Submissions by DreamIllusions
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
When I put the pen to paper or the hands to keys - I feel as if I'm in a fever until all the thoughts make it out - only then I can breathe.
LOVE POEM
Published
7th Jun 2022 2:50am
7th Jun 2022 2:50am
EMPTICATE
EMPTICATE
Empty + Vindicate
v. to give someone something they wanted after they stopped wanting it
Why did you do that to me?
Empticate to placate me
I struggled for so many months
Trying to dig up and around your wants
I’d ask you everyday
Are you ok?
And everyday
You’d say no
No matter what I did
Notes I left, treats I hid
The best pieces of you were always missing
A word? A phrase? A sigh? A thing?
I never found it anywhere
Nowhere was it lingering
And so I pulled away
Made myself unavailable ...
Empty + Vindicate
v. to give someone something they wanted after they stopped wanting it
Why did you do that to me?
Empticate to placate me
I struggled for so many months
Trying to dig up and around your wants
I’d ask you everyday
Are you ok?
And everyday
You’d say no
No matter what I did
Notes I left, treats I hid
The best pieces of you were always missing
A word? A phrase? A sigh? A thing?
I never found it anywhere
Nowhere was it lingering
And so I pulled away
Made myself unavailable ...
#sadness
#loneliness
#rejection
#emptiness
#emotional
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SELF POEM
Published
7th Jun 2022 1:34am
7th Jun 2022 1:34am
She Still Sleeps with Wolves
Be it wolves from the pack
Close knit family, the ones that are supposed to
Have your back
Or the ones that chose to hunt her
Sniff her out and follow her
Eventually devour her
As the sun sets every night
She says her prayers and holds on tight
Closes her eyes and waits
For the claws the bites
The midnight fights
That strip her of all she’s got
Down to the bone, white hot
How does she even navigate
Between those who snap
And those who wait
She digs in deep and hopes and prays
For the kind of sunlight that...
Close knit family, the ones that are supposed to
Have your back
Or the ones that chose to hunt her
Sniff her out and follow her
Eventually devour her
As the sun sets every night
She says her prayers and holds on tight
Closes her eyes and waits
For the claws the bites
The midnight fights
That strip her of all she’s got
Down to the bone, white hot
How does she even navigate
Between those who snap
And those who wait
She digs in deep and hopes and prays
For the kind of sunlight that...
#sadness
#dark
#ghosts
#despair
#fear
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
3rd Jun 2022 4:33am
3rd Jun 2022 4:33am
Muse of Poetry
One hundred lives
One thousand tries
One million lines
And yet
I've never mastered you
You're still a mystery
You're so stubborn
Begging me to come inside
Taking bites out of my sides
Your power over me
Fragments my reality
You shriek inside my mind
Always saying something
Completely unexpected
Your words roll down the mountain
Of my life's experiences
Gathering speed and resilience
Stopping short of
Taking flight
Because the tides change
And we take a different direction
And we run ...
One thousand tries
One million lines
And yet
I've never mastered you
You're still a mystery
You're so stubborn
Begging me to come inside
Taking bites out of my sides
Your power over me
Fragments my reality
You shriek inside my mind
Always saying something
Completely unexpected
Your words roll down the mountain
Of my life's experiences
Gathering speed and resilience
Stopping short of
Taking flight
Because the tides change
And we take a different direction
And we run ...
#motivational
#inspirational
#mystery #StreamOfConsciousness
#mystery #StreamOfConsciousness
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SONG LYRICS
Published
28th May 2022 4:52am
28th May 2022 4:52am
The Come Down
We build the ride to go high in the sky
With a foundation sturdy
As the heights we defy
We attached our paper wings
And dared each other to go and fly
Knowing one of us might not
Want to go that high
I can wear your heart for forever
I just need to know it matters
Everywhere we’ve gone has been up
But I know at some point we’ll come down
And you’ll be done
I’ll be gone
And all that’ll be left
Is the charred shadow of our crash
We spiral with the wind, up and up
Carrying nothing but hopes and dreams ...
With a foundation sturdy
As the heights we defy
We attached our paper wings
And dared each other to go and fly
Knowing one of us might not
Want to go that high
I can wear your heart for forever
I just need to know it matters
Everywhere we’ve gone has been up
But I know at some point we’ll come down
And you’ll be done
I’ll be gone
And all that’ll be left
Is the charred shadow of our crash
We spiral with the wind, up and up
Carrying nothing but hopes and dreams ...
