Impatiently I wait, can't you feel my ache?
Dragging on, this longing’s a heavy weight.
Do you mock me, think me a clown?
A jester's jest, just to keep you crowned?
Looking down from your throne so high,
Leading me on with a teasing sigh.
Knowing I'm here, a pawn in your game,
Yet still, foolishly, I remain the same,
Stuck in place, waiting for the King’s move.
Silly, hopeless, little me,
My play’s invisible to your eyes,
But my foolery is evident for everyone to see,
Waiting, hoping, yearning to be,
Noticed by you, my king, please let me be…
Copyright © Socky xxx | Year Posted 2024
Daylight with a mirage of night
So we use our hearts as a light
Do we really need our eyes
At this moment at this night
For all we see is nothing but dark slight
Why don’t we use them on daylight
Do we close our eyes against the sun
Because the things we’ve become are too bright
And overwhelming for our eyesight
Oh, do we only open our eyes
at the board darkness
Just to end up seeing nothingness
Let’s not close or open
Our eyes but our,
Hearts.
Copyright © Mikal Weldesrael | Year Posted 2024
All that is comparable is not pointless,
comparability, by all account is what makes me feel special.
Does the figure of your anger make you shiver?
I cannot help but stop and look over the unforgiving void.
Are you upset by how overpowering it is?
Does it tear you apart to see the void so
irresistible?
Once absent, who will really come looking for me?
Would it really be too bad if you disappeared?
Does it upset you to think about your absence?
Copyright © Joshua Welch | Year Posted 2024
The devil in disguise
We all think you're fun, well most of the time.
Drinking with our friends having fun, just looking for that high.
From one beer to 2 to a bottle of wine
Everyone thinking they'll be just fine.
We think you're our friend
Helping with our problems or in our time of need
I can honestly say this is as far from the truth a lie, yes indeed.
You ruin peoples life day by day
Taking away all of the good what more can I say.
You take a hold of our bodies, our minds, our soul.
Ohh.. how people really do lose control
Drink after drink some people think it's fine
I don't one bit, I'm just waiting for someone else i love or know to die.
Everyday someone loses somebody from this horrible disease.
They can't seem to stop, I wish they could or would ohh please.
Alcohol is evil this I know for sure
I just really wish they could just find a cure.
We all need to open our eyes too see we
shouldn't be advertising alcohol all over tv.
With offers and bargains just shoved in your face
I really do think this is a disgrace.
It's all about money and greed,
It really needs to stop , ohh how I plead.
As a nation we all need to open our eyes,
to the fact that our children's futures are being affected by the devil in disguise.
Copyright © Paula Warburton. | Year Posted 2024
In this vast void of existence, we stand,
Hearts bleeding out, met with the back of a hand.
Alone we stagger in life's endless night,
Chasing shadows, devoid of respite.
We drift, lifeless shells, in an aimless march,
Haunted by silence, under heaven's starched arch.
Bound by ancestral chains, heavy and severe,
I ache for release, for the end to draw near.
We're tethered to a world that cares not for our strain,
Our essence cast into the void, our struggles in vain.
Directionless, we flounder between high and nether,
In life's cruel jest, peace is a tethered feather.
His crown, a distant whisper of hope’s demise,
In its absence, our worth under leaden skies.
I'd embrace the void for a sliver of right,
Than bask in the hollow glow of the commonplace light.
For in the pursuit of that elusive spark,
I find solace in the embrace of the dark.
A sinner's waltz, a hollow, echoing song,
In the dance of despair, is where we belong.
Copyright © Trent Vecchiarino | Year Posted 2024
You are my heart
you are my soul
you are my life
you are my beauty
because of you I am in this world
because of you I can see this world
you can make me a flower
who has good smell
you can make me a cactus
who has sharp spines
I am lucky to have parents like you
this was only enough that you brought me in this world
thanks for the love
which you both are giving me
you are ethereal
your love is eternity
but I am barmy
and still you call me a star
you love me, you cherish me, you protect me
thanks for everything you gave me
Copyright © Shiksha Upadhyay | Year Posted 2024
In the quiet of the morning's embrace,
Where whispers of dawn softly trace,
I find solace in the gentle hue,
Painted by the sun, breaking through.
In the tender touch of a lover's hand,
A language spoken, neither written nor planned,
There lies a universe in a simple caress,
A symphony of emotions, a love's finesse.
Beneath the canopy of starlit skies,
Where dreams take flight, where passion lies,
I am but a wanderer, a soul set free,
In the vast expanse of eternity.
Through laughter and tears, through joy and pain,
Life's melody plays on, an unending refrain,
Each note a chapter, a tale untold,
In the grand tapestry of stories old.
So let us dance to the rhythm of life,
Amidst the chaos, amidst the strife,
For in every moment, in every rhyme,
We find the beauty of the human sublime.
Copyright © Chikadibia Uchegbu | Year Posted 2024
Darkness
There are a lot of ways to describe it but it always feels the same
This feeling of loneliness
That no one can escape
Darkness darkness darkness
Darkness in the world
Darkness in the way we live
Darkness in our soul
Sometimes you feel red
Sometimes you feel blue
If you change the way you see the world
It will change its way too
It may seem impossible
To win the black knight
But if you look deep inside him
You will see the light
Don’t cry little boy
Don’t let tears fill your eyes
Warm things can’t survive
In the thick ice
Don’t cry little girl
Don’t fill your heart holes
White sheeps can’t survive
In a world of wolves
Little boy became cold
Little girl a wolf
Words lost their brightness
They became dull
Mama don’t be sad
Don’t cry anymore
I was made for darkness
This is where I belong
Copyright © Vasiliki Tsergoula | Year Posted 2024
Concealed from us the reason of,
My daemons and their mien. Because...
In all this time we never knew,
How deeply I have suffered too.
Copyright © Serge Tolmachev | Year Posted 2023
What is this atrocity,
What is this uniquely unparalleled monstrosity,
What is this element with undefined velocity,
What is this singular, peerless challenger of viscosity!
What is this implement: almost an oddity,
What is this matter, a goofy comedy?
What is this contraption; is it a commodity?
What is this apparatus - is it for cosmology?
Why, this foolish widget is a philosophy,
Though it is nothing more than a frivolity.
Why this subject is a gossipy,
That is an answer... just in paucity!
Why this entity is... just a curiosity.
That this item exists; there should be a policy!
Copyright © Tariq Tayebi | Year Posted 2024
me and my imaginary friends
sit at a picnic table
in Brighton
me and my imaginary friends
talk about our lives
Anything and everything
Me and my imaginary friends
don't laugh at each other because we can't spell
Some days
I wish
Those imaginary friends were real.
Copyright © Margo Spargo | Year Posted 2024
The night was dark,
the night was deep.
I was standing next to the ocean,
listening to your cries as you all were drowning in the race.
I too took a jump into the water so cold.
Soon, I realized I was at the bottom of the floor.
I pushed myself as hard as I could,
but the ocean currents opposed my motions and made me slow.
I prayed to God to give me a second chance.
I again tried reaching up to the surface,
but soon I realized
I would be hated by the same faces.
Once again, I decided to set myself free,
but this time I was tied by my own lies,
hanging by the strings of my own expectations.
And yes, once again, I knew that these were my own creations.
Goodbye.
Copyright © Abhinav Sharma | Year Posted 2024
There was a time,
I used to look at her, In a different kind,
We used to meet At the same place and at the same time.
I know you were mine,
When I saw you the first time,
And I know I was rude to you, At that time.
But now you are gone so far away,
I used to think about you every day,
But you looked more prettier day by day.
Now you are already taken,
Nothing I can do,
I can only imagine,
How is to be with you.
-Affan Shaikhsurab
Copyright © Affan Shaikhsurab | Year Posted 2024
Hands falter, shaking.
I long to tell you, to speak.
Will you ever know my love?
You blush beside me.
I’m waiting for you, move first.
Love for you ever patient.
Copyright © Makala Schnablegger | Year Posted 2024
Imaginary numbers in his mind
Imaginary numbers in his mind
Imaginary counting in imaginary time
Imaginary numbers in his mind
Imaginary letters in his mind
Imaginary letters in his mind
Imaginary words sit 'top imaginary lines
Imaginary letters in his mind
Imaginary voices in his mind
Imaginary voices in his mind
Imaginary laughter, imaginary sighs
Imaginary voices in his mind
Imaginary stories in his mind
Imaginary stories in his mind
Imaginary people live imaginary lives
Imaginary stories in his mind
Imaginary numbers in his mind
Imaginary numbers in his mind
Imaginary nickels, imaginary dimes
Imaginary numbers in his mind
Copyright © Robert Schatz | Year Posted 2023
When whispers shout out pain in silence
And echoes rejoice in gladness
A crowd of smiles in absence
Yet the back bone spares no one regardless
I get to understand what it means
To be African in beams.
When lonely nights strike
And songs of sorrow envelop with pride
A lake of tears floods with spike
Yet the backbone attacks in raid
I get to understand what it means
To be African in beams
When heaven finally opens up
And hears the cries all in a wrap
A song of cheers elopes from their hives
For the backbone a shadow now cast with knives
I get to understand what it means
To be African in beams
Copyright © KELLY RUTH | Year Posted 2024
I'm broken
Like a porcelain doll
Her straight A's shattered
Along with her perfect image
Society
Has always called me odd
And now there's a reason
But apparently it's not valid
Because for 13 years
I kept strong
But 13 years wasn't enough
Not for them
And not for me either really
My messy hair cut short
My makeup unblended
And my tears refusing to fall
Copyright © Eliana Rivers | Year Posted 2024
The Closed Door
Shut the door
Locked it tight
Kept at bay
All that will ignite
The flame inside
Barely a flicker in sight
There is no silence
Behind the door
For the voices of my thoughts
Are loud and worn
Too many voices yell at me
Telling me what should or shouldn’t be
Is there wisdom behind these voices?
Or are they just critics of choice
My desire is to lock them out
Allow me to discover what I am about
Too much to ask at this date
However; it is dangerous to hesitate
Knock all you want
I will not answer your call
Leave me be
Until I decide to stand or fall
Copyright © Susan Rigo | Year Posted 2020