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Masha Yurkevich Feb 2019
When I see you,
my heart skips a beat.

When I hear you,
I'm all ears.

When I speak with you,
I stutter a bit
and lose my words.

When I see you smile,
I smile back from ear to ear.

When I shake your hand,
I want to hold
it forever.

When I think of you,
I can't stop.

When I dream of you,
I am left
speechless...
A special someone...
Masha Yurkevich Nov 2019

We see each other everyday,
we live our own lives.
Neither of us ever say a word,
but once we have met eyes.

The world had stopped
for what seemed like years,
and everyone around me
seemed to disappear.

We looked at each other's eyes
for so long and yet so little.
And everything that was once so complicated
became ever so simple.

But will our eyes
ever meet again
or will we ever talk,
have a conversation?


I don't know...
Masha Yurkevich Feb 2019
It starts with us,
one by one.
To make this world
more kind for everyone.
Kind words
and caring hearts
help heal
those wounds
and disappear scars.
It all starts with you and me...
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
Just one little lie
that breaks
us apart.
Just one little sip
that makes us all drunk.
Just one little smoke
that makes us addicted.
Come on,
have a drink;
it's just a liquid.
Come on,
have a smoke,
what, are you still a kid?
It might just be a liquid,
and I might still be a kid,
but these are just a few of the things
that get us killed.
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
Love
is only
a word.
You
give it
its true
meaning.
Masha Yurkevich Mar 2019
The pretty
flowers.
The people and crowds.
The hours
spent.
All to only bring us
to another end.
The tears
lost.
The money and cost.
The tissues
used.
None will ever heal this wound.
It's only
for us.
To you it is
worthless.
With every second,
your body only gets colder.
But for us,
it's only a sense of
closure.
Because up there, you are enjoying yourself with God. While down here, we're still mourning and crying.
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
I'm only human,
so don't ask me
to be perfect.

I'm only human,
so don't ask me
to be everywhere at once.

I'm only human,
so don't
please,
don't
hurt
me.
Masha Yurkevich Apr 2022

I'd rather you use bombs and knives,
I'd rather you use guns and swords.
I'd rather that we would have fights;
that you'd leave me with open sores.

I'd rather you find a different weapon,
a different tool to use on me.
I wish you'd make me feel a pain;
I wish you'd leave me weak and ******.

Yet the sharpest tool is what you use;
you leave me dead inside.
I wish you'd tear my heart out;
I wish I would have died.

You open your mouth and the weapons spill out,
you're armed with words that you scream and shout.
The pain is unbearable, the torture indescribable.
I know there's no point in putting up a struggle.

You **** me, one by one,
your words an open ****.
They slice me up in pieces,
making me feel like trash.

All I can be is silent;
I know that is the best.
I try to block them out,
but they're already in my chest.

Your words are killing me;
a slow, antagonizing death.
Each word you say cuts me,
each wound raw and fresh.

I wish you'd let me be,
I wish you'd leave it unsaid.
I guess you just can't see
you can't bring someone back from the dead.


Only God can do that...
Masha Yurkevich Apr 2019
Our
song
tonight
is playing on
the radio. I don't
know why I'm starting to
get tears in my eyes. Perhaps it's
all those things that you said
when you used to pull
me close and
whisper,

I love you more than ever.
Masha Yurkevich Apr 2019
Today,
I feel like putting an

OUT OF ORDER

sign on my forehead
and just
go back to bed.
I think I have a case of the Mondays.
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
Outside my window,
the rain
d
      r
o
      p
s
down from the roof.
And because
of the rain,
I feel like I've been hit by the blues.
I'm tired and sleepy,
I just feel
so lazy.
Now
I wish
that it would be sunny.
The weather often inspires me to write.
Masha Yurkevich Mar 2019
U n t i l   h e   p r e s s e d   t h o s e

s i l k y   k e y s ,

I   n e v e r   k n e w   t h e

e m p t y   s p a c e

i n s i d e  o f   m e .

