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neth jones Apr 15
a stop is called
a cold drop to death
       and clothe my eyes   squint tight
then clear the screen     beam into another variant
a *******   (with a new approach)
broaching language
           ( the previous dud
         would never have dared ! )
caring less  with vicious rapping
reinvent the day  from the perspective
                                 of a new gimmy villain
**** to the experience and bite barking
            take two  you intolerable people
                                you intolerable world  
                             the intolerable harking
                                  of the intolerable day
Zywa Apr 14
Well, I've become who

I didn't want to be, and she --


is okay with it.
Theatre programme "Gut" ("Gosh", 2016-2017, Sanne Wallis de Vries)

Collection "Willegos"
R Spade Apr 13
The crack in the sidewalk is my only comfort.
We've become friends overtime,
I tell her about the bottles and beer cans,
so lost I forget about the aches and pains.

She knows it's bad when I'm quiet.
I sit with the dark and listen to my sobs echo,
the rain can't drown out my thoughts.
The crack in the sidewalk is my only comfort.

Sometimes I go weeks without seeing her,
my identity drifts softly away with the tide.
Confused, I am too weak to find ground,
maybe it's best I cannot be saved.

The water leads me to my friend,
I shiver yet I cannot feel the cold.
She tells me that she's here for me,
the crack in the sidewalk is my only comfort.
Ugbad Apr 13
I find meaning in the eyes of others,
Love never seems to come from within,
It comes from the eyes of the girl who despises my being,
From the lips of the guy I never seem to fulfill,

I find meaning in the flesh of others,
My own seems rotten,
Unaccommodating to my soul,
Undeserving of my dreams,

If one day I let myself relish in the flesh of others,
Will my body become worthy of her eyes, of his lips?
Will my soul find rest?
Will my dreams...
Zywa Apr 12
Mirroring yourself

without ego on others:


a soft reflection.
Comic strip #58 - "Tom Poes en De Spiegelaar" ("The Mirrorer", 1953-1954, Marten Toonder), tier 2107

The saying 'wie zich aan een ander spiegelt, spiegelt zich zacht' means: 'one man's fault is another man's lesson'

Collection "**** & Lord"
Decembre Apr 11
If there were no words
For our identities
(If we were just
People, and only that)
Would it still matter
Who is attracted to who?
Or would it just be
A meeting of souls?
Spirals,
Where have I been?
Chains, blood, flame.

The sun marks me with reverence  
But my eyes were blind to its fire.  
I wandered through the void unnamed;  
A wraith in smoke, a soul for hire.  

I have been sightless for eons,  
The old world forgotten, cruel and bright.  
But light returned like ash to altar;  
Unshackled
from the endless night.  

Where have I been?
These patterns mark my skin;  
Chains once carved, now forged within.  
Where has the darkness gone?
I stare into impermanence  
Through spirals etched in consequence.  
When will I spiral?
Oh gods, when will I spiral?

Celestial fire —  
It bleeds through my tears,  
It scorches my name,
It brands all my fears.

It slips beyond my grasp,  
And still I wait for the return  
Of the spiral I must pass.  

Laughter cracks like ancient stone;  
A sound I've never known.
Weightless now, but bound to pain—  
Who am I, if not the flame?

Spirals… spirals…  
This time around  
I keep my eyes open  
Until the cycle takes me down  
Again…

Laughter cracks like sacred stone;
A sound I've always known, unknown.
Lightless now, yet flame remains—
A self reborn in burning chains.

It slips beyond my grasp,  
And still I wait for the return  
The spiral never truly
Passed.

Spirals… spirals…  
This time around  
I keep my eyes open  
Until the cycle takes me down  
Again…
Aaamour Apr 10
The real me flushed down the drain,
Now I'm a dead corpse chained to someone's dream.

For all the good deeds, the times I made them proud,
They repay me with hate.
I wish this wasn't the fate.

In a state where silence starts to speak,
And the mind is weak, and no one to seek.

To love or be loved—I don't know which is harder,
Neither me nor my words speak louder.

The desire to end it all overrides, Hope,
Love, and The meaning of life.

Even if I did end it all,
My death wouldn't gain as much attention as a single drop of rain.

My dead corpse wants to be alive again,
Just like hoping for rain on a peak summer day.

In the end,
My thoughts suicidal,
My body weak,
But with a little hope
Where someone's love on me shall leak.
a small LEAK of love can change someone's life.
Asuka Apr 7
They don’t just describe emotions—
They dissect them.
Make you wonder
Why you feel,
And how much.

Some let their pens speak,
Others carry verses within—
Written on the walls of their minds,
Etched into the pulse of their hearts.

Poets are powerful.
They paint sorrow with beauty,
And make joy even more delightful.
They show us the world
Through an entirely different lens.

They can dress poverty in poetry,
And make wealth seem vainly stunning.
They stir our emotions,
Make us love deeply—
And hate just as fiercely.

We’re all born with a poet inside us.
Most just forget to listen.
To feel deeply is to write, even when no ink is spilled
Wasil Feb 4
Echoes of the past,
kept as pets in a starving box.
Glued together wholly,
no room for novel space.
A spider’s string stuck to my back,
each step forward
the weight of a monstrous myth;
The corpse of time, dragging itself forward.

Luminous space infiltrated by jested thoughts,
its rebellious attitude only cuts deeper.
The enemy of my thoughts -
who am I to fight?
The I, a mysterious letter; a single stroke
Yet with such might beneath the ink
Lies refuge from the one who questions:

who dares return to the poisoned well?
why am I to pay
for the sins of an innocent child?
why am I burdened
to unwind the ties of a knotted self?

My life’s purpose decorates a fated room,
A refuge for those who must forget.
Let the past’s echoes stay buried—
silence the instrument, and hear.
A pleasurable pain I ache to claim at once.

Be a snake who sheds its cancerous skin,
or the corpse of the soldier who fought:
Nevertheless,
let pain not be in vain.
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