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9.8k · Apr 2015
Trust
rattletaptap Apr 2015
It is that thing, when you give them your all,
And you believe they're not going to bring your downfall.

It is that thing, when it gets broken,
You cry and try to forget it, just leave it unspoken.
5.0k · Apr 2015
Random Thoughts...
rattletaptap Apr 2015
What is right?
What is wrong?
I wonder why
I have this song
In my mind
And in my heart
Am I a poet
Or am I a bard
I sing along
As I write
But my voice
Has no light
4.3k · Jan 2016
rattletaptap Jan 2016
Sometimes the silence screams as well
2.3k · Apr 2015
My Love, My Evening Star!
rattletaptap Apr 2015
In these barren wastes,
Of foul smell and clouds grey,
Should I give up? Nay!

In the midst of night,
I see, the brightest star,
Oh, such a mesmerizing sight!

I follow her, my evening star,
She'll always guide me home,
Whether I'm near, or I'm far.
2.1k · Apr 2015
Within The Shadows They Lay
rattletaptap Apr 2015
They are there,
Always, following
watching, waiting

Patient, calm
And collected

Out of your sight,
Making you think
That it's only
Deep inside your mind

But they are real,
Watching you,
From the shadows

Patiently waiting,
For the moment to come,
For the moment to strike
1.6k · Apr 2015
Thank you!
rattletaptap Apr 2015
I always tried
To run away,
And escape it all

I built my wall
And hid it all
So no one can see
The real me

I lived in pain
But you, made me realise
It was all, in vain
1.4k · May 2017
Neither here nor there
rattletaptap May 2017
Neither here nor there I was
when you blossomed amid autumn.
The well, I heard, had been emptied.
Saddened, I sat on the porch and
watched the orange sky glaze by
like we used to. Come twilight
I reminisced the old days.
You said it would be fine if
reaching out was not an option.
So, neither here nor there I was,
but deep inside I always knew
the dog wouldn't hunt.
1.3k · Apr 2015
The Sea
rattletaptap Apr 2015
Ever reaching
And so serene,
So briny and clean,
Is, the mystifying sea.

The fish inside it,
Together flock,
Swimming around,
A **** or rock.

The peaceful lives
Will forever last,
Where all is massed,
Beneath, the boundless sea.
1.3k · Jun 2015
Hope
rattletaptap Jun 2015
Is it trust? Or is it pain?
Belief or a chain?
Is there anything to gain?

Those words flicker,
As sadness gets thicker,
And loss comes quicker...

Yet hope remains still,
High atop an empty hill,
With paper and quill.

It rewrites your fate...
But is it now too late?
1.2k · Apr 2015
The Leprechaun's Secret!
rattletaptap Apr 2015
A *** of colors
At the rainbow's end
A *** of hope
All pain to mend

A *** of time
An eternal bliss
A *** of love
A tender kiss

A *** of peace
A warless Earth
A *** of gold
An endless worth
954 · Jun 2016
◄►
rattletaptap Jun 2016
If they've built a wall,
don't tear it down and
bring them into reality;
take a few bricks out
and sneak inside.

Have yourselves
a fantasy with a
bit of reality
seeping in
through the
hole you made.
rattletaptap Jun 2015
Each, riding
Upon a noble beast
By the Lamb of God
Now released

On a white horse
The first one came
And the land
Was his to claim

Now undone
The second seal
To him presented
A sword of steel

The third rode
A blackened beast
To bring hunger
At the very least

Then the ashen
Did arrive
To end a fourth
Of all alive

They're sent to signal
A divine forthcoming
And the Lamb's
Second coming
905 · Jul 2016
When winter comes
rattletaptap Jul 2016
Bless the sky when winter comes
and twilight sings a song of ice,
cold and pale
as its ghastly grip of death.

Embers dress the aurora on such
darkened nights.

A pale ghost dances around an oak,
around the Pantheon.
It's a ghost of my own, an illusion.
Memories seep away like forgotten dreams;
lost, like a raven in the night.

I bow to the Pantheon, to nature.
rattletaptap Mar 2016
Never be scared of
The darkness, because
It will swallow you
If you are.
You should be curious
And try to reveal its
Secrets, because then
It will have no choice
But to flee.
814 · Jul 2015
Battlefield
rattletaptap Jul 2015
Gunshots and screams
Are ringing all around,
Neither silence nor peace
Inside me can be found.

