Submissions by Fishmander
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write in an effort to better understand myself and others. These reflections are pieces to a larger shade. Thank you for reading.
DARK POEM
Published
10th Jul 2023 7:45am
10th Jul 2023 7:45am
On Deft Feet
I am tormented
By butterflies blistering frail
Parasites decorate my insides pale
And they are biting with teeth
Like a shadow vowel
That lingers on my lips too long
With fingertips that fall from bone
I am fermenting beneath
Debate is open
If I'm crippled from blood born truth
Or if I am sickened because of you
Don't shed tears for sorry thieves
My contents change as this vessel breaks
But I will take every mark on this body with me.
By butterflies blistering frail
Parasites decorate my insides pale
And they are biting with teeth
Like a shadow vowel
That lingers on my lips too long
With fingertips that fall from bone
I am fermenting beneath
Debate is open
If I'm crippled from blood born truth
Or if I am sickened because of you
Don't shed tears for sorry thieves
My contents change as this vessel breaks
But I will take every mark on this body with me.
#love
#dark
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
124 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
9th Jul 2023 6:29am
9th Jul 2023 6:29am
Tulpa
I see nocturnal pathways
Illuminated as I fall
You pull the rug out beneath me
Every time I get too close
The rain, your pulse
The night, your ghost
An allure of whispers taunting
From jaws of hope wanting
As I shapeshifted further
From what was expected
We found it harder to breathe
Separated by lifes scythe
Your stare pierced faults in my armor
My essence pours, feeding the force that you are.
Illuminated as I fall
You pull the rug out beneath me
Every time I get too close
The rain, your pulse
The night, your ghost
An allure of whispers taunting
From jaws of hope wanting
As I shapeshifted further
From what was expected
We found it harder to breathe
Separated by lifes scythe
Your stare pierced faults in my armor
My essence pours, feeding the force that you are.
#love
#dark
#friendship
#spiritual
#SelfReflection
181 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
7th Jul 2023 8:40pm
7th Jul 2023 8:40pm
Conscripted
As I peak out from behind
My sable curtain
I saw the universe cry
In bliss, subatomic
I feel you seep through cracked creases
Bringing passion with all its diseases
How we played is a plague unto me
Isn't that what friends are for?
I revise each bad habit
Into polar opposites
The stars and the moon
Harold your arrival
I push you out
Only to welcome you back in.
My sable curtain
I saw the universe cry
In bliss, subatomic
I feel you seep through cracked creases
Bringing passion with all its diseases
How we played is a plague unto me
Isn't that what friends are for?
I revise each bad habit
Into polar opposites
The stars and the moon
Harold your arrival
I push you out
Only to welcome you back in.
#love
#dark
#friendship
#spiritual
#SelfReflection
152 reads
3 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
4th Jul 2023 6:57am
4th Jul 2023 6:57am
Manifest
As I manifest my path to power
Feel it staunch my breath, siphoned by the hour
Bound into some mess with sharp teeth
Creeps on me sober in order to disarm me
Slowly I shapeshift to a new gimmick
Mummified puppet, strings in the addict
The sunlight bites my hand just to leave
Stick out my neck and the horror recedes
I am not someone you beg or borrow
I am gore at the gate of your temple
You blink at me, that's a whole lot of blood
I nod back, yeah it's a whole lot of blood
While you are petty with your pebbles ...
Feel it staunch my breath, siphoned by the hour
Bound into some mess with sharp teeth
Creeps on me sober in order to disarm me
Slowly I shapeshift to a new gimmick
Mummified puppet, strings in the addict
The sunlight bites my hand just to leave
Stick out my neck and the horror recedes
I am not someone you beg or borrow
I am gore at the gate of your temple
You blink at me, that's a whole lot of blood
I nod back, yeah it's a whole lot of blood
While you are petty with your pebbles ...
#dark
#spiritual
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
129 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
19th Jun 2023 10:23pm
19th Jun 2023 10:23pm
Make Believe
I like to drink myself sick
I'd like to think the pieces I see
Are planets of mine you can't love
Skirting the drain
I like to flirt with sadness
I am a feeling bottled plastic
Don't you dare look at me
Like you don't understand
I hope to meet your silence
I must retreat from all this violence
I am struggling to find
Something left here for me
Did you make me,
Or did you make me up?
I'd like to think the pieces I see
Are planets of mine you can't love
Skirting the drain
I like to flirt with sadness
I am a feeling bottled plastic
Don't you dare look at me
Like you don't understand
I hope to meet your silence
I must retreat from all this violence
I am struggling to find
Something left here for me
Did you make me,
Or did you make me up?
#love
#depression
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
158 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Jun 2023 8:33pm
19th Jun 2023 8:33pm
Patio
Something borrowed, cheap disguise
Something dying in blue eyes
I know this was not what you wanted
We never talk about what you wanted
Something snapped in my brain
Something to match your pain
Before you rose a summer phantom
Before I dove into autumn wisdom
On the patio, another ultimatum
Afraid of losing friends
So you go ahead and play them
Another cheap exit
Slamming shut the car door
Should have stayed in traffic
But you never wanted closure
Darling you are playful
You love to choose the...
Something dying in blue eyes
I know this was not what you wanted
We never talk about what you wanted
Something snapped in my brain
Something to match your pain
Before you rose a summer phantom
Before I dove into autumn wisdom
On the patio, another ultimatum
Afraid of losing friends
So you go ahead and play them
Another cheap exit
Slamming shut the car door
Should have stayed in traffic
But you never wanted closure
Darling you are playful
You love to choose the...
