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#consuming
i like how the sunset goes down.. melts into my golden skin and cuts my arm but I’m still away from harm i like how the sea looks when it’s at night my cuts and burns still give me fright but I am the sailor of this ship with me in command, no one trips no one dares to cut my arms for fuel but gone they are every sunset, melting on the fire the fire hums beneath the floor it asks for more, and more, and more i fed it names, i fed it faces echoes lost in burning places but i am the sailor of this ship i hold the wheel with steady grip the boat slows down, and stops there’s nothing left for me to use so i step closer to the flame, and it forgets i had a name.
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Apr 5
Apr 5, 2026 at 7:21 PM UTC
the ship
Change is inedible but what if I don’t want it to be? Stillness is my form of wishing. It grows within me, consumes me, like leaves on a tree when the autumn breeze arrive making me, shaping me, until I am no longer the same. Why is it consuming me?
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Feb 23
Feb 23, 2026 at 12:21 AM UTC
Change
They consume me from within, the ants beneath my skin arch and tear another piece of me. I don’t know which part to offer next. They carve their paths, unearthing the core, building mounds, sitting motionless inside. But still they bite, those cursed ants, with their tiny heads, and unnervingly wide eyes, ever hungrier, gathering together— those ****** ****** ants.
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Sep 24, 2025
Sep 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM UTC
Ants
Sometimes, My mind, Decides, To scare me. Feeling, Indifferent, All-consuming, Apathy.
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May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM UTC
Shorter Poem #29 "Apathy"
With fiat money losing value consistently This leads to a proclivity for consumption Since the money is worth more right now Than it will be worth in the coming years. In time, this leads to overconsumption & Ostentation and environmental effects Due to a constant need for spending. Therefore Let’s use an option that reverses this By using money that gains value over Time and incentivizes the holding of Money because it purchases more in The future rather than less. Over time The psychological and environmental Benefits of Bitcoin grow and help all.
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Apr 8, 2024
Apr 8, 2024 at 10:26 AM UTC
Consumption (Bitcoin Poem 093) - Problems/Solutions 23
A free captive Informed I don't know how to love or live Only examples have been showbiz Emotions in cursive Not easily or easy to forgive No clear or ulterior motive Rage and violence consume absolutely They savagely rip apart and rearrange me but not outwardly I've been known to be self destructively passive and cowardly Maybe a lobotomy would stop the calamity Never experienced supportive The consequences massive I've been rewritten as aggressive Stabbed in the back, I supplied the shiv Caustic and corrosive This is no way to live Good fortune such a rare commodity it falls apart too easily Troubles squeeze so completely and never leave me What I am and what I'm supposed to be create this rigid dichotomy I hope the something that's gotta give doesn't end up being me ©2024
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Feb 20, 2024
Feb 20, 2024 at 6:48 PM UTC
~•§•~ Something's Gotta Give ~•§•~
you want to see how soft and tender my flesh is and crack the inside of my mind open like a pomegranate, ruby jewels spilling onto white sheets. i offer my plum ripe heart to you greedily prey wanting to be hunted, only to be left with sticky hands from trying to hold myself together when you walk away.
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Jun 14, 2022
Jun 14, 2022 at 3:58 PM UTC
ripe
bite my lip pinch my skin and rip my love fiercely from within this flesh grasp my hip strike firm caress and undress my lust thirstily from within this breast strip me bare scald hot kisses and devour my senses blissfully from within this soul
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Feb 13, 2021
Feb 13, 2021 at 9:00 PM UTC
From Within
When she fell she could feel the light, its warmth its happiness and its stability she blinked and she was plunged into darkness a darkness that drowned her a darkness that was a struggle consuming her life
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Sep 19, 2020
Sep 19, 2020 at 6:40 PM UTC
light to dark
you feel like soft autumn rain underneath amber streetlights, while stormclouds dance above bringing the promise of m a g i c.
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Sep 6, 2020
Sep 6, 2020 at 10:36 AM UTC
equinox
to the darkness i surrender my body laying in wait hungry claws in the earth ruby droplets decorating my throat laying myself open bathing in moonight, from beyond the trees my love has come and i am ready to be devoured.
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Jul 30, 2020
Jul 30, 2020 at 4:12 PM UTC
wicked crimson
i saw glaciers in your eyes, icy plains and lost streams. i felt you fill my lungs your salt water burning with each new breath, drowning in you with every exhale.
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Jul 8, 2020
Jul 8, 2020 at 6:56 AM UTC
juneau
you consume me so entirely filling up my lungs with each breath dancing around my veins with each beat of my heart.
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Apr 25, 2020
Apr 25, 2020 at 6:03 AM UTC
altar
Lost in a sea of words, drowning under the weight.
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Feb 20, 2020
Feb 20, 2020 at 2:14 PM UTC
words
As I become lesser I feel you progressing taking over the little space that is left devouring my whole overpowering my all
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Feb 3, 2020
Feb 3, 2020 at 8:56 AM UTC
Demise
let me drink you in i will gasp for air just to consume you.
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Dec 17, 2019
Dec 17, 2019 at 5:29 AM UTC
inhale
you set me on fire you touch me and i know, that there is no heaven better than this.
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Dec 14, 2019
Dec 14, 2019 at 12:51 PM UTC
pyromaniac
Don't look at the past with statistics that must rise, deepen the abyss in which we dare not fall Rather turn around, step back live like the oldest people simple, without any illusions about what you need Take so many steps back that you have time again to do nothing and can pay more to others Join the splinter party for public facilities in the margins of the world and choose the future
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Aug 19, 2019
Aug 19, 2019 at 4:35 AM UTC
Recession Party
Should I open my eyes? Should I face reality? The reality that I'll always have this feeling? This unstoppable, overwhelming, consuming, sickening feeling of being alone? Maybe I should just Accept it. I know I know I'm gonna be alone. That no one's gonna love me. That I'm never gonna be good enough for anyone.
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Aug 16, 2019
Aug 16, 2019 at 2:14 PM UTC
Untitled
i sometimes wonder what i did wrong perhaps i was too much to handle, incapable of loving small. i tie myself wholly in an act of pure devotion ready for worship maybe that's what made you run but i can't apologise for wanting a love that eats me whole.
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Jun 26, 2019
Jun 26, 2019 at 2:00 PM UTC
til death