How is it that I can miss
someone that I don't even know?
It's driving me insane,
how can such thoughts be so?
Why is it that my soul
cries loudly in the night,
while searching for a woman
who's not within my sight?
Why is it that I crave
the brush of her soft hands,
and anxiously await
her impassioned demands?
Why is it that I long
to taste her honeyed kiss,
and drift away with her
through rapture's sweet abyss?
When will these feelings stop?
They're tearing me apart.
I'll never feel her touch;
I know this in my heart.
So why can't I let go
when nothing's there to hold?
Why can't I walk away
before my dreams turn cold?
I must begin to search
and find the key within
to vanquish all this pain
and not let darkness win.
Today I'll let her go
and seek her love no more,
but will I ever be
the man I knew before?
Nightmares driving me insane subconscious images are invading my brain
As I sleep constantly fighting my dreams
Silent on the outside no-one hears my screams
Sheet soaked with sweat mixed with my tears
My dreams seem to bring to me all my fears
Tossing and turning awakening with a start
The darkness loudly echoes the beat of my heart
Nightmares of monsters nightmares of pain the same nightmare that comes again and again
The nightmare is over as night turns to day
The sunlight takes the monsters away
As the day goes by I'm filled with dread
Because the nightmares are waiting for me in my head
Like Flesh being ripped from my body as my mind slowly dies
Screaming for salvation whilst staring in the devil's eyes
Self inflicted cuts in an attempt to numb the pain
Voices of the demons in my mind are driving me insane
Ending up in the same place with every turn I take
must I go to hell as punishment to make good my mistake
There are people talking around me but I don't hear what they say
I lose sight of them all and they fade slowly away
Who am I why do I hate myself will I ever be worthy of forgiveness
Or will I suffer till the end of time forever walking in the darkness. Of depression
Blushing was the moon above us
as she whispered out my name
sexy with a sophisticated seduction
a presence driving me insane
she wasn't just the winner
she invented a totally different game
the birds whistled
the stars shone bright
it was heaven walking along the sea shore
with our feelings holding each other tight
The moment my young eyes met yours
through that endless silver screen,
I did not know a stranger's face
could become so familiar to me
In the years that have passed
I have changed my hair, my clothes, my dreams
Yet somehow there you remain
Still ethereal, and still driving me insane
I see you dancing away through a director's camera lens
Existing through humility and glamour at every turn
You appear to me every time my eyes yearn
as if time itself refuses to touch you
In these promised seven lifetimes
I ache to only see you at heaven's gate
When your face appears-
happiness burns through my body like red-hot sears
Loving you is my eternity, Hrithik
And I've wholeheartedly accepted this fate.
Turquoise tears race on face
A broken heart empty hardened place
Like a black bird without a song
No decadent words to string along
Love is a blue bruise on battered brain
Memory of you driving me insane
Looking for a yellow happy place
Photograph ripped now I chase
The void with liquor candles and moon
Muse and I bicker that love was doomed
Sipping my soul like Earl Gray
Wishing to dispose of yesterday
Looking up at the ebony sky annoyed
To get through the night
Embrace the void
215.
Wind and Rain
I have anticipated
As what the skies have said
Let's hide under the bed!
The wind is blowing
The rain is pouring
We have to do something
Blowing and pouring again and again
It's driving me insane
Damn this wind and rain!
-06/21/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Stormy Morning Poems Collection
Alone time was crashed,
Alone time got trashed.
By whom you might ask , well my brain,
Who is slowly making me feel insane,
Whispering in my ear,
Whispering my ear things to cause me fear .
I wish it would just shut up,
but no it always must interrupt.
My brain,
My brain is driving me insane,
Please make it stop,
Please make it stop singing cringe 2000s pop.
Unstable in all my ways
Nevermind the other days
When I couldn’t smile a storm
I was trying to keep oh so warm..
Messed up an extra mile
Our love went out of style
Shame embraced me,
Never leaving my presence of once-upon-a-time glee
Tears flow and the sun glows
Tears flow and His son knows
There will be a rainbow after a storm
After I find shelter to keep me warm
Unsmile my tears away, away, away
Unstable in a rather bizarre kind of way
Unbeatable thoughts barreling through my brain
In vain, I cry tears of joyless disdain…disdain…
Frowning in this town of a tension-whelmed terrain
Refrain from driving me insane
If you can, you can be my endless sunshining day…
To wipe away this dismay…pray away the disarray!
I say, pray away the pain
I say, shelter me with rain
I say, unsmile your smile of gain
I say, grow yourself another brain
I'm calling for healing,
You know how I'm feeling,
Please start revealing,
The layers that need peeling,
Healing the pain.
It's driving me insane,
Causing an energy drain,
I'm straining my brain,
Just trying to maintain.
As the root remains,
Tying me to the pain,
Help me regain the strength,
To heal the wavelength.
A super computer
Is coming for my lines
It thinks faster than me
By several thousand times
First it was chess
I thought it my domain
I can’t compete now
It’s driving me insane
It’s better and better
Not awkward at all
Feed in an idea
Or Tale rather tall
No spelling mistakes
Grammar precise
The jokes on me
AI ain’t very nice
It can write copy
Or a hit song
Damn it’s so good
I want to sing along
But in the end
It’s no good you see
Writing what I write
Brings joy to me
Artificial Intelligence
No heart or a brain
I prefer human
Forget the mainframe
Inspired by a conversation on Poetry Soup about AI. Mystic Rose started the conversation.
My mind is locked, I feel so low
Drowning deep, don't know where to go
I search for keys to unlock my brain
But thoughts are stuck, driving me insane
I wish I could break free from pain
But darkness grips, refuses to wane
Suicide's not the answer, I know
My mind's a mess, feeling lost and slow
I see the key, but can't unlock
My thoughts are trapped, can't rock
I've been hurt, words cut deep
Feeling worthless, can't sleep
When my mind's locked, thoughts are unclear
Can't think straight, trapped in fear
Don't ask me why, just understand
Unlocking my mind is the master plan
My mind's been locked by pain and stress
PTSD and trauma, a heavy mess
But I won't let it define my fate
I'll unlock my mind, create a new state
Unlock my mind, make everything right.
Me saying no to suicidal
I am a decrepit, I'll tell you why
Even though telling you will make me cry
My world has been turned around, upside down
And I've developed an eternal frown.
I've tried to be helpful all of my life
Now, sadly I have to think more than twice
I've been backstabbed and I'm truly forlorn
If only I could have been told, for-warned.
My life means nothing to me anymore
Happiness and joy has flown from my door
I won’t help anyone else, as before
Only my hubby, the one I adore.
Here I sit wondering how to go on
Will I be disliked now, by everyone
Can one's joy of living ever come back
After they have been verbally attacked.
The hurt I feel is driving me insane
It will never happen ever again
I'll hide away, keeping me to myself
I hope the backstabber's proud of herself.
* * *
There is so much pain inside of me.
My heart is sinking deep in my chest.
My body has grown so weak,
But I hurt too much to rest .
I try to remember when I was happy,
Yet those memories won't come back.
Where those memories should be,
I can't see anything but black.
My memories of happiness are gone.
They have all been removed from my past.
All I can see is pain in my future,
I don't know how long I can last.
This hurting is too much at times,
I believe it's driving me insane.
I would gladly welcome death,
Then I would no longer feel this pain.
I'm losing it
All of me is fading away
My good heart
Strong mind
My sense
Because people ain't getting it
People's actions driving me insane.
The world
Making me crazy
Many are so lazy
Hurting another
To be happy
Betraying each other
For temporary substance.
How do you feel?
When it's not you
It amuse you
Making you better
When it's you!
It Breaks you
Leaving you bitter.
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