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Michael Ward Feb 2018
War
I look upon my empty throne,
With naught but a kingdom of blood and stone.
This sorrow is all I'll ever own,
An audience of silence is all I've sown.
I was playing Civ 5 and thought this up as I crushed nations.
Zollie Trista Jan 2018
I see lines of you in the silhouettes of the scurf of a world without you
I hear your voice calling my name:
In empty hallways,
Serenades,
And odes written on deathbeds,
Declaring that your final words should "I love you"
And as I lie dow unfamiliarly in a bed without you,
I curl up and imagine that you are here,
And as I drive back to you-- home, across dark landscapes,
The headlights of the oncoming traffic reflect off my glasses and beam through dark air,
And your voice calls my name one final time in the lonely hotel room behind me
Rohan P Jan 2018
ambience echoes in caverns and
caves: i press my ear against
the wall and wait for your
sigh.
Pagan Paul Jan 2018
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When the feelings run and hide
and when there is nothing left inside.
I cannot even begin to disguise
the fact that I have cemetery eyes.

An empty shell, a carcass, a husk,
autonomic movement from dawn to dusk.
I will not allow my emotions to rise
and bring back life to my cemetery eyes.

There are words I just cannot repeat,
questions and probing, an enforced retreat.
The shutters fall, there is no compromise,
nobody sees behind my cemetery eyes.


© Pagan Paul (2018)
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Sleepz Jan 2018
It follows me,
Every step that I go,
Never leaves me throughout the day,
Sometimes disappears at night,
But once I step under the light,
The evil side of me escapes my body
And hides beneath me,
My shadow.

The disappearance doesn't mean its gone,
It only escapes from me ,
Untamed.
In the absence of light
My shadow surrounds me,
Overwhelms me and causes my pupils to become narrow,
When my eyes magnify the darkness
Nothing can escape my sight.
The darkness is mine,
This time I follow my shadow.

When the light comes piercing through my window as the sun rises,
My shadow wakes up behind me as I stand.
My shadow is small,
My shadow goes through everything
I go through in the day.
As I fall apart from the dreadful experiences
Of the human life,
I am forced to become strong.
Yet my shadow is left untouched, unhurt, unaffected.

Yet, maybe that is needed in order to stick with me.
If it knew human emotion perhaps it would escape.
When I was with her,
She had a shadow too.
When I was with her,
My shadow was paired and it extended itself under the sun.
Now I'm not with her,
Perhaps my shadow feels the tearing away
Of what was once a part of it.

My shadow doesn't boil like i do under the sun,
At night,
My shadow forgets.

Shadow,
Can I be like you?
Lets switch places for a day.
Because in humanity,
Even sleep is not an escape from the nightmares.

Shadow
Pagan Paul Jan 2018
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The conquest notch on the heart,
a symbol of success and achievement.
But another year closer to the grave
reflects the sadness of old bereavement.
The love of life has long driven passed,
a life of love into the darkness been cast.
The symbol has slipped so far away,
the notch has healed and had its day.
So now the heart is as cold solid stone,
and I climb the stairs to bed alone.


© Pagan Paul (01/01/18)
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Wilt Dec 2017
the world is blank
my thoughts so empty
like the coffee i drank
so bitter, dark, unflavourful

unable to think
no spark of inspiration, no spark of creativity
everything-
all gone in a blink

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our efforts wasted
your very life ending
but me, I am like a tree been blasted
living- but barely, like a wilted sapling

what is the purpose in the world
society full of two dimensional people
the infinite paths that once unfurled
where did they lead to? only death

save me from this world of insanity
this world of pain, dread, and despair

alone in this endless night,
suffering, striving, one last step
no, my thoughts ebbing as i write
unable to continue, one more line

save me from this eternal dream
a dream of endless possibility  
but without you, its only a nightmare

where did you go? where are you now?












save me
Jason Schnepper Dec 2017
Lonely Is The Night

No one to hold tight
No one by my side
No one I can call mine

No sweet lullaby's
No dreams of you and I
Why is love so hard find?

Why is it I must I live such a sad and lonely life?

lonely is the night
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