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Jeremy Betts Jan 20
Maybe this non dairy rocky road was already laid out for me like some kind of haphazardly tossed together destiny of unfathomable tragedy
Or maybe I was too afraid to look too closely or venture too far from safety
Didn't see the blame had shifted dramatically, mostly to me, but how wrong can one guy possibly be?
And yet still I will admit, there's a possiblity the mentality I harbor is mostly negativity manifesting this reckless trajectory
No way to know for sure cause the final copy sent to the publisher was never run by me
So maybe, just maybe, it's some combination of these three, and everything you don't see but what pushed the first domino is beyond me
Can't jog my memory, the good, the bad and the ugly all lost to ancient history, constantly looked over, over and over to the point of obscurity
There's no money so follow the calamity of the paper back story, it's short and gory
Densely packed and stacked with everything that would make someone uneasy
Only pain and shame, no glory, not even a hole, boxed in and been lonely for 40
My future is solely based on what I've done previously
Most might say, "uh, yeah, obviously" but it can get tricky
With a little creative liberty taken to push the limits of an already worn down psyche
Me, myself and I, a split personality or just a not so holy trinity?

©2024
Ash Young Nov 2023
I think I’m losing my poetry.
Not in some bleak, calamitous way,
Just – I don’t know how to start anymore.

Is that the problem?
That I’m caught up in my once-upon-a-times
And my dark-and-stormy-nights?
Maybe.

Or. I’m trapped in my metaphors.
Even – I’m tangled in my analogies.
Trying to tap the trees of every experience I’ve ever had and
Bleed them for all their meaning.
Picking up each imperfect seed of memory and desperately
Injecting their cores with GMO/Pesticide/Make this Matter/Juice.

This cyclical little life of mine is whirling too quickly,
My tail is tying knots in my intestines.
I can see the nape of my neck approaching in the distance,
Time taps her toes on my scaled sloping back and tsk-tsks not long now.

I keep on asking her what the countdown is for.
She checks her watch and smiles.
- The sun sets, and the sun rises, and I do nothing with my day at all.
Mark Wanless Aug 2023
i don't play the game
of what if or maybe
i fall into the day
Chelsea Doyal Oct 2016
Many nights ago we chewed over the saddest words we knew:

                                   almost and maybe.


We almost made it work,
   but maybe it's best left at just that.


You were the best almost I  maybe ever had.
Rasha Joie C Jul 2022
How do I stop liking you?
How do I stop talking to you?
How do I stop caring about you?
How do I stop longing for you?
Maybe, just maybe...
I'll learn how to dance on my own.
Maybe, just maybe...
I'll forget about your face and voice.
Maybe, just maybe...
I'll just remember those days when I was happy with you.
Maybe, just maybe...
I'll learn to let you go.
Tinder link from Turkey
newborn Dec 2021
I like a man with charm
As he rests his arm about the hand railing
And says, “You go first.”
                            One who summersaults
           Or dreams of a big wide ocean
   Right in between my notice
                          Want someone who walks like a boss  
          Not a little boy who’s lost
                    I like a man with contempt
     One who wants to trap me beneath his robes
                    His swords
And his guilty words
                             One who touches me like I’m
          The icing on a cake
Like I’m his future wife and we just had
                      Fifteen kids
                                      One who stands over me
       Like a statue
                        I lick the marrow from his bones
         He doesn’t hate
He only acts like he doesn’t care  
                         He knows that gets me high
     Higher than a skyscraper
                            But we still have to eat dinner
      I want someone who thinks I’m sweet
But then flips me over
        And I’m floating in the Dead Sea
                           One who towers over me
    Like a doorframe
             Who softly grazes by my hips
                                                 I wanna kiss his
        Lips cause they taste like independence
And loyalty
                              One who remains cool
Even when the awkward
                Pause is deadly
   He doesn’t have a
                                             Fatality
                     But what I really want is
     Someone who wants to be with me no matter    
                             What  
                                            Someone who’ll
   Cuddle right on my front lawn
                        Cause he doesn’t give a crap about
                                 Judgement
          

                              I love him
I just want someone lol
Tatiana Oct 2021
I wanted to see the sunrise.
Instead I laid in bed and watched
as my windows slowly let in
more and more light. Maybe tomorrow,
I'll watch the sunrise. Maybe tomorrow,
I'll crawl out my window. Maybe tomorrow,
I'll take pictures of the sunrise and
it'll be worth it.
I'll always want to see tomorrow
even if I dread every second of today.
I want to see tomorrow
and capture it.
©Tatiana
Sometimes tomorrow is the only reason I get through today.
aspen wilde Oct 2021
if your stars got messed up i would blame myself.
i just want you to be happy :)
M Aug 2021
I stepped outside and
the world greeted me as if
to sing, welcome home!
Healer Aug 2021
There you are knocking at my heart,
I don't know when it started
Maybe centuries or was it yesterday?
Unknowingly I was being coloured by you.
I am unaware of my first wish but now my time flows through you.

There you are knocking at my heart,
I am already afraid of the cold days without you.
Are you a dream? Maybe a mirage?
Because like a lie I am clinging to you.

There's this book in my hands,
it's cold, even the ending is sad.
I am not insane to smile or read to a sad story.
But strangely, I keep opening you up.

I keep reading it page by page,
like I would touch the moon.
In between the visible lines
like there's a secret prayer just for me.

Now I am weeping willow, but I can't close it.
Even though this story is like the thousand others,
But I secretly keep wishing to
the broken stars and dried wishing well,
Maybe this one will end differently.
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