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Lexie Jan 2017
I have so much stuff
On my mind
So many words
Out of her mouth
And this heart is heavy
Like a mountain
Hanging over the moon
Every breath and gentle whisper
Crushed in his hand
And as I come
To the feet of Jesus
I surrender, my family
To you.
Whatever the end
No matter the cost
I will pay, because you paid
And you pour
A steady stream, of life
Into me, over my life
Immeasurable blessings
Flow from you
And your Spirit fills me
I am drawn
Into your glory
Filled, with your purpose
Direction from your word
Carries me, into battle
And away from the lies
To rest in your grace
Is to know love
Unconditional.
Lexie Feb 2016
You are my hope when I have none


My light in the deepest dark


You sing to me the truth


Like my morning star, and Lark





You are my dreams so sweet


My nights everlasting


And we shall cling to each other


While the stars are passing





You are my friend


In the cool of the dawn


You make the world right


When it is tilting into wrong





You are my sister


We bleed the same tears


You are my sword


You fight my fears





You my shadow


Holding up these walls


You hear my voice


Every time it calls
Lexie Sep 2022
My heart is bargaining
With the gods for you
They raise the wage
It is no matter
I will pay the price
Lexie Apr 2018
This may be an unwelcome opinion
But
I hope you are proud of yourself, proud of your personality, proud of who you are, proud of what you've been through even if you don't like the way you went through it
And if you aren't, if you are ashamed, then I hope you have the guts to change it

Because you deserve to love yourself
Lexie Jan 2022
You are a soulless cage
Candles burning out
Timber fingers grasping
At a bleak unforgiving sky
You wander to the dark place
Unable to illuminate
There were angels here once
"Fear not" "Do not be afraid"
Carved into the bark
Does anxiety always come before truth
Existential agony before God's bidding
If so, I am ripe, I am waiting
Prune my tree of life branches back
If I am not wick then I am wicked
I am shame bathed in myrrh
Did not former trunks
Hold the great burden of salvation
Is the cross before or behind
My lingering grave
Beckons for me
I do not fear the earth
Only where the mind goes
When the body cannot follow
What armies could kindness muster
To war against the unknown
Crucify yourself against me
The nails in my hands
Filter the light in
I am fighting a losing cause
A thousand fall to my side
Ten thousand at my right hand
Who will bury the dead
I thought only the roots of trees belonged buried
Yet coffins slip into soil
Sins under a night sky
Lexie Jun 2018
These words in the marrow of my bones climb their way out my fingertips
To dance their life-song out on paper
Rather than dying like a kiss on my lips
Lexie Jul 2014
I wish I could dream in purple
Its dark cascading color
An  effortless flow of memory
And gentle goodnight kisses
Of silent starry wishes
And dreams sent to the clouds
Of angry methodical voices
Who will always take a bow
Lexie Jan 2016
Glide to the center
In your ghostly form
I could walk right through you
Like a wraith

It was a deeper shade
Than all the purples, all the purples before
They snuck in the edges
Of my vision

Like the sun
Setting into dark
They filled the abyss
With their chaos and color

If I was the lightning
Reflected in your eyes
I would be content
For I would always be with you

You crackle with electricity
But everywhere on this earth I touch
Turns to fire and ash
I dare not make you shine

For if I did
The world would burn
Into ashes and memories
And the tallest trees would crumble

You don't have a clue
How storms are made
Like your temper
They rise and fall

And like your dreams
They fade
Into a distant memory
A cold past

Every time I hear it
My spine shudders in recognition
My shoulders tighten like a rope
And I spark

Down the wires
I dance so merrily
Into your home, and heart
Through the walls I course

Nothing, but trouble and beauty
Like ice and salt I burn
When crushed in your hand.
A challenge.