T h e  m o r e   h e   p l a y e d ,
t h e   m o r e
F
U
L
L

I became.
The space in me
was no longer hollow
and soon began
to
overflow.
His music filled my soul like air fills my lungs.
Masha Yurkevich Apr 2019
Your
mind
is on vacation
but your
mouth
is working
overtime.
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
No pain
            no gain.
But sometimes the pain seems like too much to take in...
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
Often,
when we are caught up
in our own pain
and jealousy,
we end up hurting others.
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
It pains me
to see
someone being treated
so poorly.
Everyone
should be treated even.
After all,
everyone has an opinion.
Everyone
has feelings and
everyone
has the right to keep on dreaming.
Right?
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
The past
is in the past.
That's true.
But
sometimes
it leaves
fingerprints
on the future.
Masha Yurkevich Dec 2018
People are like
music;
some speak the truth
while others are
just noise.
Masha Yurkevich Feb 2019
No one is
perfect;
everyone has
troubles and struggles.
You just need
to learn
to rise up from the
rubble.
Masha Yurkevich Mar 2019
You
expected me
to be a perfect circle.
With no sharp edges or rough
corners. I'm sorry, but I'm not perfect
in the way that you want to me
to be. I am perfect
in my own
way.
All of us are!
Masha Yurkevich Apr 2019
People
A, B, C, and D,
started getting along
and were
somewhat happy.
Who knew that a
Person F
would come and make
such a mess.
The letters started fighting,
hitting,
yelling,
shoving,
shouting.
No one liked that
Person F
who came and made so much distress.
But little did the letters know
that there were
more
letters still to show...
Person F is here!
For all who read my last poem about letters, here is the Person F you've been waiting for! I know it's not exactly in alphabetical order, but I hope you can still enjoy it!
Masha Yurkevich Feb 2019
Don't ask me
what kinds of
plans
I have.
Sometime,
I don't even know
what I'm doing
right now!
Plans for next week? Let's just live up to there and then I'll tell you.
Masha Yurkevich Dec 2018
Please don't fight;
it turns the beautiful day
into an ugly night.
Please don't argue;
it has no value.
Please don't shout;
it's a verbal shootout.
Please don't yell;
I hate it,
can't you tell!?
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
Please tell me
that you'll never
leave me
even if I'm about to
leave you?
Please tell me
that you'll
stay with me forever
even if I think
that's not true?
Masha Yurkevich Feb 2019
Poems
do not have to exist
of words
that rhyme.
They can simply be
made up
of words from your mind.
Even though I just rhymed, I hope that the message was realized   :)
Masha Yurkevich Apr 2019
Point B
to
Point C
is a distance
I'm not sure I will ever reach.
But I've moved
from where I stood and so far,
I think that's
pretty good.
At least I've gone from point A to point B...
Masha Yurkevich Dec 2018
No one has become
poor by giving.
If only we gave more to those in need...
Masha Yurkevich May 2019


A good way to prepare for
parenthood
is to talk to rocks because they have similar
listening habits.


Yep, I'm guilty of being a rock to my parents sometimes...
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
Today
is a gift.
That's
why it's
called
the
PRESENT!
You've probably already heard of this one...
Masha Yurkevich Dec 2018


You can pretend,
but don't go too far.

Always remember who

you really are.


Masha Yurkevich Sep 2019

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They go on and on.

An example of life?
Perhaps.

In life, you can only count on yourself.
And when you take out all the
little factors
of your life,
you are the only
1
left.


Count on yourself. Believe in yourself.

*Note: I've been thinking about prime numbers a lot recently, and so I decided to make something out of it. I know it's not really a poem, but here it is anyways.
I hope you enjoy.
Masha Yurkevich Dec 2018
Puddles
line the streets,
covering the frozen earth
underneath. Trees, like veins
stand still to greet the rain.
The wind whispers quietly,
making the weather feel more
ugly. But I don't mind this
dreary weather because
sometimes it just
makes me feel
better.
It's almost Christmas, and there's only rain. Rain that keep on washing away whatever is left of that precious snow. But I guess you really don't need snow to make it feel like Christmas, you just need the spirit.
Masha Yurkevich Feb 2019
Your
puppy eyes
looking up at me
always remind me
that I am
so very lucky.
Masha Yurkevich Nov 2019

Perhaps,
one day,
everything that
doesn't make sense
will finally make sense.
Questions will be answered,
and we will be satisfied with what we hear.

Or maybe, we will always wonder
what the answers are.
Maybe, we will
always have
questions
without
anwers.


