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You have hurt me once before
But forgiveness is key
However
Others around me do not seem to agree
They do not like you
They do not like you for me
They do not understand
And they do not see
That I just had to forgive you
Because of how much you mean to me
You cause me to smile
Brighter than the sun
You cause me to laugh
Laugh louder than crashing waves
We like the same movies, style and bands
The best part about it
Is when I get to hold your hands
They make me feel safe
Secure and protected  
You make me feel alive
You make me feel free
Yet
They do not like you
They do not like you for me
They do not understand
And they do not see
Paranoid and scared
Feeling unprepared
Where will you strike next?
I hate having to guess
I don’t know who to trust
Even when I must
I can’t stand and fight
I don’t have the might
How do I protect?
When I don’t know to expect
Run, run, run away
I’m too terrified to stay.
It's 4 am love
Close your eyes, go back to sleep
I'll protect you now
©RobertC.Atkinson
I've built this wall around myself
To shield my heart from the pain
Like the caterpillar, I hide
Until I'm finally free to find
A love to fly with me in the rain
I* remember the feeling of waking up for nothing
                   The empty, gray taste everything had
        How I'd stare off
Out windows
Or across streets

                              I remember walking to the river
           And the grass not bending beneath my feet
              The current wouldn't change nor stop for me
   And I imagined it would always be this.
               Having everything I had always wanted right in front of me and it not matter

            I remember being stuck in the rain and not getting wet

         Watching
             Quietly accepting what was, and simultaneously not acknowledging what it meant.
    
        It was comfortable, but now *I
want control.
 Oct 2015 karen dannette
anu
Feeling very worst
And i must
Have rest
To get out this irritation
And i should know my limitation
My  friend called and avoided.She might be in irritation.
But she fails to think that what i feel..
 Oct 2015 karen dannette
Lily
The dead must have pity us
Laugh right in front of our crying faces
Because they know a secret we don't
That's it's better to be dead than alive
 Oct 2015 karen dannette
Born
Why do I have  a feeling
this is going to  be like those poems
like theirs and yours

maybe for sure
this.. a flop
flop poem
terrible flute

before all this
chandelier was a beauty
until it fell
and crushed into so many tiny pieces

I wrote tequila to get over it
but
hand me a glass
a bottle of scotch
a paper and pen
tears will be my ink

why this poem
why Why this poem

a string is missing from my guitar
something doesn't feel right
my vocal is gone
my notes and..... that poem

oh
I meant this poem
this titanic piece
am about to write

it doesn't look great
the iceberg
the icicles on our heads
wait
why am I seeing dolphins
I thought this was  that poem
 Oct 2015 karen dannette
bones
I dread the sound of its passing
and the call of its merry chime
on the hour every day
the price that I pay
for life is a fear of time...
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