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 Feb 2019 Philipa James
Jen
Awake
 Feb 2019 Philipa James
Jen
Wake up,
Come up
From below
The depths
That hold you, hold me too
This life isn’t real
Hypnotizing melody
Plays out in this reality
Otherworldly songs
Call you
What is it that you want
Me to show you
Living to sleep,
Living to wake,
Sometimes
We just need to
Open our eyes
And know what
It feels like to
Be awake
"Alone"

Alone is not lonely
Alone is not sad
What once made me happy
Still makes me glad

We're tethered by memory
We're grounded by heart
As the moon surely rises
The sea will then part

Alone's not a mystery
Alone's not a dream
A wonder of wonders
It remains to be seen

We're here for an instant
We're gone in a flash
What once seemed the future's
Already the past

Alone is not painful
Alone is not fear
It lives in the answers
We're waiting to hear

We search for a savior
We walk with a saint
We'll find the gold nugget
Hidden under the paint

Alone is my top hat
The suit that I wear
I wander the highlands
I walk through the fair

Yes,
Sometimes past midnight
In winters deep freeze
Alone's with redemption
In prayer on it's knees

And,
In mornings soft sunrise
By dawns early light
Alone's warming fire
Is where I abide

Alone is my angel
My guardian guide
Was there for my birth
Will be there when I die
 Feb 2019 Philipa James
Jen
Journey
 Feb 2019 Philipa James
Jen
The journey takes and catches you
As the wind sweeps your cares away
Lifting you up in a hot air balloon
The clouds are alive as they pass by
The day is new, the sun is warming too
 Feb 2019 Philipa James
Lynnia
This might be paranoia
Please tell me that I’m wrong
But 27 days
Is already far too long
I told you that I loved you
You said you loved me more
We smile through our sutured eyes
And then you shut the door
I thought that I would lose again
You told me you would stay
Used to always be around
But now you’ve walked away
Now and then, you stop to talk
Enough to keep me on
But not so much to make me think
You’re not already gone.
The days get ever longer
As our day is drawing near,
Time goes oh so slowly
As my thoughts become quite clear.

To live my life without you
Would never cross my mind,
I'd sooner trap you in my love
Until the end of time.

I could search the whole world over
To find a love so true,
But no love could ever measure up
To the love I hold for you.
 Feb 2019 Philipa James
N R Whyte
Sky
The sky is cracked in half,
Moonlight resting on the edge of the oncoming clouds,
A front of dark being called forth by the pull of the moon.

My heart sits in two, part resting with you
In our bed, part here in my chest,
Aching to be whole. Instead, it is pulled apart
By the rising dark, currents flowing in endless
Circles around pretty stars,
Little pinpoints of light determine my grounding but call me from the earth ; they hold me prisoner with promises of hope and worth.
I'm captive as I'm hurdled towards you,
Trying desperately to find a foothold or a catch, but lost
In the promises of your smile, the lines lit by the coming night, and the corners pulled up by the moon.
 Feb 2019 Philipa James
Sanaa S
When I’m alone in the dark I never feel lonely
Maybe it’s because in the night I can imagine a life without worries
A life where happiness exists
In the light comes reality
There’s no dreaming
No pretending
No hiding
It’s all the bland life that’ll continue to go on until it’s the past Until it becomes my childhood; Apart of who I am
But in the night I can imagine my life as a girl who actually was happy
who actually was wanted
who actually had a purpose  
In the night comes dreaming  
It is where we can live our dreams even when we aren’t there
But in the dark there is but one fear which remains
When will the light come, when will I have to snap back into reality
Many dread the feeling of coming back
But the night is always right around the corner welcoming us back as if we were best friends apart for many months                            
-Sanaa S.
Thank you for always being a blink around the corner
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