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270 · Aug 2014
The Edge of a Kind Heart
Shannon Jeffery Aug 2014
Why do I continue
Allowing them to use me
Why do I smile
Through this wretched agony

They sit back and watch
As I do what they need
They sit back and laugh
As I break down and bleed

But I still insist
On helping the needy
But still I'm blind
To those who are greedy

I live off my kindness
And yet I'm breaking
To them I just a target
An advantage for the taking

The only home from the pain
Is when my ink hits the paper
Without this relief I'd go insane
Sometimes I wish I was just a vapor
268 · May 2014
Hollow Smiles
Shannon Jeffery May 2014
You think you understand me
But the truth you do not see
You think I'm full of happiness
But intact I'm just full of stress

You ask me if I'm okay
"I'm feeling great today"
LIE, deep inside I'm holding pains
My heart and soul covered in stains

I put on my masquerade
A smile of a soul that fades
No one knows what lurks beneath
You have no clue for what I sheathe

My soul cauterized inside out
My heart seeping from all my doubt
I put a smile for which you ask
My disturbed hollow mask
266 · Jul 2014
Road to Tomorrow
Shannon Jeffery Jul 2014
What is this of which people
call the road to tomorrow
Why can't I see where it leads me
Why don't I see which I want to know

This road isn't built
on which my thoughts are spilt
I'm trying to know that of which is unknown
The thing that no one is ever shown

Only with time I seem to find
pieces of answer to my question
to where is my future to wind
Lost in a filled blank section

Along this twisted unseen road
Creating my own view
of my life that I've sowed
through the choices that I issue

This is the road to tomorrow
there is no time you can borrow
so make it while you got it
Create a path to which you fit
266 · Jan 2015
Haiku #10
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Internally numb
Crimson tears fall with each stroke
Searching for freedom
265 · Oct 2014
Revisited Mind
Shannon Jeffery Oct 2014
Today's another day
Just like the rest
I sit here pondering
With my thoughts all a mess

Imagination whirling
On turntables inside
And all I can come up with
Is this repeated style of write
263 · Jan 2015
Haiku #9
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Is it you I love?
Or is it the idea
Of being the loved?
262 · Mar 2014
Fear
Shannon Jeffery Mar 2014
Fear
What do I fear

I have a fear of height
but deep down its nothing
I would love to just take flight
but that's just a dream of something

I have a fear of spiders
creep me out far beyond my heartbeat
these fears are nothing just minors
my true fear lies deep, I can't defeat

I'm so afraid that I will just wake
from my visual reality
the life I have to just disappear, heartbreak
that it could be just a dreaming insanity

to lose all I have, experiences and all
would destroy me as deep as the core
finding out that my head created this wall
nothing I have done means anything, thrown out the door

my fear is to lose all that I love
all that I've experienced, aches and pains.
I don't want to lose anything, I don't want to leave
I love every last one of these stains

my soul is imprinted
my heart is engraved
my eyes can't be tinted
my being never enslaved

If I'm just dreaming
I'll shall never awake
this is a reality worth sleeping
I will not make the mistake

this is my biggest fear
unable to forever stay here.
Is our reality just a dream? Is this just insanity.
262 · Jan 2015
Summer Sunset
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
As I float across the cosmos
Pleasantly with ease
Upon my face with a gentle kiss
From a summers breeze

Laying on the warm sand
In which gently I settle my feet
As waves wash over me
Where land and water meet

A vibrant paradise
Of silent bliss
A moment I
Would never miss
262 · Jan 2015
Viral(10w)
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Mankind
A virus
Filling the world
With creations
Of destruction
261 · Jul 2014
Travelling Ink
Shannon Jeffery Jul 2014
I've decided to go on a holiday
Take a trip not so far away
I hike across the paper grass
An ink lake I almost pass

I dive right on in
Now ink stained veins
I travel across vast mountains
Trailing behind an ink river

Forming the ups and downs
The rolls and spins around
Dizzy I fall upon wet grounds
Tweeting of a pen birds sound

This is where you'll find me
Upon an ink stained paper grass sea
261 · Dec 2014
Purpose?(10w)
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
If searching for a purpose
Isn't that a purpose itself
Something random heh. By searching for a purpose you've given yourself the purpose to search for purpose so in turn you have found a purpose ;) but its a never ending loop hahaha
259 · Jan 2015
Haiku #6
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Strength comes from within
None can douse your flame but you
Burn bright like the stars
258 · Jan 2015
Haiku #4
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
We may burn to dust
But we can rise from the ash
To ascend once more
257 · Jan 2015
Dreams(10w)
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Follow your hearts wildest dreams
Across streams
Of imaginations seams
257 · Dec 2014
Defenses(15w)
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
Somehow
you found a crack
In my impenetrable wall
and just
slipped right on in
256 · Nov 2014
P.E.A.C.E
Shannon Jeffery Nov 2014
Personal
Enlightenment
And
Clarity
E**mbraced
255 · Feb 2015
Tracking
Shannon Jeffery Feb 2015
A stench so foul
Haunts these grounds
Follow your nose
Silence is the only sound
255 · Nov 2014
Lost In You
Shannon Jeffery Nov 2014
Drifting in the arms of an angel
Gracefully floating across the seas
Gleaming stars shimmering above
Resting my lonesome soul at ease

