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Vinnie Brown Jan 2018
I fled the grasps of society
Gasping for the air of the open land
Maybe there I could finally breathe
Except I found that out in the open
You came crashing down like the ocean
Angry and seething as the sea
I wonder if the stars and moon
Look the same where you are
I wonder if your mind flutters and dashes
To thoughts of me
As mines covered in the star dust
In the ocean of stars
That you are
I want my heavens and my oceans too
I just want every single part of you
81 · Feb 2019
AMA
Vinnie Brown Feb 2019
AMA
My confessions seem to always lie at the bottom of the deep end
These intricate caverns of guilt doused memories
With no true reason
For I have never truly felt loved
Forgotten and cast aside
By those unaware, yet cast like a skipping stone
Smooth and polished and so misshapen
As if my father not loving me was my own doing
Or unable to believe my past loves could love me
For I believed I was different and different couldn't be loved
Yet, I learned by you
That some may love the sunrise, while other's may love the sunset
And night feels just as home as day
While one can be attached to land
As the other soaks in the waves
Yet, there's sand in between
That's where our love seems to meet
Somewhere in between
And of that, all of which it is
I wouldn't trade for the world
81 · Oct 2017
Prosecution
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
How curious for summer must end
As every line tends to cease
I feel you're incomplete
Yet, pushing to the ends of my reach
Even if you go unread
You'll still be one of my greatest treasures
For your words are me
Moonlit madden times
Suncrazed laughs and smiles
Just a glimpse to the realities
I'm dealing in time troves
For every line I write
Surely, does feel like a miss
So, here's a my confession
Summer may just be over
81 · Aug 2017
Last Kiss
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
The days losing light
And we're running out of time
So, lover of mine
Come rush to my side
Please give me one last kiss
For such distance will soon
Spread between our lips
80 · Oct 2017
Peace and Love
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
To the city of endless fun and adventure
Turned to nightmare horrors
Continue to shine
For where there is hope there is light
To men driven to maddened thoughts
With hearts turned to blackened splits
Know that where there is darkness the following days shine brighter
As the world will look upon today
And it will undoubtedly refuse to dim
Such is the glory of peace and love
My heart goes out to Vegas, but never lose hope in our world, for that is when we are truly lost.
80 · Oct 2018
Dazed and Confused
Vinnie Brown Oct 2018
Start to hyperventilate
No, I’m not seein’ straight
Knees begin to wobble
Cut my brakes, and lock the throttle
I couldn’t stop it if I wanted
Shadowy silhouettes
Make break into sweats
I’ve been dazed and confused
Since the day I met you
I’ve maybe lost my head
Yet, I’d do it all again
Perhaps I’m losing my my mind
There’s just something about you
That’s left me dazed and confused
Something about your eyes
Under certain influence
Unable to walk in straight lines
Build me up and leave me here in ruins
Either I’ve seen the light
Or I’m losing my mind
Just dazed and confused
About a girl or my come and go depression? I don’t know, you tell me.
80 · Jun 2018
Cotton Candy Skies
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
It wasn’t until I was lost out at sea
Under the cotton candy skies
That I realized how lonely the oceans were
It must be why I like it so much
Relating to the lapping tides
As they push farther inland
Searching for something
They can’t seem to grab
80 · Aug 2017
Painting You
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
I'm trying to draw, what I think I want this life and it seems to be you
I can't seem to keep the colors inside the lines
Cause' when it comes to you
The page goes blank and I feel like I'm losing my mind
I have the shape and curve of you
The color is what I can't seem to find
Is it Red or Blue?