Bullets slice through air,
Swift; like a winter wind.
Bodies fall into mud,
Like red autumn leaves.

The odor of their blood,
Brings tears to my eyes
And within them hidden,
The cry, for my fallen allies.

Explosions shake the ground,
Leaving people in distress,
Soldiers moving around,
Like peons in a game of chess.

Corpses are used as shields,
Blocking piercing rounds,
Missiles fall from up high,
Ending lives with heavy sounds.

A ****** pulls the trigger
From deep inside the forest,
Within my chest a raging pain,
Shackles me to enemy soil.

The rainbow-painted sky,
Distant and ever-reaching,
Finally smiles upon me,
It knows I am about to die.
803 · Apr 2016
Majestic Thorn
rattletaptap Apr 2016
Leaves twist to my flute's tune.
Gentle waves of breeze hit my cheeks
as I sit on damp grass--its smell fills me.

Grey clouds, perched atop
rocky mountain peaks, bid the sky goodbye,
yet the sun has not yet come around.

Fearless, yet with caution,
a deer sips from the lake's crystal clear water.
Turns to me with sullen eyes;
tears dripping down its cheeks like rain.

My heart throbs as it sits next to me.
It, too, watches the lake with a dreary soul.
A distant waterfall murmurs whispers of hope for us both
as we await the sun's faraway arrival.
794 · Apr 2016
Seasons...
rattletaptap Apr 2016
We were different
Like winter and summer,
So we made our little spring
To balance it out.
But then fall came.
789 · Apr 2015
Demon King
rattletaptap Apr 2015
Awakened from your slumber,
Trapped in a cell,
In a world down under.
The dreadful Hell.

Glorious your wings,
Oh, ruler of kings.
Black as night,
Their magnificence forthright.

Dire your horns,
The mightiest of thorns.
Stronger than steel,
Making all the knights kneel.

Crimson your skin,
Reddest of your kin.
Your muscles bulk,
Making the strongest sulk.

Your head terrible,
Your sight unbearable.
Your ears long,
Your legs strong.

Your voice deep,
Making all the women weep.
Your life eternal,
Your wrath infernal.

Frightening your sight,
Immeasurable  your might.
Torture is your pleasure.
Your collected souls,
I cannot measure.

To you, killing is a game.
In Hell,
Echoed is your name.
741 · Jan 2016
≥≤
rattletaptap Jan 2016
I keep silent until I no longer have the patience for it
727 · Feb 2017
rattletaptap Feb 2017
I am not afraid of the darkness
but the shadows that hide within it.
I am not afraid of silence,
but the sounds that eventually break it.
719 · Apr 2016
Stormy Sky
rattletaptap Apr 2016
Three ravens cry
for the stormy sky.

How it must feel
to be so sad,
to be in such pain,
to hurt so bad.

How it must feel
to be hated so much,
to not see the sun,
nor feel its touch.

How it must feel
to be so alone,
to hope for your clouds
away to be blown...
712 · Apr 2015
Fate's Writings
rattletaptap Apr 2015
I am bound to an endless tale
Written by a mastermind
Called Fate

I live within its books
Filled with dust
And written in days of old

Within the writings of a genius
I look for a flaw, I look for a singer
Called Belief

So that I can escape
This restless dream,
These black inked letters
700 · Dec 2015
I wish I only could
rattletaptap Dec 2015
Parallel lines tell the story of how you and I never met.
688 · Apr 2015
A Requiem For a Lonely Soul
rattletaptap Apr 2015
Inside a haunted room,
A violin is being played.
But for whom?

A stranded soul,
With an unknown path,
It is in pieces, it is unwhole

A requiem is being held,
In its honor,
For such pain, it had withheld.

The room is brimmed,
With an audience of one,
And its pain is at last, being trimmed.
"For such pain, it had withheld." =  It didn't ask for help, decided to keep all the pain to itself
667 · Jan 2018
I want to be a leaf
rattletaptap Jan 2018
I want to be a leaf.
A tiny leaf atop a tall tree,
where darkness holds no sway,
where the stars shine during long nights,
where the sun can warm me on tough days.

I want to watch as foxes run,
to hear the wolves howl at the moon,
to feel the wind and rain on me,
to be one with nature.

I want to live the life of a leaf
without suffering and pain,
to be at peace and feel safe
when I bloom and when I fall.
659 · Jan 2017
Life
rattletaptap Jan 2017
What is life if not a tiny speck of light
between nothingness and death.
639 · Apr 2015
War & Death
rattletaptap Apr 2015
War,
When the sounds clench,
The mighty horns,
And crimson stench
Overshadows the meadow smell.

