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X Apr 2015
This is my goodbye prayer.
I know we haven't talked in a while, and I've neglected you for so long, but I'm here now.
For only a short while.
This is my goodbye prayer.
I don't know how to tell you this, but there's someone else.
Another god who I now believe in.

Another god whose Hell would feel better than any one of your seven Heavens.
Another god who guides me to the right way without making me light a Menorah.
No holy river can cleanse me of my sins.
I am cleansed only when He runs His hands over my body.
No pastor will listen to my late night confessions,
and no priest will absolve me from my sins.
I am forgiven only when He kisses my sins off my lips and body.

I will be worshipping Him. Confessing to Him. Fearing Him. Obeying Him. And loving only Him.
I will have one last conversation before I put my rug back where it was for years.
Even though I want to talk to you about how He makes me feel,
I'll only spill out what I'm thinking of you before I leave.
I never thought it would be this easy to let you go.
But I know you understand.
You've seen how much I changed already.
He is the god for me.

You know that no mosque,
and no wall,
no temple,
and no shrine
can make me feel the way I do when I kneel to His feet.
He is my god now and He will set me free.

This is my goodbye prayer.
I will stand on my dusty rug and whisper verses I haven't whispered in years,
but I will be thinking of what the verses in His book would sound like.
I will kneel on the ground for one last time, screaming "Forgive me" for kneeling to a god that isn't Him.

I will kneel for you one last time before falling to His feet and waiting for his commandments.
"I pray to and love you. Only you. Always you.
Please, mercy me. I will be a better believer and earn your Heaven. My penance will be served, God."

This is my goodbye prayer:
"Goodbye."
Alan S Bailey Mar 2015
There is a part of me missing,
No one I see can tell, beneath this heart,
A damp empty room is no longer full,
But this was not it from the very start.

There is a part of me missing,
Like a lump in the sore throat of a singer,
Shattering the pitch, breaking of notes,
The voice gets carried away, the sound lingers.

There is a part of me missing,
Unlike any other so it is unique,
It looks like your eyes, dances but it is still,
Holds me close but I'm cold and cannot sleep.

There is a part of me here,
It shines as camp fires glow at night,
Into the darkness it holds me close
And warms me even now and I take flight.
Linger Mar 2015
Within my nature
Is the instinct to feel pain
When you are broken

I also cannot
Help but to feel overjoyed  
When you are happy

I know what life is
During the moments when you
Are a part of me
Natalie! You are the most important part of me and without you I'm just not Michael! I love you so much :D
P. S.  Don't mind the first part it just sort of flowed
Meg Howell Feb 2015
The loud ring of the phone
brings him back to the
most important
day of his life;
his marriage

He doesn't know why
that memory was
triggered, but it's
all he can see

He longs to be back at that time
Falling, falling
The sweet tune of
"Here Comes the Bride"
plays in the back
of his mind

He sees the ground below him now
as he sees his wife walking
down the aisle
Closer & closer
Flirting with death

Near to the ground now
She's at the foot of the altar
She made it
So did he
"Till death do us part"
At first, this poem may be difficult to understand. The prompt for it was not from my own mind, but a fantastic book I have, "642 Things to Write About", which continues to inspire me. This is about a man who jumps from the 40th floor of a building, hears a phone ring while passing the 28th, and regrets his to decision to jump. It's my interpretation of what was going on in his head. I'll let you figure out the rest on your own.
Christopher Lowe Feb 2015
What isn't half way
The minds focused on
Half questions
Half task
Asking someone
To actually concentrate
Like asking liquid to
Not take on
The volume of a
Glass half empty
Glass half full
Maybe its completely full
But to be filled
There must be two halves

Everything whole is made of parts
Even days are broken into nights
And meals into
breakfast
lunch
and dinner
Whether we are awake
Asleep or
Maybe weekdays to weekends

See there truly is no whole
Only its pieces

*So I took a half day
Inspired by me taking a half day at work because I'm sick.
Duchess Ry Feb 2015
Don't know how did we become friends
Don't know either when did it start

Though I know everything has an end
But I know I want to be with you since from the start

Ask me how much I love you my friend
And my answer is if you can count the stars

I know there is no forever
But you will always be in my heart

Yes , we may can't be friends forever
But only death can do us part
I love my best friend <3
Àŧùl Jan 2015
Surely a piece of me died back then,
Least I faced after it is physical pain,
Like needless needles it was stinging,
All I managed was writing a poem.

Not a regular poet but an enthusiast,
Within me someone happy had died,
I started embalming the dear & dead,
Only hoping that I shall be revived..

My dying song gave birth to a poem,
Heart for the poem healed my heart,
The poem was truly a miracle for me,
Nothing less than a potion of elixir...
A tribute to myself and my poem 'Angel?' that healed my heart after the inglorious accident on May 7, 2010 crippled my life permanently.

Please refer to my poem 'Angel?' @ http://hellopoetry.com/poem/265976/angel/ and its comments for connecting with the story of this poem.

I also wrote a novel called '7 Seconds' whose eBook is available @ http://www.amazon.in/Seconds-Typical-Guy-Not-Life-ebook/dp/B00MYY0DMA and writing the novel I got redemption from the ghosts of loneliness I had to tackle unwantedly after my accident had fractured my degree apart from robbing me of all the friendships I had fostered.

My HP Poem #726
©Atul Kaushal
Lenore Lux Dec 2014
As fridge-rator to beer in the head between the ears adorned with flashy widgets with which to trap the hoes he hopes that he can pull into his poles. His gravity whips wide so hands find and feel up erthing that gots the tail, he wants to rail so hands out he walks and tilts to one side and back holding his glass. ******* limp around the rim, dipping his fingertips into the juice like he wants to dip into you, pinkies as he holds your head forcing you to **** like you want his come as much as he wants to come. Then when done zips up, runs out, "***** sayonara", switch rerun mode without emotion. He floatin. He floatin. He gloatin.

Head on the couch back making tired, one eye open scoping everyone's glow as they move, when up he comes sittin in my face, spittin what he thinks I want him to say, I'm like, "****, guy control that tongue, you spray like that always I'm afraid I won't take that wild ****, as tool is to you as to yo *****." Right ******* ****** spittin harder in the lean up perhaps the lead up to fist flung to react. "Man you too loose, I gotta tell you, I've got just what you do." "Your uh ******?" Man watch ya flavor of language, I got just enough ****** left to get hard and stomp you, heel first in boots bought to stomp, pre-emptive to deal with the bullwhip effect where first you droolin to **** me, then retract like a bowstring because my ***** resembles a ****. "What you want, *****? You wan **** this **** for real?" (For real?) He floatin. He floatin. He floatin the room, he ghosting.

Lick my lips, cept it's not a tongue. For this purpose it's strobe lights, in light show, and like snow, black and white between sheets of plastic TV screen on get settled into my flow, rip back and forth like prongs on a fork on your ******* blindfolded and scolded right angle, bent like an L-shape repenting for **** by taking the ******, flash cards, held up on headboards, trying to teach you metrics and standards lacking in you to tune you into the lifestream, no empathy and no tact to show, remember this hell well while you sail through life preying, I'm praying and making marks in meat coats. But he floatin. He floatin. He gloatin.
Bella Anima Dec 2014
If you would only
let me
Hold your hand
through the dark
again
If you would only
let me
Hold you close
and hide you from
the evil
If you would only
let me
Listen to your
every woes
If you would only
let me
Stay really close
to you



I would.
I hurt when you hurt. I will be here with you.
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