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shirley temple Aug 2011
Cracked an eye,
still a smooth blanket of dark.
Glue unstuck, the pebbles tumble
to my brain and scoot and sing
across a caffeine urge,
simple movement,
groggy knowledge.

Urination, caffeinated, contacts in,
rockslide.
The inner bump and stumble,
never slowing,
Dead awake.
Will Lee Werner Jun 2010
I show no remorse.
I cause people nothing but emotional sores.
I have a mean side.
That can hit you like a rockslide.
I hate myself for it.
But some may never forget.
Im sorry is all i can say.
Now i go my seperate way.
Valarola Nikola May 2018
When those who sang the songs that kept you alive,
Well it seems they can't do anything but die,
I wonder where does that leave you,
On a night you just can't seem to make it through?
You can't listen to their music anymore,
Because it doesn't have that magic at it's core,
It just makes you want to give up and jump,
Because all you see in your future is a stomach pump,
So where do you go?
What do you listen to?

When the rockslide can't hold your weight,
Inside your mind, where you're afraid,
Well do you slide down the mountain,
Or find a way to break your fall down?

Nothing makes sense,
Since your hero hung himself,
When their music made you feel less alone,
Instead of out here all alone,
Well now your lullabye is a nightmare,
And no one seems to care,
Do you go on along the path all alone,
While ahead you can hear screaming on the road,
While inside there's heart that's broken,
And a mind that is shaken?

When the rockslide can't hold your weight,
Inside your mind, where you're afraid,
Well do you slide down the mountain,
Or find a way to break your fall down?
Chris Thomas Sep 2016
It's obvious
I'll never be what you want me to be
Like a rockslide on Mount Everest
I am devastation and little more

It's simple
We choose to fade completely to black
But as we do, my fingernails
Are clutching tightly on all the greys

It's inescapable
There's only one direction to go
But like a compass without a needle
The right one is always obscured by chaos

It's rudimentary
There is a soundtrack to this life
But I am trapped within intermission
And the show may never resume again

It's cathartic
Tossing all these failures to the wind
I watch as they become an albatross
And quickly crash back to cold, hard, earth
Jacob Rofini May 2016
You love me loudly.
Like thunder crashing as you roll on top of me.
You love me quietly.
Like the pitter patter of rain as I kiss your skin.
You love me hard.
Like a rockslide as our lips crash together.
You love me softly.
Like autumn's first fallen leaf as our hearts connect.
You love me bravely.
Like a mother bear as you protect me from my demons.
You love me shyly.
Like a field mouse as you run back to my arms.
You love me selfishly.
Like winter's eternal snow as you blanket me from harm.
You love me givingly.
Like the summer's gentle sun as you provide for me.
You love me like earth's four seasons, like the world's seven wonders.
You love me like the change of the seasons and you love me like the unfaltering sun.
You love me like God loves his creation.
You love me unconditionally.
Sara Sep 2015
Too many birds call in the morning.
Refuse to know their name
and then, nothing matters.

A rockslide slides up
a mountain and
down your throat-

can't breathe
when the airs so thin
you'd think the trees stopped giving oxygen

Aspens stand
and spit out
too tall for their kind.
Inspired by the natural and beautifully claustrophobic Pike National Forest
big sleeper Jan 2021
has it really been thirteen years
since we dreamed of the city surrounded by cornfields

19 was a different lens
hot august evenings staring at the stars
on the rockslide in the quarry by your father's house
where we drifted deeper into love and ardor

in the heat of an endless summer,
the unflinching drift towards new romance and dreams of
marriages and sacred vows and well,
where did it all lead us, and where are we now?

in interceding years came new flames and hurricanes
and always those roads turned back towards you, didn't they
i sat for you for your paintings and i fell more and more
in love with someone whose heart could never let me stay

now, what have we come to, and what have we learned?

32 a new lens with clearer eyes and
i surmise now that i knew not where that road would go
i kept the promise that i'd made, just in a different way
past the barns and the long highways i'd dreamed of with you

glacial, time continues on
and memories are fleeting but fond

has it really been thirteen years
since i knew the joy of you
a short piece for a first love in memory. this sort of sprung to life after reading a ~2007 poetry collection i'd done in college and i wondered "what if i revisit some of this with the lens of being more than a decade removed from it?" - and i like the gentleness of the overall piece, too. it felt pleasant to be vulnerable here.
mhm Jan 2020
It's always a burden
To focus on one thing
At a time

The bittersweet journey
The passion project
The immovable dreams
The endless hobby
It is a rockslide

What is more affordable than why
How is just a nuisance
The words should form something better
In our minds

Afford what you can
Or slide away
I've been gone for a awhile, srry.

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