#gasoline poems on Hello Poetry

Sabila Siddiqui Jul 2019

I can't close my eyes,
I can't close my mind
as my thoughts keep me awake all night.

I toss and I turn,
trying to find comfort in my bed.

It's past midnight
and my thoughts have been rung
with gasoline
and been set on fire.
It consumes the small pieces of
happiness that I picked up during the day.

I gaze and think,
as there is no save tonight.

So I lay with a heavy mind
and empty heart
waiting for my eyes to slip to sleep.

#sleep #sleepless #dreams #overthinking #late #nights #ocean #gasoline

emru Jul 2019

everybody is on fire

everybody burns inside
sometimes they just need a little gasoline
to burn the way they should to

#motivation #fire #gasoline

Esther L Krenzin Jul 2019

Gasoline

I feel it all so deeply
that it hangs from my neck
like an unmarked tombstone
I've tried to bury it in
one too many drinks
instead
they quenched the embers
sparking in my gut
so I get drunk on gasoline
hoping to match fire, with fire
fumbling hands shoving matches
down my throat
swallowing them whole
consuming that which burns so bright
within me
and even after I catch ablaze
I still feel it all too deeply.

Esther L. Krenzin
Roguesong

#feeling #deeply #gasoline #fire #within #depression #numb

Canis Latrans Feb 2019

Burning Man

The graphite colored smoke, that rose from your charcoal covered body, in billows of silver.
The ferocious orange and yellow flames, that dance at the thought of bringing your bones into the sun.
The smell.
Sandalwood and gasoline.

#burning #man #sandalwood #gasoline #charcoal #silver

Morrie W S Apr 2019

gasoline.

if i
     could still dream
without thinking of them

if i could recall
      my nightmares
in anything a't'all__
.if i could feel less

       i absolutely would

but ev'r'mornin
doth i recall
the mirror and our
youngest faces

the **** goes off
          the shot goes off

if i had but a single dream
reflected on the television screen--
mayhaps eight i was.

    the explosions i cannot recall
but the dreams remain  the the the

towers fall.

              would that i could
               evacuate this path

              how can i be anything?

#fear #cptsd #gasoline

mikayla swiecichowski Feb 2019

fire and gasoline

we went together like fire and dynamite
something was bound to explode

you and me together was like lighting a match and igniting explosives, nothing went well when i was with you

#love #heartbreak #explode #flames #kindle #gasoline #together #heartache #heart

χαρμολύπη Jan 2019

you could do so much worse

burn what you find
in the depths of my heart
with blind rage drown any remnants of you
with the sickening smell of gasoline
clouds forming before my eyes
tunnel vision
no one ever changes but that's okay
because you could do so much worse
as you strike the match against the box
i'll be smiling to myself
with rivers flowing down my cheeks;
an eternal reservoir of you
preparing myself for the heavenly bliss
to come as you watch all that i know
rot away before your eyes.

based on a greek song that makes me cry every time i listen to it. i wrote this on vacation as i was bored in my hotel room with no wifi

#dying #heaven #gasoline #heartache

Sage Jan 2019

A Little Game

I want to play a little game
Don't need you talking about your fame
I'll put your heart inside a frame
I'll put you in my hall of fame
You burned down a building with people inside
Do not try to run there is nowhere to hide
You killed nine people all under twenty one
The things that you did can never be undone
Burn half of your body to see how it hurt
I wonder if your husband knows you're a flirt
All you have to do is take that gasoline
And cover yourself from your toes to your waist
Then light a match
I think you know what to do
No need to cry yourself to sleep
I really hope you continue to weep

#saw #gasoline #fire #matches #downfall #mistakes

B Nov 2018

Gasoline

I am a candle in the wind,
faltering.
Yearn to set it all aflame,
pour yourself upon me, gasoline.

#gasoline #fire #love