
I just need to get out.
My life’s in the drain,
Can’t handle so much pain.
Just gotta get out.
Everything seems so different,
But I’m still the same.
When I thought life was good problems came.
I don’t know where life’s taking me.
I go around like what comes around.
Never knowing home, I feel like a puppy from the pound.
I’m drowning in tears,
Overcome by my fears.
I just need to get out.
My life’s in the drain,
Can’t handle so much pain.  
I just gotta get out.
I’m filled with doubt,
Just need to get out.
It’s not them it’s me.
Can’t this just be a dream?
547 · Jan 2014
Beauty Free Write
MKF Jan 2014
I search the world over for my inspiration. I find that inspiration comes more with the bad than the happy. Loss. Fear. Heartbreak. Depression. They inspire art to be made. Words to be written. Notes to be played. So in the sadness of the world is there not beauty? Who is to say only happiness and beauty and love are beautiful to our souls when sadness is what we all relate to. Sadness is something we all have shared. Not everyone has had a happy moment. But everyone has had their moment of weakness. Of sadness.
541 · Oct 2014
Sleep
MKF Oct 2014
I have some trouble trying to sleep,
No matter how long I count sheep.
My brain was fried
And so I cried
Til my eyes finally shut.
The next night it's all the same.
I need some drugs to numb this pain.
My mind is gone,
It's been so long,
Since my eyes really shut.
I have some trouble trying to sleep
So off my balcony I'll leap.
My brain was fried
And so I died.
Now my eyes are finally shut.
540 · Apr 2017
I Forgot Again
MKF Apr 2017
"I'm sorry, I forgot again",
My heart says to my brain.
"I'm sorry I forgot again,
I didn't mean to cause you pain".
"I'm sorry I forgot
I've never learned the ways of thought.
I'm sorry I forgot,
He's always been my soft spot".
534 · Dec 2016
Untitled
MKF Dec 2016
I jumped,
Thinking you would catch me.
When I fell for you
I fell to my death.
531 · Feb 2019
Untitled
MKF Feb 2019
Lights off.
Hands fumble for hearts
Missing, slightly, every time.
Grabbing.
Groping.
Never quite hitting targets.
Bodies intertwined,
But not interlocked.
Lips slipping,
Landing on cheeks
And noses instead.
Eyes scan,
But never meet.
Attempting,
Not achieving.
530 · May 2014
Not Quite a Knight
MKF May 2014
You may not be a knight,
My dear,
But you shine like one's armor.
Your horse
Is a 2011 mustang
And though you don't have a sword
You still pierce my heart.
You may not be a hero,
My dear,
But you might be the one to save me.
For Trevor
507 · Oct 2014
I Don't Want Roses
MKF Oct 2014
I don't want roses
To celebrate,
Nor when you've done something wrong.
I don't want roses
As a token of love,
I'd rather a song.
I don't want roses,
They cost way too much.
I don't want roses
Because they create such a fuss.
I don't want roses,
They come with thorns.
I don't want roses,
They don't say enough.
I don't want roses,
I'd rather have weeds.
I don't want roses
My dear,
Your love is all I need.
For Trevor
504 · Dec 2013
Faces
MKF Dec 2013
We all have different faces that we wear from time to time. But with all those faces we sometimes forget the one that truly matters. Our own. And we lose ourselves in a void of lifelessness. No feeling, no thought. Just an empty shell of a person left to rot and blow away in the wind.
503 · Dec 2014
Untitled
MKF Dec 2014
I'm a problem child
Unraised, but somehow grown
Returning every night
To a broken home
Where fists were mouths
So words broke bones
But somewhere within
A metamorphosis took place
And I took off
Left without a trace
So my scars
Could finally be erased
Now I'm sleeping on benches
Got nowhere I belong
Not looking for a home
I never stay anywhere long
I'm always on the move
Running away from what's wrong
Now I'm beggin the question
Is broken better than alone?
503 · Apr 2017
I Do Believe in Ghosts
MKF Apr 2017
I do believe in ghosts,
And how they linger on street corners.
How they leave invisible kisses
On the cheeks of their mourners.
I do believe in ghosts,
Even ones who aren't dead,
Who are just ethereal memories
Playing tricks with your heads.
I do believe in ghosts
Who aim to help and hurt.