I swear, I'm going color blind
Only to realize that in time
You just happen to be
All the colors I need in me
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
I want to run with you
Through backyards
Filled with tripwires and clothes lines
Into war zones of innocent love
Where the night sky is alight
Fire stricken with dying stars heartbeats
Where your eyes scream my name
Visible by lightning bug flames
Where hand grenades
Are scribbled letters
Of future desires
Where were battling the summer’s thirst
79 · Sep 2017
Mariana
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
I lost you
Like the sand under my feet
When the waves rushed back
Dragged back to the black silver ocean
Into the arms of a lover
Who doesn't quite look like me
To the depths of an endless beauty
To the deepest trenches of dark warmths
A long lost lover
Bound to the locker
For I am your own
Davey Jones
And forever I am bound
Delivering the hearts of your lovers
To the souls who are bearing witness, may the jars of sand amongst your windowsill cast images of the oceans everywhere you look.
79 · Aug 2018
Wind Storms
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
I have found that happiness is like the wind
As someday's it feels as though you're in a vacuum
And some feel as though you can't stand against it
You just can't see it, but it's always there
Caressing the folds of your desires
Ever prevalent in the storms to come
79 · May 2018
Alone
Vinnie Brown May 2018
I could tell you loved the way
I looked at you
If only the people would disappear
And I could make you feel like you use to
When we were alone
I’d write heavenly and hellish love stories
Only for you
When we use to breathe in
The ocean salt misted waves
I’ve been looking for more time
Hoping to turn back time
Just to show the devil
How we lived was right
Oh, when we were alone
79 · Jun 2018
Ponytail
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
She was vibrant with a dash of darkness
Cascading into the summer sunset
She caught me staring a few times
Watching her bare back
Watching the sinew of the muscle fibers
As she hugged herself tight
She cared more of how I felt though
Asking how my night was going
Tired and sore my dear
“Anything I can do to make it better?”
She said with a devilish tone
In a second she transformed into something more
Removing the wristband
Pulling her hair into a ponytail
Grinning with delight
I never stood a chance
79 · Dec 2017
Chess Games
Vinnie Brown Dec 2017
So, here we sit again
In the high council above the heavens
Entangled in yet another chess match
You are black and I am white
A lot like the topic at hand
For I refuse to believe love exist
And you claim it’s all there is
I raise arguments of war, the ninth circle of hell, and pain
Yet, you claim it is all of it, pain, misery, torment, kindness, generosity, and hope
It is all Love
With each word my pieces fall
Check, check, and check
Till I feel my own northern wind
Sending shivers down my spine
Check mate
79 · Apr 2018
Visceral
Vinnie Brown Apr 2018
Pretty girl
In her feels
Poppin’ pills
Feelin’ visceral
79 · Jan 2020
Word Of Mouth
Vinnie Brown Jan 2020
I read our love story
Of lipstick stains
And hands all over the place
Where we both danced all night and day
Neither able to muster what to say
Rushing along like fresh water rivers
As the stars screamed from what they’ve seen
As the world dares to spin
When we’ve demanded stillness
In the mornings we were caught in bed
This is the sound of love
Perfect melodies
Playing off the rhythms in my chest
For you have what I need
My love
January 7, 2020.
79 · Mar 2018
Fairytale
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
Let’s go get lost, what do ya say?
Anywhere is better than here
Narnia isn’t too far
Hogwarts is just over the bridge
The Hundred Acre Woods is close
How about Westeros?
Maybe, your feelin’ Halloweentown?
Neverland is just a short walk
To be honest, we could stay right here
In this moment
Make our own fairytale
If you’re up for it...
