#unequal
She's a pale shade of yellow,
A ray of golden light,
Shining through leaves,
In the summer.
She's the sun.
She's music and joy.
I'm a dull blue,
The shadow forever behind her.
I'm the bleak mid winter,
The ashes after the fires died.
I'm the moon.
When I'm with her,
She lights up my world,
And I make waves in her sea.
I'd gladly watch her from a distance,
If someone else would make her happy.
But I'll do everything I can,
To be her moon.
May 9
May 9, 2026 at 11:31 AM UTC
Do you want to be a man?
If you want to be a
man,
then stand up for your belief.
Stand up for your right.
Give up your goodness
and give up your
pride.
The people will spit,
will cry,
will run.
Do you let that
be who you are?
No.
You.
Can’t.
Do you let the
allegatory
build your throne?
Do you wish
for your name
to be set in stone?
For the good?
For the wrong?
For the lie?
For the truth?
For the
gladiator
they will make
of you?
Feb 8
Feb 8, 2026 at 12:07 AM UTC
I am terrified to fall in love with you
Know how easily I can break
Say it is worth the risk
Don't get how much is at stake
Got fantasies frolicking in skull
Pills do not make me feel as great as you
I don't dare succumb to effects
Fairytales are too good to be true
That little voice whispering
To try again and be brave
My longing is stifled by past events
When I last let my resolve cave
Can I find strength to take the plunge?
Leap off cliff to uncharted depths below?
Without harness or safety net to catch
Unwilling to allow myself to sink that low
Help cut tethers trapping me in this place
Give anything to feel free once more
My fear holds me captive inside a prison
I can't seem to find the door
You make falling appear easy
With snap of fingers head over heels
Icy heart has been frozen for so long
Can barely remember how being alive feels
I wish I could forget sorrow
Brought by mention of a familiar name
Remind myself that you are different
Still worry it will end the same
It does not seem fair for you to give your all
Equal effort expected in return
I am simply unable to reciprocate
Love and consideration for which you yearn
Sep 6, 2024
Sep 6, 2024 at 9:37 PM UTC
"Do me a favour" you say, and so I do
But then one favour turns into two,
And two favours turns into three,
Until there isn't time for me.
"Do me a favour" I say, but you decline.
You say you simply have no time,
To return the favour that I gave,
"Do it yourself; I'm not your slave"
Doing a favour, with none returned
Should feel like nothing's being earned,
But only if you do not see,
I do them not for you, but me.
"Do me a favour" and, once again, I do,
And when one favour turns into two,
And you don't return a single one,
I'm laughing to myself; I've won!
Apr 1, 2022
Apr 1, 2022 at 7:06 AM UTC
You are here
Hope into love
I'm not ready
For you
Torn
Corrupted
Dreams eclipsed
With unreasonable detergent
Shot down provisions
Unequal complications
How come
You're in my life?
Sep 13, 2019
Sep 13, 2019 at 3:05 AM UTC
Should all the tears
of all the world
be gathered into one pool
to share equally
I should think
many
would take their own tears
and go
Apr 13, 2019
Apr 13, 2019 at 1:35 AM UTC
And if I loved you more than you loved me,
would anyone in truth of it be wise?
I measure you not in soliloquy,
but how you hold me when I start to cry.
If all the world did freeze and cease to turn,
the sun, and moon, and stars exit stage left,
the feeling would be something like this burn
that scalds me as you take up my time— theft.
We laugh, we cry, I hurt, we hug— but see?
I know that doubt will live here in my head,
so long as you share not your heart with me;
it’s easier to fade away instead.
I love you still, but needing to be free,
I’ll take the heart you left; it still belongs to me.
Feb 12, 2019
Feb 12, 2019 at 9:55 PM UTC
Everything feels so out of reach right now.
I feel the pain from the snake sinking its fangs to my skin.
Puncturing and filling me with its poison.
It doesn't release enough to **** me, though it still leaves me paralyzed.
And some times I have to force myself to not taunt them.
They will know my motives and slither away until I'm better again.
Then the fangs will bite down on me as if they were eating a delicious apple.
and evening will come to fall for the sadistic trickery.
Thus leading to the eradication in which I had made my world to be.
I am powerless.
May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018 at 2:02 PM UTC
isn't it sad when
there's more equality
in the math on my paper
than there is
in the society of our country?
May 8, 2018
May 8, 2018 at 9:05 PM UTC
yearning for you
my mind knows better than to love you
but you are the only thing that keeps me afloat this sorrow sea
full of hatred to those who let me drown
though you hold me
i can see you growing tired
i am wary of you now
knowing that you are on the brink
of letting the waves take over
i no longer yearn for you
my heart chooses to ignore the icy waters
and create its own raft made of lost love letters
i decided to never show to you
though i wish for you to never let go
i cannot trust you to keep me around
so i sit upon the raft of forgotten words of affection
and i find my own way to survive
they say to follow your heart
since it is closer to your gut
but i will not follow
what has been broken before
for the very same reasons as now
never will i thrive off of this love
not when i know that it is unequal
Apr 21, 2018
Apr 21, 2018 at 1:41 AM UTC
Why do you say you care,
when you dont even care to listen to what's beneath my hair?
