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- Down, down, down. at sharepoetry
/ / I miss my father. I miss my mother. / And my sisters, and my brother, John, / who called only once a couple years ago, / on my birthday. / Asking me the contemporary, / 'How old are you, now?' / Merely because he didn't know / but - Oh, are you sick? at sharepoetry
You look delicious. I hope you don't fuck me over. / / I want to devour you, if it's allowed. / / / I'm fixated, I'm underneath the private, provacative hope / that you won't discover the state I'm in. / / / I can change, I do it ev - Playing Evil. at sharepoetry
You look recklessly beautiful, your smile matches your frown. / / I can't deny it, I'm taken and crashing; burned. / You are lovely when you tense up for the down fall, / you bleed a colour I'm not familiar with. / / / / I can sense t - Taken by today. at sharepoetry
I remember late nights in the park now lost / to countless summers ago. / They devour me so, I'm digging a hole / that I can get comfortable in. / / In June, everything happens / and the world finally wakes up. / I find myself lost, salutin - [ I was born to change, ] at sharepoetry
I was born to change, / I was born to waver and give way. / I was not born with the ground under my feet. / / I am subject to my own definition, / a foolish flame comparable to pre-teen crisis / and a summer-long obsessive sickness. / / - Father at sharepoetry
Father I age a thousand years / for every problem I cannot solve, / for every drunken sigh / my liver squirms out before / I give into sleep, for every hit / of nicotine brainwashing my blood stream. / / I age a thousand years / dying to - I quit at sharepoetry
I haven't had the words to say lately. / I have, however, fallen short of expression / and sat on my good ideas like bad eggs. / / I've spent my days as an encased version of me / came unprepared and unable to make sense of / these perverse p - So nice to see you at sharepoetry
Hello, I used to be human / I used to have meaning. / / Hello, I believed / in a higher power once, / I gave myself to love. / / Hello, I'm not trying / to speak in riddles, / I'm just saying / I'm real close / to the end I've / - Keep this inside at sharepoetry
She can do everything at once. / she can make cleverness / seem like a dying breed. / She is a seventies girl, / likes fake pearls and flowers / and I love her. / / She can't finish writing a letter, / she can't get it to the mail box - David at sharepoetry
You're a fast talker, / cigarette bobbing between / your lips. / / You walk quickly, / and accompany your emotions / with shaking fingers. / / You've no plot to follow, / no story line, / you're rough and sharp, Leo. / / I dig y - [ You leave me alone all the time ] at sharepoetry
You leave me alone all the time / make me search the streets for / familiar lights. / / You're always disagreeing / I'm always following behind / and for what it's worth / you're an addiction of mine. / / I couldn't create a signal - [ Girl, ] at sharepoetry
Girl, / you are rough around the edges / as they'd put it; / your family and your friends. / / Trying to get to know you / is like reaching into a bag / of splintered glass / and saw blades. / / Getting to know you / is like trying - Come Sunrise at sharepoetry
My rusting eyes are no good anymore. / They can't see through iced eyelids, / they can't wait for a better view. / / They are straining, straying away / from faith, faking their awareness / of colour and placement and shape. / / I shook - Let down. at sharepoetry
Have a drink, buy bravery / in the form of pints and fifths; / gallons if you’re that far down. / / Have a drink, smile for your friends / ’cause for some reason, unbeknownst / to you, they stick around for the 'let-down.' / / Stare the - The city, in ruins at sharepoetry
Murky aqua skies and city lights / stole my eyes tonight. / / The snow all but glittered, / it was dull compared to / the stars I saw / when I let my head slip. / / There were fireworks / when I was introduced / to consciousness. - Katie at sharepoetry
When I heard the news / that you had to move / far away and out of my reach, / I sat at the end / of my driveway until dawn. / / My Mom couldn't get me / to come back inside. / / The rain in June / has a different smell to it / a - It Pains Me at sharepoetry
It pains me. / / This winter smells and even / feels like the last. / / Cold air turns my cheeks / a naive colour of red / and the wind whistles / cat calls at me, / pushing at my ankles and / following along the salted streets. - pills and red rooms. at sharepoetry
