#soulless
that day–
the world lost its balance
everything spun
while my body collapsed inward,
stomach tightening,
emptiness clawing up
with nothing to follow
hours stretched, merciless
I didn’t want to die–
but I couldn’t survive
what I was feeling
so I stepped closer
to the edge
one last time
after you–
after years of loving
someone who could discard me
without trembling
something in me shattered
a voice whispered:
you didn’t lose to them
only to destiny
but destiny was cruel
and so were you–
for not trying
for letting me fall alone
and I….
I had no control
only to endure
only to remain
and slowly–
teach my broken self
how to live
with what was left of me
♡ lil-usagi
Mar 26
Mar 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM UTC
In a world of
Soulless AI beasts
Where men and women
Are driven like cattle and
Deemed less than sheep
I cling to the
Foolish belief that
Alma still matters
Nov 24, 2025
Nov 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM UTC
There was a melodic hum in the wind that had no source to name.
And I saw how the trees would sway in rhythm with the skies,
Although I'd never heard of it being noticed in others' claims.
Still, I'd hint confusion but never got meaningful replies.
I remember how all the other kids, and how they'd run together,
A hundred feet would be syncopated in rhythms just alike.
And how I’d never even consider me trying to participate,
I'd learned that I must hide all the reasons I'd be seen as “not right.”
So, I grew up alone and light to me, was the fractures on the wall.
The animated shadow that for some reason, I was scared to touch,
I'd study each of their directional patterns like a sacred compass,
And laugh it off with the trendy phrase, “I think way much”
I wasn't just thinking, I was noticing how shadows would pause,
Just before they would switch to either side of me and then flee.
By then, I'd come to realize, this was more like their language
Epiphany struck a realization. “They've always been calling to me.
The nighttime air seemed to grow thicker and slower.
I felt the connection with what had become of my veins,
The heat pushed though in pulses beneath my thinning skin.
This heat was strange; it coiled and sounded like liquid chains.
When my mirrors cracked, they left symmetrical patterns of intent.
In perfect shapes, but no one was ever there but me to see.
Dirt made molds and somehow learned to study my imprints.
By doing so, devised a way to lead by my own feet.
Awake for days at a time, I'd spent too much time typing away.
I recall writing “breathing is all that sets me apart from computers.
In a poem I'd forgotten about called, “wires give life in a way.”
I still can't deny the fact we're built the same, but they're built truer.
Skies were flickering currents that my eyes began to catch,
With colors vibrating unsteady like electrical streams.
The wind was telling secrets of things that I could dispatch,
New imagery would find a home in my impossible dreams.
Interactions with others confused me, like codes I'd misread,
Each glance in my direction drew a map I couldn't align.
I'd trace the steps of the ghosts of God's, living and dead.
Instead of truth, all I found was static in the myth of time.
My best friend was the moon, the only calm I knew at night,
Its glow had certain energy making me feel I'm Awaited there.
I'd stand in the path of its rays and hoped they'd just ignite.
And take my mind and soul away from my body in golden flares.
Instead, I open my eyes confused, I saw doors that didn't exist.
Reality had edges, they would fold wide open in the air.
To be normal I'll blame it on curiosity and my inability to resist.
But truth is that gravity was pulling me into nothing, into nowhere.
These days, existence is just another signal I've come to know,
The language that sets the course of our paths, naturally convulsed.
But yet, waves of my frequency fall from order, no ebb to the flow.
I must be Half-human half-nothing, and naturally convulsed.
Trees of comprehension from forbidden seeds have grown.
In my mind, they stretch metallic roots, as if I'm conscious soil.
So now I sing, influenced by lagging rhythms of glitch in the code,
Somehow stepping out of the matrix through my mortal turmoil.
It's not so bad, but I don't sleep. My hard drive won't forget.
It's like the cosmos is trapped behind the cage of my eyes.
As I move in rhythm with time, like synthetic silent wires of mesh.
Half-light, half-shadow, still not seen but I'm no longer disguised.
Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM UTC
Black and withered
Condemned to hell
Nothing to care for
Nobody to live for
Lost beyond redemption
Charred beyond recognition
Pile of broken bones
Leaving behind a trail of discarded hopes
Soulless spirit
Wandering the earth
Darkness the only friend
Death the only end
Jun 24, 2025
Jun 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM UTC
O city, once a heavenly sight,
How did you fade into soulless night?
O my friend, what can I say?
All was lost to a mighty wave.
Yet I remain to carry the tale
Of the city that all once hailed.
My friend, there was a time
When love flew like a rhyme.
Now deathly silence echoes like a grime,
Yet I say, I am fine.
O Lord, what is my crime?
All I wanted was just to shine.
O moon, still within my sight,
Just tell me… I am right.
