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#whoknows
And another sunset fades away as my body lays to rest yet a day of nothing, of no interest lays heavy on my chest. I wish to say I did something, sewed fibers and painted canvas yet I sat in bed, paralyzed watching the blue screen tick by. And maybe that wouldn’t be a problem, if he waited for me on the other side. Fear sits stagnant in my veins, I have never cared so much. But why? I know I’ve lost all meaning, my life a pointless loop. I could ask til my lips crackle dry, “Why do I care, why?” And so I turn out the lights, my family long to rest. Only dull strings echo in my mind. So why, do I wake up? Though I don’t truly sleep I don’t remember a time when I felt the need to weep. No excitement, no purpose. No driving force within, I sit on a raft in a waveless ocean, waiting for foam to crash in. And so what if I did it? Stopped threatening and tried. Made an effort in something Because then no one weighs down my sheets once I have died
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Feb 9
Feb 9, 2026 at 9:57 PM UTC
TELL ME WHEN 2 WAKE UP
To lose one's death are to liver or lie headstones are hard and well engraved THE GOD'S OF OUR LIVES neither buried neither saved.
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Oct 11, 2025
Oct 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM UTC
Headstones
Why would you, why wouldn't you? If you knew me, you wouldn't ask that.
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Sep 5, 2024
Sep 5, 2024 at 11:13 AM UTC
So they thought
If I state I’m going to do something then don’t, as often happens, then I’ve planted a ***** seed that’ll grow into a choking vine, not free, or wise So dark January resolutions might help Calvinists, or masochists, or both, but for the rest of us comfort in our skins is better I have no preach for you to do this: just listen Your own heart cries and sings all day, every day and you will beat yourself far harder, over cheese and ***** than anyone who loves you would So go inward a while and think, and even if your conclusions don’t match the zeitgeist, love you, as we do
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Jan 1, 2022
Jan 1, 2022 at 1:12 PM UTC
Lang Syne
First footing towards what could be bridge or precipice, hard to tell in the usual mists of another spin round the sun The groundhog sting has left us wary of what’s to come: with an alphabet begun how many masks need to be worn before omega calls? But the sun is shining and it’s abnormally warm, so that’s good, isn’t it?
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Dec 31, 2021
Dec 31, 2021 at 7:26 AM UTC
Auld
Trickling words Drip drop Flickering words Burn hot Whispering words Never forgot
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Aug 2, 2021
Aug 2, 2021 at 11:37 PM UTC
Sounds of Gossip
Well You know I dunno Who knows You?
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Mar 1, 2021
Mar 1, 2021 at 3:04 PM UTC
Who Knows You
I liked that night, we were flying As the black cloaked your stars, you had your eyes closed Sleep-deprived and half dead I thought of loving you It seemed foolish On the ground, it felt dizzy like you spun me around Friendly smiles were small Everything was so dead I didn’t think of you I don’t know the day where I thought of it as more It wasn’t a day but a memory, a rememory The buttons were pushed before I was ready Anxiously I worked and worked and acted like your honey didn’t matter to me It didn’t, I convince myself even now But the moment came in capitals You thought I was unattainable The breaks were pressed by those closest Of course they were, it’s what they’re there for I waited and waited and waited and I got tiny answers I got fragments, particles, portions I never got it all I still don’t have it all Is this you Is this my body? Worse, is it my mind Tell me now, if I ask too much Tell me now, if communication won’t be our thing Tell me now If we won’t be our own thing But just tell me Tell me anything Because I need to be told
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Sep 8, 2019
Sep 8, 2019 at 8:43 PM UTC
Flying Changes the Time
I wake in the morning And I just don't know. Where does life go? I just don't know.
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Nov 2, 2017
Nov 2, 2017 at 3:39 PM UTC
That feeling when i wake.
I was in the woods The trees were dying My world was crashing All the route was leading to places And i was still found homeless It was like flying while drowning Nothing to hold on to But keep struggling to see through This is too messy I try to be ready Instead i become unsteady All of a sudden i am cutting trees Separating the branches Leaving the roots Trying to pull myself out of the crowd A crowd of plants feeding me with dead leaves Decaying my body And still there is nobody I am starting to wonder if there is really someone Or am i the only one In the woods A forest full of steady waving tree bodies Careless, staring.... Rooted in to unknown Will i find a home Or should i be forever searching Escaping something that maybe everything And nothing have sense
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Jan 15, 2017
Jan 15, 2017 at 11:03 AM UTC
Lost
*Don't ask me why I conjured someplace in Chicago, I think by Gene and Judes. (sonnet #MMMMMCMLXIX) Was't thickets naked trees within the pale Eye of November guarded with a sense Of dreary naught, their skeletons black thence And with such bony fingers grasping frail Mists' ghostly shadows winds' nigh cruel exhale Passed through in eerie whispers, that suspense Culls from auld memries to rehearse from hence, Which rise before me, haunting which detail? The question of what's real. Shake me as twere, And say I've built cloud castles none shall do Aught justice to, and bid me look now fer Brave minutes at what's allus in my view. Tell me our games were fun but won't endure. Then take my hand and teach me to love you. 14Oct16c
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Oct 23, 2016
Oct 23, 2016 at 9:39 PM UTC
Look, I'm Trying to Be Sensible
I hope i never loose you, even though i feel like i’m loosing myself again.
