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Eyithen Feb 6
I'm not a poet but I write poetry
I'm not a songwriter but I write songs
I'm not an artist but I paint and do things of the artistic persuasion

I don't like to title things
They sound so official
And offically, I don't know what I am
Sunset Meadows Nov 2021
What if we were to live in a world
          Where nothing had a title
                       How would things be different
                                Would people no longer judge?
                                             Would there be no labels?
                                                          Could we live in this untitled world?
Carlo C Gomez Jul 2021
~
Somersaults
In the tall grass
Lutalica girl
In places on the run
Stretched out in her awakening
Removes the dress of her captivity
To introduce herself to those she loves
There's something deeply unknowable
And terrifying in the arrival of her liberty
Sprung forth out of the box
She started from

~
Lutalica: the part of your identity that doesn't fit into categories.
jǫrð Mar 2021
Your name on Yellow

Labeled biohazardous

I drank like Alice
The History: Go ask Alice if she regrets her choices in wonderland, and she'll probably say no.
Jack Radbourne Aug 2020
go on label me
put a name against mine
state what you say I did
box me up
lock me down
clamp the compartment lid

go on label me
invent a sin or syndrome
measure me for size
say I am this or that
account for nature and my skin
or the colour of my eyes

go on label me
punch the card
ink barcode my arm
number me a beast
stencil my blood type
where it does least harm

go on label me
believe I've gone away
believe in your own system
and write it safely down
but someone else has labelled you
and someone’s labelled them
Achick Jul 2020
I don’t give a **** about my reputation
Everyones hates me without any hesitation
A girl can handle so much, so why should I care anymore
I don’t give a **** about my bad reputation
Oh no
Not me
I DONT A GIVE A **** ABOUT MY BAD REPUTATION
I MIGHT AS WELL STEAL ALL YOUR BOYFRIENDS
THATS THE LABEL THAT YOU GAVE ME
I MIGHT AS WELL LIVE UP TO
ALL YOUR EXPECTATIONS
I DONT A GIVE A **** ABOUT MY BAD REPUTATION
I smiled like the sun, kisses for everyone
And tales, it never fails
because real story won’t do the trick, youre gonna make up something quick
YOURE GONNA BURN BURN BURN BURN burn to the wick.
You made me the barra barracuuuda
Yeah
I’m a heartbreaker
Dream taker
Love taker
Love don’t you mess around me
Don’t you forget
All of you created me
I’m the right kind of sinner
To take him under and unleash my inner fantasy
I’m the invincible winner
That I was born to be
I’m a heartbreaker
Dream breaker
Love breaker
Don’t you mess around with me
Joan jet and the black hearts
Bad reputation
Heart
Barracuda
Pat Benatar
Heartbreaker

My love of music was born during these times. These songs empowered me. After years of being labeled, hated, and I couldn’t shake it. So I decided when I was 16 to say **** it I’m going to embrace it.
I took every boyfriend of all the girls that tortured me. I used them to take what was precious to them. I know I wasn’t right but at the time it didn’t matter. I was going to hurt them worse than they hurt me.
izi Jul 2020
People these days,
Always "that's wrong" and "that's right,"
But what are your thoughts?

What is wrong?
What is right?
Test answers?
Video games?

Do people really know
What those labels mean?
Right, wrong,
They're just words.

Words on a piece of paper.
Words flitting from mouths.
Words flung about casually,
that, in truth, have no meaning.

So, I'm asking you,
Teachers and students and parents,
Am I right?
Or wrong?
june ivy May 2020
Insidious night.
Encapsulate me forever,
I beg.

The word 'depressed' is trite.
Just like love, I feel more than I can say.
I hide behind apathy
Yet my emotions control me every day.
Asominate May 2020
Guilty

I point
And three fingers
Pointing back at me

Memories
Not forgotten
Even though I plea

The knives,
They are calling
Yet I still don't bleed

No point in my destruction
Since I cannot feed them

Sharp blades
Evade
My self destruction

Afraid
To pay
For loss of function

Every
New day
Is a new problem

Cut me off
(Save me!)

I'm coming out
I'm caving in
Tell me do you like me now
Let me begin

By burning all the cradles
Uninstall the training wheels
Enstrangement's just a label
And I don't give feels

(I cut me off
I shut you out
I'm caving in
Do you like me now?

Not good enough
I've never been
Disconnection
I'm the alien)
👽 nation.
Nicole Apr 2020
I am on the edge, teetering
Cool breeze splashes across my cheeks
As pebbles crumble to the Earth beneath
Bitterness dances across my tastebuds
Fear and pain electrifying my bloodstream
I am both pushed forward by fear and
Pulled back by grief
My chest feels empty, cavernous
Lonely
At the top of this cliff I must realize
I have spent my entire existence
Scaling this mountain of labels and advice
Searching for my truth in the lies of many
Dissecting myself into pieces to find
Exactly the part that is wrong
The piece I can remove or fix
To suddenly become whole,
Real, valid,
Normal
Alive
And now
Standing upon the cliffside
Staring down at the jagged edges
Rexperiencing the solid footholds
The close calls,
The danger and the pain
I realize that my truth doesnt exist out here
There is nothing wrong with me,
This isn't that easy
I have reached the top, looked outwards and found nothing
I came in search of answers and found the truth instead
There are no answers
I am enough
My emotions are not the enemy
Who I really am is not an outward destination
My truth has and always will live within me
I have the power to change my life
I just need to
Be Still
Listen
And know
Inspired by listening to the audiobook Untamed. I feel stuck and so tied down and invested in things unhelpful to my soul. I want to grow and I will make my life better for myself.
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