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Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
To carry some ones baggage on your back
Along with your own

Carry their baggage while at the same time attempting to reduce the weight of it

Carry it from one end of the Earth to the other

Carry their heart as well
And guard it as if it was yours

Carry on
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
*** stain on the wall

A feeling of disgust stemming from the tip of my ****

The sound of someone taking a ****
Drip
Drip
Drip
They didn’t flush
Or put the toilet seat up

Next to a stranger I lay
Not exactly what I planned to do today
Today was brought to you by the word SHAME
And in this instance I wonder if I’m insane

***** laundry covers the floor
Double locked the bedroom door

Parents should be home soon
I must leave
Out the third story window
Goodbye, don’t call me
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
It's ready
It's in transit
Surfacing subconsciousness
Poring out light
Beast of potency
A beast
Look at it in the eyes
Look at it
If it smells reluctance it will tear you face off in an instant
If you look at it dead on with no hesitation or second thought
It will show you the way through the murky forests of emeralds
To the bridge
To the cross roads of existence
Follow the coyote
Until time and space have concluded

Blood, water and sand
All records of time
Of people
Cosmic events
All just a distant future's memories

Widen your view
Watch the Coyote make it's presence known
It's four million years old and still young
One ear straight, the other bent; with a crafty grin connecting the two
Twenty-one centuries, dangerous
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
TPJ
Bring the basket down
Keep them in line
Your pedestal
Is not higher than mine

No we don’t see eye to eye
No we don’t always agree
I don’t have to like
The way you treat me

I sympathize with your aches and pains
And I respect you very much
But you look down on me
As a so and so doing such and such

Reel me in and cast me out
You’re always
Reeling me in then casting me out

Hoping to catch a fish
Hoping to make your wish come true
I’m sorry but that’s one thing I cannot will not ever do

I move with feeling
You go on bitter thoughts
Keep it going
After the wars already been fought

You say you don’t need anyone
And I feel sorry you feel that way
While you hope to soon die
I hope to see another day

I’m not you and you’re not me
Take away everything
Hold it over my head
Then it doesn’t mean anything to me

Pull me up, throw me down
You always
Pull me up then throw me down

It really does seem
I am the rope to raise up your dreams, it’s true
I’m sorry but that’s something I wouldn’t do

You call me names
And take away
But then call back
The vicious attack

You think I’m on your leach
I see the beast
In your soul
I say no more

I’m not perfect
I am human
I will protect
The morals that I stand by

I’ll keep my mouth closed
And my tongue sharp
My mind mellow
And my spirit soft

I’ll humor you for the time being
Until I can leave
Or until I win
And you concede
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
My complete and utter distain towards fake people is only half of my opinion on those who wear masks 24/7
The other half is pity
They deny themselves the opportunity to be true to their soul
And that is one of the keys to living
Dawning a persona created out of the terror of outside opinions and criticisms
And allowing their true-selves become backseat passengers to this costumed being that drives them
I’m not sure what they’re after
Acceptance, I’d accept them
Social status, does that matter?
Understanding?
When they don’t even understand themselves
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
What are you scared of most?
What hurts you the most?
The pain of the past?
The fear of the future?
Drowning in the apprehension of the present?

Loss of innocence?
Naivety thrown out the window
Into the bedroom
A sanctimonious moment of love

Lover and lover
Together forever
For the time being

Giving one another each other
Mind, soul and now body
All of you
All of you

I can recall when I fell in love
I can recall when she fell for me
I can recall when we made love
I can recall when she left me

I went from to the top of the world
To the bottom of the sea
Higher than heaven
To a place lower than Hades

Innocence lost to who I thought was the one
I can never get back my time, my patience
My love and innocence

But do I really regret it?
I lost it to someone I loved deeply
And there are those who just toss it
Toss it to someone with no meaning to them
So I suppose I’m lucky

Better to loved and lost
With loss comes gain
Never to have loved at all
The joy and pain
Tommy Johnson Dec 2013
Maybe I’m wrong
Or maybe you are
Maybe I’m right
Or maybe they are

If I leave home
I’m on my own
I won’t be held back
Is it worth it?
I don’t know

I can’t take the demand and guilt tripping anymore
Won’t fake obedience, scrub the floor
Immature teenaged angst might be all this is
Or is this my path, could it be?

Where would you go? I’d squat
What will you do? I’ll find a job
Who do you know? No one
What about school/ I’ll get to that

Yeah it sounds good on paper
Is a beautiful dream
Got to go with what’s safer
I cannot leave
Take a chance
Show my hand
Or
Back out quick
Just deal and quit

If I go, if I stay
Either way it’s a path
Both are hard, both are harsh
Do I end it or do I start

No matter what I chose
I’ll find happiness that’s true
I think I know what I’ll do
I’ll stay
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