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#sunken
I dislike returning to this hellish place From first step inside I sense my pulse race I start for one second to turn around Love and concern have my presence bound Everything in building looms like my worst nightmare Instead I try to focus on the one for which I care Like puzzle I ponder pieces of the past If I did things different would your breath have ended as fast? My whole life was spared by the reapers dark dose Heard whisper call but it never came too close Water came surging suddenly in sinking your soul to sleep Would have swam to rescue you but the sea was already too deep
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Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM UTC
Sunken
Render me living, I have walked too long With lurid eyes of sunken white. My hollow heart, empty veins, A shade of black, within me: Colors dark as night. And the flame I have been kindling, It too, appears To want to die
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Jun 21, 2023
Jun 21, 2023 at 12:42 PM UTC
The Big Range, of Harms
Misty mem’ries down murky highways Of sinking ships down dark alley drains There dreams there too have sadly sunken With hopes of life obscurely ashen. May these paper boats find their way out To flow back in endless paradise Then I’ll surely know without a doubt I’ve set my heart there again to rise. Though we may cross a different path Or flow on different waterways Please know we’ll meet there a moment too When rivers meet at the vast blue space.
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Feb 7, 2022
Feb 7, 2022 at 7:22 AM UTC
Sunken Paper Boats
In the darkness A hand reaches out To pull you under To drag you out Or to just move closer Until you drown With your eyes closed Sunken tears Blinding light It pierces Your eyelids To your eyes You still see The sunlight Into the water You jumped in So in the darkness You're floating Sinking in further Until a hand reaches out Drags you out Across the bank And pretends to Save you But then jumps into The water And takes you with Then you're just swimming Till you're sunken.
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Oct 18, 2020
Oct 18, 2020 at 3:31 PM UTC
Sunken
this body will never know that the sea surface could also be  gentle and kind. it will only know the sea's hunger for things it could claim. but then again,maybe, this body was not built for such gentleness and kindness. this body was made to sink. it knows that sunken cities dont kiss the ocean floor in a haste. it knows because it has been doing it for years, - slow,passionate. all those towering dreams it spent on building some unpaved asphalt roads, some rooms full of strangers, some quiet places, some homes made with strength, some little cosmos patches. All drowning and sinking. Just because i was too afraid to swim. //but maybe atlantis is a home for lost,hopeless people like me.
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Aug 15, 2020
Aug 15, 2020 at 6:21 PM UTC
Atlantis
hollow. sunken. depressed. what a mess in the flesh. and i contest you to confess that i am in fact a pest.
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May 2, 2020
May 2, 2020 at 10:27 AM UTC
a pest
I don’t understand why It hurts so bad inside. Each word He speaks Is like a knife in my heart, A stab in my back that makes me sting. I don’t know why I ever let him inside. Why I let him make me cry. Why I let him into my safe zone Let him into my sacred space; I gave him the key to my gold He scratched at it, then spit it out at my face. Not sure what hurts more than this, Salty tears and puffy eyes Trembling hands and despise. To feel so ashamed for letting you see me, Telling you my secrets like an open book All i am is another story with no happy ending I’ll never get naked for anyone again. I wanted to feel safe and beautiful. But now all i have is empty walls and endless thoughts. He laughed and then he cried. He regrets what he did And now I have to pay the consequence. Trying to go about my day, trying to forget the mess you made. So I smile, I walk and talk like nothing ever happened, But deep down the memories of watching you love someone else Replays and replays through my head. It’s sickening, can’t stop looping. The sound is screeching, pounding. it used to birds chirping, Wanting to scream, nowhere to run. But i keep quiet. I’ve chosen to forgive, because I see you. But forgetting is something, that I’m not capable to do. So please forgive me, If I keep bringing up the past. I promise you, The wound won’t always be this raw. The scarcity of it won’t last. Bare with me, baby. I ask. People make mistakes and maybe all that was fate. I tell myself everything happens for a reason; maybe the feeling will go away. What a gruesome mess of salty tears forever strolling down my face. I can never forget the pain. Give and give They will take and take.. Until you have nothing left. They will leave you with a jar, only full of your own tears and call it fate. Making you feel like you’re the one who did this, you could’ve been better, Prettier, brighter. maybe smile a little bigger, maybe be a little thinner. I start to vanish They will leave you stranded In the realm of emptiness, Expressionless. When i speak up, He tells me it’s my pride. So i swallow my words. I die. I die. I die. He lies. He lies. He lies. I cry, I cry, and I cry. So pathetic and so disgusted. The humiliation, to see i was so easily decepted. I wanted to believe that he did love me. He was too blind to see. All that unfolding in front of me. I picked at my skin, Screamed, cried and plead for him to come back to me. I begged for his love and that’s what disgusts me. I should have kicked you and her out, but i was too deep