Submissions by Dreamboy
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Somewhere I'm Not
I wanna be somewhere
that I’m not right now.
I wanna brush the dirt
from my pants, brush it off.
I wanna run so fast
I can’t feel my thoughts
I wanna run until my legs fall off.
Keep going,
fuck what everyone thought.
I’m happier now,
and I’m not drugged out.
I got to climb this mountain,
and get myself out.
I wanna be somewhere
that I’m not right now.
Wanna be serenity personified.
Wanna feel like it’s really summertime
I want to breathe again,
and I want to laugh until I cry.
Just...
that I’m not right now.
I wanna brush the dirt
from my pants, brush it off.
I wanna run so fast
I can’t feel my thoughts
I wanna run until my legs fall off.
Keep going,
fuck what everyone thought.
I’m happier now,
and I’m not drugged out.
I got to climb this mountain,
and get myself out.
I wanna be somewhere
that I’m not right now.
Wanna be serenity personified.
Wanna feel like it’s really summertime
I want to breathe again,
and I want to laugh until I cry.
Just...
#summer
#memories
#aging #nostalgia
#aging #nostalgia
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Fire In You
Did it even matter
once you said
what had to be said?
Give a little afterthought,
don’t ever take your life
for granted.
Get into a better mood,
don’t rot in the dark like
you’re your father.
Smile a little more,
you won,
don’t sit and wallow,
your feelings matter.
Don’t be phoning it in
There’s still a little bit of fire left in you.
once you said
what had to be said?
Give a little afterthought,
don’t ever take your life
for granted.
Get into a better mood,
don’t rot in the dark like
you’re your father.
Smile a little more,
you won,
don’t sit and wallow,
your feelings matter.
Don’t be phoning it in
There’s still a little bit of fire left in you.
#childhood
#rain
#morality
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Space
Wandering through space
and wandering through time
wandering , off and on,
and off and on, we keep in time
To the music we feel
at different moments in life.
When are you gonna do
the things you say that
you’re gonna do?
My heart breaks,
at the thought of your name
We’ve traded places,
we’re forgetting each other’s faces,
Same old shit, in the same old places.
I worry that it’s starting
to get really bad out there,
The air in here
Is hard to breathe in
The things that we said,
the whole...
and wandering through time
wandering , off and on,
and off and on, we keep in time
To the music we feel
at different moments in life.
When are you gonna do
the things you say that
you’re gonna do?
My heart breaks,
at the thought of your name
We’ve traded places,
we’re forgetting each other’s faces,
Same old shit, in the same old places.
I worry that it’s starting
to get really bad out there,
The air in here
Is hard to breathe in
The things that we said,
the whole...
#love
#heartbroken
#conflict
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Yeti
Conversation
fades out.
Nothing lasts, and no one
laughs
Unless it's me they're
talking about
Built a wall so far from town I had to climb
to come out
Built something real and saw it disappear
I forgot how to talk
I lost interest in the things
That people always talk about
Lucky strokes of ego
Where instead my ego
died
in the fall.
Froze all winter and it
never thawed.
Now it's
part
of the
fucking ground
Now it's water
in someone else's
pond
Its all...
fades out.
Nothing lasts, and no one
laughs
Unless it's me they're
talking about
Built a wall so far from town I had to climb
to come out
Built something real and saw it disappear
I forgot how to talk
I lost interest in the things
That people always talk about
Lucky strokes of ego
Where instead my ego
died
in the fall.
Froze all winter and it
never thawed.
Now it's
part
of the
fucking ground
Now it's water
in someone else's
pond
Its all...
#loneliness
#identity
#humankind
#emptiness
#boredom
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Skeleton
When you
wish
upon stars,
don't you
worry
why
things are?
And why
you ask
the
things
you did?
Did you
do that?
Or did
your
skeleton?
Hold
me close
I'm
just
skin
and
bones.
Hold
me close
no
one
will know.
I wished
for you
you never showed.
I never
knew you.
Not
the real
you,
no.
wish
upon stars,
don't you
worry
why
things are?
And why
you ask
the
things
you did?
Did you
do that?
Or did
your
skeleton?
Hold
me close
I'm
just
skin
and
bones.
Hold
me close
no
one
will know.
I wished
for you
you never showed.
I never
knew you.
Not
the real
you,
no.
#scary
#monsters
#magic #meditation
#magic #meditation
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sleep forever
Arrest myself
get my ass back in bed
There’s nothing
out there to see.
You’ve already seen it.
Where were you gonna go?
You have no friends.
Where were ya gonna go?
You have no friends.
Arrest my head,
give myself a chance to think
Arrest myself
go back to bed and sleep
Cuz i wanna sleep forever,
I wanna dream deep.
Cuz I wanna lock away my thoughts
Don’t make me see them.
Cuz I want to sleep forever
and I want to forgive myself
For my past transgressions,
and things I...
get my ass back in bed
There’s nothing
out there to see.
You’ve already seen it.
Where were you gonna go?
You have no friends.
Where were ya gonna go?
