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A sleepless night turned to nights nocturnal
Eyes wide shut, confronting fears of the dark every second
Embracing light for security, it dwindles to nothing, a goodnight light
Taking steps with uncertainty, a blind man's game
I called his bluff, he took two steps forward and I back one
So sure of what cannot be seen will not hurt; confidence?
I have seen it all along, I was just seeing it again in a new *light
Worrying about the future, worry about the now.
Always wondering when but never how
Problems that haven't happened yet
All these "what ifs" and "oh I bets"
Past dues last tues for accumulated debts
The life of an adult isn't always glamor
It's just a take on how you use the hammer
To build your future piece by piece
Until you mind is at peace at least
You're able to eat
Don't think of the bad friend think of the good
Not the "can I?" But the "I could"
So take it easy, take a pill because in the future I know "I will"
I've felt your pain and I've heard your story
All I can say is I love you and I'm sorry
I wish sometimes I could be there instead
I had to leave because I only visited
You're my favorite don't you ever forget
I only wish I could fathom what goes on in your head
You can always trust me I promise I'll never let you drift away
If I come to see you it's going to be hard not to stay
If this isn't a sign that I care I don't know what is
If it means nothing that's fine I'll mind my own biz
I can't stand to see my best friend so lost and full of distrust
The weight should be shared because for you I can feel is too much
You caught me at a bad time but that doesn't matter though
Just know if you call I will always pick up
I just wish sometimes I had better luck
Never go and think I never give a ****
When it comes to you and any other best friends
I will seek my word I give to you all till the end
What if you fell on fast forward...would you rewind?
Stop or pause and access what's going on?
Or would you watch like a Dr. Who marathon?
You have the chance to see where you will end up
or see where you don't
No consequences, just actions
One you've seen the butcher, the chopping block
There is no looking back, you must accept
You've seen too much yet know so little
You'd forget it even happened before you know it
It's time
Would you rewind before knowing your end and time?
If only it was as easy as "oh, you're the one!"
I swear I saw it in your eyes
Fate wore a disguise
Until I recognized
It was
*You
It's just better with more than one
All alone, nights spent, it isn't fun
The character brought out by the crowd
Hidden inside yourself unable to emerge
From time to time, that character slowly fades away
A part of you, the better you, the you that you want to be
Can't find a window to look through, better grab the windex
Because at this point a nice clear view is more than needed
Direction much advised
Friends are forever, don't let the inner you die.
I've been thinking longer and harder of a subject that should not arise so early in my life
Why do we work so hard to grow and leave a mark on our world and want to stay forever?
Not enough chances being taken, we don't have that long
Nor will we ever...so I thought
Many thoughts have been thought
Everything must go, like a bad business going under
But life seems so great through these eyes, and these eyes are young;inexperienced
If life make me want to stay the afterlife must be even better
For forever can exist in such a place where everyone will know your face
We can make a great life now, after it's all over we can make an even better one
Work hard now so that our souls have a chance to play harder in the unknown
Vanity

Take your pick, you know you slick but what would you do to get it?

Trust

Have you had enough? Do you give  a ****? or is it just my luck?

