This is a poem that I wrote containing only eleven words

Now there's a world of distance
Between us
I can sing a song
Now there's a strange dream
Coming true
And you can sing along

I dreamt you were a stranger
And I didn't know
What you held in your hand
Or in you heart

Now it is three in the morning
And all that I can do
Is wonder

How this happened

Body resilient
One more step away
From the grave
Its ground I used to walk
In the way I know it now
The way it tore me up inside
And the number never meant
As much to me

Four lines cannot constitute poetry
No imagery, no metaphor
And despite the immense feeling behind it
This is not a poem

That feeling when you write 500 poems
In three months time

I think

Am I just writing because I want to be heard
Or do I really have something to say

Or both

Its probably both
Still doesn't mean I don't have something to say

Something that matters

Something to make you feel a certain way
Something that makes a sad man see he'll be okay

Something

That can mean anything
To anyone at all

You engraved
Only something ordinary
On my skin
My bare feet
I see a symbol in the rocks
I walk on

Every pain
Every step that makes me bleed
Written in chalk
I chalk it up to talc

Your a stain
A mar upon my living skin
My great scar
You a fire
From volcanoes long ago
My lava

Every fire
My lover burns deep into me
Written in ash
Becomes forever

As the flame and as the smoke
As the air

And as the earth

Hell yeah, I hesitate to say what I'm thinking
Honestly, these thoughts are scary to me
I'm having nightmares while I'm awake
It seems you've taught me what hell is like

Scary as it is
I'm not afraid
Because when the time comes
If its a better thing I do
I'll look like a fool
Because I'd die for what I believe in

A sound is ringing in my ears
I love the idea of night
But the moon is nearly full where you are
And the apartment is all but empty
Not a rock of Gibraltar
Not a stone's throw away
Not now
Now
My blood is composed of music
I love the idea of light
But the stars don't want to shine where you are
And my left shoe knows of holy souls
Not forty years in the desert
Not sacred pilgrimage
Not now
Now
Abraham
Take instead the ram
Sacrifice unto his name

Staring straight at the abyss
I'm ready to jump when you aren't

Don't hold my hand
Its not me
Its me
Its not you
Its the world we know

Its more than we can ever know

What will be
Will be
Acceptance is the thing
That leads to happiness

I want
The two warring nations
To put aside their differences
To help me fight a war
They both know I need to win
I stand with the light of god!!!!!!!!

Because being right
Is never as important

As being right

Her name now
Is whispered to me by the wind
Its the air I breathe
Her pain now
Is crackling in the fire
That keeps me warm
Her love
Her joy
Her fear and her loss
Is a coin that I could never toss
Her heart now
Is played in the rhythm
Of every song I hear
Her skin now
Is the elusive cloud
I can speak to and never hold
Her hopes
Her dreams
Her blood and her tears
Are stains that can't be cleaned

What the **** is wrong with people

I don't think
You'll meet one person
Who would tell you
They decided to fall in love

Red is red

Its just that pushing a river
Won't change its course
But going with the flow
Brings you to the ocean

Blue is blue

" I hang my boots to rest
When I'm impressed
So I triple knot'em
And forgot'em"

I send my life into a vacuous void
A downward spiral
Because I want to
I send my spirit on trips across the universe
With no direction
Because I must do

And maybe I say too much
When the truth
I have always been afraid of silence

I send my light into the black hole
At the center of the galaxy
Because I can
I send my love to you
Hoping to be destroyed
I hope you understand

And maybe I want too much
Its only proof
I have always been afraid of nothing

Maybe this is not forever
But that doesn't mean it isn't love
Some things just aren't meant to last
But I promise one thing will
And that's the way that I feel
I'll keep on loving you
Even after your gone

Is my heart so bitter?
Her skin
The salt of which I can still taste
In the lonely times
When I think about her
Is my heart broken?
I don't think so
Just going through some pain
A fall from all the joy
We had together

I will love again
This much I know
Again and still
I'm not quite over you

I want to come heavy
I want the weight of my world to land blissful
I want the dreams that I hold dear
To be caught between her brow
Her forehead

