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103 · Aug 2024
Inert Wanderers
Refulgence,
That a star should ever be penitent
For only having shone
For those who prefer the dark over light?
No.
The clouds hang heavy,
The hazy fog creeping in
Halts for some-
As for others that it overtakes,
There are those spared completely.
Like that it is arid for one,
The other views it as humid;
Your dry may be wet,
Their wet may be as the dirt of the desert.
103 · May 2023
Go Your Own
Looking for something casual?
Is it a hassle?
Juggling all the many things you say?
Contradicting hypocrite,
Who can't get out of her own way.
103 · Feb 2022
I'm In Love With You
it's too much to reach out
always
i'll drown these naive dreams
with whatever's on hand
medicines
coughing
nothing is ever as it seems
especially when you do flips
just to convince yourself
it could ever come from her lips
moonshine and
longing
102 · Jun 2022
Play Possum
when there are no consequences
why would you feel the weight of your actions
when you are immune to repercussions
and you cannot be prosecuted under the law
respect for the law diminishes
and when markets fail to regulate themselves
and our litigators refuse to act
and greed overshadows our many needs
the country begins to fail
as Americans lose faith
and the vacuous bubble capitol hill is trapped in
continues to swell;
one wonders when it will pop
102 · Sep 2022
Went To The Moon
the beauty
of kindness
it's infinite surplus
the appreciation garnered
and it costs nothing,
priceless,
and more often than not
you're paid back,
even in just a smile
102 · May 2023
Casual Duality
Fear is not the end
Comfort is no friend
Battles to contend with,
Against yourself
Against the wind,

Four black walls
Echoes of unanswered calls
Silently, alone, weep
Falling asleep
Quietly weak
102 · Jun 2023
Sly & The Family Stone
How'd I start the morning?
Kisses and hugs.
Brought coffee to you in bed,
And your sister to school.
Threw your laundry in.
It's the least I can do.

You chose to insult me,
Never kissed or hugged me.

And can you take your stress out
On someone who isn't there?
102 · Nov 2020
Slow down
the sky that reigns above
remains a stagnant and still blue
an empty cloudscape,
a blank basin,
begging to be viewed

though brief are the stares we steal
as sight offers so many
we've little time, at least that's how it feels
and yet, we really have plenty
"I who endow with all."

"I who endow all."

"I who give definition."

"I who light the shadows."
101 · Feb 2022
Kool Thing
headache, headcase
cause i'm ******* crazy
poor, long face
break my body
if you pay me
using
100 · Feb 2022
Festival Of Lights
and if you were?
my end all, be all
would that be so bad
clearly, you think so
so i should as so
99 · Aug 2022
Misty
somebody's ******
floating in my soft drink
I should have ordered hard

the ice is raw
lines still there
fresh from skating

and the atmosphere
in here
is something like a graveyard
99 · Mar 2022
Before It's All Over
should i give up
on thoughts of us
as us
and not separate

call it bust
and quit
cause i'm ****
and a liar

stressin, cause i'm guessin
every moment
what you do
on fire

desire
is you
and pleasure falls through
no kiss compares

spring breath, for these winter lungs
your warm lips
the feeling of your hair
as i run my fingers

and share
every thought
even if you don't
or care

i come correct
and direct
straight from the heart
can pour out my chest

what's in my head
is a terminal of tracks
trains rushing past
with no destination

procrastination
and set my interal clock
back, one time last
rescind the old, new revisions

forget what came prior
close your eyes
when you tire
so close them, forever

no coming down now
trying to reach you
through the silence
has me wondering how
they did it in the past
back in the day
"simpler" times
of things denied
ages long of repression
regression, into what we were
like is the fashion of the day
99 · Apr 8
This Way?
For us on the beach,
Outside the gates of "Troy,"
We called ourselves Vulcan.

And they tried to steal our identity!
Us! The Gardeners!

That's what they wrote the Torah around,
For they stole our children.

They put them on an island;
Pleasure Island, Toyland.

They bought and they sold them,
Used them & abused them.

