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 Dec 2014 Shadows Rising
Amy
To get a job, you need experience.
To get experience, you need a job.
To be wealthy, you need a four year degree.
To afford a four year degree, you need to be wealthy.
It's a never ending cycle.

Society tells us that if we work hard, it will pay off.
Yet, if that's the case
Why did my parents work hard their whole life
Yet could still barely afford to put food on the table 1/2 the time?

Hard work doesn't pay off.
Privilege does.
Not the most poetic thing I've ever written, but society is really ******* me off these days.
 Dec 2014 Shadows Rising
ryn
Kite
 Dec 2014 Shadows Rising
ryn

i wish
to infinitely
soar•in the highest
of skies•always higher,
and always more•held back by
the string that ties•i'd still welcome
hale air•as it blows stunningly
fresh•meets and carries my
body bare•bearing invi-
sible treasures in its
cache...•the errant
breeze i'd openly
fight•but i was
made with a
shoddy kit
•i'm fail-
ing and
falter-
ing...
like
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One fine day
    About midnight
Two dead soldiers
    Got in a fight.
Back to back
    They faced each other.
Drew their swords
    And shot each other.
A deaf policeman
    Heard the noise.
Came out and
    Killed the two dead boys.
If you don't believe
    This lie it's true.
Ask the blindman
    He saw it too.
Slip into madness
Let the thirst consume you
It fills you with passion
Piercing the flesh draining the blood
Knowing the vampire within is growing
No longer human reaching for sanity
On your way to hell but never reaching it
T**he night gives you immortality never to sleep again
 Oct 2014 Shadows Rising
Bassam A
Is love a desire or a crush?

Can it be bottled?  Can it be rushed?

Why do we love?

Do we control?
Is it our soul?

Is love measured by:
Greater than?
Equal to?
Or Less?

Can it grow and prosper?
Left a lone, will it fester?

I have a confession to make
I am in Love and it's so great
It's equal to none
'n it's not the same

My love claims
she doesn't feel the same
'n one day she confessed
In a low tone voice .. she whispered

"I feel the same as you do
Not one sided, but it's mutual"

I couldn't believe what I heard
Was it my imagination?
Or hallucination
I was happy I could fly
Another day
I had a sigh

Was she serious?
Or just curious?

Should I wait to see?
If her love was true for me?

Maybe one day she will care
For our love and she would dare

I would measure my Love for her
By the times as I would purr

She asked:
What if I love you the same?
Will I be bored?  Will you blame?

I said then:
Our love will be great
It will grow,
Lets start the flame
If you'r wise and nice
Please give an advice
 Oct 2014 Shadows Rising
Fel
If you were to ask me
How I would describe myself
With two words
That's what I'd say
Considering that I'm labeled a Saint, I sure don't act like it.
 Oct 2014 Shadows Rising
Mikaila
Life is too short for this.
I have never found a good enough reason,
A deep enough betrayal,
A hideous enough flaw
To condemn someone I love.
Life
Is too
Short,
And I can try all I want to stay angry
But all I can think is if someday I read their obituary in the newspaper,
Will the days,
Months,
Years I lost to silence
To grudges
To misunderstanding
To judgement
Be worth the feeling of that moment?
Will whatever made me hate them have any meaning in the face of oblivion?
And the answer is always no.
And the answer is always forgiveness.
And I wish they gave me the same gift.
Forgive and let go
You need it more than your foes
**It's a selfish goal!
When you forgive, you're doing yourself a favor ;-)
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