#barely
I feel like I'm drowning
no
not drowning
drowning comes with resistance.
I am sinking to the bottom of the ocean
my every thought is a stone in my pocket
my mind treads ever forward though it knows I will not float
it doesn't care
It is only after my head dips below the surface that I start to realize the severity of what I cannot undo
I open my mouth to ask for help
but instead, my regurgitated words bubble out of my lungs and float away
and I'm distracted by the beauty of the scene
isn't that so like a poet?
so engulfed in the romanticization of my death that I pick up the shovel
and I dig the grave myself
so distracted with the view
I can't force out the words I need
I won't betray those stones in my pocket,
Can't give them away
But then again, what have they ever done for me?
Sep 24, 2020
Sep 24, 2020 at 9:16 AM UTC
Closed every door by myself.
Struggling even to stand up.
Burning within, back facing the floor
barely breathing
barely alive.
one thing running through my mind,
What if I knew back then
what I know right now?
What I really was
and now I'm ****** up in between!
Now is no time for whining
no place to complain.
Your aggression, turn it to focus.
Its like the fuel,
burn it to race your raging engine!
Might've been failing
but never stop trying.
After all you've been through
Or all that could've been,
now you've come closer
to what you've been doing!
Jan 8, 2020
Jan 8, 2020 at 2:04 AM UTC
This morning I woke up without regret
Everything went well
My thoughts didn't cause any turmoil
My soul was at peace
Suddenly, something changed.
I was filled with anxiety
Gut-wrenching thoughts flooded in.
Maybe I should just die
Those words filled my head,
Impulses rushed through my body,
To act upon those nasty feelings
To actually take my own life.
But here I am
Barely breathing
Barely living
On the verge of ending it all.
Jun 11, 2019
Jun 11, 2019 at 11:48 AM UTC
Me, crying in a corner
I could never imagine anymore
Me, being happy
It was almost unreal
My parents hated me
And I knew it was a lie that
They loved me
My friends and siblings
couldn’t stand me anymore
Satan he just
controlled my life
I finally
,after all this fighting,
I was done
-now read it bottom to top
Jun 17, 2018
Jun 17, 2018 at 11:05 PM UTC
His body was warm,
His heart still beating,
But without her, he was brain-dead.
Jan 25, 2018
Jan 25, 2018 at 10:50 AM UTC
I didn’t ask to be assaulted with words
When you knew all too well that there was more than 15 bottles in my system
And my feet couldn’t find a way to walk a straight line.
“You only say ‘I love you’ when you’re drunk.”
I forced my drooping eyelids open to look at you
And I wanted to laugh.
It was past 2am on a Friday and I was lying down on my threadbare sofa
Your hands pushing a bucket towards me because you know me
You know me too well.
You know that on Thursdays the commute home was faster and the jeep would drop me off by the bar a street down from my cruddy apartment.
You know that I like this denim jacket you have because it has a pizza stitched onto it.
You know that my wallet is practically begging me to stop at the third shot but my heart won’t have any of it.
You know that no matter what, I will dance to Pussycat Dolls whenever they come on, even if I’m in the most contaminated restroom to exist.
But you don’t know
Of the way my head screams over the pounding of the music whenever you say her name.
Of the words that get stuck in my throat every single time you close the door behind you.
Of the times I wanted to know what it was like to have you near me when I wake up.
Of how I wanted to sing the cheesiest songs to you in the karaoke room.
Of how I closed my eyes in the presence of the night stars when I could hear how happy you were.
Sometimes my mind wanders to the thought of your lips on mine and your hands on my spine
But I remember that you said that she tasted like a fallen heaven
And I remember that I must taste like the loneliness of rain
You know that I fill in the gaps of my life with paint splatters in the colors of the sea
You know that there are tunes I will remember even when I’ve long forgotten the words
You know how my smile barely ever reaches my eyes
You know who I am.
Who am I anyways?
The sober girl who knows
That the only time I can hold your hand
Is when I get drunk enough to say “I love you”
So I say it again and again and again.
Because now you will laugh it off and say I’m drunk
Because you will forget about it the next day
Because when I’m sober
I can look at you with clear eyes and know
That you only say “I love you” when I’m drunk.
Nov 18, 2017
Nov 18, 2017 at 6:40 AM UTC
Just for a time
I thought it might be nice
To hold onto something fleeting
Something outside my might
Like, a few notes played over ivory keys
Plastic and pristine as they still seem
Can make something change for a day or so
There's something to be said about the whole
Being more
Than the sum
Old grounds
Older groundskeeper
Feeble and perturbed
A victim of himself
And his age
Mental anomaly still feels fine
Tiny little levers getting flipped around
Creating new demons to exorcise
But barring sudden
Static shock
It might as well happen
Can't change
Won't change
It would happen anyway
****
I haven't felt too happy, as of late
Questioning just how long to wait
Before dropping off the map
A whole new life tempts and attracts
Closer and closer
Drifting into the unknown
**** the magic only comes around once
Barring me out
Leaving me stuck
Bricked up the ways in which I've come
To each new dead end
Hungry for change
But unwilling to amend
And I don't know why this world keeps turning
Tried and true
As I keep burning through
Exhausting words, and things to prove
Jul 11, 2017
Jul 11, 2017 at 3:54 AM UTC
I’m sorry for all I do to you
Cut
Scratch
Burn
I rip you apart the way I do in my mind
I am insecure about you
I hate you
All I see in the mirror
Is the ways you fail me
The ways I am flawed
They say your body is a temple
But you must be ruins
And I am the earthquake that made you this way
May 31, 2017
May 31, 2017 at 10:00 PM UTC
let's play 21 questions
your questions will go from
how old are you
to
are you still a ******
my questions will go from
what's your favorite color
to
what's the worst thing you've done
both wanting to already know
if what's barely beginning
to happen yet
will be worth it
Jul 16, 2015
Jul 16, 2015 at 11:20 PM UTC
i'm barely even a teen
you can't expect me to fall
that isn't fair
i know most people assume
only the damaged and broken
keep themselves
from falling
but they aren't the only ones
because i'm here
and i'm neither
but i refuse to fall
maybe i'm scared
of welcoming something
foreign that not even my mother can make me understand
love cannot be taught, is what i'm told
maybe i just don't want to have something just to lose it
Jul 9, 2015
Jul 9, 2015 at 5:24 AM UTC
There was once a field.
I would sit and lay on that field.
I would stay there all day, for it was ours.
Our only field.
I loved to listen to the wind chimes out there,
I could barely make them out,
but I could feel you were already about
Now I go back to that indigenous place,
To find you there to see you once more.
Now I have to be back to recover my heart,
I will do that once more, for it is my part.
Apr 14, 2015
Apr 14, 2015 at 7:40 AM UTC
Poetry takes time and imagination
apparently, I don't have those.
Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 12:49 PM UTC
I can barely make her laugh
I am rarely the reason behind that glamorous smile
But that is okay
As long as she's laughing and smiling
That is enough
Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 10:04 AM UTC
I smile at you
And you think I fake it
You smile at me
And I think you fake it
Because you think I fake it
But I don't fake it
I say, why do you fake it
You say, why do you fake it
I say, I don't fake it
You say, sorry I think you fake it.
So I smile again and fake it
And you smile back and fake it
Again
And all we ever do
Is fake smiles
And barely talk.
F.Z.N
Aug 22, 2014
Aug 22, 2014 at 7:11 PM UTC