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Amanda Kay Burke Sep 2018
Roses are crimson red
Your eyes are sky blue
Like my heart feels
When thinking of you

You are in my heart
I am on your mind
The best thing for both of us
Is to leave eachother behind

It seems we have died
Though aching bodies live on
The love we shared before
Is no longer here but gone
I'll love you long after you're gone
sometimes
i try to feel
the emptiness
and aching
that used to
be in my heart.
sometimes there
are still traces of it
but other times
its really gone
and i cant believe
that im actually
happy again
Salmabanu Hatim Aug 2018
Pain is subjective,
Physical and emotional,
Pain can be:
Dull,pins and needles,
Aching,cramping,stabbing,
Burning,tingling, shooting.
Pain can cause:
Fear,stress ,anxiety and even depression.
Pain is what an individual patient experiences  and feels,
No one can suffer your pain for you,
Others can only sympathize  or pray for you.
Eureka Merton Aug 2018
Sorrow awakens
Rubs her crusty eyes 
Wishing to drift 
Back to sleep 

But the sandman 
is nowhere to be found. 

Slowly Sorrow 
sits up 
Cracking bones and 
dry lips 

"How long has it been 
Since I laid down to rest?" 
She wondered.

One foot on the cold floor 
and another follows suit
Desperate shivers flow 
gives a jolt a blow 

She steps to the sink
porcelain as her skin 
Wrinkled hands turn the **** 
rusted, so long forgotten

"Isn't their something that is suppose to happen?" 
She thought, "do I recall right?" 

Then the water slowing began to drip  
and she remembered to turn on the light.  

She cupped her hands together 
to capture just enough drops to 
wash the ash off her face 
She had forgotten the cold feeling 
That comes with waters grace

Splashing the icy liquid
upon her hard sullen face 
To wash off the dust and dirt 
now thick as a paste

It was The ash from the reapers breath 
given home upon Sorrow's cheeks 

Yet he had spared her...

Leaving only a memory 

She looked in the mirror 
As she washed it away 
And she saw in her eyes 
Lifetimes of pain 

From defeat
 and loss and grief 
From love and
 an unforgiven past 

Holding her heart for ransom 
Hanging from the tree of death 

Ripe and ready
 to fall at last

She had wished it was just a dream...

Am I remembering correct?
Something happens now? 

Then without a beat or breath or blink of the eye 
A tear escaped found its way out kissed her lips then fell to her breast 
And more to come
She could attest 
Their was no choice 
There was no rest 

No escape.

No power strong enough 
to keep her poor heart 
from overflowing 

Then all at once
 a scream came forth 
from the depths of her being 

Her ears beared witness to a place within her never before heard

a cave so dark And damp and deep
That death himself let it be...

There lived a  pain that can only come from A life of truly living 

And in that moment of release and touching that place inside 

She lit a candle in her heart 
And cried and cried and cried 

Tortured soul screams out the dark parts of her heart 

Her voice and tears give it life 
It escapes her lips like a bird leaving its nest and flying 

And a great peace came over her 
And all at once she realized why 

For sorrow did not come so much from the pain she kept hidden 

But from all the energy and force and shame that came with suppressing 

And she remembered why she had laid down to rest....
It was exaughsting. 

So scared of the pain escaping she had slept and slept and slept 
But it was not a dream and it would not be put to rest 

Her whole life passing 
wishing it to all be okay 

Maybe if she kept it down it would all go away 

But the pain only grew her sorrow cutting deeper 

She didn't yet know her pain would be her savior 

In the depths of her grief
All that was needed was grieving 

Only through freeing the demons 
Could come true healing 

And once all had been given wings and space to fly 

The darkness purged 
And a light emerged 
To reveal a pure love within her.
Written in Nepal , 2015
Brandon Conway Aug 2018
Look into mine eyes
tell me what thou see

I see a prison, a soul
with hopes of escaping

I see padded walls
with a crazed man aching

I see deep sorrow
a human breaking

I see a gray sky
always raining

I see a husk of skin
eternally forsaking

I see a chasm
forever isolating

I see a mind
always creating
and hating
thy creation

I gazed upon thine eyes
and I saw hell in thy pupils
Bryce Aug 2018
Lung tree
Drink me
Take in that consequential
Energy
And please
Touch the sun with buds and dance
Perpetually
Until the day is said and done

Concrete
Upon what day will you melt to butter?
In what age will you split
Asunder
And our squishy nubs will touch
The naked land
Of younger
To caress trampled memory

Great comet
Of the heated sky
Roll chariots to the marble
Castle far by
Draw the ceiling and cast alight
The endless view of the constant night
Great God of mine.

