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ilias Aug 2023
I am still travelling to the places I never wanted to find you in.
You have been gone for far too many full moons.
The green doesn’t calm me down, the sun is not as warm anymore, the sea has no colour. I think I‘m going to suffocate.
stop haunting my mind, please
ilias Mar 2021
it's the maddening hunger
that runs down my spine,
my nerves, they are loose,
glowing like fireflies
I cut myself open for this glory pain,
like the sky opens itself
for the pouring rain
a reddish coat covers my pale skin
and I feel great
  I am sane, sane, sane
ilias Aug 2020
Life is this tiny space
between
infinities

A finger‘s width full of
love and despair and
the desire to be
free
ilias Sep 2020
Time to go
To rush on and see
What life brings to us
To you and me
Rush, be hushed
Along your way
It‘s four o‘clock
No time to stay

Time to go
Commit yourself
To the course of events/
‘Cause no stop sign
Not any at all
Can ever be seen
So go with the time
It‘s already four-fifteen
ilias Jan 2022
my hair sways in the wind
and I am free
upon the hills
under the greenest of trees
no blood in my veins
no skin on my bones
just the universe
inside of me
the last good day was two years ago.
ilias Sep 2020
Don‘t we all feel lonely
Until we find ourselves?
ilias Aug 2020
Let‘s create an alternative reality
We can escape to
If the world goes under
And we only have each other
Left
ilias Sep 2020
A lullaby for
The sun to set

All those puddles  
Of fallen rays
In our home-cities
Pouring, flowing
Into our hearts
The beat of places
We long for
From afar
ilias Dec 2020
against the wall
little bird
red, red, red
again and again
where is your head?
again and again
you turn purple
red bird
but your anger
has always, always
been unheard
ugh it‘s a no from me
ilias Sep 2020
Eclipse in the sky
Abolished wonders
Yet the stars fly
Out of the universe
And into your mind
you contain the universe and all its occupants
ilias Sep 2023
my arms wave in the wind
I am here alone
melting into a puddle of grey
the sea level has risen
and you cannot save me anymore
tonight the ocean will gain
another lost angel of august
ilias Oct 2020
You have awoken your soul
By becoming a sleepwalker
And taking yourself to places
None ever dreamt about
ilias Sep 2020
A wooden palace for the dead
had everyone came in black
flowers, voices, mother earth was awake
To celebrate, regret and retract

The living came to purify their souls
By invigorating adorned cathedrals
And singing songs about loss

Almost as on a causal wedding day
They did not come to celebrate the dead
But to cry about the left behind
Together, to feel more alive

And they were dancing
Around the gone
Voices creating vibration of air
Which sounded peacefully
To the song of despair
ilias Sep 2020
In silent woods
Far from the haze
Two are running barefoot
Through sparkling waves

A significant interaction
of clouds so cristal clear,
The surface‘s turquoise,
And two devouring pristine air
ilias Oct 2020
She is attempting suicide in
eloquent words
In poems about romantic knights
And reddish swords
ilias Oct 2020
Birds so high
Attached to the sky
Golden wings
And warming light
Another short one, ‘cause right now I’m wordless
ilias Aug 2020
All of a sudden
A thought of creation
Possesses your head
And letter by letter
You sow art in your soul

You water those letters
Again and again
The seeds become words
And they start to glow

-
With your mind in a flow
You write flowers on paper
And let them bloom
Your effort is shown

Oh, all of a sudden
A poem was grown
ilias Sep 2023
sun beams fall through the ***** window
bits and pieces of smiles,
of cigarette smoke and cries,
the bus station people are busy
like your man, like your mind,
today’s air smells like afternoon rain
and heaven reaches you a hand

sun beams break through the cloudy sky
to steal your man and steal your mind
the eyes of strangers are deadly signs,
their blank stares call in the night
today all you touch feels like despair
and the floor sings you a lullaby
ilias Sep 2020
postpone the bitter trip
until he relapses
a grown-up kid
averting the bumblebees
he‘s cluttered with
ilias Sep 2020
She can only be found by the sea,
My darling, my love, my second me.
The highest tide of my life,
My darling, my love, my lonely wife.
She had to run, run to find the reason why,
She went where the ocean meets the sky.
The absence of her presence can not be fair
But how she craved for the feeling of despair

