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Todd Sommerville Nov 2024
Alone I stand barefoot on a floor of broken glass.
Two doors across the way in front of me.
One door leads to my salvation, the other quite possibly damnation.
Though neither door is marked, it's true they are unremarkably the same
The choice for me remains all too clear.
Smooth glass on the left, sharp and twisted to the right
I take a breath and step upon the path, blood pouring from my feet.
The pain is somehow sweet, for I see the blood of others gone before.
Persistence in spite of pain brings life's greatest gains, and I smile as light floods through the opening door.
I took the path less traveled as old man Frost would surely agree, and that less traveled path has made all the difference in me.
Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets of all time.  This is my far inferior take on his masterpiece, If you have not done so please read The Road Not Taken
Jack Groundhog Nov 2024
A fork in the road.
Will it stab me like a knife
or spoon feed me joy?
midnight blue Oct 2024
my heart started beating rapidly
not out of Love but out of fear
distanced myself subconsciously
my mind was anything but clear

read old fun conversations
tried to recreate what’s there
but our friendship lost its foundation
yet we weren’t even aware

those arguments made me nauseous
couldn’t fight back couldn’t even speak
just became more cautious
and continued to feel so weak

suffocated in my own pain
trying to stay by your side
ended up with absolutely no gain
because what we had has died

tired of being stuck in a cage
in desperate need to flee
need to stop the constant rage
so leaving in hopes of being free
Sometimes we gotta do what’s right for us even if it hurts.
Yanamari Oct 2024
And as time flows on
Like sand falling through my fingers
My skin lines with wrinkles
And your path lingers
Turns away
Our growing shadows hinder
Hold onto our shoulders
Until they pull us down among the cinder
Soil holds us up until it holds us down
And your feet are still here
Stood next to me
But with each breath
With each blink of the eye
We yearn for more than
What's been placed in our hands
And as it all fades away
Returns back to land
I lie in wake
Of what's at hand
I'm still here
How long will you be?
Ethan P Jones Oct 2024
Gray hairs sprouting up like testimonies
The smoke from burning bridges makes it hard to see
If I can walk back across to the other side
Just to tell you I always cared, affectionately

Leaves never fall the same way twice
To see them drop again, a kaleidoscope in descent
Pieces that come together to make a new puzzle
Under the tree, between the jigsaw creases are we both in?
Usama Firdous Oct 2024
In retrospect, I regret this choice.

Years ago, I made it.

And years have passed.

My heart is beating, still fast.

I am no way closer,

I'm yet to have closure.

All the boring bits aside.

In you, I am trusting to confide.

'twas a longer journey than usual.

so I summoned a supernatural.

Puny desires on my mind so I stooped to this.

Didn’t think about the toll, I made hollow promises.

Smothered my craving and I wished to doze off.

In my sweet dreams, I rode a tiny giraffe.

Started out really small, my verses are expanding

Oxymoronic hell is so cold yet I am burning

Toll paying is so near, I’m only feeling fear

My judgement is so clouded, I cannot steer clear.


In retrospect, I regret this choice.

Years ago, I made it.


I wish I had found the right night.

A kinder sprite would have fought off my plight.

Rather, I got to meet the troll.

No way out, now I gotta pay the toll.

I wish I had found the right night.

My spirit would have been just right.
Jeremy Betts Sep 2024
I mess up a lot
For example;
I got off the ***
And then I ****t
Believe it or not
But that was after this thought,
"I don't have a shot
At the life I want
The break I need
Will never be caught
It must be written into the plot
So wether I like it or not
This is my spot"
And that matches up
With what I've been told
And what I was taught
You get what you get
I got what I got

©2024
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