20:05
I'll light that single candle And I'll remember I'm alone I'll sit in the flickering light I have no answers, I don't know Just what difference does it make? How much does it matte…
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375 entries tagged “poetry”.
21:58
I can feel their eyes are watching I can hear myself getting lost I can feel the emptiness creeping up I can pretend to afford the cost I can see the end of the road The paths I ne…
20:53
Time runs out Laying between the burnt out ends Of cigarettes and empty glasses Sometimes the ways we find We're never the ways we intend Some broken hearts never mend Probably May…
21:06
In this mire I find myself Bound and gagged In this fire I still burn A man still to be hanged I am blood and flesh A torrent of thoughts A flood of disease and longing Never a one…
3 days
You could forget me in three days And yet I could not do the same I'd stand like a train in an empty station Waiting to see you arrive Though I know you would not I'd lie in the em…
How dreadful it is to dream And then to wake How…
21:52
I'd want you to be the blue in my sky But round here it only ever rains The days come and the nights go And still the emptiness remains It's some time passed two in the morning I'm…
Disguises
My thin disguises don't fool anyone I been lonely far too long Broken pieces of a life unlived My wanton words fall on deaf ears Walls built tall to keep in my fears For so many ye…
I want
I want to crawl around Inside your skin Taste each breathe you take I want you like a sin Such a beautiful mistake One I'll repeatedly make
18:11
I'm a fool for falling in love Double as much for saying the three words If you were here I'd tell you again But still it remains, you never heard
The passage
The twisted fingers of reality My perception is warped and bent Wandering the empty Sunday streets Can't afford the emotional rent My phone rings in my pocket Someone I just used t…
Old
I'm the old jacket in the corner Of a lonely brown apartment The dishes piled up for days I'm the broken window With a torn curtain for company Dirty in such unsightly ways I'm the…
King of beggars
I'd fall in love with you But I don't know your name I'm missing the pieces And I'm walking away I spent all my dreams On damaged women and broken things I gave my empire to beggar…
Supper
I take my place at the table We all ready to say our grace I lift the glass to drink But it's just to hide my face The dishes are filled With whatever they chose to serve I put the…
The last
We are nothing but desperately cold Shivering in the damp surround There are lullabies for suffering They sing when we are below the ground We stand and whisper between the graves…
22:07
Bob Dylan said there must be some way out Yet still there is none I can find The walls are lined with broken dreams And horrors that are yet undefined I have re-runs under my eyeli…
20:17
I wish In reflections and shadows In the dark corners of the past I stand staring at the sea The sun never rises here It just sets inside of me
Triviality
What am I to the void But a meaningless triviality What am I but dust and ash Standing on the edge of eternity What am I but an insignificant speck With dreams and hopes of nothing…
21:02
Obsession is hunger Without a way to sate Desire is a disease In the twisted hands of fate Sick with longing Burning with indignation The whole universe is a dream A figment of my…
The hours
All of those hours All of those days This length of time Just tortures me in different ways The entrance hall's still empty My prayers hang in this air My dreams crushed beneath yo…