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deadwood Jul 2018
I hear your name,
But not from my tongue.
I hear your name,
From his voice.
I give up trying I'll hear your name from my voice.
Tyler Matthew Jul 2018
This world wants to open up and take me.
Each day I rise it quakes beneath my feet.
Something stirring deep below −
hollow, spiteful, cold in bearing,
staring up at me and hating all it sees −
grits its teeth and taunts me in the night.

This world wants to open up and take me.
My foot is sliding ever closer to the edge.
No one to reach out to catch me falling.
No one calling out for me to turn away.
But would it be the end, or could darkness
be a friend? Were I to fall, would it be alright?
Quickwrite
deadwood Jul 2018
Finally,
No one can see the real me.
No one will take pity.
Finally,
No one can hear my agonizing plea.
No one will beg mercy.
Finally,
I gave up on me.
I gave up on my journey.
Finally,
I am free.
This is for the moment I gave up on amounting to something good in high school. I failed terribly.
The poets call it cupid,
Skeptics speak of Damocles,
Chemical to logical,
Songbirds in the trees.

Just some bubbling excitement,
Or a sentinel steadfast,
Maybe it’s fits of crazy,
Emotion in contrast.

In the heat of your body,
Above the way that I feel,
Under the taste of your lips,
Before you I kneel.

I offer my turmoil,
You surrender your stresses,
To define this true love is
Beyond our guesses.
Krishnapriya May 2018
We make up our stories
Our logic and rationalizations
For what happened
That shouldn't have
And
For what didn't happen
That should have

We say
God is benevelont
The universe is your friend
Don't worry
All is well and always has been

Yes, these are good stories
And maybe they are true

But what can i tell my tears?
The arise from a deep well
within
my heart
The well of tears

They cry as they wait
For the moment and day
When this friendly universe
Makes up its own mind
To bless my clouded eyes
with the vision
of Thine Feet

Blue Feet, Bamboo flute
My life, my love
My refuge eternal
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