Submissions by Johnny_Silver (Johnny Silver)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I am the sum of all the shards of my shattered soul. I'm not much a poet, but a lyricist instead. My lyrics, like my heart, go wherever they roam. I'm just here to share my ramblings and hope it resonates with someone.
SONG LYRICS
Published
6th Mar 2025 5:30pm
6th Mar 2025 5:30pm
Outlook Not So Good
Problem and problem, 1, 2, 3
One and done, I am still here all alone
Never truly free, just a soul in a cage
Awake in a world where everyone sleeps
Walking back down Reminiscent Street, people crying about the end
"To survive," they all say, "All you need is faith for the 8-Ball."
All my friends say the same old thing
Talk to the Magic 8-Ball, the only
Answer
I heard
Was always just "Outlook not so good"
All these people wasting their time
Praying to their Magic 8-Ball
All I
Hear...
One and done, I am still here all alone
Never truly free, just a soul in a cage
Awake in a world where everyone sleeps
Walking back down Reminiscent Street, people crying about the end
"To survive," they all say, "All you need is faith for the 8-Ball."
All my friends say the same old thing
Talk to the Magic 8-Ball, the only
Answer
I heard
Was always just "Outlook not so good"
All these people wasting their time
Praying to their Magic 8-Ball
All I
Hear...
#anger
#atheism
#fate
#religion
#spiritual
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
25th Feb 2025 6:30pm
25th Feb 2025 6:30pm
Can't You See Me?
Can't you see me?
Can't you see me in the dark?
Can't you see my world is drifting apart?
Can't you see time just splitting me apart?
Can't you see me?
Did you see me?
Did you wish you saw me?
Did you wish you'd spoken to me?
Or did you wish we'd never met,
So you wouldn't know I'm fading?
Can you hear me?
Can hear me when I speak?
Do you hear me yet not listen?
Am I just noise on the auditory canvas?
My words just forgotten compositions.
Would you offer me your time,
If you knew most of mine had...
Can't you see me in the dark?
Can't you see my world is drifting apart?
Can't you see time just splitting me apart?
Can't you see me?
Did you see me?
Did you wish you saw me?
Did you wish you'd spoken to me?
Or did you wish we'd never met,
So you wouldn't know I'm fading?
Can you hear me?
Can hear me when I speak?
Do you hear me yet not listen?
Am I just noise on the auditory canvas?
My words just forgotten compositions.
Would you offer me your time,
If you knew most of mine had...
#death
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SONG LYRICS
Published
21st Feb 2025 10:55pm
21st Feb 2025 10:55pm
Tattered Corners
I've got a picture of a girl I missed
It's from that time when we first kissed
It was like a dream, yet like sunrise
Our goodnights, our goodbyes
All part of our demise
I lost the letter that she once wrote
I used to carry it around for hope
It asked me if I wanted a lunch date
Our goodbyes, our fate
Too little, too late
Here comes another cliché, pho-
-tograph, memory of times long passed
Edges torn and tattered corners
All battered by ti-i-ime
I've got a Polaroid of our prom
That time I thought you...
It's from that time when we first kissed
It was like a dream, yet like sunrise
Our goodnights, our goodbyes
All part of our demise
I lost the letter that she once wrote
I used to carry it around for hope
It asked me if I wanted a lunch date
Our goodbyes, our fate
Too little, too late
Here comes another cliché, pho-
-tograph, memory of times long passed
Edges torn and tattered corners
All battered by ti-i-ime
I've got a Polaroid of our prom
That time I thought you...
#love
#memories
#nostalgia #sadness
#nostalgia #sadness
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SONG LYRICS
Published
20th Feb 2025 5:12pm
20th Feb 2025 5:12pm
Hand Of Sorrow
Verse 1]
Regression to submission
Reversion to illusion
I am lost in this confusion
No stranger to exclusion
Suffer agony infusion
The end of me in view
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Misery weaved into me
Curse of mind for all to see
[Chorus 1]
Hand of sorrow, reach in me
Grasp my heart, set me free
Pull it out with no remorse
Broken by unnatural force
Shatter what's whole
Rip out the soul
[Verse 2]
Aggression to confession
Drown in my obsession
Cannot kill my burden
Inner wounds not...
