#alike
we are like sunflowers
we look for
the sun
which we want and need
but doing so
we neglect
the young one growing next to us
who cant reach this same sun
as we, persistent
cling on
to it
without letting it go.
Jan 16
Jan 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM UTC
I wanted to tell the character that I'm writing
That his story would not be a happy ending
And yet with his innocent smile
And joyful eyes
He follows the paragraph like a guide
He soon will know
What a heartbreak will feel like
How betrayal changes someone
But he will also know
What the author feels like
Jun 14, 2023
Jun 14, 2023 at 12:20 PM UTC
Once in the lifetime
We got to meet
Like minded person
A mirror reflection
Of own's soul
And the rest will be
The history
Frozen in forever
Jan 30, 2021
Jan 30, 2021 at 9:21 AM UTC
If I could read your mind
It would be reading mine
And we would say it
At the exact same time
Apr 25, 2020
Apr 25, 2020 at 12:04 AM UTC
I was once
A man/women
Like you
Unfeared
Unmasked
Uncovered
Unrested
To keep the pain at bay
I was once
A man/women
Like you
Sorry, I can't help
As you expect
Let me first wear
That PPE
Mar 26, 2020
Mar 26, 2020 at 11:56 PM UTC
I remember what we had
Long passion-filled kisses
And lovingly holding hands
The same dreams and wishes
We knew what the world was
All those happy times together
We were very deeply in love
And we made our world better
And we are so alike
Yet we are so alone
Our love is still inside
Waiting to be shown
Our lives have always been tough
In between the years apart
But it seems love was never enough
Everyone doomed us from the start
But I know our love will never falter
Even though we are not together
It is firmly etched into our hearts
It will remain there always and forever
But we are so alike
Why are we so alone?
Our love is there inside
It is a love that we own
We never had to fake it at all
But we left a lot of things unsaid
The same goals we always talked
And together we planned ahead
I feel like I'm sitting in a corner
And your on the other side of the wall
I need you now more than ever
You're so close but can't get to you at all
You know we are so alike
Yet we continue to be alone
I see you but you're out of reach
Take my hand and allow love to flow
We had no temptation for any another
At the times when we were together
We were very deeply in love
And we made the whole world better
Maybe someday our hearts will touch
We were meant to be with each other
Many times we tried to no avail
No matter what our love will last forever
We'll always be so alike
But why are we so alone?
Our love is there waiting
We just have to make it known
© 2020 Michael Messinger
(All rights reserved)
Feb 11, 2020
Feb 11, 2020 at 2:45 AM UTC
things can be different
from different point of views.
the same sceneries can be dull
or they can be filled with hues.
the flickering flame can burn
or the flame can be warm.
the water can quench thirst
or the water can bring storm.
we don't have to think alike,
we don't have to be the same.
for some people my words could mean
and for some they could be lame.
Jun 25, 2019
Jun 25, 2019 at 3:02 AM UTC
I just met you
Yet I feel like I know you
Not a type from a box
But someone who got out
Explored the world for yourself
I see myself in you
But I see so much more
You have a depth
But you are still so very much here
Your happiness isn't a given
You have worked to be who you are
I don't think I would have been ready to meet you
I forgot I had a crush on you
When you leaned in for a kiss
I was distracted by your mind
And our hours of stimulating words
Our visits from others throughout the night
I noticed your sense of hospitality
I feel like I can articulate myself with you
We both have passts
That led us to the people we are
And to each other
Maybe we are too alike
Feb 24, 2019
Feb 24, 2019 at 10:28 AM UTC
We are alike
Almost alike
Silent
Once I told
I like your vibes
Be a family
[Silent, she was]
Now she is
Recognized as
Status of liberty
One can't deny
Her beauty
Feb 19, 2019
Feb 19, 2019 at 8:35 PM UTC
She is just like me
I had wanted her but I rarely pay attention to her
She sits and looks for someone to pay attention to her
Yet she will get some and then nothing
Ignored
Feeling replaced
Rejected
Unloved
Probably thinking I’d be better of alone and out of everyone’s way
Just pay attention to me
Just invite me in
Don’t leave me outside in the cold
Talk to me
Don’t just glance at me every now and then
And saying hey or something relating to the conversation
Minutes pass and I’m still as quiet as a mouse
My mind starts to wander
My heart starts to sink
My eyes just want to make a river
Take me in
Love me
As a friend
A sister
Walk with me
Talk with me
Play with me
Make me smile
Laugh
Just stop
Making me cry
And feeling left out and
Alone and
Unloved
I am like her and she is like me
We are the same in many ways
But in all its changed me and maybe her
Jan 27, 2019
Jan 27, 2019 at 10:31 PM UTC
These tears I cry aren’t meant for you
They are for the girl I long to return to
The girl with dreams that carried her away
To ideas of travel and love and to change the world,
but something led me astray
My heart demands that I return to that little girl ,who I held so close.