78 · Jun 2020
Winds of Fury
Vinnie Brown Jun 2020
I've always wondered what the winds on Everest were like
I imagine them as brutal and bone breaking
That of her words like icicles cutting through my skin
Though justified in her bladed songs of howls
My heart still dances to the melodies of her hope
And the air of this mountain has been flooded
With all of your fears and I will attempt to hold
As many as I can on my way to the top
78 · Sep 2018
Homely Hell
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
My favorite part
Of making deals with the devil
Was how free I never thought I’d be
While I’m burning up never feeling so cold
Yet, Hell was comforting
It felt familiar
So unlike Earth, foreign and misplaced
Sort of emphatically beautiful
Like everyone just took a little more time
To understand that we all had sins
Sharing our hot coals with eachother
Watching the others hands burn
The smell of apple crisp
Seemed to be so homely after all
78 · Jun 2024
Rumination
Vinnie Brown Jun 2024
I never chose to love you with my heart or mind
I chose to love you with all that my soul possesses
Lest my mind forgets and my heart ceases to dance
For in rumination that would be undying
For my wife
78 · Oct 2017
Lifetimes
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
Oh, Love
You're poetic venom
Seeped all the way to my core
Corroding the sanity of my words
Plaguing the inescapable reality
That you're nothing more than that
Just words
Yet, you hold such power over me
Maybe if I was the stronger man
You'd be just a casual Friday night
No, to the hazel eyed boy
You're lifetimes
78 · Feb 2018
Heaven
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
Let's write a confession
Nothing fancy, no rhyme scheme or pretty words
Truthful insights that a corroded mind calls home
What's home?
Down wishing wells
Lost in ocean swells
Cause' the truth is hell
Drowning minds
Overcome with grief, sadness, without an ounce of hope
Lost and bitter, feeling like you could die
It's like a dream that you can't wake up from
No matter how hard you scream
Like, darkness calling you home
To the deep unknown
Where light and time cease to exist
They say secrets make you sick and you should all know
The problem is you can't tell anyone for the fear that they'll go
Imagine you were a kid running and stumbled
Scraped elbows and knees
Just to find yourself years later still stuck with apathy
And you get a moment where life's just a bit different
It shined briefly and you hadn't eaten for weeks
So, you stuffed yourself to the extreme
Just to see that you'd go hungry again
And I like words, they give something I can't seem to find
Knowing that my health isn't good and I hate myself
Stoking the fire, complaining you're still cold as hell
Overwhelmed and empty knowing you aren't well
I just won't keep running in circles ending where I began
78 · Mar 2018
Back Then
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
It use to be so **** different back then
We were kids and now
We’re suppose to be women and men
There’s so many things
We need to start to understand
That we’re not queens and kings
And we should prepare for the end
Like hitting one another’s phones up when we feel all alone
Hands up to the ceiling
Please mind our business
This is where we hide our feelings
You all know how it is
No expectations that’s just how we’re livin’
Understandin’ that not all of our crimes will be forgivin’
So, count your blessings  and never start to question
Anything that you can mention that’s what time it is
78 · Apr 2018
Death Songs
Vinnie Brown Apr 2018
You are the reason I'm still hangin' on
You are the reason my head is still above water
And if I could I'd get you the moon
I'd give it to you
And if Death was coming for you
I'd give my life for you
77 · Sep 2018
Maestro
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
And the hour was late
Standing in the dark
Open and terrifying
How the night air screamed
Headphones in
Eyes closed
With soft rap lyrics
And impending guitar riffs
Let your hands do the movements
Feel the words and beat
Conduct the symphonies
Get lost for the moment
Accepting certain peace’s
Lost to you during the sunlit hours
Choked up on life
Finally remembering to breathe
In the midnight hours when your minds at ease
When the sun starts to crack through the dark
It all doesn’t seem so desolate
77 · Aug 2018
Silver Lining
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
There she was
Her eyes the silver lining’s
In all these bad lines
That I keep writing
77 · Sep 2018
Skyline
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
On the way out
Hitting my shoulder on the doorframe
Almost like I’m drunk
Sitting on the cliffside above California
Bloodshot eyes and sleep deprived
3 A.M. angel wings dyed black
Run my hand through my fade
Careful not to touch the horns
Delicately made of salt
And all these waves
Could help me sleep at night
Awake to see with white X’d out eyes
We could change, but talk is cheap
And I’m a demon with demons
And my demons are down for ya
With the sun coming up
The pains coming
But the rush is feelin’ amazing
Flash a devilish white smile to myself
Watch the skyline fade into black
77 · Oct 2017
Somewhere Near Home
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
How discerning we are
Wrapped in boundless wants
Love accused as a non-believer
Maybe something's wrong with us
Honestly, in these times
It's better to be asleep
Testaments to the born dreamers
Stark heart waves to the broken healers
Cause' we'll all find our place
Somewhere near home
Is where we'll find we need to be
76 · Jun 2018
Guiding Violence
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
I’m looking to you for guidance
All I can hear is silence
It’s radiating such violence
Is it the end?