I have rebuilt what was destroyed.
I have restored what was corrupted.
I have returned an elusive wisdom.
Because the Abra"ham"ic books were originally put together by pedophiles & cannibals. Using intellectuals they coerced or abducted to write the texts. But the Jewish people were wise and exiled them. Then they had the same family of intellectuals put together the "test"aments, to see if they could get things back on track in their "directions."
Then they immigrated to Rome and help start the "glad""i""at""or" fights, so there was a fresh supply of each. Lots of double speak, either gay or faggotry. Gay - Happy. Faggotry - you should be fuel for a pyre.
Hate that they made that word homophobic.
Or
If we're all just going to be extremists now and accept such disgusting states of the world, then who cares what I say. Isn't it more important what we do? Or what has been done?
Yet, it's not as though I lived it. There's no certain expressed belief of the subject matter on my part.
I guess I'm just another blind, hateful person shooting in the dark. ;3
you're on my mind
nearly all the time
and it kills me
to hear you say you're his
what is this
why did you reach out
i still don't know
i can't figure you out
how little has changed
is this a game
something to numb the pain
encased in that brain
that makes my heart beat
or are you just insane
then again, i can't help but entertain
firing every neuron, reviving what remains
douse you in affection
just to see you alight
like a neutron star
don't look too hard
you may find yourself blind,
awestruck, by her heavenly sight
99 · Oct 2022
Koyotes
you might ***** and moan
but I brood
like a hen over dead eggs
the stress builds
and gnaws at me
incessantly
99 · Jul 2022
So I Cry, Silent
you write of the gods
but i am here, on earth
my mind not in the clouds
with thoughts of saintly and good things
rather more comparable to the gutter
which isn't to say they do not linger
drifting through my mind
to see them brought to life although,
i should like to
and with you
it just isn't possible
not now
99 · Feb 2023
Sadness From a Satellite
stirring for you
from so far
as eddying currents do
with stars in the sky
in motion all around
as the tide tends to

how do you sleep
when it's a celestial body
you find divine
and sign your life away
to stay in the dark
to worship for all time
99 · Jul 2022
Cry Me A River
you can drown out the lies
but the hand still writes
the tongue still wags
like the tail
tucked between legs;
they'll all come to a head
98 · Apr 2022
ShopRite
i was never someone to you
i was something
98 · Oct 2022
Harley Davidson
even in the ranks of the angels
there is no status
they could give you
98 · Mar 2022
Stigma Of The Hands
god
i know why my mind
is so warped
but christ
climb back on the cross
and before you do
a favor of you,
heal another sick man?
98 · Feb 2022
Tapestry from an Asteroid
in space
it's a silence so deafening
screaming has no meaning
disassociating
to escape
this life
that doesn't satisfy me
in the clouds
shout
and let me know
when you come down
so i can catch you
re-entry can burn
it's something you still
haven't learned
98 · Mar 2024
Washington
What do I speak of?
Of self-actualization and the pursuit of happiness
Of class movements, where you are not stuck where you are for life
I speak of what the fathers wrote,
I speak of our fathers' hopes.
Before those slavers from Europe,
Did what they always did well.
Before they slaughtered who should have been sisters & brothers
In this beautiful land, in our united country
You have been robbed of your destinies
They split us up into factions
From broken borders, to cliques
Secret courts, where throats are choked
Like behind closed doors
Information they keep from you
Or hold over your head
Like a rope around the neck
From freaks who feel nothing but empty
And only feel pleasure from deriving pain
Who are concerned with only their own back
Not even sacred is family
Blood is like water
All that matters is physical pleasure for the self

Remember our westward expansion,
God was not there with us.

It was savageness perpetrated
On a native populace
98 · Mar 2022
You Are So Scared
lionheart
of literature
how long have you stood
in the background of my life
your drawings,
they all have their backs turned
hiding their faces
98 · Oct 2022
Goddess
and I will submit,
on my knees,
if you want me to be
You think you have everyone eating out of your hand
Barely & Oats-
I say, parley
Let me speak to the captain
Or whoever it is that steers the rudder
And commands the oars.
I see before me terrible animals
And in all, worse men.
You think it some great gallon,
But, to me, it looks to be
Much closer to a life boat
Punctured with holes.
97 · May 2023
Follow You
Vanish from me
Insecurity
She holds me down like gravity
And when she asks
Do you love me
It's not a part of me
But the whole

Heart and soul

If you left, I'd be empty
Only a vacant cavity
Never to be full,
If you leave, please
**** me
Cutting with blades, dull
something left out,
something left out,
someone I left
and let go
so far
not so long ago
and I don't know
I'm not so experienced
with this love thing
you said a lot
but what's to be said
when you too left
97 · Apr 2022
Depart
you're a broken person


and i hope you mend
97 · Mar 2022
You Think Like A Man
love for you is easier
i am glad, i am
myself?
i am broken

*******
*******
you came back
not me
you slice wounds open
and stick in your dilator
you love
to see me bleed

it's all overreaction
but not really
97 · Oct 2022
In Her Eye
on the outskirts
the very beginning
a torrent rains
like knives from the sky
and every man is a monsoon
and every woman a hurricane
God, the lord
help me
96 · Oct 2022
Galaga
the cringe of nightly thoughts
that linger on past the dimming
of lights on the bedside
it's night like these
that keep alive
the torment I carry
and cannot relieve
no matter how hard
I might try
it's nights like these
I am still happy
to be alive
96 · Feb 2022
Untitled
The say,
"Profess! Kneel in submission to YOUR Lord, the God!"
I say,
"Confess! What is the name of 𝘺𝘰𝘢𝘳 "God?""

They say,
"Blasphemy!"