Regression to submission
Reversion to illusion
I am lost in this confusion
No stranger to exclusion
Suffer agony infusion
The end of me in view
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Misery weaved into me
Curse of mind for all to see
[Chorus 1]
Hand of sorrow, reach in me
Grasp my heart, set me free
Pull it out with no remorse
Broken by unnatural force
Shatter what's whole
Rip out the soul
[Verse 2]
Aggression to confession
Drown in my obsession
Cannot kill my burden
Inner wounds not...
#anger
#dark
#death #depression
#death #depression
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SONG LYRICS
Published
19th Feb 2025 11:06pm
19th Feb 2025 11:06pm
Good Night
Amy's waking up to a half-empty bed
Looks around for her other half
It's me, I'm by the window, looking out at the rain
Another winter's come to freeze the dark
She says she's ok
I wish I knew the truth
She shivers and stutters over the cold
I guess we were children in ice
She wraps her arms around me like a blanket all tight and warm
Says "I'm sorry..."
What for?
"I'm sorry I'm leaving"
Why?
"Because you deserve better and I'm freezing"
Amy's the chill in the air that shivers on my...
Looks around for her other half
It's me, I'm by the window, looking out at the rain
Another winter's come to freeze the dark
She says she's ok
I wish I knew the truth
She shivers and stutters over the cold
I guess we were children in ice
She wraps her arms around me like a blanket all tight and warm
Says "I'm sorry..."
What for?
"I'm sorry I'm leaving"
Why?
"Because you deserve better and I'm freezing"
Amy's the chill in the air that shivers on my...
#love
#memories
#sadness
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SONG LYRICS
Published
18th Feb 2025 10:57pm
18th Feb 2025 10:57pm
Beyond Repair
Fallin',
Fallin',
Fallin',
Down the rabbit hole of despair
Tell me, are you there?
Tell me, are you there?
Fallin',
Fallin',
Fallin',
Down in a world so unfair
Am I beyond repair?
Am I beyond repair?
Walking in
Swimming out
Can't breath underwater
Sinking deeper
Embrace the reaper
Can't you see I'm going under?
Fallin',
Fallin',
Fallin',
...
Fallin',
Fallin',
Down the rabbit hole of despair
Tell me, are you there?
Tell me, are you there?
Fallin',
Fallin',
Fallin',
Down in a world so unfair
Am I beyond repair?
Am I beyond repair?
Walking in
Swimming out
Can't breath underwater
Sinking deeper
Embrace the reaper
Can't you see I'm going under?
Fallin',
Fallin',
Fallin',
...
#despair
#loneliness
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SONG LYRICS
Published
17th Feb 2025 2:31pm
17th Feb 2025 2:31pm
Life Moves On IV
As the greys begin to change
You fill my world with light
All the colours have restored
And the ice around my soul
Has melted away this day
With you, I'll stay
With you by my side
I know we'll be fine
When all of the darkness fades
And turns into light
No more lonely nights, just you and me together
With the promise you made me that this is forever
The past fades away
The pain is erased
With these moments together underneath the moonlight
Everything that matters is here in this moment
And together, as...
You fill my world with light
All the colours have restored
And the ice around my soul
Has melted away this day
With you, I'll stay
With you by my side
I know we'll be fine
When all of the darkness fades
And turns into light
No more lonely nights, just you and me together
With the promise you made me that this is forever
The past fades away
The pain is erased
With these moments together underneath the moonlight
Everything that matters is here in this moment
And together, as...
#dreams
#family
#hope #love
#hope #love
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SONG LYRICS
Published
16th Feb 2025 11:22pm
16th Feb 2025 11:22pm
Life Moves On III
The past will fade
As it always does
The pain, erased
As life moves on
Remember the time I got lost in your eyes
The world around us just faded away
I could never see past the deceitful lies
But what I would've gave to stay another day
The past will fade
As it always does
The pain, erased
As life moves on
Remember the time I got lost in your arms
That feeling of feeling like maybe you felt
Cuz when I was with you, felt like you'd do no harm
But conclusions forgone, you weren't the one
The...
