#crumble
These days I speak in chalk, they hear in cheese,
my meanings crumble on the breeze.
I wake in strange places, though nothing's moved,
the same old room, but not improved.
The mirror knows me, but not my name
this quiet slipping, is this a game?
My voice returns from walls misheard,
each echo bends a faithful word.
I reach for sense, it turns to dust,
a language fractured by mistrust.
Familiar hands feel oddly worn,
like gloves I’ve kept since I was born.
The clock still ticks, but out of phase,
it counts in strange, uncharted ways.
And time, once firm beneath my feet,
now loops itself in soft defeat.
I walk, yet never quite arrive
am I the ghost, or still alive?
If I am chalk, then let me fade,
in quiet lines my truth once made.
And if they feast on cheese alone,
then let me learn to stand unknown.
Apr 10
Apr 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM UTC
sometimes fast
other times slow
usually rough
sometimes soft
cracking-breaking-falling
many think not
time speaks for itself
what cookie is next?
Feb 11
Feb 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM UTC
call me, find me in the shadows
text me, align the stars manually
if you wanted to, would you?
if you came to me
i would crumble in your arms
cry all of these tears that i’ve collected
wonder how we got so far
Dec 11, 2025
Dec 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM UTC
my tears
they fall
until i crumble.
like that leaf
i picked up in the forest
and it just
crumbled in my hands.
i crumble
like that leaf.
Aug 28, 2025
Aug 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM UTC
The strongest people are often the quietest,
Their shoulders broad enough to bear the weight of the world.
They listen when others crumble,
Piecing together broken hearts with steady hands.
Their words soothe,
Their presence steadies,
And their silence feels like a refuge.
But when their own walls begin to crack,
When the weight they carry grows too heavy,
Their voices falter.
Soft cries for help,
Eclipsed by the noise of lives they once held together.
Their pain fades into the background,
A whisper swallowed by the chaos of others.
They are seen as unshakable,
An unyielding constant in a storm.
But even the tallest trees sway,
Even the strongest pillars crack under strain.
Still, they stand,
Hoping someone will notice the way they lean,
Hoping someone will hear the faint echoes of their ache.
But most days,
Their own needs dissolve into the shadows,
Invisible in the light they give to others.
And in the stillness of their loneliness,
They wonder if anyone will ever listen
The way they have listened all along.
Feb 12, 2025
Feb 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM UTC
Look at the streets crumble,
They were just fine.
Now look at you,
The cracks in your face tell me
You can't hold it together,
One more time.
Savage world,
Bitter truth,
It'll do no good to whine.
But it'll do no good to pretend
You're fine.
So you found that
Life isn't fair,
It's full of secrets and truth,
A hidden lair,
That I could still never hide from you
Because it was always there.
Love had its affairs,
And you had it all,
The bitter truth reveals a broken man,
Trying to stand tall.
Trying not to bend,
Or break, or fail,
A man doing his best
Not to crumble like the streets,
And continue to lose it all.
Jun 22, 2024
Jun 22, 2024 at 6:46 PM UTC
colored handprints alight
splattered in dots and lines
a glassy pillow stretches
its wrinkled and hairlined skin
cracked
creaking
crooked
stretched wearing thin..
a hold on the waves
grasping currents
passing
rushing farther and farther
painting the vastness
of this open ended question
muddled muddied marred
blurring in sight
May 22, 2022
May 22, 2022 at 5:02 PM UTC
DEAR PENPAL PEOPLE, wasn't a midnight this time:)
in a brilliant black dress
just like hers better the darker I guess
but she was an actress on a stage
wings with no limit or a cage
the lighter lights older violent notes
roses bleed the blood in red quotes
like perfect poem lines
played like a movie tape upon eyes
pink stars in permanent
seen when fell of the argument
talk some sense into the ceiling
on a page of eternal with no feeling
not the best of all the endings
some bones of broken to the mending
back to lipstick on coffee cup smells smart
the sky rains a fall a dream from the start
------ravenfeels
Jul 22, 2021
Jul 22, 2021 at 4:46 PM UTC
I seen this ****** photograph once, taken in lovely black and white
A beautiful figure framed by shadows,
A beautiful young dark-haired girl naked
kneeling on a stairway
With one hand draped across her *******
As if protecting herself from something, maybe even shielding her heart
Her face, it is turned away to one side
And buried in her other hand
As if she's suffering some great distress or sorrow,
Far from arousing in me ****** feelings, this photograph
It spoke to me of something else
Something quite different and much more significant
More than mere words could possibly say
It spoke to me...it spoke to me of my whole life.