You provoked me
Into the night and its darkness
I will return
In tenfold of clouds

And rain down
Until I reign!
You pull the reigns
And my tears rain

Like a bit in my mouth
These words are so sharp
I spit them out
And they foam

Like a rabid monster
I bit your heart
I wormed inside
And found my own way out

The small of my back
Damp with the sweat of my fear
The whole world
Thinking I am a star

I shine brighter
But not for you
Like a diamond on your hand
That you can't hold

But I found my courage at the bottom:
The bottom of the glass
The bottoms of the chasm
The bottom of your heart

I walked many halls
And the keys of your piano-forte
And then I fell
Like a crescendo

Black and white
I saw stars
Blue and purple
Around my eyes

They serve as a reminder
On my wrist
In your letters.
And every day

We don't forget
We just don't remember
Less and less
Until it's gone

When it's wrong its allowed
But we wouldn't say it out loud
So loud I couldn't hear
Until I got it out

We try to make it right
Wouldn't take what's left
Scared of what's behind
And the future much to near

So comfortable with the chaos
We hate it, until it's lost
I wanted so hard to find it
When that time came, you had changed

Your tentacles reach
And sting my skin
The lightning bites back
But it's to cold

Cold in my head
I can't shake out
Like a snow globe
With a pounding melody

I'm the wild one
With the blue eyes
With the knife
And the disguise

A mask of emotions
Ripped away
And the anger crackles forth
And wraps the earth in fingers of light

Go to sleep
With a solid belief
That love doesn't exist.
Awakened to a reality,

Where it was here
But it is destroyed
I know I had it
Now it's gone

It left it's mark
Like a hammer in my heart
And it got stuck
It wouldn't get out

I bite into the truth
And the regret trickles down my throat
The taste to bitter
To swallow

I checked
Every three minutes
For a new way to survive
But my patience wore thin

If you had a heart attack
I could jump you back to life
Rub my hands together
And dissipate the fates

But I do not think the fates
Would meddle with something as black as your heart
Like chalk on a white wall
You drew me in

And spit me out
Like you had swallowed fire
But I was already in your veins
Racing for your heart
Lexie May 2014
Maybe our purpose is to find our purpose
Which makes no sense
Lexie Dec 2022
We must push through

It is all I have ever known
I place my palms against the drywall
Again
And again, and again
It is not finished
The powder fills the cracks in my skin
Nestles under my nails
My brow sweats
Still, I push
There is always resistance
After this wall
There will be another
As if my will power
Is trying to climb parallel
Through every floor
Of a skyscraper

Keep pushing
Lexie Jun 2019
We are the hollow part of the stars
Waiting for shadows to pass
Sewing our seeds into the sun
Pushing up daydreams
To have petals to pluck for tomorrow
I was the finger flowers in your hair
The sun kisses you just the same
Skin barren of heartbreak within
A black hole will devour us some day
Until that death comes
I lay between your arms
A valley of comfort
Until the end of the world
The altar does not know of our sacrifice
Finding love in the stars
The earth did not know
I was older then
I did not know
I am young again
Not one for making promises
When we can plant gardens
This is everything to me
You are darkness
And it has never felt like home
Until now
Lexie Nov 2015
you killed your queen
it was a ****** seen
you killed our love
and now I watch from above
Lexie Sep 2018
You have let Life teach you what it is to live by the light of the moon - when she had no daylight to give you
Though often those who have lived these lives
Have let their kindness be robbed of them
And their joy lay stagnant like pools of water
Such are you to drink daily of the cup that overflows
So such your spirit quenches
And she will know no drought
Lexie Mar 2020
What are your favorite poetry themes to read about?
Comment below.
Lexie Jul 2019
"Do you ever dream in Spanish?"

"Only on Friday."
Lexie Jan 2014
How come I can never find what I am looking for
How come when I need someone they are never there
Why do lies come in packs
Why cant I do anything but look back
Who has time for the things in this world
Who knows what comes next
What is the pattern in the stars
What is the result of all this pain
Who hold my destiny in there hands
Who can stop the power of love
When will my heart break
When will my luck change
Lexie Nov 2019
Flower carcasses hanging on opaque walls
Ego death coffin doors slammed shut
Thinly veiled ghosts of love
Hanging between whisps of curtains
Moon light refuses to touch
Paper dolls scattered
Open window breezes
Sit in the quiet, listen in the dark
Hear faintly beating
The silence of my heart
Lexie Feb 2018
You are a silence
I cling to your empty whisper
Let the noise drown out
I hear only your song
Lexie Dec 2017
She is quiet
In all but her thoughts
Still in part it seems a curse
Do have a lame mouth
Paired with a mind that runs
A mile every minute

This still is why
She is so weary at heart
Though she dare not move
Or even rise in the morning
Though in her solitary mind
She has already encompassed
Every hardship in the world
Lexie Jan 2018
she is silence
she is fear
but more than that
she is afraid
Lexie Aug 2018
Listen to the quiet
She will tell you all you need to hear
Not all you must know
For learning is the way in life
Journey on.
You follow whispers
To the next horizon
Yet be still as you are
And listen to the voice
In the silence
Lexie May 2014
Cuz when there is no water I am still wet
But we haven't finished, yet
Lexie Jan 2018
There is no fear of death in me
For I am merely passing
Out of one world to another
One of pain and sin
That holds only shadows of pure beauty
Obstructed by the ghastlyness
Of the imitation of perfection
Passing through on unto
To a world of revealed beauty
With the King upon his throne
Reigned in clouds of glory
Soon his arms will reach me
Oh the radiance of his face

2.2014.
Lexie Dec 2021
The weakness is spreading
Like water from the Nile in spring
The soil is dark like bark under moss covered trees
Are you lost here
Releasing your strength into the atmosphere
Fixate on me
The tension between us taught
Suspension of the earth in its own gravity
We are moving in our own orbit
Everything beyond us mythology
Everything behind us history
This moment piercing, rushing
It feels like salvation
Have you felt this way before
The fluid energy of humanity
Ripe fruit in the garden
Would not draw me in like you
Would not fortify
My chest rises, stamina falls
Hyperventilate
Yet, I am calm
If I stayed in this moment
Separate it from my other thoughts
Bitter vinegar taste pickling my tongue
Consumed
Will you wonder with me
As the world ages
We sit here young and younger
Heat stamps on the hill in the dark
Lexie Aug 2018
I have set out to destroy myself
In a lifetime of desperate moments
Let the festering oceans
Rage againt the cliffs
As I rage through
This farce - of peacefulness in life
Lexie Apr 2019
These hands were for you
They had never made love before
I was picking up colors
To make you a rainbow
I did not run out of shades of green
Maybe you will love me back
When you see this in the sky
It comforts the heavens of her tears
My hope is the same for you
Lexie Oct 2015
Those cheekbones though :p
Lexie Jun 2015
It seems like everybody wants to just fall in love
But things that fall get broken
What we think are shooting stars
Is just space junk
It can't fulfill your wish

I just want to love and be loved
And let love, those who love

I don't need the cosmos to intervene
Or determine the condition of my heart
Cuz love isn't a game or a milkway
It's an essence of wishes in symphony
Lexie Jun 2015
We like to get high on emotions
See people kiss in the rain
Want to scale building in our dreams
Fly like a bird
And capture sunsets

But we hold our life for ransom
Say you have to pay to get it back
Between communication and tip jars
Life is lost and darkness thrives
Lexie Jan 2014
Am I the only one
Who doesn't give a ****

I don't care what you say
And I don't care to which gods you pray

No matter the color of your skin
No matter how fat or how thin

I don't care about your height
To me it doesn't matter who is wrong and who is right

Cant we just be real
Rather than lie cheat and steal

Cant we just be real
Before I have nothing left to feel
Lexie Feb 2014
The train tracks lead to an endless road
The briars and thorns make a heavy load

The stones are uneven the feet of travelers heavily scared
People trying to push through a gate with a heavy guard