in my own sorrows without a doubt. Wishing and hoping you’d come back home, into our sacred space I wanted to hold your face against my soul and i hated myself for being so vulnerable. Why would I want someone who used me like a puppet on a string. Lets not forget if I stand up for myself, I’m a ***** Forever astounded at the egoism. Mislead and now pleading Wondering where you went wrong Wondering what you did to deserve this mess. Feeling abused and despaired. Was I a fool to think you would be there? I could never stoop down to how you mistreated and disrespected my heart. Nothing about that is art. I’ve forgiven but the heart cannot forget what has wounded so deeply. You did nothing wrong sweet sweet girl, all you did was give your love to the world. You can’t control how others abuse your heart. Don’t let their foolishness take away your heart. Don’t dare let those dark shadows capture your pure form. Be true to yourself, especially if you are falling apart Cause the world desperately needs more devotion and less promotion. But remember The ones who give away their hearts to a wicked spirit Usually end up, with sunken souls in the dark. Be careful of whom you give your love. -kc
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Jul 13, 2019
Jul 13, 2019 at 4:34 PM UTC
Hearts In The Dust
I don’t understand why It hurts so bad inside. Each word He speaks Is like a knife in my heart, A stab in my back that makes me sting. I don’t know why I ever let him inside. Why I let him make me cry. Why I let him into my safe zone Let him into my sacred space; I gave him the key to my gold He scratched at it, then spit it out at my face. Not sure what hurts more than this, Salty tears and puffy eyes Trembling hands and despise. To feel so ashamed for letting you see me, Telling you my secrets like an open book All i am is another story with no happy ending I’ll never get naked for anyone again. I wanted to feel safe and beautiful. But now all i have is empty walls and endless thoughts. He laughed and then he cried. He regrets what he did And now I have to pay the consequence. Trying to go about my day, trying to forget the mess you made. So I smile, I walk and talk like nothing ever happened, But deep down the memories of watching you love someone else Replays and replays through my head. It’s sickening, can’t stop looping. The sound is screeching, pounding. it used to birds chirping, Wanting to scream, nowhere to run. But i keep quiet. I’ve chosen to forgive, because I see you. But forgetting is something, that I’m not capable to do. So please forgive me, If I keep bringing up the past. I promise you, The wound won’t always be this raw. The scarcity of it won’t last. Bare with me, baby. I ask. People make mistakes and maybe all that was fate. I tell myself everything happens for a reason; maybe the feeling will go away. What a gruesome mess of salty tears forever strolling down my face. I can never forget the pain. Give and give They will take and take.. Until you have nothing left. They will leave you with a jar, only full of your own tears and call it fate. Making you feel like you’re the one who did this, you could’ve been better, Prettier, brighter. maybe smile a little bigger, maybe be a little thinner. I start to vanish They will leave you stranded In the realm of emptiness, Expressionless. When i speak up, He tells me it’s my pride. So i swallow my words. I die. I die. I die. He lies. He lies. He lies. I cry, I cry, and I cry. So pathetic and so disgusted. The humiliation, to see i was so easily decepted. I wanted to believe that he did love me. He was too blind to see. All that unfolding in front of me. I picked at my skin, Screamed, cried and plead for him to come back to me. I begged for his love and that’s what disgusts me. I should have kicked you and her out, but i was too deep in my own sorrows without a doubt. Wishing and hoping you’d come back home, into our sacred space I wanted to hold your face against my soul and i hated myself for being so vulnerable. Why would I want someone who used me like a puppet on a string. Lets not forget if I stand up for myself, I’m a ***** Forever astounded at the egoism. Mislead and now pleading Wondering where you went wrong Wondering what you did to deserve this mess. Feeling abused and despaired. Was I a fool to think you would be there? I could never stoop down to how you mistreated and disrespected my heart. Nothing about that is art. I’ve forgiven but the heart cannot forget what has wounded so deeply. You did nothing wrong sweet sweet girl, all you did was give your love to the world. You can’t control how others abuse your heart. Don’t let their foolishness take away your heart. Don’t dare let those dark shadows capture your pure form. Be true to yourself, especially if you are falling apart Cause the world desperately needs more devotion and less promotion. But remember The ones who give away their hearts to a wicked spirit Usually end up, with sunken souls in the dark. Be careful of whom you give your love. -kc
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// yr gun does not reach me, so u make black boxes. not like the ones lost at sea. // we all can be pretty at least once, even with dangling nerves, even with blood dribbling down our chins // we live in the sunken place. try to stay awake, but it's too easy to fall asleep. // i like to think i have wings. cuz i swear, i swear they're somewhere on my back. but maybe they took those too. // if we was still alive, while the swallowed us whole, would we fight or flight? i heard a story about one us of, who didn't drown. // i could touch the sun and fly with my not-wings to a place better than this. can i drown too? // we all can be beautiful. cuz i tried so hard to make this place safe.
