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Creator Sun Sep 2019
Hold on to that thought
To that object, to that lot.

Keep trying, keep living
Keep doing what you love.
Something, anything
That keeps your mind above.

That doesn't make you sad,
That doesn't make you cry.

That doesn't start the cutting,
The dying and the lies.
Something, anything,
That makes you keep breathing.

Clutch that last straw with all your heart,
Your mind, you soul, oh all so broken apart.

Your bones are shattered
And your will is fractured.
Your mind is mutilated
And your heart has ruptured.

Black and white.
The colours of the sky.

They make me want to fly,
Soar so high
Above, so that I will never have to
Come down again.

For though my body is broken, my mind is free;
And that's the object that I sought to keep.
Random word generator gave me 'keep' outta many different words and I just guess that I did freeform and a bit of rhyming. The poem is a bit depressing yet uplifting at the same time and I don't know if anyone else enjoys bittersweet poems.
Colm Sep 2019
There is more to living
Than just a breath
Or a heartbeat being

Just as there is more to swimming
Than the ocean
Freshwater streams
And the pools filled with meaning

Simply put

There is always more
To be
Than being
I love it when my mind turns off. When my thoughts are no longer thinking and I can finally find myself, simply being, in the words. You know? That peaceful rest where your eyes are full and your mind is quiet with thought?

It's like the settling of the sea after a cup of wavy caffeine. Awake, alert, alive, but free. One with the simple truth of being. I am, though I will not be forever. And THAT is OK with me.

At peace and loving it.

BE!
The Vault Sep 2019
Breath in and out
Just a little sore
Neck, back, knees
Thighs, arms, shoulders
Some on purpose
Others from age
I wasn't like this before
But I have gotten better from a year ago.
You struggle
You survive
Breathing air
Until your heart works itself to death
And you die as well
Poet X Sep 2019
I swear I’m not a love poet but

loving you
makes me scared of dying .

I know what it’s all about now,
I get why the sun rises
and the moon sets.
I understand why the stars shine
and the birds chirp.
I get why the heart beats
and the lungs breathe.

I get it now,
why I’m alive.
loving you is the only thing I feel good at .
Tamera Pierce Aug 2019
Soft vibrations
waft through the air and
touch my ears like water on the edge of the pier.
They caress and ******
as if they know that I'm close to shattering my own walls.
I can barely feel them press against my teeth
barely taste the copper laced with sugar as they slide down my throat
and can't even feel them wrap around my lungs.
Empire Aug 2019
Trigger warning: Self harm, cutting, suicidal thoughts


Every ******* DAY

i'M fighting

for sanity
for safety
                              for... something...        .           ..    .

I. AM. TIRED.

just get the ******* voices

OUT

but what the **** am i supposed to do????
i have to keep ******* living
                   breathing... . ...        .. .

BECAUSE YOU ALL COULDN'T HANDLE IT


I JUST WANT TO GIVE UP
I JUST WANT TO GIVE UP
I JUST WANT TO GIVE UP
I JUST WANT TO GIVE UP
.        ...           .
.    ....            .. .. ..
. .    .    .. . . . . . . ..
                                                    i.... .. i just...  .. ........        . ...     . . . . . .. .  
i just want to give up.

I have the strength
To win this battle
So, I must.

But it's not what I want

I never get what I want!

I JUST WANT TO
BLEED\
              '
              .
            
          ­     .
            



               .

...'cause maybe.... ... . .. . .  just maybe.. . ...
it'll be enough
to appease the demons
just enough
to offer one night's peace
• • • — — — • • •

Poured a lot of darkness out into this one...
It doesn't have as much power once it's on the page
Artemis Aug 2019
everything you say
resonates with me like a
headache.

the pounding of your
words
against my porcelain skull
shoots fire and lightning
down my cracking spine.

my lungs are glass
and your name shattered them

and broke me.

each breath rattles.
each breath chokes.

what's the point of breathing
when there's no air?
Indigo Morrison Aug 2019
...trying to take this heart,
this healing,
all this fragile,
day by day
task by task.
a new getting out of bed.

some days I am still healing,
others...
the wound has just
opened back up for me
and I’m stitching,
I’m breathing,
I’m moving always,
but standing still.
...one does not negate the other for me.
but I am here
and I love you.
The Vault Aug 2019
Take a deep breath
Kiss me hard
Forget the pain
We got this far
Forget our mistakes
We got what it takes
To get through this
Just give me a kiss
So I can get lost
Is this bliss.
miki Aug 2019
i don’t know
i just wish i wasn’t normal
if i wasn’t normal
would that change your mind?

i don’t know
i just wish i wasn’t ugly
if i wasn’t ugly
would that change your mind?

i don’t know
i just wish i wasn’t breathing
if i wasn’t breathing
would that change your mind?

i don’t know
i just wish i hadn’t loved you
if i hadn’t loved you,
would i be alive?
third stanza and title are lyrics from a snippet of ‘i don’t know, i just wish i wasn’t breathing’ by billie eilish <3
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