And age
We leave the age of reason
This world we know is growing old
I wasn't young

I wasn't perfect

I want to come perfect
I want the ending to be the beginning
I want the feeling that I give
To be stuck upon her brow
Her face

Her mind
Where its never the age of reason
And everything has its excuses
I wasn't young

I wasn't young

A guide can only show you the light
Never make you see it
Deliver you to the oceans edge
Release and set you free
Even if he wants you to swim
Even if that's all you ever want
A guide can only show you love

You have too feel it to know what it means
I can show you love
But if you don't look
You'll never see

I show a path
The next step is yours

Slowly rolling oblivion
Something in my world has happened
Still I'm unsure what it is
And I'm unsure what it means
I know I saw the face
Of a ghost
Holding hopes of ever after
Something to make my day seem strange
I couldn't tell you what it is
I couldn't tell myself
But I know the ghost
Saw me

Wait for you
In a darkened room
Light a lantern
I wait and watch
The shadows
I try to give it up
A candle you lit
Is not a light for me
I have a memory

A lantern
Without oil does the fire go out
I have no doubt
In all this doubt
That I'll be left in darkness

I tried to save a soul
Or maybe two
I failed you
I failed myself
You watched my fall
And not a helping hand
But a knife in the back
I feel you twist
You tell me that you miss me
You really don't
Your not you anymore

A lantern
If there's no oil does the fire go out
I have no doubt
I have my broken hands
I'm punching walls

You aren't you
I'm not me
What we used to be
Never again
So why pretend

Its a darkened room
The candle you lit
Is not a light for me
I have a memory

A lantern
If there's no oil does the fire go out?
I have no doubt
In all this doubt
I'll be left in darkness

Not a helping hand
A knife in the back
I feel you twist
You tell me that you miss me

A lantern
If theres no oil does the fire go out?
I have no doubt
In all this doubt
I have my broken hands
I'm punching walls

You aren't you
I'm not me
Never again
So why pretend?

Why now in the darkness
Can I see shadows?

When I'm not drunk
I wish I was
When I am drunk
I wish I wasn't

And really
I don't know how to feel

I think of you always. I think of you and that is one of the few times I smile. Just to know that someone as amazing as you are exist, that I could be a part of your life. No matter the pains and sorrows I suffer, I find joy in that simple truth
I know you are in pain. I worry for you. I know this world has it's ways of being all too much at times, it can be for me too. I know, and you know I know.  And that is enough to help me be strong  even under the weight of this world I have to carry.
I just want to say, or I must say, because it was never a choice I made, it was the will of the fates. I love you more than I knew I could love anything. I love that it is your thoughts in my head, your words that I speak, your name on my lips. For you I find strength to do anything. And I will do anything just to show you how much you are loved. You are my dragonfly, the rising sun after a cold night. I'll be the biggest fool in the world, and be happy, because I am your fool. I hope these words reach you and give you peace. You should know how much you are loved.
Until I am holding you in my arms, I hold you in my dreams

Yours eternally
- Torin

Why?
Why oh why?
And often times I ponder this question
I wonder
Why?
Why did Alexander want to be great?

It was probably a fear of death
Or a realisation of it

He was smart enough to know
If he could change the world
If his name would live forever
Then he would too

I see in you a sunrise
Youth and welcome to the new day
A way to keep the dream alive
Because everything is so broken
And I don't know what I’d be without you
Not the greatest philosopher
Not the working class hero
Not even
Not all
I see in you the moonbeams
Still a light of hope even during darkness
And driving the coast to the hills
To see the city lights
Were always shining
Thats the weight I feel when I look in your eyes
The greatest dreamer
The greatest lover
The greatest
And I have to
I have to see in you the future
Because my past is all dried up
Dead, decaying, rotten on the vine
But theres a seed
And planted in the nutrients of
The seed must grow
Even after i had given up
When I tasted sugar before
It never was this sweet

