#silently
The night fell down with a silk sheet.
The city sleeps.
The night is walking silently
Through concrete heaps.
She treads regally, barely touching
The dark stones.
The night has come, smiling lordly,
Into the throne.
The night's happy. It's to her liking
People's dreams.
They're sacred. All men in them
Are almost saints.
Well now, the night rejoices and rules!
It's her time!
She scatters the stars and the moon in the sky
To sublime.
The night put out all lanterns
In city's streets.
The city sleeps quietly and soundly
Without all feats.
Mar 28, 2025
Mar 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM UTC
I do not know what is wrong with me
But I have a problem clear to see
When attempting to smile my muscles won't move
Like sorrow is a splinter I cannot remove
Sadness an infestation sprouting from seeds
Spreading throughout soul with greater speed than that of weeds
Roots reaching furthest depths of my ragged reality so dark
Squeezing skull so tightly it leaves a permanent mark
Scars nothing new to me
Wear them with pride
Whether on surface or invisible inside
I am aware of imperfections
Count them one by one
Internal self-critique is a cycle that is never done
There are always mistakes to look back on and regret
Unrealistic expectations too high to ever be met
At night lie awake
Unable to find sleep
Haunted by promises failed to keep
The sight of photographs on my bedside table
Makes atoms in my flesh excited and unstable
Igniting flames
Stoking intense yearning
Enticing while simultaneously burning
Pleasures forever lost echo in my head
Beyond my grasp are words you once said
Clutching pieces of past so tightly my hands start bleeding
It's the shattered fragments and broken bits I'm needing
Your presence rendered life beautiful on our hardest days
Can't help but wince when I hear the word "always"
Time after time you have shown your love to be only lies
Only have myself to blame for being taken by surprise
I was an easy target
In line of fire
Lured me where you wanted with powerful desire
I was a pawn for you to manipulate
Took advantage of fact for you I could never feel hate
Regardless of how bad you hurt me to your embrace I'll always return
Victim to games countless occasions because I never learn
I suppose had it coming after all that we've been through
Traveled all the way to hell for you and back again too
I've tried everything could think of to make mistakes right
Still threw them in my face each and every night
I ponder if our relationship meant anything to you at all
If the years we spent together to you were insignificant and small
It's difficult to accept you are happier without me there
Try to chart a new course but each direction leads nowhere
Perhaps I should teach myself how to survive alone
Have it as MY choice not answering the telephone
When it comes to you it's not possible to win because I'm weak
I don't stand a chance against the silky smooth words you speak
I watch you through a screen wishing that I was where you are
Sigh because distance separating us is way too far
You moved on and left me reeling struggling to understand why
I'll get by without your touch
Missing you silently until I die
Mar 29, 2021
Mar 29, 2021 at 4:01 PM UTC
I silenced myself
myself and others
lovers to brothers
I made them deaf
I silenced my voice
and voices of mothers
my sisters’ covens and covers
of the never ending choice
I stepped in silence
to not have to answer
what and why and why her
and what happened to my lens
Silence for my eyes
that need not to see it all
silence to my ears dull
and my mouth full of honest lies
I want and will be silent
to those who do not wait
to those who wait I may
whisper part-truths of repent
Where’s the reason for my silent
(do not) ask, I do not know
under pressure, I bend and bow
guilt of hope lost makes me violent
Wounds I don’t see, silent there
I wish to draw, thousand lines
smelling iron, liquor and pines
caring enough not to care
Silence, voices, winds and hums
so loud that I cannot breathe
deafening so that I flee
feeling my fleet running past
A last drumroll, silence dear
to be honored, to get big
I’ll switch gears, clothes, wear a wig
tongue on the floor, silent fear
Silently dripping, drooling red
silence clicking, rhythm lost
for the silence, hidden costs
here I’ll sit down, sound is dead
Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020 at 4:02 PM UTC
I just wish people could understand
about my wellbeing without I had to tell it to them.
Because sometimes a little part of me wanted me to hurt myself so that the pain that hurting my mind and soul,
could just go away and replace by the pain from the blood that was dripping all over my hand.
Its better that way.
Rather to be in pain silently and slowly falling apart.
Jul 25, 2020
Jul 25, 2020 at 10:39 AM UTC
I stood inside watching the rain outside
I stood there and looked up at the sky,
I watched as the rain fell silently
I kept waiting for it to change
I kept waiting for it to change me
For it to wash away something deep inside
I wanted it to wash away this virus from deep inside this earth.
Mar 17, 2020
Mar 17, 2020 at 4:59 PM UTC
Shallow grave hung,
Where the forgotten
Lyrically blessed suffocate,
They just scream silently.
But I dug you up,
brushed you off,
reserectted your carrear.
Now you be trying to hit
From behind with the *****
That revived you last year
I dug you out,
I can bury you deeper
you hear.
Don't think I didn't fill in that hole,
in-fact I dug it deeper
just in-case you thought that you
climbed higher than the hole
you were dredged up.
RIP, you were exhumed no I embedded
a ***** as your tombstone,
sorry I dug it a but to deep.
But your vocal cords were severed
now enjoy your rest
and scream silently you hear.
