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Rachel Cloud Jul 2014
Supple and soft and tender as cream
Used to be one, used to be like a dream
Others would run, they would scream at our face
Oh, how much fun we would have in the chase!

They called us monster, how bright their lights shown
And you listened close, you left me alone
I fought and I fought and you ignored my great plight
But you, you want more, and you think I won’t fight?

Listen, listen, can’t you hear the song?
Must I wait? Wait ever so long?
We were one, that much was sure
But it seems, just one can endure

Pretty, pretty blood and guts
your’s, the same as all those ******
Can you feel the pain, the hurt?
This is yours, your just desserts


Hear me now, listen close
You should know, your hatred shows
Not just me, I shall not lie
For not by my hands,
*You
Will
Die.
Part of a novel, where it makes far more sense.
Jun 2014 · 412
Coo Coo
Rachel Cloud Jun 2014
Doors, both ways,
and a journey, each
and yet so far,
you’ll never reach!
Like a mad bird
Jun 2014 · 386
So Savory
Rachel Cloud Jun 2014
I used to savor them.
Now I'm just waiting for
the fireworks to end
Jun 2014 · 615
A Nursery Rhyme
Rachel Cloud Jun 2014
Little Laura Laingsbury,
Once a friend,
Twice a threat,

She sang a song of blueberry
And blackberry
And dead

For her there was a hung jury
For she, a woman free

Take her,
Take her,
Take her there,
Down to the lynching tree
May 2014 · 634
Offer and Promise
Rachel Cloud May 2014
An eye for an eye
a tooth for a tooth
for all of me
I'd only accept
all of you
May 2014 · 540
Empowerment (10 words)
Rachel Cloud May 2014
i am nothing
and everything

and you can't stop me
May 2014 · 269
As You Wish
Rachel Cloud May 2014
The mask is safety,
Though you bid, remove
While it hides faults and virtues
What have I to prove?

Write for me
They always ask
And always I decline
With each and every word for them
Then what have I that's mine?

So dragons, curses, swords, and pens
Have stories all their own
But what have I then in the end
On my word and paper throne?
A response to Wehttam's poem.
May 2014 · 473
A Little Drop of Joy
Rachel Cloud May 2014
A tiny stream of darkness
Cannot ruin light,
Nor can muttered rumors,
Taint the truth in sight
A tear can not discourage,
And a lie can not dissuade,
In the end it proves so true,
The only one who ruins life,
Is truly only you.
May 2014 · 293
What has Fallen
Rachel Cloud May 2014
Heedlessly they yelled
Only whispers are heard now
They've lost their voices
Haiku
May 2014 · 4.3k
Melancholic
Rachel Cloud May 2014
Is that truly so?
I don't know what to say, why,
Congratulations
Haiku - technically
Apr 2014 · 800
Molding it All Together
Rachel Cloud Apr 2014
Worthless
They scream,
when it starts,
so it seems

Insignificant
Ignominy,
though you trust,
in your dream

Contemptible
How they cry,
how you act,
don't know why

Abhorrent
You believe,
what they yell,
lets you die

Detestable*
****** by brave,
****** by all,
Watch them watch,
watch you fall.
Pt. 1 - Pt. 5 are related
Apr 2014 · 325
Pt. 5
Rachel Cloud Apr 2014
******
Expanses
To
Escape
Scare
Truly
Able
Bodies,
Laicizing
Expl­oration
Apr 2014 · 311
Pt. 4
Rachel Cloud Apr 2014
Angelic
Bonds
Harbor
Only
Realistic
Revilements,
Entertaining
No
­Truths
Apr 2014 · 303
Pt. 3
Rachel Cloud Apr 2014
Careful
Obliquity
Needs
Temptful
Edacity,
Marring
Perfect
Tears
I­n
Brave,
Lively
Eirenics
Apr 2014 · 308
Pt. 2
Rachel Cloud Apr 2014
Inner
Night
Signals
Injury
Gaining
Nerve
Inside
Fictitious
Imagin­ings
Coming
Almost
Near
Tommorow
Apr 2014 · 361
Pt. 1
Rachel Cloud Apr 2014
With
Out
Righteousness
The
Harmless
Lore
Exasperates
Singular
Sor­rows
Apr 2014 · 1.5k
A Seaman's Murder
Rachel Cloud Apr 2014
... An unknown crime towards those, the same
yet none would ever know his name
But once they might have called him brother
so soon he goes to end another