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May 31, 2018
May 31, 2018 at 1:10 PM UTC
ortolan
The things you murmured hit me with surprise I exchanged glances with the devil in me Can I admit I left you behind? Rumours will **** for a beast like me to conquer Your world was so innocent to me Yet I traced the crimes inherited I could ruin your sympathetic face Sooner or later, people will know the truth Hold with pressure, you've sunken in love But I seek pleasure, don't you ever fall for it
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Jul 20, 2017
Jul 20, 2017 at 10:16 AM UTC
Too Late to Love
I wanted to go home, it felt like it had been ages Having been on the road for so long. But we stopped, because they insisted. Two nameless faces within this dream. "Let's get out, stretch our legs." Begrudgingly I complied, approaching a bridge. Down below a shimmering river of blue, Ran silently along the banks we traversed. This is the point where one thing, turns into another. As I sifted through the steps and boulders beneath, The world which was living around me, began to change. Walls of high water rose, as I descended farther down. And the two, who so boldly encouraged this adventure, Left me alone to this vast maze of sunken wonder. Exploring this labyrinth, brought me to a city Fallen to the depths, hidden through dreams and fate Along the perimeter as if bombarded stood a broken wall It too, could not withstand the pressure of misfortune Finding myself, at the bastion of this watery grave I knocked on the swollen door, to find myself drowning All the walls began to fall, as the river started to overtake me. In a flash, gasping for air, I washed up on the quiet banks With the Sunken City, ever existing in the memories of a dream.
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Feb 4, 2017
Feb 4, 2017 at 11:03 AM UTC
Stumbling into the Sunken City
Sunken in the grim thoughts, This mind goes adrift to Never Land, Never never never land. Stolen can't be sanity's token, There I will not be even a day older, Forever ever ever land.