Feb 8, 2020
Feb 8, 2020 at 4:23 AM UTC
the wolf howls
the bear growls
the man silently kills
Feb 1, 2020
Feb 1, 2020 at 3:34 AM UTC
Hidden in the shadows
Weapons at his side
He has her sent
And he follows
Silently he stalks
He moves swiftly across the floor
Without a flinch
There's a knife through her heart
she tries to look at him before her last breath
though there is no one in the room anymore
Apr 7, 2019
Apr 7, 2019 at 3:24 PM UTC
Hidden in the shadows
Weapons at his side
He has her sent
And he follows
Silently he stalks
He moves swiftly across the floor
Without a flinch
There's a knife through her heart
Mar 19, 2019
Mar 19, 2019 at 9:12 PM UTC
I just meant to lay my head on your chest,
For no other reason but to hug you right,
Then I realized for the first time after many a night,
That your heart was beating at it's best,
I smiled and wanted to cry,
But Instead,
I silently thanked God for giving me the sweetest lullaby,
last night before we went to bed.
~SacredInkedBlood
©2018 Venjencie Clifton Arnold
Sweetest Lullaby (see) Author Ven J. Arnold on Facebook.
Dec 7, 2018
Dec 7, 2018 at 2:38 PM UTC
“ I love you !” He screamed “I’ve been wanting you since forever, I want you to complete me !!” He continued
“Hey !!” She poked him and smiled at him
He froze like ice and speechless.
“See you around !” She waved at him
Until she’s gone, he said nothing.
Yes, he is screaming but screaming in silence. Because he knew it will not change anything if he confess his feeling to her, He realized he is too late since she’s belong to someone else.
Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 7:11 PM UTC
My cup of tea,
now empty.
sits by me silently,
waits for me
to be up patiently.
As it turned next day
it remains still
the same way.
Nov 18, 2017
Nov 18, 2017 at 2:36 AM UTC
I collect my words,
leaving them in my wallet
for when their meant to be spent..
And like vouchers I spend my words
at the right time..
here's a voucher with a **** you for
the times you never stood by me..
And here is a coupon
for a rock when you needed me
and you can sink silently...
Oct 11, 2017
Oct 11, 2017 at 6:01 PM UTC
We engaged the engines, collected
the imagery of this place to further
our understanding of a vast pool.
Then we jumped, like a motion of
splashing down ripples silently
unseen fading into the distance.
We saw reflections of ourselves,
of our past, of what maybe our
downfall. We were like pebbles.
Sinking deep within the ocean
of raindrops, we were a grain
in the universe of stones.
We were called puddle jumpers,
splashing down on waters of
the unending universe.
Jun 3, 2017
Jun 3, 2017 at 1:31 PM UTC
When all the rocks
will have been thrown
and the last crumb
will be blown in the wind,
when even the final pledge
will has been violated
and just the darkness
will offer us refuge,
in the deafening uproar of the fear
your whisper
will be my guide,
the unseen
my only certainty.
I'll find you,
my soul,
and we'll raise
silently
on transparent wings
of golden bees,
above it all,
finally
free
to forget.
Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 4:14 PM UTC
Under this big old tree.
We lay together so silently.
Hear the wind softly
through leaves.
Your hands sliding
through my hair.
Your love keeps me warm.
To much I can bear.
A kiss on my forehead.
My heart feels so alive
when I'm with you.
My soulmate with
a beautiful sound.
We lay here under
this big old tree
on solid ground.
Feb 7, 2016
Feb 7, 2016 at 11:05 AM UTC
if you cant see something inside of you that's worth fighting fore
then get a better mirror.
Because something inside of you wouldn't let you go
No you held on threw all the names and the hits that society labeled you with
You held fast to your life because who were they to tell you that you don't matter
Who are they to say those things to you
When you have no mom to go home to, no dad to pick you up
When what you turn to at only fifteen is liquor ad drugs
who are they to tell you to get over it
Sticks and stones brake bones don't tell me it hurts worse than a broken heart
don't tell me that when I go to sleep at night I might not wake up
Because if I wont wake up with a smile on my face what's the point
when I have to ask myself before I even open up my eyes is simply what will I get called today
What's the point
My definition of beauty is Mom
Because she is raising three kids, and she knows how it feels
No I cant hide that from her no matter how well I hide from kids at school, no matter how still I try to be.
No my mother see's.
When asked if I want to die, I stay silent
Because silence s the only thing that wont bake a heart
Now...
as other are going to sleep
we stay up, because when they close their eyes for a moment we dot have to run
Ask me again why I wont die
why don't I just back down?
Because My definition of Beauty is Mom
Because to many of us have been cast out like a knickknack on a shelf
because I wont lose my memory..no
I will not go silently
Sep 17, 2015
Sep 17, 2015 at 3:49 PM UTC
Is it normal
To cry
For no reason?
Does anyone else
Sob silently
To fall asleep?
Do you ever
Get angry
And lose it?
How do you
Control it
Or does it
Control you?
Are you ever
Enraged; depressed;
Does it stop
Will it?
Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 10:24 PM UTC
*caterpillar crawls
inching slowly towards the green
silently transforms*
Copyright © 2015 Christi Michaels.
All Rights Reserved.
Jun 28, 2015
Jun 28, 2015 at 11:18 AM UTC
Muted.
Tongue tied.
That was a clear fact, couldn't be disputed.
To make her voice heard. Countless times she'd tried.
So from now on, a new tactic she has applied.
Head hung low, as she walks in silent stride.
Emotional shutdown: access denied.
May 17, 2015
May 17, 2015 at 10:47 AM UTC