When Bodies lay
Soundless on the ground,
That's the time,
When Death comes around.

Death,
The ghastly one, comes down from the sky,
Patiently waiting, to take away,
All of those, who will soon die.
565 · Jun 2015
The Devil In Me
rattletaptap Jun 2015
Why do you?
Why do you see
Only the Devil in me...?

I'm not that bad
In this city of
The living dead.

I do the same,
The same as you,
I stroll the streets,
Without a name.

True, my soul is dark,
But so is yours,
We're all just puppets,
To some unknown force.

And yes I hum
These wicked melodies,
When it's time
For demons to come,

I may be bewitched,
But so are you,
And I dance with them,
But you do it too.

Yet I wonder why,
Why do you see
The Devil only in me?
558 · Jan 2016
?
rattletaptap Jan 2016
?
I open my eyes and see you the way I want to.
I close them, and I see the way you truly are....
546 · Sep 2016
Silence
rattletaptap Sep 2016
The best silence is the woosh
of wind through trees
on murky nights
536 · Apr 2016
Wish
rattletaptap Apr 2016
Craving the snow like a husky.
Pale and cold and melts on my touch--
I remember those ****** winters.
Through frostbites and numbness,
I would dearly hold it.

Each snowflake I touched made me shiver.
Each ball I made was perfect like a globe--
I saw the whole world in it.
And I never threw them; I kept them.
I never wanted to see you shattered nor dirtied.
Spikes ran through me when I saw you that way--
You should be pale and cold and melt on my touch...
526 · Jan 2016
)(
rattletaptap Jan 2016
)(
Another night fell,
but it doesn't matter.
I never knew the sun anyway...
522 · Jan 2017
Hell
rattletaptap Jan 2017
Hell is a place without all
the things we take for granted
518 · Feb 2016
rattletaptap Feb 2016
Silent mouth means
Loud mind.

Silent mind means
Loud mouth.
516 · Apr 2015
Trapped
rattletaptap Apr 2015
I slowly sway back and forth
In my barless cell
It's so big; I can't see the end
I feel like I'm in hell
Imprisoned by my own thoughts
Insanity grips me tight
It wants me to give in, just give up
I won't; I'll fight!
All Is, why? Because it's personal and I'm not giving up :P
509 · Apr 2015
Death By Gold Vines
rattletaptap Apr 2015
Golden vines, wrapped around her neck,
Clenching tightly; Not releasing her, not even slightly.
Her mind and body, a complete wreck.
Now she is dead; Her tale and life have gone unsaid.
495 · Apr 2015
If only you knew...
rattletaptap Apr 2015
If you only knew
How I really feel
About you

I want to know
What you would do

Would you be shot
By Cupid's bow
Or would you go
And leave me alone

Would you let me
Pull you in
Touch your lips
And let me sin

Or would you go
Run away
Leave me
Without a word to say

I want to know
What you would do
If you knew
How I truly feel
About you
483 · Apr 2015
A Drop of Regeneration
rattletaptap Apr 2015
With open arms face me
Hold me tight, embrace me
Wipe my sparkling tears
Take away my bitter fears
Put your wings around me
Show me what life can be
Show me it's not all dreary
My journey has left me weary
Don't let my soul fall apart
Nurture it like a form of art
Be both, my friend and lover
But you must help me recover
rattletaptap Apr 2015
When the moon shines upon the void
The puppets' lonely princess
Shall dance with the enigma
A prophecy, written so long ago
Even before the tales of afterlife

Her tattered dress shall slowly
Sway, across the wooden floor
Her stripped feet shall gently
Tap upon the moonlit stage
And she shall lose herself
In his mysterious eyes

His hands shall hold her tight
And feel the warmth of love
His darkness shall fade away
Far, far into the abyss
And he shall lose himself
In the beauty of her hair

The puppets behind shall play
A macabre and ghastly serenade
For the two whose fates
Shall eternally be intertwined
Joined together, by their mutual love
http://ap-pics2.gotpoem.com/ap-pics/contest/2647/93.jpg?Victoria_France
I used that pic as a reference :)
459 · May 2016
Song of a hopeless creature
rattletaptap May 2016
Silent tears in this world of desperate desire to hold onto hope,
knowing it's a useless thing to do. Dreams running rampant,
while expectations and reality are drowning
like bodies filled with stones.