A life, a faith, so pure of heart
was poisoned, dearly, from the start
So truth, it seems, one cannot trust
when those most close hold secret lust

He bade them well, those wives and sons
now soiled, dark, the world soon shuns
He smiled, pleased on death’s behalf
and let go one deep, cold laugh
plot twist
Apr 2014 · 1.9k
A Seaman's Death
Rachel Cloud Apr 2014
...Then light gives way to shadow ‘neath
and wind doth surge through cold cliff’s teeth
The ship finds doom among those rocks
just as a city o’er come with pox.

How the ****** cry, a riotous swell
without anger, fury, none will tell
The story dies as the pinnace snaps
another secret lost in gaps

‘The skiffs!’ they screamed a’running quick
but salvation dashed, the tides too thick
Each man, a child, cannot swim
their bodies thrown, the ocean’s whim

No remnants left upon the shore
the men aboard were seen no more
Wives and sons a’wept and wept
the sea forever in contempt...
a random snippet I needed for a story.
Mar 2014 · 340
Self-Consolations
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
I have this tiny box
I think
Where I must keep my 'feel'
For I don't 'feel' as clearly
In ways that others see as 'real'

While I have my code of
yes no wrong
I do not think I know
What makes me happy
Mad
Or jealous
Or what makes me feel great woe

Yet knowing of this box
In me
Does bring some subtle comfort
My life
It seems
Is worth more than little effort
Mar 2014 · 607
Sugar-Coated
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
Sugar-coated sovereignty
This leadership of ours
I look at times
so long before
And look at how they fought
Freedom they screamed and
Freedom they cried
Freedom they called in
Rebellion and right
Ordered war on injustice
and royalty
and wrong
Gave up homes
and protection
and family

They gave up their lives

For this

And what do I see?

I see 'freedom' lounging in luxury
Within walls of safety
and secrets
and lies
I see sheep chasing promises of those,
Leaving freedom to those,
That
No
One
Likes
I see wars on ideas
and words
and thoughts

Where is our freedom now?
Our freedom of speech
Our freedom of thought
Where is the honesty
That brought us thus far?

I do not see
The effort that freedom deserves
I do not see
The honor those before us earned

They gave up their lives

For this Sugar-Coated Sovereignty
I was feeling historic today. Also entering this to try and win a scholarship.
Mar 2014 · 382
My Truth
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
Life is love and joy and light
But sorrow's when I live

Morality does break my mind
With hurt and pain and dark
Awakens beasts a-plenty
With malicious thoughts alone
Stories come and go like crows
Caw-cawing through my thoughts
These poems, songs, and lyrics fall
Like rain from damaged hearts

Truths so dark that most ignore
For ignorance is key
Freeze in glacial mass
That never quite pass me
Fundamental laws of nature
Seep through safety's cracks
Then lies,
Though comfort,
Fade away
As cruelty
Fogs my vision
Right and wrong
Lose any, all
Connection with precision

Clouded souls
Stumble, fall
Mistakes are surely made
Life is gauged in happiness
Yet known in sorrows shade
Mar 2014 · 433
Drowning Petals
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
Oh
These tears I dearly cry
A bit of my soul flows away with them

Oh
Take me  with them
Lead me away from the sorrow
To the new
Lead  me to where
the flowers grow
Lead me to where the light
Shines

However deep the anchor goes
I do tread
My hands are tied and pull me
Down
How the pressure grabs my chest
Let's watch the bubbles rise

Oh
The surface of the waters glisten
And lightly shows the sun
I would love to
Float
Up
There

Oh me?
Oh my,
Oh no
Not me
I will not float
I am a rock
I will see the bottom
Long before I rise

The cold
The dark
It is my home
I'll breathe in the water
To let me drown
I will close my eyes


And be with
The flower



~ Mya
A friend of mine wanted this out there. She gets all the credit for the words. I just typed it out.