Hopefully I'll be one too,
When I am buried in the dirt.
501 · Jul 2014
Rat Race
MKF Jul 2014
With the bang of a starter pistol
My heart sets off
On yet another rat race
Running from broken promises
Hurdling over "just friends"
And trying to avoid strings attached
To all it's mistakes.
490 · Dec 2013
Poison
MKF Dec 2013
My blood fills with poison as I look in your eyes. Being with you is an emotional suicide. I try my best to keep away, but the poison brings me back, wanting to fight. But I succumb to its weakening pull. I fall to my knees, and choke out my last breaths as your poison fills my veins, my lungs, my heart, my brain. I fall to the ground, spent for the day, hoping my fight will return, and your poison will go away.
For Burke
487 · Mar 2015
Waterloo
MKF Mar 2015
I never lost
Until I met you
You're my Waterloo
For Trevor
487 · Apr 2017
Rotten Milk Spills
MKF Apr 2017
Rotten milk spills,
Covering the floor,
The stench stays for weeks,
Til you can't stand it anymore.
Rotten milk spills,
It rolls out in chunks.
It makes your stomach curdle,
As it did weeks ago.
Even when you've cleaned it
The memory remains.
Rotten milk spills, my dear,
And there's nothing you can do.
487 · Mar 2015
Gray
MKF Mar 2015
These concrete streets
And passing cars
Have become my new
Jail cell bars.
Trapped in a city
Full of strangers
Got me feeling so empty,
And alone.
Surrounded by gray buildings
And even grayer faces
All speeding past
In their own rat races.
Round here
Everything looks the same,
And there's no cheer,
But baby there's no pain.
And round here
The colors have bled out
And there's nothing left but gray
Within and without.
We're all so empty,
Broken and alone,
Trapped in this city
That is no longer home.
MKF Jan 2014
i.
I may not have noticed you the first time,
Or the second.
But when I did,
That smile hit me like a freight train.

ii.
When you first pulled up,
In that grey suit of yours,
With that little pink tie
And you kissed me slow and soft
I knew you weren't a mistake.

iii.
I gave you all I had,
Everything,
Without a single regret.

iv.
That night you lost your keys,
And we got stuck at the reservoir
In the middle of the night
I pretended to be mad.
But that was the night
I knew I loved you.

v.
I wrote about you a lot.
I always wanted to show you,
But I was too scared.
I still have the poems,
In an envelope somewhere.

vi.
The night you said I love you,
I almost cried for joy.
I really did cry
When you said it again.

P.S.* These are all for you. There has been no one since, and no one before you either.
For Trevor
485 · May 2015
Here Be Monsters
MKF May 2015
They were scared of the dark
And the monsters under the bed.
I guess they all forgot
Real monsters live in your head.
They come out to play
When the sun sets in your eyes.
The skin you wear
Is just a tricky disguise.
Inside you're green
And your claws are large.
Your sweet voice is gone,
Becoming the sound of a battle charge.
So don't light a match,
We don't even need a spark.
Just turn the lights off,
The truth comes out in the dark.
476 · Mar 2014
Dreamer
MKF Mar 2014
What we have here
Is a dreamer,
Someone completely out of touch
With reality.
Someone who jumped
Thinking they would fly.
Who knew
The rain falls because they cry.
What we have here
Is a dreamer,
Someone whose naivety
Got the best of them.
Someone who ran
Thinking no one could catch them.
Who knew
The world spun for them.
What we have here
Is a dreamer,
Someone who was killed
By a nightmare.
474 · Jun 2014
Ghosts
MKF Jun 2014
I never realized just how many moments we had
Till I drove around our little town without you.
There were ghosts of you on every street corner
And phantom kisses on my lips.
Your voice played in my head like our songs had.
I can't forget all the beautiful moments
In every desolate corner of this town.
Every word, kiss, and every single touch
Is burned, deeply, in my mind.
So I'll leave pieces of it behind,
On each street corner, with your ghosts.
It's easier that way, for us both.
For Trevor
471 · Feb 2014
Hindsight (10 Word Poem)
MKF Feb 2014
I may be legally blind,
But my hindsight is 20/20.
470 · Dec 2015
If You Ever Lose Me
MKF Dec 2015
If you ever lose me, my dear,
Do not search for me in your past,
Do not turn over any stones.
