Submissions by A_Failed_Artist
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Fickle
The sun is burning
I beg the gods for the snow
Yet I hate the cold
I beg the gods for the snow
Yet I hate the cold
#sadness
#conflict
#sun #snow
#sun #snow
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Word of Caution
If you don't like the person sleeping next to you, don't bare their children.
If it pleases them, don't do it.
Don't make new lives just to ruin them.
If it pleases them, don't do it.
Don't make new lives just to ruin them.
#children
#marriage
#family #separation
#family #separation
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Rock Bottom
Bottoms up til you hit rock bottom
The bottles all empty but you're just getting started
You wonder what you're tasting, forgotten history
You haven't had a smoke since 1993
She'll sing a little here, she'll dance a little there
She'll talk a little shit about current affairs
Spreading all the ashes of those she once loved
Falling out of cigarettes mentioned above.
The bottles all empty but you're just getting started
You wonder what you're tasting, forgotten history
You haven't had a smoke since 1993
She'll sing a little here, she'll dance a little there
She'll talk a little shit about current affairs
Spreading all the ashes of those she once loved
Falling out of cigarettes mentioned above.
#LifeStruggles
#alcohol
#tobacco
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The Other Other
I didn't intend it to be this way.
I let my body get in the way.
He says, "she's sleeping right next me," but I don't care.
Come to the morning after,
I'm feeling instant rapture.
My one regret was thinking I was prepared.
I let my body get in the way.
He says, "she's sleeping right next me," but I don't care.
Come to the morning after,
I'm feeling instant rapture.
My one regret was thinking I was prepared.
#regret
#sex
#betrayal #shame
#betrayal #shame
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Struggle
I want the end of the world, baby.
I wanna sleep on a bed of rusty nails.
I don't need no cure, just the truth.
Because I like the struggle, it keeps me going.
I wanna sleep on a bed of rusty nails.
I don't need no cure, just the truth.
Because I like the struggle, it keeps me going.
#LifeStruggles
#inspirational
#SelfDiscovery #SelfWorth
#SelfDiscovery #SelfWorth
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Night and Day
I can't stand the beginning or the end.
No matter what, I am without my heart.
I am alone.
At night, I dream of rejoicing.
When I wake, I'm filled with dread.
I love you.
Please let this dream come true.
No matter what, I am without my heart.
I am alone.
At night, I dream of rejoicing.
When I wake, I'm filled with dread.
I love you.
Please let this dream come true.
#depression
#heartbroken
#dreams #emotional
#dreams #emotional
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Do You Think?
All around the world, there is trash.
One too many whores taking over my tv.
Everyone of them is unclean, except for my daughter, the cleanest of the mean.
One too many whores taking over my tv.
Everyone of them is unclean, except for my daughter, the cleanest of the mean.
#mother
#women
#ignorance
#feminism
#hypocrisy
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Love/Hate
When I wake up, I hate you.
When I have breakfast, I miss you.
When I go to the store, I forget about you.
When I come home, I love you.
When I have dinner, I love you.
When I call you, I love you.
When I go to bed, I hate you.
When I have breakfast, I miss you.
When I go to the store, I forget about you.
When I come home, I love you.
When I have dinner, I love you.
When I call you, I love you.
When I go to bed, I hate you.
#anger
#love
#hate #breakup
#hate #breakup
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Phonophobia
Little baby doesn't yell,
That's for grown ups
And children old enough to swear.
Leave without being told so
When bombs fall in the living room.
Women are quiet around men,
That's what I learned.
Men punch holes in walls and throw phones on the floor.
That's just how families are.
That's for grown ups
And children old enough to swear.
Leave without being told so
When bombs fall in the living room.
Women are quiet around men,
That's what I learned.
Men punch holes in walls and throw phones on the floor.
That's just how families are.
#anxiety
#childhood
#family #fear
#family #fear
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Pride
Give her the facts
She won't, in fact
Listen to anything I have to say.
"It's all been a wool
Pulled over your eyes,
Wake the fuck up, or we'll all be dead."
She's willing to die for her stupid pride.
Patriotism, that's what she cries.
Hating the system but self medicate
Act like a doctor, shit on a grave.
Complain about cloth, American woe.
Think you're so smart, there's nothing you know.
You know what you see, you want to believe
It's not happening in front of your feet.
She won't, in fact
Listen to anything I have to say.
"It's all been a wool
Pulled over your eyes,
Wake the fuck up, or we'll all be dead."
She's willing to die for her stupid pride.
Patriotism, that's what she cries.
Hating the system but self medicate
Act like a doctor, shit on a grave.
Complain about cloth, American woe.
Think you're so smart, there's nothing you know.
You know what you see, you want to believe
It's not happening in front of your feet.
#ignorance
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Shell
Something is crawling inside of my turtle shell.
Roaming in my arms, in my legs, tense as a shiver.
It's me, I never met him before.
I can't sit down or else they'll hatch.
From my cracked skin, new live emerges.
Song birds or baby spiders.
He's coming to take control, for the weaker is losing it.
She'll be lost in the back of my mind as I forget how bad it was.
I need him, I want to be him, but I can't feel a thing.
Roaming in my arms, in my legs, tense as a shiver.
It's me, I never met him before.
I can't sit down or else they'll hatch.
From my cracked skin, new live emerges.
Song birds or baby spiders.
He's coming to take control, for the weaker is losing it.
She'll be lost in the back of my mind as I forget how bad it was.
I need him, I want to be him, but I can't feel a thing.
#dark
#identity
#myself #SelfReflection
#myself #SelfReflection
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STOP!
Fear has a sound and the sound is silence.
I've reached it's end and dug a tunnel, now I have mud on my psyche.
I thought I saw you in a dream dressed up like a politician.
Sorry I had to kill you, it's just business.
Now the blood is leaking out and you're standing above me.
Staring me down with neither life or death.
Oh kiss me, my lover, I want it to stop.
I've reached it's end and dug a tunnel, now I have mud on my psyche.
I thought I saw you in a dream dressed up like a politician.
Sorry I had to kill you, it's just business.
Now the blood is leaking out and you're standing above me.
Staring me down with neither life or death.
Oh kiss me, my lover, I want it to stop.
#love
#dark
#dreams
#death
#fear
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