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1.9k · May 2013
Chemistry
David May 2013
I would like a tall glass of chlorine,
to burn my insides clean,
for they are far from pristine,
they are sick and twisted and green,
in this state I cannot be serene,
so give me a glass of chlorine,
to burn my insides clean.

i would like a pack of c4,
to  blow down my inner door,
and stomp in with guns blazing,
each devilish thought i be razing,
i should like a pack of c4,
to demolish my inner door.

I should like a bottle of hydrogen,
to open in my mind,
to leave it's burdens lighter,
to make it's thoughts burn brighter,
I should like a bottle of hydrogen,
to make my burdens lighter.
1.8k · Jun 2013
Confusion
David Jun 2013
So sweet
So kind
So beautiful
We fell in love
(I think)
So rude
So cruel
So... Beautiful
You broke my heart
(I know)
These puzzle pieces
Don't fit together
I'm so confused
My heart
Is heavy
So very sad
But it
Wasn't you
(You say)
You still
Love me
(You say)
What
Should I do?
So
Confused
1.5k · Jun 2013
An evening on the trampoline
David Jun 2013
Something about
That puffy, grey
Sky
Calls
Pulls me out
Until I spin
And jump
And shout
In the
Evening air
Something about
Those big, fat
Rain drops
Calls me to dance
Neath the soft, grey sky
1.5k · Jul 2013
Happy freaking birthday
David Jul 2013
My birthday.
It's in three
Days
On that day
My siblings
Are busy
Busy with sports
All day
All freaking
Day
On that day
My parents
Are going
To a funeral
A freaking funeral
I
Get to stay home
Alone
Happy birthday to me
Happy freaking birthday.
1.1k · Jul 2013
Skepticism
David Jul 2013
I say these
Things
I write them
In my
Poetry
But
Is it
Really me?
Am I angry?
Or sad?
Or even happy?
Am I
As smart as I think?
Am I intelligent
In the least?
Am I a good person?
Am I
Any
Of these things?
It all seems so
Skeptical
David Jan 2014
Relax, man.
'S no big deal.
You just gotta unwind,
Play some music,
Sip some coffee.
Chill out.
Put down the textbook.
Stop wasting your time.
It's all useless anyway.
775 · Nov 2015
Paths That Never Crossed
David Nov 2015
We were never at a crossroads,
because our paths never truly crossed.
Yet observing your life,
your time in college,
your new friends and acquaintances
all from afar,
leaves me feeling cheated.

It was upon seeing you in the library,
books all about you, hard at work,
that I fell in love.
You were beautiful, well-dressed and groomed,
you were highly intelligent, at the very least academically,
you excelled artistically, producing magnificent creations of paint and graphite,
all of which is still true to this day.
I attempted to get closer,
to befriend you and, of course, pursue more romantic relations.
You never were interested.

Do not get me wrong,
I have moved on, I live my life happily.
From time to time, however, I still wonder on what might have been.
766 · Apr 2014
Puzzle-piece
David Apr 2014
The nineteen-sided puzzle-piece
that is my personality
fits everywhere and nowhere.
Pick it up,
And place it.
Push,
Force it into its place.
But look,
Those colors don't quite match
And that side is all messed up.
It just doesn't fit.
So close, and yet so far.
721 · Jun 2013
Insomnia
David Jun 2013
Because of you
Sleep eludes me
My soaring heart
And roaring mind
Will not.
Shut.
Up.
680 · Jun 2013
Grandma
David Jun 2013
Lying
In the bed
So pale
So fragile
Tubes everywhere
Machines beeping
Please
Don't leave us
We love you
Grandma
676 · Jul 2013
FML
David Jul 2013
FML
So much
freaking
Death
Seriously
FML
641 · Jun 2013
Mistakes
David Jun 2013
You said you love me
Now I'm just a mistake
You dumped me,
Kicked me to the curb,
For her
I was fine
Until you
Called me names
I am just a mistake
Your fat, ugly, stupid
Mistake.
626 · Jun 2013
Why?
David Jun 2013
Why does my heart
Flutter?
For some reason
It's heavy
But it flutters
Why?
622 · May 2013
Untitled
David May 2013
What is it like
To be nameless
Is it as if you were faceless?
What is a title but a proclamation
A proclamation
Of who you are.
Is it your position?
Your soul?
Who is that?
Who is that over there?
Is it John?
Or is it Michael?
It is untitled
What are they like?
What DO they like?
What is their religion?
Their culture?
Their ethnicity?
No one knows
And no one cares
For in this world
You are untitled
And you are invisible
In a sea of untitleds
574 · Nov 2014
forced
David Nov 2014
From time to time I wonder if
the words are really there
                                    or maybe I just want them to exist so much
                                                            ­        that I am forcing them onto a page
that is not entirely willing
           Or able
to hold them.
556 · Jun 2013
Definitions
David Jun 2013
Love
Is defined
As a deep
Affection
But how
Does one know
When they are
In love
Do they know
Because they know
That the definition
Of affection
Is a feeling
Of fondness
Or liking?
But what
Is the definition
Of fondness?
It is
A predisposition
To like something
But what
Does this mean?
Definitions
Make
The world
Go round
But what
Are definitions?
553 · Jul 2013
Btw
David Jul 2013
Btw
I'm dying
Inside
Btw.
Totally shattered
Crumbling
To bits
And you're
Not here
You're not answering
Btw
I knew this would happen
If I told you
I knew it would affect you
And now
When I need you
You're gone
I'm not mad
Btw
Just sad.
I understand
I just wish
I hadn't
Told you.
548 · Jun 2013
Broken but stronger
David Jun 2013
Have you ever
Been so sad
That your heart
Just stopped sinking
Stopped drowning in depression
And just
Broke?
I have
I am broken
But I am
Picking up
The pieces
What does not
**** you
Makes you stronger
And YOU
DEFINITELY.
DID.
NOT.
****.
ME.
500 · Nov 2015
Disgusted
David Nov 2015
I still feel the pressure of your lips on mine.

It disgusts me.
483 · Jun 2013
Issues
David Jun 2013
So you're
Having abandonment
Issues
They cannot
Be solved
With a tissue
You
Want your parents
To
Miss you
You need
Your mummy to
Kiss you
Well
I'm sorry son
But
Read today's
News issue
Your parents
Died
In
A tragic
Car accident
As they
We're lying
On
Their death beds
They said to say
"They love you
They will miss you"
And mummy said
To kiss you.
I envision an uncle saying this to a distraught nephew.
456 · Jul 2013
Farewell, forever
David Jul 2013
I'm not sad
I'm not angry
I'm definitely
Not happy
I'm just
Here
My uncle left
My grandmother
Followed
Now my cousin
His daughter
Left as well
They all
Left sadness
And heartbreak
Behind
But I'm not sad
I'm just here
Sometimes
I just want to say
Farewell
Forever
450 · May 2013
Goodbye
David May 2013
Time you let me in
It's not the end of the world
Unwind
Before I say goodbye
440 · Jul 2013
Cry
David Jul 2013
Cry
Cry
With me
Because I
Need company
Hold me
As I
Break down
As I
Collapse
Under the pressure
Cry
So I
Can comfort
You
And ignore
My own
Pain.
437 · Jun 2013
Borrowed
David Jun 2013
I have borrowed a poem
And have yet to return it.
I have taken all credit
And I lost the receipt.
One day I will find it
That day I will leave.
Til then I'll keep living
Life's deep poetry
431 · Jun 2013
That Picture
David Jun 2013
That picture
Is beautiful
The smile
It shows
Is beautiful
The face
It shows
Is beautiful
The figure
It shows
Is beautiful
That picture
Is beautiful
And it Breaks
My
Heart
430 · Sep 2014
Rhythm & Rhyme
David Sep 2014
I know several who write so-called "poetry".
But their work reads less like art, emotion, philosophy.
And more like practiced mimicry of such.
It's got "rhythm and rhyme".
But lacks "rhythm&rhyme;".
It doesn't dance with your heart to the samba of excitement that races through you.
It doesn't catch your ear with cleverly chosen sounds like nature does through the birds.
It flops around on the dance floor, to some once-famous pop singer, making as big a scene as possible, in the hopes of catching your attention.
419 · Jun 2013
Children of the night
David Jun 2013
The  
midnight moon
Arises
Over
Unsuspecting heads
And as
The children
Raised their eyes
The rest
Heard
What they said
"Our fair lady
Pale
And bright
Share with us
Your silver light
Shine on we
Your children be
We children of the night"
With the moon
Hung high
The children
Flew
Humans
Gave cry
Peircing
The night through
"Our fair lady
Pale
And bright
Share with us
Your silver light
Shine on we
Your children be
We children of the night
Thank you
Lady
our fair lady
For shining
On we
Your children be
You gave us back
Our bite"
414 · Jul 2013
Emotions
David Jul 2013
I
Feel empty
So empty
And just don't know why
But I
Feel no emotion
And a strange urge to cry
412 · Jun 2013
See you soon
David Jun 2013
I told you I love you
I would see you again soon
I never thought
it would be in this room
Your breathing slow
Quiet
Relaxed
You're sleeping
With this incessant beeping
Drowning out my thoughts
We love you
Come back
Don't leave us
Grandma
I will see you soon.
404 · May 2013
High School
David May 2013
walking through the halls
shoulders hunched, head down
books held close
like a shield
or a mask
have to get to class
avoid those
who would prevent
walking quickly
eyes down, up front
rush in to the room
sit down
relax
you are safe
for now
398 · May 2013
Humans
David May 2013
They're coming for you
Run, hide
There is nothing you can do
They are beautiful
They are powerful
They are smart
They are special
They are evil
They are greedy
They are human
389 · Jul 2013
Letter to you
David Jul 2013
I'm writing you
This letter
Because
I don't know
What to do
I cannot sleep
I'm thinking of you
Lying in that bed
In that room
In that place
Those machines
Your face
Eyes closed
You're breathing
But you aren't alive
You are not up
And about
You are no longer
You
You're not grandma
You are a piece of her
I sill love you
But I want her back
I need her back
I cannot sleep
And I cannot weep
Even though
I am so sad
The tears
They will not come
Mother is there with you
You the piece of her mother
Grandmother stay with us
Mom needs you
I need you
We all need you
Oh
Look
I am finally weeping
386 · Jun 2013
Sentences
David Jun 2013
people
write sentences
and call them
poetry.
what soul
did you put
in that small
group of words
to call it
a poem
instead of
a sentence?
386 · Sep 2014
Busy being stupid
David Sep 2014
I've come to accept
That I will never be happy with the friends I have,
Because I'm too busy worrying about the ones I have no longer.
379 · Jul 2013
Run
David Jul 2013
Run
Take
My hand
And run
Run fast
Run long
With me
Run
With me
From this
This world
Of sadness
Brimming
With heartbreak
Flooding
With tears
Take my hand
And run.
364 · Jul 2013
I don't believe it
David Jul 2013
I didn't visit
You today
They told me
What happened
When they came home
You left us
It was your time
I know that you passed
But I just don't
Believe it
I don't
Something won't click
I don't believe you are gone
I know it in my mind
But deep down I don't believe it
I can't
I can't believe
I can't cry
I can't miss you
Because I don't believe
Because I can't believe
I need to see it
With my own eyes
So that I can miss you
So that I can cry
So that I can believe
Both that you are gone
And that you are no longer hurting
I love you
I love so much
But I don't miss you
Because I don't believe you're gone
331 · Jun 2013
I feel
David Jun 2013
I feel like being a **** today
There's nobody who can stop me
I feel like being a ****  today
You may not want to talk to me
I felt like writing this for a chuckle or two.
327 · May 2013
Magic
David May 2013
Poems
Are magic
I wave my wand
And the words
Appear
317 · Jun 2013
Religion
David Jun 2013
You crush
All others
Though the one
Accepts
Them All
314 · Jun 2013
Inspiration
David Jun 2013
Where
Can I
Find inspiration?
I can
Find it
Anywhere.
313 · Jul 2013
Ten words
David Jul 2013
It only
Takes
Ten words
To  tell you
Absolutely
Everything
Heavy heart
Big smile
Sinking deeper
Into darkness
Behind happiness
295 · May 2014
Flip the Switch (10w)
David May 2014
Just flip the switch
                                                          ­                                     (Switch)
Suddenly you're a massive *****.
281 · Apr 2014
Gray
David Apr 2014
Life
is gray
no rhyme
no reason
except for poetry
278 · Apr 2014
Loneliness is (10w)
David Apr 2014
Having best friends
Who will never let you be one
275 · Mar 2016
Long Distance
David Mar 2016
I see it like the lines on a monitor,
spiking with each beat of my heart,
crossing from one point on the map to the next.
It was rather uneventful at first, flatlining, if you will,
but I can see the increase in frequency and amplitude as my heart beats faster
each second,
third,
fourth time he messages me
and I am not so slowly falling for some beautiful boy on the other side of this, one of the largest countries on the Earth, whom I barely even know.
274 · Jun 2013
You love me
David Jun 2013
You love me
You say
But how
Can you say so
When we've never
Even
Met?
257 · Aug 2013
Inspiration (10w)
David Aug 2013
I Am
At A Loss
For Any Bit
Of Inspiration
246 · Jun 2013
Marked
David Jun 2013
You have left a mark
On me
And we haven't
Even
Met
241 · May 2014
One Word (10w)
David May 2014
My life without
                                                                                                                    you
is described with one word
*better
228 · Apr 2014
All of you?
David Apr 2014
I give you all of me.
You give me all of your lies.
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