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83 · Jul 2020
Lame
My chest feels stuffy

Maybe it's time my heart

Gave it's job to my brain.
82 · Jul 2020
Fools that we seem to be
People are dying everywhere
And yet we go to war
**** even though we cannot save
Hurt even though we cannot heal
We humans only have ourselves
And yet we fail to show a shred of kindness
When it is most needed
Rule of nature? Oh yes
Inevitable? Oh yes
Foolish?

That is for you to decide.
80 · Jun 2020
Don't look
Captive
Behind the darkness
Of your bright smile
Behind
Your back
I cry
80 · Jun 2020
Cornered
Like the spider I waited
In the lonely Crack
For Isolation
79 · Jul 2020
Crow-wings
I ran from my ghosts
Mid length, mid-parted hair
Flapping in the wind
Like the deformed wings
Of a newborn crow.

I ran to many houses
I knocked on many doors
But no one let me in
For I had no love, no home.

Then I hit a wall
And had to turn around
My hair grew into real wings
And I was able to fly up and out.
79 · Jun 2020
Blank
I fail to understand myself
Fail to comprehend the future
The world keeps turning
And life goes on.

And with life I have to run
As it rushes past me in giant strides
I seem to fall behind, so far behind
That future to me is nothing but a blur.

But I shall keep on running
For it is all I can do
Run and run
Until my sky turns blue
78 · Jul 2020
The opposite effect
Spread hope like hatred
And truth like lies
There's a glint in your eyes
That only the mirror
Has the privilege
To behold
76 · Jul 2020
Goddess of spring
Dancing with the flowers
Hands bending like the breeze
The music of life.
76 · Jul 2020
She had gone mad
Word got around fast
But we had all forgotten what she had said

It was the way she said it that mattered to us
For that day it had seemed to us

That she had gone mad
Absolutely mad
Days come
And days go
But the narrow gravel path
In front of my house
Remains empty
76 · Jul 2020
❇️The earth's edges
Maybe the world is round

But it has sharp edges

That have wounded me

More than once
75 · Jul 2020
Growing up
Stairs to the downside

Bridging the hopes of the heart

Your old love and my soul

Pushed further apart.
75 · Jun 2020
While she lay in bed
With her head on the pillow
She could still see
A small patch of silver woven in twilight
And shadowy pale forms
Dancing in the empty room
Whenever
She turned her head
75 · Jul 2020
The sleeping child
Her head on one lap
And feet sprawled across another
Her midriff was levitating in darkness
75 · Jul 2020
Raise your voice
Remember to speak up for others
Otherwise
No one shall do the same for you

Do not dumb down the concerns of "now"
By bringing up
A concern which does not concern "today"
Even if you mean well
74 · Jul 2020
on the tip of my tongue
I balance a heavy stone
Well polished, evenly cut into a knife
On the tip of my tongue

The blood seeping from the thin cut
Must remain hidden
Under the thin edge of this weapon!
72 · Jul 2020
Gradual Nonsense
White noise
White lies
A thin white cat
Rubbing against my thighs

Grey skys
Grey storms
The grey lane between
All that is right and wrong

Black hearts
Black eyes
A black crow
Feasts on rotting mice
I close my eyes

The night is heavy on my tired shoulders

I turn to another side to get some sleep

Vacant voices resound in my brain

Numbers fail me

Music fails me

The bed is uncomfortably soft

I am unable to sleep.
Read both ways
71 · Jul 2020
Twelve
I was twelve
Twelve when I saw my parents fall out of love
Twelve when I was told that my face looked better from afar
Twelve when I was taught that being a feminist was silly
Twelve when I heard that I wasn't meant to cry aloud
Twelve when I felt that it was time I died
Twelve when I decided to cut open my wrist

And then I started to write
It is now on pages that I bleed
70 · Jun 2020
Yes
Yes
Yes
There will be change
Nothing you can do about it
Best it will be
If you start swimming
Or else
You shall drown soon in apathy
70 · Jul 2020
Rusty feelings
Bless the heart of this weary soul
Walked for miles without reminiscing about home
Feet soiled with grey dust
Lips sealed, emotions gathering rust
70 · Jul 2020
Online Friends
Deleted yourself from my life with a click
Afterall, we were strangers behind the screen
Locked away from reality we talked through the night
And when we ran out of topics we bade a hasty goodbye
70 · Jul 2020
I'll stay on this page
For this seems to be the last one.
69 · Jul 2020
One way love
I wander everywhere
But I haven't lost my path
One road from the beginning
Starting from the door to the heart
I shall go wherever, wherever it takes me to
And wherever the end lies, there I hope to see you.
68 · Jul 2020
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67 · Jul 2020
Scarred roads
Settling into the colours of life

We grow into tomorrows we do not know

Our scars become familiar pathways

That lead to the house of forgotten times
67 · Jul 2020
The deer's journey
They follow the rain
And crop the freshly sprung grass

