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289 · Jan 2016
Different
rattletaptap Jan 2016
Insane and weird* -- some may think of me.
Shattered and useless -- others may think of me.
But I am what I am -- *different!
284 · Dec 2016
Path
rattletaptap Dec 2016
We're always a step
Away from the path of
Death
283 · Apr 2015
Haiku #2
rattletaptap Apr 2015
Falling maple leaves
Chilly wind over clear lake
Distant fading clouds
281 · Jul 2015
My Dear
rattletaptap Jul 2015
Please bring down your fortress of distrust
Let me be your dragonflame, let me melt
All your worries, let me cleanse your rust
Let me show you how I've always felt!
280 · Jul 2015
Love In The Haze
rattletaptap Jul 2015
Our love is a vortex of souls,
Tormented, tattered, torn.
Recreated, rejuvenated,
Then tortured once again.

Nothing but whispers of melancholy,
Depression, despair, disaster.
Menacing, morbid
Are our nights spent in the dirt.

I hate you, yet I love you
Sincerely, silently, secretly.
Forlorn, forgotten,
Your smile, like an illusion of the past.
274 · Aug 2015
It's already too late...
rattletaptap Aug 2015
In the eyes of the trees,
We're just like the fallen leaves.
Like the wind after the storm,
Like the silence without a form.

We're simply ignorant,
And to the Earth, malignant.
No thought of consequence,
Was brought by our incompetence.

The Sun lends us a helping hand,
To see what we've done to our land,
And all we see, we ignore,
We're all but children, of war...
273 · Jan 2016
rattletaptap Jan 2016
Show them a tear
and see how much
they truly care...
273 · Oct 2018
rattletaptap Oct 2018
There is a line I'm not sure whether to cross.
Things could be better if I do, but maybe not...
I think and think and overthink.
I could leave behind a wreck, or maybe no trail at all
Things get worse yet I still fail to act.
270 · Apr 2015
Dancing Shadows
rattletaptap Apr 2015
I watched them from afar,
The dancing shadows,
As they lingered,
Underneath the twilight sky.

The way they moved,
And touched each other.
The way they waltzed,
And held each other.

They were within a world,
They had created themselves.
They were, its God and Goddess.
267 · Dec 2016
rattletaptap Dec 2016
If you can run away,
why are you still here?
262 · May 2015
A Tender Kiss
rattletaptap May 2015
A kiss is like a falling leaf
It falls until it feels the ground
And then it waits for the loving wind
To come and raise it high to feel the sky
261 · Jan 2016
→○←
rattletaptap Jan 2016
Be my raven,
Tell me
**Nevermore
259 · Jan 2016
.
rattletaptap Jan 2016
.
Dot. Dot. Dot.
Dotted became the sky.
Dotted with stars that
Dance and flicker. But I can't
Dance with them, as well...
259 · Nov 2016
~
rattletaptap Nov 2016
~
In summer's embrace, I wish to feel the winter.
257 · Apr 2015
I Want You! Forever!
rattletaptap Apr 2015
I want you here,
Right next to me,
I want you near,
So that my eyes can see.

And each time I see,
Your captivating smile,
It makes me feel free,
At least for a while.

Oh how I wish,
It could last forever.
I would never leave you.
Ever!
rattletaptap Nov 2015
Asleep at forest's edge,
I dream of sky islands and starry paths.
Counting the cycles of rebirth,
I dream of never-ending destinies.

Asleep at cavern's end,
I dream of grassy mornings.
Counting the passing nights,
I dream of death...
250 · Jun 2015
10w
rattletaptap Jun 2015
10w
Blaming others for your loss is admitting that you're weak
rattletaptap Jun 2015
Keep your head down
And your memories
Only to yourself.
Cry it all out,
Do it once, then twice,
Cry for all that is bad
And all good that is over,
But remember this:
Time does not heal,
But instead it reveals
That which is to be.
246 · Jun 2015
15w
rattletaptap Jun 2015
15w
Only a mindless fool would allow the vultures
To devour him while he's still alive
245 · Apr 2015
Hopeless Dreamer
rattletaptap Apr 2015
In these ruins of depression,
Where souls are filled with void,
Left empty by the mists of madness.

Under these grey skies,
Where mayhem and havoc
Hold each other's hands.

In this darkened hall
Of unfinished paintings,
Where even tranquil ghosts
Fall into oblivion.

In the blink of an eye,
I would die, just to meet
That special someone,
Who will end it all for me!
232 · Dec 2015
Untitled
rattletaptap Dec 2015
I am black & white,
You are color.

I will never feel your touch.
232 · Jun 2015
10w
rattletaptap Jun 2015
10w
All perceived as whole is unwhole without you near me.
222 · Jun 2015
Another loss....
rattletaptap Jun 2015
I was always there for you
And you weren't for me.
But I didn't care, not at all.
No matter how dark your
Days would get, I would
Always try to light them up.
Even though I knew I'd fail,
Even though I knew it was futile....
I did it. I did it and I would do it again,
But in a matter of days you changed
And you pushed me away. You tried
To throw me out of your life and succeeded.
But why?!
221 · Nov 2015
Lost...
rattletaptap Nov 2015
The flames dance
just as our hearts did
when we met by chance
in the giant crowd amid.

But now the wave brings
all the sight of you
and the sky sings
a song we once knew.
212 · Jun 2015
10w
rattletaptap Jun 2015
10w
In endless mist buried.
I die to see you again....
209 · Jan 2016
You
rattletaptap Jan 2016
You
The night falls
and so do I,
in the dark pits
of your eyes...
208 · Aug 2015
Now I know and understand
rattletaptap Aug 2015
No longer caught between the chapters of your dream,
No more distant feelings, we are in unity,
Like a hive of bees and these feelings the queen,
We are now playing a perfect symphony...
206 · Dec 2015
Glass Soul
rattletaptap Dec 2015
Madness,
sadness.
Intertwining mistresses.
Hands wrapped, tightly around me.
Caress soft as cotton,
all my words gone; forgotten.


One thing I can only hear,
in this place I most fear.
My name its calling--
this voice I cannot shake--
my ****** soul--I hear it break.
Blood turned cold. I'm falling
deeper and deeper into a
void of ever-lasting winter.
rattletaptap Sep 2015
How many wonders will you weave?
How divine can you be?
How many hearts will you open,
for everyone to see?
184 · Jun 2015
10w
rattletaptap Jun 2015
10w
We act grown up, but we're only the universe's babies...
175 · Apr 2015
I Need To Tell...
rattletaptap Apr 2015
Far from home
I'm on the road
And in my chest
I have this load

I'll tell you why
I'll tell you all
Before I die
And have no soul

I rode upon
The wings of Death
And escaped
It's lifeless breath

The one who helped
The one I found
Is my love
That made me bound

And in the face
Of Gods and men
I'll tell you why
I'll fight again

No escape
From what's to come
But in front of Death
No longer numb

Escaped it once
I'll beat it twice
I won't be
It's sacrifice!
169 · Nov 2015
Untitled
rattletaptap Nov 2015
Others may read what I write,
but I write for you...
167 · Apr 2020
Unseen but felt
rattletaptap Apr 2020
I dream of blue roses and black tulips,
as well as kisses but I wonder whose lips?
I never can tell if she's even human or fae.
Am I to never see her, or are we as one to lay?

She has indeed burrowed herself in my mind
like a sickness for which a cure I cannot find.
Through runes and rituals I try our fates to bind
with hopes to see her then, when the stars are aligned

— The End —