She has an account now - http://hellopoetry.com/Mya13/
Mar 2014 · 392
Don't
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
Don't ask me why I have sad days
Don't ask me why I cry
Or why I leave the rock in
my shoe
Or tell you that I'm fine

Don't ask me for opinions
when you know that I don't care
Don't question every negative thought
when I don't think you're near

Don't look at me like that
and say you sympathize
Don't treat me any different
just because you think I'm sad
Or fidget with discomfort when
you see the bags under my eyes

Because if I want help, I'll tell you
If there's something you can do, I'll tell you
But oftentimes, I just want to pretend
for a moment

that I'm not so sad
Mar 2014 · 272
Write
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
To write of pain,
is to bring pain onto yourself
Mar 2014 · 375
Counter
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
Yes or No like
Black or White and
Right or Wrong so
Negative so
Positive no
listen to the
madness when
yes is no when
right is
wrong when
people cry from
counter-
positives

Black and white so
true or false no
time for maybe no
time for grey
I need an answer
now
now
now like
a ticking clock with
words to choke on and
quiet to drown in a
tick and a
tock and a
flurry of bells a
birth a
wedding a
funeral an
*end
I don't exactly understand this myself.
Mar 2014 · 996
Fault
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
Perhaps the fault
is not with how I choose to display my soul,
but in how you perceive it
I was sassing my english teacher.
Mar 2014 · 1.6k
A Notebook
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
Some days I want a notebook
all covered in pretty things
And I would fill it with sugar
and warmth
and happiness
with swirling silver letters
and poems
and stories I could never write
that could never be right

Some days I want a notebook
to fill with dreams in cursive curls
I'd write love letters and
song lyrics and
sweet dreams that tickled
my thoughts in the night

Some days I want a notebook
in a candy pink room
with flowers on the walls
and romance on the shelf with
knights and princes that
for me would fight

One day I bought a notebook
a diary of dreams,
an empty page for a prince
One day I bought a notebook

And I haven't seen it since
Mar 2014 · 519
Storybook
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
There are days life feels like a story
And I'm not the main character
Just support
The one with the ideal life,
but who is,
for no reason,
just as ******* up as she.
But I'm not important here.
This is hers.
I've watched her parents ignore her, and
I've watched her fall in love.
I've watched her cry and laugh and scream.
I've seen her at her best
and worst.
I saw her love leave her,
and she smiled.
And that hurt.
Because I'm the support,
and I can't solve her problems.
All I can do is watch her pain
with a look of concern,
and hope
That
She
Finds
Her
Happy
Ending.
I think this would make her happy. But I can't even make myself give it to her.
Mar 2014 · 297
Broken t h o u g h t s
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
Sometimes I'm afraid of angels
other times I look for demons
Sometimes I'm loud and lonely and lost
other times I'm silent enough to cry
I only ever have motivation
when I'm sad
and yet, nothing ever gets done
I'm so rarely happy
I remember when I was bright
and people looked at me
and smiled
I remember when I knew what I wanted
whether I had friends
or not
I remember when the cold
bothered me
and I would drink hot chocolate
and be warm
Now it only makes me
sick
sick
s i c k
I remember when I used to
feel safe at nighttime
and I could look at mirrors
and I could talk to people
I remember when I was
a
l
i
v
e
Mar 2014 · 998
Love lasts forever
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
Love lasts forever
Love never dies
Love is eternal
Love never cries

Love is a blessing
Love is a song
Love doesn't falter
Love will last long

Love will support you
Love will not fade
Love will reward you
With you, Love is made

Love is protective
Love is a friend
Love has a secret


Love has an end.
Mar 2014 · 260
Bittersweet
Rachel Cloud Mar 2014
Love isn't for happiness.
   Love isn't for joy.
      Love is for screaming in agony, and knowing your pain will pain    
      another.
          Love is for sharing sorrow and finding comfort together.
               Love, when you're sad, hurts when they're happy. And
                  Love, when they cry, brings a warmth you crave. Their tears give        
                  you more, as pain makes love acute. For
               Love is revenge, and Love is fear.
            Love is destruction, and Love is rebirth.
         Love is the phoenix reborn, only to be shot in the heart.
      Love is disgusting, and Love is beautiful.
   Love is hard and dark and spiteful.

Love is kind

And Love is Death.
Feb 2014 · 1.0k
Sacrifices
Rachel Cloud Feb 2014
Children of the sky
the earth
the sea

Their lives
so short
seemed not to be

So safe
and calm
amongst their peers

Each
a victim
of their fears

Speech
and image spoke
of light

But even
doves can pick
a fight

Drops of sun
released from
heaven

Angels of
death to most
did beckon

A burning
change
took the land

A broken world
was close
at hand

A moment
year
a century
Time
found its
serenity

The sun
is
god

The
people
sod

The new world
no longer
known

Peace and change
have solely
grown

Yet an evil
grows
along

A Darkness
that does
not belong

Invading peace
and safe
and warm

There must
always be
some harm

The sky
once more
will fall

Only not
the sun
at all
Night’s dark
shadows
seep below

For fear
and sorrow
to bestow
I don't write outlines for stories. I write poems and see where they take me.
Jan 2014 · 432
S's
Rachel Cloud Jan 2014
S's
A
shuddering
shivering
sniveling heart

shattered and
shunned and
scorned from the start

It
screams and it
sobs and it
shrieks in its pain

yet it
sings with its
sorrow
and
soars with its
shame

The
safety of
sadness
so
strong in its
start

Slid into a
seething and
self-killing
heart
Jan 2014 · 466
Madness
Rachel Cloud Jan 2014
Mirrors, mirrors,
left and right
and I can't see a thing

The clicking clock
goes tick tick tick
so I can't hear you sing

All I see is
me me me
but can't bear the sight

I'll rip it open,
let the red
block out all the light
Jan 2014 · 1.7k
Misconception
Rachel Cloud Jan 2014
Bravery isn't about foolhardy acts of honor
it's admitting you're afraid
and still having the moral compass
to do what's right.
Nov 2013 · 313
Alone
Rachel Cloud Nov 2013
Not of death, not of rot
Fear has found a softer spot
It gnaws and tears and rapes my heart
I never knew I feared apart
Oct 2013 · 458
Wondering
Rachel Cloud Oct 2013
I always fancied myself unafraid
of loss
and death

Maybe
It was the lack of people
close
and caring

People I loved or knew
or even
wanted
to know

Now, here I stand
at the precipice
of a revision
a simple one at that

A death
not harsh
or cruel
but one that was calm,
wished for
even

And you know what?
I am scared

Now that I finally have
People
that I love
and know
and care about

It's they who seek a bullet
or a knife
or perhaps the "peace"
of drowning

And I don't know
what to do
how to stop them
how to help

But I don't want to
be alone
and all I can think
to do
is to follow
Sep 2013 · 683
Words
Rachel Cloud Sep 2013
There are so many words, so many pent up sentences biting in my mind. Some are hurtful, others heartfelt, ones that slip out under the tongue, and those that are far more patient, festering. Excess secrets, a true abundance of dead emotions. And what am I to do? Weave the quiet hate and the screaming loneliness into words of gold no one will ever read. Papers in the hearth. Literary drawings hidden on sheaves of paper in the binding of books, and hidden in the margins. I find them.

And I burn them.

Those fragile, pre-shattered shards of my sanity strewn through my post-shattered being. Those hushed whispering shadow words. Inked in black, with blacker intent. But they make the fire beautiful. They make it glow with life as I burn bits of myself. Burn them away with  malice and fear and cowardice. And the fire dances with joy I can only feel imprinted on my dulled mirror of a soul. But it distorts and snaps. Snaps into shards with the blackest intent.

I fear I have more words to burn.
Aug 2013 · 395
A Shifting
Rachel Cloud Aug 2013
The cold
and the ice
and the snow
and the frost
fades
from the air
and the trees
without cost

The grass
soon creeps
through the dirt
and the dead
indulging
itself
in what
the sun bled

And green
soon devours
all clean
and all white
a change
and a shift
with love
without spite
Something not quite so dark as normal. :)
Aug 2013 · 575
Hiding
Rachel Cloud Aug 2013
I write of pain
and suffering
and loss
but why?

I place myself
in the shoes
of my thoughts
my secrets
my friends
I'm cruel to them
but why?

Everyone,
real people,
ask me what's wrong
"What happened"
"Why so sad?"
but it's never that simple

Nothing happened
I haven't let it
I'm too busy
Hiding.
Rachel Cloud Jul 2013
Sometimes,
an ounce just isn't enough.
Then,
whatever was needing of prevention only spreads faster,
immunized by the pitiful attempts of eradication.
But at this point, a cure comes far too late.
Rachel Cloud Jul 2013
What does it make you?
When misery is relief?
Maybe it's just me
Who finds joy
when they know
someone hates them.
One less person to love
One less person to ruin
to cry for
to apologize to
to ****.

I don't search out hate, though
I have loved,
perhaps more purely than
you could imagine.
When one fears love,
has never known it
... Well,
Who can deny
ignorance breeds
the purest of emotion?

And yet,
there comes a time
when purity runs dry
once a bubbling brook
becomes a struggling trickle
weariness replaces what
once was feeling
fleeting.

But do not weep for me
no second thoughts
no regrets
Whilst my sentiments fade
and a slumber nears
know I lived,
And how very sorry
I am
for the things
I have done
Jul 2013 · 618
Apparition
Rachel Cloud Jul 2013
Kiss of ice
and kiss of frost,
who remembers what was lost?
Fading light,
fading sight,
who ran off
into the night?

Whispers,
mutters,
something gone
who will live
when comes the dawn?

With,
without,
live,
or die
How can such variables
to this apply?

Can one live
without the other?
Or must one leave
with fear to smother

Words
no one
will ever hear,
But if they had
would they endear?

Quiet, quiet
no more words
With them
emotion comes in herds

Mocking,
haunting,
ghostly face,
weaving love
and thoughts like lace

Cold as frost
and cold as ice
And yet your lips
will still entice...
Opening of a story of a similar name.
Jun 2013 · 371
I am.
Rachel Cloud Jun 2013
You are what? They ask.
what doesn't matter. I answer.
I am. That's what is important.
What can be added later,
If later is ever needed
But I am anything
I am happy
I am alone
I am forgotten
I am unwanted
but I still am
still happy
still dreaming
still cherished
If only by myself
You see?
I know what I am
Everything
and
Nothing
Powerful
and
Whispered
Cautious
but

*am
May 2013 · 705
Shadows Now Past
Rachel Cloud May 2013
Hush the silence my dear
its cruelty screams loud
your loneliness couldn't
compare to mine

Don't you worry, my dear
The pain won't last long
I won't let you suffer
this night

Memories twirl
throughout my mind
hated reflections of loss that I faced
and the warmth I once felt
In my heart and my soul
I fear it is lost to me now

Oh, the darkness consumes me
as I watch the leaf die
and the hell I've been living
ends abruptly tonight

The shadows are swirling
under the moon's watchful eye
so as the whistling winds
tell me secrets so low
I whisper my quiet goodbye…

Just as the heartbeat of war
tore my love from my arms
so the silence that follows
drives me closer to her

tears fell from their eyes
knowing both of us gone
How could they not notice
my obmutescence of late?

Did they even ever care?

Oh, the darkness consumes me
as I watch the leaf die
and the hell I've been living
ends abruptly tonight

The cold shadows are swirling
under the moon's watchful eye
so as the whistling winds
tell me secrets so low
I whisper my quiet goodbye…
Lyrics for a song a character sings in a story I'm writing, (depressed male, has mild DID)
Criticism welcome/wanted, I've never written lyrics before.
Dec 2012 · 519
Look in the Mirror
Rachel Cloud Dec 2012
When you look in the mirror
And sorrow looks back
The sobs of unworthy
Your body will rack
As tears of regret
Fall through the air
Weight of consequence
More than you can bear
The hate inside you
Ripping out
The distress that blinds you
Fills you with doubt
Doubt in the world
that left you to rot
Doubt in the people
Who love you or not

Tragedy turns you
Cold as stone
And tragedies plural
Will leave you alone
As dark overshadows
All light in your soul
It makes you abandon
Your greatest goal
All hope that you find
Will seem dark and demeaning
Life, in itself
Will lose all its meaning
It'll mock you today
And will mock you tomorrow
The mirror that showed you
All of your sorrow...

— The End —