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Feb 2017 · 153
Raven
woolgather Feb 2017
Can't write very well because of you.
Leaped what has been leaped;
Now unsure how to get back to whence we started:
Was it truly a leap of faith?
Now you flew away,
As I see your figure in the sky;
Not that I've seen you close enough.
I don't know
Feb 2017 · 161
Sorry
woolgather Feb 2017
I tried to make poetry,
But I'm bothered by how idiotic I was;
You tried to help me, I just shut down,
*Now I just have this four-lined ****** apology.
Feb 2017 · 844
Uneven Hue
woolgather Feb 2017
You were red,
I was blue.
You turn lilac whenever I'm near,
Then red violet when you talk to me.
I turn teal when you smile,
Then uncertain as indigo when you call my name.
Then yellow came around,
You turned orange.
I turned green.
Whenever you're with me I turn you brown.
Now I disgust you.
Now I ***** you.
I strip myself of the hues I've made.
Now I'm just black.
Devoid of anything, of anyone.
Of us, of you.
Combinations aren't even right
Feb 2017 · 425
Conspiratorial
woolgather Feb 2017
I'm afraid to lure to you to me,
I know they won't like it.
I'm scared for you to know me,
I feel like I'm a ball you'll hit.
Foreign people, foreign disputes,
Pacing unrealistic promises.
Trying to make up absolutes,
Even though I'm the only one making crash courses.
Tying to talk to us again,
Attempting to rhyme;
Like sewing tattered linen;
Quite easy, but not easy on time.
I left just for me to return,
I typed just for you to know;
I'd never stop, I'd never learn;
Like a madman resurrecting someone from a barrow.
I just want to talk to you about random **** like we once did