I say,
"Yes! Or, at least, close enough.
And close enough is good enough for your believers."
95 · Mar 2024
Free Will
My friends, Christ ascended?
And of the Antichrist,
It is whoever remains.
Spiritually, whoever has
Not risen, but lay fallen
In disgrace
Of all around them
Those that honor nothing
But what is vain
Pride, Avarice, Rage
And the things that come from them
Hubris, Thievery, Violence
All manner of awfulness
For shame, for nothing more than this.
This will be the best of your eternity.
Your soul outlives
What the body is,
But it's destination is your decision
95 · Oct 2022
Skinny Little Bitch
somewhere-in the absence of light
carry me out
somewhere out of sight
lay me down
and I'll tell the truth
petals falling all around
you can have them
if you want to
95 · Mar 2022
Look To Your Neighbors
reach out
and grab the hand
i extend
while it stands
while i can
because times are getting worse
we'll all be tightening our purse
like we should have our lips
as the dollar dips
and we are served
just desserts
95 · Mar 2022
Wicked
don't care now
if you worry
what was the point
kept things from you
cause i didn't want you to freak
but now i smoke joints
and think
your reaction
would be a fraction
compared to mine
would've got it through my mind
earlier, how little you care for people
or friends
whatever i was
95 · Jul 2022
Endless, Nameless
long-winded,
catch a breath friend
between words
the conversation needn't end
you speak, and you'll be heard
94 · Mar 2022
I Won't Go Back To Before
friends, family, strangers
can insult and badger me
and it doesn't do all that much
maybe a little red in the face
but i address it
i don't know what it is about you
but i can't stand it
to stand up to you
but now
treatment demands it
and you will do what you do
although i obsess over you
and love you
and the loss feels only as my own
i know you're losing too
maddened by
all that i don't know
it makes sense that,
it only being a portion of a picture
a sliver of your life
what you're comfortable to show

suppose it's what you would be
free from happenstance
unburdened, all you could be
if only
not for the cosmos' harp
if not for the hands of chance

this trepidations man i am
today, when an honest heart
is a sure sentence, guilty
the first step down the road
of the tired path of the ******
is to give up and fold
to say, if it's so it's so
accepting things with no gripe
no complaint, even when it's wrong
and you have the unfortune in knowing

i loved what i'd seen
what had been shown
before the clock was cleaned
the gears all greased
every meaningful place
stamped out, like the grand empires of old

and now they're churned out
broken, spoiled, soiled
focused looking solely,
totally out on their own

closer than ever, yet poles apart
we roam
94 · Mar 2024
Soundness
Tomorrow, is already better.
Always know, where you live in the moment
With an eye still, foward-
There, is hope.
To not be stuck to the past but
Embrace change, welcoming progress;
Setting out onto new beginnings.

These are the frontiers, today.
Ideas, beautiful just ideals;
Respect for the planet you're on,
Fair honest treatment
Of every being


Of choosing love, and forgetting hate.
Opting for logic & sound reasoning
i love you
but i can't put my trust in you
with no reasons to
94 · Oct 2021
Retreat
A battle fought is never in vain
Whether the outcome's defeat, victory, surrender, or retreat
To peace, it's all the same
For civilities' sake
We could lay down our rifles
Walk away from the trifle
And dust we kicked up
Feign sickness
Acting like you chucked
Refuse service
Merchants of deaths ducked
Flee elsewhere
Instill a boat's deck with your trust
And hope it's helm steady
Cause Lord above knows
Which direction bears hell or heaven
And of both in this world there's plenty
94 · Jul 2022
Reds
deepest affinities for you, my love
i am sorry i do not always say
always show it
and curse me if it leave you sore
for sore my world would be
without you
94 · Oct 2022
Funny Valentine
things you said
play on repeat
in my head
this isn't how I want it
but at least you're okay
94 · Oct 2021
Not Today
You think me ******
For what seems to you to be a lack of caring
I cannot convince you of my care
If you refuse to believe so
Despite my efforts
So I relinquish doing so
Why should I waste the time that is so precious
On an issue which has no basis
And on a rationale you refuse to release
I haven't the time for such things
Really, no one does
But yet they fritter it away
For things that will never change

Not I
94 · Mar 2022
Green River
is it selfish
here, misdirection
did you know
the male seahorse
gives birth
while the fairer ***
just gets to get on with living
what a world
they must see
more color cones
so you know it must be pleasing
leagues under the sea
where did vern learn

to think up all these beautiful things
and keep them to ones' self
forego wealth, you know you could have
or was already yours
knowing you could do more
rash tings, from the emotions
spending, on things i can't afford
i am no better
especially after tonight
i am so much worse
i am horrible
this is not my world
or my people
freak on the outside
and when you get a glimpse
through the peephole
see what i hide
find out it's just as
ugly on the inside
3005
ain't no one
like you
in this life
no one has it figured out
deep seeded insecurities
full of doubt
when i look at you
i see you
when you look at me
you see what i see
and i hate me
so it's just as easy
to hate through
that lense
and your perspective
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