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Sinai Jul 2015
But you aren't my escape route
You are my coming home
In all the hectic of this wanderlust
And I keep finding myself
Setting foot
On the coastline of your love
Barnaby Harrison May 2015
Upon this rainy day
I stand on a boggy bed
Alone, untouched, unscathed
All to clear my head

For if I return I am hurt
And if I run I am without
This day of wet and murk
Is the best without a doubt

My thoughts are washed away
Onto this muddy plinth
I want to run and play
But I'm cursed, stuck and skint

And now I must return
And recall the deep, dark blue
I cannot help but burn
For I cannot escape from you
Chrissy Cosgrove Feb 2015
we both watched them run until their bodies became to frail to function
they wore themselves out and broke themselves down into nothing
we behaved as if bystanders to some gruesome accident in the making
powerless in our capability to rescue,
but burdened with the weight of survivor’s guilt all the same

we both watched them run faster than we could keep up with
their arms pumped by their sides, their elbows shoving us away
we called out to them, we screamed:
"aren’t you getting tired yet?"
but our words were lost in the dust they created

we both watched them run farther away from us,
farther away from the unknown they were searching for so desperately
we both watched them run until there was nothing left to see
Magnuda Feb 2015
It's Done, I must escape.
Stretching, Straining, Burning,
Reaching for the sky.
It's coming out again
Forcing it's pitiful head
Out of the cage
I shoved it into
A long time ago
I surrounded myself with light
Brightness to ensnare the dark
But it has been sleeping to long
I'm fighting it
shining all the light I can
But the batteries are dying
And the shadows loom to close
It's slowly draining my color
Corrupting me
And I'm scared
That it will take over
Because after all
How can you stop something
You didn't even know started
Until it was already to late
emm Dec 2014
Words flying around my head
Whilst I desire my bed
The motivation is no longer
But how can my dreams come true I wonder
As I think
In between my sheets
I break the promises I have vowed to keep
Escape this place, this tired town
How to not settle down
I don’t want to stay
But work is so hard, I want to wail
As my brain is fuzzy
And I limbs don’t work
I curl up , and embrace my future
Don’t work, don’t achieve
Stay in my tomb, that I have shut
The daily routine to carry on
Never stopping
My life never moving on
If I put in no work, I can’t go on
But how to give, when it’s all I've  been doing
All my life, my brain stretched and molded
And now I wonder has it all been for nothing
You’re smart, You’re capable
You’ll sail through
You’re pretty
You’re charming
DON’T YOU HAVE A CLUE?
It’s not enough, nothing is
I could give my soul
I can’t cope, I can’t achieve
There’s nothing left
I sleep on my tear sodden pillow
Hoping to wake up,
But hoping to stay asleep.
First poem, I don't know, this is just kind of a first attempt, but it is just my experience? Sorry for the length? :/
ephemeral Oct 2014
your head is always in the clouds
floating around, refusing to stay
tethered to the ground
"reality is overrated anyways"
so your mind lives within
the next month, or year,
or decade.
you've created a beautiful life
for your 19 year old self
it spends its days studying abroad;
half the year in Paris,
the other half in Rome.
and your 21 year old self,
it's always traveling
it goes on spontaneous road trips
and sleeps under the stars.
you're so focused
on how your life will be
eventually.
but the future is leaving, my love;
along with the present.
"you spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day and how awesome it'll be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present" (aka the quote this poem was inspired by) -Looking for Alaska
RW Dennen Oct 2014
STOP!
CROSS ON GREEN ONLY!
ONE WAY!
WARNING DO NOT ENTER PRIVATE PROPERTY!
NO TRESPASSING!
NO LOITERING!
VAGRANTS WILL BE PROSECUTED!
DEAD END!
Oooh my, can't stand this any more sooo...

...Felt a strange urge
in my legs
jumped into my car
wanted F R E E D O M,
craved   F R E E D O M,
freedom away from
this imprisoning sign-city

Felt the true call of nature
Felt my natural urge to e x p a n d
needed my
ROAMING grounds
once more

Fled for o p e n country s p a c e s
where FREEDOM reigns
like, like refreshing droplets of spring water

BOLTED out of my car
where mother earth
cushioned my feet,
caressed me,
hugged me,
And go so far as to say,
even crawled into my jeans
and heard harmonious
chirping birds

Felt this strange twinge
in my calves
Ran like a deer
Ran into e x p a n d I n g  o p e n  s p a c e s
                                  flight
Felt my legs take
practically off ground

Felt twigs, grass and weeds
gently stroke my ankles and calves
Felt country refreshing cool air
breeze my whole body;
and whizz
up my nostrils
BUT SUDDENLY!!
I trip over something,
it's a rusty large sign reading,
"KEEP OUT INTRUDERS WILL BE PROSECUTED
PRIVATE PROPERTY"
i Sep 2014
i was rushing up the stairs,
running away from the fears,
the nightmares, the past.

and you were coming down
those very stairs, entering
my fears, my nightmares,
my past.

and we bumped into
one another, colliding
two different worlds
into the same universe,
with only a mere eye contact
and a slightly curved lip.
m.m.
Kerli Tulva Aug 2014
You live in a fascination
You live in an imagination
You live in a perfect world
In your head.

You escape from cruelty
You escape from reality
You escape from unwanted
In your head.

There is a battle
There is a war
There is fighting
In your head.

Just like in reality
But in this case
The battle is with
Your thoughts
Your emotions
Your feelings.

If you cannot win the battle
In your head.
You cannot win the battle
In reality.
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