#caution
Frightened stars
Look for love, in the term of a fiend
*** and difference, we have a tale that frowns
Since to ends, a wisdom in the rain, has amends
Sanity, spate, arrogancy
Lips with no beginning or end, take the time
Such is a creed that needs me, in the oracle of speed
Wait on me to hate wholeness, of a carnal chime
Safety, in the riches of a forest
Wink, wood, and the anarchy of a patience
Set aflame by the sight I imagine, continues in lest
Spare me a tear for an enemy, rage of me never ends
Done with my concern, can't a prettiness spite a spirit
With the life of another speed, chance and challenge winds
Come and go, sunshine, the night has a punk in the hint
Of a simple smile, I have never made, and ate for inclined sins...
Shade, do we even care?
Song, can a ***** of burden sit in a sick's fever?
Treacle, as if a war in the milk of heaven had a clever liar?
Dance, in the mouth you swallow with, ink is ours for never?
Dead, antipathy, lead
Spice in the stare, my light has shared, with you
Sakes in the blindness I sold to you, for a craving said
Season's of a devil, my imagination ***** with your smile to...
Love, many, and wishes
Succor is mine, for every strength of a terror
Simple as that, a ray of hope isn't what religion
Meant, if and when a smile is nothing but my charity...
4d ago
May 30, 2026 at 11:34 AM UTC
I like you—
that’s the simple part.
The complicated part
is the voice in the back of my head
that won’t let me relax.
You smile at me,
say the right things,
make it easy to fall into conversation.
And still, I’m bracing for impact
that hasn’t happened yet.
I’ve learned how quickly
kindness can turn into convenience,
how being cared about
can slowly become being useful.
So when you’re nice,
I wonder what it costs.
When you’re close,
I wonder how long it lasts.
I hate that my heart leans toward you
while my instincts pull me back.
That I want to trust you
but don’t know how to stop
waiting for the moment
you need something from me
more than you want me.
Maybe you’re different.
Maybe this fear is just old scars
talking too loud.
But until I know for sure,
I’ll stand here with feelings in my hands
and caution in my chest,
hoping I’m wrong
about you.
Apr 8
Apr 8, 2026 at 2:16 PM UTC
If you’re reading this,
you’re probably expecting
a neat little description of the author.
Sorry to disappoint you,
you won’t get one.
What you will get
are the questions that haunt me,
the answers I avoid,
and the explanations
I’ve rehearsed a thousand times
in my head.
Should I begin with the secret
I’ve been hiding—
the one I’m desperate
and terrified to reveal?
You might be lucky
and uncover it.
Either way,
I wish you the best of luck.
Some of you may call me cruel,
unfeeling.
But in the kind of world I’ve lived in,
it’s better that way.
Maybe that’s why
I couldn’t cry
when my brother died.
I could have saved him.
But why would I?
It’s not like
he would have done the same for me.
Mar 21
Mar 21, 2026 at 3:56 PM UTC
Tramps are the fairytales of the city
thinly disguised threats, grinning
teeth over my pram
I train myself in just
being nice, I train myself
in smiling thoughts
But a child, my child
will not kiss a pocked toad
or vagrant prince
no matter how true it may be
that evil fairies, old queens
witches, hungry giants, and wolves
only are my fear
of empty, exhausted love
Only are my fear
Jul 21, 2025
Jul 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM UTC
I'll gladly oblige the request you have
As I run my hands through your hair and drive you mad.
Look into my eyes, you see me smile, I'll take my time, we may be here for a while.
Gentle I'll be or as hard as you like
The feel of your skin, it gives me life.
The warmth of your body, my breathe in your ear
Do not fret, you have nothing to fear.
Jun 3, 2025
Jun 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM UTC
The things we feel, they capture me like a spell
What will happen, only time will tell.
At night we talk about the day, just how much it means to me, I dare not say.
Love can be a feeling, a taste a smell.
But how do I know its real?
Only time will tell.
Careful you must be about saying such words, for all is watching, all is seen and heard.
But how can we not, these thoughts dont quell. What should I do?
I do not know, but only time will tell.
Jun 2, 2025
Jun 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM UTC
Once, I loved with abandon,
like a river flowing wild and free,
with no walls,
no doubts,
no questions,
just with pure possibility.
