Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Videos
Resources
Syllable Counter
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Quotes
Short Stories
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 18.221.124.95
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
Take my lips from me, steal my teeth Rip my voice from my throat Throw a wrench at my voice box, there's no point in the lock Sorry for being abrupt, carrying this halfway through a morning tune But this needed to be said, this needed to be addressed So let me dress down my chaotic steps Cover up my distress and give access to the grievance I possess Why have I been given a voice to speak Why have I opened my mouth to let these words flow around me A hurricane of verbs, nouns, sentences abound A colorful world of a mystic surround sound, whirlwinds of letters floating like people in a crowd Stellar this description is while dull is what my presence gives I only vent to assume, I have no clue With what I say I don't mean to come off so construed, a knotted ball of yarn Practically I'm Niagara Falls, I can talk enough for an entire classroom Wait don't reach for the remote and put me on....mute Too late? So soon? What does it matter, you can't hear me Won't hear me, refuse to hear me Hear me, hear me, hear me, HEAR ME! Outrage, this is an outrage Why give me a voice I wish to shout for all to hear Why give me at all a wish, a desire to give my tiny little voice to have a famous sort of push, a famous sort of notoriety In writing, in videos, in public opinion when the public consensus is obscurity When my own mother ignores me Like I'm just a fly buzzing around the car Do you know how many countless stars I begged, pleaded, stood defeated on endless nights to berate the Gods' to find some light in me to shine so bright And this is what I receive: A wish come true Glory to up above, they gave me what I wanted; parents on Christmas day What they neglected to mention to me, what they neglected to say to me was my attempts are fruitless A farmer watering barren soil Proof my attempts prove that I have no business trying if what I try ends up in failure And it's not me, you can't say it's me All I choose to pursue, I do so with impeccability I do so with confidence, I do so with earnest optimism I do so with a goal in mind, a goal to achieve Yet my goals proceed to allude me, proceed to chase me away As all ears fall deaf on the words I try to annunciate All ears fall deaf as I proceed to produce words to further the future I can only write with agitated tone I'm 21 now, I don't want to be discovered while I lay covered by ashes and ten feet of dirt & tears I've always been a step behind the curve and now I'm a step behind an era who refuses to read Who refuses to... I swear I am a mime in the middle of the street Attempting to be entertaining, attempting to challenge the mystery of human life with pure interpretation But no sound comes out as I put myself in soundproof glass Scratching and clawing at disillusioned walls which bleed with me as I can't breathe from this suffocation of being the only one to hear my own words fluently So like most with big city dreams, you either choose the west or the east to succeed But I'm only a small town believer So I guess off I go to the west coast for love and opportunity Hoping her ears aren't the only pair to care, hoping her ears aren't treating me like a static lullaby
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required