Poetry competition CLOSED 15th March 2020 6:26am
WINNER
AspergerPoet56
View Profile Poems by AspergerPoet56
rosette
RUNNERS-UP: MichelleBarulich and ShaleeSue

Go to page:

Heartbreak, depression, anger and all that good stuff

Wh1skeySwagger
Swagger
Fire of Insight
United States
Joined 10th Dec 2019
Forum Posts: 940

Crowded Room

Here I sit with my back to the wall
And a full view of the room
Not by chance at all
It's woven in my loom
 
Scanning the place
My eyes fixed on the crowd
Watching looks on their face
They're so happy and loud
 
But somewhere out there
One might be a threat
A person without a care
Or trying to settle some debt
 
It could be her on that side
But of malice i see no hint
It could be him full of pride
Not knowing his concealed weapon prints
 
Always keeping an eye
But not just for my sake
All these people drinking rye
Clueless of their fate
 
Or the ones with their phones
Noses buried deep
Watching their screen, waiting for tones
Or that little old man asleep
 
I watch as i eat
Checking boxes in my head
Of the people I greet
And others I've read
 
The room gets loud
But my brain is a mess
As the place starts to crowd
And i can't watch the rest
 
My heart starts to beat
Pounding like a hammer in my chest
I sit nervous in my seat
Because i can't see the rest
 
I get whats left to go
And head out the door
Walking past the rows
I can't take anymore  
 
Many dont understand
This anxiety i feel
But things get out of hand
And violence is real
 
While most look for the good
I watch for the evil
I'd stop if i could
But i lived it for real
 
Not everyone has cheer  
Deep in their hearts
There is true evil out here
Practicing their black arts
Written by Wh1skeySwagger (Swagger)
Go To Page  

Wh1skeySwagger
Swagger
Fire of Insight
United States
Joined 10th Dec 2019
Forum Posts: 940

The Struggle

Demons escaping
Thoughts provoke anxiety
Deserving nothing
Written by Wh1skeySwagger (Swagger)
Go To Page  

Wh1skeySwagger
Swagger
Fire of Insight
United States
Joined 10th Dec 2019
Forum Posts: 940

Goodbye Light

Darkness closes in
Blindfold hides reality
Never good enough
Written by Wh1skeySwagger (Swagger)
Go To Page  

UserNotFound
Strange Creature
South Africa
Joined 4th Mar 2020
Forum Posts: 1

I don't know

It's been a couple years since it started to happen
And my life still feels like it's crashing.
Can anyone tell me how to handle a life that's smashing
I just need some advice, like a rookie playing madden

It feels like I'm trapped in a cage
My only release, laying all this on the page
Everyday the cage closes in
What the hell do I have to do to be myself again

I keep all this bottled up inside
My smiles slowly fading on the outside
Already dead inside, my soul leaving me piece by piece
All I need is some ease, Just a little bit of peace.

These days everyone "understands" what you're going through
Yet everyday they ask what happened to the old you
I'm a disappointment, a failure, just another slob without a job
I lost it all, and I can't seem to break my fall.
Written by UserNotFound
Go To Page  

poetOftragedy
Dangerous Mind
South Africa 3awards
Joined 13th May 2018
Forum Posts: 80

head above water

Walking around like nothing happened.
Faking a smile at every turn.
Showing a brave face,
When everyone is breaking down around me.
Yet deep inside I'm drowning.
I'm just keeping my head above water.

I've hide away my tears.
Walked across my ocean of fears.
My pain, no one else sees.
I've stood my ground,
I've let everyone find shelter under my wing
What they don't know is,
Under this tough guy act
Under these cleverly painted walls.
I'm cracking apart inside.
Under this bold stance,
I'm drowning deep inside.
My heavy despairing heart is pulling me down.
Dragging around my sinking stone.
But I keep walking around like nothing happened.
Faking a smile at every turn.
The tough guy act.
Yet deep inside i know,
I'm just keeping my head above water.
Written by poetOftragedy
Go To Page  

calamitygin
Jennifer Michael McCurry
Tyrant of Words
United States 28awards
Joined 22nd June 2015
Forum Posts: 2047

Dilineation

fear me    
in my whisper
   
as shadows breed where stillness lies  
   
my nature's footing    
wears a concrete soul  
but when shed to tiptoe....  
   