Now love stalks like a savage beast,
and I am weary of it's teeth.
Trust bleeds through
my painful raw wounds
where hope and fear
fester beneath.
Each time I dare to offer
my beaten and weathered heart,
the past denies,
leaving me empty,
and I often wonder
if I will be enough.
Was the river never wanted
by those searching for mere rain?
My heart,
once soft,
now toughened,
guarding carefully against such pain.
©️Lizzie Bevis
May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM UTC
_The nemesis, genesis_ – as I’m naming the voices that echo
within me, the moment I drew my first breath. They love
to play presentence, they speak tainted truths in the limits
of my psyche; giving me their word before my sentencing.
They believe in foretelling my fate in my mind’s prison –
casting judgment with every utterance; can I compete
with these thoughts, will I finish their sentences?
Often, I find myself so imprisoned in my own mind –
yet the irony lies in the fact that the door stands open,
as we permit our thoughts to dominate with their own
rule, and goals of leaving us so, so broken.
_My mind is a place I roam around with caution!_
Mar 23, 2025
Mar 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM UTC
Each moment carries hidden plans,
where potential lies beneath,
and courage finds uncharted lands,
with steady steps and cautious feet.
Shadows dwell where the light retreats,
and brave souls remain vigilant,
as destiny and fortune meet
while fate unwinds it's masterplan.
Through the passing of endless time,
navigating the winds of change,
fueling the inquisitive mind
as blood pumps tirelessly through veins.
The risks taken on this journey,
where mystery meets certainty's shore,
we find our paths by curious light,
as we find what we were searching for.
©️Lizzie Bevis
Feb 10, 2025
Feb 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM UTC
Tinkering hands
Lead to restless minds,
Always seeking
What they might find,
In systems running
Perfectly well,
Please, act with caution,
Results may repel.
Leave alone what
Smoothly flows;
If working gears
Continue to go,
For in the quest
To meddle away,
We sometimes cause
More disarray.
Wisdom lies
In knowing when
To step aside,
To leave again.
For changes made
Without true need
Can plant dysfunctions
Stubborn seed.
If it works,
Then let it be,
Sometimes that's
The wisest plea!
Not all that’s old
Needs to be renewed;
Leave it alone
To see itself through.
©️Lizzie Bevis
Dec 22, 2024
Dec 22, 2024 at 10:41 PM UTC
although there are only
blue skies overhead
i can still feel
a prickling approach
of distant rain clouds
in the air
Mar 21, 2024
Mar 21, 2024 at 4:39 PM UTC
Something is at hand,
so I better find a way --
out of my slumber.
Feb 6, 2024
Feb 6, 2024 at 3:46 AM UTC
It's my fault
It's my fault for thinking someone willing to lie from day one could be the one
It's my fault
It's my fault for thinking that my love would be worth someone's full attention
It's my fault
It's my fault for brushing off caution like, "it's not a red flag, iiiiit's more of a crimson"
It's my fault
It's my fault for being a coward when this time, maybe for the first time, there is no reason
It's my fault
It's my fault...fuuck it...whatever...it's always my fault, I'm done..find another sucker to pick on
©2024
Jan 12, 2024
Jan 12, 2024 at 12:35 AM UTC
So you've broken the cycle of addiction
as it's no longer around here today.
You have played a big part in its eviction
and caused it all bravely to go away.
It was good to see its days were all numbered
even though it was around for so long;
you succeeded where the others had blundered
to be standing here with those who are strong.
Keep a clear mind now and be not complacent
to allow it into your life again
for its stronghold may once more be adjacent
in resisting all you'll strive to attain.
But who else here knows how hard it has all been?
You'd only have to look back then to see;
the hopelessness caused before on one's life screen
that captured all those moments which were free.
_________________________
Sep 30, 2023
Sep 30, 2023 at 9:58 PM UTC
Dare the dainty
All in eaves, a dance of we've
Sour regards for a knowing heed, the eclectic key
Wavering in the air, to tell a story of finality
Salt, dust and whatever else
Rhymes with damnation, the tows of veracity
Become like lucky butterflies, the solution in bells
To worth and occur, with a certain mighty...