Even though I know I'm not that important to you
Feb 2017 · 162
Can't
woolgather Feb 2017
I regret giving it everything I am.
I regret giving up everything they ought to be.
I regret the blades that passed my wrists;
But then, it's part of life, isn't it?
To destroy what you can.
Too delusional and depressed
Feb 2017 · 391
Wired and Bleeding
woolgather Feb 2017
A secret I'll confess,
Disgusting as it is strange;
Making me feel less,
Begging for immediate change.
Cut 1; the beginning of a tragedy.
Cut 2; pity for me, begging for you.
Cut 3; the words that echo horribly.
Cut 4; losing hope to live for.
Cut 8; the age that daddy chose to touch me.
Cut 12; when Cousin made me play a little game.
Cut 15; the hellish years I've lived, enduring.
Cut 28; filled with sorrow and hate;
Cut 37; out of vain, illustrated heaven.
Cut 50; the cutting and the bleeding get blurry.
Cut 68; I question my fate.
Cut 77; the innocence you seem to deafen.
Cut 82; I know it's more than blue.
Cut 95; seems pointless to strive.
Cut 100; I live on, but I know I'm already dead.
Wanted you to help me, but never could.
Wanted you to save me, but never would.
Madness I tried to stop and still is struggling:
Now everything that makes me happy seem more depressing.
Talk to me
Jan 2017 · 287
Never Not
woolgather Jan 2017
Scribble those double negatives;
Bust those songs on repeat;
Wish for something new to happen
While doing the same things over and over again.
Expect a new ending
To the same scenarios
Let's test how long Sanity could last.
Could've made more sense with these words,
But still ended up a random mess.
Haven't been like this before,
Nor would I want to be in the future,
But Fate said "**** it" and this angst came out of me.
Quite a handful, yet still easy to pass.
Like my existence.
Like my choices.
Like my feelings.
Like everything I am;
A disappointment.
Hate to admit it, to say the least;
Maybe this geezer needs those motivational posters
But I highly agree he'll just rip it to shreds or burn it.
*After all, He's never not been himself.
I'm sorry if I use poetry as an evidence of my spiral into madness
Jan 2017 · 954
Hadn't Been
woolgather Jan 2017
Lights on,
Lights off.
Stared in the mirror,
But could never see clearer.
Lights on,
Lights off.
Prayed for the burden to get lighter,
Got all but none to make it feel better.
Lights on,
Lights off.
Tried to lay it off my head,
Got too carried away by it, instead.
Should've plugged the headset when they started talking;
Should've left the words to rot when I knew where they were going;
Should've shrugged it off because it wasn't my business,
Now I can't accept anything but brash and reckless.
Lights on,
Lights off.
Should've done it,
Should've tossed it.
Lights on,
Lights off.
Had to put the lid,
But never did.
Lights on,
Lights off.
Never the path had been so light,
Lights on,
Lights off.
*I just haven't been myself tonight.
It wasn't the details but rather the distraught
Jan 2017 · 245
Diffuse
woolgather Jan 2017
Divided attention,
An ultimate disgrace.
Thoughts flying free,
Albeit a fluctuating pace.
Random in the happenstance,
Then you in another place;
Haven't been myself, in this silly case.
Before, I have loved you.
And still though to this day.
Yet I feel different when you're around me;
I haven't known what it made me say.
I feel so far when you're not here,
But now I feel farther when you're near.
My heart hasn't changed its beat about you,
But why would my head not think of what my heart can do?
I know this is senseless,
It's a waste of your time.
Before, I wanted you to read my words,
Now I hide from you, thoughts sublime.
It may be a stretch, but I hope it'll come through:
*I lost hope unlike before how I felt for you.
And it ends (not really)
Jan 2017 · 217
Again
woolgather Jan 2017
It's easy to let the fire grow,
But it's hard to start it up again.
It's easy in the dark to see the glow,
But it's hard to know what it is back then.
Senseless analogies, sensitive cahoot;
Meaningless fallacies that show us the truth;
The door is ajar, it can't be closed;
The dawn's still afar, we won't remember it most;
I wish I had never opened the box,
If I knew I had no idea to close it.
The lazy dog jumps over the brown fox,
Now you made everything in me twisted.
Sensitive analogies; Senseless as cahoot;
They're still fallacies; They'd show not the truth;
I wish I had known to reel out much better,
Your words of company, more than an affixer;
I wish we could start up the flame again;
*But I guess all I could do is write it all down with a pen.
It ended abruptly
Dec 2016 · 268
Cackle
woolgather Dec 2016
Her move's more than suspicious;
Did she wear those short-*** shorts again?
What is it? She going to another home or something?
Why don't you say those **** to her yourself?
I ain't a conduit for your complaints,
I ain't an ear to hear your whining.
If you want to know the truth that badly,
Then why do you make the effort to spread the poison,
Instead of giving it to the victim?
You have the uncanny strength of superstition,
Hat's off to you, good sir,
Unfortunately I think it would be,
I'd **** myself by jumping from your pride to your knowledge;
*Very steep and suicidal.
An excerpt from casual talk from my father

What a good man
Dec 2016 · 238
Fluke
woolgather Dec 2016
The only thing I can do if I'm broken,
Is to write ****** poetry
If not help others overcome their ****
*What a ******* Drama King, right?!
This isn't even poetry
Dec 2016 · 220
Nonsensical Love
woolgather Dec 2016
I'll love you,
*Even though you'll never love me back.
Crap
Dec 2016 · 845
Cold Hands, Cold Feet
woolgather Dec 2016
Stuck with a midnight crises,
Split to think about two people,
Split to hearing two voices in my head.
All while busy crying the time away.
Melancholic piano plays,
As the rainy night passes by;
My favorite night.
They'd not believe me when I'd tell them,
No one would believe tears from a boy's eye would be real.
And this cold ain't the best thing to feel with it.
So I'd have no choice but to sleep unfinished.
I'll just see them in my dreams,
With a song on repeat.
I might have a blanket,
But nothing would spare me from the cold truth;
That you'll never feel the same for me.





