Her body there, so youthful, beautiful without a blemish
Her lovely contours and curves smooth like the sand dunes of a desert
Her beautiful face made sad
Her petite delicate little shoulders and arms
Her wonderful ******* her lovely tummy/belly, the roundness of her hips
The bones of her knees jutting out from where she was kneeling
Her thighs and calves resting upon one another
Her ankles and little feet tucked in behind
Here was Youth in all its glorious splendor... and innocence
With all its wonderful promise,
Strangely, it reminded me of my own Youth and my own body once
Before age and the World had done their damage
This wonderful garment thrown over our eyes and our bones
And I remembered myself as a little child, running across the beach... across the strand
And I was talking to my legs, saying, "Come on legs! Faster! Faster!"
And I was hitting my hip with my hand as if it were a whip
And as if my legs were those of a horse galloping
Just like in the old Westerns we used watch (on TV)
Yes! There was a time once when I used to talk to my body, a private little world I had,
It was my closest, my most intimate friend
You'd do it when you were alone like it was the most natural thing in the world,
You needed a friend to talk to about this strange world you were in,
And then I remembered the little girl next door
They used put us together playing, us children, us being around the same age
She was such a sweet little thing, the way she used to laugh and smile all the time
Like the cutest little kitten
The joy in her eyes and that smile of hers
Where was it coming from... somewhere inside, somewhere within
And then I remembered, I too had it once, that same joy, that same smile
It had lived in me too once... that bliss.
2
That photograph, it struck me as being something almost holy
It reminded me straightaway, it reminded me of the Garden of Eden story
The beautiful body had been the Garden you see
And in the Garden there was no fear and no danger
Like a little kitten lolling about, rolling on its belly and stretching itself out
Without a worry or a care
Without a cloud on its horizon
A beautiful magical kingdom before the Mind ever existed.
But now looking again at the photograph and at her face made sad buried there in her hand
Now the photograph was telling me
Suddenly, all at once, there came a day and a shadow
Something from outside, it had entered her mind, some ugliness from the world
It had disturbed her for the first time
And this was a new sensation to her
And it had frightened her
"How could such a dark ugly thing exist", she was wondering,
'And how can I live now with this in my world,
Now that I've seen it, it will always be there",
And then another memory came back to me, That of myself as a little child lying in bed
Shaking my head from side to side, even bumping my head against the wall
There was something there in my head I didn't like, something I didn't want to hear or see, something disturbing
I didn't want it there, I wanted it to go away
I wanted it to stop,
But it wouldn't stop and it wouldn't go away
And you realised it'd always be there like some shadow hovering in the background.
3
Now dark clouds were beginning to gather over the Garden and the beautiful Body
Now the World was coming and the Tyranny, the Tyranny of the Mind was beginning
The Gates of the Garden, they were slowly starting to close
Yea, the fields of Arcadia were fading, the exotic fruits and feelings there were being taken away
Its lovely sweet river of ambrosia would now soon cease to flow.
Like the Snow Queen and her Icy Blizzard, like a cruel invading army
The Mind had awoken now like a sleeping dragon and the World, it was coming, coming now to feed
Starting to pour in like through a breached dam
The World with all its books and its lessons, its rules and examinations
The mental world forcefully asserting itself
With its bullying cajoling teachers and its many humiliations,
The Mind weighing down hard now upon the Body, leaning on it, squeezing it and straining it
Pulling it this way and that, hither and thither
All out of shape, all over the place
Rivers of outside influences flowing in now
You were like a tiny boat tossed upon stupendous waves
Always at the mercy of other people's words
Blown all over the place
Sometimes, sometimes I just couldn't stomach it, I couldn't digest it
Sometimes I could only just throw it all up.
4
The Beautiful Body... Garden no longer, now just some hollow empty shell
The Mind alone was all that mattered now
All consuming and all devouring
The Body starting to buckle and to crumble
Underneath all that weight, the stress and the strain
Not knowing how to deal with it....lost and bewildered
Among the new feelings of emptiness and of pain
Overeating and undereating, unable to eat at all
Growing fat thinking that that could protect you from all the new fears in your brain.
5
The Body that beautiful Garden with its golden days
Were now long gone and forgotten
Thorns and briars had grown up in their stead
Just like some long lost fairytale Sleeping Beauty.
Made poor now and impoverished
I remembered... I had been a King once long ago back in my old Garden.
(The faint joys of the Mind y'know they were nothing in comparison
To what I'd known in that sweet Garden of old, that sweet Garden of mine).
Now when I look in the mirror I can hardly see myself anymore
But when I look at this photograph
I can see myself there.
Apr 20, 2021
Apr 20, 2021 at 1:07 PM UTC
In the night, I pretend to feel warmth
of your body and hands, big and strong,
wishing not to wake up, not to feel
this cold absence of you (too real).