Promises

What are they to you? Just one or two? You're on the run for breaking them all.
Strong on my feet call me kàka
Swift with this pen I'm coming at ya
With these rhymes and with my soul duh
Real words who need em got some world play like a rapper
Make it rain the truth on y'all call me the rapture
Challenge word kaka
I want my hands full with yours  in them
I'll fill your heart up with enough beats to keep your body going
I'll yell to keep everyone knowing
This right here is your shoulda coulda woulda been
We kept evolving, but you digressed
Starting to forget about that thing in your chest
Beating so you can move on
But you are frivolous, without fingerprints
Would anyone even know you were here anymore?
A wraith with intent on subsisting ears and eyes shut
Conversing with yourself to make believe you are still relevant
While your posture is that of a "the fading"
I can't help and keep on debating
I extended my help and time for you, but always too cool
It's like you're stuck in senior year of high school
I'll always miss you I'm never ashamed
Why'd you have to go and change your name
I'm a child of a love that remained unwoven
Every version of me never realized just how broken
You can get just trying to do the right thing
For your child it ain't sweet but that's the icing
Sacrificing everything down to your last breath
Making sure I'm taken care of even if you don't know what could happen next
Give me all your love I'm selfish when it comes to happiness
As long as I've been alive I feel like I hardly know you
Or the things you've truly done
To allow your son to see another one
A day where I can play pretend nothing is wrong as long as I'm looked after
Growing up I swear I've been craving laughter
In the absence of it from your happy never after
Little did I know I was helping decipher our next chapters
Not from the rafters, but front and center
Robbed  your attempts to find the love of your life
Thinking it was me because it's all I've ever known
Fighting for your life to finally find the home
You feel where you belong and I've seen you belong
Decisions I've made you chose me to lean on
The gravity of the situation was beyond
Anything I could comprehend like we could be gone
From the place I've always known as home
Feel so selfish I made the decision for us to be all alone
And you took me there without hesitation
I often wonder if the destination
I picked for us was the reason for our demonstration
Why we go out of our way to make others happy
I still think about it to this day
When youre older you realize the power of what you say
You havent madd it yet, they call you legendary
Hows it feel to have the skill and state of rap to carry
Like what's the deal cant find the real this has to be imaginary
The way these clowns come put it down, situations rather scary
You havent made it yet they call you legendary
LGC
LGC
it's been awhile since I could remember how to love
Let alone be loved, I'm not sure
What I was doing before
All I remember are the times I've wasted beating around the bush
It was an immense bush I remember going in circles for a while
A numerous amount of times
I even got lost, around a circle go figure
But that's just it I lost my way and you helped me bring what I once knew
Back to life, and made it our reality
I've said the "L" word many a time
I'm positive most of you have too
But how many of those little "L" words did you mean?
Strange, and not fun to think about
Sometimes it just doesn't work out
You want it to, who doesn't?
I've never had a love so strong I couldn't wait to wake up
Next to you, half asleep
Rubbing your eyes hoping to see me better
It's the little things that have made me fall in love with you
And those very things that I've always wanted in and from anyone
I'm the perfect vessel to fill with your lies
I'd believe anything looking into those eyes..
Fool me so hard I believe my truth is false
But you can take my hand and make it all go away
Just hold me close and say you will stay
When life gets hard and bridges are burned
Where will you run?
Sitting here just watching how life's changed, and it hasn't
It's been the same forever we just see without the light in our eyes when we grow up
The light being the shadowy parts of our brains perception and growing up is when you realize life sometimes isn't what you expect it to be when you reach that up point
I've watched so many people just forget about one another because their own lives are too busy for those who are not present in close proximity with one another
Missing myself, and the others I used to call my friends and crushes regardless of which they were in my life at some point
Sad to see people part ways but even more so to see others leave a friendship behind as if it never existed
As if words were a filler and you were just another body to be encountered just by coincidence
Our relevance could have not been any less of a mere introduction to becoming the worlds best definition of acquaintances
Don't leave those behind who have not yet gone, you might miss what might have been or will be more than meets the eye
Love isn't as strong as security
Only one is guaranteed
Time will tell you it's price and fees
Make sure you water the right seeds
If you reap what you sow
May your harvest be plentiful
Put on this Earth to make you smile or sneer
Class clown I always knew how to make
hard work disappear
Such a happy go lucky guy
with a knack for laughter
The world can be so cruel
but everyone deserves a happily ever after
Let's cry tears of joy together
Plan each pretty picnic
Regardless of unpredictable weather
Shaving against the grain
I'll find peace in nicks and cuts
after shave come in to save
This burning that is what's left
To cut, to grow, to shape
All of us are magnets attracted and repelled in all different directions
Sticking to what ever metal foundation we can surface, hold on tight ; gravity
If you turn the lights on
And close your eyes
Do you still feel the same?
I'm tired of apologies
The more I accept them the more I'm realizing
The ones with them make it less surprising
Now I'm lacking trust, more and more honesty is a must
Don't want to spend my whole life in an endless game again
Starting to cut the ones loose who like to trend
My hands no longer wide open for the world
I've got too much on my shoulders, and now my hands are full
Get rid of those people who felt like they had some pull
Had to leave that negative orbit and get a grip on my own gravity
I know you'll understand as the apologies ensue
Now I'm sorry this is just what I have to do
This little light of mine went dim on the shine
A twinkle that wasn't ready to show
or ready to glow
Feel like I let myself go
into a place I never imagined
but a promise is a promise so I'm
Bound to make it happen
with real reactions in my time and space
some fear has to be stared right in the face
or face the fact you've got nothing to lose
only everything to gain
that comes only with the pain
and every inch of rain
You feel on your fragile skin
Emotional walls condemned
I wouldn't let them in
even late night like letterman
I just wanna be me again
I'm waiting for my story to begin
even this late in life
I found my wife
A true ride or tie
That now her myself and I
To stand the test of time
Till my ready to shine
oh this little light of mine
In the rain I still feel the tears
Running from my darkest fears
No matter how wet I get in the rain
I still feel this harkening pain
Like I've finally reached my end of the road
And never had a chance to get that old
Covet those who feel so pure
Head in the clouds looking for the cure
We are all living to die
Regret and remorse mean nothing when you're gone
We are all dying to live
On the edge, till our last breath
Live fast die young right?
We are all living to die
Do what we want now and think about it later
We are all dying to live
Later came but we didn't make it
A place I confided
Even when not invited
I was never afraid to open up and see