In the photobooth
We do a silly face
Clicking the parsecs back into focal
View
And drawing upon that inflationary
Balloon
To which we ride
A darling damselfly
Old and full of chitionous youth

Old dirt
Move softly your mother
And place her dead things upon the nether
To compress into flaking chert
And ****** from the depths
An exhibit of great feature
The future of us
Lost within
The earth

Great road
I see not where your terminus goes
I know not from what strange township
You built the mountains and tumbled abyss
But when we shall be missed
And the world will roll on with constant bliss
Forgetful of the citation of our greatest works
And the obliteration of everything
Timeless.
ellie danes Jul 2018
i’m drowning in new york city.
i want to die, again.
always! why is it like this?
i hate everyone; i want my ****** dramatic burlington life and friends back.
her, him, those two, even them…
i want it back.
i wanna be no one.
i wanna be everyone.
i;m full of emotions that i don’t want because everything is so different except for them.
no matter what i do the doom and gloom is always there.
i wanna change my name
i wanna get a dog—auggie or esme, a red border collie—and flee to the south.
I WANNA DRINK MYSELF TO DEATH.
i see these visions of a stable, happy, healthy version of myself but i also see these visions of me literally not making it past age 21.
i’m eternally stuck on self destructing.
but why?
why!
everything is good but it’s never enough.
i’m never enough, it’s never enough, he’s never enough (whoever he is at any given moment)
sam says he’ll fly me back to santa cruz and my insanity says do it but the small semblance of “morals” i still possess tell me not to…
only because of my parents. because of joe.
i don’t want to hurt them.
i don’t want to hurt anyone. but i’m hurting. always. forever. unless i’m drunk. no, wait…even when i’m drunk. i learned that the hard time this last run.
but life is meaningless (words are meaningless and forgettable) and time is a flat circle
blah blah blah
i’ve been here before
i’ll be here again
everything i do i’ll do over and over til i die.
if i don’t get drunk anytime soon i will eventually.
eternal return; the emo version of destiny.
remember when caroline myss’ book told me my highest potential was “victim”?
i’ll be drowning forever.
i’d rather be drowning in absinthe than drowning in aa meeting coffee.
i ache at the beauty of the world; the beauty which i will never achieve or be a part of.
i cry and i cry and i cry.
i want to be beautiful and pure but it’s all so dark.
all the people i’ve loved and who love me…i weep and i weep and i weep.
i can’t breathe fully; why do i wish i could not breathe at all?
i look back at all my pasts as if they were yesterday, and yet they all feel as if i’d made them up entirely.
disconnected and yet fully involved with each and every era of my evolution…
and yet i swear, i haven’t truly changed a bit.
the details change—the scenery, the faces, the dreams…
but all the emotions…all the thoughts…they stay the same.
“i won’t change, i’ll stay the same—darling, fade away…”
fading & falling & then blooming for a single lovely night
time is a flat circle.
i ache, i weep, i cry.
i naively hold onto the hope that someday…someday i’ll be okay.
please, god.
i have to be okay.
i have to turn off the bon iver.
i’m just trying to breathe.
maybe someday.
i'm not writing poems lately just emo bursts
Amanda Kay Burke Jul 2018
You find yourself forgetting who I am
What about those nights wasted chasing a gram?
Do you keep memories by the side of regret?
Amongst expectations you never met

I was aching, you never seemed concerned
For a long time thought indifference was what I'd earned
Then you crushed every important dream and hope
You proved how much more you care about dope

This is the end, grey clouds are rolling coolly in
Reality stings, makes my head spin
Silent destruction I try to ignore
Can't make you go forward anymore
You cant make someone change
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