#mid
There are things that go bump in the dark night,
That leave you frozen, staring at the wall.
Unknown things that trigger your flight or fight.
Dark, hurtful things that cause your breath to stall.
You want to yell, but you don’t have the gall
To face such horrors, conjured by your head.
You try to ignore, can’t drown out the call.
You know in your soul you’re already dead,
So you think **** it, I’ll just go to bed.
‘Twas just the wind, I’m not scared of some bump.”
It’s not physical, but mental instead,
Manifested fears cause your heart to thump,
Your mind starts racing, and the questions start;
The only monster here is the one in your heart.
Jan 7
Jan 7, 2026 at 12:29 PM UTC
when someone asks me my talents
am i allowed to say them, even though i don't excel?
i sing good, but im not amazing
i play guitar, but i can't play certain chords
i play tennis well, but i still double fault a lot
im ok at writing, but im no poet
im a good person
but apparently not a great one
Feb 10, 2025
Feb 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM UTC
The best thing we can say is "I don't know"
It is also the hardest thing for a lot of folks to say. They like to think they know things, but a lot of the time thinking you know something keeps you from learning.
Jul 26, 2022
Jul 26, 2022 at 9:58 AM UTC
Mid night talks ...
it's now ...
mid of night ...
even a bit more ...
staying confused ...
wondering ...
from my feelings ...
how it all ..
runs about you ...
and stole the sleep ...
from my eyes...
and took me with a wishes ..
just to have a deep hug ...
from your chest ...
confusing ..
and wondering ..
what to do ...
talking to my soul ...
to create my words ...
as well ..
to choose words ...
that fit to you heart's space ...
and to send it ...
as poem for you ...
with a wish only ...
to get your reply ...
that fits to my feelings ...
as i told you ...
as soon ...
when i wake up ...
to start my love ...
with you ...
hazem al ..
Jun 16, 2021
Jun 16, 2021 at 2:04 AM UTC
At a beautiful beach,
Enjoying the touch of waves against my body,
Enjoying the breeze passing through my hair,
Enjoying the water between my fingers,
But there's a weight tied to my leg,
Pulling me deeper into water,
Eager to show me the bottom,
Will that weight make me free from all of it,
Should I give myself to it!!?
Or should I fight it!!?
And return back to my MISERY.......
Jun 13, 2021
Jun 13, 2021 at 6:53 AM UTC
At the dawn of my half century
I sometimes squint to see who's moving
whose heads pop up above the wheat and weeds
whose flower is still blooming,
and it is there I find you
standing taller than them all
drinking in the sunlight
no man has made you fall
and no man has ever owned you
though all of them endeavored
including me, my younger self
and I lost you forever
Do not hang me for my folly
for I was younger then
and loving you naively
shouldn't be a capital offence
I am worthy of you now
but will you ever come
or will you sit there swaying
never needing anyone,
drinking in the sun
Jan 8, 2020
Jan 8, 2020 at 5:40 PM UTC
Mid-day beers taste best alone.
tv off, windows open
and the **** dog asleep.
Another day halfway gone
and why hang around,
why linger on?
Seen it all before,
days grown bored.
The night gets music and lights,
alcohol and ****
who could bore of this?
Nov 6, 2018
Nov 6, 2018 at 11:01 AM UTC
we danced in the streets as the days were long
only recess and reckoning while water crept in
this city of dead, our place, where the stench lives
and bodies float, lying above the crypt's graves
hurricane red absinthe & hand grenades
slugging the gulf like a shooter's brigade
a forecast shifts, flooding any escape
so we fire our motors with boats on em.
Sep 11, 2018
Sep 11, 2018 at 2:04 AM UTC
“A supposedly Amusing ode”
I lay here staring can it be?
A midlife crisis come for me?
