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I continuously find the same questions
Fill up my mind like fish in the sea,
These fish symbolise the world I knew once
The one that created me.
And my troubles seem to circle me back here,
To the place I have grown to hate.
A place that serves no need now,
The redirection of my fate.
I can keep spluttering out words,
Meaningless, to us both.
But when I try to tell you the truth,
This agony fills my throat,
I'm searching for an explanation,
One, I know that you now yearn.
But I can't fake tears like these,
And that's something I've grown to learn.
11 February 2015

© All Rights Reserved Joanne Heraghty
There is a difference between dying alone and dying lonely..
 Feb 2015 John Byrd
Emma Sinclair
I am a raindrop
Formed in the clouds
In the
Eye
Of a titanic storm.
My life
Rushessssss
Past my eyes
I am
Out of control
Flailing
Falling
Plunging
To my
Death
I wish I could
stop
And take
In the
World
Around me
But I'm long gone
Falling
Too
*splat
 Feb 2015 John Byrd
Rachna Beegun
All are doomed to love.
All are doomed to die.
Tonight bring the black tomb.
For even the most high.
Even those in this room.
Cannot pretend to fly
And I know.
Even you.
Even I.
Must die.
I found myself engulfed by Pike's words--caught up in the nightmares he describes, the strange lights, the odd occurrences, the scenes pertaining to the advanced civilization that was Ancient Egypt, the wrenching fight between keeping love alive or resigning yourself to moving on. Anybody who has ever entertained the notion of bringing someone they love back from the dead should read this one first. Sometimes it is indeed better to be left dead rather than suffer the ceaseless pain that the real world offers.

Everyone in this novel is trapped in their own never-ending tragedy. No matter how much they claw, and scream, and assure themselves they are doing the right thing, they ceaselessly end back in the storm of the madness.
 Feb 2015 John Byrd
Nina
Exhausted
 Feb 2015 John Byrd
Nina
Hoping for some kind of change
Only to deal with the same **** as yesterday
My body is giving up school will be the death of me (and another thing, I'm getting tired of your **** real fast)
 Feb 2015 John Byrd
Miss E
Humans
 Feb 2015 John Byrd
Miss E
We tell ourselves that we are alone
He or she has it better
That these feelings are our own,

Going through the emotions
A person hunched over, a glazed stare
Show we care and ask them to share,

To touch the lives of many people  
Dig deeper and live with compassion
Understand that we are creatures in need of relationships, a self-satisfaction,

To feel we belong and that we are loved
To feel a hand on our back, someone asking if we're okay
To not be afraid,

It's part of our human nature
The part that we must never let go
It's what makes us special in this world,

That we can relate
We can help one another
Forget the jealousy and hate,

Having someone reach out and hear us
Makes us feel that we are a part of something greater
That we are not failures,

We can save lives
Say no to suicide
No more goodbyes
 Feb 2015 John Byrd
M
Untitled
 Feb 2015 John Byrd
M
is there anything left unspoken?
When I think about the way I let you feel me
And how you hurt me like they said you could
How you left in the moments they warned you would

I kick myself for the secrets I told you
When I held your hand
Standing under streetlights
When we weren't supposed to

So now im supposed to forget you?

You're a stamp on my back
I remember you when I take off all of my clothes
You're stained into certain street corners, certain weather

You always liked me better without glasses
Perhaps you knew of their rosey color
Well, I see now what you wanted me to be
Which was actually what you always were to me,

A persona.
Nothing but a persona.

You made me feel like a beautiful, brooding girl. You made me feel like you were falling in love with me. The star of some documentary: The Most Interesting Girl in the World.


I loved the way I looked in the reflection of your very dark eyes
How you made me into some untold mystery
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