my eyes glazed over / my hand unfolded / and out rolled you, / my saviour. / / i paused and tried / to focus my / million-track mind / toward one solid image, / for one second / and froze on the / blurred lines / of the kitchen fl - Sing-Song-Shatters at sharepoetry
I can't even unpack the shit in these boxes / that swallow the floor space in my room. / I just think, What's the point of rediscovering? / I'll be leaving soon. / / Can't stand to look at another picture / of a soul I no longer know and need - Andy at sharepoetry
How much melodrama and madness / can you shove down your throat, / gentle girl? / / How many times can you drop yourself / down in deep depression, / and still wear a face / of one who has been Saved? / / How can you live through let d - Devil at sharepoetry
Never have I painted such a portrait / without a medium of any sort. / / Never have I pictured you so horribly / as an ugly, ungrateful, bitter, sadistic, / and twisted human being. / / Never have I had such a feeling of hatred, / a desi - Sam at sharepoetry
It's another day that I am to wake / washed up and sputtering for breath. / / I woke abruptly to that hideous / mechanical alarm clock beeping, / stealing me from sleep and my dream. / / I was swimming in the ocean / and befriended a cra - Two Scorpios and a Gemini at sharepoetry
Tonight was a bloaded storm / waiting to explode and form. / / I won't even go over the cause. / It was plausible but no reason / was involved. / It was an argument with / three separate view points. / No one wanted to take / each othe - My Music, My Muse at sharepoetry
I love music. / It gets me through / lifts me up / and puts a beat / to my thoughts / constant, rampant / and unsettled. / / I love the raw / desire and scratchy / pleads of Robert Plant / and the honest soul / of Joplin, / and - Embodied and Washed up at sharepoetry
It's the worst at night / when everyone's went to bed / and morning drags itself in, / dead weight, through my window. / / I am the lonliest soul / on the planet then / my bed sheets scream humiliation / without another body to the space - Time Bomb at sharepoetry
There is no beauty in your words, / only vile contempt without reason. / / There is no truth in your eyes / they are void, they are black holes / stuck to the inside of your sockets. / There is no soul in your casing / only soot mud and mol - That's All Of It at sharepoetry
You have neither a reason / to believe or disbelieve, / you are a victim. / You are not a psychic / or a mind reader, / you are human / waiting and biding time, / all for nothing but some kind / of certainty and clarity, / the two impos - There Are Still Sights To Be Seen at sharepoetry
I am guilty of forgetting / the simple but oddly lovely / aspects of life / like the rain diving / down the glass of a window, / all diamonds and emeralds / in their own right, / and how they resemble / the eyes of a Virgo, / dreamy and - Bruised Fruit at sharepoetry
I am a human woman, / I can be loved and touched / and experienced. / / I am the fullest fruit / falling from a fickle stem, / my landing sounded by a / hollow click and then / that's it, detachment / waits now on the grass. / / I - I'll Be Damned at sharepoetry
You've instilled your ethics in me, / taught me pain and rejection / called it 'hard love, the best kind / to give and get.' / Having it thrown at you / makes it that much easier / to toss it right back. / / And since I could breathe - Where I Left Myself Last at sharepoetry
/ When the day broke open / sunny side up on the pavement / I could only stand rigid, / though I knew you'd come with me / and bring your oceans along. / / And me, well I know nothing / of communication despite the title / 'messenger o - Test Tube Star at sharepoetry
There's a devil in the corner. / He finds his way / through my dreams, / through a needy servant's / broken hand, willing to do / whatever it takes / to shake the shakes / and swing the swinging motion / of the room, dizzy too / making - So much for being proud. at sharepoetry
Yeah, Michigan / is a wonderful place. / Can't find a job, / can't put together / the puzzle as a whole, / surely can't buy myself luck / or look a soul in the face / but Michigan's / such a lovely place. / / The economy is being - By No Means at sharepoetry
I've been put on hold, paused, / slowed, fixated and removed. / / The thought of you reminds me / of something bright / burning terribly miles away, / living in flame and evolving / only into ash. / Either way you are to look, / the pic - Draw me a blank at sharepoetry
/ I love the way the colours bleed together / as though they were flesh and bone. / I've learned to love the wind / while it whispered and teased my ears / cradling me, then letting me go. / / On this rainy cold morning, / the echoes ar