O friend listening to my tale
Tell me how can I not wail
O city full of gritty
Let me tell you are the most pretty
Jun 8, 2025
Jun 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM UTC
dual enrollment for art
seemed good at the start
then drained me
****** the passion for art
out of my soul
my hands no longer covered in paint
I no longer make jewelry
drawing is a hassle
poetry is my escape
I'm going to college
for creative writing
what if
it ***** the passion
the soul
out of my writing
making it a chore
instead of a release
anxiety naws at my brain
the what ifs
knocking inside my skull
what if it is draining
but what if
it gives me more passion
more motivation
it is a risk I'm willing to take
May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM UTC
I was looking for a dream in soulless eyes.
You thought that I was just like you
And milked the light from this star
You sold my brightness for profit
And now I wonder how far you are
I thought that you would give me my light back
But you led me into a fire
Lured me in with ink and a page
And now I'm trapped in a burning cage
I watch the stars in the night sky
The ones I once knew
You crush them down to ash
You sell them out for cash
I wanted to be just like you
But that isn't my goal anymore
I will be so much better
Is that what you wanted, too?
I inherited your soulless eyes
Do you see my dream in them?
Apr 6, 2025
Apr 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM UTC
Everything I can't show is what's going to put me right back in the hospital
This blatant cycle of denial is far beyond getting out of control
The pileup looks physically and mentally insurmountable
How can one person run into so much trouble?
It's unmeasurable
Eyes forced shut, but it's not always safer in there, alone and vulnerable
Behind a pane of pain, only view is through this soulless porthole window
Find it hard to dream when life itself seems just about impossible
I've lost control of this roadside attraction freak show carnival
It's too much to juggle,
And that's why I struggle
©2024
Jan 26, 2024
Jan 26, 2024 at 3:21 PM UTC
Soulless Reaction
When I'm happy;
I smile.
When I'm sad;
I cry.
When I'm angry;
I clench my fist.
But when I'm soulless
I don't have any reaction.
Aug 7, 2020
Aug 7, 2020 at 9:36 PM UTC
Nothing mends a broken soul
The feeling of giving up
and losing all goals
The constant fear of f*ckingup
and a heart with a gaping hole.
Feb 19, 2020
Feb 19, 2020 at 11:44 AM UTC
I miss you in my life, at every turn you would be there, ready for me to mumble on about the drama in my life
and
now that seat is empty where you sat and the hole in my soul is gaping open ever since you left, letting all of the kind words you once spoke to me drift through and disappear into the wind.
Oct 24, 2019
Oct 24, 2019 at 4:44 AM UTC
The sunset and the last light
The flower and the last bloom
A man and his last fight
To withering and doom
A compass without a needle
A fish without taste to swim
Iron weak and feeble
A man without a dream
Falling down the gutter
Dark and meaningless
Where everything seems to wither
Lives the man soulless
Oct 9, 2019
Oct 9, 2019 at 6:42 AM UTC
I find no comfort in the tears,
Nor the lasting words of sentiment,
But the funeral precession marches on
And my soul wrenched from its place.
Jun 22, 2019
Jun 22, 2019 at 10:26 PM UTC
Life just turned lifeless
Breath just became breathless
Heart just ended up heartless
Mind just shattered into mindless
Blood just seemed bloodless
Soul just changed soulless
May 30, 2019
May 30, 2019 at 1:48 AM UTC
I feel that my soul has left my body.
I am empty.
Lost.
Unaware.
Aloof.
I feel a soft ache where my heart once beat.
A pressure where my brain used to sit.
I am empty.
A shell without a body.
Without a soul.
Now I wait,
For my body to find its way back.
Hopefully bringing my rejuvenated soul back too.
For now I wait,
Vulnerable,
Empty,
Lost.
Apr 13, 2019
Apr 13, 2019 at 2:37 PM UTC
I’m awake,
Living the nightmares.
Numb and emotionless.
Colors are lost to me.
The living anger,
demolishes joy.
A soulless shadow.
The world and life
wither away.
Feb 11, 2019
Feb 11, 2019 at 8:54 AM UTC
Perhaps they were right
about cameras
They really do steal our souls
and place them
in pretty little squares.
Hidden.
Maybe that's why
we're all
soulless now.
Jan 22, 2019
Jan 22, 2019 at 10:09 PM UTC
Morality?
Well, I have none,
I think I will stab you in the back;
When I think i’m done.
Kindness makes me weak
I’ve seen too much sorrow
They say you have no future
You have no tomorrow
Guilty as my thoughts can be
But I don’t fear no one
Regret is the only thing missing
When my killing is done
You come rushing from all the sides
when i make any mistake
But hold on I don’t need your grace
I have got more lust to fulfill more innocent souls to take.
Aug 17, 2018
Aug 17, 2018 at 2:32 AM UTC
Droves of the dead,
drive through.
Women and men,
dogs doing tricks.
Shiny cars,
and slum deadbeats.
They are like rats,
finding the cheese.
Or maybe god?
Rich women,
poor men.
A nice guy,
in a car soulless.
Screens of pixels,
a father yells.
A mother cries,
her daughter falls in love.
Sunrises,
and then falls.
The dead rise,
soulless and unforgiven.
Trying to find their way.
Feb 7, 2018
Feb 7, 2018 at 8:57 PM UTC