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Arlo Disarray Feb 27
i keep choking
on the dust in my lungs
from being able to breathe
for the first time
in a while

my teeth keep cracking
and my eyes are leaking
at the sight
of my
unfamiliar smile

i’ve started to cut through
the dark clouds
that only serve to shroud
the light
and warmth behind them
taking little slivers
at a time
because i’m afraid
of when it’s going to
bite me back

but even though
i still can’t relax
i haven’t had
any recent
panic attacks
i’ve just been
thinking of
the little
shiny
stars in space
and the adorable
grin on your face
and how all the darkness
is slowly being replaced
by something better
giving me a taste
of dreams
about a life
that doesn’t
feel
like a waste

we can create a language
all our own
we can look
at stars
never shown
peek behind
each other’s eyes
and look at the
wonders that have grown
in a world and life
unlike any
we’ve ever known
Think Oct 2014
Why
I heard it throw grape vine
I heard it throw the bass line
That you were not mine

This happen every time
These thoughts play my mind
Are you the right girl
Why are you playing with my life

I heard it throw grape vine
I heard it throw the bass line
That you weren't mine

Now I sit here all alone
Just hitting these useless chords
To forget that girl who played me like a useless note
Påłpëbŕå Jan 2022
i wonder how long it'll take
for me to make
something pretty on the eyes
about the sun and skies
or it could be about
rocks and rain
but something to come out
from my pen again
that i've refilled to the brim
yet chances of writing are slim
and here i write this
thinking about that promised kiss
which shall never be
now not even in my poetry
🚫
SiValesValeo Mar 2021
She's walking down the hall
her arm holds another accessory
who'll soon learn that all
she wants
is envy
The warmth that lingers in the air
One thought swimming around in my mind.

She walks like driftwood floating ashore
Ever so still, ever so ethereal.

All I can think of is you.

You whisper only love and tenderness to me
I wish you wouldn't cry, that is all it really takes.

What do you dream of in nights like these?
The serene expression on your face melting in the middle of the humid evening.

I wish I could give you what you need.

My reflection swirls and shifts through the dark sealed windows
You hold onto me for fear that I will leave
And you are right.

Please let me go.
let me go.
I am not what you need.

The air in my lungs weighs me down
Your tears dance in the street lights.
I can only wipe them back but for how long?

You are all I can think about.

The way your warmth leaves me feeling cold
As the static in the background fills my brain.

Blue light bounces off of my eyes
I cannot make you happy.

You hold onto me with such resolve
Such need, how will I ever leave?
Not even for a quick three AM rinse.
I want to know what you dream of.

I guess its just another one of those midsummer nights.

I crash back into the mattress, your cold hands soothing me
You are all I can think about now
The only thing within my limited vision
It hurts me.

But its probably just the heat getting to me.

-Kore
eyyyy summers here
The depths and the hold of the midnight hues of dusk
flowing into the surface of the water.
The sunken truth that lies in that shallow vastness
washes up on the shore, a trail of lingering darkness
found in the waters.

And so help me as I cannot help but become consumed
by the calling waves,
It whispers to me, it feels familiar
like home.

There is only a grim satisfaction that remains on my face
as I sink into the abyssal trap,
surrounded by all the unearthly treasures
I can only hold so much of.

And there it was, in that shallow looking emptiness
the indigo that threatened to take hold.
I was consumed by the sapphire
that corrupted my lungs.

I reach out to the surface
fading from my view
but only shades of cerulean escaped my mouth,
with no hope but only the suffocating feeling

of the deep blues.

-Kore
Remembered that time I was floating in the ocean and a small earthquake happened.
Eola Dec 2020
Latern so bright and beatiful
Lures me in
I might not resist
  And completely melt
        In
           It's
               Warm
                   Embrace
#eh
Gee
I’d forgotten
Or discovered

Your eyes like faded denim
The smile you’d try to hide
The way you like to tease me
Can’t make you laugh although I try

Like laying in fields of lilac,
tour Tassie attached to my hip.
I rang you like religion
Just to tell you about the trip

there are hard days, they are long ones
I bare just to hear your voice
When my head is filled with static
You’re cutting out the noise

Laying in a dingy tent,
staring at the Milky Way
You told me how you felt for them
the honesty cast fears away

We went to two different festivals
one day after the next
It felt like we were both there
But watching different sets

To wake up to you in winter
Samson whines me back to sleep
The mattress is barren without you both
But The bed’s too warm too leave

You send your love in lettered form
Like medicine in mail
and though the sentiment is old
I found relevance today

Sometimes I fret that you don’t care
How foolish and ambivalent
Sometimes I need reminders of
why I loved you to begin with
Zane Smith Sep 2019
what to think
anymore.
I want to write
my brain won't
create
poems like before.
this is ******
****
what a pity.
I think
I'm trying to hard
i sit down to write but nothing flows
I guess my feelings
don't want to show
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