I had my chance
To die
Lying in convalescence
Aware not of day
Night
The day
The time
My own heart beating
I had my chance
To reach you
I'm alive

last night I posted a twelve bar salute to my homies in The Black Mountain Crew,
you know, creeley, olson, the rest
jack kerouac and that road trip
all over a dope *** beat
for real tho
shout out to nateive son
idk why but as I was writing this
I was reminded of him
**** game tight
with my yacht-master 2
18-karat on a jesus piece
i roll with my rolie
i ***** with my homie
Allen Ginsberg on Instagram
If you can believe it
but god dam Harry Styles has like 20 million more followers
so **** that
idk tho
Al told me we was gonna get a face tat
i bet he'll be swimming in clout

I can't be
Everything you need me to be
But I can try
I can't give you
Everything you need from me
But I'll give all I can

So let me die
Knowing I did all I could
I don't want to live
If I can't at least feel that

So let me die
Because I gave my all
I can't give any more
I have nothing left

So let me die
When I know that I will live
Asking where god is
Because everyday
We see on the news
Unexpected, Untimely blood

From the innocents

And I've done all I could
And after I've done all I could
I only see
It could never be enough

So let me die
I pray to god
Please decide its my time

Either to fall
Or to shine

All I really want to feel is love
When its love that makes me hurt so much
All I really want to feel is peace
I reach for something I can never hold
I remember I told you
That my soul was a little uneasy
Just give me something I can believe
Come now baby, that is all I need

All I really have to give is nothing
Not something that your really wanting
All I really ever felt was empty
While I am dreaming of a fountain of plenty
I remember you told me
That you've given up on understanding
Don't understand, just believe
Come now, baby you are all I need

And the skies
The skies won't be empty
We can stare together
We can share the stars we see
Our lives
Our lives unfolding
Flowing like the rivers
We drink the water together

All I really want to be is perfect
My imperfections that's killing me
All I really want to feel is love
Can I ever be good enough?
I remember I told you
I'd do anything at all
Give me a chance so I can believe
Come now baby, that is all I need

For those of you who understand
All I will have to say
Is that the sun doesn't shine as bright
And the night is a deeper dark

You will know its because I have a broken heart

And I can't see the stars through the clouds

I saw a seed
Become a rose
Shouted from the throat
In inneficacious tones
I watched the thorns

And hiding in a cavern nearby
Way up on the side of a mountain
All I wanted was your life
All I'm given was your lies

I heard the bloom
Occurance too soon
These thorns were sharpened knives
Im clutching to my side
You watched me bleed

And hidden in a thicket
In this forest without trees
All i wanted was your love
All you gave me was your loss

It's not what you say
It's how it hits me
It's not how you say it
It's how it stays with me
All in all it comes down to
Its not what you say
It's what you do

All my life I'll remember you
Until I die I'll remember you

It's not what it means
It's what it means to me
It's not how you move
It's how you move through me
All in all it comes down to
It's not how you feel
It's how I feel you

All my life I'll keep on loving you
Until I die I know it's true

Walking drearily again
Half drunk
Dumb destinatiom
Watching the cars ride by
This empty highway of life
And directions we are going
I have my peace
I have happiness I can reach
I smile through suffering
And laugh at my demons
They could never scare me
I'm only afraid
Of my own ghost
I have my peace

I have my peace

But I would risk it
Only for the chance
For the truth loving you brings
And the joy of you loving me

Its always all or nothing
Always nothing
Absolute and finite
Its fall days sore for spring
Always nothing
Concrete and defined

Its always all it is
Allusion to myths of ancients
Illusion of attempt to divine
Confusion at what is unfolding

Its always all or nothing
Always nothing
I have left to give
Always nothing left
Always nothing
I have left to hold

Still I said all or nothing
And then it becomes
So I walk desolate
With nothing in my hands

I would drown in the water
I would bleed in the slaughter
Take away all that ever matters
I can burn in the fire
Watch the stars that expire

Still I

I would blow in the wind
I would know of the end
And give away all that ever mattered
I can relish the hurt
My bones in the dirt

Still

I'll be a man
Not alive
No hands
No eyes
I would see though the miles
I would reach through the darkness
To find the only thing that matters