Your whispers melt away my armor
Invading with a soft sweet aroma
My heart beats to your every breath
Diving deeper and deeper into my depths
255 · Nov 2014
S.M.I.L.E
Shannon Jeffery Nov 2014
Share your joy all around
Moments now rarely found
Inviting all without a sound
Laughter and fun will be inbound
E**mbrace the love which surrounds
255 · Jan 2015
Life's A Game(10w)
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
An ever changing code
Constantly perfected
T**hrough its persistant errors
254 · Jan 2015
True Friend? (10w)
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Your gazing smile
Sharp as the blade
Behind your back
254 · Oct 2014
Paradise of Lies
Shannon Jeffery Oct 2014
We live in a paradise of lies
That sets our hearts on fire
It sets us to reach for the skies.

I sit upon my perch
Watching others rub
Their noses in dirt

Life has twisted so much
That all is seen is makeup
Just a powdered finishing touch

In a paradise of lies
That sets our hearts on fire
It's what sets us to reach for the skies

If one was to speak the truth
You'd be cast aside
Might even lose a tooth

So be careful where you tread
For the blooming rose has its thorns
For you never know what's truly been said

Sitting in a paradise of lies
Is what sets our hearts on fire
The day has come where truth dies
253 · Dec 2014
Normal?(10w)
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
Quality of Normality
Is Deemed By The
Insanity of Majority
247 · May 2014
Hearts Embrace(10w)
Shannon Jeffery May 2014
Diamonds trickle down my face
She accepts my hearts embrace
242 · Aug 2014
S.E.C.R.E.T
Shannon Jeffery Aug 2014
Silently holds dear
Every last word
Careful not to smear.
Recklessly told
Effortlessly severe,
Trust turns cold
240 · Sep 2014
Eternal Time
Shannon Jeffery Sep 2014
Time
Time and time again
We worship and fear time itself
But little do most realise
That time is just
A mathematical equation
To secure us into a chain
Giving us the idea of an end

Time
Time is made of numbers upon numbers
Just think for one moment
Numbers have an infinite value
Therefore numbers can reach
an infinite decimal place

Time
If we take this all into account
For it may feel faster than it seems
But we are eternal
For time is just numbers
In which we tried to cage
The life of each being

Time
An endless restriction
If trapped in the box
Or an eternity
Of exploration
Just a little mind **** about time. Dont live within time as a restriction. Live side by side as an ally and learn and explore what you can
238 · Mar 2014
Time
Shannon Jeffery Mar 2014
Time, what is time
time is a measurement
  a measurement to restrict.
We live within time
time controls our daily life
  we fight against the clock.
Time is a human creation
free yourself of human chains
  and learn to live as one.
Only then will one truly understand.
238 · Sep 2014
M.E
Shannon Jeffery Sep 2014
M.E
Masterfully Managing Entities *Migrating,
Effortlessly 
Entering  M*y          Encasement
Something random :)
238 · Sep 2014
Random (Thoughts?)
Shannon Jeffery Sep 2014
A flower doesn't
bloom in an instant

Animals master survival,
What do we master?

"Normal" a rating
Created by majority
Just some random things that put ideas in my head
235 · Feb 2015
Peace? (10w)
Shannon Jeffery Feb 2015
Hiding away
In cage
Scared to stray
Upon lifes stage
235 · May 2014
What should I do?
Shannon Jeffery May 2014
Some days I wonder
What should I do
My brain travels yonder
For an idea or two

When my head is out of ideas
What should I do
I look upon autumn trees
Foraging flora for a delicious hue

And then the days where I draw a blank
What should I do
Maybe I should steal a tank
Blow up a city, kablew

What if my heart decides to move
What should I do
Should I fall in love
And chase after you

These days I just wonder
That's what I do
Laying here I ponder
Waiting for something new
234 · Aug 2014
Standing Up
Shannon Jeffery Aug 2014
No more shall I
Weigh down anyone
I will show you
How strong I've become