My heart screams and tugs, unable to ignore, who I was once before.
I’m taking my power back, the power of a girl.
I take her hand and make sure to never leave her behind.
Dec 16, 2018
Dec 16, 2018 at 7:29 AM UTC
It shook me from my skin
It sent shivers down my bones
It caused my head to spin
Because I thought that I had been alone
But as I laughed at my fear as folly
It stared at me is dismay
For to it right now, I was far too jolly
And it wasn’t sure if I was okay
I told it my mind was fine
Yet it still looked concerned
So I told it that I’m crazy like this all the time
And that sanity I’d never learned
It then shook in its skin
And had shivers down its bones
But at me it grinned
Because it had thought that it would always be alone
And it stayed with me
And we were dark and crazy together
And that’s how we’d like to be
From now until forever
Sep 27, 2018
Sep 27, 2018 at 8:40 PM UTC
Sometimes our lives are made up of the same stories with the same beginnings and the same endings and things happen the same way almost every time.
Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 7:37 PM UTC
I feel
I feel, we are alike
A bit different,
A bit reserved,
A bit silent,
A bit lost,
We are,
alike.
I pray you,
Will you feel comfortable,
If we share the same dream?
Be,
my inspiration,
my strength,
Forever,
As you are.
In one way, or
Another,
We are the same.
Feb 19, 2018
Feb 19, 2018 at 9:40 AM UTC
God have mercy on me,
for I am falling in love.
My life up until now
has been nothing but bluff,
yet when he looks at me,
he's looking right through
and I feel the same
when I look at him, too.
What more could I ask for,
what more could I want,
then for him to be mine
and my heart for him to haunt.
For who am I to command
the heart's desire,
when someone like him
sets me on fire.
God have mercy on me,
for I hope it's no sin,
when I hope that someday,
his heart I may win.
Nov 26, 2017
Nov 26, 2017 at 2:01 PM UTC
So...you came out of nowhere.
But you make my heart beat right out of my chest.
And I know I just showed up too.
Playing hide and seek in the dark and light of your mind.
And I know I get that too.
I know you get all nervous when we get close.
I can tell that we obviously aren't just good friends.
We rush into each other so quickly.
Grasping to every difference in the other and also the similarities.
You're like the puzzle piece I'm missing.
I would check every place in all the rooms of the house to find you again if I lost you for one second.
It's like each piece interlocks.
Snapping together mentally and physically.
We're two different colors blended together on the same canvas, creating one beautiful shade.
I know you look at me from the corner of your eye.
I know you care about what I say a bit more than the others.
I never knew I held light but,
You tell me despite the fact that I can't see your dark
I cast light on it.
I feel it.
I know you feel how I can go from a total wreck to a tiny little plant.
Taking in every ounce of sunshine you provide.
I know I level you down to earth and
Somehow
Though we've started at two different places
With somehow alike and different views
we've came back to where we started.
Together this time.
A little more happier than we used to be.
And probably a little more dumb.
I love you.
Nov 22, 2017
Nov 22, 2017 at 12:03 AM UTC
I am you
You are me
So starting this day
Let us all come to be
Nov 1, 2017
Nov 1, 2017 at 11:19 AM UTC
You love a person so much
Their pain becomes yours.
You are them.
They are you.
But sometimes that's not enough.
Not enough for them.
But you tried.
For him.
For you.
That wasn't enough.
You loved hard.
Too hard.
And now you can't undo this love.
You can't forget.
You can't figure out if it's you or them anymore because you two were so alike.
So in tune.
And now you're over.
You're trapped with lingering memories of what used to be, and you can't escape.
You can't run from yourself, or from him.
Not anymore.
Apr 28, 2017
Apr 28, 2017 at 1:06 PM UTC
Cold cannot melt ice
Heat cannot extinguish fire
We were wrong;
We thought
Each our shadows
Could shield us
from unpredictable storms.
We were wrong;
We thought
Our hands
Could support
Our crumbling soul.
We were wrong;
We were right
It is all an illusion
Wake up from confusion...
Cold cannot melt ice
Heat cannot extinguish fire
Life in black and white is but a lie
My mirror--
My dear reflection.
Oct 9, 2016
Oct 9, 2016 at 1:16 AM UTC
Dare I ask after your wellbeing?
When misery, woven in your face
Is all I am seeing?
Dare I align myself with you?
When we are of similar mind,
And speak nought but the truth?
Shall I be the only one,
Who every time I look back
Am the only one to do so?
Similarities convince me to do so
Disassociation convinces me otherwise
We are so alike
That neither wishes to make a move
Oct 2, 2016
Oct 2, 2016 at 1:28 AM UTC