As it always does
The pain, erased
As life moves on
Remember the time I got lost in your eyes
The world around us just faded away
I could never see past the deceitful lies
But what I would've gave to stay another day
The past will fade
As it always does
The pain, erased
As life moves on
Remember the time I got lost in your arms
That feeling of feeling like maybe you felt
Cuz when I was with you, felt like you'd do no harm
But conclusions forgone, you weren't the one
The...
#heartbroken
#memories
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SONG LYRICS
Published
15th Feb 2025 11:40pm
15th Feb 2025 11:40pm
Life Moves On II
I took a stroll through desolate halls
Haunted by nightmares in the middle of the day
No one's around, but I'm used to that
Alone was my name, isolation my game
In the sounds of silence
My vision of the world turns to grey
In the sounds of silence
The bells of time ringing through my mind
We'd all love to go back to when we were okay
But life moves on
One lost soul, walking in the dark
Echoes of silence resonate in my heart
All my dreams reduced to night terrors
There's no one to ease my soul
In the...
Haunted by nightmares in the middle of the day
No one's around, but I'm used to that
Alone was my name, isolation my game
In the sounds of silence
My vision of the world turns to grey
In the sounds of silence
The bells of time ringing through my mind
We'd all love to go back to when we were okay
But life moves on
One lost soul, walking in the dark
Echoes of silence resonate in my heart
All my dreams reduced to night terrors
There's no one to ease my soul
In the...
#fear
#loneliness
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NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
4th Feb 2025 3:14pm
4th Feb 2025 3:14pm
This Feeling
I...
am a ghost,
inhabiting these brittle bones,
wearing a suit of armour made from flesh and skin,
though it's not much good as armour.
Doesn't stop the bullets that shoot from tongues around you,
and it does naught to protect the mind.
Spinning clockwise in a counter-clockwise world around me?
That's me.
I'm lost,
somewhere between point A and point B I slip into non-existence.
I glide through a crowd like a shadow,
unnoticed,
unacknowledged.
I am the sum of all the shards of my shattered...
am a ghost,
inhabiting these brittle bones,
wearing a suit of armour made from flesh and skin,
though it's not much good as armour.
Doesn't stop the bullets that shoot from tongues around you,
and it does naught to protect the mind.
Spinning clockwise in a counter-clockwise world around me?
That's me.
I'm lost,
somewhere between point A and point B I slip into non-existence.
I glide through a crowd like a shadow,
unnoticed,
unacknowledged.
I am the sum of all the shards of my shattered...
#dark
#depression
#despair
#emptiness
#loneliness
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SELF POEM
Published
4th Feb 2025 8:41am
4th Feb 2025 8:41am
Grey
In the midst of all this grey
I'm growing colder every day
Feeling smaller than before
Don't know what I'm living for
I am lost in endless crowd
Never seen and never found
Nameless face in joyless place
Just a body taking space
Innocence has taken flight
Along with all I thought was right
I am losing sight of light
Lose myself in endless night
Robbed of comfort, stolen truth
Memory scrambled and confused
Forgotten love from long ago
You'll forget me too, I know
Life is pain and death's...
I'm growing colder every day
Feeling smaller than before
Don't know what I'm living for
I am lost in endless crowd
Never seen and never found
Nameless face in joyless place
Just a body taking space
Innocence has taken flight
Along with all I thought was right
I am losing sight of light
Lose myself in endless night
Robbed of comfort, stolen truth
Memory scrambled and confused
Forgotten love from long ago
You'll forget me too, I know
Life is pain and death's...
#dark
#depression
#despair
#emptiness
#sadness
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LOVE POEM
Published
30th Jan 2025 5:04pm
30th Jan 2025 5:04pm
Love Is...
Love is this whirlpool
This blackhole
Love is the cracks in the porcelain of my body
My heart folds like origami
Cuckoo, cuckoo
Time heals no wounds
Was it love or a lie?
Love is love
Is love is
Love is
Love is a lie
This blackhole
Love is the cracks in the porcelain of my body
My heart folds like origami
Cuckoo, cuckoo
Time heals no wounds
Was it love or a lie?
Love is love
Is love is
Love is
Love is a lie
#lies
#love
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