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310 · Sep 2014
This time
Simpleton Sep 2014
You hang somewhere 
In moments spent in the past
And the wishes of tomorrow 
In the streets of hope
I search for friendship
Amongst the gloom of happiness 
I come across fates that betray 
Love that lingers as a long lost lover 
Nowhere to be seen 
Lessons scribbled in illegible writing 
Mistakes that have to be made 
Once again 
And just maybe 
This time there won't be any faults
Because we have had practice
And this time we can fix it 
Save the raw scrapes against the wounds of the soul
Follow the path engraved to the unknown 
With high expectations comes great falls 
So lets fall into the bottomless abyss 
The grave I mean 
Together forevermore 
Bound by memories 
Held by time 
Words once spoken that we can't take back 
Trapped in echoes reliving in the mind 
Relations a maze
We search for an exit 
Missing it each time  
Too caught up on each other
Not wanting a way out
309 · Jul 2013
Rest your soul
Simpleton Jul 2013
A desolate worldly journey
To a barren land
Of echoing silence
Suffocated with peace.
308 · Oct 2022
My love
Simpleton Oct 2022
Your
prayers
are
mine
15.11.22
308 · Sep 2016
Nostalgia
Simpleton Sep 2016
In the evenings
When I search for traces of myself
I long to relive the improvised chapter
The finest selection from the museum of memories
Filtered from impurities
With side effects of addiction
A sporadic disease that grips time frozen
To rewind and replay the time of long ago
A pain of first pleasures that melt like sugar in a cup of tea
It is the invitation to stay awake at night
It seems like a love letter from a county I did not love whilst I was there
But I love it now
Now that it's in me
It roasts seeds of alertness
And moans of the truth
Echoing the sense of instinct and conscious and subconscious
The jealously of fresh air coming from the heights of a distant mountain
The ache of being sick with hope
Utterly romantic
308 · Oct 2018
Damnation
Simpleton Oct 2018
Her hopes and dreams
Always lay in
One day
The day she gets out
The day she finds salvation
So she became a runner
Every hurdle every mountain
She ran through every fire
Seeking happines
Pursuing freedom
Everytime she thought she had it
Suddenly
It would explode before her very eyes
Without reason
Without fault
Everyone and everything was always out to get her
But one day perhaps not today
I'll be strong she'd say
I'll be happy and free
Independent and me

Until time slowed her down
And running was no longer an option
One day
Not today
But perhaps a day
Where only my body remains
My mind will cease
I'll stop running
There would be nothing to flee

When she speaks of that day
Not a grimace on her face
Nor a tear in her eye
No
She awaits it like prayer to be answered
With hope
With love
Like a sure solution
To this damnation
307 · Mar 2021
Summer
Simpleton Mar 2021
I feared that Summer would remind me of you
The sun on my skin would torture me of the warmth I felt with your lips on mine
And here is summer that came before I forgot you
306 · Jan 2015
Winter blues
Simpleton Jan 2015
I will bottle it up
And ***** the lid on tight
Bite my fingernails to oblivion
And slow dance to death
I can't help it
Every once in a while
It hurts like a new type of pain I've never felt before
And pushes me deeper into the pits of hell
I just want to lay down
And watch the cloud of smoke make a sky above my head
I want to fly away
But I run instead
Turn around and pretend it never happened
I practice stopping my heart beating in my chest
Paralyse my limbs from the toes upwards
Hold my breath and count to ten
Twirl like a madman until I'm dizzy and sick
I want to walk forever
Just me and the music
Let the cold take me
Numb and blue
I don't belong here
I don't know what I'm doing
In my head is where God lives
He has angels and they'll come to visit
I'm grieving for the sun
That does not miss me
I'm dying to be burned by its embers
306 · Apr 2013
Something has happened
Simpleton Apr 2013
Something has happened
Something has been done
Since you came along
Life seems much more fun

Everything looks different
Everything seems new
Thoughts of you are constant
The past seeming so distant.

I have started to laugh when I'm on my own,
No longer wearing that famous frown,
Greeting everyone with a smile,
My mood is on an all time high.

All the colours seem brighter,
The flowers are more fragrant.
With you I'm an insider,
Show me how you enchant.

I find myself in front of the mirror,
How do I look?
When you're here, come nearer,
For you I want to cook.

Is this it?
What they call love?
My heart soars high and above,
Is this that moment when I lose my heart?

