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78 · Jan 2022
Free Yourself
RobbieG Jan 2022
When you are free
     fear can no longer
         motivate your choices

Decisions will come from
        buried truth deep within
  supporting your purpose

​​​​​       When you are free
   feelings no longer dictate
            your mental strength

      You know your destiny
​​​​​​success becomes overly addictive   when you are free

​​​​​  Free from the past
      free from the present
                    and the future

    Free from their hands
         free from their words
    and their plans

   When you are free
  you will be lonely
         to find yourself

Free to gather strength
         free to learn yourself
                 free to change

        When you are free
             fear can no longer
         dictate your LIFE
78 · Sep 2021
Godly
RobbieG Sep 2021
If i can stop myself from being the devil

Then
MaYbe

the devil can stop
himself too

HOPE
78 · Jun 2021
Stuck
RobbieG Jun 2021
Stopped?... No!
STUCK
I wish, I could
MOVE FORWARD
Away from
these feelings
BUT
It’s not
that easy
RobbieG Dec 2021
She sees in him what he wishes to see in himself but cannot
​​
He's never been looked at
with compassionate eyes

She understands his pain
from his childhood past

He wants to love her back
but just doesn't know how

With time a void is made
separating them apart

She promised to be patient
and never to leave his side

He noticed a bitterness start to grow within her loving eyes

She just couldn't look at him the same anymore like before

He just needed more time but she was tired of being patient

She couldn't comprehend thirty years of trauma being built up

He was crushed when she left him, losing her support

She really loved him at one point but not anymore

He knew better and felt dumb for finally trusting someone

Mistakes were made along the way to add to the pain

She started to believe he was a lost cause and wanted out

He hit rock bottom and was covered in horrible doubt

Love cannot conquer all, it's just not the bitter truth

She still thinks about him to this day and their relationship

He still misses her dearly but knows the damage is done

They both dance with the what ifs but refuse to call

She took a part of him she will forever have and keep

He took many lessons and pieces of her love to hold

The love shared will forever love on although they will not

She gave him hope and new strength from the tough-love

He gave her strength to stay true to who she was

BOTH LEARNING TO LOVE THEMSELVES MORE

FROM THE PAIN OF THEIR TRAGICALLY LOST LOVE

THEY BOTH STILL HURT THEY BOTH STILL CRY

BUT TO THEMSELVES THEY BOTH HAVE VOWED

THEY MUST MOVE ON FROM THE PAIN AND GROW

THEY JUST CANNOT DO IT TOGETHER, LIKE HE HAD HOPED FOR  

LOVERS LOST LOVE,
HEARTBREAK-WARFARE
78 · Sep 2021
YOU
RobbieG Sep 2021
YOU
Chase the face
That still stares
Pretending to care
Leaving you bare
Always playing unfair
Do you dare?
As it tears
Your life part
Don't be scared
It's a layer
On top of
The real you
So just stop
Pick yourself up
Quit laying down
Raise your head
And climb to
The top again
Drop your insecurities
Let them escape
Your worthy skin
You're worth it
Regardless your sin
Forgive the ones
Forgive yourself too
Wipe that face
Covering up yours
And take control
We both know
You deserve to
78 · May 2021
DUMB
RobbieG May 2021
To be or not too
to be that is the question
I choose not to be
78 · Dec 2021
Poetry is ALL
RobbieG Dec 2021
Poetry is everything 
it's the mind, spirit
and body 
Poetry is God 
it's the Father, Son
and Holy-ghost 
Poetry is life 
it's You, Them 
and Me 
Poetry is death 
It's natural, ******