#sadness
#heartbroken
#breakup
#separation
#bittersweet
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LOVE POEM
Published
24th May 2022 1:49am
24th May 2022 1:49am
2022
Maybe it’s a bit
Over exaggerated
To say I felt like I was bleeding out
Across the deck
Down the steps
Leaving stains as I went
As I wept
And the only thing that I could see
Was the fire in your eyes
Your hand on your weapon
But maybe it needs to be
Exaggerated
So that you get my point
I know, you felt like that too
So
Maybe you already get it
But you cleaned up your own stains
With anger
And you smeared mine
Along with my name
Trying to turn friends against me ...
Over exaggerated
To say I felt like I was bleeding out
Across the deck
Down the steps
Leaving stains as I went
As I wept
And the only thing that I could see
Was the fire in your eyes
Your hand on your weapon
But maybe it needs to be
Exaggerated
So that you get my point
I know, you felt like that too
So
Maybe you already get it
But you cleaned up your own stains
With anger
And you smeared mine
Along with my name
Trying to turn friends against me ...
#sadness
#heartbroken
#disappointment
#emptiness
#bittersweet
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
24th May 2022 1:05am
24th May 2022 1:05am
When my Childhood Drowned
Every time we drown
We still try to breathe
You see
We go to this place
To escape the chill that fills our bones
And creates a hollow that slowly empties
All the stones
And the fortune cookies of our future
Crumble to the bottom of the sea
Like shells that break
Coral that cuts
And the noise of yesterday's train
Rumbles within our house
You can feel it in your chest
Empty cavern of ribs
There is nothing else to feel in there
Because we're drowning underneath
When we should be floating
Hands on mouths ...
We still try to breathe
You see
We go to this place
To escape the chill that fills our bones
And creates a hollow that slowly empties
All the stones
And the fortune cookies of our future
Crumble to the bottom of the sea
Like shells that break
Coral that cuts
And the noise of yesterday's train
Rumbles within our house
You can feel it in your chest
Empty cavern of ribs
There is nothing else to feel in there
Because we're drowning underneath
When we should be floating
Hands on mouths ...
#childhood
#secrets
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
#nightmares
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd May 2022 5:21am
23rd May 2022 5:21am
IRELAND
They say it’s all green
But all I see is blue
Blue in the rain
Blue in the streets
Blue in the sheets
I hear about luck
But all I see is despair
Despair in the water
Despair in starts, stops and tries
Despair in young men’s eyes
I saw in a photo, the sun
But all I see is rain
Rain in the fields
Rain on the cars
Rain in the hearts
It looks like the sea is always waiting
But all I see is waves beating
Beating the shore
Beating the rocks
Beating the door of the soul’s equinox
...
But all I see is blue
Blue in the rain
Blue in the streets
Blue in the sheets
I hear about luck
But all I see is despair
Despair in the water
Despair in starts, stops and tries
Despair in young men’s eyes
I saw in a photo, the sun
But all I see is rain
Rain in the fields
Rain on the cars
Rain in the hearts
It looks like the sea is always waiting
But all I see is waves beating
Beating the shore
Beating the rocks
Beating the door of the soul’s equinox
...
#city
#earth
#memories
#honesty
#LifeCycle
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LOVE POEM
Published
23rd May 2022 3:55am
23rd May 2022 3:55am
Suffering From Vacancy
You call them bad boys
I call them issues
The ones who caught all the pieces
And threw them to the wind
All of them were issues
Catching hearts in pieces
Crushing them into spaces
You never even knew existed
Smashing and shaping the dust
Into bricks that will guard the space
That’s left.
You call them bad boys
I call them traitors
Heart traitors with a purpose
To collect as many pieces
As the issues they keep
Collecting patches that were cut
Clipping them into shapes
You never even knew...
I call them issues
The ones who caught all the pieces
And threw them to the wind
All of them were issues
Catching hearts in pieces
Crushing them into spaces
You never even knew existed
Smashing and shaping the dust
Into bricks that will guard the space
That’s left.
You call them bad boys
I call them traitors
Heart traitors with a purpose
To collect as many pieces
As the issues they keep
Collecting patches that were cut
Clipping them into shapes
You never even knew...