I am not hiding in the clouds,
Or under the waves.
Do not search crowded rooms,
Do not traverse city streets.
I am not hiding amid the trees
Or in the grave.
If you ever lose me, my dear,
Simply look in your heart.
I'll be there.
469 · May 2015
Untitled
MKF May 2015
When you come to see me, dear,
Wear stars in your eyes
So I know you're true.
And when you speak to me
Keep honesty in your voice
So I believe in you.
When you come to see me, dear,
I'll wear my heart on my sleeve
So you know that I am true.
And when I speak to me
I'll have flowers on my tongue
Because I believe in you
469 · Apr 2017
Nightmares
MKF Apr 2017
Nightmares become reality.
The monsters leave your closet,
Crawl out and join you in your bed.
And once you let them in, dear,
They'll infest your head.
Nightmares become reality,
You believe them 'til they're true
And before you even notice, dear,
They've engulfed you.
Nightmares become reality,
As real as you and I.
They manifest themselves in front of you
And, dear, they break your heart.
Nightmares become reality so, please, have very few.
468 · Dec 2013
Roses
MKF Dec 2013
A rose by any other name,
Means nothing at all.
For by any other name,
A rose, is a flower, is a ****.
467 · May 2016
A Dance
MKF May 2016
I was struck with deja vu,
As you took my hand in yours
And spun me, from my dreams,
Out onto the dance floor.
Our eyes locked,
As they must have once before
And your body pressing against mine,
Once again, made my heart soar.
I swear we've lived this moment
Half a million times
Though some of those were in my dreams
And another 30 in my rhymes.
My dear, I hope this dance never ends.
I hope that midnight bell never chimes.
For My Muse
466 · Dec 2013
When You Were Young
MKF Dec 2013
Remember when you were young?
Your eyes shone bright like the sun.
Had no worries, had no care,
And everything in life was fair.
Tears came only from bruised knees,
Not from broken dreams.
Your backyard was your kingdom,
Your sandbox the palace,
Your best friend the king.
You had no worries of broken hearts,
Only broken toys.
Mom was your role model,
Dad was your hero.
You were infinite
And full of promise.
Death didn't haunt your mind,
Cause you knew you'd never die.
Hell was a ***** word,
Not where you lived.
Unbroken hearts,
Unbroken dreams,
Unbroken promises,
Unbroken homes.
Remember when you were young?
Your heart was full of hope.
MKF Apr 2015
Things are calling me away again.
The stars are tugging my hand,
Leading me towards infinity.
The river has engulfed me once more
And is rushing me to its end.
Things are calling me away again.
The smoke that full my lungs
Inflated them enough for me to fly.
My gas pedal is propelling me
To adventures unknown.
Things are calling me away again,
And I couldn't be happier to comply.
459 · Dec 2015
Untitled
MKF Dec 2015
Since the day you and I parted
I have wondered if there is,
In some other universe,
Another you and I,
Still lying there
Safe under your sheets,
Bodies and hearts intertwined.
I have wondered how many lives
I will have to live
Until my soul finds yours again
As it is wont to do
Because all the love in my heart
Will one day lead me back to you
456 · Jun 2015
He
MKF Jun 2015
He
He was art incarnate.
Flowers grew where he walked.
He looked like fate,
And just like fate, he knocked.
He had stars in his eyes.
His voice dripped with gold.
He was temptation in disguise,
And my temptation couldn't be controlled.
He was a beautiful mystery.
His smile outshone the sun.
He was destiny,
And with him my destiny had begun.
He was an adventure.
He was all but iridescent.
His beauty was uncensored,
And his beauty was my torment.
He was nothing short of magic.
His laugh was musical.
He was timelessly classic,
And like the classics, beautiful.
For My Muse
449 · Apr 2014
Colorfully Dead
MKF Apr 2014
The purple marks on her white canvas
Are complimented by splashes of red.
A glint of silver shines bright
On her blue finger tips.
Her brown eyes,
Now a milky shade of white,
Are almost as dark
As her heart
That is now **black
442 · Jul 2015
Its Only Love
MKF Jul 2015
I think of all the things I've left unsaid
As I sing love songs to the back of your head;
Like the way you make my soul sing,
Or the joy that your smile brings.
Its only love, it shouldn't be this hard.
It's only love, but it caught me off guard.