I've got two hands
And two feet
I've got a brain
And my own heart beat

I'll show the world
Who I am
So you better look out
Cause I've got a plan
231 · Oct 2014
Last Breath(15w)
Shannon Jeffery Oct 2014
There's an expanding rift inside my chest
As I hear you take your last breath
231 · Jan 2015
Haiku #2
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Humans are fragile
Believing they cannot break
Love says otherwise
My 2nd try at a haiku
230 · Jul 2014
Slaves for Green
Shannon Jeffery Jul 2014
Torn and breaking
Worn and aching
Sleeping with eyes wide open
Nerves creaking, inside broken

Pushed to the limits
Barely pulling through it
Body feels its going to snap
All for that green crap

Greedy rich men drawing us in
For we need to survive
Waving green, we're worshipping
Feeding on us barely alive
230 · Jan 2015
Haiku #3
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
The beat of my heart
Syncs with every breath you take
In soft harmony
229 · Dec 2014
With Open Eyes(10w)
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
Unchained and clear
Released from time
A new horizon near
228 · Mar 2014
Who Am I?
Shannon Jeffery Mar 2014
Now the question we all like to ask
is who am I and what to be?
The answer to this question
isn't one to find.
For all I know is I am me.
and life will take me where I'm meant to be
Life is like a train,
from which you will have a ton to gain.
The travel that which we all take
may just make your soul quake
The long and windy path we are taken
will have us all awaken
For we may not understand
the end that is to come will be oh so grand.
The answer to the question is as simple as one..two..three
who am I? I am me
227 · May 2014
Seeded Ashes(10w)
Shannon Jeffery May 2014
One seed grows a forest
One second burnt to ashes
226 · May 2014
My Love
Shannon Jeffery May 2014
Staring deep into her eyes
Nights just whisk bye
Her smile is the sun to my day
A little flick to ease my pains away

Her words serenade my ears
Whistling away all my deep fears
She is the yin to my yang
The lullaby my heart sang

The flicker in her eyes
Light up the starry night skies
She cherishes my heart so
A blooming garden does grow

She is my sunshine
My dripping rain
A love to last the end of time
A ride on a bumpy train
225 · Jan 2015
Haiku #1
Shannon Jeffery Jan 2015
Accentuating
Your breathing, tuning the beats
Of my aching heart
So this is my first ever haiku. I'm not sure on a title nor if this is in correct format.

Syllables are 5-7-5
224 · Dec 2014
In Dark Times(20w)
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
Stars above
Twinkle bright.
Through a dark
Silent night

When downcast
Know your worth
Stand up strong
Love your life
224 · Mar 2014
Missing You
Shannon Jeffery Mar 2014
I miss you with my heart
for the days been long apart
I miss your piercing smile
it will still be awhile
I will never stop the fight
you're all of think of day and night
You have unlocked my soul
caused me to feel whole
I'm drifting through the day
thinking, waiting for the way
The day sure will arrive
so for this I will strive
I'm missing you.
221 · Jul 2014
Plains of Void
Shannon Jeffery Jul 2014
Here I am once again
In a place I know to well
Perched upon the blank plain
I imagine it worse than hell

It seems I have left but a speck
Of imagination for possible creation
I say to myself "it will return, just give it a sec"
My mind full of nothing, the void invasion

Every time I return to the absence
It draws me in deeper, draining
My thoughts, causing the loss of sense
My dreams and hopes it's consuming

Will I escape this time
Will I ever create another rhyme
Or will my thoughts be silent as a mime
NO, this is just an obstacle I shall climb

I will make it out alive
My inspiration shall kick in
So for this I shall strive
Splash this void with creation and win
218 · Dec 2014
Behind the Mind(10w)
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
Eyes Are Blind
To The Seas Behind
An Amazing Mind
218 · Feb 2015
In My Mind?
Shannon Jeffery Feb 2015
They ask me to let them in
To see what is going on in my mind
But all I can do I stare
And ask myself
That exact same question

*What is going on in my mind?
212 · Jul 2014
Painted Night (10w)
Shannon Jeffery Jul 2014
Starry sky glows
Entire galaxies paint
Our night which flows
210 · Dec 2014
Creation(10w)
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
With One Spark
The Mind Arcs
To Hit The Mark
209 · Dec 2014
Reflection(10w)
Shannon Jeffery Dec 2014
Whose eyes do you see
Staring back in the mirror
204 · Apr 2014
Sound of Time
Shannon Jeffery Apr 2014
Have you noticed
Everything that goes by
It all goes so fast
Soon enough we all say "Goodbye"

Time just slips away
Moments just disappear
Barely remember day by day
Back in time we try to peer

The sounds of time
So loud yet unheard
The tick tocking rhyme
Like the whistles of a bird

As fast as days go
Take in all the little things
Enjoy everything as you grow
For time forever shall sing
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