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Sometimes it’s summer in your eyes.
Trees swaying in the green of the breeze
There, the sun shines.

And flowers bloom in Spring,
Cool yellow green, where moist
Mossy earth is alive.

And deep evergreen inhibits darkness,
The warmth of daylight fading fast
Freezing pools of frosted blue.

Gold and brown shadowed by sunset,
an amber autumn shines
In the evening of your eyes.
He looked down into the pool
as it turned to fire.
Igniting his reflection,
burning his eyes,
lashes singed,
and I could smell it,
sparking sparkling ripples.
He is lucky he isn’t blind now…
I told him to turn away
from the mysteries.
Though how could the fire
be so cold, he wondered.
Again, with curiosity,
Though he did not dare touch his hand
to the water
in fear of its depths
And secrets.
He once thought the pool had no emotion,
that the smooth movements of the water
were a result of the breeze
but the water breathed
and was disturbed by him.
In college we are taught to be animals
like "monkey see, monkey do".
Paying in pennies
to live in this petting zoo
Uncaged
Untamed
Some of us broken
Most of us maimed.
Escaping,
freedom without a clue.
she said,
"keep your
pretty little
head up"
don't cry,
don't waste
your mascara
you better
believe she's
not crying
for you
you better
believe she's
not dying
to be
with you
get up
on your
feet and
make her
see what
she's missing

you wrap
around me
like a snake
I can't breathe
I can't move
I'll suffocate
if I don't
get away
from you

you used
to say
we're never
gonna be
like everybody
else is
we're never
gonna take
each other
for granted
you're never
gonna stop
holding
my hand

you wrap
around me
like a snake
I can't breathe
I can't move
I'll suffocate
if I don't
get away
from you

if I don't
get away
from you...
Like Soldiers
Fighting a battle
They sit in rows
On the kitchen
Counter.

Teen.
Bi Polar.
Glorified ******.
Call me what you will
But do not take away
These bottles
Proscribed
To take away
My pain.

Dad says there's
Nothing wrong-
That my soldiers
Fight against me,
What does he know
Of the suffering
In my head
On my heart
In me?

Let me sit
And die
In the shade of
My soldiers
Let them fight off the pain
One last time
And let them shoot me,
Gently,
In the head.
Pills
Like dreams
-Doctor's Orders-
Block out the world
Muffle the sounds
Hide me
**** me
Free me
From this dream
Called life
That I
Cannot
Escape.
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