It came out, and I felt as if i had to share it.
Masha Yurkevich Mar 2019
"Oh,
will I ever shine like you?"
I asked the bright night stars.
The stars
l
o
o
k
e
d

d
o
w
n

and answered
in response;
"It you desire it,
then you shall.
"
Everyday
I remind myself
of the words
the stars gave me.
I will try my hardest
and hope that
someday,
I can join them and together
we can be.
Looking up to the stars...
Masha Yurkevich Dec 2018
Everyone wants happiness;

                                                  
no one wants pain.                     n
                                                 i            b
                                            a                      o
But you can't have a   r                                w    


without a little rain.
Just something little that popped into my head.
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
Now,
the pain is real;
and these
are scars
that won't heal.
Masha Yurkevich Apr 2019
Digging through the things
you left.
Paychecks, bills;
it's such a mess.
The sight of your name
still brings tears
to my eyes.
I still don't know what brought you
your demise.
I come across a small yellow paper,
my hands shaking,
I wish I could see straighter.
I slowly read
the words on the page,
and my heart quickly fills with rage.
You shouldn't have left,
you should still be here!
Look what you've done!

I wipe a tear.
The yellow paper still in my hand,
so I decide to read
over it again.

I love you, my dear daughter. And I'll do anything for you.
     Wherever I'll be, I'll keep you with me.
                                    

I read it again
and again,
and again.
Those sweet gentle words still resting
in my head.
You might not be here with us anymore,
but for some reason
I feel better than before.
Going through the things that my uncle left before he passed away. It is much harder than I thought it would be.
Masha Yurkevich Mar 2019
I'm retired.
I was tired yesterday
and I'm tired again
today.
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
Sometimes,
I find it hard to believe
that my mom
was right
about everything.
Well, almost everything...
Masha Yurkevich Mar 2020

Sometimes

you have to lose everything

and

everyone

and hit the rock bottom

to realize what you've done.


But hopefully we'll find out before we get that far.
Masha Yurkevich Nov 2020

They were so perfect and bright
when I got them that night.
                      Their beauty amazed me;
                       they were such a sight.
He placed them in my hand
and we smelled them together.
                        "Like these roses," he said, "we will last forever."
As time went on,
they roses began to fade.
                         Their beautiful red, pink and white
                         became a lonely grey.
Their rich, full form slowly began
to dwindle.
                           Their large, open petals
                           soon began to shrivel.
They dried up slowly
and one by one they fell,
                            leaving their beauty just a story to tell.
But what about us?
What will we leave behind?

                             Stories about roses that have
                                     dried up and died?


The roses are fading...
Masha Yurkevich Feb 2019
Roses
are red,
violets are blue.
I hope
you love me,
because I really
love you.
Just a quick thought...
Masha Yurkevich Feb 2019
Roses are
red,
violets are blue.
Daisys are
white,
so grow them too.
I'll let you in
this garden of happiness
and together
we can
forget about our loneliness.
Together,
we'll grow old,
you,
me,
and the flowers.
And there will be no such thing as
time;
no seconds, minutes,
or hours.
But when the flowers do begin
to fade,
I turn my head
to find out
that all you did
was fake.
And we’ll go on living
like we are in love
but really there’s nothing left.
Nothing but dust.
After publishing my poem, 'Roses are red', I got comments(or perhaps I should say suggestions) from Renee Danes and Rain(both wonderful poets you should totally check out!) and this poem is the result. Though parts of the poem were changed, I give much of the credit to Renee Danes and Rain and thank them both very much for their suggestions that hopefully made my poetry somewhat better.
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2020

To break

the rules

you must first

master them.



Masha Yurkevich Mar 2019
I feel safe
telling you all of

my
BIGGEST worries,
my                      
      d
      e
      e
      p
      e
      s
     t
secrets,
my
d a r k e s t  memories.

Because I know that you
will love me
no matter what.
Masha Yurkevich Feb 2019
Let us
be the salt
in life.
To add
meaning
and
taste
to those around us.
I guess you could also say let us be the sugar to add sweetness to those around us, but I chose salt. My lunch inspired me...
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019
Everyday
for me is the same.
Wake up,
know what to expect,
go back to bed,
same old thing again.
But I am here,
waiting for something exiting to apear.
Maybe I should just be glad that I'm alive and well in the first place...
Masha Yurkevich Dec 2018
Maybe the two different worlds
we lived in weren't so different.
We saw the same sunset.
From one of my absolute favorite books, The Outsiders. I strongly suggest it to anyone and everyone. It is one of those books you must read in your lifetime.
Masha Yurkevich Jan 2019

Hurt
by life;
saved
by love.

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