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208 · Jun 2017
Long Night Out
Vinnie Brown Jun 2017
Ever wake up from a long night out?
When you're not sure if you're still drunk or hung over
You're stumbling through the hall
Stopping half way and bracing yourself using both arms against the grace of the unfaltering walls
When all of the blurred memories are dashing behind your eyes
Finally make it to the kitchen with the homely smell of coffee brewing
Snuggled up tight and grasped by an amazing sweater watching the drizzle out the window
That's what your love does to me.
208 · Jun 2019
Gardner
Vinnie Brown Jun 2019
I am a tradesman
I work a 6 till 3
Perfectly suited to normality
Yet, drawn to melody
Planting trees to treat apathy
For, when the speckled snows come
With death and blasphemy
What a natural causality
Yet, I’ll be here planting trees
For you and I
Just to be able to breathe
208 · Mar 2016
Used to You
Vinnie Brown Mar 2016
I got use to you
I got really use to you
You wasted all my time
Trying anything to keep you off my mind
I loss myself tonight

I thought I had it all figured out
You would never fall for me now
Wonder if you wonder why I'm never around
You can hear the pain in my sound
207 · Dec 2016
C.C.
Vinnie Brown Dec 2016
Blue eyes and a smile to die for
You make it so hard to say no
In a dark room in cold sheets
I lost myself in your face, your medicine is in my head
oh, the habits of my heart
It's ripping me apart
You get so close
It's so hard to let you go
She told him "You're confident, I'll give you that, but if you love yourself you can **** yourself."
At times I think I'd rather be alone, but then I see your name pop up on my phone
I tell myself I like that
When I have my hands tied behind my back
It's a game just for us, and you're not the losing kind
207 · May 2017
Sea Worthy
Vinnie Brown May 2017
It seems to be, that time is just not on our side
How ironic should that be to be carried away by the low tide
Maybe that's our life's long lost purpose to realize we don't have an eternity
That in our great being of mortality
We find our immortality
So, bring me your love tonight
These storms will undeniably grow so much fierce
In a hurricane of love that I have for you
Let's get lost at sea
205 · Dec 2016
Wants and needs
Vinnie Brown Dec 2016
The mind is a fickle thing
Attracted to pretty lies
And prettier faces
Ugly souls and broken hearts
Green paper and shiny cars
I just need the winter pines
And the soft breezy wind
A long shot cause
And my run away brain
Tell me that you love me
Even if it's fake
Tell me pretty lies look me in the face tell me that you love me, even if I know it's fake
204 · Jun 2018
Horizons
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
There's an invisible line
Where the waves conspire
To come rushing back again
And perhaps we shall meet again someday
A long long time from now
A little older
And a little less selfish
202 · Jun 2017
Imprinted
Vinnie Brown Jun 2017
To not know who I am, but still know that I'm still good for somebody
Just want a love that I can say I found impossibly
Cause you know I have my many convictions and they're stronger than any addiction
I'm really hoping this won't keep me awake
Cause, I honestly feel like a sunset just about to fade
The greatest violence that I've seen is our recent silence
Reading my mind just as if we were naked
Painted in one another such beautiful art permanently imprinted forever on my heart
Always trying to find my way back to the start
Because it seems to be every time I try and fall in love it falls apart
202 · May 2017
To You Alone
Vinnie Brown May 2017
Cried out to you alone
Begging Life to just throw me a bone

Oh Life, how do you ever decide?
Oh Life, how long must we wait?

How do we fly to the sky?
My love, all we have to do is try

Oh Life, what do you know.
201 · Apr 2017
Love's Life Touch
Vinnie Brown Apr 2017
I've been waiting for a night like tonight
Simple hello's and those eyes, oh god those eyes
Ablaze on the summer star light
Young and free, come with me and chase the fire flies

Hold on to our touch
Never giving up my love for you is this
I've never been able to offer up much
My love is what I can give, will you accept this one last kiss?