and suicide 
Poetry is everything
It's ever evolving, immortal
and timeless
77 · Jul 2021
Choose
RobbieG Jul 2021
Fill in the blanks
think
to your strengths
recognize
your weaknesses
then
decide the change
become
who you deserve
along
with them too
decide
now you win
live
the good life
become
the one they need
WIN
77 · Jul 2021
Calm
RobbieG Jul 2021
Cage of rain
shelter tree
leaves keep me
dry under branches
holding them high
Mother Nature’s Gazebo
77 · Jun 2021
I’m a Cartoon
RobbieG Jun 2021
Life filled with pain
life can be so overwhelming
BLAND, boring, lifeless
When living it with SERIOUSNESS
Oblivious to a world
inside a world
One in which
you can make
your own parallels
Reality is lost
imagination governors
this escape and release
I’m a cartoon
becoming a fictitious
CHARACTER
telling my bitter subconscious
to shut the hell up
Turn off
power down
mind on overload
Explode
Real Rob
splatters all over
a bright color spectrum
taking new form
into a free
go with the flow
upbeat and confident
with absent insecurities
not thinking about
all the things
that seemed to matter
Just living
in animated color
personality over the top
energy attracting
like minds
we’re all
cutting loose
letting go of
the political noose
brain-dead
patterns  no longer
EXIST
Plot twist
Scared self equals
GAME-OVER
In this world
I created from fragments
of reality separating
as I become sedated
I cannot lose
NEXT-LEVEL
I keep winning
and **** does it
FEEL GOOD
77 · Jan 2022
Battle Won, War Ahead
RobbieG Jan 2022
I escaped reality
to realize it was fake
Until I removed myself
it was impossible to see
I escaped a life sentence
of remaining the same
Now that I'm better
I'm back in the picture
Witnessing others
victim to bad patterns
I now have the strength
to continue to change
I realize the same pain
these loved ones suffer
But when I try to explain
it falls on deaf ears
They find more comfort
in the constant pain
They forever will be
trapped within false reality
I forever will try
to get them to listen
But I have accepted
this may not ever be
A successful mission
that I have taken
77 · Jul 2021
ME
RobbieG Jul 2021
ME
You want it
but I don’t
you don’t get it
Because I said so
so go be independent
quit depending on me
I don’t rely on you
so quit believing in ME
77 · Aug 2021
Cheers To, To
RobbieG Aug 2021
Left to right
far away to real close
oblivious to obvious
avoided to attracted
insecure to confident
confused to understanding
blaming to accepting
following to leading
ignorant to learning
learning to teaching
quitting to experimenting
witnessing to participating
staying to changing
To to or not to is the question?
It only took one to
to change my life
as it lead to another to
and that to led to two more to’s
and so on and so forth
77 · Oct 2021
Never
RobbieG Oct 2021
PLEASE Forgive me
but NEVER Forget me
............LEAVE
77 · Oct 2021
True
RobbieG Oct 2021
Love me
or leave me
She said
Dead
gone
LOST
the cost
my pride
77 · Nov 2021
Blame The Alphabet
RobbieG Nov 2021
Every emotion or feeling 
whether good or bad 
happiness or pain
love or hate, all 
came from 
these 26
letters 
A-Z
A-Z
look at
what you
have done 
there would be 
no one to blame 
for the words spoken 
or for the words written
RobbieG Dec 2021
How do bills get passed ?
Dead presidents
make the bills.
LOOK AT THEIR POCKETS!
Haiku
77 · Sep 2021
Sad
RobbieG Sep 2021
Sad
365 days in a year
365000 tears in a year
but I still say
that I'm okay
I just really miss her
I just really regret lost love
but I still say
that I'm okay
All my friends know I'm not
all my friends know I'm lost
WITHOUT HER
RobbieG Jul 2021
The Fourth of July
family, friends and fireworks too
thanks to those who fought

