#apathy poems on Hello Poetry

Amanda In Scarlet Nov 2014

When drowning, do your lungs deflate, expand, or burst?
Does your heart give out, before the last bubble rises to the surface?
Is it carrying your final thought, and as it bursts in a perfect circle
Can it still be caught, and understood?

Then, let me go, let me drown,
I’ll swim down to places of danger and delight
And watch you flounder far above me,
Treading water, staying afloat.

Just let me drown. You let me down
Again and again and again
I’ll never look up to any of you, now,
Do you even know that I still exist?

No. So, let me fall
Into and through some deep and distant pool
Anything to exit the stagnant shallows
Here, alone, I’ll let my soul deflate, expand, or burst.

#betrayal #change #escape #disappointment #apathy

Hollow Steve Oct 2014

Vanity

You're such a *****. Eyes wide open. With excessive pride and low self-esteem as company. How lame are you? As pathetic as can be. Apathetic ninja. The revolution's never coming. I still have faith in evolution. Let's kick-start the process. I am the gateway. You can be my opening.

**** it, I'll do it alone...

#time #pathetic #space #revolution #apathy #vanity #evolution #ninja #deathblooms

Akemi Oct 2014

privileged

Blunt ****
Your grin brings the whole world down
So shallow you turn your guts inside out
Come bury your teeth in the gutter
Headless ****
Privileged ****

2:56pm, October 26th 2014

To every privileged ****
who believes racism, sexism and classism don't exist,
when they've never experienced any of it themselves.

Ignorant *****.

#ignorance #apathy #bigotry #arrogance #privilege #belittlement

Jane Halliwell Oct 2014

A Loner's Tale

I dare not dance.
I dare not laugh.

And whenever I am lost
I know I have a home
there in the shadows.

The absence
of all that is good
embraces me.

The hollow
left by the abandonment of peace
is a companion
ready to welcome my presence.

There - in the corners
of long-forgotten cobwebs
is the place I return to
time
and
time
again
to be enveloped
when hope
rejects my glittering gaze.

I have a place always
among the ruins
of short-circuited desires.

I make my bed
with the monsters children run from.

I belong in the nothing.

#depression #alone #abandonment #loneliness #apathy #prose

Josiah Wilson Oct 2014

The Moon Has No Light Of Its Own

You're just a substitute
Someone to hold in her place
'Cause if I close my eyes
I can still see her face

And I kinda like you
But this sure isn't love
'Cause when I fall asleep
It's her that I dream of

And it's her I want
When I'm alone at night
But you're in my bed
When I turn out the light

So I'll hold you close
But my mind isn't here
It's wandered away
Wishing she was near

You will never be her
I'll never be content
Because inside my heart
I know it's not meant
To be

#discontent #longing #apathy #substitution

Duke Thompson Oct 2014

apathy

years of being told you were wrong
no trust left here
indifferent to most everything
it's a warm black tar pit
evolution of apathy

#wrong #apathy #tar

P Grace Thompson Oct 2014

Dunbothamenun!

I let the devil nearly catch me.
For I run.
Let him slide right up
next to me.
I consigned all the while he wrote
checks on me
So sure no fire could ever burn
the Lilly whiteness from my skin.
I made my bed in sin and lay
next to his evil grin
His eyes shone like his lies bold
Once highly favored son.
But what remains....come casting
Chains and chants
His nickname just for fun,
Once they called him Lucifer
you just sY....it Dunbothamenun.

If you need a note to get it....forget it.

#apathy #vanity #temptation #damnation