Darken days seem to pass
The fights seem to grow quite few
My life's been quite blessed, gifted a girl and the riches seem to amass
I never asked for much, cause all I want is you
I wanted this to be a progression of a love, two people refused to give up on.
200 · Dec 2017
Page Four
Vinnie Brown Dec 2017
I swear if you make it to me
I can promise you’ll see
That this is where you should be
I believe you’re the one designed for me
If this is a puzzle it would be complete
I hate that time moves ever so slow
I just want you to know
That you might be a stranger today
But, tomorrow you could be
The cold December air bites at my heart
If I just find my way back to the start
I’d convince my mind to run away to you
Oh, my love what shall we do?
For this shall be one last romance
For somedays I don’t believe in love
Yet, I still take chances
And the details of our love shall be on page four
In The Endless Summer’s grand scheme of things
199 · Nov 2017
Downfall
Vinnie Brown Nov 2017
Can someone somewhere in this downfall
Explain when *** became less expressive and so excessive?
For the fires that lash out from your bodies are the only thing that burn
And we all have love lessons needing to be learned
Minds in the hours of desolation and devastation
Yet, all the hearts are still alive
Bound to love addictions
Attempting to conquer selfish convictions
Lost in contradictions
For now learn to be alone you’ll both be better off, even if it doesn’t feel that way all
Until one day when the right one comes along, and you’ll be ready for the fall
198 · Jun 2018
Volitions
Vinnie Brown Jun 2018
They say God rested on the seventh day
I find that hard to accept
For we are supposedly created
In a semblance of his image
And upon my own volitions
I seem to revel too far in my creations
For written on me in invisible ink
Are the plethora of words
Depicting my faults
Maybe it isn’t the creation that’s feverish
Perhaps it’s the destruction in its awe
Worn away by the subtle kisses of time
197 · Jul 2017
Romantics
Vinnie Brown Jul 2017
Lips like sunsets
See you begin to undress
Start to lose my head
Let's get magnetic
Make this life electric
I know you like it
I can feel you in my bones
Starting to feel a lot like home
You can be the lyric
On my melody
Let's get lost in the romantics
Vinnie Brown Feb 2017
Fitting in with the crowd
Like a puzzle piece
Forgotten glories
Delusional goals
I'm tired of getting all the answers
By mimicking others
Even if the stars that connect us
Could sing a gleaming song
Morning would still be broken
This life that we're living might haunt us forever
We're burning in hell if we're dying tonight
All of this changed and messed up and I still find myself addicted to You
I'm in love, I'm an addict I know.
196 · Feb 2017
Droplets
Vinnie Brown Feb 2017
These attempts will only be that of a drop in a limitless ocean
But what is an ocean, but a multitude of drops
Hold me close tonight
Until we both know the truth
Let me shut my lips
Before you spill your heart and soul to me
I'm still trying to figure it out, in what you saw
This silence burns me up
I'd rather turn back and run away
Then face the way we're suppose to feel
You whispered in my ear to take a breath so you know it's real
You knew you were there for me
You were loving me carefully
Still saying "Stay quiet, be my love."
195 · Jul 2017
Vulnerable (10w)
Vinnie Brown Jul 2017
Love
Reckless and defenseless
Open and vulnerable, isn't it wonderful?
As for you dear, what an adventure it's going to be, earning your love.
195 · Feb 2017
Horizon
Vinnie Brown Feb 2017
Highway love's going to mess me up
Night's like these when I need your touch
I find it funny, that we just keep running
But we just can't seem to catch this horizon
It seems the sun's going down and we're out of time
This feels like an end, I can't seem to rewrite
In this lasting moment
What is once well done is done forever
193 · Apr 2019
To The Sun
Vinnie Brown Apr 2019
This town will never change
People come and go it’s all the same
Dip in and out of self peace
Just to see apathy on a dead end day
Vowing to run far away
Somewhere with a pretty name
To mend what’s ever so helplesss
Drowning out in already drained oceans
Where the sky reflects all the lonely
Asking you just one thing
When did you fall out love
Out of love
Out love with me
193 · Jul 2017
Lover
Vinnie Brown Jul 2017
If the richer man laid his eyes on you
Would you stay as cold as a statue?
Would my love still be good for you?
If I told you that I'd never lay with some other lover
Cause' darlin' your my only and I'll never need another
192 · Jul 2017
Night Fall
Vinnie Brown Jul 2017
It's funny
How a flash of your smile
Can cause my quiet life
To be so slowly distorted
Speak the words on your mind
Oh dear, here you go
Waste away into the night fall
Hands are shaking from the lovers lost call
Oh babe, I'm so ready, holding steady
192 · Sep 2017
Skinny Love - J.S. Edition
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
Today you're year older
Just a little more wiser
Heart of golden beliefs and faith
Giving the unworthy countless attempts
To make you smile that infectious smile
To make those bright blue eyes shine
For as Skinny Love goes
Who will love you?
Who will fight?
And who will fall far behind?
To the girl who's frightened by tiny insects
And who's laugh can be pinpoint located in even the most zealous of crowds
To the girl who finds herself as nothing, but a goofy bookworm
Oh man, to the girl who's voice puts our souls into motion
I just want to say
Happy Birthday
It's funny, if you google the definition of Skinny Love, it's means the act of two people loving eachother, but they're too shy to admit it, except they show it in their actions.
192 · Apr 2017
Views
Vinnie Brown Apr 2017
Memorizing your face from last night
In those eyes I caught the light
And it's been way too long I know
But, baby I can hear our song on the radio