Their antlers branch into fingers
Curled in agony

Raising their heads to the sky
They walk as though dazed

Calves in their wake
Silent prayers on their lips

Their search of a home long lost
Brings them closer to death
67 · Jul 2020
Half histories
Tearing out the pages
Of unwanted history
From a mahogany back
Splattered with blood
67 · Jul 2020
Pearl
The pearl that I dug out
From the heart of the ocean
Loved not me, but the dead oyster
66 · Jul 2020
Midnight sun
Silence, silence everywhere
The plates and forks stacked in the kitchen
Start Falling

Breaking into pieces with edges
Which can cut open my skin

The monotony of the night is pierced
By stifled shrieks

Nobody, there's nobody outside
The patrol of the spirits
Is Starting

The hours are going backward
In time.
We shall soon see the sun rise into afternoon
And dissipate into dawn.
65 · Jul 2020
Laughter
Was that even remotely funny?
The bed sighed.
        It had been awake for a while now.
Bathed in harsh electric light, I too,
        Could feel the weariness of my dead eyes.

But sleep refuses to alight!

Countless silent nights I have spent
Tired, withered, weary
But still
             Unable to rest.
I stare ahead
My reflection stares back
                         Bit
                              by
                                    Bit
We merge into each other
A mask over the pre-existing facade of reality
I have merged directions
And now
Can only gaze at
A blank canvas
Resounding with
    
                              Emptiness
64 · Jul 2020
Restless interval
A restless interval
Of obligatory time
We sit and stare
At the cold, tiled floor.

Lights flicker
In the depths of our eyes
Whenever we stop staring
And glance at the door.
64 · Jul 2020
Melancholy devil
I get to see her when she runs in the rain
Soaking wet, water dripping off her chest like sweat.
I sit in the car and as she goes by,
I look at her approaching, then I look at her die.

    And I keep my head over the politics of the humans
    So that right and wrong doesn't tear me apart.
    In this unknown place, many souls I have known
    Seen their journeys end, seen their miseries start.

   She runs down the street unaware of my inhumane gaze
   Unaware of the world, unaware of her place in
   The depths of my immortal heart.
64 · Jul 2020
Writer's block
These hands won't move

My mind has strayed into the forbidden territories of emptiness

No escape in sight, I can think of nothing except the fact

That I cannot think.
63 · Jul 2020
Runaway genius
The unruly boiling cauldron of genius
Escaped from the grasps
Of the ignorant
And that was the last time
We heard anything about it
63 · Jul 2020
Scent of a memory
In front of me
A cluster of candied lights
I close my eyes and a sickly sweet smell
From memory floats back
The brightness of your upturned smile

Blinds me, blurs the horizon

Until I feel like I'm flying

When I'm walking down the street

Until I feel like I have wings

Even though I know, I lost them in loving you.
62 · Jul 2020
Her limits
Knew how to love
Until her heart grew tired

Knew how to dance
Until here feet became sore

Knew how to sing the night into dawn
Until she lost her voice
And then she faded away
62 · Jul 2020
In the shade
Together in the shade
In the hushed fragrance of rose petals
Crushed in your mahogany hands.

The sun gets high on this wine
Of our hidden romance
Under the last lonely tree.
61 · Jul 2020
Losing touch
Wine glasses
                                           Clink away
The music of reality
61 · Jul 2020
Hypocrite
Wonder why those high flown words
Of self love and acceptance
Always ends at the mirror
61 · Jul 2020
Parched
A dry throat
Yellow eyes switch to ****** red
Fingers curling in agony
Floating in a pool of regret
60 · Jul 2020
I feel empty
I wonder why I feel so empty...inside
Just a few hours back, I had felt otherwise
The day and the people around me felt...warm

But now
Someone seems to have taken it all away
Nothing. Nothing is left for me
I feel like a blank
That is best
Deleted.
60 · Jul 2020
My eyes
Eat my heart out
But let alone my eyes
I still want to see her
If she comes back
Someday...
60 · Jul 2020
That time when I gave up
I wish now
That I had persisted
Wish that I had held on
But I gave up my dreams
For the sake of a phantom I couldn't see
Nor touch, nor hear, nor feel

But I succumbed
And I fell
Down to the depths of my own hell

I've come up again now
Have gathered the broken pieces of the days I wasted
And have pieced them into an amateur mosaic of dreams

And I know I'll hold on this time
Even if
For just a little longer.
60 · Jul 2020
Heavy colours
Heavy colours
Spill onto the floor
A marred rainbow
Splashed onto the door

Get out of here
Before you lose your mind
Living in a hologram
You lose your sense of time

I scraped away
At the painted ground
Broke my nails
Your blood came out

So go away
Before I paint you black
Go to your land of colours
And never come back
59 · Jul 2020
Withering in love
Browsing through the realms of the unknown
I came upon an unknown flower
It was copper coloured
With a fragrance of the wet earth
I touched it
Gently, very gently
But alas,
It withered away

I stared at it's rotten petals for a while
And wondered why the little flower
Had blossomed when a drop of my vengeful tears
Had fallen on it
But had withered away
When touched with care.
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