5000 Words
5000 words I seemed to musterTyped out on this page in a jumbled clusterSecrets, some might have called themPainful reminders I all but condemn5000 words I couldn’t speak My conscience overloaded and...
View ArticleAvoir Peur
The shadows of my thoughts never clearPain rips through my body as I swallow my fearsPoisoned by memories of the pastI tremble in the sight of one flashback Sleep becomes all but forgotten As my...
View ArticleHelios
Your love like a flameYour voice the heatYour spark puts me to shameOver me you have your feat You sculpted me wingsBut I hadn’t yet learn to flyLike Icarus soaring through the open skyOnly the sun is...
View ArticleRadioactive
Escaping the vacuum of my nightmaresA new sense of nirvana becomes aware Standing unstable, I begin to trembleAll my feelings I start to reassemble Two opposing forces capturing me in their...
View ArticleSleepless Night
I stare at the endless clockAs I lay wide awake.1:30-I don't know how much more I can takeEach minute passes by slower than the last,Forcing each moment to the past.2:15-Time drags on.The weight on my...
View ArticleDefeat By Fate
The thuds of my circulation increases its beatsSweat trickles over my palmsMy breaths slowly shortenThe whole punched through my chest widensAll the pain creeps its way backIt starts to burn as I lose...
View ArticleSudden Death
A moment of sweet surrender Leaving a life I don't wish to rememberMy soul passes through the barrier As I take that last breathThe walls cave inFrom the turmoils of my sinLonging to be reborn,After a...
View ArticleThe Mess I Made
Just staring at the mess I madeDestroyed in the helpless raidMuffling the gut wrenching screamsI have nothing left to redeemI collapsed into a steep landslideHung in the gallows of my own suicideHeld...
View ArticleThe Civil War
A generation ago, one nation became freeThough young in its nature it seemed to be Infected with woe, peace failed to last As bloody conflicts rose too fast Agreements, enemies rarely made Blood and...
View ArticleRecreation of the Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years agoLiberty-we took from the hands of the foeBy men, dedicated and wiseFor equality they made their riseBut on itself, the nation now turnsThe flames of war begin to burnTwo...
View ArticleOne is Better than None
One life-a rose was givenThey claimed one was better than sevenOne time it would grow and one it would dieSucking the life from each cloud's cryBut even the rose has it's thornsImmersed in sorrow it is...
View ArticleHearts That Bleed
Consuming me whole-it was fateDrowning in the depths of my mistakesNow blind, I was dying to seeThrough this heart, that now bleedsNo ounce of hate I could possesAll the betrayal-I tried to repressBut...
View ArticleParachute
Empty promises a soul had pledgedAs its mounted near the edgeThe world now microscopic and a fear of falling,One jump, one leap-almost appalling.Fate was suddenly in control,Only a parachute could save...
View ArticleRunaways
Devoid of emotion, was my voiceHiding from the acts of my choiceFrom the demons, I had to fleeNightmares of my past - So bloodyWithin my own soul - A fugitive beAs blood boils at the highest...
View ArticleBittersweet Poison
One glimpse of you - And I was hookedAnd you knew - Because you lookedPulling the strings in my heart,You pinned them down with a steel dartAll my emotions - You invadeNever leave me - So I beggedAs...
View ArticleBest Left Broken
The winds knock me off my feetAs I drop to my kneesAnd plead, that one day I will see-While I surrender what is left of me But on the ground, the pieces layDreams seeming so far awayHearts broken from...
View ArticleThoughts of a Poet
I now understand why most poets were introverted and lived dark lives and died in gutters... The pain and darkness fueled their great works of art and a side of writing that happiness could never...
View ArticleFire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for...
View ArticleSo Far Away
Refusing the words desired to say,This inferno - now buried in the dried out clayFrom a sun so far awayStriking the ground with each fierce raySo it be, 2000 miles awayHiding in Love's lost cache,A...
View ArticleA Penny For My Thoughts
I will have days where I could write to no end, and other days, I may not even want to pick up a pencil. More often then not, I think about discontinuing my poetry writing because it seems the more I...
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