See your face it blows my mind
Just a young boy running through the summers as the heats hittin ninety-nine
Putting my Sunday best on like my mama taught me run and find my girl that's mine

Pull up a chair and take a seat when your ready to ride
Cruisin' down the coast tryin' to beat it to the hide tide
Driven' past the beach as you fell asleep right next to my side
I wouldn't want to spend it with anyone other than you
Couldn't decide which was a more beautiful view
191 · May 2017
Reborn
Vinnie Brown May 2017
And so, tomorrow
She will wear a white dress
To the funeral
As she buries the old
And from the hurt
Rises beautifulness
Not yet comprehended
190 · May 2017
Sacrifice
Vinnie Brown May 2017
Honestly it truly hurts
To watch some of you artist
Give up on your dreams, when on the verge

You're all too scared to be something
People love to talk
Let your actions walk the walk

I'll just keep getting caught up staring at the city lights
Cause' you gotta have some ugly days
To have some pretty nights
Cut some people off
Some dreams take sacrifice
Sometimes that's just the price
190 · Jun 2017
Promise
Vinnie Brown Jun 2017
New fame in darkness
Moving on was a promise
Lessons the heart learned from all of this

Lost my soul in the city of angels
Diamond chains from which my heart dangles
Toxic love which always seems strangle

Just being honest
I'm moving on I promise
189 · Apr 2017
Technicolor
Vinnie Brown Apr 2017
The darkest corners of my mind are tight
I mean, out of sight out of mind, right?
It's getting hard to know if this is worth a fight
As when the sun shines it's just not that bright
I think I might be in love, my heart feels a flight
Bursting with wonderous color and it seems to be killing off my mind blight
A woman, who I can love even if I lost my sight

We'll break the mold and the scheme will fail
Endless midnight car rides and street lamp sunrises
Beautiful rays matching our body glows
As your heart creases and mine unfolds
Lost in each other's technicolor beats
Oh, my dear, if you only knew I have a love for you that even a blind man could see
188 · Apr 2017
Divine Decree's
Vinnie Brown Apr 2017
Dear lord taking your name in vain
All these sins in life that I've made
Just another heart, feel myself go insane
Caught in negotiations with my devils I can't seem to dissuade

Waiting till she admits she loves me
Loving me must have some difficulty
Yet, she makes it seem so impossibly easy
As with these words, I've announced my love with divine decree

Dark hair like the long summer nights
Gorgeous smile like the glistening ocean tides
Green eyes just like the never trembling winter pines
Skin as soft as freshly landed snow
Lace and tied my world together
With her never ending laughs
She's the sum of what I believe is love
187 · May 2017
Lonely Nights
Vinnie Brown May 2017

