you are the puppet,
I am the strings,
and yet you control everything,
to wake up each day
with a promise I've made,
only for you
to not see it through,
does anything matter to you?
alone in my bed,
wandering thoughts,
what's it for,
to sit and rot?
I'd rather not,
but here you lay
wasting each day
like it's worthless to you anyways,
with strings I command,
yet you ignore my demands,
it's what you deserve,
a harsh reprimand,
"RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE
ITS TIME FOR YOUR PLAY
PUT ON THAT SMILE
AND TACKLE THE DAY"
yet, clearly there's something
you don't comprehend,
a promise you've made
but still you contend,
you laze away the days embrace
falling behind in life's race,
you are the puppet
and I am the strings
and yet it seems
I can do nothing
Categories:
uncontrollable, angst, extended metaphor, mental
Form: Rhyme
Haikus of Suffering
Your memory rains
Sorrow drenches me with tears.
Crashed... last fifteen years.
Now sixty-two... old.
I have no young grand-children,
but one abortion.
She left, now alone.
I never had her... alone.
Stolen, by... desire.
Gold, silver, bankroll.
Shovel, seduction, harlot.
Stolen by my lust.
Best friend... ever had.
Fifteen years of loyalty.
Laid my dog to rest.
Missing you, away.
Another late night ... office.
You sleep without me.
My daughter grows old.
I died for you to be free.
She flew away... gone.
Tears, empty, wanting.
Hold, touch, hug, love, tender, want.
Gone... lost... hate... anger.
Longing... long-ing... long...
I long... longing... for so long...
very, very... long.
by, Martin Braun
August 24, 2023
Categories:
uncontrollable, age, lost, love, pain,
Form: Haiku
What if you feel like dancing?
I mean when you’re in class
or standing in a pandemically
distanced line - you know
INAPPROPRIATE times?
And what if you feel like singing
but you’ve been told your singing
is like the screeching of an angry cat?
What if you’re being stared at
because you’re pencil tapping
or head bobbing to a happy tune
that’s only playing between your ears?
What if you’re smiling to yourself
despite having to read 300 pages
every night for homework?
Happiness can strike, like a thunderclap
or in my case - the morning alarm.
I mean, have you ever found yourself
quivering with uncontrollable happiness?
Categories:
uncontrollable, happy, teen,
Form: Free verse
The castles in the sand
Are getting out of hand.
Categories:
uncontrollable, life,
Form: Epigram
Just saw an image of a sweet young lass
Starting to tremble my parts they do flap
Uncontrollable drooling
Great passion it's fueling
Must be careful, must turn down the tap
Categories:
uncontrollable, desire,
Form: Limerick
uncontrollable
overflowing embankment
lunacy fires
Categories:
uncontrollable, hyperbole,
Form: Senryu
We live life in fear of the unknown,
Scared of the inconsistency and judgmental ways of this world,
what if you literally could not help the actions you committed,
and instead of living life day to day you must live by the second,
like a NBA team in triple over time..
shouts,screams, eye twitches galore,
muscle spasms threaten the people around you and potentially yourself,
everyone looks at you as if you were crazy,
as if you were a character in a Stephen King novel,
People with Tourettes Syndrome are often down on themselves,
like fallen child stars,
but I hope each and every person living with Tourettes knows they are the model example of bravery
and give us all hope for the future,
I feel sorry but also anguish for all the people who laugh and pick..
they don't understand the fight of living life..
With Uncontrollable Tics
Categories:
uncontrollable, beautiful, cheer up, courage,
Form: Free verse
Why a blue sky?,
why a green field?
Why a white cloud?,
or the need to feel?
Feel the pain in the
rain, hurt from another
yet no blood stain.
Why a crimson sky at
night?, why a yellow sun
shining so bright?
Feel the warmth upon
our skin, feel the warmth
radiate within.
Why a brown tree trunk?,
or the colour of mud?
Feel the aches as we
make our body trudge.
Why does anything
happen to any of us?
Why are some born rich?,
why are some born with
zilch.
Feel the bitterness that
overspills. We were all
given free will, yet whatever
happened to been born equal?
Categories:
uncontrollable, feelings, god, how i
Form: I do not know?
" Being indifferent to inevitable situations is the golden rule for a calm and peaceful mind"
Categories:
uncontrollable, inspirational, peace,
Form: Monoku
Self-Mastery is supposed to be the way to success,
However, many of us find it difficult to use filters
when interacting with others,
Our emotions become uncontrollable and without merit,
ranting and raving until others perish,
Destroying everything that is good and pleasant within
our reach, and after the emotional hurricane,
battered egos get washed up on the beach.
Categories:
uncontrollable, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Her attitude.
Her Grace.
The outlook on life for her is like a dove.
It will slowly fly by,
peacefully, and
controllably.
Her beautiful face.
She has potential to be successful.
God watches as his creation
grows up.
He gets a tear in his eye.
The universe cries out to her,
Kayli, Kayli, Kayli.
I adore her so greatly.
Her will and spirit to live,
rings out through the heavens.
For I too get a tear in my eye.
Kayli, Kayli, Kayli.
Dedication to my sister!
Categories:
uncontrollable, family
Form: Free verse
an ear piercing scream brakes the dawn
louder than thunder sharper than ice
enough to make even the brave and strong stop in there tracks
it hits faster than lightening
more fearful than a spider
and once its gone all that is left if the memories
and knowing that it will strike again
it causes destruction
and is uncontrollable
impossible to predict
only one thing is certain
destruction is its task
and always succeeds
Categories:
uncontrollable, death, life, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse