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LJ Chaplin Apr 2015
Show me your flaws and I'll show you mine,
The moment is raw and I won't decline,
The chance to be open,
The chance to be kind,
A finger to my lips
To hush words I can't find,
Scars don't determine
Your final appearance,
Nor is perfection
Your final endearment.

I have wounds of my own
But alas you can't see,
Echoes of war that
Ripple through me,
Deep beneath skin
And deep beneath veins,
Tucked away safely
In the confines of a brain,
Kept in a box wrapped in a ribbon,
Collecting dust and carefully hidden,
Away from hands that try to pry,
Scratching at surfaces try after try,
Scrounching for scraps and forever hoping,
That pandora's box will finally be opened
© LJ Chaplin
Samantha Mar 2015
Don't uncover me
You'll just unleash grief for the both of us
Coffee . . . half a bottle of ***** and eternity
Blind faith . . . And do what you like
A sea of joy . . . well all right
Had to cry today . . . In the presence of the Lord
Now I cain't find my way home
Songs on the CD Blind Faith
Jakob Walker Feb 2015
Swirling twirling
My life is whirling
My stomach is churning
And my head is spinning

I feel fantastic
The comprehension, nobody has it
My mood is somewhat lactic
Well, without the acid.

Nothing can deter my mood
Not even if, to me, one were rude.
I'd simply look at you
And say "calm down dude."

But alas
I know this feeling will not last
My happiness will not end fast
But like all good things, it will come to an end.

You see, there are demons out there
Nobody knows where
But they always show up
Leaving you like "what the chuck?"

But I'm ready
When they come, my voice shall be steady
My body may be shaking
But my will not breaking

These demons are always on the attack
When you think they're gone, they come back
They come so much I've lost track
And often with some distasteful hack.

But happiness and hope never go away
Like Pandora's Box, there's still hope to show
Everyone is a Pandora's Box
They just need to know.
This was mainly me trying to let out the demons and realize, they can't affect me. I was feeling stressed. Then I remembered, I also have a Pandora's Box. I still have hope.

By lactic, I was thinking most people are happy about milk. Milk has lactic acid, except acid is generally considered bad so I mentioned just lactic.

For those who haven't read Pandora's Box - http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/grecoromanmyth1/a/050410Pandora_and_her_box_or_pithos.htm
Rockie Feb 2015
Open it, go on,
It's Pandora's Box,
Nothing bad will come of it,
I'm sure!

Nothing bad
You mutter
Nothing bad, I'm sure!

It's opening
Go on, take a peek
It's
*Open
Marie-Chantal Jan 2015
Ink
I have developed a twitch in my body-brain.
It jerks at my organs and my violet thoughts.
I can control it to make it work,
Use it to dance on your rusted metal cogs.
It's like a spinning tree,
With interwinding pine cones of
Gold that hang from satin branches
He is perched up there again!
Tall and proud.
Not a bird like other animals.
Not an animal like other animals.

I know your most shameful thoughts,
Let me tease out the guilt and despair
Pull it out in worm string from your
Bloodied Guts,
Your gilded towers where you lock them away
Shame on you.
Bell chimes three times: Death call
But blue tears still cling like sharp thorns to brassy plumage
plumes plumes plumes

Frère Jaques, Frère Jaques, Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous?

Slumber not next to the satin tree,
Layered under the shrieks of your old loves
Where they suffer timeless tortures that make your tongue
Taste like fish feed.
Poppy breathed inside his beak-jaw, mongrel!
White faeces stain the satin branches again.
Bloodied, bloodied, bloodied.
Pandora makes you bleed
White faeces.
Leech, your brain is a leech-vampire.
White faeces.

Quick, walk around the tree three times in clockwise motions,
Not like a tick-tock more like the flap of a wing.
Do not forget the tear ink,
Her tears were ink,
they were ink,
ink, ink, ink.
Sink into the poppy field!
Churn in your toxic nutrition
Choke on your reflux
Do not taste.
Do not see.
Do not smell.
Do not touch.
yikes no idea where this came from.
Noandy Oct 2014
Here are the thousand hopes packed in a red coffin
Made of yarns and tied with black string
It comes with flowers and wrapped in green
As if it is so weary; it flashes a grin

Here is the sleep packed in  wooden jars
Unreachable for the latches are worn down
Then it comes, decorated in porcelain
With cracks spread across and glossed by tears

Carve down the ornaments and you shall see
The nightmares and scars it hatched
When you and I walked down, forlorn
To call for Pandora and the hope she’d forgotten

Here are the bullets torn down during life
The protector and murderer of our own kind
They come disguised in arsenic laces
Tearing the night and the vulnerable moon princess

Carve down the ornaments and you shall see
The dreams and bruises it abandoned
When you and I walked down upon chaos
To call for Erebos and the darkness he caresses
Paxton Potter Oct 2014
Within a room somewhere
Sits Pandora
Holding the box that
She opened long ago
When her heart was curious and naive

Now her heart is heavy
And tears fill her eyes
Hope is weak
Hope is shriveling
If only she hadn’t
Set loose the monsters

She wishes people
Saw hope
The way she does
Leaking out slowly
Filling the air
Pulsating, Shaking
Glowing

Maybe if they understood
They would hold on
Just a little longer
For their monsters
To die

Because in the end
The hero always wins
You just need to be there
To See it
Shane Oltingir May 2014
When I gave you my heart in Pandora's box,*
locked and sealed, and safe from me,
You did not taint nor break my heart,
You simply lost the key--

*It is there where all my hatred starts...
Yoni Sav Mar 2014
I always had a cell
somewhere I would dwell
A place where I could hide
what I feel inside

I was so alone
as if you had known


One day you arrived
and left the past behind
You opened up the door
like no one done before

Pandora of reality
a mirror of insanity


As the bats all fled away
you decided you will stay
with the only dove
my love

I wish that I could give
a fraction of what I recieve


You must understand
you are more than just a friend
you are so much more to me
because you
                                                               set me
                                                                                                                  free
You know this one is for you. This is not my Orion, but my stars are starting to take shape.

— The End —