But no it’s not true oh it taunts me
After all I’m not yet fourty
But oh I’ve lived a life so carefree
No morgage payments await for me
No insurence upon my life
Not even a pension
I’m nobodies wife
I’ve born no child it’s not yet for me
It’s all lie ins takeaway and adult TV
I can go out when I please
I have savings never
Sometimes I drink to much but I don’t feel clever
But wait .... oh no maybe that’s not it .... maybe that’s not what’s the cause of this itch
Maybe now I’m realising I’ve had it all wrong
I bought the wrong book I’ve sung the wrong song
No rock and band sit upon this hand
I’m not sure why I don’t understand
Why have these ***** produced no fruit
Why does my maternal instinct feel so mute
I do not own these rocks and mortar
This cat here is my only daughter
My other half as bad as me
He just likes to snore and watch TV
Oh **** oh no it’s all to late
To fix my life get it straight
I must get married
I must produce life
Quick mark wake up and make me your wife
Hmmmm but that’s actually all quite expensive
And we are really not that tentive
To the young of age who make such a mess
The school run sounds like a lot f stress
And a morgage surely ties you down
What if I don’t like that side of town
Or county
Or country and want to live a life
Full of travel freedom and vice ?
Yes I’m sure it’s all ok
in our rut I think we’ll stay
With our own jokes and inside gags
Phew what a relief I can breath with no strife
And relax a little into mid life :)
(C) Ashley Kane
Mar 15, 2018
Mar 15, 2018 at 11:02 AM UTC
Life as a high school wallflower served me
without any budding female friendships
until lo…
a gent tulle mandate from my late mother uprooted me
from mine kempf familiar bedrock level road terrain
which venue offered a groundswell
to blossom forth into golden sterling resplendent rod
of natural equipoise (this an unbiased opinion) and balance
with freestyle improvisational swinging motions
unchained from the moors of formality
and lit figurative saint elmo’s sesame street fiery dance
allowing, enabling and providing this shy awkward self
during his young adulthood
to cast away four ever
thy self embroidered handsome
straight as an arrow
naturally high as a kite young guy
buzzing like a yellow jacket
thus liberating spontaneity that je nais sais quoi joie vivre
clamoring headlong toward venus
from healthy pistil packing overflowing bin
laden well nigh testosterone erupting *****
toward opposite gender
whereby bravado donned as key
to *** field of whet dreams
fostering initial albeit late blooming
roll in the hay hormonally rooted rutting squeal!
Feb 1, 2018
Feb 1, 2018 at 2:15 AM UTC
Mid of night...
while i were alone...
alone where i used to be...
into my lonely bed...
my eyes got so heavy...
slumbered suddenly...
and dived within my dream with you...
came to me as an angel never saw before...
came and started with her soft hands runs over me...
whispered into my ears...
woke up me into my dream...
and asked me to give her a love...
a love which she always kept for me...
to get and wipe away all her sadness inside...
asked me to make love with her...
two thirsty bodies melted and cohered...
fired one the others...
with its desires...
gave its best to the other as it can...
were as a heroic poem...
one tried its best to enjoy its another body...
as a volcano they exploded their desires...
to make their admirable love...
in all ways with no shame...
with no stop...
till they lose their power completely...
then,to sleep again...
hazem al ...
May 6, 2017
May 6, 2017 at 5:27 PM UTC
We met in mid April
And I think
That it was our love
That taught flowers
To bloom.
F.Z.N
May 17, 2015
May 17, 2015 at 11:23 PM UTC
Woke up to a nightmare
Where gravity disappeared
Scrambling around mid-air
Just to find no one's there
Bright florescent light
Hiding away midnight
It's just not the same
It doesn't feel right
All this pretending
Is bringing me nothing
All this anger
Is making me more empty
Scrambling around in mid-air
Just to find no one's there
Spending everyday
Breaking under pressure
Over digging countless holes
For some kind of treasure
Just to have someone
Fill them back up
Send me out again
And tell me I'm worthless
All this pretending
Is bringing me nothing
All this anger
Is making me more empty
Scrambling around mid-air
Just to find no one's there
And I don’t know where I’ll go
If this light bulb should break
Falling down into a deep darkness
That I’ve tried so hard to escape
The same darkness I have made
There are plenty of fish in the sea
But none like you
As the bottom feeders sank so low
We swam way up high
But we fell into a whirlpool
And I didn't take it right
Don't want any drugs
Don't want any alcohol
Just want you to know
I'm still here after all
Scrambling around mid-air
Just to find no one's there
https://spencercarlson.bandcamp.com/track/mid-air
Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015 at 9:37 PM UTC