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Moo Dec 2024
Unsettling silence protrudes me whole,
Silence with god,
Silence within my soul,
Silence of remarkable control,
Silence bound to eat me whole,
Skillful silence has me sinful,
Plundering what in me was willful,
What to make of who I am?,
What to make of my greed?,
To have god's heed.
Jennifer sanders Dec 2024
She laid there next to him somewhere far from home wanting to scream I love you, she wanted to feel his arm wrap around her and pull her in close but instead they just lay there so close but so far away from each other.
greatsloth Dec 2024
When the dream ends
And the dreamer dies
Would the world stop to mourn
Or would it continue its revolution;

With neither an impressive gun salute
Nor just a simple cry of sadness
How long until the warrior's song fade
Into the reality's cruel silence;

When the dreamer dies
He dreams of an eternal edifice.
saint8 Dec 2024
Im too hurt.
Too hurt to speak.
I go by a sunny day , stop to thank it.
But i dont want to talk.
My voice will be the disturbance in a beautiful moment.
But how gracious are things when
We just stare at them.
Quietly.
Nathan A Brock Dec 2024
I cut the chords from my throat,

Presenting them as a

Gift in homage to the

Gods of the citidel, burying my

Resentment with the

Bones of my ancestors.



I ripped the nerves from my face,

Offering my apathy to the

Wraiths that would prey on the

Bitterness of mute lamentation .



I tore the veins from my arm,

Freeing the hidden

Tears that flowed like a

Creek over my

Wrist and into silver phial.


I dipped my quill in the phial

And let the

Shadows hear the

Sound of my voice.



©Nathan A. Brock
Repost from 2018. Edited and reformatted
Odd Odyssey Poet Dec 2024
“What echoes in the void of a gun's chamber, poised at the head”
– the silencing of their countless voices howling within.
“What are the last words of a crimson blade caressing one’s throat”
– a haunting cutaway to a life now severed.
“What feeling envelops a lifeless body sprawled upon the floor”
– nothing but cold.

Does one merely attempt to compose their own funeral songs
– or weep a solitary tear for their own end, blinding themselves to
the haunting shadows of regret that herald their own downfall?
Does a fish, in a frantic bid for survival, strive to weep itself back
into existence, the moment it leaps from the depths, only to find
itself stranded? Are you familiar with the image of love's belly,
once alive with butterflies, now a dead man ensnared in a net?

The haunting questions of suicide linger like a ghostly whisper.
Can the choice to surrender to death ever truly unveil the answers
we seek? Do the celestial realms bear witness to our torment, or do
the infernal fires rejoice, growing ever fiercer with each soul they
claim?

Alas, it is only the departed who possess the knowledge of such
truths, and I shudder at the thought of being the one to unveil
such an answer myself...
Jack Groundhog Dec 2024
The copper dome
of this domus Dei
provides a home
where I may in silence stay.

Beyond its great doors,
a sea of candles like a hearth.
The cool marble floor
reflects the roof mosaic’s warmth.

In this vast space
my silence softly echoes
and in my vault vibrates
a secret libretto.
Inspired by the dome of St. Nicholas’ Church in Potsdam. One of the most calming places for me in being alone in the quiet of a church.
Wary Nov 2024
Was it a bid adieu, or merely the beginning of an infinite rendezvous? A quiet vow, sealed in silence, to wander back into the refuge of dreams where our moments linger—beneath the timeless tree that sheltered our whispers, on those solitary benches, along endless paths where our footsteps etched fleeting eternity, as if echoing our own unfinished story. To trace the delicate decay of fallen roses, decipher the faded whispers of “miss-you” notes, and relive the quiet intimacy of entwined hands. To seek the warmth of embraces and rediscover the timeless rhythm of those coffee-laden moments, where losing ourselves in one another was the only truth we ever needed.
To share the silent symphony of every moment we spent together.
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