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Gordon maddens coils under the high ceilings
  solitary in his three rooms
with his cello and window sill herb box
with his art ideas  employment as a film extra
and drink   fought  at bay  daily
see also :   battling off the ghoul of his perished father
his other and waging with his ****** bead
his aging kingdom    sensitively approaching seventy
early version

03/10/23

off his gourd

Gordon maddens under high ceilings
solitary in his three rooms
with his cello and window sill herb box
with his art ideas
and drink at bay daily
I wait for my Father above,
To fight for me with His love.
He sees the pain that I endure,
And promises to find the cure.

Oh Lord, can you hear my plea?
I wait for you to fight for me,
To break the chains of toxicity,
set me free and guide me through the darkest days.

I trust in your love and grace,
To lead me to a better place,
Where there is no pain and suffering

In His arms, I find my peace,
My worries and fears all cease.
He shields me from toxicity,
And fills my heart with positivity.

With each battle that He fights,
He brings me closer to the light.
No longer trapped in darkness's snare,
I am free from all despair.

So as I wait for His mighty hand,
To lead me to the promised land,
I trust in His power and grace,
Knowing He will never let me down.

The storms alone, He's by my side,
In Him, I find the light.
For my Heavenly Father will always be,
The one who sets my spirit free.

So I'll keep my faith in you,
And know that you will see me through,
For you are always by my side,
My Heavenly Father, my guide.
A poem I wrote for my dad
Happy Father’s Day dad
Happy Father’s Day dad
Wish I could talk you
Happy Father’s Day dad
Wish I could visit you
Happy Father’s Day dad
It’s been 9 yrs since you left
Happy Father’s day dad
Wish heaven had visiting hours
Happy Father’s Day dad
Wish you could answer me when I talk to you
Happy Father’s Day dad
Wish I knew  if your proud of me
Happy Father’s Day dad
Wish I could call you again
Happy Father’s Day dad
Wish I could buy you gifts and see the excitement on your face when you open it
Happy Father’s Day dad
I love you
Happy Father’s Day dad
I miss you
Happy Father’s Day dad
I know we didn’t always see eye to eye on things
Happy Father’s Day dad
Dear daddy
Wish I could talk to you
Dear daddy
Wish I could see you
Dear daddy
I wish I knew why you left
Dear daddy
Wish I could understand
Dear daddy
I know we never seen eye to eye on things
Dear daddy
I knew you loved me
Dear daddy
I knew you where there
Dear daddy
Can you hear me
Dear daddy
I love you
Dear daddy
I seen red cardinal is that you
Dear daddy
I see white bird feathers is that you
Dear daddy
I see butterflies is that you
Dear daddy
I see flowers is that you
Dear daddy
Was that you ?
Arlen 6d
Old man, you don't know me
You only know the shadows I let you see
Old man, you don't know me
Only the parts that I let free
Abi Winder Aug 31
anger has always been a strand in my DNA.
i inherited this from my father.

it lives buried deep in my chest.
i feel it slightly when i breathe.

a constant throb,
a pit, inside my lungs.

i feel this rage so deeply,
i am used to its presence.

i do not know what it would be like to live without it.
to breathe without it.
Arturo Aug 30
I broke.

I once wanted one.
A dad.
A true father.
To his heart,
to his wife,
and his family.
What I got was another.

Swallowed by suffering,
his silence
suffocating a dream.
His?
Mine?

Lost and adrift
and slowly
buried
by his past.

Now father.
Dad.
I alone have to stand.
For my youth
long since passed.
Stand for my kids, my wife,
and yearning
for the heart, the Soul
of my Self.

For the boy who’s walked alone,
who still lives with me.
So that the pain can rise,
Can breach the surface
and let loose
the storm
for a sweet burial song.
  
All this
so he can once again
Remember
what love is.
Fiona Aug 18
today marks
day 903

903 days
since you’ve left.

the first day I met you
I was tiny, barely a
fragment in this universe.
You held me
and shouted,
“She has my eyes!”

days collected together
just like a dusty library.
the memories we had together
are now ink, written and
unwritten.

how can I fit
8,035 days of admiring
your soul
learning your ways
into 78,083 pages?

yet I hope
that I got it right.
the way your heart
adored the small creatures
that purred
and deferred
your pain.

the way you
radiated joy
every time
you heard thunder
echo in the distance,
lightning splitting the sky.

the way you
carried the 10 of Wands
for days upon years
and released
finally…
this lifetime.

here I hope
that one day,
all of our days
will be held
in the hands of those
that were made
from the same
stars as us.
Grief is eternal. But so is love.
Abi Winder Aug 16
i'll never escape it.

the redness of his blood
the eyes that stare back at me in the mirror.

i still bleed the same as him,
still write with his pen,
i am still his daughter,

despite trying so hard not to be.
Hannah Aug 15
Happy Forever Father's Solstice -  Ode to The Source of my Life

A hundred thousand
Words of nothing

But light

Lingering, drifting
Across ocean fields
From you to me
Me to you

And space

In which I can never be lost
As my ears
Learn to hear
And my eyes learn to see
What my body feels
While my heart keeps the rhythm
In silence

Listening

So I might become
A summer day 
Long and full of fragrance
Of gardenia
And the flight of dandelion seeds
Blown from my head 
With the wonder of a child

This poem
A prayer
Lives here
Forever for you
My dear daddy
Rest in peace
father's day
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