find demons curling in my flesh  
find legion there  
and their loyal stroking  
swelling the curve  
and up tip of my breast  
   
my allure smooths  
slinks in poseur  
   
with an interlopers gloved hands  
will writhe around you and reach  
   
to pluck ennui like dark berry  
and let the juices drip    
over the  plump turn of my smiling lip  
   
 
Written by calamitygin (Jennifer Michael McCurry)
Go To Page  

0UTPUT_a_AURA
rushing._RUMOR.s
Twisted Dreamer
United States 2awards
Joined 17th Dec 2019
Forum Posts: 17

Waste my time with me

He lives his life at night
With all that time    
You'd think He’d Finally get it right    
   
There’s Nothing open
no friends awake    
No distractions
take this feeling away  
   
dreams he’s not alone
 So He Sleeps all day    
Dreams of a girl
 she’s A picture of perfect    
   
She helps him forget,
life everyday Everything
that ever gets in the way  
   
he asks her to stay
before she answers    
The Alarm clock rings
Just To take her away  
          
How many more nights belong to me alone    
I’m not selfish only have myself just    
Here to stay awake or alive    
Waste my time-with me    
Waste-it-all-away    
Waste my time-with me    
Waste-it-all-away  
      
Forget time,  
 Forget me,    
If she’s not real    
it’ll be the death of me  
   
Replace all meaning    
replace the family    
Just For a glimpse    
of her actuality    
   
If she’s not real    
I’ll sleep eternally    
begging for more than  
Just Her in my mentality    
   
she needs to be real    
she needs to answer me  
      
How many more nights belong to me alone    
I’m not selfish only have myself just    
Here to stay awake or alive    
Waste my time-with me    
Waste-it-all-away    
Waste my time-with me    
Waste-it-all-away
   
misplacing memories    
Dreams replace reality    
Thinking how he shouldn’t be  
If shes not real    
it’ll be the End of me    
Because she said yes  
She answered me    
She answered me  
 
How many more nights belong to me alone    
I’m not selfish only have myself just    
Here to stay awake or alive    
Waste my time-with me    
Waste-it-all-away    
Waste my time-with me    
Waste-it-all-away  
Waste my time-with me    
Waste-it-all-away    
Written by 0UTPUT_a_AURA (rushing._RUMOR.s)
Go To Page  

0UTPUT_a_AURA
rushing._RUMOR.s
Twisted Dreamer
United States 2awards
Joined 17th Dec 2019
Forum Posts: 17

She asked me a question

At her dads got back her favorite Place
hair still soaking wet from the beach

Doesn’t look at ease like normally
Silent till she said she has a question
That Had me thinking universe over
She said I'm might be drunk

But my minds all made up
that’s when I asked her
Why would you want to end your life
Told me If it doesn't happen tonight,
it'll happen another time,

Can you make it look like a murder
So I won't be judged
by the people that I love
And when god comes a knocking
I'll tell him what happened
Say it was a favor  
You helped
You’re my savior  
when your final day comes
I can return the favor

I just wanna end this,
silent fight
My god, you know he won't
let me pass gates,
if I end my fate
Other than tanning,
hell isn’t a good fit for me
she joked to make me feel better
And Convinced me
I shouldn’t have let her

We hold hands walking Upstairs
I prep the bathroom
Testing water for the perfect temp
Thoughts rush through my head
the tubs full as the door pulls

She’s wearing the Same two piece
from this morning
I started crying With early mourning
I love her so much
So afraid of life without her
My words stutter to convince her

She shut me up with a last kiss
Then Took my hands to her neck  
Now she’s in the bathtub
Head under the water
I read her lips past the bubbles
her last words were I love you

Can you make it look like a murder
So I won't be judged
by the people that I love
And when god comes a knocking
I'll tell him what happened
Say it was a favor
You helped
You’re her savior
when your final day comes
I can return the favor

Didnt want time to move because now
I’m here dressed in black
sharing memories With her family
Looking at her face
that peaks from the box
As the pastor speaks

Her Memory Colors the sky
Her laugh echoes from
somewhere up high
I see Her everywhere
I see her above the casket  
She’s Thanking me
And finally happy
i feel selfish To pray
for her to come back down
From her cloud for a last kiss
Written by 0UTPUT_a_AURA (rushing._RUMOR.s)
Go To Page  

javalini
Fire of Insight
United States 17awards
Joined 4th Apr 2019
Forum Posts: 214

Superpowers of the Avoidant Personality (For L.)

I can shrink to the size of a fruit fly.  
Almost invisible,  
and with a tiny voice to match.  
No one hears a word I say.  
No one gives a frick what happens to you when you’re this small.  
They’ll just as soon smash you as to look at you.  
They won’t think twice.  

