20:58
You think you know me The same old face you see every day You think you can sum me up In some casual old way You don't know that each time I held a rose I got the thorns You think…
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375 entries tagged “poetry”.
Books burning
I'd like to burn my memories Like books in the city square Just as on May 10th 1933 I'd like tear my thoughts out And drag them into the street Perhaps then, I'd be free I'd like t…
21:23
It's a feeling of death A lack of any kind of purpose A dreary blur of time It's the constant sway The indecision, mundane The thing you cannot define It's never the demise of othe…
22:04
The dreams just sit there Like leftover cold coffee at the bottom Of a mug that's already brown with age Yeah I seen this episode before Wishing in fact it was something new But yo…
Photoshop
There's always a price to be paid Keeping in tow, stepping in line We're all safe in here, we like to believe Puppet strings being pulled, we feel just fine We're told what we shou…
21:34
The satellites are up there Marking your every move Watching, probing Stealing the truth you long to prove What of life, of purpose What of dreams I hear them say What of this wond…
Demons
Such is the way of things That all men will have demons Some one, others two Then there are those with legions Those haunting regrets That slither up in the morning hours In the co…
Layers
It's peeling layers from my soul Taking that which made me whole The derision that lies within Exosing the lies buried in my skin The costs that I never wished to pay The paths tha…
If
If I could turn back time And change all that has been Yet that is an impossibility What lessons would i learn If all that was changed Who then would i be? I have learnt that my wi…
Prayer
Dying is no fate to fear Nor life in itself But rather a state of half death Niether here nor there No laughter, smiles or hope Agony wih every labored breath Could I not see? Not…
23:10
When I think, i think of you In bright, beautiful hues And yet I loathe the sound of gulls We sat there and listened to the ocean Eating lunch, talking of a future that never was W…
Twelve months
Twelve months out Or is it twelve months in hell You wearing my skin Or am I still here, I just can't tell I been scratching again Picking at these stupid sores I'm bruised it ain'…
Have you
Have you seen the faces Those miserable things out there? Roaming the streets, smiling pretentious like when I say I don't care Have you seen the doorways and windows Grinning like…
Nothing 21:51
What have I become? Blackened by my own discontent In the wintery mire of my soul The blood, tears, sweat Broken dreams like broken bones Watching the needles tear a hole You could…
Confessional
I have a confession Perhaps a few i need to make In the darkened hours i think Instead of sleep i find myself awake I would want to say so many things And I'm sure they would all b…
Ends
I realise the futility of everything The empty promise it all When the sun burns out Who will remember what came before When the oceans are dry And the rivers are bleached like bon…
Remember
In these distant days Staring up towards the sun Yet the darkness surrounds me The anguish of all I've done My eyes betray my soul The things unsaid in the gloom The memories dulle…
One step
They say a journey of a thousand miles Starts with one single step Yet why try, if you just can't Or if your journey is at its end? What purpose is there In the dull browns and gre…
15:15
Ever been so terribly sad For what seems like an eternity Nothing seems fixable You forget what it means to be happy You cant even imagine what would work Any drugs, psychologists…
Dragons
I'd like to be a knight in shining armour But get dragons instead of princesses I'm not a saint in any old way But what's with the devils wearing dresses?