Still
Its

I'll know your face

I step onto sand
And throw it into water
A single book of matches
I throw it into fire

Surrounded by squares
No feeling
No falling
In the mirror where I saw your face
I said your name
Three times

I step into the past
And throw it into a different story
A single ray of hope
I throw a song onto the wind

Surrounded by squares
I'm hiding
I'm holding
In the mirror where you saw my face
You said my name
Three times

I am all the rage
Lashing out at walls
Striking steering wheels
Pounding on the pavement as venomous blood
Its all the love in my heart
Until the world can hear me
I am all the rage
Oceans swelling
Ships sinking
Sailors drowning in a way of names forgotten
Its all the truth I can't hold
Because my strength is on the wane
I am all the rage
Of a man
Whose life
Hasn't gone exactly to plan
And whose dreams
Now can only cause him pain

Its all the rage
And everyone alive
Must feel the same

I want to use
An allusion
So vague
You have to look it up
To understand
What I said
What I mean

And I really hope
Once you understand
You understand

You can only be happy
If you want to be

The Beatles
1967
And all you need is love
But who do you need love from?
Only
One
Person

Yourself

And then you'll love everyone else

Only creatures of our own condition
I dont even sing any more
Only silence
Not even the voices that reach through the void
The void is too large
Not even the glimmer that is hope reaches
All is silence
I've loved everything beautiful in this world
I have loved the ugliest....

How quickly the end can come to both
As quick as the night
When the stars are thrown from heaven
And all is darkness
This is one day promised to us all
But I feel it now
Feel it in the depths of my soul

And there's no easy answer
There's no answer
Theres nothing at all
Just you
And a song

A song you can never hear again

And all you are

I know it may seem odd
But sometimes
I can be in a crowd
And still feel alone

Just the way the water rushes away from me
I can't explain
But I have this feeling
I can't explain
That melted snow taste like wine
As its rushing down the hillside
The heart beat of a mountain
The heart beat of a man
And this mountain stream is racing to the ocean

I can't explain
But its more as though its been there before
We have all been
There and back again
And again we throw our minds into the wind
That taste like mountain flowers
And smells like heaven
I can't explain
But I know
At least one way this peace could feel more peaceful

I don't want to be alright
I want to crumble like centuries
I want my limbs to whither like December
I want my treaty broken by a band of outlaws
Who can justify all the wrong that's been done with their own twisted logic

I don't want to be alright
I want to break like a wave in the night
I want my fingers to lose all feeling and all strength
I want my peace to be lost in an unjust war
Fought by soldiers who never really knew what they were dying for

I don't want to be alright
Because if I am
It will be your proof
I never really loved you
And I know I did
I don't want to be wrong

I'd rather suffer

I'll always miss you
Moving on
I'll always miss you moving on
I always wish you
Hadn't gone
I'll always let go
Holding on
I'll always

I'll always miss you, moving on

I'll always have something
To say
To make you know
Your the center of the universe
I'll always be able  to make
You feel
Like no one else ever could
Your the center of a universe

It's in me
If it's in me
It's in you
If not now
Just believe
I am you
And one day
Not now becomes forever

Not now
I hold you in my arms
Not now
We're physically close
Not now
I am a stranger
Right now
The love you need
To be strong
I
Am
You

Finding love


The love I need to be strong

I'll always have a body
To touch
And despite any distance
My obdurate soul
I'll always fall in line
You have control
I'll always be able to make
You feel
Your in control like no one else can be
Not even the hands that touch me

When you can't

Forever
The words you speak
Forever
The way they reach me
Forever
Love we look for
Right now
The love we have found

It's in me
So it's in you
Your inside me
I'll be inside you
With my hands to touch
What no ones ever seen
Or even realized
Existed

You are my angel
I try to explain
When I know I can't
I can't understand

I love you
And anyone that thinks
They love you more
Can go to hell
I love you more
I love the stars and universe
Your a part of
Can I be a part of you?

Forever
Forever
Forever
For now and always

And always and always