I think of all the things I wish I'd done,
And how I have not yet done one;
Like how I have not kissed your lips
Or told you how you make my heart skip.
Its only love, it shouldn't be this hard.
It's only love, but it caught me off guard.
I think of all the things I've left unfelt,
And how your eyes make me melt;
Like how your voice beckons me,
And how your love would set me free.
Its only love, it shouldn't be this hard.
It's only love, but it caught me off guard.
I think of all the ways I love you,
And how I wish you knew.
But I'll leave it all unsaid,
And keep on singing love songs to the back of your head.
For My Muse
440 · Sep 2015
Untitled
MKF Sep 2015
Darling, I'm addicted to you
And this love we never knew.
Dear, our story's nothing new,
Its as old as rhythm and blues.
Maybe you're whats waiting for me
At the bottom of this bottle.
Darling, when I saw you I fell,
Far past the depths of hell
Into the beautiful cell
Fashioned by your love spell.
No one else can bring
Me to my knees without a battle.
Darling, you're something to behold,
With that music in your soul.
Dear, you're full of tales untold
And passion uncontrolled.
Maybe you're what's waiting
For me at the bottom of this bottle.
Darling, I love you,
Plain and true.
For My Muse
434 · Nov 2015
Untitled
MKF Nov 2015
The whole **** world is living in fear,
Mothers and children always shedding tears
For the daddies that are dead or gone;
But so much is going wrong
That we can't put out fingers on it.
All the rich ones
Who, with silver spoons, birth their sons,
Don't care whats going on in the street
Where even babies are packing heat
Cause every night they're getting beat or hit.
And forget about other countries
Where wars are beyond beastly,
And every other day there's a bomb
Making sure kids don't get home to mom
Unless its in bits.
So we pray for New York, DC, and Paris, France
But no one's making a move, or taking a chance.
And what about places like Syria,
That aren't getting sympathy from media?
But even in the US we like to omit
The kids going hungry
That are treated like debris,
And now the drugs are everywhere
But no one seems to care,
So **** it.
433 · Jun 2015
For The First Time
MKF Jun 2015
For the first time I am breathless,
Heart pounding in your presence.
For the first time my eyes are glued,
To this love I cannot elude.
For the first time I overlook the danger
Of falling for a perfect stranger.
For the first time I am lost,
And as a lover my stars are crossed.
For the first time I am in love,
Cause you're more than I've dreamed of.
For the first time my dear,
I am complete.
For My Muse
425 · Jan 2014
Faces and Books
MKF Jan 2014
Faces, faces everywhere.
Faces who don’t know but care.
Faces I’ve grown to love, but now I can’t even look.
It’s not just a chapter it’s the whole book.
The rotting book wet with tears. That holds my life and my fears.
The spine is breaking, the pages falling out.
On every page it’s scribbled out.
So no one can see the words that haunt my mind.
So no one can see the faces only I can find.
The faces fly away, leaving me alone.
They close my book and my misery ends for a while.
But it’ll come roaring back soon.
Where’s my salvation?
MKF Apr 2014
A little bit of heaven
And a whole lot of hell
Is sparkling in your eyes.
But I love your horns
More than your halo,
Cause your halo's a disguise.
I love the devil in you
And the way mischief
Makes you shine.
I love the moments
When heaven disappears
And the lust of hell fills your eyes.
I hate the angel in you
And when you're good and pure.
I hate the angel in you
Cause its only a disguise.
For Trevor
420 · May 2016
Untitled
MKF May 2016
I fell for you,
With all your beautiful tattoos,
And those stupid snakebites.
I fell for your strange voices
And your radiant smiles.
I fell for you,
The way one falls
For a stranger on a subway.
Even though I knew
I'd never see you again,
I fell for you.
414 · Jul 2014
Make it Easy
MKF Jul 2014
Make it easy,
Say I never mattered.
Scream it through a loudspeaker
So the whole world hears,
And write it on your arms
So that you won't forget.
Make it easy,
Say it was a fling.
Erase the "I love you"s
So that they never show
And sweep our memories under the couch
On which we once were intertwined.
Make it easy,
Say it was a lie.
Run it up the flagpole
So you feel good inside.
Make it easy,
My dear,
And please,
Make it quick.