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Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 9:47 AM UTC
Adrift To Never Land
11:54 Still not awake This corpse is pleading merces But is yet to be given I can hear these bones crackle At every jolt, every spasm They keep me asleep These lullabies This desolate throat Delivers none but drought Painful, but bearable still These swollen eyes have never before Felt this oppressed How I wish they knew rest This blade, above all Transcends the screaming sting ***** pang* These throes that tingle Stay silent til the morn says so
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Oct 3, 2015
Oct 3, 2015 at 12:07 AM UTC
Pacified
The albatross once filled the skies Cormorants watched silent, from the shore These are echoes of times long ago There's nothing here for them any more The coastline littered with sunken ships Villages full of ghosts Empty buildings and empty lives Where just the sea gulls act as hosts Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out past the breakers and out to the sea Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out on the Ocean, where my soul is set free The cod stocks have dwindled There was no need to stay There's no catch of the day, son From here to Gaspe' The canneries shuttered The landscape has changed I may be a sailor But, my life's rearranged Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out past the breakers and out to the sea Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out on the Ocean, where my soul is set free The Grand Banks are empty Our boats are in hock There's nothing that grows here Except depression and rock While others moved onward I'll stay 'till I'm dead Now, I feed off the tourists I work the casinos instead Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out past the breakers and out to the sea Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out on the Ocean, where my soul is set free The salt air still calls me The wind in my sails The sound of the rigging Heading off to Kinsale The coastline is empty Where Ghost towns now stand It used to be vibrant But now just sea grass and sand Oceans Away Lads, Oceans Away On out past the breakers, and out to the see Oceans away lads, Oceans Away I still am a sailor, and I always will be
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Nov 20, 2013
Nov 20, 2013 at 11:29 PM UTC
Oceans Away Lads
The albatross once filled the skies Cormorants watched silent, from the shore These are echoes of times long ago There's nothing here for them any more The coastline littered with sunken ships Villages full of ghosts Empty buildings and empty lives Where just the sea gulls act as hosts Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out past the breakers and out to the sea Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out on the Ocean, where my soul is set free The cod stocks have dwindled There was no need to stay There's no catch of the day, son From here to Gaspe' The canneries shuttered The landscape has changed I may be a sailor But, my life's rearranged Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out past the breakers and out to the sea Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out on the Ocean, where my soul is set free The Grand Banks are empty Our boats are in hock There's nothing that grows here Except depression and rock While others moved onward I'll stay 'till I'm dead Now, I feed off the tourists I work the casinos instead Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out past the breakers and out to the sea Oceans away lads, Oceans away Out on the Ocean, where my soul is set free The salt air still calls me The wind in my sails The sound of the rigging Heading off to Kinsale The coastline is empty Where Ghost towns now stand It used to be vibrant But now just sea grass and sand Oceans Away Lads, Oceans Away On out past the breakers, and out to the see Oceans away lads, Oceans Away I still am a sailor, and I always will be
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Sunken eyes Written lies Bowed legs Magnet dregs Many words Little herds
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Jun 28, 2015
Jun 28, 2015 at 8:31 AM UTC
Sunken
I see shapes in your sunken eyes, pressing like last night's lifeline, telling you to keep your heart safe, but I have to look away. Please don't cry, I can't possibly turn tears to gold. I'm not the type to indicate what should fill these empty spaces and I don't know what to say when you don't say it first. When the shivering starts you'll see, I can't be your blankets and late-night radio, or anything you used to believe. When those eyes mean oceans in mine, you'll see how nothing I can be.
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 1:18 AM UTC
I'm Sorry
I wrote a poem for my biography to a special person about Adam, I thought you would like to read it. Blue Heart You were 18, so many years in front of you. It felt like a dark eternity, you didn’t want to go. I saw it in your sunken eyes. The vacant stare and sad dark eyes. I saw when you were sitting around the table prom night. So much going around but you were too calm too collected. too inside your mind for us. I knew that blank expression from experience All too well. You screamed for help silent and loud I reached for your hand but you f e   l    l You were poised and calm Broken but full of love. All I wanted to do was help you. you were standing still when the world went on and it did go on, it did, without you. When you were standing there at the edge I wondered about you, all in my head. We were short lived, a friendship that was fast. You came, changed me, then you left. it came and went in a flash. I knew when no one else could guess. you put it all on me, didn’t you. but I was not cross with you. Heartbroken, yes scared, yes alone, yes mad, no Your color was blue Blue heart, blue veins Blue is the color of our planet from far far away we wore it proud it was all for you, a blue solemn silence. and the world spun fast and all the people hurried fast, real fast and no one ever smiled. You weren’t all there, in that head of yours. dark and empty you were sad but you lived like you would die tomorrow tomorrow came too soon and it was up to you. it was always up to you. Meeting you was bitter you put me through stress, anxiety and heartache you put me through shame and shock All I wanted was you by my side, and you there was not. Meeting you was sweet you gave me smiles and laughs, good music and thoughts you gave me a feeling of friendship and care. All I wanted was you by my side, but you were not there. You were poised and calm, you rubbed off on me. I was hyped and excited you called me “ADHD” You drove an old red beater with water bottles everywhere, with **** in the glove compartment. but you didn’t care. Your drove with sunglasses and the FM radio loud. You drove in silence, thinking no doubt. You loved the sun but you would hike for the shade when we were together you took me away. I didn’t think, I didn’t have nerves. We talked about the world We talked about life You had a life you thought you didn’t deserve. Whoever planted that seed had some **** nerve you wrote like me but I wrote for myself you wrote for us when there’d be nothing else. I knew when no one else could guess. you put it all on me, didn’t you. but I was not mad. Heartbroken, yes scared, yes alone, yes mad, no When you were gone I read and I read i wanted to know exactly when you felt what you felt. You called me your jav friend you called me your angel You are up there watching over me I yelled and screamed I couldn’t breathe. I shut them out, I cursed at you. I hated you I cried for you I only see you in my head Dreaming once and a while of your smile, of your eyes but they are never dark they are never sad they are never empty The vacant stare is not there. your hair is a giant mess and I freeze that moment right there. You said you were alone you said it was a secret you asked me about my darkest and you told me all your secrets I have never been in that much peace knowing I kept you there It felt like moments when it was hours and you were gone too **** soon. tomorrow came too fast and it was up to you. it was always up to you. Now I wear a band on my wrist and pray for your peace that is all I have left, but you mean so much to me. I hope you are happy, I hope your journey has ended and you found what you wanted My heart was once broken but soon if all this is true it will be mended.
