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Lexie Nov 2015
I have walked so many miles
Never in your shoes
I never seen many smiles
Never been the one on your lips

So many journeys always alone
Many places to go
Where I travel unknown
In these worn boots

In these worn boots I mark
The earth with my feet
God gave me a spark
So the earth I enflame

Every journey a mission
I walk with these boots
Some stop, and they listen
To the words I've carried

These boots are a gift to my feet
Many steps they have made
Whether dirt road or paved street
They make their mark

I could sleep while I walk
My boots know the way
They keep going, they never stop
It is a path ever-trod

Ever to encompass the earth
Until I walk home
To my humbled birth
Deep inside your heart

These boots I stomp at the door
Like a knock to the ground
I love you, do you know what for?
Because you gave me these boots

You knew I would always walk
And didn't want me to forget
You couldn't follow, wouldn't stalk
The person who let me go

Wanted me to remember, those times
You were my rest
You colored me between the lines
Now you carry me

With these boots on my feet
I will find a way
A way for us, again, to meet
At a crossroads

Intersectable, so connectable
Like Lego bricks
We are built, unbreakable
This love, unmistakable

I don't always like
What you have to say
Never will I strike
You, and walk away

A promise that comes from  a past
A promise it is
A promise that will promise to last
My word.

So these boots continue
To carry promises
To walk, because I miss you
Just to be closer

Even if I never touch your heart
I know we
Are never far apart
Not in my head

Boots to ***** in the dirt
To find you
Boots to wear, when we flirt
Or any other time

Boots a map to my home
To find you, my love
So I will not be alone
Just me, and my boots
Ryan Bowdish Oct 2013
I want to fix everything all the time
Maybe that's why I'm greying early.
Anxiety only feels good when I commit crimes
Ironically, because it's always there in me.
I think when I'm thirty I'll be bald
Alopecia will hit me by the time I'm twenty five
Can't breathe with palpitations, or so they're called
With these heart murmurs, I'm amazed I'm still alive.
Nostalgia makes me laugh and cry simultaneously
I know I take myself far too seriously
I'm tired of holding and losing things near and dear to me
Like acid drops and alcohol my blood's relatively
A relevancy and tell me, do I look infected to you?
I hide behind pastimes and impulsive rap lines
But nothing in the world could be farther from the truth
With smashed cats on road sides and fast forgotten rhymes, I
Wake up to Jim beam smiling over me
Cover leaves and evergreens childishly wind chime
I two-time everyone I meet to some subtle degree
And I've told my mom to die one too many times
But it's cool because without these angst phases
I'd have no words to express the connectable times
Which are the worst times, remember what I say
LSD and new Mexico make me want to fly away

Do I have a clue what I'm doing when I'm drinking at six thirty in the morning?

Today, around noon, I met true doom
On the train tracks of my Oklahoma culdesac
There was a dog split in four separate pieces
And though it was full of countless diseases
I thought Jesus, no one needs to see that
Considering the fabulous place we live at
So we picked up his leg and his two ******* torsos
And his head was twelve feet away from the track, more so
Rotten his teeth crushed, his spirit forgotten
Sought for life out of the fences he was brought in
Though we looked, no collar was around
So we put the poor ******* three feet underground
Brian cline built a cross (he was tossed)
And lost and crossed the best friend he fought
And I forgot for a minute the duties I hate
Because for once I did something that needed no reinstatement
Mourning wood does no good and frankly neither do I
Because when mom drinks she drives, and it puts suicide in my mind
But I got other options left to use
My throbbing ******* is sore, my bush blue and abused
Tattoo bleeding through, misconstrued my good graces
All these racists are faceless, playing miss Ohio's nameless
At full blast, backward, like present turned to past
If it were that simple, God knows maybe I'd last.

Do I have a clue what I'm doing
When I'm drinking at six thirty in the morning?

Bible belt majority, getting snotty and disorderly
Conformity torturing me, the owls hooting quarterly
In minutes, it's finished, let'***** it and stick it
This sickness is missing a home and I can't ****
Coffee in my *** is uncomfortable, but a necessity, like a
Suppository, strapped down the old man, the orderlies
Are ornery. I'm ***** but I'm tired of ***
Wishing I could love someone I've never really met
I can't rest at night with these relentless dreams
Waking me up with cold sweats and hoarse screams
My mind is reamed by the thought of Lucy in the mail
All the while hoping my friends keep themselves out of jail
I know this isn't hell, but I still feel like I'll fail
Chasing my own tail out of the fear that this isn't real
And don't tell me these restless moments are just deja vu
I know I saw all this coming when I was dazed in my youth
Swollen lymph nodes in my neck and in my back
Blowin smoke right back, who will be the first to act?
I'm tactless and laughless, and hapless, this mattress
Had lasted, in fact it's madness, this last kiss?
I've wracked it and cracked it with no decryption key
With all this frustration flying around, no one can hit me
But you scream all the way up the staircase
And I hope to the devil I never forget your face.
Wrote this a few years ago when living in Oklahoma. Thanks for the title miss Ohio's nameless to why?  And Josh "yoni" wolf
Big Virge Jul 2017
Ya Know .....

It Truly is ... INCREDIBLE ... !!!

The Effect of seeing a ... " FlexibLe " ...
WOMAN ... who is ... " ****** " ... !!!!!!!!!

By This ... I mean ...
She's ... Credible ...
cos' her mind's ... BEYOND .........................................................

A ... Vegetable ...
with A ***' ... that's Far From ................................... Spherical ........ !!!

STRONG and ... FIRM ... !!!
cos' she makes it ... Work ...
in ways ... " Most girls " ...
Now Choose ... to ... shirk .........................................

Especially in ...
Those ... " Maturing " ... years ...

Where ... Staying Thin ...
Demands ... Shifting ... gears ...
and ... Exercising ... !!!!! ...

I met a girl ... Today ...
who made me ... Feel This Way ... !!!

We've Met .... Before ...
but it's ...... been a .......................................... while .................

You ... Know The Score ....
Kinda' like ... Her Style ... !?!

Got her ... " Digits " ...
WITHOUT ... Blinking ... !!!

Could this be where ... ?
Incredible ... Dares ...
to start to ... Share ...
What it is ... to ... Find ...
someone who ... Binds ...
with you ... for ... LIFE ... !!?!!

An INCREDIBLE ... Thing ... !!!
Like ... " Chance Meetings " ... ???

That ... make you think ....

" How Crazy is this ?!? "

Time will ... TELL .....................................

But it's ... " Tenable " ... ?!?
cos' our timing seemed ...

.... IMPECCABLE .... !!!!!!!!

But .... Moving on ......
WITHOUT ... Love Songs ... !!!

It's INCREDIBLE ... How ...
These words ... Expound ... !?!

Because of ... " Something ' ...
that could be ... Nothing ...

Yeah .....
The Mind's ... INCREDIBLE ... !!!
when thoughts become ... PLENTIFUL ...
and you "EMBRACE" ... Your ... Mental ...
in ways ... NOT ... Detrimental ... !!! ...

It's ... " Almost like " ...
A ... " Stencil " ...

Enabling us to ...
.... " Pencil " ....

Our Next Move and ...
... " Assemble " ...

A way to ...
Groove and REVEL ... !!!
As if you'd won ...
A ... Medal ... !!! ...

This verse is ... Existential ...
or just ... " Experimental " ... ???

Like ....
" New Techniques of " ... Dental ...

Involving ...

" New " ... Utensils ... !!!

This verse has ... " Rhyme Potential " ..
to earn myself ... " Credentials " ...
Instrumental and ... ESSENTIAL ... !!!!!
in showing just how ... SPECIAL ...

The use of words ... CAN BE ... !?!

Incredible ... INDEED ... !!!

Through use of ... " Poetry " ...

" Professional " ... " Exceptional " ...
Contextual ... " Collectibles " ...

Commendable ... " Indelible " ...
Credible ... and ... " Seminal " ...

You just wait and .... See ... !!!

Delectable ... Digestable ...
and Legible ... to Read ...

Prophetical ............................. ?

" Maybe " ......... ?!?

when speaking ...
About ... " Scenes " ..............................

Accesible in .... " Dreams " ....

Dreams of ... " Future Themes ............................

That change how ... " We Now Be " ...

REPREHENSIBLE ... INFLEXIBLE ... !!!

Susceptible ....
to ... GREED ... !!!!!

and acts Defined as  ... TERRIBLE ... !!!!!!

By ... Hypocrites Mostly ... !!!

The .....
" Electable " ... INTELLECTUALS ...

CONTEMPTIBLE ...
I Believe ... !!!!!! ...

Whose ... " Sentinels " ...
Directional ....
Points to .... Facilities ...

CORRECTIONAL ... " Man PLEASE !!! " ....

Their ... " Receptacles " ...
NEED ... " Medical " ...

So that ....
They can ... Receive ...

A ... " Congressional " ... REPRIEVE ... !!!

FREE OF ............................................................."Fal­lacies" ...... !!!!!

" Recessional " ... and Decimal.
According to ... " MP's " ... !?!

and Leaders .... INTERNATIONAL ...
Who Claim to be ... " Quite Rational " ...
when sending ...  " EXPENDABLE " ... Teams ... !!!
to make SPECTACLES ... Overseas ... !!! ...

Fit For ... " Flatscreen TV's " ... !!!
or YES ... for ... " Movie Screens " ... !!!!!

That Line ... would seem ... ?
to be a ... Connectable Seam ...
to some ... " Expendables 3 " ... !!!

But Before ... I end ...
This ..... Festival .....

of wordplay ... " Intertextual " ...

Has this been ... " Hypothetical " ... ?
or what's called ... Existential ... ?!?

Well ...
What It's ... NOT ...

Is ... ****** ... !!!!!

because it's from ... " My Mental " ...
and a meeting ... " Incidental " ..............................

That ...
Somehow got ... CEREBRAL ...

" Poetic and " ...
Quite Regal ...

Exhibiting to ... People ...

How my ... UNQUENCHABLE ...
THIRST ... is ... Exceptional ... !!!

for verse that's ..... Credible ....
Respectable and ... SENSIBLE ... !!!

But NOT THIS WORD ...... !!!!!!

... " Lamentable " ... !!!

YES It's ... " Intellectual " ...

Comprehensible and ... Connectable ...
because it flows like .... Ventricles ........................................................

It also is ... Commendable ...
and ... I'd say ... INCONTESTABLE ... !!!!!

When saying ....

" It's Incredible "
Just having some fun with words after being inspired, like the poem says, by a woman out jogging in the sun, by the Caribbean Sea .....
Nicole Sep 2018
The savior
The perfect partner
The dominant
The free spirit
The fiancé
The parental substitute
The anarchist
The sweetheart
The nice guy
All of these aspects of myself
Yet none of them are fully me
These are the roles I've fallen into
In order to match my various partners
And though all of these may be
Different components of me
None of them feels quite whole
I do not feel whole

All of these personalities
Exist on a spectrum of time and space
None interacting with any others
Each signifies a distinct point in life
Each has its own home
It's own experiences
Attitudes and viewpoints
Behaviors and habits

Yet what do I do when
Two of my contextualized selves
Decide to overlap?
When my ex who knew the fiancé
Moves back to town where I live
As does my person
Who's heard stories of the others
But who only knows the nice guy

How do I begin to heal when
I do not understand what is real
And what existed solely for others?
How do I continue to grow
When the fiancé is fighting restraints
And the nice guy is exhausted
The sweetheart does not exist
And the anarchist screams for revolution?

They seem to be fighting each other
Just to have a chance to breathe
A chance to take the wheel
A chance to control "me"
Yet who even am I?
Are all of these selves fabricated
Or are they hyperbolized aspects of me
Connectable like puzzle pieces
Into one beautiful picture?

The problem is
The picture I see is not beautiful
I'm trying to be nice to myself
But all I see and feel is darkness
I am an abomination
An evil person who cannot be trusted
A dark soul inhabiting an empty body
A person who is not a person
A human with a lack of self
It's almost like I'm not even alive
But even death would be a relief
So I can finally end the confusion
And stop hurting people along the way
I Drown
In The Sorrows
Of The
Desolated
Sky
People
Wonder Why
I Am A
Loner
In The Corner
The Quiet
One
The Open
Minded
Yet Not Connectable
For Some
Reason
I Tell
The Truth
To People
That I Shortly
Know
And They
Are Great
Yet
When We
Talk
A Week
Later
They Are
Old News
Just Like
Happiness
Its Old
News
I Love
Solitude
I Am
A Lone Wolf
In My Heart
Only One
Can Join
She Can Only
Can
~Paris Styron~
Onoma Nov 2018
your timing's so good--

you prove it doesn't exist.

a stand in testification...

unshakably watching what

gets carried away.

nothing will survive your

Bodhisattva gaze~that's

not willing to give it all away

in an instant.

the ground lights up as your

feet root pilgrimage.

you turn around to heed

the world's call, the world

follows...as it must.

it's you who has the strength to

integrate such pause given.

what's that look like?

i mean, eyes are connectable...

usable in an act of faith.

i keep looking into your eyes,

and they'll never tell me you're

nowhere to be found...because

we look through one another

so well.
Big Virge May 2020
Ya Know I'm A Man of CONVICTION...
Whose NOT Been In PRISON... !!!!!

Because I Condition My Body And Mind...
To AVOID.................... FOOLISH Fights... !!!!!
That CLEARLY AREN'T Wise... !!!!!

My Conviction In Life...
Is To Use Peaceful Vibes...
To Help Me... LIVE RIGHT... !!!!!

However THAT Line I Think You Will Find...
Is NOT How I Ride When Temperatures RISE... !!!!!

I Am A BIG GUY So... You Should Play NICE... !!!
And Make Me Wear SMILES Cos' FROWNS Are The Guide...
That I'm Getting STRESSED And About To Get VEX... !!!!!!

And TRUST In THIS Text...
ANYTHING Could Come Next... !!!!

But As I First Said...
My Convictions EMBRACE...
A More... " Peaceful Place "...

But When It Comes To... My Wordplay...
My Convictions DISPLAY An ARRAY of Thought Waves...
ANALYTICAL and CRITICAL of How We Live Today... !!!

CONVICTIONS Now CONDITIONED...
To Play... Society's Games...

"DON'T SAY THIS ! DON'T SAY THAT !" ...

"Say THAT AGAIN, You'll Face My GAT !" ...

I'm Sad To Say Such Vibes Are FACT...
With... NOT ENOUGH CONVICTIONS...
That Put THESE FOOLS In PRISON... !!!!!

TOO MANY HOLD Convictions...
With Missions NOT To Listen... ?!?
A Conviction LACKING Wisdom...
And OPEN Minded... Visions...
Allowing For MORE THINKING.................

And Thought That's...

.............. NOT CONDITIONED............. !!!!!!

Like THOSE Who Stay... "IMPRISONED".... !?!
Within A World That's....... " sinking "........ !!!!

Like Ships On Television...
Or Cinema BIG SCREENS...

Do You See What I Mean... ???

My Convictions... LEAN...
To CONNECTABLE Seams... !!!!!
While SOME It Seems NOW LEAN With Teams...
Where Thoughts NOW RECEDE...
From THEOLOGICAL Themes...

Like... " Adam and Eve ".... ?!?

What Am I SEEING... ?!?

" Genevieve and Eve And Adam and Steve "... !?!

Well Virge DON'T Sway My Game's STILL STRAIGHT...
When It Comes To *** GAMES And Talk About Race... !!!

It Seems SOME... "hide positions"...
Where Racism's CONDITIONED... !!!!!

While OTHERS HOLD Opinions...
That Racism's NOW Slippin'........................... .................
Like DRIPPING In A Kitchen.... ?!!!?

So DOESN'T NEED To Be Spoken About... !?!
Tell THAT To The Fam' of MICHAEL BROWN... !!!!

A Young Man GUNNED DOWN By Police Who HOUND...
Young Blacks in Towns... Like They've ALWAYS DONE... !!!!

So...
What They Gonna Say NOW... !?!?!

THESE... CONDITIONED Mouths...
Who DON'T FACE Police Guns... !!!!!

What They CLAIM Is Like Saying...

RACISM Will Die... !?!
And CHAUVINISM ISN'T Part of Life... ?

Which IS... Just ANOTHER LIE... !!!!!

If THAT's What They Be Thinking...
Their ***** NEED ***** To Lick Em'... !!!!!
While Women Do... **** LICKIN'... !!!!!

These Lyrics I'm Now KICKIN'...
PROVE That I'm NOT Conditioned...
To ACCEPT Societies' Ways... !!!!!

IF Gay Folks Are THE SAME...
As EVERY OTHER Human Face... ?!?
CAN'T They TAKE LYRICISM...
That Gives Out CRITICISM...
of How They NOW Be Living...
IN FRONT of Peoples' Vision... ?!?

And Words From THOSE Now Quizzing...
From Muslim Crews To... Christians... ?!?

Whose FORMAT of... " Religion "...
Takes The STANCE of WOMAN and MAN...
As The FAMILY PLAN By Which They STAND... !???!

Which Can Be CONFIRMED... " HISTORICALLY "... !!!!

That's EQUALITY To ME...
That STANDS FIRM and TALL...
EQUALITY... For ONE And ALL... !!!!!

NOT Something That LEANS...
When Traditions FALL... !?!

It's Just A Simple QUESTION...
So DON'T You Start... " Suggesting "...

That... " Virge Holds HATE ! "...

WITHIN My Brain... I'm Merely Saying...
That CONVICTIONS Have CHANGED... !?!

Like Maybe They Could And Probably SHOULD... !!!
When It Comes To The Names Who RUN The State...
of Nations NOW CONDITIONED To HINDER Peoples' Living...

In... NATURAL Human Ways... !!!
Because Nowadays Technology REIGNS... !!!
But What Have We GAINED Are We MORE HUMANE... ?!?

Or... CONDITIONED And Lame... !!?!!
When It Comes To CONFRONTING...
THOSE Pushing and SHUVVING...
Like Feds'... Using TRUNCHEON... !!!!!!

It's Time For MORE LOVING...
And MUCH LESS Gun Clutching... !!!!!!!!

So....
Here's Some Last Thoughts...

CONDITIONED Minds Tend To Be Blind...
To What They SEE So... " Live In Dreams "...

And CERTAIN Conditions...
DO NEED INQUISITIONS... !!!!!

Before Their ADDITION Becomes A DOMINION...
Where People STOP Building And Become THE VILLAIN...
of Human Submission To Simply... NOT THINKING... !!?!!

I Now See My Life's MISSION As Seeking TRUE WISDOM...
So Just Like The Visions That... Big Virge Has Written...

These Things I Now Do...
With PURPOSE and......

..... " CONVICTION ".....
As humans continue to re-invent themselves, and change, one has to wonder, what certain human convictions, will end up becoming ........

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