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Mr E Mar 2019
Like an insatiable hunger
I desperately want to find my place in the world
Yet, I never know where to look
Looking at a menu of different paths
Too afraid to pick just one entree
Do I want to always be known as the burger guy?
The steak sirloin?
Or do I want shrimp scampi?
I know I can only have one but...
Everything looks so appetizing
So delicious

I never know what to get myself
It's a mix between
What do I want ?
And what do I think I deserve?
Mr E Jan 2019
The mob took me when I was young
Though I knew nothing of my abduction,
I was gone before anyone knew.

They came in the middle of the day
As I sat comfortably in my own room,
Who I was disappeared and I vanished.

There were no fliers for my vanishing
No posts, no anxious television interviews
No searches or bloodhounds or roadblocks

I left willingly that day.
Taken from existence and consumed.
That was the day I learned of hate

As if a switch lit the bright blinding light
In my head it screamed in silence,
I’d chosen to go and along I went

I stepped out into the world
With a cold metal heart I gravitated
To its magnetic core

It was an easy decision at the time
To step into the void
Dark and always famished.

We are all consumed by the world
In one way or another we are kidnapped
And no one knows that we ever left

I lost my individuality that day
To a group and mindset
That was bent to hate without remorse

I sit in my room again
Now aware of the consuming rage
That can ensnare groups and people

The mob took me long ago
But I have since returned
More caring than before

More understanding that
We are not born with evil in are hearts
We are only deceived thru a terrible lie,
That hatred gives us power.
Mr E Jan 2019
There is a tranquility to waiting
Some know they're waiting
Others don't and they sit there
Sometimes forever

Some wait for better days
For things they can't change
But those who truly love
Know the burdens of waiting

Children carry the weight of waiting
Wives and husbands
Parents
All waiting for different reasons

Eventually, the waiting ends
Children wait to grow old and fall in love with their passions
Newlyweds wait for an end they never want
And parents wait to finally let their offspring fly

We all wait for something
Though we know it or not
The world seems in a standstill
Yet when the wait is over
We can only ask where did all the time go?
Mr E Dec 2018
We are trapped in infinitum
Swirling whirlpools, timely decay
Reach out to grasp the present
It slips through your fingers
Every time

Fight against the endless days
We but only glimpse forever
A stain upon the endless sea
Compete with existence
Rage against complacency

We are trapped in infinitum
Gasping for air in our pocket universe
Existence is a bitter tasting seed
One that plants itself
From the first breath to the last

Rage
Rage against the dying light
Or it will consume you
With the absence of words
There is only silence
Mr E Dec 2018
I awaken to the beginning of a bridge
The sun shines, peeping through the green mountains
A river gushes below me and the water falls beneath me
It fills a lake with rock henges jutting out
Large pines speckle the mountain

The polished stone bridge leads to the tallest tower I've seen
I walk across, basking within the midday light
The only sound is the rushing of the water
A light breeze catches my hair
The tower stretches above the clouds

I enter the cold hallway
Immediately above me I look up to the light
A light that shines at the top of the tower
Bright enough to conceal what lies above
The air is cold like the marble floor

An intricate design covers the marble ground
I step toward the center as the light breeze beckons me
A low rumble starts off in the distance
I begin to rise as the circular design lifts up
Like a puzzle piece, different sections stop as I go

My platform gets smaller and smaller
But I am not afraid
The light gets closer to me
The warmth of the light surges forward
I reach out to grab the blinding orb

My world goes white
I blink yet see only light
I begin to see my surroundings
The warmth is beyond comforting
I step into an endless field of flowers

Flowers of all colors stretch before me
They bow in the breeze
The sky is of royal blue
A single tree waves in the field of color
My friend hails me from afar

I'm in awe
There is no way this guy made it to heaven also.
Mr E Dec 2018
I understand how god feels

Call it divine insight

I lay in bed worrying

That 2am worry that nags

About all those who have been wronged

Who received the other side of the coin

Those who are tortured by others

For no reason at all

Those yearning for a break

A break that will never come

I worry about these people

I worry about you

I wish I could swoop right in

And make all your problems go away.
Mr E Dec 2018
Man looked outward toward the stars
Always wondering what they held
Each passing thought like busy cars
In our heads imagination swelled

So giddy man has always been
Curious like a cat
No longer is it what but when
Technology has seen to that

Stare into the abyss with me
As it stares into our souls
The darkness shines eternally
Into ourselves it’s black like coals.
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