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The person belongs to dark 

In search of light

Leaves the dark

Found a rock 

Keeps the rock 

Ask the rock

"Hey rock, Where I can find the light?"

Says the rock 

"The light that you're
  Looking For is in the dark"

Goes to dark 

Found a mirror

Keeps the mirror

Ask the mirror

"Hey mirror where i can find the light?"

Says the mirror

"The light that you're 
  Looking for You already have"

Unsatisfied with the answer 

The person that belongs to dark

Leaves the dark

In search of light.
minisha Apr 27
Buried beneath suffocating feathers,
little canary resented flight.
The unbearable weight of her wings
made her caress despondency.
She dared convey her plight
to her pretentiously affectionate birth-giver.
Expecting solace, she received a ******
as in she augered and died.
Griefenite Apr 11
Each step in my run
I veer closer to the sun
It burns it burns
But I still walk
But why?
Because I'm too scared to talk
Too afraid I'll be a laughing stock
And so I walk and I burn away
Bits and pieces fly
I wish so dearly but I can't cry
Feels as if I went astray
But was there ever a right way?
I only feel because I should
But in truth I never could
A peril born of my own toil
My being it serves to foil
Bea Hespera Mar 16
They say that the world is held together by the love and passion of very few people.
The people that keep the world from falling
That keep the world from breaking
That prevent the cracks from becoming chasms on the ground
That keep the earth going around

The children ask
Are these people doctors
Or lawyers
Who could possibly handle this task

No, children
You are mistaken
I say
For those are not the protectors of today

I whisper to the children
As they lean closer, unbidden
The very few people who keep the world working
Are the people who keep the world learning

They are the teachers
And professors
And mothers
And fathers

Those are who keep the world turning
The populations learning
They make the doctors into doctors
And the lawyers into lawyers

The world would stop turning
All the fires would stop burning
For if the teachers stopped teaching
The people would stop learning
This poem was entered into the iron pen contest under my legal name, and not my pen name. However, I am still me so I am publishing this under my pen name
Millee Feb 10
Ana
i look to the mirror, an unsightly view
what's staring back? it's me to you

how i hate what i see
the girl looking back is me

i'm trapped in my skin
pleading from within

why am i the way i am?
self love only a scam

to be better, to be yearned for
to be perfect, the end of my internal war

just listen to me, can't you see?
workout, eat less, count calories...

you'll be made new, into the person you crave to be
but it comes at a cost, do you trust me?
MOHD LIAQUAT Feb 3
No lamp, no candle gives me light,
It feels like endless, darkest night.

My heart is now a silent place,
No voice, just echoes, empty space.

Dreams of love turned into pain,
Each memory brings hurt again.

Like travelers, people came and passed,
But someone in my heart still lasts.

Dust of distance, scars so deep,
Where’s the end? This pain won’t sleep.

Yet I kept my hope alive,
A firefly in me survives.

So come to me and shine so bright,
And fill my soul with warmth and light!
MOHD LIAQUAT Feb 1
My heart is restless, my prayers feel dry,
Each sight I see feels bare and wry.

The peace of my nights was tied to you,
Now lost in darkness, it fights anew.

How long must I endure this pain?
You alone can feel my strain.

No sighs hold weight, no prayers ignite,
No love burns with its sacred light.

Since Liaquat forgot your name,
A stone within now beats the same.
Traveler Jan 25
Let’s slow it down now
Let’s think about it first
We all possess the power
To maintain at our worst
Our bestest is only average
According to the algorithms
Crashing upon the shores
Of an artificial opinions..
Traveler 🧳 Tim

Ironic how we allow algorithms to judge our artwork
Arobeum Nov 2024
Eyes never lie
Then was it hallucination, or just my delusional mind?
That I thought he was in love with me!

Was it just a matter of pretend?
Pretend to love me so as to get me,
I might say my body..

What was it that I saw his eyes full of love for me?
His actions that I mistook for,
To bring the world for me.

If only I knew that eyes sometimes lies,
Sometimes betray.
Millee Dec 2024
pulling me up just to push me back down, to this cycle i'm bound. pride is a sin whether from you or within. i climb to the top not planning to stop but if i go too far—
just let me fly, be free. let me truly be me. unlock the door, release the chains because no matter how much you think you love me, you only put me in pain.
how can i heal when i begin to it's my skin you peel. bring me back to "perfect," everything you dreamed for me, but that's not who i am, can't you see?!
just let me live my life, the way i intend too. you treat me like a trial run, how is that fun for you?
this is my life, not yours. leave me alone
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