For Trevor
414 · Nov 2016
Untitled
MKF Nov 2016
I have dreamt of you every night
Since I first felt the weight of your lips on mine.
To my heart's delight,
It seems like the universe's design,
For you and I to be together
Forever intertwined in love.

And so I found you dear,
With kindness in your eyes and fire in your heart.
Covering my love for you with thin veneer,
Pretending I didn't feel the kick start,
When I stared into your eyes
And felt our souls unite.
411 · Mar 2016
Second Coming
MKF Mar 2016
My heart pulsed
When he walked into the room,
The way it only used to do for you.
410 · Nov 2020
Untitled
MKF Nov 2020
Last night I dreamt of you again.
A lingering gaze and the hand
That slides,
Too far,
Down a back.
I dreamt of a grin.
Mischievous.
Shared only between us two.
Of blushing cheeks that long
To feel the graze of fingertips
And lips that quiver with loneliness.
406 · Aug 2014
The Kids Are In Trouble
MKF Aug 2014
The kids are in trouble
They're all the same
The only difference between them
Is in their fingerprints.
A painted facade
Masks glass hearts and porcelain dreams
Broken by the huff and puff
Of the joint between their cracked lips.
The kids are in trouble
Their eyes no longer shine
And their passion
Is gone.
They're drowning
In depression
So the only ecstasy they feel
Is the pills they're poppin'.
The kids are in trouble
They're all getting lost
They can't see the path
So I turn off the light
Cause there's more to see in the dark.
404 · Apr 2014
Home (Truely)
MKF Apr 2014
Home isn't a place,
Its a feeling.
And I've never felt more at home
Than when I'm laying with you
Smoking a cigarette
With your arms wrapped around me.
Than when your hand
Is intertwined with mine
In your car in the middle of the night.
Than when I'm looking
Peacefully, into your wild eyes.
They say home is where the heart is
And my heart, and my home,
My dear,
Are with you.
For Trevor
395 · May 2014
Drinking to You
MKF May 2014
You're not my cup of tea.
(You don't put me to sleep)
You're not quite my cup of coffee either
(Though you do wake me up)
Instead you're my shot of whiskey.
(You make me feel alive)
For Trevor
391 · Sep 2019
Untitled
MKF Sep 2019
As I lay my head on your chest each night
I wonder if Adam’s heart beat the same way,
When Eve pressed her ****** body against his
Both of them dreaming - secretly- of heaven.
I wonder if Isolde kissed Tristan like I kiss you;
Drinking from him, as if their passion
Would douse hell’s fires instead of fuel them.
I wonder if Paris looked at Helen the way you look at me;
As if the world started and stopped in her eyes
And everyone’s fate hung from the curve of her lips.
I wonder if Samson was as trusting as you readily are
When Delilah tied him to the kitchen chair
And cut his strength away from him.
And as we drift off to sleep,
Hearts beating in (almost) perfect time,
I wonder if we are as doomed
As history’s great lovers-
If tragedy and true love are as intertwined
As we are between my sheets.
And while I know my dreams will be full
Of Prince Charmings that look like you,
I can never remember if the endings,
Always slipping away like sand through my fingers,
Are written by Disney, or the Brothers Grimm.
390 · Feb 2014
Simple Smiles
MKF Feb 2014
I find more and more that the simple things make me smile.
The things that make life make sense.
I keep a list beside my bed.
It makes me smile to know
The sun will rise every day,
Though there is dark, there is light,
Sugar will make my coffee sweet
And two plus two will always equal four.
I smile knowing
That music will never die,
Nor will hope,
And that even death,
Can't **** an idea.
I smile at the simple things,
For they are the most beautiful.
390 · Dec 2014
All My Friends
MKF Dec 2014
All my friends
They go to any ends
To be on that silver screen
They wanna be large
They wanna be stars
They just wanna be seen
So they pop pills
And seek thrills
And sell their souls for some green
Their passion gets lost
In the glamour and gloss
Til they don't know what life means
389 · Jul 2014
Nostalgia
MKF Jul 2014
You've made your home
Squeezed, tightly, between my lungs
That are filled with
The smell of you.
You remain, unspoiled,
In my stomach
Floating, happily,
With the butterflies you bought me.
And you hide in the eyes
That scanned every inch of you
While filled with desire.
Here you'll stay,
Tucked away in my nostalgia.
For Trevor
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