And in all of the lonely nights
We seem to question
"Why are we like this?"
186 · May 2017
Loop
Vinnie Brown May 2017
Rewatching a moment of you
A hundred times
Seeing things I want more and more every time
Your beauty is such a crime
185 · Sep 24
Holding on
Vinnie Brown Sep 24
Carrying empty voices
time and time again
felled to the bone
deeper in unwelcome arms
wanting to die
forgotten to the wastes
searching for counterpoints
kept alive by love defined by you
The older I become the more I realize I am not the man I wish I had become. I didn't become the husband I wanted nor the father. I am hoping to continue trying. My father didn't have any love for me, I wish to change the narrative.
185 · Dec 2017
Endure
Vinnie Brown Dec 2017
I’m alright
That’s just a lie
So, please stay for the night
Cause’ nothing’s right when you’re gone
Don’t want the world to know what makes me weak
Afraid the world might see that side of me
Cause the worlds so monochrome
Yet, let me tell you why
I wouldn’t mind to be wrong
Cause’ she brings all the coloring around
You either know or you don’t
I can’t even trace where this love line begins
Dancing hand in hand with me
Sometimes I forget to breathe
Somewhere along the line I got poisoned
My thoughts we’re cursed
Oh, lover how your words
Became my cure
For if this is the world I’m given
With your love I’m sure
I shall endure
For Annie, what seems like a lifetime is just a day in the life I get with you
182 · May 2017
Crashed
Vinnie Brown May 2017
It feels so impossible to let you go
Biochemically addicted to you
I hope he's something special for sure
That the day shines a little brighter when his name pops up in your phone
I'll undoubtedly sit myself down
Dissect everything there is about myself
Till I can find the piece that you saw that said I couldn't be it
I won't get rid of it no, I'll study it and I'll learn from it
I'll try as carefully as I can to piece myself back together afterwards
Maybe editing a few set points here and there
There always seems to be in every scenario that one person has to take a step back for another to go
I suppose I'm just taking a seat for now
Hopefully someday I'll get to where I want to be
Today though? Well, today it sort of feels the worlds crashing all around me
182 · Apr 2017
Midnight Loves
Vinnie Brown Apr 2017
Oh, I swear I've been here before
The moons shining on the bed and floor
Our body tingles never bore
This kiss will even the score
Pinch me till I'm sore
A beggar's rich and I've never been poor
A love like you, who could ask for more?
181 · May 2017
Smoke Screen
Vinnie Brown May 2017
Getting caught up choking on the air
These bones, they're black and charred from all the heavy years
We've lost control and life just so unclear
It's starting to feel like every day's the same fight
I know you just want to burn out
So, bright and be more than what you are
This half-life that you're leading, it just seems so ******* demeaning
Blocked and clouded by the smoke screen
But, I know you're doing all you can to stand again
The smoke will lift and you'll find what you've been searching for
179 · Apr 2017
Saving Grace
Vinnie Brown Apr 2017
Yeah, I've learned I'm making a fool of myself
Letting these feelings I've felt
Get to the core of me
Making me freeze, get caught with weak knees
I get the idea, you might just leave

You let me suffer
Will you find another
These are our days that we'll remember

You'll always be here right beside me
And if all we have is what's left today
Then with hearts so pure in this broken place
I won't need anymore searching
Cause I think I've found my saving grace
179 · Mar 2017
Hourglass
Vinnie Brown Mar 2017
Still looking for our innocence
Lost in the number of sins
As the hour meets the minute hand
We'll keep dancing in each others land

Noticed a couple hours passed
Watching as we sift through the hour glass
Started off nothing, but friends
A kiss on the neck is how it all ends

Refusing to give up our fight
The soft patter as it rained all through the night
Falling into each other's body well
We warm until we went to hell

The puzzles finally been pieced
It's like our bodies are seeming to cease
176 · Apr 2017
Beliefs (10w)
Vinnie Brown Apr 2017
Always try and trust
what's deep inside
You beautiful girl
175 · Sep 2017
Journal Entry: 47
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
-The year is 2050 and we're on route to the year 2017.
-Time travel has been invented for around 12 years.
-Captain Elsen Decker of the USS Apathy is our commanding officer.
He's a man of 57 and decently handsome, a scar through his right eyebrow and a smirk you'll never forget, his most notable feature although is his stark hazel eyes. Always gleaming and curious through any event we encounter, he's a hard man and almost seems heartless at times, as if some great divide has clouded his heart, seeing  him at times you could even say there's regret.

-I'm not sure our mission objective, although considering we are using time travel I assume it's of some importance. Capt. Decker was chosen specifically for this objective as he is considered to be one of the only people who can change the outcome of the scenarios that unfolded that day.

-We have arrived in the year 2017.

-Capt. Decker stands alone with a young man of the age of 24, he doesn't release any information to us of the man.

-He pulled a stool up to the man alone at the bar and proceeds to whisper softly into the mans ear, gently squeezes his shoulder and leaves.

-We have arrived back in the year 2050, and after our initial screening to see if we have altered the present time, it seems we're in the clear, except Capt. Decker his eyes are gleaming more than before and as we go to depart from such a short non-invasive mission I'm struck with curiosity.

-The year is 2051, a year has gone by and I'm still not sure our objective of that mission, and it haunts me. So, I've found Captain Decker and pleaded with him to tell me everything.

