The view from your heart
Maybe one day you could understand Maybe one day you could see Nothing much changes round here anymore Take a look at what you've done to me Did you hear me call your name Did you…
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#poetry
375 entries tagged “poetry”.
13:27
Watching the months go by And nothing is getting clearer My world has changed And yet the pain is so familiar I’m still here Bleeding like a fool in the corner Summer is coming And…
An ode to the internet
There is a fundamental problem With what we call the internet For every argument, there is a counter point When you’re unsure, just go and google it If we are sick of a relationshi…
I'd go if I knew
I'd go home If I knew what that was I'm tired of the tears And missing what I lost It wasn't a person No, but the possibility of a dream I'm staring out this window And nothing is…
Post existential modernist depression
Might sound like a clever title But like most fancy words doesn't mean a thing The world is full of everything And the universe is full of nothing We taste, we bleed like water Rus…
Cards
What do I talk of when I talk What do I think when I fumble like a fool What are the eternal truths I deny In the forgetfulness of a lost youth What are the ideals I long for The c…
Better days
I wasn't born a failure You're lack of compassion won't make me one I will live, breathe, I'm broken but I'll mend Im not alone, even if everyone is gone I hate this empty feeling…
Time
All that remains are pictures A book I'll never open again The dust gets thicker like my memory I am not who I was back then I can still feel the beach sand The sounds of the gulls…
Women
Some say they marry for love Other women marry for money Some want a man with a fancy degree Sorry, I'm not that guy honey Some women want a sculpted man Others want a lawyer or a…
Scars
This is who I am Daggers and scars and wounds A face that I’d rather hide in the dark I walked in the light once before Smiled and looked at the sky Until the world ripped out my h…
Routine
I keep repeating the same routine Patterns, held in space, in a time Eight thirty, sit in the bath Be up for work, each morning at five It's a new day of my life Yet no different t…
Ivory and ocean
I'm cold, pale like ivory Worn like an old black coat Lost at sea with no sight of shore I'm weary of the windless days The nights of rain The endless black storms I forget there a…
17:13
I’ve made so many mistakes And God knows this road is long I’m going to be paying for them For years after I’m gone Look at my face And see all the stories it will tell I’m stuck i…
09:15
It's sad to me that I should live now Where everything has an expiry date Is it so wrong to believe love should be eternal? It's dreadful to think That perhaps this is my fate And…
Words
I wish the words were better Not as clear as they used to be Somehow they cease to convey Just what is happening to me I'm afraid of time running out Each day another line on my fa…
I want to see the shape of your neck Each line o…
19:58
I don't know why I write Perhaps to say what I always wanted to To stop the thoughts running through my mind I don't know why I bother I'm throwing stones because I can And I'm pre…