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 Sep 2014 Sarah
Jen Jo
Your Eyes
 Sep 2014 Sarah
Jen Jo
Can you please lend me your eyes?
Don't be long, I promise.

Please, let me show you what I see in you.
Let me show you [you].
 Sep 2014 Sarah
Towela Kams
I'm sorry I was acting up today
For the first time in never,
I won't try justify myself with the right words to explain.
There's no expedient for my misery
I won't blame it on the troubles I encounter each day.

Yes, I'm drained.
I feel like my life is melting away
And there's nothing I can do to remain
There's so many people I'm tempted to blame

The poignancy is creeping in once again
I can hardly find the appropriate words to say
I shiver when melancholy utter my name
It giggles as I try to refrain

Everything to lose, nothing to gain
Everyone to go, no one to stay
I fear that my heart will be empty someday

I'll shy away from shame
I'll get through this lurid phase
For tomorrow is a brand new day.
I know I'll be okay.
There's always hope, there's always going to be hope.
 Sep 2014 Sarah
Xander Duncan
Despite people constantly explainings music theory
I’ve never quite grasped the concept
Of different keys.
Because to me
Something would feel sharp and
Fall flat but
Be all too natural to you

And I had difficulty trying to articulate what I meant to say
Because we had such an interesting dynamic
And dissonance is positive when done correctly,
Right?

Constantly, you played chords on my heart strings
Like the threads wound tightly against the pegs on your guitar.
Beautifully
But never gently
Rarely slow
With some fascinating sort of
Passion
But not always the kind that I understood

And despite believing that your interest was genuine
I sometimes wondered if you got as much of a rush from
Holding the curves of that wooden body close to you
As you did from thriving on the attention that you got
When people saw that you had the skill
To manipulate something ordinary into something unique.


And I’ll admit
It got into my head
And caused me to fret

Refraining from over-analysis
Has never been my forte.
But somehow we always managed to bridge the gap
That our differences created
And accented the qualities that really made us harmonious.

Hoping you would not hesitate to
Pick me and
Bend me and
Guard me and
Let the notes ring loud and frenzied and
Place your hands
Along my neck
To let me be the fine-tuned
Instrument
Of your affection.

With lungs andante
And a heartbeat accelerando
I’d leave it up to you to conduct
A tempo.
While the melody lead us
In an entanglement of musical phrases and lyrical nonsense
That all came together.

I suppose.

But don’t ask me why,
I never understood music theory
I just know what I like to hear.
An old poem reworded to be past tense
 Sep 2014 Sarah
Sayira
My eyes filled with tears, can't lie,not the news I wanted to hear I won't die. In disbelief I stood,astonished and perplexed at the lies life told me.
Soul of mine do not choose to sink in sorrow and find within the will to survive.
 Sep 2014 Sarah
Lucy
Blue Summer
 Sep 2014 Sarah
Lucy
He looks at me
with tired eyes
They glisten
looking slightly
                                 that way

His thoughts racing in,
slowly saying he Loves me
if he didn't he'd be vacant
so he tells me..

Our days go by
as our Spring turns to Summer,
Summer fading slightly to Fall
Then in Winter we're over
gently clinging together
preparing ourselves
for yet another
Blue Summer

His eyes, now wide
when he watches me cry
awaiting the moment its over,
then with a hug
he continues
his same old sleepy way
forgetting why he ever saw me
in the first place
So I beg for him to look
with those eyes that he had
when the Moon brought excitement
rather the
frightened and sad

My eyes are bloodshot now
I feel like Im dying
I want to even.
And so I keep crying
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