"deminished" poems
We tried to be better with each new cause.
But while we tried to save the whale, we polluted its home.
We tried to save the tiger but its home was used for lumber.
The orangutans deminished for Palm oil and crops.
Now the globe is warming and the oceans rise.
They're full of plastic and everything is dying.
So now we have only ourselves to blame for plastics, Monsanto and wild hurricanes.
The next great cause will be because of effect.
No one to save mankind, as he killed everything else.
Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 at 10:45 AM UTC
I refuse to believe that demons
Know only hate
Thus why they wreak havoc on humanity
I choose to believe that they
Once loved
Loved with all their being
And their love was lost to them
So they wreak havoc on us all
In hopes that
By making us suffer
Their pain may in turn
Be deminished
If only for a moment
The day they loved & lost
Was the day they lost their humanity
And a demon was born.
Feb 12, 2013
Feb 12, 2013 at 2:40 PM UTC
Misty winds, perilous deeds,
smeltering sun, wandering needs,
easily breakable moments, brittle
as cold glass, empty heart within
why cant my insignificance pass,
deep sighs, strong murmurs, straining of
the pressure as my stress slowly hurdles,
red moon, blood-filled skies, daggers piercing
my eyes as the passion cries, When does it end?
Where do my thoughts lead? So vacant inside
myself I just proceed with greed, lost in the mind,
filled with heavy glitches, somebody pick me up
before i lose my britches, demons surround me
all the time, I truly need relief, a new lease on life,
no longer can handle the grief or pain from the strife,
God has my ticket, considered truly my spiritual guider,
trying to seek the light, the heavenly hole spreads wider,
my mind getting clearer, im delivered from the corrupt,
no longer deminished inside, released from fate so abrupt...
©Michael P. Smith
Mar 16, 2013
Mar 16, 2013 at 8:57 AM UTC
A small piece of humanness
almost not here at all but she is big in the heart and her spirit is wall to wall.
Sparkler.
Not to be deminished
at all.
A sparkling light. Ember like.
burning furiously and quiet save for a fizz and flicker.
Quicker than soft silver. A flicker.
Flickering soul detained to never grow old.
Old soul in a wind whipped frame
Framed in a miniscule moment.
A moment is all you are.
Are.
Aug 7, 2015
Aug 7, 2015 at 3:51 PM UTC
Shot, Beaten
Broken, Scarred
There's nothing left
I'm torn apart
The day you walked away
There was nothing to say
Nothing to do
But sit there and pray
Was it the right thing
Was it the best
God knows I tried
To fill in the rest
Of the holes
From your torn heart
I'm sorry
But we all fell apart
The screaming
The lying
The beating
The dying
Nothing in life was
Good anymore
I got sick and tired
Of walking out the door
Every minute was
Just another yelling match
Nothing could be done
Nothing could be patched
I fell out of love
I fell out of the lies
I got sick and tired
Of always saying goodbye
So here is why
Were not together
I guess it turned out a lie
When you said "forever"
Forever lives
Forever dies
Forever...
I am sick of the lies
So when you think
About everthing I do
Just remember
I used to love you
Now it's done
Over and finished
Both both tired
Souls deminished
So here's to goodbye
Raise up your glass
It wasn't all my fault
I guess it was meant to pass
Jul 22, 2010
Jul 22, 2010 at 4:32 PM UTC
You haunt me,
You haunt me in my dreams,
With nothing beautiful or of what we could be.
You haunt me with the things I was too blind to see.
You haunt me in every way,
You haunt me even though i know there's nothing left to say.
With every day that may pass I tell myself
That nothing ever lasts.
You left a bitter sweet taste in my heart and soul,
I keep telling myself, not to feel guilty,
Not to be cold.
But you haunt me, you haunt me
And I can't gain control.
Loosing my grip
I'm not scared anymore, that we have deminished,
I Just want your haunting days to finish.
Feb 20, 2015
Feb 20, 2015 at 3:29 PM UTC
The way our
Fingers brushed
On that cold night
As I ran my
Fingers
Through your hair,
Down your
S
P
I
N
E
Made me love you
Even more.
But,
Sadly,
That's all gone.
The feelings have deminished into
Nothing.
I hope it's what you wanted.
Apr 22, 2013
Apr 22, 2013 at 8:28 PM UTC
Up all night sleep all day nothing ever gets done
My focus is deminished my goals are no longer what I loved is dead to me and my smile will never be
I feel no love anymore and no happimess for this is what I picked.I feel as if I am in a mud sinking in the earth alone and sick
I lost everything
I am so ashamed
Trapped in a plastic tube with a sharp point dulling with every pull
I did this to myself to hide my pain this is the new me no future no goals no self respect and no self esteam I feel like Im insane.
I cant look
in the mirror for I am afraid of who I see just emptiness its like looking at a ghost that was once me
I pray that someday I will wake up from this hell I live .
And someday feel alive
Hopefully I will survive
As the days keep coming I see less and less one day I will awake and see no more .
There is nothing left ,what can I expect
what happened to me and why ?
I could never confess.
I live a life of hell why did I allow such weakness to prevail
Its the rush of my new found friend
As its drags me down and leaves me to drown.
Who ever thought as the feeling was to good
We keep chasing the high only to face the devil with his deceptive way
oh how we will pay
Chasing the high that will
Never be the same .
lost it all
no fortune or fame
I leave old memories and laughs for a dark future
For one day you may want to chase the rush please understand no one survives this evil thrush.
Its, over
you loose everything never to be the same .
Your addicted
only making things worse you must be insane
many years of torture many years of despair
For now your life is beyond repair
no one really cares
I cant breathe no more for all I see is darkness no thought no feelings alone in a wooden box rotting away
no high no life
I threw it all away
Was it really worth it?
May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 11:37 AM UTC
Oh you monsterous voice in my head don't tell me otherwise. If I ever get to grasp ahold of you I will tear you to pieces, showing no remoarse.
For the time being I'll have to let you exist.
I will show you how strong I truly am, till you are deminished to nothing more than a spec of dust.
Aug 11, 2019
Aug 11, 2019 at 7:16 AM UTC
Your eyes say a lot about who you are beneath your guarded surface if the right one is looking
The nights spent aching over a deminished love, tossing and turning, holes in your heart burning
The pain you hide so well is revealed when they take a good look into your dull eyes
The circles from the sleepless nights that your makeup won't cover, they will know and they will love you
They will understand the secrets your eyes have vaguely told and they won't speak a word about it
Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 2:23 AM UTC
Tension in the prison that I sit in when Im livid. Its a sentence or some pennance for a sin that I've commited. When our mission turns to vengance earned forgiveness isant given. Within minutes no ones finished sayin **** they wanted written. In an instant your indifference makes us cinics faith deminished. With no witness poor decisions have of course now forced opinions. At my limits I've convinced them to enlist the quickest minions. I envision life as gifted why give in to mindless business.
Dec 4, 2019
Dec 4, 2019 at 1:31 AM UTC
I was asked which I would rather live in
a lie or a truth
most would say truth that's the truth
to know everything for it all to be revealed
but it my case that's not the truth
in my case i just wish this truth was a lie
but even more so
I wish I still had the lie
the lie that she loved me
that I wasn't alone
the one point in my entire little life I was happy
the time I had hope and fun
but that world deminished by the truth
so if I'm asked which id rather have the truth or the lie
I hope you don't want the truth
because the truth is not freedom
its cold and dark
so if I'm asked which id rather have the wonderful lie
Or the horrible truth
I do hope you choose wisely
because the lie is much better
The lie had love
I just wish i could be happy again
and that's the only truth I waunt
Because the truth broke my heart
I just wish I had that one lie again to mend
but it all came to an end
for the truth is the worst thing
Nov 22, 2017
Nov 22, 2017 at 8:45 PM UTC