#sadness
#love
#heartbroken
#shame
#emptiness
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th May 2022 11:22pm
19th May 2022 11:22pm
Push (the day there was a gunman at school)
I don’t like the way it feels
I mean, does anyone?
When you feel that forceful hand
Knocking you sideways
And you see that twisted face
You don’t even know
If it’s fear or hate
That makes him push you away
Until you do know
And then it shatters everything
Your backpack and your books
You go flying from the stairs
Through the doors and
Then the floor
Falling through that floor
Because you realize
He pushed you hard to save your life
You hear the click
Loud, in an empty stairwell
And you see it so...
I mean, does anyone?
When you feel that forceful hand
Knocking you sideways
And you see that twisted face
You don’t even know
If it’s fear or hate
That makes him push you away
Until you do know
And then it shatters everything
Your backpack and your books
You go flying from the stairs
Through the doors and
Then the floor
Falling through that floor
Because you realize
He pushed you hard to save your life
You hear the click
Loud, in an empty stairwell
And you see it so...
#GunControl
#school
#responsibility
#risk
#fear
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DRUGS POEM
Published
19th May 2022 11:14pm
19th May 2022 11:14pm
Secondhand Smoke
Breathe. Swallow. Drown.
Now you’re lost where no one
Will come down
Down to find you in the deep
In the dark
Of secondhand smoke
Where lips curl
Dissatisfied
And the snarl
Provokes the night
To leave
But you’re still down there
At the bottom of the shallows
Hungrily searching for something
Anything
Except the secondhand smoke
That fills you up
From the inside out
It goes in smooth
And comes out jagged
Taking with it pieces
Of the pink flesh
Of your lungs
So when others borrow...
Now you’re lost where no one
Will come down
Down to find you in the deep
In the dark
Of secondhand smoke
Where lips curl
Dissatisfied
And the snarl
Provokes the night
To leave
But you’re still down there
At the bottom of the shallows
Hungrily searching for something
Anything
Except the secondhand smoke
That fills you up
From the inside out
It goes in smooth
And comes out jagged
Taking with it pieces
Of the pink flesh
Of your lungs
So when others borrow...
#city
#marijuana
#tobacco
#dirty
#FeelingTrapped
595 reads
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th May 2022 5:17pm
18th May 2022 5:17pm
Lost Between the Pages
This book has not yet been published
But handed off to some volunteers instead
Please read and let me know
If you like what’s rattling round my head
The first draft has been rewritten
I was told no would want the first
It was written like a diary
Someone found hidden in the dirt
Now it contains proper chapters
With clever titles and the like
To keep the reader hooked
To keep them reading through the night
Wait until they discover
The darkness in between the words
The monster that waits just behind
All...
But handed off to some volunteers instead
Please read and let me know
If you like what’s rattling round my head
The first draft has been rewritten
I was told no would want the first
It was written like a diary
Someone found hidden in the dirt
Now it contains proper chapters
With clever titles and the like
To keep the reader hooked
To keep them reading through the night
Wait until they discover
The darkness in between the words
The monster that waits just behind
All...
#childhood
#secrets
#LifeStruggles
#emotional
#nonfiction
280 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
11th May 2022 9:09pm
11th May 2022 9:09pm
When I Die
The darkness came, and covered her soul
She spoke of it often, about letting it in from the cold
About the sounds it made
Pulling its sword and its blade
From its shadowy side
And so her world went up in flames
Consuming her skin and hands
Her body lifted from the floor
Into the ashes that would feed the core
Of the cherry tree we’ll plant next door
She’ll forever weep in the rain and snow
And reach with blossoms to the floor
Endlessly a part
Of everything it will live for
In that darkness we’ll speak, brush aside...
She spoke of it often, about letting it in from the cold
About the sounds it made
Pulling its sword and its blade
From its shadowy side
And so her world went up in flames
Consuming her skin and hands
Her body lifted from the floor
Into the ashes that would feed the core
Of the cherry tree we’ll plant next door
She’ll forever weep in the rain and snow
And reach with blossoms to the floor
Endlessly a part
Of everything it will live for
In that darkness we’ll speak, brush aside...
#grief
#earth
#shadows
#memories
#LifeCycle
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