Souls branded with the word "broken" try to piece themselves
back together with parts of another. It's like trying to put mercury
instead of blood during a blood transfusion and expecting everything to be alright.

No cycle in a monochrome life, only a line:
Pain, sadness, sorrow, misery, death...
Then you're gone.
rattletaptap Apr 2015
Your presence holds my sanity together.
Can I keep you?

Your presence revitalizes my bleeding heart.
Can I keep you?

Your presence takes away my pain.
Can I keep you?
I would love to hear about something from you all, in the format above, about that special someone in your life.
"Your presence... Can I keep you?" As you can notice the similarity between these 3. :)
457 · Jun 2015
A long road
rattletaptap Jun 2015
The road strings up day and night
Upon my only shoelace.
Twenty four hours with no rest
I walk only to see your face.
425 · Jun 2015
In a new land
rattletaptap Jun 2015
Through Death's doors he arrived
In an unknown land
He was revived
By demon hand
Of freedom he was deprived

Two moons in the sky
Two sides on the ground
Suddely a battle cry
Now, his fate is bound

He raised his hand up high
A glimmer of light in his eyes
He stood there as men wondered why
His mind now reaching newer highs

With a magic circle above his head
"By my will you shall abide
No longer you are cast aside"
From the sky a single spider thread

Down came a creature of old
With a giant head and a blackened spike
"Now it's power you shall behold"
The man said as it began to strike

The soldiers now united fought
Standing against a common foe
The creature's death they sought

Two thousand men
Fallen to the ground, slain
The creature, whithering in pain

With swords and spears
To pierce the ancient they tried
But too thick was it's hide

The fight went on and on
On the soldiers it took a great toll
But the creature, it began to fall
As it arrived, the new dawn.

Then, four wizards came
With a task in mind
A creature to tame
A creature to bind

"Fall to your gloom
to meet your doom"
The powerful chant
Made them pant

"Forever doomed"
The chanting resumed
"Forever bound
Nowhere to be found"

A hole in the ground
Within it hellish fire
The creature made a screeching sound
It had invoked the wizards' ire

They were chanting and mumbling
As the ground was crumbling
The situation was quite dire
But the hole turned into mire

The man had fled
And it all came to an end
As the wizards swore
The kingdom to defend
424 · Mar 2016
rattletaptap Mar 2016
“Love hurts.”
Maybe it’s supposed
To be that way.
Maybe you need
To like that pain.
Because maybe,
Just maybe,
It’ll all be make sense
In the end.
407 · Apr 2015
Separated Lovers
rattletaptap Apr 2015
Unable to meet,
Like life and death,
Light and dark,
Heaven and hell.

Bound, to only see
Each other from afar,
Forced to imagine,
The warmth,
Of each other's touch.
406 · Jun 2016
None
rattletaptap Jun 2016
At the end of the day
My path forks:
A path of bones and
A path of gold.
Yet I only have the will
To take none and revert
Back...
402 · Apr 2016
I'm completely satisfied!
rattletaptap Apr 2016
It's funny how most people my age
just want to go out and socialize
while the best times of my life
are the ones I spent (and spend) alone in my bed
with melancholic music and closed eyes
393 · Jul 2015
Hueless...
rattletaptap Jul 2015
The hollow night awakens
As I breathe the monochrome.
It will all be over soon I say,
All I need to do is have the will
To wait for only a little while,
The morning will surely come.
But I wonder, Will it be my last?
Will my heart be frozen in time?
There is nothing to cut this silence.
All which surrounds me is as dull
As the edge of the overused blade of life.
The horror thickens as even the last
Piece of whiteness turns to black.
I feel as though I'm drowning in mud,
It fills my lungs and I lose myself
With each passing moment.
385 · Jun 2015
Balance
rattletaptap Jun 2015
What is broken will be whole once more
When the sun sprouts behind the mountains
And peeks through the Earthly door
And all that is whole will be left unwhole
For there needs to be balance
between the world and the soul
380 · Nov 2015
Waiting
rattletaptap Nov 2015
I will await you where the sidewalk ends;
listening to the rain tap upon the cobblestones.
Sheltered in the darkness under a black umbrella
as the cold, autumn wind tickles my bones.

You will find me sitting upon a marble bench
behind the splendor of a willow tree.
And its fallen leaves will keep me company
as they did to those who waited here before me.
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