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There’s asteroids crashing … - down on my heart
Cause the space of my mind too often too loud
Is way overcrowded and evacuating
Painful regrets to my chest where it’s setting
It’s eyes on the so called feelings feeler
Maybe it dies or the thought calms down quicker
Either way it’s a win for this ego so feeble
Who thinks I can’t feel and thus makes me brittle

I’m fighting a war and riding my horse
In a field full of cannons, of course I’m morose
Of course I get heavy with worry and still
Showcase this story so others don’t ****
Themselves over feeling so overwhelmed
That they can’t say even they’re doing okay
Because it has become harder to pretend
Than to share the red sorrow which runs to no end
Here’s a fun one by the time this poem
Will have finished 40 men and women
Will have tried suicide, two also will win
Out of those 40, 30 are men
Never taught ever that feelings are real
And might be worthwhile to be tendered and cared
Never been taught how to feel and not think
Or to ask for help when they are at the brink
Of ending that ice cream and then every thing

There’s gunshots and bombs happening here
And long before any of those dissapear
I’ll have choked on silence and drowned in the fear
That I could’ve been judged if I ever died near
Another one like me and dared ask my kin
To help me not lose myself in the ring
It’s shameful, it’s weak, and not a man thing

We must die strong before we live soft
Then have a kid but not do a whole lot
Go work and then eat and forget all of that
Achieving dreams thing it’s not in your part
Before key realisations, drink, go to bed
Drown in the liquid, do not feel but hide
From the weights put on you by ego and pride
Until it’s too late and the barrel of steel
Is excited to help you push it all to the side
By pushing you down 6 feet underground

You see I’m worried I’ll end up just like them
Although I am quite well intended
I think they were too
So what do I do
When I cannot see a spark coming through
And i know all the quotes already so, boo

How does a man learn about self worth
When as a man I choose bear for what it is worth
How does a man learn to make space and breath
For both himself and a relationship
And how does a man not end up alone
So he won’t be challenged in his catacomb
Tell me how do men even exist
When it’s so hard to see your own therapist
And talk about life like, every two weeks
How do men keep all the made promises
When relationships die and then time changes
And how does man not forget himself
And hold space for his needs and someone else
And has a job and a hobby or two
And then walks his dog in the afternoon
And then is well read and emotional stable
And holds his ground well yet kind of agreeable
And has a happy go lucky relationship and
Get well with his family and all the wishes
The world expects come true but where in all this
Does he even fit except his coffin
Because he did choose to hold it all in
Until no love or hug could make a way through
If I ever grow roses I truly would do
Prefer to be gardener
And not fertiliser
And if I die I would like to see the horizon
And shed tears of joy for having lived right
By my values and morals and having had in sight
Both my dreams and humanity and compassion alright

Many souls believe that to be a man
Means to gain power however you can
But for the sorrow to finally end
For men to be complete and not need to pretend
We must seek to notice what we have ignored
And at once reconnect the heart to its chord

There’s craters down here and they might never heal
But I have been nowhere that has felt so real
And if I seek to live, I must do it from here
Where softness is born and cruelty killed.

Where I don’t hold in, but I guide and I lead
And there is never pressure to follow a script
Cause I am the safety I’ve always needed
So I can be me and feel **** completed.
KHY Nov 2024
i hope you know I always was,
in my head with a million guns,
spraying leads and speaking duds.
Karmen was Heard Nov 2024
You are the only one
No other gives life
I am just your pawn
You'll lead me through strife

May Your kingdom come
Through my desires
I want to succumb
You'll lead me through fires

I submit to You
My God, my only
Your word is so true
You'll lead me through folly

I know you won't go
Like so many do
You'll never let go
You'll lead me through You.
Maria Etre Nov 2024
Leading someone
on
feels
like writing
the beginning
of the
cutest poem
and then
it sudde.......
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2024
A heart that crumbles with time,
Gradually fading into that familiar abyss
As my thoughts silently fade away;
Eroded by the chemistry of love- a love lost.
In a manner of desiring to express myself; it seems
Causing its own demise- words soon ignite.

And they become like embers,
Scorning a fire of anger, I kept hidden
Deep within my soul's depths.

The flames dance freely, without a care,
Like a child with matches, unaware.
I watch in silence, filled with dread,
Praying they don't consume my heart, turning it to lead.
Madeleine Mar 2024
My son
I have called you to lead
You are stronger
Than you realize
Delicacy8100 Oct 2023
Indigenous!
Belong, in place.
Eligible to be? (Unpaid)
Tracing comfort. (confronted)
Distribute all rawness.
Attribute all peace.
Abolish odd disturbances.
Against all odds, shadowing perspective.
Feeling at ease...  Just ME! (Relieved)
Canvased in dirt immersed in blood. (Rituals)
Unleash the royal beast.
Reveal all - ME. (Lead)
Smudged, focused on the challenge.
Do you see?
ME?
Midlife crisis? I question my choices.
Flooded with time, my writing is hosting.
Manx Pragna Jul 2021
lord
they say
of that home overhead
is beauty rapturous
but the interred
holler a song
showing gold to be lead
for his might is rancorous
thought that allure captures still
for when have the greedy had their fill
not in this life
not in the next
for the fearful are still afraid
and will be still, when down they're laid
despite their fight
the sickly go too
for all their bated breaths
could not help in their deaths
that fed the soil what hungered so
going silently
into that goodnight
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