I always had perfect vision
When making my decisions
But in the end still blindsided

Some things will go unnoticed
Often times I lose focus and
Wish I could blame it on my ADHD

Trying harder to never lie
So ill never have to rectify
My mistakes now under
Lock and key
Ever looked at the sky?
And wonder why?
Up so high
Beyond sight of the human eye

Just why is the sky?
Why can't I drink from your beauty
And share your nectar of elegance with the world

This world needs a mother natures touch
Oh sky I don't ask for much
Show me the ways of the soft blue sky
Make me wonder, wonder why
If only i could say the right words and it'd bring you back
You always kept the family on a righteous path

I wish we could have done more of the same for you
All the craziness we've put you through
You were the most loved now that you can trust
You had the strongest heart out of any of us
The kind of tough love some of us never get you always gave
Some of the things you've done are the reasons why I'm brave
never scared to tell it like it is
To your own or someone else's kid

There are so many things I never got to ask you
Like what's the recipe for keeping the family together as you do
Something so special, like a homebrew
It was your own special family glue

You always made sure we stuck together for better or worse
I think this is why your death really hurts
I'm far from speechless
the things I never got to say to you has to be my weakness
I never got to show you how I grew into my own uniqueness

I got a lot of my love from you and my mom, I'm not here to throw shade
I just want to make sure the words I never got to say are paid
In full, consider this an I owe you
Youll always be in my thoughts until the day I go too

I love you **** Dilfia
We've all been there...
Most of us...
A taste of invincibility, or "the sauce"
It's taken  us to higher ground and our lowest point(s)
For temptation and triumph over the dull, uneventful, out of spite
Will you settle for bad morning or a goodnight? choice ultimately yours
But should you make that for which you do not think? Tis a quandary
And the answer lies lost, lost in the sauce
In this place we roam I've become a lost soul
A place where familiarity and routine has a strong hold
Everyone is to do what their told
Until you've made enough money to grow old...
In all this I am only a passenger
Only to make you smile when you need it
One time I made a pass at her
Realizing she held such power I fell helplessly
Abusing, watching, reoccurring.
Why couldn't I look away?
Mixed feelings up late
Stupid fights; that love hate
We fight to keep the flame alive
Give no less than all I got
Remember where we first met?
Forget that better yet
Remember where we first kissed
Time with you will always be missed
Your love to me was always worth earning
And cannot bare our separation I'm learning
Her walls as soft as fur
and mind as sharp as cheddar
Two things that couldn't go together any better
So I thought, and wondered in a moment of contemplating
Why are you insistent on waiting?
You tell me your love is ferocious and unending
Hungrier than a glutton with nothing to lose
What's this honesty under the influence of these *****?
Real or fake for goodness sake put my mind at ease
Such a way to draw out this tease
we got a couple drinks in me
my heart starting beating the sounds of loves symphony
Nothing to lose but everything to gain
War is the concept love is the game
So beautiful but you're not as real as I want to believe
Your features drawn on; emotions erased
Face flawless masked with your harkening depression
That yearns for release and the problems to be lifted
Happiness there but a facade to show what isn't shown
As much as I can try to I do but nothing seems to work
Look in the mirror unrecognizable to ones self
*Beyond help... I hope not
I want to write again dont know where to start
Always looked at words as a sacred art
Like a book whose pages have been thumbed through a million times
So others can keep refining and keep this art alive
I dont blame people who give up on it, I know how it can get
Some people only use it as an outlet
Isn't this crazy but I'm not like people I'm lazy
Nothing special about why I tend to use a book mark I dont like to thumb through
I like to dissect refine and renew
I hope by the time my new poems hit the surface
My writing will provide other with a sense of purpose
I just want to hold your hand forever
Stormy weather meet my umbrella
I promise I'm a decent fella
I just fella into a hole I'm climbing out though
tucked in the smallest of alcove
where no one could see me down bad
practically at my worst
All out of tears and can't quench my thirst
Until i met you
who knew it would sound cliché
Still not caring if I have to say it anyway
its not about the words
or the action
I couldn't imagine like dragons
but this radios about to be active
Call it an infatuation, this tornado is my destination. The eye of your storm brings me closer to home. A place where I've felt oh so distant for so long. Take me away into the sky, before you end up whirling another guy
Would you fall into the sky with me?
Could this life really be that easy?
You saved my life
I never asked for a thank you or wanted one
I just wanted you is that so much to ask
I love you like no one else
The tension rises the feelings clash
This game you play is sick and I'm tired of it
It's amazing what can happen over time
Over thinking, not quite  the words
Coy is what I use to be
This game is done between you and me
Talk is cheap but can you afford it?
Making plans with you is like "Mission Aborted"