Protecting freedom
making this day possible
risking their freedoms

The Fourth of July
a day to remember those
putting themselves last  

Protecting freedom
for our entire Country’s peace
regardless color

The Red, White and Blue
will fly high tonight for all
that want to claim her
Happy 4th
76 · Jul 2021
Designated Existence
RobbieG Jul 2021
I’m tired of being a sheep
So I tried being the sheep dog
I’m tired of being a dog
So I tried just being me
I’m tired of trying
So……..
I give up
on trying
to fit in……
76 · May 2021
Time Trial
RobbieG May 2021
0-60 in 3.4 seconds
0-heartbreak in 4.5 years
76 · Aug 2021
Sick At Birth
RobbieG Aug 2021
I refused to stop
the ball got dropped
staring at the top
from rock bottom
walking, talking
living proof of
no education
raised by suffering
nurtured by patterns
NO OUTSIDE EVALUATION
proclaiming the damage
all generations victims
all generations with symptoms
our family tree a pandemic
all born into the sickness
WE ALL ARE CONTAGIOUS
the vaccination needed
still yet to come
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS
76 · Nov 2021
God
RobbieG Nov 2021
God
I swear if they exist 
the next one is mine 
car doors automatic 
OPEN 
****** expressions automatically 
DETECTED 
i , yes lower case
because ill always remain 
INSIGNIFICANT 
to THEIR NEEDS
literally ill bleed 
for them 
i just want someone 
to hold 
someone to show 
how it feels 
to be 
on top of 
THEIR WORLD 
please just grant me 
one woman 
that knows 
who i truly am 
and who i want to be 
and what that means
for them 
Im wholeheartedly 
CONVINCED 
my true love
MAY NEVER 
exist 
BUT IM STILL 
SEARCHING
76 · Sep 2021
Two Faced
RobbieG Sep 2021
Born a single side sword
Graduating to a double edge
One side is filled with pain
The other keeps causing it
The tip is extremely sharp
My handle is uncomfortable
Yet others keep swinging it
Not realizing the harm caused
TOXIC
76 · May 2021
DeTeRmInEd GoAlS
RobbieG May 2021
I didn’t replace me
You can’t face me
Keep calling me someone
IM NOT
That doesn’t change me
Back to who he was
Nor make me
Who I’m not
I have moved on
Overcoming
Childhood trauma
Past pain
HEARTBREAK
Insecurities
And feelings of
WEAKNESS
IM BETTER
Now time to
DIFFERENTIATE
Realize I’m ok of that
Now I got
OTHER BATTLES
Like alcoholism
And love for others
Besides MYSELF
Narcissism
FAITH
Might be the only cure
And I know in my heart
This to be true
But one step at a time
Leads to a lifetime of
CURE
Baby steps
This transformation
But 31 years of
HELL ON EARTH
Seems impossible to
CURE
Unless you want it BAD
And I sure DO
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ACCEPTANCE
UNDERSTANDING
REALIZING
DESIRING
CHANGE
TO BE
OR NEVER TO NOT BE
THAT ISN'T OF QUESTION
I WILL AND IN TIME
BECOME BETTER
A PROMISE I
MADE TO
MYSELF
76 · May 2021
Simon Says
RobbieG May 2021
Simon says sit, you sit down
Simon says you are worthless
You get mad at him !
Oh you don’t believe him ?
Well ....... why do you believe your ex ?
75 · May 2021
Right To Remain Silent
RobbieG May 2021
I hate love
that’s just the
heartbreak talking
not me personally

I love love
that’s just the
optimism speaking
not me personally

I want love
unconditionally
that’s me speaking
personally

When that happens
if it truly exists
Then I’ll take a stand
and have a voice

I’ll tell people
they are stupid
for hating love
and I’ll tell people  
they are smart
for loving it

But until then
I’ll let my
feelings
do the
COMMUNICATING

But until then
I’ll remain
BITTER
RobbieG Mar 2022
Raised to be someone else,
forced to focus on everyone else.

Now you're finally free from everybody, but who are you?

You must find yourself first, to become who it is YOU ARE!

A life spent pretending to be someone you aren't, isn't a life. 

You must find happiness within your true-self, to find inner peace 


      "The bitterness from the past will.   continously cloud all future sunshine,
      until you make a new forecast."
75 · Dec 2021
Untitled
RobbieG Dec 2021
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it all makes perfect sense
and you realize what:
 REALLY MATTERS
75 · Sep 2021
SUDDENLY GONE
RobbieG Sep 2021
......... . SUDDENLY
            T             O
       DROPS        V
       A   P             E
       M  SUDDENLY
  GONE               Y

SUDDENLY STOPS
**** LOVELY
SUDDENLY DROPS
GONE
74 · Nov 2021
Eye Witness
RobbieG Nov 2021
A mentally unhealthy family 
is hard to deal with 
WHEN 
You know its not their fault 
they are the way they are 
WHEN 
You are forced to be a part of their life, forever you will hurt 
WHEN 
You know they need help but you cant save them all 

PS: Its equivalent to being in a house thats on fire and everyone you love is burning to death and you can only save yourself 

