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L Oct 2018
Drown in my eyes and let my kisses bring you air,
Someone always has to lose I know Its not fair.

No matter how you play your cards I have the better hand,
My silly game Is more complex than you could understand.

I pull you in with lipstick stains but keep some apathy,
My happiness Is only fuelled by lust and misery.

Even though I leave my mark you'll beg for more,
I'm a shiny poisoned apple and I'm rotten to the core.
Outside Words Oct 2018
I made a deal with Satan
Because you showed me
That he was my only shot

I threw away who I was
And became your enemy
As I smile like your friend

I learned the game
And that I have a gift

I use it to play you
And steal from you

And I’ll continue to do so
With you as my teacher
Until I cough and glare at you
Through my last dying breath

I’m a villain.

I secretly extort and leach
Off of everything and everyone
That you have ever loved
Because that and you
Don’t mean anything to me

I want to deceive
And take advantage
Of you and your friends
So that I can take your money
Because I will not settle
For less than the ivory tower
That you sleep in.
© Outside Words
Elizabeth Brown Oct 2018
I know you have your reasons-
ones I couldn't hope to understand-
but your apparent apathy creates between us a

distance

far greater than any ocean.
It's infuriating.
Whether it's the situation or me not getting my way
I can feel myself slipping
farther
from you and from myself.
Elizabeth Brown Oct 2018
Sometimes I feel as if I'm
drinking the blood of the innocent.
Taking their pleasures,
vicariously,
and hoarding them within my blackened heart.
Do I steal my happiness from those who truly deserve it?
Francie Lynch Oct 2018
I testify. Testified.
Everyone ,
Including me,
Believes truth will taste better salted.
Salted.
Yet apathy prevails.
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