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Apr 16, 2016
Apr 16, 2016 at 7:16 PM UTC
Lost
(sonnet #MMMMMCCCLXXVIII) Snow. Thick white flakes whose hapless note's detail As't measures distance their profusion thence Half mocks, yet draws the careless eye from whence These mesmerize sans voice within the pale Light of an afternoon, and lo tis bail Enow for losing me upon that sense I maunt pin down, til playing guitar is hence Forgot, or trips and chokes in sheer betrayl. And ah. You know that word, um, chaste? Oh sure. Come, roll it 'cross your tongue and hear anew, Cuz I am sick of being too naughty, fer The record, and shall leave erm, you to woo. If only I sit on me hands 'til you're Quite ready, that should do. Snow. I need you. 09Jan16c
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Mar 6, 2016
Mar 6, 2016 at 10:57 PM UTC
Give Me A Lesson On...Spells
On this chilly café independently, I sat. To this Toffee Nut Frappuccino, I sipped. With my never ending reverie called “self-pity”, I am consumed. Paved way for this sudden urge to get my purple-inked pen, and my nasty leather brown notebook, from my old blue sling bag. What to write? Believe me, I have no idea. I just feel like to scribble this nonsense out from my littered thoughts, and disarrayed emotions of this solitary state called “singlehood”. For where are those shoulders to lean on? Where are those hands to hold? Where are those sparkling eyes that stares back? *Where are those? Where are those?* When can I ever have someone to share this table with? When can I ever hear another heartbeat next to mine? When can I ever read my poetry to this “special one”? *When can I? When can I?* So now, five minutes left is all I have. I’ll be packing my things now, stop this senseless scribbling, head to the office, with coffee on my hand. This reverie, I must halt. To rather remind myself: “Hey, today’s a brand new day. and who knows? Who Knows?”
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Nov 1, 2015
Nov 1, 2015 at 11:24 PM UTC
Who Knows?
Words don't come to me when I think of you; They slip through my fingers to this sandy ground. Perhaps if I knew just exactly who You were, the words would finally be found. You are mysterious, but so am I; You don't show emotion, but then, I don't. Seeing you come can make me smile wide, But when you dissolve into mist, I won't. I only know the numbers in your dreams, The things you wish, the things you're hoping for But there's another side to you it seems Maybe if I look, I will find there's more. Who knows where our paths may someday lead us? It's more than I can hope to be in love.
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Jun 25, 2015
Jun 25, 2015 at 1:02 AM UTC
Sonnet D
Just go, you clearly don't know what you want from me Just leave, no words or thoughts like it's so ******* easy Just now I thought something could finally happen Just stupid old me for giving in after a bottle of Kracken.. Now I can't, I don't know who you are Now I want and miss how you could take me so far Now I just feel empty and so ******* alone Now I sit and wonder why you couldn't just pick up your phone..
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Jun 16, 2015
Jun 16, 2015 at 1:19 AM UTC
The Call
Why do I miss you so much?? I dream and long to again feel your touch!! Why can't we at least always be friends? Being there to talk to the other if we are sad!! Just be able to reach out and help change their mood isn't bad!! It's easier to do things if there's someone there to cheer u on!! It's hard to do it alone with no one there and you want to give up and not continue on! I just miss you being here... Since u made me like you when I met u my dear!!!
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Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 1:05 PM UTC
Words I feel
Peace is never mine to keep I find no solace in sleep I wake and I want to weep For no dreams come to me No visions of beauty Darkness is all I see For me there is no rest Struggle to be my best With my heart torn from chest
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Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014 at 9:14 AM UTC
No Rest
One question with answers that are never quite the same Constantly changing, like a bi-polar mood ring Does it exist, Heaven & Hell After our time has reached its end & goodbye is waved Will our soul rise above into the sky? Or quickly be dropped beyond the dirt in your fiery domain in the ground? Your actions& choices while living, so "they" say, are the reasons to blame For your souls eternal bliss or its endless suffering BUT to just anyone your soul you won't sell The fear of being cleared of you existence & permanently erased So will you go to Heaven or Hell after you die ....Maybe you'll end up lost & in between, earth bound SO...DOES Heaven & Hell really exist Don't be fooled & let your thoughts be easy to twist Some will argue that YES, of course it does!! & others believe there isn't now nor there ever was But either way you believe in whatever you want to You better not let anyone tell you what to do!! Personally, who really & truly knows where anyone, in the end, actually goes Anyways...why worry, now, about that You're living NOW! In the PRESENT! so enjoy it wherever you're at!!