#love
#grief
#dark
#relationships
#SelfReflection
149 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
18th Jun 2023 9:22pm
18th Jun 2023 9:22pm
Oxidize Me
You told me your deepest fear
We coagulate in oceans clear
For I am chemical, a venomous dosage
Discolor in your holier spaces
I was born with copper veins
My gift to you, ductile chains
For you are silver edging on white gold
Warm on the inside but out you are cold
I hate how they preach to you
And me with lies they just make believe
For you are silver, above cheap drama
So I play my role below in your fauna
You are the soul and I am violence
A blue cloak dawned visage in red garments.
We coagulate in oceans clear
For I am chemical, a venomous dosage
Discolor in your holier spaces
I was born with copper veins
My gift to you, ductile chains
For you are silver edging on white gold
Warm on the inside but out you are cold
I hate how they preach to you
And me with lies they just make believe
For you are silver, above cheap drama
So I play my role below in your fauna
You are the soul and I am violence
A blue cloak dawned visage in red garments.
#love
#dark
#friendship
#spiritual
#SelfReflection
167 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
14th Jun 2023 9:06pm
14th Jun 2023 9:06pm
Apothecary
Liquidize all my passions
Feed them to me like lies
On the rise with bastions
Leaving me hypnotized
Isolate all my failures
Coax the wound with ice
I'll become your impaler
In love and in demise
Morph into my nemesis
Something to idolize
Bored of broken promises
Maiming me tantalized
Swallow toxins in my veins
For you to purify.
Feed them to me like lies
On the rise with bastions
Leaving me hypnotized
Isolate all my failures
Coax the wound with ice
I'll become your impaler
In love and in demise
Morph into my nemesis
Something to idolize
Bored of broken promises
Maiming me tantalized
Swallow toxins in my veins
For you to purify.
#love
#dark
#relationships
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
153 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
14th Jun 2023 8:18pm
14th Jun 2023 8:18pm
Syllogism
I blaze across your beam
A smoking crooked dye,
A gamble in a scene
A slithering snake up your iris
I'm a beast with an appetite
And a canine enjoys his bones,
Why can't we have it all again
In a different life in different tones
In swamps across I swoon
Between all the bruises,
A consequential boon
Immune to all their excuses
I'm a lesson in dynamics
Acute with the present tense,
Your polyrythmic labyrinth
Creeping stray in the shadows of your conscience
I crave your rain pageant
A...
A smoking crooked dye,
A gamble in a scene
A slithering snake up your iris
I'm a beast with an appetite
And a canine enjoys his bones,
Why can't we have it all again
In a different life in different tones
In swamps across I swoon
Between all the bruises,
A consequential boon
Immune to all their excuses
I'm a lesson in dynamics
Acute with the present tense,
Your polyrythmic labyrinth
Creeping stray in the shadows of your conscience
I crave your rain pageant
A...
#love
#dark
#relationships
#spiritual
#SelfReflection
119 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
10th Jun 2023 9:27pm
10th Jun 2023 9:27pm
I then dived deeper
And with my haggard heart
I got what I want
And in this distant dark
I let go of my fear
For every dream is ripe
With a hollow psalm
For a bottomless night
Comes to tempt us nearer
I welcome warm the fog
As it guides me right
Paying a pagan price
For her whispers in my ear
And in the cold of thoughts
I fill how I feel
For sacred tortured bonds
Painting dusk sinister.
I got what I want
And in this distant dark
I let go of my fear
For every dream is ripe
With a hollow psalm
For a bottomless night
Comes to tempt us nearer
I welcome warm the fog
As it guides me right
Paying a pagan price
For her whispers in my ear
And in the cold of thoughts
I fill how I feel
For sacred tortured bonds
Painting dusk sinister.
#love
#dark
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
154 reads
0 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
9th Jun 2023 10:58pm
9th Jun 2023 10:58pm
Containment Breech
I've got a new thirst
For another new breed,
Another lust looming
With lucid intensity
I wanna be mud
Rounding beneath your rain,
Cos' I wanna be numb
When I am drowning in pain
I'm the eldest seed
I grew under the shade,
Come alive at night while
Fairies start to misbehave
Now covered in blood
I will never concede,
Cos' I have a new cause
And that cause is me.
For another new breed,
Another lust looming
With lucid intensity
I wanna be mud
Rounding beneath your rain,
Cos' I wanna be numb
When I am drowning in pain
I'm the eldest seed
I grew under the shade,
Come alive at night while
Fairies start to misbehave
Now covered in blood
I will never concede,
Cos' I have a new cause
And that cause is me.
#dark
#motivational
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#lyrics
139 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Jun 2023 8:07am
5th Jun 2023 8:07am
Past Tense
Garish by design I cling to you like shadow
You're more than just a smile
Upon cold wrath of this waging sea
I etched a prayer for you into my skin
It wards away the dark
Along with bruised patience I grew tired of
Whispers calling on what I cannot dare to say
Soaked in ashes your name
And oh god I still wish you were here
I was fool enough to be your pawn
But not sane enough to brave the dawn
I am all alone yet all surrounded
By all the years and yeah I counted
I had a friend
I was their fever ...
You're more than just a smile
Upon cold wrath of this waging sea
I etched a prayer for you into my skin
It wards away the dark
Along with bruised patience I grew tired of
Whispers calling on what I cannot dare to say
Soaked in ashes your name
And oh god I still wish you were here
I was fool enough to be your pawn
But not sane enough to brave the dawn
I am all alone yet all surrounded
By all the years and yeah I counted
I had a friend
I was their fever ...
#love
#grief
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
203 reads
2 Comments
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