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We lose ourselves in moments Buries in the sand of the hourglass Hoping for an eternity But forever was never meant to last The context of the soul In the vacuum of the universe Lo…
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#poetry
375 entries tagged “poetry”.
When it leaves
Like the smell of cigarettes Old whiskey drawn into the carpets of a motel room The dust that settles on on the television set The filth that fills the very air you breathe The lig…
Down
The world of shit around my knees The bleeding edges of my eyes No more tears left in this head And it's really not a surprise I've been down so long I forgot how to stand It's ok…
I'm not John, Peter, or Paul I may just have it…
Noise
Close your heart like a closet The doors shouldn't be open anyway This is the reckoning And I'll push everyone away The noise makes this all feel Like I'm going home If the beating…
It's all good
Promises we make, promises we break I stood blinking in the light Words coming I didn't want to hear And somehow it will be alright So hold be now And my heart can be buried in the…
Dreams
Where are all the dreams we shared All the promises we once made People change just like everything But I just wish that you stayed Where are the mornings Where I'd wake and see yo…
Another honesty
I wouldn't dare call myself a poet I just have nothing better to do So I write down a few words that rhyme But I still don't have a clue I wish I could figure it all out Somehow co…
Birth
This is where I was born Where I came to be raised I can't escape it This is how I was made I'm praying for quiet All the screaming needs to stop But if that's also gone Then what…
Silence
There's a silence when I open the door In the cold winter evening I look out over the end of another day And shiver in the cold breeze No jackets will keep me warm This heart seems…
The truth
These words aren't pretty Yet this is how it is I'm blood, bone, hate and love Wrath, faith and violence It's not anger that I taste its a cold sullen bitter rage It's a book I no…
Who I used to be, but I'm still angry
I'm not ok I'll never be Take a real good look At what you've done to me
Present tense
Every moment that I spent Waiting for something new Every day that I spent dreaming I was dreaming of you Wish I was king Just for one day So I could make All those pretty faces pa…
My misfortune
I'd like to wake up from this nightmare Where I don't even want to see the stars It's all such a mystery to me It's torment seeing the world through these bars Someone call the emo…
Shallow skin
Shallow skin I can paint with my pain I drain my life And fill it with disdain Till the ends of the earth I'm bleeding in my suicide Taste this face, leave me Fuck you, goodbye Sca…
I hate you
I hate I hate you I hate that you make me feel like I do I hate that I was never loved I hate that I prayed for nothing I hate that I believed in you Now I just want to believe in…
Death
I want to die in my footsteps And lay down to sleep Upon the dreary barren ground I find this mountain too steep I want to sleep in the meadow And never move from between the leave…
Random 1
There’s a certain point you reach Where you can’t seem to tell what is, what was, and what’s real All the memories bleed into each other And your heart is so blackened, it’s not so…
You turned
You turned away And let my heart turn to ash The clouds were gathering To greet my great collapse I never was much Didn't feel I had anything to prove Love like hope is gone And I…
19:27
Such is the way of things The dusty afternoons of winter A strange yellow haze from the sun A chill that blows at dusk Staring at the water Wondering just where it all begun The si…