Now she can only be found by the sea,
My darling, my love, my second me.
A poetic presence of a wish to die
Every imaginable moment I feel her cry
So I run, run to find the reason why,
I go where the ocean meets the sky.
Inspired by E.A.Poe‘s masterpiece „Annabel Lee“
ilias Apr 2021
painted my dreams in the air, and you were my muse
ilias Jul 2023
The sun warms my salty skin
and my pores open to let your love in.
I feel as beautiful as the ocean,
I am my greatest muse.
Today was a good day darling, see,
I have captured every second of my daydreaming,
pinned those very pictures to my wall.

And you wonder why I never get out of bed, though I keep talking about the colour palette of my romantic days.
Your wind has not shifted - but my winter has come. You can’t hear the children in me cry.

Suffocating happens through minor incidents like your softly spoken words searching for an affectionate listener.
I cannot breathe, my god, don‘t you understand?
Winter has come, and I am trapped in a fourteen-year-old‘s body trying to figure out where she went wrong.
It has been cold for a decade and the sun still burns holes in my chest.
I do not need you to understand, for you are my sun, my light, my temple. I need you to see the shadows in which I wander, the orphans I have left behind -
My skin has weathered, and I cannot find the right sunscreen to care for it.
ilias Nov 2023
you were a child,
so foolish and small,
throwing tantrums in silence
you've always been too much

and after eighteen winters you now age backwards,
with every birthday,
with every smell,
every fight
and every touch.
ilias Nov 2020
The parched soul
Yours, which now rests above
Look,
Our eyes tear lifeless;
Arrows through the ripped-out heart.
The almighty pain,
How it tears us apart.
Who are these cabals,
The desecrators of finiteness,
Driven by divine voices?
Oh, come back darling
ilias Apr 2021
it has always saddened me
how they compared themselves,
twisting and turning every
inch of their bodies
until emptiness became necessity,
and necessity became torture

because the desire to fit into a body
that society had shaped for them
had grown in their hearts
like a tsunami deep down
in the darkest waters

how many tears have I shed
trying to understand how
intense their pain must be
that they denied what we call life
because they felt they already had
too much of it inside them
oh i wish you could see the value of thine, the beauty of your perfectly shaped body, your home.
ilias Dec 2020
out of your fingertips it flows
the dark blue river
to swallow the sun and
destroy the paper towns
you could never bond with
the simplicity of things,
neither with the universe
nor with yourself
so you try to let the
flood decide over
what‘s going to vanish
and what‘s going to stay
ilias Dec 2020
thus you walked down
the holy aisle, all alone
and I see, the rotten coat your
skeleton has worn for eternity
is now severed from your soul
and you are enlightened,
you fathom the complexity
that arouses in the layers of your skin

what an eloquent way to
no longer suffocate in the
impalpable sepulchre of life,
but to be salvaged again
cry
ilias Jul 2022
cry
take me to the sea
and let me weep
ilias Aug 2020
And we keep
dancing through
empty streets
not knowing when
reality brings
us to a halt
again.
ilias Dec 2020
all the dead sunflowers
in my mind
they were drowning
in the vacuum
I gave them up
to see them
loosing their
blossoms
and I felt so
incredibly powerful
as I drowned
myself too
ilias Jan 2021
within these holy walls my soul shall rise
still, I wear the smell of death like a perfume
a mind of both faith and sorrow
endlessly writing in runes
and the ink stains my translucent hands
all the blue and green of my veins
I cannot stand the fluent life in my body
maybe I shall bleed out
ilias Oct 2020
I think with a heavy heart
about the futile attempts
to persuade you to live
what my heart tells my mind every day
ilias Feb 2023
the voices are telling me to
drown myself in the
waters of my body.
ilias Feb 2023
don't touch me,
she whispered,
I might not come back
ilias Dec 2020
My drenched socks
the cold rain
the music playing
our overcast sky
outside, on the rooftop
without any warmth
just the endless
darkness of life
all wrapped up
in my little brain
and my throat hurts
but my breath still
forms white wisps
and I couldn‘t be
more dead
at least for tonight
because tomorrow
I will even die twice
ilias Sep 2020
Words can be
scathing
Like demons
They lurk into
Our minds
And my parents
Deal with drugs
They feed us
Screeching monsters