No, I have not lost anything

Rather in you gained everything.
306 · May 2014
After Today
Simpleton May 2014
After today
I will no more tread this path
I stand defeated
I won't come to meet you again
After today
You should consider
This all a dream
Now that you've found your own
Someone
Think of me as gone
I don't exist for you
After today
I will embrace my fate
305 · Apr 2014
Something Old
Simpleton Apr 2014
My
funeral
   procession
     will parade
       behind the
         horse and
           carriage of
              your life
                solemn
             and respectful
            even as I leave
           it will be in silence
           like the smothering
             of my dreams
                 your life
      she hides behind her veil
    as my face is placed by the
    window            for all to see
     wrapped in the white cloth
    as your life adorns her hands
   with something blue and gold
                                   you are that
  something
     she borrowed
       and I followed
behind
           like
                 something
                                   old
303 · Jun 2014
Like a Bullet
Simpleton Jun 2014
You came like a bullet
Meant for me
So I looked into the barrel of your gun
And saw my paradise

To die in the arms of love
Is every lovers dream
But I would settle
To die by your hands
302 · Oct 2014
Always yours (10w)
Simpleton Oct 2014
Whether you remain or not I will remain
always yours
Simpleton Jul 2021
اگر مذہب کا کھیل نہیں ہوتا
تو ہمارا پیار مکمل ہوتا
302 · May 2015
Our kind of love
Simpleton May 2015
'You see,' she said, 'our type of love is not the healing kind. We get lost to a fault hate like a crime. Yet tied down in a way we can't see a way out. The love we have is burdensome because we can't change who we are and yes we bring out the worst in each other. Its a sickness, a disease yet without you I am incomplete. So promise me, promise that you will find me wherever I may be. You see I love you and our love is a break up then make up kind. I'll take you in small doses but you're still all mine. Its the way our stars are aligned, how the universe shows us the signs. Our kind of love may not always be together but it's still the forever kind.'
301 · Sep 2014
In your silence
Simpleton Sep 2014
In your silence

I see my answers

In the silence

An echo cuts so deep

A pain shatters so loud

In the silence 

Memories vibrate 

From a soft pitch far away

And a new meaning is composed

In your silence

I hear everything from nothing

In the silence I am left blind
300 · Sep 2014
Untitled
Simpleton Sep 2014
Meeting you was like 
I was meeting myself for the first time 
And I want you to know that 
I would do anything 
Go anywhere
For your smile
300 · Sep 2017
Goodbye Summer
Simpleton Sep 2017
Sat in a room full of leaves
On the verge of something terrible
I can feel my blue fingertips
And grazed knees
Time is pulling me unwillingly
My neck cramps from looking over my shoulder
I'm crying cider tears
I dream the sun remembers my name and comes to eat me
I've never wanted so little and so much in my life
Moss is growing over my starved soul
I look out the window to the traitorous earth
Howl at the moon that's in its prime
My heart folds
Not like gentle origami
It's scrunched
It feels like ripping the scabs off before I'm done healing
Eventually I'll slump into the wind
Even though it only speaks of bad things coming
300 · Mar 2014
Hold it safe
Simpleton Mar 2014
You made me a drunkard
One who is intoxicated
By your gaze
My life is my love
My love is you
Your happiness
Is married to mine
Your smile is held
In my eyes
A devout believer
With not a moments rest
Memories of you
Pilgrimage my mind
Everything that is
Instantly became yours
Thud thud thud
My heart beats
In your chest
Take care
Hold it safe
It holds my breath
In a stubborn way
That would drown
In the name
Of my beloved
298 · Mar 2014
Lost and Found
Simpleton Mar 2014
I cover my eyes
Before the blow reaches its mark
So I can't see her flesh wobble
Vibrate and see the blood pour out

I turn the music up louder
So I can't hear him shout
But they can hear it
From out of space

She adds fuel to the fire
And can't take the heat of the flame
Later sits in guilt
And both relish in the blame game

Don't let the doubt seep in
It wasn't your fault
You were provoked
It will sort itself out

He showers me with gifts
Monetary bribes
She envelops me in love
And that's why I hide

Cuss on a Monday
And pray on a Friday
I'm not even on the dance floor
But you drag me in everyday

I'd leave without looking back
But now I feel like
I owe you
I owe them to stay

Because you got us
Messed up smoking
One's drinking
And one's taking pills

Today I'm only a kid
But tomorrow I'll convince you
When I made it better
I'm on my way up

I'll never let you see me frown
I got dreams
I see them even when I don't sleep
One day this will be a distant memory
297 · Apr 2013
My Only Wish
Simpleton Apr 2013
All your armies
All your fighters
All your tanks
And all your soldiers

Against a boy
Holding a stone
Standing there
All alone

In his eyes I see the sun
In his smile I see the moon
And I wonder
I only wonder,

Who is weak?
And who is strong?
Who is right?
And who is wrong?

And I wish
I only wish,
That the truth has a tongue.
This Poem belongs to Sami Yusuf, I am just reblogging it :)
296 · Apr 2013
Hell
Simpleton Apr 2013
We're all in the same game;
Just different levels...
Dealing with the same Hell;
Just different Devils.
This is not mine... just something I read somewhere and liked. ^_^ (Sorry can't reference original author, its unknown)
296 · Oct 2017
All that matters
Simpleton Oct 2017
She sat on the side of the bed
Knees hugged close
Elbows shaking unsteadily
She watched him wary and heartsick

Her eyes roamed his skin
The longing to touch
Tangible in the static air
His gaze a caress staring at the curtain of hair hiding her eyes from his

He let his back slide down against the door
As he rested on the ground opposite her
Slowly his hands hands crept forward
Seeking permission
Is this okay? May I....

And when she did not move
Nor flinch
Or call out
He shuffled forward
Arms outstretched
Like a warm blanket of safety

Gently plucked her from the ground
Resting her against his chest
Fingers stroked her hair
And lips whispered sweet things that she did not hear
All she heard was the low lull and hum of his voice
Felt his chest rise beneath her cheek
He was here
And that was all that mattered
295 · Nov 2016
When to worry .II
Simpleton Nov 2016
When you're tired of dreaming of a new start
You don't even want one anymore
You don't want anything anymore
You don't care
You don't even dream anymore
295 · Jan 2017
White
Simpleton Jan 2017
Cursing in an empty room
Praying in a full one
Heart in my stomach
I'm keeping it inside

Bite on my tongue
Anger on the brain
Hatred in my knuckes
A frown on my face

Quiet in the dark
Chest swells in the day
Impatient eyes
Days of doubt

Weakness in my legs
A dream at arms length
Regret at my heels
Sorrow in my soul
294 · Jul 2017
What I tried to hide
Simpleton Jul 2017
When you said I looked sad today
I stood in front of a mirror
Analysing my expression
And what gave me away

Was it my downcast eyes
Or the droop in a fighting frown
Perhaps my slumping shoulders
Maybe it was my betraying tongue that stilled at the wrong time

I practised looking happy
Put a hop in my step
A tinkering in my laugh
Hooked the corners of my lips to my ears

I stared at my new reflection
Full coverage makeup
Yet I still couldn't put a twinkl in my eye
I couldn't decieve myself
294 · Oct 2016
Your name
Simpleton Oct 2016
He will ask you for your name
Then say it back to you
In a voice like gravel and honey
He'll make the mornings a forgiveable thing
When you think of him a war will end
When he reminds you of his dark
You'll swallow his shadows whole
But when he leaves you
The birds in your blood will stop mid flight
And when you search for a word for the end of missing someone
Every language will come up empty
You'll make new mistakes to forget the old ones
Until one day you'll wake up missing who you were about to become before he came along
But by then it will be too late
The memories inside you won't leave room to remember your own name
290 · Sep 2014
I want you
Simpleton Sep 2014
I want you to be my destiny
I want you to be what's best for me
290 · Jan 2021
Incorrigibly
Simpleton Jan 2021
I am a bee that will drown in honey
290 · Jan 2015
The End
Simpleton Jan 2015
I wish to greet you in peace
Hands up in surrender
Smile on my face
Leaving love to remember

Come and take me
Where my soul dwells
I've overstayed my welcome
A guest amongst travellers

Beyond what the mind can imagine
Lies more than the heart could ever believe
Nothing could make life so insignificant
As He who called me

I submit!
Glory be to Him the most high
The merciful
The supreme

I pray I plead
This world be a pleasant diary
That contains all wants and needs
To Your decree

Of how I prayed when it rained
And always put my right foot first
A hand extended in giving to the needy
In Your remembrance I breathed

Although I wandered
I was not lost in the crowd
Along my journey
I kept my true destination in mind

Armed with knowledge
I dealt in respect and tolerance
I stood in defence of Your creation
And humbly served what You asked of me

To forgive like it was the only answer
The way I hoped You would forgive me
And love for Your sake alone
Not expecting anything in return
289 · May 2022
How long will you love me?
Simpleton May 2022
I think I could love you

Until my skin grows wet

And my bones grow tired of holding us up

Until it feels like my words are echoing back to me

And my breath touches my face

I think I could love you until all I hear is I love you

I love you

I love you

I love you
289 · Oct 2019
I let you
Simpleton Oct 2019
Yes
You were here
Yes
You were with me
Yes
I could see you
Love you, hug you, kiss you, feel you
So I imagine this world a prison
My fingers the cell bars
Clamped in a fist
I imagine it was my choice
That I saw the suffering
Which I could not stop from touching you
That I allowed it
I let you go
And that makes it just a little bit more okay
I pretend that I wasn't heartless
That my heart is not stubborn
Selfish
I remember it
Like I was the guardian gone rogue
That you escaped
And I turned a blind eye
Letting you go
Secretly, silently
Like the breaths
                           you
                                  let
                                        g
                                        o
289 · Mar 2018
Cold feet
Simpleton Mar 2018
When push came to shove
The time came for action
Life was moving forward
I held myself back

Tongue frozen
My words swallowed
Eyes closed
To the future before me

Was this what I wanted?
Would it fit who I am?
Would I go through the hardship
And find glitz and glam

Am I being blinded?
I second guessed
And over thought it
Doubts peeled away the excitement

To reveal fear
From all the changes
I hid from all the questions
Wallowed in contemplation

As I untangled from confusion
Found ration and reason
The time came and went
To make a decision
288 · Oct 2017
Humour me
Simpleton Oct 2017
Mankind your manner amuses me
Commit the sin by your very hands
And rue the devil
Curse he who led you astray
Not your intent
Nor your will power
Or the weakness within you
The illness you fed
For at one point
Even the devil must have given up on you
287 · Dec 2014
Own it
Simpleton Dec 2014
Step out into the depths of the night
Do it often
And watch yourself own it
Develop the ability to overcome fear
Night vision
You got this
Or stand back
And double lock your front door
Let it ******* you
Fear the dark
And all the monsters in it
286 · Apr 2015
Untitled
Simpleton Apr 2015
I don't know what I'm doing with my life
Just that I need to fix it
I wonder if you could help
Show me where to start and how to do it

Where do I need to be?
What am I supposed to be doing?
They say every life has its calling
I think I've lost direction
286 · Mar 2015
I write...
Simpleton Mar 2015
I write because it's the only way out of that bubble everything is trapped inside
I write all that I feel to a blank page
And it's like hugging silence
You'll never understand
It's the only sentimental lust I'll allow myself to feel
Confined to the flat black and white letters
Each word healing yet exposing hidden wounds
I've written too many things I've never said
Strangers know more about me than my own friends
I write myself to happiness
Set my soul free
I write my conversations with God
All my hopes and dreams
I write about the past I can't remember
The things I never want to forget
Each and every poem
Shows my life in progress
I write so I can breathe
Its my way of doing things
I write out forgiveness
To live, laugh and believe
I write out the love I couldn't give
I write my fears so I could face them
About all that I never knew yet miss all the same
I write about loss and it takes away the pain
I spill my secrets to the world
Yet whisper lies to the tides
But it keeps returning for the truth
That I promised to hide
286 · Dec 2018
Too Much
Simpleton Dec 2018
You see
I have never faught for myself
When it came to me
I always just bore it
Until I became immune
But for you
I will fight
For you I could ****
For you I feel
Too much
Too much emotion
Too much damage
Too much everything
285 · Jun 2019
5w
Simpleton Jun 2019
5w
You are my granted prayer
Simpleton Jun 2021
کبھی سوچا ہی نہیں تھا
میرے دین کا ایسا امتحان آئےگا

کبھی سوچا ہی نہیں تھا
میرے دین کا ایسا امتحان آئےگا

مسلمان ہونے کی سزا
مسلمان ہی دینگے

مسلمان ہونے کی سزا
مسلمان ہی دینگے

میری محبت پر ایسا اثر آئےگا
اللہ کے بندو سے زیادہ
کافر ہمیں نصیحت دینگے

کافر ہمیں نصیحت دینگے
284 · Apr 2014
Open Sky
Simpleton Apr 2014
In the open sky
Amidst the colours of life
There is harmony
Between you and I
283 · May 2018
Hayat
Simpleton May 2018
Hayat
She is my daydreamer
The girl that wandered far but never away
Closed her eyes and relaxed her body
"I'm so happy" she would whisper
An utterance that would appreciate the moment
Hayat
She taught me to breathe consciously
To find peace within me
I learned to be content with the sky
And it's moods
Because of Hayat
I waited for time
Hayaat
She taught me how to smile
How to loosen my shoulders
And put a skip in my steps
When it felt like things are going wrong
My life, her forehead would touch my back
She would splay her fingers across my lungs
Bir nefes yeter
She would say
One breath is enough
Yavaşça
Slowly
Yavaşça
Life taught me how to live
282 · Nov 2016
Untitled
Simpleton Nov 2016
I'm gut wrenchingly sad
Soul shatteringly devastated
A silent storm drenching in abysmal
The black clouds have engulfed me
From head to toe
The depths of this despair
Pull me down
Suffocate my dreams
282 · May 2014
Peace be upon him
Simpleton May 2014
How do I return the favour
And thank you my saviour
The relief you bestowed upon me
Took my grief
And gave me an answer
Engraved the path of my Lord
In my heart
Put the shine to the
Star of my fate
How do I compare
To the mercy you took
And the times you stood
Battled for my freedom
Mocked and ridiculed
Yet you strode forth
With love for me
Because I was amongst your people
The miracle of your gifts
Called upon to
Remove the blindfold of ignorance
Peace be upon you
281 · May 2014
I wish
Simpleton May 2014
I wish to decorate
Your eyes
With happy dreams
That twinkle when they're open
My fate I want to
Make you laugh
In a way that would
Melt a cold heart
With its warmth
If only you would
Let life surround you
Like the welcomed
Soft whispers of cool wind
On a warm spring day
I'd make you calm
Like the sun
Glistening on the horizon
Of the bay
280 · Nov 2016
The sun made me happy
Simpleton Nov 2016
I wish there was a way I could capture
The light and the warmth
Inside my body
And in the winter
Let it slowly emit from inside me
280 · Jun 2014
Best Wishes
Simpleton Jun 2014
I have found old letters
Burnt like a lamp
Burns oil
Only to get lost in these memories
Oh insane mind of mine
Where love and hurt
Went hand in hand
Getting lost in the crowd
Of coincidences
Re-surfaced dreams
Of one more chances
For you whom I find excuses
Console myself
Only to leave us
At best wishes
277 · Mar 2015
What love does
Simpleton Mar 2015
A past that will not pass
A distance so far
That clings to the heart
Hope that the dead
Will come back to life
This is what love
Does to you heart
277 · May 2013
Where is life?
Simpleton May 2013
I am here
   You...                               are there
         Where is life?
Sleep never comes and memories never go
              It is like time has stilled
Staining all with a
L
   I
      n
        g
       e
      r
       I
         n
           g
            Sadness
An impatient wait for your presence
Days and nights may be spent in loneliness
But not life.
Despite wanting to I am unable to tell you,
How do I express my pain.
There was a time when we were always together
and when I am alone I remember the past,

Silence speaks for itself,
It has been a long time since I last
smiled
Now there is distance between us.
I am here
   You...                                  are there
          Where is life?
277 · Jun 2014
Untitled
Simpleton Jun 2014
Like shadows that glow in the faded night sky

You bring out the darkness

With whispers of verses unknown
carrying unyielding hope

Reeling in the emotions, which were once lost….long ago

Slowly

            Slowly

I find my way

An awakening deep within

Stirring the senses of the forgotten heart

Pumping the elixir of life, within

The shadows of the unseen are fading away…

Replaced by soft skin a body now finally on display
275 · Feb 2024
The spouse
Simpleton Feb 2024
Darling it took 2 years and 3 months
We've reached a complacency, where love's embers faded,
Your presence a ghost in our desolate charade.
There are no words, through empty glances we sway around eachother but never towards.
It's been a while where passion's colours grayed,
In echoes of silence, my heart yearned to speak,
But no more.
I'm held captive by routine
My soul's silent plea
In this stagnant realm of marriage
Longing to be free
I crave the warmth of a sun that once shone bright,
Yet in this dim cocoon, we faltered, lost the light.
My heart, a garden left untended,
Love's petals withered, desires suspended
No hopes to flourish
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