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Shadow Dragon Jun 2018
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This world delights you,
but you may not love him.
For when he leave
the truth cling to you.

And lead you
to do things
and thunder from
the ******'s womb
might not linger
so that he stays.
Esther Jun 2018
Funny how after all these years
I can still smell you on my sleeves
The scent lingers
It's like you never left.
I know you're long gone, but i still got the same old jumper on, the one i wore all those nights you held me close.

p.s. today would've been our 1 year anniversary if we were still together.
Poetic T Apr 2018
Eclipses of what was draped,
             woven on me like entombed
shadows that never feared luminosity.
          
Within I was a contradiction
                   that was rising on
                        every morning.


But I was nothing,
                   but what was a raven on white.
37 words
mel Apr 2018
learn(in)g
to (love) myself
a l(i)ttle bit LIGHTer

(let)ting the laughs
linger longer (in)
the (lows)
in love—i let in lows
Sabila Siddiqui Mar 2018
What kind of exhaustion is this?
The one that lingers under the creases of your eyes
Heavying body-cells to your bed
And yet being unable to slip into sleep.
Kathryn Rose Mar 2018
The Dying breaths of dawn
Linger on my lips a bit longer
Ever since he has been gone
sofia Mar 2018
What are you searching for?
As your hands wander
Across every curvature
Every peak
Every valley
That comprises of me

Why do they linger
Ever so slightly?

Is it for the unspoken reason
That we know our love won't last
So you try to remember
Try to map out
Every aspect of my body
Of my being
To add to your extensive collection of maps
That you ever so carelessly
Threw away
Madison Greene Mar 2018
you’ve always been in the back of my mind
lingering
as if somehow, someday we would find our way back to one another
I’d tell you how the years all ran together until you held me again
and timing wouldn’t decide our fate
and distance wouldn’t make much of a difference
right now you’re where you are and I’m not really sure where I am
but without it meaning too much you should know
I am never not thinking of you
Poetic T Feb 2018
Elapsing into cognitive repercussions,
               a thought never one to fade.

Always an afterimage
  burnt on to the psyche
           of delicate dewdrops clinging.

Within a consciousness
              that never  evaporates
just lingers in a reflection of it hanging

Like its waiting to suffocate
           but the breath of reality
                              gives it respite.
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