I escape to the fantasy—
—stop,
loose myself in the ecstasy—
—don't!
Would you think of me less if you knew
that I wish to not see morning dew?
But the sun will come out anyway,
painting all of my dreams with cold grey...
After making another mistake,
I sit here, on our bed, wide awake.
Slender body beside is not yours.
I'm not fooled: It's not love – it's remorse.
Here, I crumble in this morning light,
feeling all the effects of last night.
He'll wake up and pick up all his stuff,
look at me and breathe out: "that's enough."
He will leave; there isn't much I can give
to him now, as your absence I grieve.
One day, maybe, I'll see him for him,
Embrace on purpose — not on a whim.
Would you deem me a cheat if I flee
to his arms and pretend to be free
from this loss, maybe learning to heal?
Would you blame me for wanting to feel
his—another man's—warmth in our bed
that hasn't been warm at all since you left?
Apr 11, 2021
Apr 11, 2021 at 3:04 PM UTC
if you can't accept my rejection,
its not my issue
as i can't love you anymore,
because i have realized my worth
just like you did back then—
when my heart was crumbled down
under your feet
i am not doing it to take revenge
it's karma, who is back
to give you, what you gave others
Mar 2, 2021
Mar 2, 2021 at 9:23 AM UTC
Turritopsis dohrnii: A species of jellyfish that can revert back
To a sexually immature state when its injured or dying, making it biologically immortal.
A jellyfish,
Nothing but thickened water
Some genetic material
Polythene bags and paper glue,
Is granted immortality.
We, humans
The heirs of a billion evolutions,
A million grains of life,
Crumble like sand castles
Scatter like sawdust.
The universe taunts,
Laugh until your shadow swallows you
Your every breath was a thousand last breaths,
Puny mortal.
**
Jan 12, 2021
Jan 12, 2021 at 5:43 AM UTC
Trading life for death isn't the countermeasure for strife! As it is very "politely" too say that life mocks the complete scenario of death itself. However, if you actually started to take a little closer look at ourselves in general... You'd come to say that our very lives, aren't so different when death essentially claims them. Only when it is time for our lives to become entirely subjected upon deaths desire to appoint life to crumble at deaths very feet. Life in deaths very comparison for an opposite comparison, is seeing that it's nothing but "dust at one's very toes". But when life is about to crumble and seemingly turn into a crumbling dustless ash... It see's itself (for the very first time ever) plead too death in such a way as if it's begging at it's very, well...feet! Revealing it's form of crumbling dustless ash, even before it's become aware of that very state. As all life ever wanted (after coming to the final point in it's very supposed fluid ride of existence) was to hope for a nice ending! Until finding out that death wasn't so merciful!
Aug 1, 2020
Aug 1, 2020 at 4:56 PM UTC
i feel like we’re all alone
i feel like i could dissolve
May 9, 2020
May 9, 2020 at 8:54 PM UTC
One minute you’re indulging in life’s empty promises,
full of light with a touch a glow;
and suddenly,
you’ve been consumed by the paradox of your own mind;
crumbling;
deteriorating;
without a trace,
you’re dying.
Mar 1, 2020
Mar 1, 2020 at 6:26 PM UTC
You listen to me
But you don't hear me at all
I'm not so sure you heard
My screams and my bawls
You left me to sit here,
Watch me crumble and fall
Now I'm positive
You don't care at all
Because you never pick
Up the phone when I call
Now I'll sit here alone
And talk to these
Paper thin walls
Jan 12, 2020
Jan 12, 2020 at 10:21 AM UTC
She left the gate agar
And the sun crept in to steal my time,
Adding the ever-careful wrinkles round my eyes.
Dead strawberries withered with care
And Rainy, ****** skies weighed down with weeks of meager, longing stares.
Is there more I can hold in the folds of my fingers?
Drip through the cracks, I fumble.
I wish I could see my darkening eyes...
And hear the seeds of my labor
crumble
Nov 4, 2019
Nov 4, 2019 at 2:38 PM UTC
I was your
crumble you licked, Mmm....
But your always my cookie...
Oct 27, 2019
Oct 27, 2019 at 3:52 PM UTC
You let me fall when I trusted you
Not that I can’t blame you
You knew too well how I felt
By crushing my heart while I was asking for help
You notice me, I know
Turning your head every now and again
Don’t you ever wonder what goes on in my head?
Or do you just want to look at a person,
Crumbled in your reach?
I get it...
You mean well
Shining in the spotlight
While I’m sunken below
Drunk on a useless thought
That’ll you’ll be the light at the end of the tunnel.
Sep 23, 2019
Sep 23, 2019 at 9:34 PM UTC