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#betterment
Being in pain doesn’t make you a better man. I’d think that you of all people would understand. For the record, for all the damage that you have brought upon yourself. While they testified the evil you are made of, you ran away and hid yourself in a room, locked up. For the record, for all of the venom you took instead of help. Lay the lonely down to rest. Of us all, they were amongst the worst and the best. I just wish that someone else had reached out, and you would have had the courage to take their hand. Don’t talk to me. Don't tell me who you are. I don’t think I can handle any more scars. It was never your fault that they set such a high bar. I used to think that lonely men could be saved. I told it to myself; it was a fact, plain as day. He couldn’t be, they couldn’t be saved.
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May 13
May 13, 2026 at 7:53 AM UTC
Teach a man to swim, hell make it through the water. Leave a man to drown, hell sink even further.
in common with my enemy i anger                  develop a viper taste for it and hanker for the pang in comradery with origin family nestle                  i dwell more distant   but send notes and cares in communion with the world                                    i am a lazy explorer in compromise with my life-mate           we set easy rules  and  gethered  lose an honest fight in company with my child                              i am inventive and playful in command of myself i alter not true..                                 correction;                       under the command of nature i am altered cartooning into age
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Oct 25, 2025
Oct 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM UTC
b e t t e r m e n t . . .
It’s not a lot that I can give, not a lot that I have, It’s just a drop in the bucket toward my goal to be better. But even so, I wish I could give more than I’ve given myself, Everything I have and anything I’ve had So it didn’t go to waste Rotting in a corner, in a room, in a space That I can never go to again, Or rather don’t want to go to once more But rather reminisce about Something that isn’t the burden And weight that’s taken place in my heart When I can’t look at someone else and say I’ve done them right for once. Futile, as my efforts are ‘Cause until now there’s not a lot I can find That would be worth the effort or time Others have to wait for something As big as beating cancer, as small as a birthday, And from someone like me On a day like that, of all days. But I can give myself And I can be here, Forever, however long that is, If someone would like, I can be
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Jul 6, 2025
Jul 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM UTC
A Lot. I Can Be A Lot.
Like the clouds Running to be with the sun Little did it know That the very thing he desire will be his demise And on his journey to the West, On the pursuit of the light So little he know, That he'll be enveloped by The eerie darkness of the night Again It's hard to turn the page to a new page When our fav character is not there
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Mar 15, 2025
Mar 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM UTC
A new page
No matter how brightly the stars shine They can never outshine the moon's silvery glow Yet no matter how long the moon shine, She'll never have her own light Under the silent veil of the night Echoed with the songs of the waves So freely as they flow Over this wilted love inside my grave Drunk from my own wine Aching for a tale that never intertwined
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Mar 13, 2025
Mar 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM UTC
The glow of the moon
From the warm breath of bright light, blue sky breaks through our dormancy. Cool breeze still keeps on bare air, whilst curved lines rise bound in time to care for the meaning of life. We're expected to expand or contract, responding to vast constructs set upon us. It's easy to forget measures of the present tense. Stillness often corrects parallels to connect, as impulses bubble up to ****** inside the mind. Characters unseen play amongst the set, there are integrated games we gain but our existence is said to be simplistic. Focus on your sense of self and betterment, less complicated within the riddles of preconditioning. Here to give, win and begin again.
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May 2, 2021
May 2, 2021 at 3:54 PM UTC
Akin
Heavy grief strikes and bears a Soul found stagnant, starving, and stiff. If imbued with form a reflection of rotted wood would fill your eyes to their edges. Search for meaning in the murk swallow an ocean of tears if you must. It’s simple to hallow yourself void of feeling although to be better than the days passed is nearly insurmountable, yet on the morning that you passed I swore myself to my own betterment. I will plant myself firm as you had many times. In honor of you I will live.
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Nov 19, 2020
Nov 19, 2020 at 7:27 AM UTC
Self / Loss
If you're working against a better future for all of us, I will, without hesitation, walk all over you to make the best out of a world on fire.
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Nov 19, 2019
Nov 19, 2019 at 8:02 PM UTC
Try Me
Let me say goodbye Let me start anew To leave the past behind Make room for me to grow Explore the things I like In a place I never knew Chase a wider sky Swim a bluer sea Brave the toughest climb Beat the beast within Now, Now remember these words The heart of the heart Must stay like a child's For no matter how far How high nor how long Hold the hand Wherever you're from Shadows are just tricks Played by the mind So thread the path Holding a candlelight
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Sep 2, 2019
Sep 2, 2019 at 11:12 AM UTC
Rise above
now you know i am not what you thought i'd be what more did you expect? i can now be all the forbidden colors but still a child, a wanderer nothing else once you find the tunnel you will find the way out and once you start down this path you will not stop running it's not easy, being you sometimes you have to lie to find the truth in the bubble of life you're too afraid to pop will you grow so large until it can no longer hold you? or will you let it suffocate you? will you go on and rot?
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Aug 18, 2019
Aug 18, 2019 at 3:40 AM UTC
will you rot?
Be  —>    Become  —>    Becoming  —>   Became   (is/was)        (will be)        (working to be)      (is/was) Even progress has a past that isn't permanent; Challenge your character for constant change... [be better] @desire.is.dope 20190325 1331HRS
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Mar 25, 2019
Mar 25, 2019 at 2:42 PM UTC
BETTER, BE
Why do you hate me Only to hurt me You’re incapable of painful feelings You need to love me You need to need me Convince yourself that I’m the love you seek You shouldn’t see me You shouldn’t know me Like the earth you quake as you’re shifting You need to want me You need to need me Because Your broken soul Has become infested Don’t force your way close to me Just because you’re Socially rejected No? Yeah. You’ll never hear me You’ll never steer me You parasite Without me, you’re nothing But you’ll never forget me And you’ll always regret me For I’ve become a better you
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Jun 24, 2018
Jun 24, 2018 at 12:49 PM UTC
You Need To Love Me
Where does creativity come from? Wherever I am allowed to flourish. Seems as dependent on everything beyond my own body - With all my work, fears, and beliefs. So whatever I am, allowing myself to flourish. Mixing with everything else that is.
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Apr 19, 2018
Apr 19, 2018 at 1:34 PM UTC
Where Does Creativity Come From?
Heedless of the web hanging from every corner, I ventured into your space. Oblivious me Again I dangle from your weave You always find a way to wrap me in your promises so tightly Oblivious me I believed your invite to be something I trusted R.I.P. to the fools who came to visit you so blindly I see you hang their carcass like a trophy from that thirsty tongue so proudly Constrained in your devotion The lechery scene of their bodies You leave them suspended from a straight-jacket cobweb As you drink from their seductive flesh R.I.P. to the pests of your future meals I sigh in disappointment to your habit As I escape disheartened by the damage For the docile creature I had once seen Has lost all dignity and rationality Oblivious me I can no longer present myself to your attendance The truth is now bestowed upon thee and I've accepted the let down to your betterment
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Aug 29, 2017
Aug 29, 2017 at 1:37 PM UTC
Oblivious
does it bother that most of ours efforts now go to the entertainment of man not the betterment of man
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Jul 2, 2015
Jul 2, 2015 at 4:16 PM UTC
The betterment of man