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Serinda Marie Dec 2017
I have spent my whole life wanting to be somebody else. Now I just want to be the girl I was.
James LR Dec 2017
When I see you,
my soul! It soars!

I'm not allowed to fly.

And then I fall.
And the earth is cold.
(It's far from the sun)
The wind is a cage.
The ground is no fun.

When I see you,
my heart-it aches,
my breath? you take,
my mind forsakes,
and my soul breaks.

When you look at me,
I see that yours do too.
CarterCreator Dec 2017
In dreams, I breathe you
Once broken, you make me new
What will we become?
Audrey Dec 2017
One day after all of the words have left our lips
After our hands have stopped touching everything they can
After our noses breathe in every good and bad scent
After our ears have heard their last melody
There will be nothing left

No one will remember who you were
They won't remember what you could have done
What happened after
Or who you became because of it

So live every moment given to you
Forget about the minuscule things that keep you up at night
Leave behind the people who make you feel like you're less than them

We're all just passing through
No one dies with anything to carry out of the world
No one leaves an impression that will truly last forever
Which means no one is better than you

Find the love that the movies go on about
Live the dreams you thought would never come true
Listen to that one song that you scream to with your windows rolled down
Stop thinking about doing it and ******* do it babe
Advice I wish I followed
Lyn-Purcell Dec 2017
What makes a monster and what makes a man...?
Well, it's our potential
For both great good and
great evil.
No man is a paragon in this world.
For we are all flawed
by nature.
Face the truth, there is a beast
in every man.
While many try to hide it,
There are those who unleash it.
Nonso Amawuru Nov 2017
It felt like the wind seized and i couldn’t breath
     I wandered lonely as the stars which are beyond reach
     When all at once i saw a thousand horses
     Racing towards me all looking like ambassadors of death
  
    My heart racing like tigers chasing a prey
    I closed my eyes to find peace
    Rather i heard whispers of death
    I am screaming but my voice is without sound
    Fear in my heart grew like weeds in a fertile ground

   My soul wandered out of my body
   My eyes lost sight due to fear of what’s coming
   At this moment I am like the desolate sun
  I try to think of heaven and hell
  I tried to ascend and live in paradise with angels

  My feet as stagnant as deep roots
In flashes came the life i have lived, filled with kisses i will miss
I see myself as a child again
The sweet taste of my mother’s breast became sour in seconds
Luck will race faster than these horses i believed


Pray for me i screamed to my soul which is now far away
Come to my rescue i told my guardian angel
If he dare comes here
i hope he gives his life in place of mine
In a second i prayed to all the gods there is to be

I believed in heaven i believed in hell  
I lift my eyes and behold eagles
I believed and prayed to them too
Hoping they could bless me with wings
Void in the heart filled with fears and doubts

I sent my thoughts soaring to my maker
In a minute i have drifted in the streams of this world
Bound by chains of self-beliefs and self-doubts
Faith and self-belief raining out the skies
I commanded these horses to stop
I couldn't imagine another life
Waves of darkness made me understand
I am a god.
life is about discovering yourself and rising above your fears and limitation.
Mila Berlioz Nov 2017
11:44 pm
You cry, thinking you’re ‘useless’. Oh baby, if you could only see the potential you have.
No one has ever made me feel this way before  it’s been three hours and sixteen minutes since you left my house.  And every second it gets harder not to be by your side. I have never loved someone this much.  Never thought I’d make it so far, so committed in a relationship. But here I am… not being able to get you out of my mind.
I loved cuddling with you, spooning.  You look so unbelievable beautiful sleeping.
I still can’t believe what’s happening.  It’s just too good to be true.
Having the love of my life (you), telling me that every time he looks at me he can’t help himself but to think I’m the most gorgeous person in this world.
I could kiss you day and night, 24/7. I could hug you all day long. I love you so much. Trust me you’ve got so much potential. I just, I love you.
Never let me go, never leave.  I love you too much to not have you by my side.
-11:53pm
To me you're perfect
Clipped wings can't fly
They lack the momentum,the drive
To pound the ground
And reach out to the heavens

Broken wings can't fly I tell you!
They are battered
Bruised beyond repair
While the pain is too great to bear
So they fold in
And in time are frozen
Frozen in the that ,moment of angst

The worst kind,however,
Are caged wings
The power within them
Is akin to the gods
But it's use is restricted
So they just disintegrate
While never knowing
How high they could soar
We have so much to offer, but most of the time are too blind to see it. I hope this piece can change that
Eddie John Oct 2017
In my mind I never try
I figure it out easily and never have to cry
Everyone talks about potential
But I think I lost mine in the instrumental
When life gives you lemons you make lemonade
When life gives me lemons I find another way
If Genius lives one story above madness
Than which story is the story of sadness.
I think that effort is the one thing I can never give
Because I don't even know how to but effort in because it was never necassary
Now I'm just lost because I don't know how to live
But now it seems to me that your just my adversary
When you never have to try to succeed in life, than do you even have potential?... this is a concept I struggled with for years
Sarah Elizabeth Oct 2017
Hold your own hand Sarah
Because no one is going to hold it for you
No one is going to hold it for you
No one is going to hold it for you
No one is going to be there for you when you need it the most
No
Sometimes
You're going to be alone
So hold your own hand Sarah
When no one else will at least you will have yourself
Your strength
Rivals that of 1000 bulls
And When your hands come together
You can harness that
The strength your mother
Infused into your bones
Interlocking
fingers twisted together in a lonely vigil
their only company the half painted fingernails that adorn them
Fingernails
That can only ever scratch the surface of the potential you possess
You
Have potential
An unknown future laid out in front of you
Scaring you away from possible opportunities
Hold your own hand Sarah
Stop
Second guessing your abilities
You
Look at yourself in the mirror
And see
A beautiful person
Hidden
By a mask of pretty features
You
Are chaos.
A
Fire burning
With
Invisible flames
Only you can see.
Your
Beauty is visible
But only to yourself
Others
Don't see the real you.
While
You see flames dancing
They
See a brick wall with no doors
No windows
No way in
Your
Mind a forbidden garden
Except
No one even knows it exists
See
How can anyone want in on something
When they don't even know it exists
Do you even know I exist?
Hold your own hand Sarah
Hold my hand Sarah
Your consciousness
Witnessing all your poor decisions
More divisions, all created by you
Distancing yourself from those you love most
And blaming it on them
Blaming it on time
Even though you never seem to know how to spend yours productively
Hold my hand Sarah
Maybe if you
Grabbed hold of yourself
Grabbed hold of your mind
Territory that's mine
Then you'd figure a thing or two out about how to
Straighten yourself out.
Hold my hand Sarah
I promise I'll never let you down if you would just
Hold my hand Sarah
Because we both know
I have never let you down
And we both know
That together
We can be stronger
Than ever before.
I started this at work and made myself memorize the beginning so I could write it down after my shift. I'm surprised I actually remembered a poem idea for once
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