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I scream out to god
Expecting an echo back
Lonely summer night
Can you feel what I'm saying?
Can you see what I'm touching?
Can you taste what I'm hearing?
Well I can't.
Maybe because I'm here.
Or is it because I'm not here.
I really don't know.
Visions of nothingness drift through my subconscious.
My dream world could be your reality.
till the ****** of love
she sang

till the drapes
in tatters, wail
they shiver
threads,
to ribbons
as tears
frail in spring breeze
stiff
bony breath of winter
chills the soul
readies me for the wound

she could dance
belly and all
entrance my naked heart, my dizzy doldrums
how all I'd wanted
was her
in the midst
of my forest

mistake my love
for the stars
she did
for the myriad
she tossed her well
into my coin
and I drank her in
leagues deep
with one penny
for her mind
read her life
saw her perfection stem
in my interest
coffers full
no rust, pon my copper touch,
dividends of time, we had
and yet
by the hour, struck every eve,
the penny wast all I had
for, spat back, my penny went

a man can love a woman
but should his penny be worth her life
her love, her heavens, her crown,
men,
with wallets heavy as banks
will buy her drunk
ego, pride, unmerciful
to the brim
with lust
save one's penny, she'd be rich

though poor all her days, without you...
Who knew soul mates could be so cruel... and uninterested in love.
Ahmed Gamel Apr 20
She looks just like a dream, the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen,
Like a cover of a magazine, she shines, so serene.
Her eyes held a world that i couldn’t understand ,
A vision of beauty, slipping like sand.

I stood, caught in that fleeting, fragile space,
Where nothing was real, but I still gave chase.
She was the sun, I the fading moon,
In her light, I lost myself too soon.

"She looks like a dream," the words echo in my mind,
A perfect illusion, but no place for me to find.
I tried to fit, I tried to be whole,
But I didn’t belong—just a shadow, a soul.

I reached for her, but she slipped through my hands,
A face in a crowd, lost in distant lands.
I never showed her the depth I had inside,
I hid my true self—kept my heart denied.

And now I’m here, trapped in the past,
The dream’s a nightmare, and I’m outclassed.
I see her face, but she’s never near,
A memory, a ghost I hold dear.

The silence screams louder than words,
In my head, the pain echoes like birds.
I wonder, could I have made it right?
Or was I always meant to fade from sight?

This cage I built, too tight to breathe,
I locked myself in, no way to leave.
And now she’s gone—no touch, no sound,
Just an echo, a feeling, trapped and bound.

I dream of her, but she doesn’t see,
The boy I was, who could never be.
And so I stay, haunted by a face,
The prettiest dream, but I don’t fit in that place.

I wish I could forget, wish I could flee,
But every night, she’s all I see.
Trapped in the dream, with no way out,
Loneliness whispers, it’s all I’m about.
This poem is a reflection of love lost, a love that never truly came to be. It’s about the pain of being trapped in the memory of someone you could never fully reach, the regrets that linger long after the person is gone, and the suffocating feeling of not being able to move on. The dream-like quality of the poem contrasts with the harsh reality of unspoken feelings and missed opportunities. If you've ever felt that your heart belonged to someone who could never truly understand it, this poem is for you.
Morgan B Apr 18
Fog
My world has turned grey,
My soul is crying,
My heart is irreparably broken,
I thought you could be my cure,
A ray of sunshine
To light up my days.
I am sorry.
I know I need to let go,
And someday I will be able to.
You were something
You are not anymore,
While I’m the same as always
Pretending the past is still present.
My words are flat,
A decomposed body,
I lost the right way,
If I ever found it in the first place.
How to recognize
When you go from a prodigy
To a wilted flower?
I had always been invisible,
But banal?
A curse, sent by my
Worst enemy,
This is the only solution.
I lost my flame,
My lighthouse,
I feel like I lost you,
But you didn’t lose me.
Please, come back.
I guess some wounds never heal.
Vedo la luce di un lampione,
lì in fondo alla strada.

La vedo dal secondo piano. Dall'alto.

Non la voglio lasciar illuminare la strada da sola.
Non riesce molto bene. Non sembra serena.

La luce non è fioca, ma non è viva.

È gialla, ma uno di quei gialli che non sceglieresti
tra i pastelli colorati.

La strada che illumina è familiare,
ma non è amica.

Non deve esser molto contento quel lampione.

Vorrei potesse andarsene
da quella staticità.

Da quella strada.

Da quel nulla

///

I see the light of a street lamp,
there at the end of the street.

I see it from the second floor. From above.

I don't want to let it light the street by itself.

It doesn't work very well. It doesn't seem peaceful.

The light isn't dim, but it isn't bright.

It's yellow, but one of those yellows that you wouldn't choose
among colored crayons.

The street it lights is familiar,
but it isn't friendly.

That street lamp must not be very happy.

I wish it could go away
from that static.

From that street.

From that nothingness
Written by a kid looking out the window
Vedo la luce di un lampione,
in fondo alla via.

Dall'alto.

Non voglio illumini da sola la strada.
Non riesce bene.
Non è serena.

Lei non è fioca.
Ma non è viva.

È giallina,
ma d'un giallo che non sceglieresti mai
tra i pastelli colorati.

L’asfalto crepato, le erbacce secche, le case vuote,
ciò che illumina è familiare.
Ma non amico.

Non deve esser molto contento,
quel lampione,
come un padre che osserva, immobile,
il figlio morente.

Vorrei potesse andarsene
da quella staticità.

Da quella strada.

Da quel nulla.

///

I see the light of a street lamp,
at the end of the street.

From above.

I don't want it to light up the road by itself.
It doesn't work well.
It's not serene.

It's not dim.
But it's not alive.

It's yellowish,
but a yellow you'd never choose
among colored crayons.

The cracked asphalt, the dry weeds, the empty houses,
what it illuminates is familiar.
But not friendly.

It must not be very happy,
that street lamp,
like a father who watches, motionless,
his dying son.

I wish it could go away
from that staticity.

From that street.

From that nothingness.
Written looking out the window in midnight
Izan Almira Apr 17
We scream in silence;
shout to the void
in a hope we’ll ever
be seen.

But no eyes lock when you are looking away
so all that stares back
is the dark.

The darkness of our fears.
Ren Apr 17
I loved you in the hush between two sighs,
Where glances flickered, stars that lost their flame.
Your voice, though gentle, bore no soft replies,
No echo shaped itself around my name.

I offered verses, filaments of grace,
Fine bridges spun from breath and tethered fire,
But you, like frost that veils a summer's face,
Withheld the warmth my trembling hopes required.

You did not break me. No, you were too kind.
Yet kindness, cold, can cut like polished steel.
A smile, misplaced, can hollow out the mind;
And silence teaches wounds too deep to heal.

So I retreat. Not bitter, but erased—
A violin, unheld, in silence cased.
Still strung with song that none will understand,
Still turned toward you, an unanswered command.
another day, another poem about someone I deeply cherish
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