#die poems on Hello Poetry

Ara Apr 2020

After

Sometimes I want to die.
I'm not sure what comes after.

Grandpa says we're reborn amongst the stars,
That maybe we'll live on Mars.
I wonder if the sunrises would be just as colorful,
Or if the sky will drown in the same rusty red as the ground.

It's a recurring thought; the ins and outs of it all.
I think about it almost as often as grandma says she regrets keeping us.
That she should have let dad's family raise us to avoid all the fuss.
And that last bit stings.
It used to be my character was just like his,
The slap to the face I'd get for correcting her in front of others.
Now it's remorse for the life she led and throwing punches without the proper covers.
Bruised knuckles are better than split skin and sometimes the thought of getting caught is enough to stop a robber.

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Sometimes I want to die.
I'm not sure what comes after,
But Heaven would sound a lot like your laughter.

Trigger warning: self harm implied.
Copyright © 2019 Aranza V. Soto Torres. All rights reserved.

#die #heaven #afterlife

el Apr 2020

lost & broken

they say
sad could be a drug
but that's a lie
it's happiness people try to find
to try and get high
trying to find bliss
amidst the grey
drinking in hits
stems twist and sway
the dark, cold morning of May
where i
that's when i didn't want to
stay alive
not anymore, no
there, began the end of my show
shoes slapping the ground.
head low
sky was clouded, so i couldn't look up
for fear i'd get a raindrop in my eye
for fear the crow would see me cry
for fear i would be exposed to a foe
so head down, breath held, i go

yeah,
life has a knack of
ripping away all you've got
tearing you apart
thread by thread
seam to seam
this is far more than a crushed dream
this is heartbreak
this is loss
this is the will to live, gone
the loss of a home

Copyright. Elissar Mustapha
15.12.2018

#sad #happiness #drug #lie #life #die #dying #end #crushed #loss

Dez Apr 2020

In life

In life we are born and we die
And in-between we figure out why

#short #simple #life #find #search #searching #born #die

Sammy Fowler Apr 2020

Nothing

Please let me live in peace
When I die, I die alone
But while I live, I wanna do what I love
But no more
My sounds are suppressed
I am not heard, just left to be done
I am not a doll, you can't control me
But you will, because who cares
Even after I'm alive, I'm dead
What else does it feel like
One thing-
NOTHING

#nothing #notheard #control #life #dreams #success #peace #live #die #please

Dez Apr 2020

The Unknown Soldier

Help me I cry
Don’t leave me here to die
But they left me to lie
So goodbye
Tell my country I said hi
It was worth their freedom to die
Thy freedom is why
I did come here and sound the battle cry
Forget me not when you pass by
For my tomb is unmarked under the open sky
And thereby I'll never truly die
For I'll always be a passing memory to testify
Of all the names that were forgotten by and by

#sad #die #soldier #forgotten #remember #veterans #freedom

Abi Mar 2020

Adolescent State of Mind

And I felt as though I was burning from the inside out,
Choking on thick, black smoke while my mind began to fill with the ashes of what I once was.

Then he showed up and soothed my scorching soul all the while igniting something else. Something much deeper, that would hurt much more had he chose to blow it out.
Love...

Thankfully, mercifully, I thought, he decided to let me burn, but for too long. I began to sizzle out. For when the same spark finally caught fire in him, the bonfire that was once ablaze in me was reduced to nothing more than a charred pile of memories..

This piece is over three years old and I hope to be posting a revised version, hence the title.

#love #fire #burns #young #writing #turned #modern #sparks #die

Maja Mar 2020

die twice

I heard you die twice,
once when they bury you in the grave
and the second time is the last time
that somebody mentions your name

- Glorious, Macklemore Ft. Skylar Grey

From: Glorious by Macklemore Ft. Skylar Grey

#die #twice #bury #grave #time #name #first #last #remembered

Maja Mar 2020

dead already

"I need you", you said,
"Without you, I’d be dead."

I locked my eyes into yours with a gaze steady.
I said, "If you can’t live without me,
why aren’t you dead already?"

don't lie to me

#need #die #dead #already #love #steady #without #live

Isabella Mar 2020

Death

He claimed another life today,
That horrible thing called Death.
He took their beating heart away,
He took their final breath.

#death #dying #dead #die #sad #breath #heart #rhyme #short