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Joseph Hart Jul 2014
Little shards of paper
that haunt my passing mood,
I see it's true, it's dead alright,
some decade withered feud.

And yet the paper scrawled and mangled
spells a definite end for thee,
and as I look between those lines,
freedom, there'll be, for me.
Tark Wain Jul 2014
A bandage can only do so much
it's the body that heals
don't cover up your problems
solve them
DanielGage Jul 2014
At the core of
the fire
there is ice
You've decided its there,
But you don't really care
Because
you're warm right now
And
in the end you will freeze
I guess its the relief you receive
*Was it worth it?
This poem for my dad. May he never read this.
You're there when the wind blows
You're there when i bathe in the light of the moon
I can feel you
You're the one who keeps my sanity intact
You calm me down when I'm about to explode
So i just want to say thank you
Thanks for giving me a chance at a normal life
Angela Mary Pope Feb 2014
When I try my hardest
I can still love you the most
And it's not hard
it's just not the same as it used to be

But our dreams are still parallel
Like the world that exists
In some turquoise tangerine place
where we managed to keep it sacred

And if I think about it long enough
I remember how sad it was at the end
Seeking relief
When we only found solace in naked

And if I reach out to touch the stars
It brings your skin back to my flesh  while it burns our history back into the harbor of forgotten ships
That never masted

Sewing words together to make them
Out of moments that never lasted
This is what time felt like
When we weren't able to forget mistakes and tribulations
We could have but didnt outlast and

(I had a lovely time.)
Jonah C McNeil Jul 2014
It's over
It's finally done
I can taste the finish of it
But it's my only release
Nothing else comes close

You become breathless
Even weightless
I need it
Or perhaps,
I desperately want it

It's not fair
To end it so close to the start
I feel this longing
For it to go on and on

Life in a nutshell,
*****.
But with this
****.

The world melts
My worries are gone
Just a tad more
But I hold off

For those hard days
For those dreadful nights
The waking nightmares
And fleeting dreams

It's on these days
On these nights
Where I sit back
Relax and...

Light another cigarette.
Braulio Romero Jun 2014
At work the boss shot her mouth off with her baby boomer thoughts
I missed the rainbow after the thunderstorm and what was left were fallen trees
Slipped on a banana on the way to the train that got me late
I went home for the night and I lit up the sky
What was I mad about?

People singing at the top of their lungs on the street
Co-workers ask me questions I don’t know the answers to
I prefer not to do what you ask me to
Haunted by a ghost of someone dead from a position I now hold
What do I do with these curses coming after me?

The moon eclipses as the wolves come out for the night
Spitting in my eye while they’re snarling
Fell in a flood stepping on the wrong sidewalk
I headed home and lit up a fire
What was I mad about?
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