All you care about is ******* a person that only loves you just for that.
All you care about is your own selfish needs.
All you care about is your small problems you whine so much about.
(Seriously, it's starting to get on my nerves.)
All you care about is the people you haven't been able to ****
All you care about is your relationship.
All you care about is using your mental illness to get what you want.
All you care about is manipulating those who are dear to you.
All you care about is revolving your world around toxic people.
All you care about is the horrible parts of yourself.
And yet,
You don't understand why your friends are in pain.
Or why you don't even have any friends at all.
You don't understand why he loves your body so much but not your heart.
You don't understand why you're still sad.
You don't understand why people step all over you.
You don't understand why you are so alone.
You don't understand why you tear yourself apart.
You don't understand why I am mad at you.
And yes,
I have been mad at you for such a very long time.
Because I, your friend, will sneak out of my house with just a dime.
And I can turn this shiny coin to your vibrant smile.
I can twist the tides to make the ship sail less violent.
I can break my bones and rip my skin to make you a comfortable tent.
I can listen to you and watch you cry as you vent.
I can be the comfort you seek solely from your relationship.
I can say magical things that can transform your hurricane to calm waters.
I can tear myself apart just for you.
And yet,
You are still not here for me.
Jan 31, 2018
Jan 31, 2018 at 4:30 PM UTC
at least all
seven billion of us
feel heartbreak,
the high frequency sound
that explodes inside us,
screeching,
and then our hearts go
on beating,
all seven billion of them.
Aug 13, 2016
Aug 13, 2016 at 9:44 PM UTC
Unequal
When you divide the people
You divide the power
When the power is divided
The problem multiplies
This is the algebra of the situation
The situation that poisons water
The situation that pollutes air
The situation that kicks all of the jobs out of the neighborhood
The situation that kicks grandma out of her home
Then blames you
blames you For needing to drink the poison water
blames you For needing to breathe the polluted air
blames you For needing to work for money
blames you For needing to live to have a life
There is no Unknown in this equation
There is no Hidden variables
There is only a forced set of inputs
To create a predetermined set of outputs
We the people refuse
to be functions of this destructive equation
We the people refuse
to be canceled out in this demented calculation
We the people refuse
to be anything other than people
and we the people demand
what is due to all
that are people
that are human
that are of Earth.
© Christopher F. Brown 2016
May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016 at 2:24 PM UTC
your poetry
used to
speak of
her eyes;
crystal orbs
of hazy umber
as you crave
for her
cunning
glance
upon
your mundane
existence
your art
used to
capture
her hair;
the summer
threads of silk
every inch of which
you desired
to hold between
your fragile
fingers
your dreams
used to
remind you of
the way
her lips
curl to a smile;
you could only
wished
to be the one
behind it
she taught you
how to
crave
desire
and wish
i taught you
how to
compromise
Mar 6, 2016
Mar 6, 2016 at 7:21 AM UTC
His eyes are locked on you,
Daring you to flinch.
Everybody's starring,
But you cannot give an inch.
Everything you have--
Everything that matters--
Has been melted down and made
Into your armor, now battered.
The fight for him is just for sport,
A way to gain some scraps of honor.
The fight for you is for a life--
Consequences far more dire.
You cannot turn and run,
There is no option of surrender.
The loss of souls or souls conserved
Won't be how victory is measured.
Neither choice would end this fight.
You're fighting everyday.
And ending confrontation
Won't take that fight away.
The odds are stacked against you,
You'll die before the fighting's done.
But you will stand your ground
Even if you're the only one.
For it wasn't choice that put you here
But rather unlucky birth.
And this fight will take your life
Even if that's not what it's worth.
Feb 10, 2016
Feb 10, 2016 at 9:33 PM UTC
You made me not only feel butterflies in my stomach
But all over my face and the pit of my neck
The tips of my lips have become ecstatic
Causing my breathing to become erratic
But I will never do the same to you
Because you are a black hole
Taking everything I give to you
But I will never ever be enough
To satisfy your bottomless hunger
Apr 29, 2015
Apr 29, 2015 at 1:14 PM UTC
The rarest orchid bloomed in my garden, to you I cheerily gifted,
it's fragrance you heartily inhaled, making me smile,at my poetic best
a rose, deep red, a representation of your heart,I suppose, you presented,
but, did you pause,see how was I transformed, when I deeply kissed it?
Jan 6, 2015
Jan 6, 2015 at 5:01 AM UTC