They raise the flags and their voices
Cursing the rulers for their choices

The dogs bark and the people scream
We are all on the losing team

A call for freedom a call to fight
I call to end the dark and reunite the light

People stand and people fall
Those who stood strong and tall

Words falling on deaf ears
A path winding through the years

A silent scream to help the lost
But you turn and count the cost

You hurt the weak and beat the lame
But you should cry and turn in shame

You think you know what you stand for
But you stand behind a shut door

What do you want, what can I give
So that the ones I love can live

I only need water, I only need bread
But I only have my hope instead

You strike my head, and spit in my face
You need the thrill and love the chase

You don't know how strong we are
We are never close and never far

You can't always be strong
We lie in wait until the dawn

We raise our weapons and banners high
We must give it one last try

The statues fall into the dirt
A lesson taught a lesson learnt

The strength of our hearts and the sweat of our brows
Was a heavy cost, to bring a terrible ruler down
Lexie Jan 2021
It seems today is the first day
My mind is born into this body
Lexie Dec 2019
We wait
For growing pains
To cease fire
I am not
Who I was once
I am new
I do not remember myself
Lexie Jan 2022
I went to the edge
My spirit falling back into my own body
I know nothing of this host
Burdened with consciousness
Do you too weary of your frame
What would you name your mortal coil
What tethers you
Love
  Flesh
     Mind
What is one without the other
Symbiotic in nature
They war
Preach peace
Labor your gentle touch against me
Unburdening my humanity
Of its languishing hold
You will fall one day too
One day soon
Know me now
Until the cliffs teach you of gravity
And bear your rebirth
Lexie Aug 2018
my guardian angel is at one heck of a long red light
Lexie Jun 2019
Red lights know nothing of the lines below
When it rains again
Maybe they will touch them
Your reflection is beautiful too
Lexie Sep 2016
Take a white woman and cover her in red paint
Take a black woman and do the same
Now you can't tell the color of their skin
You can only judge from what is within

We are taught from a young age
To hate what is different from us
Now it's your choice to be peaceful
It's not the paint that is deceitful

But we are the same kind of people
If you look in my inner reflection
It's not about thick thighs and pigmentations
It's about every heart in all of the nations

Who would you take a slug for
Who do you wish death upon
Don't waste your bad words
On the ears of that's all that they've heard

Speak life into strangers daily
I don't know you or owe you
But I can still call you my friend
And we will fight together until the end

We all bleed red paint
We all die sinners and saints
Don't label me something I ain't
This heart, is not for the faint

So bless my skin
An all that is within
From the tips of my toes to
Every part the good Lord to knows

You judge me if you like
I won't reflect on it
I have cracks in my skin
And all the paint seeps in

And so it fills me up
With all the love and the pain
Of those who bleed out in vain
Because fools speak words that sound insane

Different shades of acceptance
So judgmental in their minds
Because they fear what is different
It's not your fault they on ignorance

So color me blue
And let the sky watch
Because we have bigger problems
Than who's white and who's not
A poem about skin color, and how foolish it is to treat someone based on something that they have no control over. Speak love.
Lexie Feb 2014
Red walls made of bricks
Red walls between you and me
Red walls that are to strong
Red walls that wont fall

Red walls of separation
Red walls the touch the sky
Red walls of rough sandstone
Red walls in a green forest

Red walls by the see
Red walls ridged my dirt
Red walls between you and me
Red walls that don't end

Red walls covered in graffiti
Red walls that shield the needy
Red walls the blows against
Red walls blocking the tide