Sounds of music, to die for
Through the hollow of sunshine we find so warm
The completion of a single thought for avidity, so sore
Has the curiosity of chances, and the decency, only more
Should we shoulder a pathetic distance, from the nerve?
Or is causes guidance, to a realm of liberty ensconced
We woke, and walked to the notion adding, a due friend
With seasons of come, to light the way to sits, of around...
About now
The tale has become ours for a looking have, and the moment gave
Mirrors, seldom fears and a host to what nears
The romance of aptness, for a circle of deem, that has it to save...
Jun 2, 2023
Jun 2, 2023 at 5:17 PM UTC
Time moves
forward
Breakfast
ordered
Sunrise reveals
a new day
People scurry
anxious worry
Obstacles
get in
the way
Memories
measured
Guarded,
treasured
In the midst
of the dawn's
hopeful rays
Seasons changing
rearranging
Minds in
perpetual daze
No time for
caution too
close to the
auction
Our lot numbers
soon will display
Our main
distraction
too close to
the action
"Going once!
Going twice!"
as they say ...
We've arrived
at the end of
the day ...
Time to
finish our
final melee ...
Contemplating our
Fabergé egg
Mark Toney ©️ 2023
Apr 22, 2023
Apr 22, 2023 at 1:59 AM UTC
Condescending to humor my intimate muse,
You sought out her words in my writing.
I couldn't have guessed that you'd actually choose,
To tell her what you think is the source that I'm citing.
Get over yourselves, the drama and strife,
I can tell you’ve found something you wanted to see.
And, of course, held it up to the shape of your life,
And think you see secrets you once shared with me.
Forgive my intrusion throughout that December,
If that friendship seemed somehow untrue,
I won't try to persuade you, but you ought to remember,
Sometimes, unbelievably, it's not about you.
My task is obsessive, compulsion, expression,
I write the universal, the aggregate whole.
Never to betray or teach some grand lesson,
I’d rather enrich than to harm a good soul.
Emotions exposed and stories delivered may wound or dignify,
My job is to make it have life and clarity;
Give it weight enough to signify.
And, as then, when we meet,
Sour or sweet,
Speaking our truth,
Silent secrets,
and feel…
The words that can wound,
Flatter,
Heal or conceal...
All of them wind to what our actions reveal.
Jan 14, 2023
Jan 14, 2023 at 12:02 AM UTC
Brave from drinking, care-
ful after the drunkenness --
the army attacks.
Jan 9, 2023
Jan 9, 2023 at 4:16 AM UTC
Please, don't ring the bell,
this is not my visit, but --
the reconnaissance.
May 2, 2022
May 2, 2022 at 2:55 AM UTC
you say,
you are not a ******
you say,
you come in peace
but this does not put me at ease.
because you are a man
tall,
dominant,
strong.
i am aware of your testosterone
lingering in your blood stream
like alcohol,
in a drunken girl.
unconscious,
while he feeds on her drunken body
like prey.
you say,
you are not a ******
you say,
you mean no harm
but i am a woman,
in a man's world
and you are a man,
in a rapist's world
so i hear yours words
and approach with caution.
Apr 22, 2022
Apr 22, 2022 at 4:50 AM UTC
Do you **** around with me
to just "f*** with me?'
Would you actually buck for me?
Tell me, is it you give a f*** for me?
You undoubtedly would pull runs
We're not just doing it for the funds my G
So do you f*** with me?
Sep 2, 2021
Sep 2, 2021 at 7:12 PM UTC
You've taken a step into dangerous territory
Unbeknownst to your wide, naïve eyes
You're heading into a deep abyss
Where only the lucky have survived
Before you proceed any further
I will give you this warning now
I'm utterly and dangerously fragile
And my patience is running out
My warning signs are on full display
For those who dare on this journey
Caution is written everywhere
So that I know you won't take this lightly
I see the longing looks you're giving
And I can tell you see me as a challenge
Your cockiness will lead to your missteps
A guarantee I experience irrevocable damage
You think you will treat me different
But I know you'll ignore the signs I carry
There's no easy way to let my guard down
When your intentions with me make me wary
You continue to walk into dangerous territory
Unbeknownst to your wide, naïve eyes
Foolishly, you jumped into the deep abyss
But you were not lucky enough to survive
May 18, 2021
May 18, 2021 at 1:49 PM UTC