Hello Poetry
Submit your work and get some sparkles! Create free account
search-for-clarityPoems
Lately, they fail me Everything is tending to The words I am lost Fighting through a shadow Reaching for the stars But settling for the wet grass Lying among the strands Broken Like I feel I let you reach into my soul Pull and tug me along Let myself long to please you I let the world take my hands Tied together and to everything else Drag me along I will follow Shouldn't I learn how to be A scale To measure worth To balance this? Shouldn't I be calm in crises? Instead of the hurricane itself? But the tears won't stop I've tried dikes But still the waves come I beg you Take it from me Your words scratch and burn Lacerating my soul Teaching me to hide But the shadows My friends Have gone I have tried to be a veteran Undertook the enemies To see you smile Why? Tell me Why am I like this? Why does this mismatching, shattered soul Rely on darkness to keep calm? The darkness that rips itself away from me Keeping its distance Show me the sadness I welcome it Anything but this weight on my heart I don't know how to put it to words anymore I can't get rid of it I don't comprehend myself I'm drowning I am trying help me I have undertaken too much
0
Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 9:25 PM UTC
Undertake
Lately, they fail me Everything is tending to The words I am lost Fighting through a shadow Reaching for the stars But settling for the wet grass Lying among the strands Broken Like I feel I let you reach into my soul Pull and tug me along Let myself long to please you I let the world take my hands Tied together and to everything else Drag me along I will follow Shouldn't I learn how to be A scale To measure worth To balance this? Shouldn't I be calm in crises? Instead of the hurricane itself? But the tears won't stop I've tried dikes But still the waves come I beg you Take it from me Your words scratch and burn Lacerating my soul Teaching me to hide But the shadows My friends Have gone I have tried to be a veteran Undertook the enemies To see you smile Why? Tell me Why am I like this? Why does this mismatching, shattered soul Rely on darkness to keep calm? The darkness that rips itself away from me Keeping its distance Show me the sadness I welcome it Anything but this weight on my heart I don't know how to put it to words anymore I can't get rid of it I don't comprehend myself I'm drowning I am trying help me I have undertaken too much
search-for-clarity
Written by
search-for-clarity
American
Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 9:25 PM UTC
Request permission to use this poem