In lethal doses
ilias Jul 2022
i run my fingers
through the many shades
of my life
and find a thousand
******-up memories of mine
so i take a gun
and shoot them down;
i **** my brain

one cell by one
ilias Feb 20
it is spring and I hum to turquoise beginnings
Armageddon is not today, I remind myself,
to be born and reborn; I am formed like clay
I am the sound of people winning,
Las Vegas and its men in grey,
I am the infinite seeds of tulips,
and the sunlit tides on a golden day

it is spring and I do not belong in warmer spheres
the devil holds me tight, I remind myself,
I am not yet gone, I still walk by his side
I am the only remain of my shepherd‘s geese,
I am tied to this hell and all its pride,
and I am the hell, and I am the pride

I am lost in my body and in all it contains,
I hum and I cry, am in pain or feel high,
I am the moths in my closet,
and the clothes, and the clay,
I am the seeds and the tide,
and the only lost goose here in May

right now my hands hold me tight,
so I remind myself:

it is summer, and you have decided to stay;
my psychiatrist says it‘s bpd but who knows lol, I may just be a lost child in a lost world.
ilias Jan 2021
and far, far away there is eternity
still, I am horribly limited, but
one day, my friend, I will rise
I will be on the other side of the universe
ilias Feb 2021
in death lies the beauty
of being
and that of
not being anything
at all
ilias Apr 2023
tomorrow.
five hours between a hundred strangers, writing for my life.
my finals are starting, my hair is falling out, my self harm worsens and my anxiety is reaching for the stars.
tomorrow.
trying to decipher the text in front of me, that is not only black ink but letters and words, even sentences.
I need to calm down.
how do I calm down?
I am burning, crying, screaming.
I am hiding silently in my bed, knowing my body - loving as it is - provides me with enough bacteria to cough. my burning throat matches my inability to talk, to think, to see.
tomorrow.
the hours are counted, my life is not ending.
why is it not ending?
do I need it to stop?

please make it stop.
ilias Feb 2023
it had been a slow day
it was summer, the heat was unbearable
you were knocking on my door
I was afraid, I didn’t want to open,
I wanted to slit my wrists and bleed out in bed

„oh hello lovely“
why can‘t I for once just write about something normal, I hate the mind of mine. I feel disgusting.
ilias Feb 2023
he couldn't see how she clenched her jaw to swallow her mothers servility;
and he would certainly never
understand
why she did not want to be torn apart
by the looks of virile men
ilias Jan 2021
vanished are now
the pieces of mine
gone with the wind
rushing ahead
my time
an old one
ilias Feb 2022
i am laying in my
cold white blankets
with my eyes open
   all I can see is grey
i smell nothing but rotten
thoughts and bones
  i‘m trapped inside this body
this room, this life, and
i feel so weak,
so worthless,
even breathing hurts
ilias Oct 2020
my flowers are
blooming
in different worlds
ilias Oct 2020
I can see you standing over there
You, with your soul in your hand.
How painful it must be to stand
hand in hand with yourself
in front of this indestructible glass
that separates your world from ours
an overwhelming feeling of loneliness
ilias May 2022
these are vivid memories
from many moons ago
when neither depression nor
anxiety held me hostage

it has just been us two
little summertime sadness,
rather endless gratitude (for you)

like dead fish we
floated on the riverˋs surface
and it felt like magic

you made me feel as light as a bird
and i miss it

i miss us.
ilias Mar 2021
your glassy eyes
tirelessly staring at mine
   we both keep our lives
out of each other’s sight
still, we sleep in the same bed,
but our hearts do not beat
in the same rhythm, and
when we touch we cannot feel
    each other’s warmth

oh our tired bodies,
fighting against these constant
urges to run,
   far, far away from ourselves
and rain is pouring down our backs,
even when the sun
shines
  
but darling,
our love has ended many times
once in September, once in July
    we will find back to
    each other again,
when we’ll have crossed oceans
in search of our light
     maybe in June, maybe in May
our love will revive

[ I promise ]
ilias Oct 2020
„The prose you read is
not even that intriguing“
He said with a pejorative glance
But I just kept on listening
To the sound of words
I found between the lines
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