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sarah Apr 2016
maybe i don't know much, but i do know about the fires inside of me urging to be extinguished.
they feel much larger than i am.
they scream for any means of relief.
so heavy they might as well be an extra limb.
the human heart has unique versatility of loving so hard, feeling so deeply, but also experiencing so much ******* pain.
whether it be anger
resentment
or just outright sadness,
in whatever form it manifests, it's loss.
your sanity, a person, your equilibrium.
in whichever way you grieve, a loss is a loss.
but, you've got to hold on, my love.
human beings are crafted far too beautifully to fall short of anything but going down swining.
i bear witness to the flames turning into smouldering reminders that the world is so **** tough.
but when relief comes, it comes.
it doesn't feel much like it now, but the darkness does subside.
in the same way that the earth begins to repair itself after all of this devastation, you too can be begin again.

- show me a map of the battle wounds, but markers on the places that cut the deepest.
-don't cry anger, or pity, or knives. just cry.
Jay earnest May 2017
got
up yesterday

and took
a ****

straight into a

can of heinz baked
beans

then placed
back into the freezer.

some days down
the line

an acquantence
found the beans
and took a bite
and complimented my culinary ability.


branches
were swining outside
from the coming
hurricane
and few
lizards
rolled underneat the carpet so as to escape the elements
and absorb the warmth.


suzy
is still crazy,

but she died in december.

george is ugly
like a cancerous bat-faced
ectomorph
but has a heart of gold.

larry is just a ***-

and he knows it.


but some nights
i still cuddle
with dawn
and speak to the mermaids that kiss me goodnight
as i stroke myself
to sleep
in a dull
memory
and voided
receipt that is the 'hour of beguilement'.
Em Sep 2018
My credit is ******
so  I can’t get a house
Collections coming for my ***
Before my chance to get out
Sleepin in my parents basement
Got no light, got no hope
Watch me close, I may be swining
From a 9 foot rope

i said "I want a future
Want a home in this heart"
But got beat the **** down
Before a chance to even start
I had ambition, had dreams
Had it all panned out
Took a second to think
On what my life is about

Nooow
I’m sittin here
fukin blinkin and ****
Don’t know what comes next
But know that this ain’t it

Think I’ll steal my neighbor’s car
Drive it off to the coast
Get a chance to find me
And what I care about most
Find my heart, find my people
Find my reason to be
I dunno I just feel
I’ll find myself by the sea

— The End —