Both of you.
It's harder to hold on two hearts both closed
Dec 2016 · 253
Deprive II
woolgather Dec 2016
What a fool's work it is,
To obsess over love never found.
Love that's in front of your very eyes,
But is not given time to be acknowledged.
I wish I could change that;
I wish we could change that...
*Would you like to?
As the fluttering mind strikes the flames, it burns its wings
Dec 2016 · 275
Deprive I
woolgather Dec 2016
I still get dumb when it's about you;
When they talk about you and I,
And those things that can never happen to us.
I still yearn to have those moments,
Moments that we'd have only to the both of us;
Yet the only time we'll see each other in the eye,
*Is when you're about to leave me.
The mind flutters around the heart
woolgather Dec 2016
Drowning myself in the voices of others;
Fighting a battle I shouldn't be giving a **** about;
Feeling defeated over words,
Sharper than any sword you'll sharpen;
In my venomous words,
I hide my cowardice.
Yes,
I want to make it stop,
Yes,
I want to give up,
Yes,
I want to end everything,
But everything's relying on this one mistake.
No matter how many words I'd jot down,
It won't go away.
No matter how much I try to chain it down,
It'll just come back more vicious than before.
It goes to show what you try to hide under the light,
Would be complete hell when you let it loose.
It's all a daze
Maybe one day I'll find a way to drown everything I feel
woolgather Dec 2016
Dry and crackling fire within
Ready to start a blaze
Hungry to devour the world
To cause a smoking haze

A plume of black on the horizon
As the sun does set
The fire all-the-more visible
When with darkness it is met

Darkness rests not further
The fire indeed grows brighter
Yet also pale moonlight grows paler
Both strong yet not enough to conquer

In blackness dark still remains
Amidst the flames and moonlight, it retains
The sun might shine to bid away the darkness' feigns
Twilight may be gone but the emptiness remains
Made this months ago with that guy, he has great stuff
Dec 2016 · 161
Verses
woolgather Dec 2016
Begotten memories,
Adjacent to thine heart.
Begotten memories,
Ironically, have never been part.
Begotten memories,
A plethora of feelings.
Begotten memories,
Some here, some made, some gone.
Begotten conundrums come past us,
Conundrums we have not expected.
Stand your ground and don't lose it,
Stand your ground and face it.
It would be a stretch to let you understand,
It would be a stretch to call your attention.
If you'd have night - a killer star,
Then be your very own morning light.
The darkness will get washed away,
Even if the waves bring something with them.
Be the one to light up others.
When the tide of sadness comes,
Even when it proves hard to be,
Be the boat that never sinks.
If you'd give up, it's fine.
But even just for this time,
Hold on;
Hold on,
Hold on.

[As you lay in bed to see the killer star - your night;
know that as tomorrow comes you'll see the morning light.]
It may just be another ****** piece but I wish it'd help even just a tad.

I hope you could read this, Lexander  Jones.

Stay strong.
Nov 2016 · 266
Broken Not
woolgather Nov 2016
Been hurt too much it doesn't feel like anything.
Been played with without knowing and ended up broken.
What a pity it was;
His heart did as worse as his dainty mind.
Same old, same old,
Staring blankly at the screen;
Should be doing something no one really knows,
Bawling my heart out;
Bawling without tears flowing.
Tinker with the darkness that's sleeping,
Fill your head with unfamiliarity,
Once a man's mind snaps;
You better run away from it.
From writing pieces,
Back to scribbling random words.
Been there, done that.
Been hurting over and over,
Been hurting but never learning.
Haven't learned anything;
Feels nothing but yearning;
Yearning for love never reciprocated.
Been crying though it sounds fake,
Been loving though it sounds uncanny.
The chills never left me;
*The cycle never ends.
Too broken
Nov 2016 · 193
4:49
woolgather Nov 2016
Wandering, wandering,
I should be doing something awfully important.
**But, here I am, writing words that seem to instantly come out of my head.
And it goes on and on
Nov 2016 · 196
Block C
woolgather Nov 2016
It's a ******* understatement

*When you feel ****** all day and "it's just a phase."
Instead of criticizing them help them get over it
Nov 2016 · 191
Hinges
woolgather Nov 2016
Steadily functional,
Kept together everything else.
Needed not any appraisal,
Silenced the clanging bells.

Connecting one to the other,
Correlating unfamiliar vices;
Like clearing murky water,
Like fleshing out carcasses.

Tells the truth and nothing more,
Never meant to show;
But still you didn't connect us;
*You just loosened and let go.
What a ****** piece
Nov 2016 · 308
Rock Bottom
woolgather Nov 2016
Just hit rock bottom
Writer's Block
Irony
Wounds closed; about to reopen
No one understands the plea
Talk to me
Help
Please
Nov 2016 · 219
Why Me?
woolgather Nov 2016
I need you to hold me;
But I know you'd rather hold someone else.
I need you to stay with me;
But I know that you already stayed with someone else.
I need you to trust me;
But I know they'd poisoned you;
Now you see me as someone else.
I told you my secrets;
You told me yours;
I told you my doubts.
You told me your wishes;
Now I know why we get along but never alike.
I told you what bothered me;
You told me what bothered you.
We never had a commitment;
Yet I feel like I'm betrayed.
Once we part our ways,
That would be the end of it.
It's a pity that I thought you were special;
But it's a much more pity that you're like everybody else.
You may have changed;
But I've never regret the times.
A **** lie for an answer

To a question never asked
Nov 2016 · 219
Block B
woolgather Nov 2016
You know you've ****** up;

*When you cry over happy songs.
Random
Nov 2016 · 161
Block A
woolgather Nov 2016
You know you kind of have a problem

When you search the dictionary for words
Random
Nov 2016 · 548
Again
woolgather Nov 2016
Again, I lost it.
Got my hopes up;
As usual.
Iterated my disarray,
Nothing but rejection was their reaction.

Again, I thought of it.
Grew to an acquaintance,
Assorted into bleakness;
Intrinsic I was not,
Null was I.

Again, I felt it.
Glaring at me;
Anger and disgust.
Inside of me,
Apprehensions try to rip me apart.

Again, I've hurt myself.
Guilt ensues over me;
Again, I've hurt them, as well.
Insensible as I were;
Not as insensible as I am now.

Again, I've fallen.
Gutted down to nothing.
Assaulted beyond me.
Inherently living in me;
None other than perpetrators, such as myself.
Repeated
Nov 2016 · 224
Vertical
woolgather Nov 2016
Unhinge the skin,
Negate the senses;
Cut out that grin;
Open your ears to the voices;
Make your pain akin,
Flood your mind with hearsays;
Oscillating, your head'll spin,
Ringing sounds'll follow you in all places;
Trapped without reasoning; discipline;
Apprehended by the past's corpses;
Blazing are the chances that's bore thin;
Losing all comprehensible choices;
Ending fouler than sheepskin.

Immobile are they, but still widespread like disease;
Nothing but the demons that play deaf to your pleas.

Close the doors that were open;
Open the doors once closed.
Mend the pieces once broken;
Find yourself occupied, yet bored.
Overcome the path of the demon once risen;
Reveal what truth there is discord.
Taper the pain with pun.
Unfinished business not looking forward to finish
Nov 2016 · 806
Tantalizing Habit
woolgather Nov 2016
Slashing, dashing,
The blade through my arm.
Bleeding, bleeding,
I don't know why it works like a charm.

I wouldn't be surprised,
If they'd be  disgusted;
They'd want myself revised,
But I'm not just  maladjusted.

Wear that mask again,
That mask that hid your pain with fakes;
And try to clean the*  blood-red  stain;
And keep doing so until your sanity breaks.

I guess that words keep me intact,
Even just to reality, I hope.
Though, with my demons, I made a pact;
*It's no use; I can't seem to mope.
Blood spilled is blood spilled
Nov 2016 · 490
It Broke
woolgather Nov 2016
Play it on repeat,
Sulk on my defeat;
The scars increased without me knowing;
Knowing the fallacies that had been pouring;
******* up my mind,
Reason for some reason I can't find.
It broke.
Like ****** shards of memories wounding me
Nov 2016 · 594
Open Scars
woolgather Nov 2016
Got the knife and vandalized some skin;
Though scared I was to begin;
Bled, and bled, the pristine red;
Slid down my hands like a sled;
Felt the pain and enjoyed it;
Still hesitating, I continued to slit.
Now the wound seemed to itch.
Make the wound; make a hitch.
Painful yet not painful enough for a stitch;
*At least now I know not only karma's a *****.
No one would believe
Nov 2016 · 199
Slit
woolgather Nov 2016
I've cut before,
I'd really not want to make a statement;
But I just couldn't take it anymore,
I can't hide behind it!

Cut; bleed; repeat.
I can't stop myself even I don't want to
Nov 2016 · 211
Request
woolgather Nov 2016
I won't be on the best of your time;

But it'd be grand if you'd give me a word or two.
Talk about anything

Just message me

I lack social interaction, it seems
Nov 2016 · 159
Unfair
woolgather Nov 2016
Make a whole **** lot good, everybody'll praise;
Make one bad and all hell'll break loose.
Be what they want, everybody'll be dazzled;
Be who you are, and hell'll break loose.
(At least that's how it was for me.)

Cut; bleed; die.
Hurt; speak; silence.
Think; select; analyze.
Not all words you say are heard by them.
(At least that's how it is for me.)

It's funny how all these happen;
They all feel correlated;
As all look down on me
And feast on my insecurities and weaknesses.
(How quaint.)

Making words has never been so fulfilling;
As false accusations are made against those depressed;
You're just going another phase;
Well to that, I say:* How dumb of them!
*Not everything you say is right!
If it's a blur then it's working
Nov 2016 · 655
Three Lines; Thousand
woolgather Nov 2016
With all the letters telling me:

You can move on and be better!;

I wonder if they're just there to remind me of being stuck.
Because it keeps oozing out
Nov 2016 · 606
Threat
woolgather Nov 2016
Scream, then silence.
Move, then stop.
Think, then get lost;
Cut your soul in half.

Drowning in my own sorrow,
I find myself breathing;
Nonparallel to what I thought; *

Parallel to what I'm thinking.*

See not the light of the world;
For only then you will see how darkened it really is;
It's better to see in the darkness;
At least it's the reality that you'll witness.
Don't be
Nov 2016 · 161
Slap
woolgather Nov 2016
Slowly dripping,

Your crocodile tears of love.

You don't need to say you love me;

I know of the things you have done.

Don't cry in front of me,

Because I know what curses you say to me behind those eyes.

Don't ever try to win me back again,

*You'll just end up in an endless cycle of games.
Revenge is best served golden brown, I guess
Nov 2016 · 188
Letters and Codes
woolgather Nov 2016
I stare at the luminescent screen
Thinking about you;
I stare as my fingers conjure up these words;
These words I make for you.
You'll never know it was yours to take,
As I'll never say those three words:
I,love,you.
All it takes for me
Is to see you happy;
And that alone is enough.
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**Even if you'd be happy with somebody else
The grief ensues
Nov 2016 · 301
Insensible
woolgather Nov 2016
Being the numb **** I ought to be,
Just like that I crossed the line again;
*Strangers being stranger than where they started.
I'm very very sorry
Nov 2016 · 194
Point V
woolgather Nov 2016
The boy who lost his voice,
The entity that camouflages in glamour,
The man who lives in vincible ignorance
The one who stood when all was shattered;
*No one would really know.
Oct 2016 · 361
Point IV
woolgather Oct 2016
Sometimes all good become all sorrow.
Sometimes the hope is made to feel like no tomorrow;
Yet those who stand on broken vows
*Seem to become their better selves.
Or yet improving

The light cast is bombarded by a shadow; yet the shadow makes the light seem brighter
Oct 2016 · 160
Point III
woolgather Oct 2016
The acclaimed Hierophant speaks at his sleep,
His words of tongue much ******,
*Than the truth that abides his fiendish reality.
Truth that can be found once broken the truth itself
Oct 2016 · 151
Point II
woolgather Oct 2016
Strip yourself of the grandeur you demonstrate,
*I know how rotten you are already.
Money won't buy my sympathy, honey
Oct 2016 · 168
Point
woolgather Oct 2016
I was too used to being silenced that I don't have my own voice anymore
Oct 2016 · 176
Mourning Star
woolgather Oct 2016
The grief of the soulless
Comes out and about;
As the fluttering butterfly leaves their wings,
And reverts to a caterpillar.
The scorn of the soulless
Flails their meaningless hope
As the light shines through another.
As they are blinded by the falseness of themselves.
Greed of love or whatnot
Oct 2016 · 229
Words; Revolt
woolgather Oct 2016
Deafen the path with birds of song;
Confuse them of the road they'd ought to take;
White noise fills the barren room;
Pirouette in the dark halls;
Make the world yours in an instant;
Walk upon the forsaken way;
Trample your psyche with all odds;
Empty the casket with song;
Recite your mantras,
Drink your fill,
Fog thine images with deceit;

Hide the sadness with forced laughter.

Fog thine eyes with tears;
Drink your dose of aspirin,
Recite your curses;
Empty the casket with pleasantries;
Waltz upon the forsaken way;
Make the fault yours in an instant;
Pirouette into the blissful morgue;
White noise deafens the bustling child;
Confuse them of the songs they'd ought to sing;
*Deafen the truth with howls of jealousy.
Who knows? maybe this head's supposed to think like riddles;

Riddles that I don't even know myself
Oct 2016 · 176
Gone Love Gone
woolgather Oct 2016
We talk a bit,
And then we stopped.
We glanced a bit,
And now it's done.
So much lost in so little time;
So much yearning
For someone I can't call mine.
Retracting back to fallacies;
Fallacies of one in blind love;
Love seen through a one-sided mirror,
Unbeknownst of what the other side may be.

We sat beside,
And now we're apart.
It felt so close,
And now it is so afar.
Too much for making a reel
Of something that'll never be real;
Or the fact that I still hold on to;
That there still may be a chance;
A chance to be the one to hold your hand;
Unbeknownst if you would hold another.

It felt like nothing;
And now it is pain;
At first it felt like sunrise;
Now I feel as cold as rain.
Too much for expecting
For something to happen
And now it's all gone to ****.
**I wonder if I was wrong to take that step.
Oct 2016 · 528
Sedated
woolgather Oct 2016
In the midst of oppression;
The buzzing of truth finds hard to flutter.
In a carousel of corpses;
Such is a truth to stay awake.
In the lines of fuzzy minds;
How uncanny it is to find a thought;
Of a head with a travel far from reality;
His pen the anchor to mundaneness.

Strum the song that nobody ever knows,
Strum the song nobody would ever know;
Sing of the words that words cannot understand,
Let those knocking whisper their voices.
Sulk upon the sounds of trembling thunders;
Let the rain deafen you whole.
Blind your eyes from the truth with distortion;
Your pain the anchor to reality.

Let the pendulum swing;
Let the smoke turn you vague;
Let the scorn that darkness brings;
Let the sedation leave you enraged.
Let the twisted remain as they are;
Perhaps they were twisted for a reason;
Turn numb with all unconnected words;
*Confusion the anchor to the earth.
The pain is what I deserved
Sep 2016 · 214
Reverse Combustion
woolgather Sep 2016
Clogging my head with song,
Mask my words with lyrics,
Twist my focus with nonsense;
Set another terrible bunch on fire.

Hear endless talks of flirtation,
Outside the endless reclamation of fault,
Farther the images, truth much covered with lies
Hidden too much , it's diluted.

Clock my thought with four lines,
Paint my head with more lies,
Crank the volume with more than four tries,
Repeat the vices, the verses for more than four times.

Listen to unfamiliar voices,
Voices that tell their tale of soaring;
Listen how they scream their name to the tune;
It's hard to believe when you hear it while down under.

Make words, make nonsense,
How can he possibly know?
Impair their perspectives;
Welcome to the maze of wailing repetition!

Plague the silence with voices:
A boy, a woman, a man,
All shouting different chants;
Made up so much, it's all *******.

Plea no more, I would commit,
Somebody no more than trying to climb.
A door who holds its own key;
Too bad he forgot where he put it.

Slowly, falling into depravity,
Take claim his empty head;
Take heed the light he left;
Slowly, sleeping towards Oblivion.

Not more than an empty casket.
The flames return to the torch.
Still burning bright, still unfinished;
See this terrible bunch move in the scorching fire.
Nonsense
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