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Midnight Clamour Jul 2015
as I tapped the cigarette, the crumbling ashes blown away by the wind brought in a myriad of memories of our love..

how you left my naked soul bruised and shattered only for you to be ravaged by another human..

and for me, love transcended from bedsheets draped in crimson moonlight to the amalgamation of ink and paper under the caramel candlelight..

yet, like a wildflower, I'd brave the unruly world again..to love people who the world considers wild..

amidst cigarettes, caffeine & a world stabbed by meliorism, life will belong to me once more..

-animesh
jennee Jul 2015
my first love did not love me back

i watched her from afar as her smile radiated the layers and sheets of the ground that has yet to crumble
hair held back or let down, her face shone and all i could see was the future that wasn't written at the palm of my hands
whenever our eyes reflected, in her i saw everything i could ever want
she was never beyond reach, yet whenever i held her hands and wrists, i felt her pulse skip a beat, and i knew that it was not for me
her lips met others to satisfy and her touch kissed the skin of another
but i remained by her side amongst many others
sometimes i felt as if i was closest to a wave i could ever be, only to be washed away and be brought back to shore
you are that wave, and no matter how many times i am closest to drowning, no matter how many times you drag me back to shore away from you, i will keep swimming, maybe in the hopes that someday i'll be able to join you
and to every sunrise and every sunset of everyday
to every rainfall and to every sunshine we praise
you will always be on my mind no matter what weather or day
as stupid as i sound as a love sick fool, clinging to a wave that easily slips from my skin, that leaves a stinging sensation for every attempt i try to shoot for the heart
i will always be left with sand in my ears and lips cut in between
yet i will continue to watch for that wave, and the sun that peaks through, high up in the sky without a single cloud
i will watch until the layers and sheets underneath me crumble
and even 'til death, you will always be the reminder of the first love that never loved me back

n.j.
Jeuden Totanes Jun 2015
once there was a boy
who loved a girl



but now there's a man instead
who's in love with another man.
Jeuden Totanes Jun 2015
Yesterday
America raised a rainbow banner.

I woke up today.
Facebook wasn't blue anymore.

Unicorns came pooping all over my friends faces.
Love wins.
katie Jun 2015
Father and son.
Both verbs when you abbreviate their names.
Share a last name of course.
Even a first letter.
One, the current homophobic governor of Mississippi.
The other, a happy interior designer of Austin.

I wish in my Mississippi public school I could teach,
That Shakespeare ain't got nothing on this kind of irony.
LovelyBones Jun 2015
We look on the outside, judging much too fast
Not realizing how we repeat the past
More people are dying, there's still so much sin
Killed for simply loving or the color of their skin
But amidst the pool of evil, there's a shining light
Standing by your bedside, as you try with all your might
Just accept your neighbors, your family and your friends
I promise there's no need to succumb to such a violent end
Progress is what we call it, but little do I see
The crumbling nation that this has come to be
Today marks history, "equality for all"
Ha! It only takes a couple hundred different men to fall
But this changes nothing, this world is full of hate
Love is not a simple thing, but to appreciate
In honor of both the Charleston Massacre and the legalization of gay marriage.
Josh Torres Jun 2015
The sky seems bluer,
Reds give life to the greenery
Black and white was given colour,
Every time I remember you and me.

I met.
I felt
I was the king of the world.
Reigning supreme,
I was on top, but then
I fell.
and I felt
It hurt.

How can a mere word
Bring such glee and an even greater pain?

The pain of losing someone dear.
The pain of holding onto what seemed to be so clear.
Such is despair.

Thus, scarlet scattered

If it were war, then I have died.
If we were sinking, then I have drowned.
This was it,
Game over.
The end.
This was rock-bottom.

Have you ever wondered
how it must be after you breathe?
How reality will fade, and how we'll lie in slumber?
I want to know.

It was dark,
it was cold,
the silence was deafening.

Then stillness was broken with but a slight whisper,
"Here, I am. I am Love."
Love offered a hand,
and
I took it.

Love's hand plunged me out of darkness.
Love showed me the light.
Love walked me, day and night.

Love woke me up,
Love ate with me,
Love kept me up,
Love gave me the eyes to see,
who Love truly was.

And when I looked at Love, I saw
that Love was patient,
that Love was kind,
that Love did not envy, nor He boast.
Love was not easily-angered,
Love did not keep any record of my wrongdoings.
Love always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

For now I have been convinced that neither death nor life,
neither the present nor the future, nor any powers
can separate me from Love.

Please, hear me out.
You see,
Love is not a romantic fantasy,
nor is it a bill/ a car/ a law/ a celebrity.

Love is an act.
That One laid his life down for another.
That One's  life and death paved way for the freedom of the other.
Love is the lashing whips, the spitting romans, and the nailing on the cross.
Love is Jesus Christ who fought for your cause.

NOW TO YOU HE SAYS,
YOU ARE LOVED.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PLACE YOUR IDENTITY
ON A TITLE,
ON A RELATIONSHIP,
ON A MATERIAL THING,
OR ANYTHING ELSE.

BECAUSE LOVE HAS WON
and He won for you.

— The End —