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 11:24 PM UTC
Heaven or Hell...
sometimes I regret that I didn't know you I just cried over your death and my tears quickly formed an ocean imagine how someone who loved you felt? but it doesn't mean that I was any less sad at the dead of night when that comment I made was brought back up again and again and again until it broke into my biggest nightmares and it was the only one left burning a hole in my mind it started to consume my every breath and my every thought so let's not talk about that night on the bridge when I'm not quite sure what happened but I know that I would never really jump since you were standing there like a guardian angel (god, that sounds so cheesy, but what else would you be?) I smelled the old gasoline from the trucks rambling along the road a bird sang a sad tune as it watched me go but then, I didn't go. because at the last moment a cloud passed over that beautiful moon and now, rest assured love, the sight of that pushed me far away and I doubt I will ever climb up and make that journey to the bridge again. why would I take my life if you had fought every second for precious breathes? and you never knew when it was going to be your last? you had us make things for you to never forget you but sometimes I forget you, and that makes me feel like I am not allowed to be happy when you are floating somewhere else where you can't breathe oxygen in anymore. that cloud over the moon reminds me though, why should I do it? why would I do it? I owe that much to you, at least, if I owe anything (even though we both know I owe more than that. I owe you more than I owe the grass beneath my feet and the music in my ears) I'm not suicidal, not even close but now that I've know you I don't think I could ever get to that point anymore where I want to leave no matter how hard it gets or how much that bridge calls to me, because you didn't live, so I must live for you. and sometimes ( alot of times, to be honest) i try to push it all out my mind. I don't push you away. I never want the memory of you to fade, it must always be bold and bright and colorful at the front of my thoughts i only want the memory of the pain to fade i want it to be a stale ******* in my deepest thoughts. not fresh in the front of my mind causing my heart to jar open every time I think of you. but how is it possible to let all of that pain, all of the tears that I cried? all the blood I shed? that whenever I turn on the radio and all I hear is that one line again and again sung by your (our) favorite band that reminds me so much of you and all I can think of is when you died and the date you were supposed to die.
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 8:22 PM UTC
breathing for you
sometimes I regret that I didn't know you I just cried over your death and my tears quickly formed an ocean imagine how someone who loved you felt? but it doesn't mean that I was any less sad at the dead of night when that comment I made was brought back up again and again and again until it broke into my biggest nightmares and it was the only one left burning a hole in my mind it started to consume my every breath and my every thought so let's not talk about that night on the bridge when I'm not quite sure what happened but I know that I would never really jump since you were standing there like a guardian angel (god, that sounds so cheesy, but what else would you be?) I smelled the old gasoline from the trucks rambling along the road a bird sang a sad tune as it watched me go but then, I didn't go. because at the last moment a cloud passed over that beautiful moon and now, rest assured love, the sight of that pushed me far away and I doubt I will ever climb up and make that journey to the bridge again. why would I take my life if you had fought every second for precious breathes? and you never knew when it was going to be your last? you had us make things for you to never forget you but sometimes I forget you, and that makes me feel like I am not allowed to be happy when you are floating somewhere else where you can't breathe oxygen in anymore. that cloud over the moon reminds me though, why should I do it? why would I do it? I owe that much to you, at least, if I owe anything (even though we both know I owe more than that. I owe you more than I owe the grass beneath my feet and the music in my ears) I'm not suicidal, not even close but now that I've know you I don't think I could ever get to that point anymore where I want to leave no matter how hard it gets or how much that bridge calls to me, because you didn't live, so I must live for you. and sometimes ( alot of times, to be honest) i try to push it all out my mind. I don't push you away. I never want the memory of you to fade, it must always be bold and bright and colorful at the front of my thoughts i only want the memory of the pain to fade i want it to be a stale ******* in my deepest thoughts. not fresh in the front of my mind causing my heart to jar open every time I think of you. but how is it possible to let all of that pain, all of the tears that I cried? all the blood I shed? that whenever I turn on the radio and all I hear is that one line again and again sung by your (our) favorite band that reminds me so much of you and all I can think of is when you died and the date you were supposed to die.
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