Time is money but time is priceless
It all leads back to a very common crisis

The ones you adore turned the ones you adored
You thought it was forever but nothings assured

When silence is communication, that awkward recognition
When all that spark and friendship goes missing

Cat got your tongue? No, but this felines got feelings
Words with no gravity goes straight to the ceiling

I can't feel you do you feel me?
It wasn't easy but now I see

All these clouds raining on my sunshine
Now I know you were never meant to be mine
I see who you really are right from inside my home
When you think there's no one there Know you're not alone
I am all your stories you imbued me with this curse
From inside my dollhouse  an observer I'm immersed
We all have mirrors in our lives
Our friends should be our mirrors
Reflections of ourselves but not exactly the same
We should see tiny reflections of ourselves in others
That's how we relate, but if you stare long enough into those mirrors you may see
Friends you want to be more like or how your mirrors truly see you
When you ask who is the fairest of them all is
Just look at the reflections
Mini heart attack I've fallen ill
In the bathroom or perhaps the window sill?
Holes in my pockets have a million stories to tell
I got myself asking "Where in the hell?"
Is it only me that this happens to?
Either way I'm right there with you!
How am I supposed to know
That you needed room to grow
I wish we could have talked about it
Before the day you decided to go ghost
Everything I touch feels so cold
With all of my friendships on froze
The mistakes were mine to make
It was you over them i regret what I chose
Not even around you left this hole
Fighting more demons to gain control
Creatures of habit love roles that are tragic
My life is a movie you made it a classic
The art of being curved has gotten out of control
As disruptive and as frustrating as it can be
I have found solace in the time of curvature
If you've ever made plans with a friend
Which we all have so I hope you can relate
That even with everything on our plates
We make time for those who matter
But when it comes time to situate
Math could never prepare you for being curved
I'm not sure you've heard so let me set it straight
That person agreed to make plans with you
But when it comes a time, that which you have set aside
The other person has backed out last minute
I know we've all been curved or once took the mound
But it doesn't mean I like the sound
Of my days and time wasted, I'm not a fan
But my solace is bitter but not wasted
The ink and words my pages have tasted
Just becomes something else to write about
overwhelm me if you can
gravity has already got it covered
Got a lump in my throat
Full of words too big to get out
we can't read lumps and I can't read my mind
Consider me alliterate
Doing fine I never could consider it
I know I'm slow
But I'm so smooth my mistakes don't even show
Tasks piled miles high on my plate
Let's just say my eyes are bigger than my stomach, too much to chew
It's Friday, I'm ecstatic this week is through
"mr blue sky please tell us why you had to hide away for so long"
Beyond the cloudy days and mystifying ways of everyday
Sunshine to illuminate a beautiful canvass for our eyes to paint
Show me the way to sun kissed freedom up above the craziness let me dive into a whole new world of clear and absolute the way things should be but instead people like clouds can often ruin a good day or get in the way or just plain stay where we least want them but I digress blue sky preferred over this cloudy mess
Smile, malevolent
I heard you were trouble, but with me it's double
I couldn't stay away if you paid me
I'd pay to call you baby

Yea I heard you were trouble
I want to share your pain
No pain no gain
I might be insane

To think this would ever work again
It doesn't work now and didn't back then
Membrane, must refrain from making this choice in vein
Insanity ward pass on the word you didn't hear this from a little bird
I've always wanted to be a rapper but that will never happen
Not because I'm no good at it
But there are other seas that need a captain
Always an aspiring artist with a writers itch
Who can help but fall in love with lyricist
Words scratch my fancy, stories speak more to my heart
For the songs I cant wait to finish just so I can restart
Just so I can see what I've missed my first or second time around
Messages buried underneath the sound
So when you see me listening to music and I'm not at home
Let me be my soul is fueling up
For another poem
True love, miracles, and atrocities
All can be experienced, all can be found and all can be seen
Unfortunately true
Unable to grasp the gravity
The pressure on this darkest ridge
A rope I walk
My Golden Gate Bridge
Digital emotion
Reality misconstrued
Imbued by love
I'd jump for you
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