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Out goes another decade
Dying in the last embers
As the final seconds fade
And the past slowly remembers

A new one is born to begin
Maybe better than that before
Wondering what it will bring
What secrets has it instore

A new year, for a new time
Ten years gone by too fast
Twelve bells of a clock chime
Celebrations that can never last

Let us have no wars or no pain
No problems creeping this way
No dark clouds bringing forth rain
Let there be a new beginning today




copyright Chris Smith 2011 January 1st
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
What is pain,
But something once defined,
By someone in need,
Or someone defied,

Like the pain in my chest,
Each and every day,
The longer that I wait,
Is the more that it will stay,

My special little pain,
Is the heart that beats so fast,
Every time I'm around you,
It feels like a blast,

But this heart it bleeds,
It beats and it breaks,
For no apparent reasons,
Will it end it's little ache,

But for now I try to stop it,
Stop that stupid little pain,
From being here in the first place,
Or for ever entering again.
I watch you pace back and forth
in your apartment,
grasping at faded memories
and moments long since forgotten

You collapse on the couch
with a heavy hearted sigh
you fidget and fiddle
as you wonder where I am

I always lived like this
keeping a suitable distance
it's almost comical to think my afterlife
would be the same

I wish I could move on
but I can't seem to let go of you
I can't bare the thought of leaving you
here all alone

but I know I have to,
it's for your own good.
I move closer to you
and kiss your forehead

within an instant
I begin to fade
I know you'll be okay,
but I'll never forget you...
© Morgan Percy 2010
The more that this flows,
Deep beneath my brain,
The more this will keep going,
And soon drive me insane,

I feel no fear,
I feel no pain,
The numbness has set in,
There's no breaking this chain,

Why the feeling of sorrow?
Why not something grand,
Why have lots go wrong,
That you can't easily understand,

Talk with your voice,
And make sure you show no fear,
Cuz as long as your behind something,
No one will see your tears.

-Helpful Anon
Victimize, yourself

                Tantalize, everyone else

                                                  Agonize, her
                                                              
                                                                Moralize, you try
                                                                                  
                                                                                 Critisize, they do
                                                                                                        
                                                                                                       Apologize, can't you?
© Morgan Percy 2010
I think that you would be surprised,
how much I think about you.
If you only knew just what I thought about,
you'd be really amazed how crazy I am about you.
When you hold me in your arms,
my entire world stands still.
My everything is right,
my everything is standing before me.
Big blue eyes staring back at me,
so beautiful and right.
Your touch is gentle and warm,
taking away all my pain.
You know just how to hold me,
just how to soothe me.
I don't understand how I missed,
I didn't know for years.
But now here we are in a moment,
everything stands still.

But
But her.
That girl.
The one you're with.
What about her?

You don't want to be with her,
and everything seems so complicated.
But I don't know, sweetie,
just how long I can stand.|
To share you, with her,
to have you go between.
I've come to be 'the other woman',
someone I've avoided till now.
And hunny, I wish you knew,
just how I felt about this whole ordeal.

I'm falling,
falling quickly,
falling fast,
but can you catch me,
while you're holding her?
I am away from you my sweet

Awaiting that time we will meet




The distance is keeping me away

From that love, where I want to stay




My mind can feel the tears she is crying

I wish she could see this love undying




My hearts just keeps hurting me so

As these days pass by too slow




Sometimes I fear we are drifting apart

And that is what breaks my heart




I have a photograph of your face

One my fingers continue to trace




This is what keeps our love still pure

To be able to kiss your picture







copyright Chris Smith 2010
When the sun went away and the moon turned his way, I hope he thought of me.
When his sense flew away and his mind became crazed, I hope he thought of me.
When he stopped praying and wishing for his Juliet to come, I hope he thought of me.
When she broke his heart and his life burst apart, I hope he thought of me.

When his mother was widowed and he cried in his pillow, I hope he thought of me.
When the thunder and the lightning wouldn't go away, I hope he thought of me.
When her boyfriend decided to come and beat him up, I hope he thought of me.
When his sister closed her eyes for her very last time, I hope he thought of me.

Because I thought of him all the time and wished only for him to be happy.
Because I loved him more than anybody in the world and wanted always to be with him.
But now its too late. Now its too late. Now it is just simply too late.
He didn't think of me when he took a deep breath and killed himself.
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