HARD
74 · Aug 2021
Haiku
RobbieG Aug 2021
Love me or hate me
others have done both truly
I am who I am
74 · May 2021
Change
RobbieG May 2021
Anticipate wanted change.........
Desire needed change..........
OR better than both.........
Create change ...........
74 · Sep 2021
Not just a Book
RobbieG Sep 2021
Pages and pages
of stories being told
Not just a book
but rather a way of life
Pages and pages
of beliefs being sold
Not just a book
but rather a life manual
Pages and pages
of faith being explained
Not just a book
but rather a religious journal
Pages and pages
of religion being trained
Not just a book
but rather a Bible
Pages and pages
of words to be deciphered
Not just a book
but rather an adventure
Pages and pages
of many before us
Not just a book
but rather a documentation
of past trials and tribulations
Pages and pages
still to be wrote and fulfilled
Not just a book
but rather a romantic story
Pages and pages
of tragedy and sacrifice
Not just a book
but rather an Old Testament
Pages and pages
of massive confusion
Not just a book
but rather a great detailed history of past times before my birth from an unknown source claiming to know the whole story of God, his son and dating back before Christ
Pages and pages
from pages and pages
Not just a book
but rather a story passed down with time and rewrote to be modernized many times and yet I still to know the accuracy of translations or the hearts or minds of the ones that decided the language needing to be heard
Pages and pages
wrote to persuade us
Not just a book
but rather a tool to humble us
Pages and pages
upon pages and pages
But I rather ask him
through prayer and communication to seek the answers then rely solely
Not just a book
74 · Aug 2021
Face It
RobbieG Aug 2021
Face the music now
quit dancing around fearful
ACCEPT WHO YOU ARE
74 · May 2021
Blind Date
RobbieG May 2021
Sunshine is useless
against enormous white clouds
man, I hate dating
74 · Nov 2021
Feel, Felt, Found
RobbieG Nov 2021
Its not your fault 
you did nothing wrong 
my heart  beats now 
to a different song 
than yours
I know itll hurt 
but its not my fault 
all Im doing 
is just being who I am 
I didnt mean 
to break your heart 
but i cant help 
you didnt make me feel 
as relevant, as she does 
my biggest fear 
isnt losing her 
but its losing myself 
to someone that doesnt love 
ME FOR WHO I AM 
no one can tell that 
it may take years 
in order to find out 
I fear no one or nothing 
If i continue to lead
with the tune 
my heart beats too
Im sorry for 
the change of heart 
you did nothing wrong
I cannot help 
how this girl 
MAKES ME FEEL
74 · Nov 2021
Sad Story
RobbieG Nov 2021
Mentally ill 
decisions made 
based on 
the sickness
Well now 
I feel healed 
but left to 
endure the pain
Because decisions 
were made 
that cant be 
taken back 
Selfish was I 
for taking to long 
to finally get help 
Selfless i was 
when I realized 
just how ill 
I really was 
to make decisions 
but that was then 
this is now 
Im way better 
but stuck with 
the aftermath 
If i could go back 
if i could rewrite 
the past pages 
knowing then 
what I know now 
I promise, 
I would've 
NEVER GAVE UP 
On you, on them, on us 
ON MYSELF 
These thoughts 
cost myself 
wet cheeks,
heartache,
mental pain 
STRAIN 
Ashamed 
sums it all up 
regardless the growth 
regardless the change 
There's one thing certain 
Ill never live down 
the endless pain 
SUFFERING
73 · May 2021
Faith Based
RobbieG May 2021
................... MORTAL  
Limited time            I
Limited growth        FAITHLESS
Limited opportunity E


                  IMMORTAL
Unlimited time            I
Unlimited growth        FAITH
Unlimited opportunity E

PICK YOUR OPTION ?
73 · Sep 2021
Exhausted
RobbieG Sep 2021
I work little and make to much
I spend to much and spend to much time off
I need to work more and make less
I need to spend much less and spend more time at work
FULFILLED
But it must be something I love to do
But it must be something I'm passionate about
So I can have a normal schedule
So I can have a normal life
I'm tired of all the traveling
I'm tired of the uncertainty
I just want to write
I just want to love
I just want to live
I just want to
SURVIVE
73 · Jun 2021
Stuck
RobbieG Jun 2021
I’m in a hole
I can see the light
from up above
but yet I
remain trapped
I refuse to crawl
I ignore support
It’s just easier
to remain numb
and be the victim
down below
away from others
hidden from her
unattainable
far from reach
left to suffer
with just myself
no longer a trouble
to others or her
so I find comfort
being all alone
consumed in sorrow
feeling sorry
for myself
BITTER
73 · Jan 2022
Cold Reality
RobbieG Jan 2022
Hate torments lost souls, love cannot be understood genuinely to those that cannot love themselves. Buried alive in shallow graves for all to witness their flaws.
They wear their hearts on worn sleeves, covering scars that refuse to leave. Misunderstood by most, hurt by most, lost by all, no one can be trusted, no one at all.
Perpetual pain, fueled by the bitter truth and hidden beneath the comfort of the believed lies...... Life may be nonfiction, but most that live it, choose to do so in fiction!
73 · Jun 2021
Pick a word
RobbieG Jun 2021
Freestyle is fun
keeps you sharp
it’s like a game
no shame in the
CREATIVITY
I’ve yet to be
STUMPED .....
73 · May 2021
She Calls
RobbieG May 2021
She calls your name as her voice whispers amidst your subconscious making broken promises trying to convince your voice of reason to tell your self lies in order to give in to her attempts to reclaim your soul
for her purpose as she misses her sidekick