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 1:27 PM UTC
Blue Heart
I wrote a poem for my biography to a special person about Adam, I thought you would like to read it. Blue Heart You were 18, so many years in front of you. It felt like a dark eternity, you didn’t want to go. I saw it in your sunken eyes. The vacant stare and sad dark eyes. I saw when you were sitting around the table prom night. So much going around but you were too calm too collected. too inside your mind for us. I knew that blank expression from experience All too well. You screamed for help silent and loud I reached for your hand but you f e   l    l You were poised and calm Broken but full of love. All I wanted to do was help you. you were standing still when the world went on and it did go on, it did, without you. When you were standing there at the edge I wondered about you, all in my head. We were short lived, a friendship that was fast. You came, changed me, then you left. it came and went in a flash. I knew when no one else could guess. you put it all on me, didn’t you. but I was not cross with you. Heartbroken, yes scared, yes alone, yes mad, no Your color was blue Blue heart, blue veins Blue is the color of our planet from far far away we wore it proud it was all for you, a blue solemn silence. and the world spun fast and all the people hurried fast, real fast and no one ever smiled. You weren’t all there, in that head of yours. dark and empty you were sad but you lived like you would die tomorrow tomorrow came too soon and it was up to you. it was always up to you. Meeting you was bitter you put me through stress, anxiety and heartache you put me through shame and shock All I wanted was you by my side, and you there was not. Meeting you was sweet you gave me smiles and laughs, good music and thoughts you gave me a feeling of friendship and care. All I wanted was you by my side, but you were not there. You were poised and calm, you rubbed off on me. I was hyped and excited you called me “ADHD” You drove an old red beater with water bottles everywhere, with **** in the glove compartment. but you didn’t care. Your drove with sunglasses and the FM radio loud. You drove in silence, thinking no doubt. You loved the sun but you would hike for the shade when we were together you took me away. I didn’t think, I didn’t have nerves. We talked about the world We talked about life You had a life you thought you didn’t deserve. Whoever planted that seed had some **** nerve you wrote like me but I wrote for myself you wrote for us when there’d be nothing else. I knew when no one else could guess. you put it all on me, didn’t you. but I was not mad. Heartbroken, yes scared, yes alone, yes mad, no When you were gone I read and I read i wanted to know exactly when you felt what you felt. You called me your jav friend you called me your angel You are up there watching over me I yelled and screamed I couldn’t breathe. I shut them out, I cursed at you. I hated you I cried for you I only see you in my head Dreaming once and a while of your smile, of your eyes but they are never dark they are never sad they are never empty The vacant stare is not there. your hair is a giant mess and I freeze that moment right there. You said you were alone you said it was a secret you asked me about my darkest and you told me all your secrets I have never been in that much peace knowing I kept you there It felt like moments when it was hours and you were gone too **** soon. tomorrow came too fast and it was up to you. it was always up to you. Now I wear a band on my wrist and pray for your peace that is all I have left, but you mean so much to me. I hope you are happy, I hope your journey has ended and you found what you wanted My heart was once broken but soon if all this is true it will be mended.
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