The dawn?
The kick back
Into reality
Is often
Too hard to ignore
I guess let’s wait
See what the second act has in store
76 · Jun 2018
KTF
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
KTF
She was a sun kissed blonde
With dark brown eyes
I swore they saw through me a few times
I wrote a long time ago
That I’d make deals with the devil
To know a girls name
This time I think I’m long gone
As I’d clip angel wings
And tear down the gates of Heaven
For a moment of her time
I can feel Hell’s heat rise in my veins
When she flashes a smile
And with the curves of her body
She pulls me into the sea
I find myself drowning even in the shallows
Katie Frana
76 · Sep 2018
Dangerous
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
And just for one time
I want to feel like the dangerous one
While you’re chasing me
Weakened staring at my jawline
As I’m watching the city lights
With you not in mind.
75 · Mar 2018
Better
Vinnie Brown Mar 2018
There is no plan for my life
That I can seem to follow
So, I don’t have time for all of these games
And, I do not plan on staying the same
Cause’ I’m gonna be better
Things will get better
Better when you see me next
75 · Jan 2018
Itch
Vinnie Brown Jan 2018
-Even surrounded by friends
-Traveling for adventure
  -You’re still constantly on my mind
75 · Oct 2018
Sunday Morning
Vinnie Brown Oct 2018
Save your breath my friend
I’m not going in
I am no disciple
I’ll choose how I sin
Sprint to distant memories
And previous lives
For I am not ready
And the only thing you can’t change about the face are the eyes
I just don’t feel connected to such holy lies
So, just do me this kindness
And, let me sit on the church stairs
Ponder all my crimes
75 · May 2018
Reaper
Vinnie Brown May 2018
I just want to help myself
Discover inner peace
Except that concept doesn't make sense to me
Life is exhaustingly crazy
We find ourselves fading
Always in the background
That's where were staying
To me I am the enemy
The summer nights
Pink lit street lights
Laughing in my face haunting me
Searching for self absorbed honesty
One thing's for sure, when I look in her eyes
I get nervous
I guess that's the Reaper's purpose
75 · Jul 2018
Ingredients
Vinnie Brown Jul 2018
A couple dabs of honey
Pinch of salt
A little bit of vinegar
Just a touch of blood
Maybe a smidge of sugar
Teaspoon of red wine
Don’t forget a moan or two
A hint of selfishness
Make sure the sear is just right
Yeah, sounds a lot like what love would be
At least to me
Anyways
75 · Sep 2018
Bump In The Night
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
Drowning in sin
Watch me burn
Doused in holy highs
Nothing left but bones
Don’t look in her eyes you’ll turn to stone
I wanna go, I wanna leave
This world might just not be for me
Hell is where we might find some peace
Don’t forget to breathe
When your minds at ease
When we’re chasing highway lines
In the moonlit hours
Certain things go bump in the night
75 · Feb 2018
Valentine’s
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
Even after all this time
I still choose to blindly believe
That love is real and all there is
Happy Valentine’s
74 · Mar 2019
Emotions
Vinnie Brown Mar 2019
And I am a showcase of emotion
Unprovokingly shining like a sun
Cast away in the middle of the night
Afflicted with envy and jealousy
Dreading dark waters
Afraid of the waves
Lapping at my hopes
74 · Aug 2018
The Heartbreak Room
Vinnie Brown Aug 2018
Welcome to Heartbreak Room
The only place you can dance dying
I was just a little bit late
Lucky she didn’t have a partner yet
Sizing eachother up across the room
I kept stepping on her toes
She said “One more time and everyone will know.”