Or I can become my shadow.  
Just a hazy silhouette.  
Again, almost invisible, but solid.  
Like tinted glass.  
People bump into me a lot when I’m my shadow self.  
“Oh," they say.  "I didn’t see you standing there."  
 
I can become completely hollow so that wind whistles through me.  
It’s like music, but eerie,  
like the moan of a ghost.  
People don’t like the sound of it.  
I'm light as ocean froth when I’m hollow.  
I have to hold onto something lest I blow away  
like a dust bunny in a wind storm.  
 
I can be completely invisible but it's worthless
because it only works when nobody's looking.  
I know I’m invisible because I know how it feels,  
but then somebody looks in my direction and there I am,  
plain as day.  
Hiding, as they say, in plain sight.  
So complete invisibility, at least in my case, is not that big a deal.
Written by javalini
Go To Page  

Xia
Lost Thinker
Canada
Joined 3rd Mar 2019
Forum Posts: 11

D.R.E.A.M

D.R.E.A.M

Drifting detached daydreams decaying. Dividing dearest delusions departing darker dreary dimensions deducing destinies drastic detachment defining downward destructive damnation. Deaths delightfully drones demonically dancing dizzily dreamlike disillusion. Days decompose delivering devils delighted dues, desperation descends down distorted delusions definitively declaring defeat.

Reality rushes rapidly releasing reverences reserves. Roughly ripping righteous remedies remaining remanence, ruining reassurances restitution. Remaining raw rancid rhetoric reverberates raging wraiths relentless wrath. Redefine wrongs rights restlessly.

Esoteric euphemisms embody enlightenments eulogy. Enraged energies enforce earths entropy. Erasing every elated entities evolving essence. Evil eradicates emerging emotions, enveloping everyday easement.

Alleged allegations anoint absurd anecdotes about altruism, assuring absolute annihilation. Afflicted anthropoids angerly amass amongst agitated angst. Aiming armies arsenals at an all-encompassing atlas. Alas aimless apes age and awaken aloof amongst arduous atrocities.

Meaningless moments meander mindlessly making memories morph maddeningly. Music’s murderous melodic metronome making modern men mental. Modesties masquerade manipulates most men’s manners making melancholy monsters. Modern madness multiplies making manipulative masters.      
Written by Xia
Go To Page  

Pete82
Twisted Dreamer
United Kingdom 2awards
Joined 7th Mar 2020
Forum Posts: 7

Related submission no longer exists.

Pete82
Twisted Dreamer
United Kingdom 2awards
Joined 7th Mar 2020
Forum Posts: 7

Order_in_Chaos
Sean Paul Gillum
Lost Thinker
United States
Joined 7th Mar 2020
Forum Posts: 3

Confessions of a Cutter

The scars on my wrists tell a tall tale
I was born to lose, set to fail
The razor slices across the tattered vein
I see my reflection in the bloodstain
I find the pleasure hidden in the pain
You may think what I do is inhumane
There is a method to all of this madness
Hidden in the self-hate and sadness
These are the confessions of a cutter
What you read may make you shudder
The scarlet spills onto the floor
I just can't take it anymore
Cutting towards my palm
No longer can I keep calm
Lying in this blood that won't clot
It's more of a mess than I thought
This time will be my last
It all happened so fast
There is so much blood, what a mess
It's much more than I can assess
As my eyes close, I see a bright light
I'm not making it through the night

10/24/18

(c) Sean Paul Gillum
Written by Order_in_Chaos (Sean Paul Gillum)
Go To Page  

stoned
buggy
Lost Thinker
United States
Joined 18th Jan 2018
Forum Posts: 5

you made me feel pain

jrw
the three letters i once loved to write
you told me you loved me
youd never leave me
especially for someone else
and then you fucking did
you left for her
the same girl who has caused me heartbreak for years
and because i love you so much
i decided against happiness so i wouldnt hurt you
funny
you shattered my heart
and i kept it shattered to protect you from the pain i feel
you have hurt me so much
i cant touch my sketchbook without wanting to scream
you inspired my art
you asked to see my art
to read my poetry
you asked for drawings
and then you left
stole a piece of my heart
and 3 months of my life
and my inspiration to draw
i want to hate you
but i cant
because unlike you
i didnt tell lies
ill always love you jrw
just remember that...
Written by stoned (buggy)
Go To Page  

Go to page:
Go to: