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  Jan 2015 Pen Lux
Olan Douglas Webb
Oh, I love You
yet forever and ever
My heart floats upon a sea of sorrow
Oh, let this crass and ignorant world
go its crass and ignorant way
with its running to and fro
never knowing a feeling of love
or any true emotion
this hopeless world in all its strife
searches in vain for an answer
How it knows not
that no answer lies in war, or money, nor fame
How it searches in vain
neither does it know nor suspect
that all its answers lie in a warm embrace
of a passionate love
of one heart holding in its self
the love of another
a bottomless burning passion
that says, " I surrender all".
Oh, how I am a worthless hopeless thing
without You
a mere sea of pain and ache
whose bottom knows no end
Oh, for without You
I know all hope is lost
and better it was
I had never been born
than see the day
I loose You
to be blinded by a sea of pain and tears
Oh, how could I then live.
Oh, I have loved You
and yet love You more still
I open My heart
I hold My arms forth
hoping for Your embrace
and You turn Your heart from Me
and I am helpless
My heart sinks with longing
You have been an elusive and exotic creature
I ask Myself everyday
Why? Oh, why Me?
Why am I always
so unworthy in Your eyes
Oh, how My soul floats upon  a sea of sorrow
Why do I remain
a source of shame in Your eyes
Oh, why am I counted
as nothing in Your eyes
A lowly worm
who crawls through the dust of the earth
but Oh,  though I am counted by You
as a thing not to be looked upon
a creature of loathing
never to be looked upon
or brought into memory
My heart in its sadness says
" I forgive all".
Oh, how far into eternity
must the days pass
and how many universes must come and go
each being born and dying in its time
before Your  cold heart can come to say
" I love You".
When all of time had run its course
Oh, how I wait the melting of Your cold heart
Oh, how I am frozen
in this block of stone
this loveless hell
This bed of stone that I lie upon
But Oh, how I shall wait
as eternity rolls
as the sun burns its self to a cinder
and the stars burn and flicker out
one by one
for without You all eternity
is but a dead thing.
Pen Lux Jan 2015
today when asked what I would do with the rest of my life
(if I could pick anything I wanted regardless of money)
I told the whole class that I wanted to be a beat poet
in a jazz band, but I didn't tell them: I also want to sing

my baby told me
I'm dancing with a demon slayer
put her lips to my ear
whispered, "some secrets are meant to be shared."
if only I had cared
caressed her
skin to skin
but habits die
                        hard
and I have trouble beginning
because I'm so afraid of
                                          the end
Pen Lux Jan 2015
functioning in beats of
rhythmic movements

5am is the best time for
f   r   a g    
               m   e    n  
                           t e   d
                              m   o    m  
                                    e   n  
                                              t        s
before              I                       rush
                                                            into life
to learn and be learned
maybe even                      teach myself
                watch me as I    
touch myself
Pen Lux Jan 2015
another night out
dancing alone in the crowd
music blaring, loud
the singer, a voice
that shouts
sprouts out
emotions
thin veins peaking
thin skin peeling
no longer moist
during day break
simply breaks
cracking in the heat
a drought of the heart
locked in tight
rough beatings
smooth talking
it's harder to move
being held down
when he's stronger
he'll last longer

you're a goner
fuuu
Pen Lux Jan 2015
eating my heart out
solving my problems with food
lucky I'm not fat
Pen Lux Jan 2015
only a year
yet you disappear
face fading in my mind
no longer clear
all that's left
is your
reflection

silver, molten
spilling forward
out and down from
your crown to the ground
liquid lover there's no other
linger no longer filthy foe
don't care how you are
don't want to know
pillaging liar
I'm out of
fire  
     passion
                  grief
sympathy

simply entropy
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