-Captain Decker at the age of 24 could be found in a bar alone, confused and heartbroken. The woman he thought he loved was no longer his to love he recalls, and anger and chaos had consumed his every being. Until one day a man approached whispered sweet nothings into his ears and said "Fear not, for there are a many great loves in life, and she will forever remain one of them, but have faith in love for it is real, and it has taken me till now to believe it."
I wanted to play around with a journal entry style of writing, I hope you enjoy it.
175 · Dec 2022
Gravestones
Vinnie Brown Dec 2022
Working with my demon
I swear I have good intentions
Promise it’s all based in decency
But, am I good person when I need to be?
Always putting myself above you
To feel important
I’ll always need your love to feel supported
When we die I hope they bury us in a forest
That’s if any are left, this life’s torment
If I get stuck in purgatory
I’ll consider it lucky
To spend more time with you
For my love.
175 · Jul 2017
Something
Vinnie Brown Jul 2017
A constant circle of being human
Trying to make eachother feel something
Bittersweet years gone away
Lost sense of taste
Colors most days seem to fade to grey
When you're alone in the bed you've made
So, dear if you're going to stay then stay
But, love if you're going to go
Make sure you make me feel something
175 · May 2017
Life Line
Vinnie Brown May 2017
Throw me
Throw me a life line, baby

Say that I'm really sorry
Just please pick up the phone

Show me
Show me, that you really want me
Hold me
Love me
Need me
Although we've never fought, I just don't ever want to lose you Lace.
175 · Aug 2017
Magnificent Creature
Vinnie Brown Aug 2017
My hands knew the way of the keys
And the keys knew only my name
For when they sang, I could feel love
Colors rain when they scream out in harmony
In a world of monotone hues
Black and White keys resembling Doves and Ravens
Bring out the best of both worlds
A perfection of symphonies
To allow your beauty to shine
With your perfectly drawing smile
Your glowing spotless skin
Those big brown eyes in rays of sunshine
Perfect eyebrows and subtle laugh lines
Did you know you have small wrinkles around your eyes, when you smile so hard?
You might find imperfections in your reflection
To some those might just be among the perfections
I think I could stare at you for hours if not days
The piano is the only instrument, I could think of
To match such a magnificent creature
172 · Mar 2017
Burning Bright
Vinnie Brown Mar 2017
It's by acts and not ideas
That our hearts seem to live
And the stars are aligned
But they don't align for us

Such fragile moments we share
It's as if they were everything
Hearts so pure in this broken place
And all we are, are long lost lovers
Searching for our own saving grace

So, stay the night I promise that I won't bite
There's a lack of faith in myself
And it's becoming my own personal hell
Something calling and feeding on my loneliness
Behind this emotion lies hidden is a sensible heart burning oh so bright
Song influenced
172 · Jul 2017
Praying
Vinnie Brown Jul 2017
Lately, I've been yelling up at the sky like "What is my purpose?"
Forgive me, everyday I'm reminded that I'm far from perfect.
And lately I feel ashamed to feel pain, I keep to myself.
And what gets to me the most, is I know there's more to life than to dwell on my own ******* self.
172 · Feb 2017
Icarus
Vinnie Brown Feb 2017
You seared me with the rays you emit
Burned my wings to darken splits
Stressed out all day
Inside my head all night
Trying to make sense of the ever so senseless fights

You've got me barely holding on
Loving from a far
You're the one just making this so hard
I'll take my chances, burning up like Icarus
172 · Jul 2017
Consistent
Vinnie Brown Jul 2017
When it comes to your love, tell me who's the most consistent
When you need love, I'll always be persistent
Keep me at a distance
Just ask and I'll be home in an instant
Wasting all of this time
The thing is, I don't mind
171 · Sep 2017
Fever Rush
Vinnie Brown Sep 2017
There's a certain simplicity
In taking five minutes
Just five simple minutes of solitude
To think back on all the good the world has to offer
To be humbled by your failures for the day
That the patter of rain or the sun coming up brings about a gentle peace
I've come to learn that the best medicine is to laugh and enjoy the moment
For she is in this moment undeniably life warming
With a fever rush smile
And eyes that smile brighter
Happiness temporary for sure
But, with her around, it seems to be more common than ever
171 · Apr 2017
The Things We Chase
Vinnie Brown Apr 2017
In the dark of the moon
When our hearts and minds are in chaos
When nothing seems to be in tune
At the end it seems as if we're always gifted loss

Running after things I just don't say
This life that we're living might haunt us forever
We're burning in hell if we're dying tonight
Hate what we're feeling, at least were honest
This change could be broken the rest of our life
Vinnie Brown May 2017
I got a fairytale in my heart I can't cope
But I've been keeping hope
They must've had you in mind when naming the rose
To chase one another in the moonlight
Kiss the landscapes of each other in the starlight
**** the guards, open the gates for feelings unbound
Get the love lost hearts inside the cold doesn't deserve such smiles
It would never be enough to see them only love once in a while
A boy trying to write and confess how he felt about the girl, kept running out of paper
She always knew that he'd wait for her
Both agreed never to get caught up in caution when love exist
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