You have no friends.
Arrest my head,
give myself a chance to think
Arrest myself
go back to bed and sleep
Cuz i wanna sleep forever,
I wanna dream deep.
Cuz I wanna lock away my thoughts
Don’t make me see them.
Cuz I want to sleep forever
and I want to forgive myself
For my past transgressions,
and things I...
#sadness
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feelings. Pt. 2
I'm glad
I'm glad you
I'm glad you felt something.
I'm sorry I spent so much time worrying about the in between,
that isn't me,
that was just a really bad dream.
Coloring inside the lines
because I want to
not because I have to
No, it just so happens that
I agree on some things
Sometimes
I like to believe that we can feel
the same feeling
Even if we never discuss it
A secret between
Old friends becomes old history
We're writing the stories now.
I'm glad you felt something.
I'm glad you
I'm glad you felt something.
I'm sorry I spent so much time worrying about the in between,
that isn't me,
that was just a really bad dream.
Coloring inside the lines
because I want to
not because I have to
No, it just so happens that
I agree on some things
Sometimes
I like to believe that we can feel
the same feeling
Even if we never discuss it
A secret between
Old friends becomes old history
We're writing the stories now.
I'm glad you felt something.
#dreams
#memories
#acceptance #nostalgia
#acceptance #nostalgia
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tundra
I watched these hills
go stone cold gray.
I watched winter
have it's way
The cold wind comes
like the breath
of a first love.
I wanna close
my eyes.
I don’t ever
wanna wake up.
I watched the moon
change
into every shape.
I’ve seen
slivers
of hope
turn into
splinters
of pain.
Tiny scratches
through the wooden
cabinets,
but luck
never came.
I wanna close
my eyes.
I wanna leave this place.
go stone cold gray.
I watched winter
have it's way
The cold wind comes
like the breath
of a first love.
I wanna close
my eyes.
I don’t ever
wanna wake up.
I watched the moon
change
into every shape.
I’ve seen
slivers
of hope
turn into
splinters
of pain.
Tiny scratches
through the wooden
cabinets,
but luck
never came.
I wanna close
my eyes.
I wanna leave this place.
#loneliness
#escape
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feelings. Pt. 1
Feelings!
I don't want to go.
Healing?
I don’t wanna know.
If you could see it
from where I was sitting,
you’d swear the sky opened up
when you needed the rain.
You needed it when
no one was listening.
It’s okay.
It’s okay.
I don't want to go.
Healing?
I don’t wanna know.
If you could see it
from where I was sitting,
you’d swear the sky opened up
when you needed the rain.
You needed it when
no one was listening.
It’s okay.
It’s okay.
#disappointment
#SelfWorth
#emotions
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worst is over
The way that the waves
were crashing around us,
You said you promised,
you said that you wouldn’t.
I felt I could trust you then
but now
I couldn’t.
I felt something special there
but if I had to guess
I’d say
That there’s nothing left,
the ocean took it.
Hand to mouth
to feed these moments
Hand to your blind faith,
to lift your spirits.
Worry less
and
enjoy the motions
Abstract pain never boils over
The dark can stay
in the furthest corner
The worst is over,
the worst...
were crashing around us,
You said you promised,
you said that you wouldn’t.
I felt I could trust you then
but now
I couldn’t.
I felt something special there
but if I had to guess
I’d say
That there’s nothing left,
the ocean took it.
Hand to mouth
to feed these moments
Hand to your blind faith,
to lift your spirits.
Worry less
and
enjoy the motions
Abstract pain never boils over
The dark can stay
in the furthest corner
The worst is over,
the worst...
#ghosts
#TimeHeals
#redemption
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enough
The door
is
closed -
slammed shut.
Open
it up -
Let the wind
breathe
you in.
Things
are not
always
forever -
Sometimes,
this
is
enough.
is
closed -
slammed shut.
Open
it up -
Let the wind
breathe
you in.
Things
are not
always
forever -
Sometimes,
this
is
enough.
#universe
#morning
#fear
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the river//the rain
The river is rising,
the river is rising,
the water is coming to wash it away.
To let it all go, to let it all fade.
Time to shake hands with your past,
and make steps towards who you want to be.
I don’t even know what that means.
I wasn’t even hardly listening.
Oh, how the palm trees sighed.
Oh, how we felt those nights.
Lost in a fog, and the river is rising.
Coming to wash it away,
to rinse the dirt off,
the tears are free to fall short
and we’re free to try to make things work,
and you’re free to stay...
the river is rising,
the water is coming to wash it away.
To let it all go, to let it all fade.
Time to shake hands with your past,
and make steps towards who you want to be.
I don’t even know what that means.
I wasn’t even hardly listening.
Oh, how the palm trees sighed.
Oh, how we felt those nights.
Lost in a fog, and the river is rising.
Coming to wash it away,
to rinse the dirt off,
the tears are free to fall short
and we’re free to try to make things work,
and you’re free to stay...
#depression
#childhood
#fall
#memories
#nostalgia
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