Red walls the disappear in night
Red walls the keep darkness at bay
Red walls between you and me
Red walls protecting you from me
Lexie Aug 2020
Rotting on the inside
Emptying the self of mourning
Gathering my pearls for swine
Roses bloomed here once
Every spring I plucked them for you
Summer is a stranger now
So it seems are you
Comment a word and I'll make a poem of it... I need something to distract myself
Lexie Aug 2020
I didn't deserve to name you
I name myself now
Calling her liar, fool, wrong
There is no going back
I fear
I have waited to long
My muse is dry
So now are my words
Try as I might
I find myself
Unable to give up
Your memory to the void
You are my shadow ghost now
Soft scent
In the cherry blossom trees
Of spring
I know you hated the beach
But I hear your voice
In the undeniable roar of the waves
Soft echoes in the dunes
When autumn comes
The trees dry up from the inside out
I think of the sweaters we used to have
Pink hugs, and I hate myself
You will be in the first snow this winter
A cold, steady, ache
You will be in my thoughts as always
Hardened earth hands will not release me
Of your presence in my mind
I am undone
Still burdened
Still human
Still wrong
You owe me nothing, and yet I hope
Fumbling over prayers
I did not ever wish to muster from my lips
I was wrong
I am bitter, but not against you
It seems the silence in my head
Has directed me down a winding road
Here, in the spiral at the bottom
I am left looking upwards
At what one could call choices
I name them regrets
Burdens, broken promises I never thought I would be unable to keep
I do not deserve angels
And this is why I am sinking slowly in flames
That I dare not compare
To your hell
Lexie Feb 2018
I don't live to make you regret everything
I live to make sure I don't regret anything
Lexie Dec 2017
My wildest dream is this
That I would mean to you
What you have always been to me
Lexie Apr 2018
Just because you love him
Doesn't mean that he is good for you
Sometimes looking for something better
Is finding yourself
Lexie Mar 2020
Letting go is growth
My faith is not in the rising of the sun
But in those who love its light
Today's peace
An honest estament
To the heart's ability to heal
Existing here, sentient
While other minds
Hold space for my spirit
I am there also
I am with you
I am in the earth
The stars are in me
As is all chaos and peace
The world has ever known
My chest holds astroid craters
Transcendent seeds of the tree of life
Existing in many times at once
As myself, as a child
A satisfaction that will not be satiated
Wean me not of knowledge's cravings
All things flow through me
As I also am in all things
Is not your structure
Made of the iron in my bones
Your heart beating the same drum
To a different tune
Here we are calling up the sun
With the trumpet of unabashed power
Ageing with this day
In the morning I am new
Fresh as dew on grass
Knowing, this too shall pass
Lexie Jul 2019
I'm not as patient as I could be
New trials today
In yesterday's courts
I am humbled
Against my faults
Bare witness to me
Hands open
Palms bleeding
I will not forget
The weight of your words
Be they shackles
Around my neck
Bracelets on my wrist
An unbeautiful adornment
There are no forgotten here
Among tombstones
These etchings belong to ghosts
Hollow souls filling up the earth
She was barren once
Now she lays in sonder graves
Of her children
They do not acknowledge her
She spins her regrets
On wooden looms
Memories woven
Back when the earth was black
I lay here, still, unmoving
Formless and void
Fill me up again
Let me taste of laughter
I bit it once
From your lips
This is the craving
That will not abait
My veins know better
Than the wisdom of my head
Lay me down
In the valley
Between the mountains
I knew you once
Called you by name
Will you answer me again
In gentle humility
We are all on fire
I can't sit, to watch you burn
You are not made of sun
Stars, or the sky they belong to
Flames forget
I remember
I remember
I knew you once
Call me by name
I crave you still
Give yourself up
I will surrender
I remember
Lexie Jan 2020
Drifting apart
Makes it harder to hold you
Here we are
Where are the stars
I see you
As you are
One with the dark
Does the world
Ever change
Or are weeds
Growing between
Cracks in the concrete
Beg for mercy or martyr
The devil has more than two horns
One for each of thorns
On my crown
Here we wait
For the sky to fall
Paying out of pocket
To dye slowly
Waiting for dead fields
To make music
Where is your heartbeat
Here in my veins
Pulsing melody
A secret song
My remedy
Lexie Jun 2014
You only remember what matters to your heart
Lexie Mar 2016
you I have neglected
in the brightst of the days
and you the sun shone upon
with all it's glorious rays

you I have forgeten
when you I stood before
and you have I shut
like a heavy oaken door

you I will remember
for many days yet longer
and you I cannot erase
be  I weaker or stronger

you I will drown
in sweetest of memories
and I will be smokened
from the fire in the breeze

you I will set in grace
upon the shores of the blest
and you have earned your time
and much needed rest

you will depart
in the days yet coming
and you will return
I will watch for you running

you I will see
as you sprint across the sand
for you always remind me
life isn't planned
Lexie Feb 2014
The lines in your face
Deepen when you laugh
The tears on your face
Remind you of your past

The way your brows crease
When you think so hard
The way your eyes light up
And you shine like the stars

How you knit your brow
When you are lost in thought
How you change your voice
And pretend to be someone you are not

How your heavy eyes close
When you are ready for sleep
The way your face crinkles
When you try to peek

All so familiar
But it hurts my heart to remember
Lexie May 2014
To bad I cant write words that will last
Or even be long remembered
Like a fading flower falling to the ground
Are the cries from my lips
A path that ends after one last bend
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