OUR ORIGINAL POETRY: Share It Here
Hello there everyone!
If you're reading this it means that you probably are quite fond of poetry and writing it to. This is a thread to post all and any poetry that you may have, be it happy, sad, angry or just silly. All styles are welcome (free verse, couplets, slam) and it would be great to have at least one poem up a day for all of us to enjoy together!!
[Trigger warning: self harm, suicide]
I've been digging for seven hours just to know that I only have two left.
You've told me I'm no good and overdramatic. I'm starting to realize that I'm just the sidewalk that your walking all over. "No one is ever going to love you" The only thing loving me is my misery. I look and see a failure to my parents, friends, and myself. I only start to fall deeper into the hole to know that I'm not going to find home at the bottom. Im surrounded by the the things that are killing me. You, the blades I put to my wrist, the rope I rap around my neck, the needles I stick into my thighs, the toxic chemicals I inhale. I can't stop replaying your voice telling me just to give up. Its time to make the voice in my head stop and my heart too.
If I hold you tight will you fight
Will you stay if I tell you to go
Do you here my whispered plea
Can I give u all of me
Take it all and burn for me
Or push and run from me
Can you see what's really there
The pain and nightmares deep inside
Will u fight the demons or embrace there sins
Can I trust you with all that I am
I may drift forever before I can
I wish one day you can see I am me
@Maxlexie2
I like the intensity here. The yearning to be seen for who we really are, and to trust another.
In the middle of the fog
the wind is whispering
if you feel it you'll know it
this is the home you wanted
@ReganT
The sounds that the words make -- beautiful. I love the last line. It echoes and echoes. So much there in so few lines!
Same old empty feeling
Staring at your ceilings
Legs pushed in the air
Knowing you don't care
You won't make weekend plans with me
Painfully obvious I've become plan b
Why do I even want your company
And ask "can we still have dinner?"
Knew how you were but still I fell
Gets you off to put me through hell
Dead sure I'll never end up the winner
Why do I even come here
Devils whispering in my ear
Pulling at my panties
Thought you'd up the ante
Telling me I'm yours
More like the fool de'jour
Stringing me along so i wait around
While you're running all over town
Chasing your latest A list p*ssy down
And you say "maybe I'll drop by later? "
Doesn't close the door to be kind
Takes her calls just to f*ck with my mind
Whispers lovely things that makes me hate her
Tonight I make you say my name
So you can't play that little game
The one where it's not me
The one where she's who you see
Can't seem too greedy
Didnt want to appear needy
But I really need to know
On 2nd thought I'll just go
Can't hold my jealousy and I'd like to fight
He texts me back that I have no right
But are we good for Tuesday night
He asks "Is it cool if he sleeps over?"
How is loneliness worse than this lie
F*ck off should be my only reply
But I key back "ok lover"
@fairmindedBalloon6827
So powerful. Images that caught my breath. Wow.
Lost inside my own head
A world almost all its own
Dark malicious thoughts
Live deep deep inside
Lost inside my own head
Im stuck no way out
The door has been locked
Lost inside my own head
No one here but me
All by myself
Lost inside my own head
No one dare try to enter
They would never look
At me the same again
Lost inside my own head
@jewelsashes I feel like this a lot ty
If my mind makes me lose myself, who will I be?
Is it truly my mind or something unseen?
Im afraid to think anymore, afraid to move, breathe, sleep.
Afraid that if I'm not in control, someone else will be.
I'm terrified of being used. Shaken at the thought of hurting others.
I grew up wanting to save the world, protect my loved ones and even strangers.
The very thought of hurting anyone, especially them, frightens me.
Everything in this world frightens me.
@Grimmy101
This poem presents whirls of fear, expressed so vividly I found myself holding my breath. Amazing.
O, black crow of fear,
leave the socket of my eye!
Leave, while there's still time.
My voice flies high,
where the deaths of unborn children nest,
where dark stars rip the celestial sphere.
I leave my fear to the land
anticipating wheat.
I leave my fear to the mother
fearing for her child.
Silence!
My voice is thundering
for I love. I love like a moth
with half-burnt wings,
like the truth uncovering itself,
like a woman who has no fear.
@NataliaNectarine
Yikes the first two lines pack a punch!
The whole thing is awesome.
Possible TriggerWarning for self harm
I may have gone several weeks
without harming my skin
no cuts, no bruises, no burns
not a mark was left on my body
but that doesnt mean i was done hurting myself
I wasnt done harming my head
with cruel words, cruel thoughts, cruel intentions
the marks were all in my mind
@MatchIntoWater
Oh. this is so true .... And those kinds of wounds leave scars that may be worse perhaps?
(Trigger Warning: self harm, suicide)
I tried to write nothing as best as I could
I felt the world deserved silence after the attacks the Daesh pulled.
I tried to be strong,
tried to hold back and put my strength up as long as I could.
But the truth is,
now I have a left arm,
with scratches and bruises
of a suicidal coward.
Covering it with a shoddy drawing
of a red arrow with swirling blue flames...
But this time I really wanted it to hurt,
Maybe it's the start of my obsession with
ink nibs dotting my skin.
Then poorly masking it with gel pen ink.
After I come to my senses, and the coward kicks in.
A cycle of personal abuse.
Kill yourself kill yourself
i can't I can't
So I come out with bruises and scratches...
Poorly covered with depressed "art"
I guess you could call it
Tattoos for the broke, lonely, sick girl in Asia.
@weepingartist
Oh my god, the intensity. The pain. . . . Your stark honesty compels my admiration again, it really does.
(You know we care about you, right? Please try to be good to yourself, okay?)
@Annie hello, i just saw this now...thank you
Hiding his face behind a mask
The man goes through life
People accept the person he pretends to be
Yet reject the person that he wants to be
Cracks appear in the mask like thunder on a stormy night
How much longer will it last?
It is not always that the man wears his mask
Though time has told him it was for the best
Exhausted, the man continues his lonely dance
Because what else can he do, but fix his mask time and time again
He stopped for a moment to look in the mirror and catches a glance
Of what he could have been but will never be
His own man
@Cheeney This is my first attempt at poetry so feedback is much appreciated :)