#borrow
If you knew how deeply I love you
Amount of pain you have made me bear
Would fall to your knees in tears
Full of regret that you pretended to care
Dec 13, 2020
Dec 13, 2020 at 2:44 AM UTC
I often find myself seeking validation from words that were never written for my tongue
Caging myself behind walls made of letters still undefined
pacing the corners of my fears wondering what is being said in another’s mind
I run from the words that define my faults, disowning them and leaving them behind
But I still carve them into the crevices of my skin, to remind myself of everything that I’ll never be
Then, I write a stranger's name beside them so that I can blame someone else for my insecurities.
Jun 28, 2020
Jun 28, 2020 at 4:17 AM UTC
I don't know what will happen
In the world of tomorrow.
So today, I'll do my best
With the time I've borrowed
Jun 10, 2020
Jun 10, 2020 at 8:31 PM UTC
Tic-tac-toe
three in a row,
he swings hard,
alarm bells go,
a knife and knife
a circular ring
who's got the guts
to come clean?
Slurry of blows,
slurry of speech,
maybe there's more
to being a leech,
a man made of pride
a man made of sorrow
what's a man to do
when he can no longer borrow?
Oct 8, 2019
Oct 8, 2019 at 10:40 PM UTC
By Arcassin Burnham
this is so lovely and this is so weird with Nature's intention for humans
to fear,
I never had problems with anyone here,
They came up so ignorant , but will cry
tears,
the people are sluggish and drowning in sorrows,
there are no handouts ,from me you can't borrow,
you speak ill of my name then I won't hesitate
to let these motor hands go, leave you
slump though.
If I didn't know better , I would say these
are the worse days.
Did enough harm and now to me you can
not phase.
Tired of not using my brain to get out of this life.
I'm pretty chill today got nothing to do on the side.
Sep 18, 2018
Sep 18, 2018 at 11:14 AM UTC
Once upon a time, you gave me your heart. Wrapped in light pink, and blotches of dark ink, you wrote that you wanted me to keep it. I clutched your heart into my chest -
I didn't ever want to let go. I didn't ever want to return it.
But I saw that you were now giving pieces of yourself to other people - laughing and whispering forbidden promises, then you let me fall out of your list of priorities. I no longer am able to feel what you feel. I no longer can feel the happiness and will. You let me there alone, standing still.
So I walked up to you in my worn out shoes that used to be filled with pride, and I wrapped your heart in transparent paper. Let other people see the light pink that flows every time your heart beats, let them know how beautiful it is.
I return your heart to its respectful owner.
You ask, "why?"
I say, "I don't deserve it."
Sep 14, 2018
Sep 14, 2018 at 1:24 AM UTC
I’ll borrow the past With nothing to spare
Nothing to give, and nothing to share
But rather I’d hope to steal my youth
And run from the future back to you
Some place we could hide in the shade of today
And disappear before a new day
And I know that when I’ll open my eyes
another day would have passed me by
You’ll only be a memory never to last
So instead I’ll keep dreaming of borrowing the past
Mar 16, 2018
Mar 16, 2018 at 10:16 PM UTC
*Feathered head and weathered dreads,
no one comes out to play with me and my imaginary friends,
I promise were lots of fun,
we are we are,
I promise oh please,
come out and play with me,
were waiting to see,
we wait to see your fears,
and all your uncaught unsafe dreams,
fall right apart,
oh it'll be a blast, it'll be sweet,
this nightmare dream is totally neat!
don't be shy,
come eat a slice of america's mini apple pie,
but you're not allowed one bite,
until you come outside with me and my imaginary friends!
we can fake our deaths,
and rob our neighbors cars for cigarettes.
and if we see they don't have any left,
we will just borrow the money instead!
so why won't you come outside with me and my imaginary friends?
but first,
fly yourself on out the front door.
so we can destroy the world.
just you,
me
and my
imaginary friends.*
Jan 22, 2016
Jan 22, 2016 at 9:54 PM UTC
Borrow only from the future so that it will have more to lend.
Oct 31, 2015
Oct 31, 2015 at 8:25 PM UTC
Everyone can be their own poet
and write as much as they want
and at times they borrow words
the words that caught their heart
But to borrow is to ask first,
to borrow is to give credit to the owner.
Because in the first place,
those words were never yours.
Aug 31, 2015
Aug 31, 2015 at 9:31 AM UTC
Pre disposed dispositions
Lying scared beneath revisions
Frantic follows death and sorrow
Living free is a dream we borrow
Sep 8, 2014
Sep 8, 2014 at 11:23 AM UTC