You always were the life of the party and now your gone and it’s driving her crazy knowing the ability and power you have to convince a whole room to join you in sin as you all live it up faithfully

You were her biggest supporter, she always could count on you but now you’re letting her down. How? she asks herself as she sees you sitting at home doing nothing but writing poetry and drinking non-alcoholic seltzer

Her biggest fear is what her boss will think when he realizes she allowed you to give up drinking and start thinking for yourself .........

Yeah that is her biggest fear isn’t it, well be scared because I’m through with you , I don’t need you anymore Temptation or your calls because they will always go UNANSWERED, but keep trying as it’s giving me really good practice at saying NO and teaching my brain and subconscious that I SOLELY CONTROL MY THOUGHTS and NOT ANYONE ELSE so just remember that !
73 · May 2021
sHoRt CiRcUiT
RobbieG May 2021
Flip, switch, fuse
Blown

Trace, replace, case
Repaired

Flip, switch, on
Power

FIXED

Think, thought, act
Regret

Reflect, dissect, face
Retrain

Think, thought, act
Proud

Fixed
73 · Aug 2021
Captured By The Bell
RobbieG Aug 2021
Back to school
fun for most
especially the cool kids

You know the ones
I’m talking about, they always get
what they want

Covered in namebrands
multiple pairs of shoes
designer backpacks

They don’t ride the bus
their parents are rich
so they get dropped off

By their moms
in expensive luxury cars
and picked up too

But for the kids
that aren’t as blessed
the first day of school

Seems like Hell
dressed in hand me downs
wearing generic shoes

The same backpack
as they had last year
the only thing genuine

Is their fear
always being picked on
their heads facing the ground

Just hoping to go unnoticed
afraid of the jocks, preps
and the rich kids

Feeling like their only place
in school truly is
to provide amusement

FOR THE FILTHY RICH
to prey on, making themselves
feel better off others misfortune

SICK

Wheres the vaccination
to prevent these statistics
that consistently wreak havoc

Taking the lives
of the most innocent
just trying to better themselves

By getting an education
forced on them
by the state who mandates

THEM

PLEASE CHILDREN,
PLEASE HAVE YOUR
MASKS ON!
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) states that almost 45,000 deaths occur from suicide each year. There are about 100 non-fatal suicide attempts to every 1 suicide. A little over 14% of students in high school consider suicide and approximately 7% of them attempt suicide. Students that are bullied are around 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims.[14] A study in Britain found that at least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying. 10 to 14 year old teen girls are most likely to commit suicide based on this study. According to ABC News, nearly 30% of students are either victims of bullies or bullies themselves and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because they are scared of being bullied.[15]
RobbieG Jul 2021
The hands like daggers rotating in orbit, moving in time, creating measurement, from beginning to an end. All of this amidst a clear face, trapped within a black back, inked and pressed against a soft white, face to face I countdown as I get lost with time
DEADLINE
73 · May 2021
Sorry
RobbieG May 2021
To the girl last-night
You aren’t my one and only
But you are my last
Lately I have been lonely
Victim of a breakup
So thank you, for the fun
I really enjoyed you
But now I must move on
I’m to mature for this
I truly know what it is I want
I can’t keep doing this
You don’t deserve to be led on
Commitment scares me
My insecurities have deep roots
It’s nothing you did
It’s all my fault and not yours
My brain plays mind games
So when we met at the bar
The alcohol helped
To drown the pain
So who you met last-night
Isn’t who I really am
But rather a drunk love version
Now don’t get me wrong
I feel we both had fun
and enjoyed ourselves
But I can’t keep doing this to
MYSELF
So I felt you deserved an
EXPLANATION
Before I
SHUT-DOWN
turn off
73 · Sep 2021
Wow
RobbieG Sep 2021
Wow
She's here
She's gone
She's in
She's out
She's content
She's fed-up
I'm here
I'm here
I'm in
I'm in
I'm content
I'm content
But it's not
just about me
Oops I forgot
SELFISH
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