She must’ve meant my sins
Except those are common knowledge
Always up for show
So, this is what it’s like slow dancing with a devil
Before I knew it the room was filled with smoke and ash
And all I could see was the heavenly golden glint from your eyes
As the night wasted away
74 · Oct 2017
Unknown
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
Oh my dear
You're a creature the world doesn't produce quite often
The world longs to feel your bare feet amongst its skin
it craves to play its wind tipped fingers through your hair
It desires you so badly it's sun's heat dives into the gleams of your eyes
Cascaded in moonlit kisses to make an everlasting complexion
No, the world doesn't get more mysterious everyday, but you came along
A rarity unknown to many
74 · Oct 2017
Wisdom
Vinnie Brown Oct 2017
My apologies dear
I'm sorry, that she'll get to see sides of me
That you deserved too
73 · Jul 2020
Precious Hands
Vinnie Brown Jul 2020
To my son
I plea you dive head in too fast
That the waters may shock you cold
But, that the risk they’ll warm your heart
Are worth every chance in life
For love and breath itself are worth it all
I sat too long fighting for things to love me
Until it finally came
Chase the stars and beckon the sun
Demand that light be yours to hold
For your hands are too precious
Not to grab the world
73 · Sep 2018
Lipstick Highs
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
It’s always funny
Going through the motions
And you said you were feelin’ high
That’s a little how I feel
With just your lips on mine
And tonight we’re both a little drunk
Slow dancing in flames
Just you and I
Except this time I don’t want to just be another one of your lovers
72 · Oct 2018
Swaying
Vinnie Brown Oct 2018
You keep me swaying
Between being high and sober
Back and forth
Something or nothing
Caught in purgatory
And forever doesn’t seem so far away
Until you get there
Trying to find the best parts of me
Where an angel with black wings
Whispered that it wasn’t going to be free
And I still smell hells smoke on me
I swear it warms what I think
Just might be my soul
72 · Feb 2018
Sex For Breakfast
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
I love the proverbial highs
And I crave the providential lows
As we wander through the city of Lost Angels
Not really lost all
Just sight seeing
The beautiful and the ******
Looking for our own little hell
Soft whispers from devils
I'll bite your soul and you'll like it
Got her curlin' toes
And her smile getting wider
I can feel it in my bones
I'm catchin' visions of her soul
Watch her eyes roll back
Throwing the rights and wrongs down a deep black hole
Bending backwards
Pretending to care about the factors
Putting one another to the test
Having *** for breakfast
72 · Feb 2018
Me and You
Vinnie Brown Feb 2018
When the cities burnin’ down
Which of us will make it out?
I hope the only ones
Are me and you
71 · Sep 2018
Decaying
Vinnie Brown Sep 2018
We’ve been dying at a fast pace
And I’m addicted to the way you taste
Dim the lights
I don’t want to stay inside alone
Tonight’s the night
Let me see what will make you moan
You can hide inside all the places
I decide to never look
Always keeping your face in mind
Cursed with bad luck
Looks like we’re decaying from the drugs
71 · Jul 2018
Lonely Killer
Vinnie Brown Jul 2018
She’s the type of girl we call blind
Only see herself online
5,000 likes and 60 comments on her last post
Thinking she’s got this generation by it’s throat
After all, she’s just a
Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Killer
71 · May 2020
Vinyl Love
Vinnie Brown May 2020
A favorite memory
I keep locked away
Buried far in the depths
Afraid it might get lost
Eyes closed and slow breathing
Listening to the static rotate off the vinyl
As your fingers ran through my hair
Able to hear the gorgeous tunes of your breaths
Melodies dancing on the folds of my desires
I still hear those breaths every night
As I sleep next to you
I began to love you then
As I love you now
I hope you cherish the memory too
For I have not forgotten with my sins
And they are plenty
But, I promise my love resides
Cast upon notes of vinyl records
For Alexys
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