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.
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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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 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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Life Moves On
I remember a day
So very long ago
When I'd play in the garden
Chasing ladybugs in summer
There was beauty in the simplicity
The sunny days of 2000-something
When age was a single number
And I was still in one piece
This world will change you
It'll darken your innocent soul
Draining your heart
As things fall apart
We'd all love to stay in those good old days
But life moves on
Do you remember
So very long ago
When we could play make-believe
Our imagination limitless
It's funny...
So very long ago
When I'd play in the garden
Chasing ladybugs in summer
There was beauty in the simplicity
The sunny days of 2000-something
When age was a single number
And I was still in one piece
This world will change you
It'll darken your innocent soul
Draining your heart
As things fall apart
We'd all love to stay in those good old days
But life moves on
Do you remember
So very long ago
When we could play make-believe
Our imagination limitless
It's funny...
#childhood
#depression
#grief #memories
#grief #memories
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Ghost In A Shell
My body a cardboard box
Can't take another flame of love
I'll burn up in flames, would that be a shock?
My soul can escape to retire above
Empty carcass of my soul
Broken parts and brittle bones
Nothing left to feel inside
Nothing that I feel inside
Sticks and stone may break my bones
But words can do no more
'Cause after all this hell
I'm just a ghost in a shell
Maybe I just need some help
Should I wanna get well, get well?
I don't feel unhealthy, don't feel myself
I'm fading away, it's my personal...
Can't take another flame of love
I'll burn up in flames, would that be a shock?
My soul can escape to retire above
Empty carcass of my soul
Broken parts and brittle bones
Nothing left to feel inside
Nothing that I feel inside
Sticks and stone may break my bones
But words can do no more
'Cause after all this hell
I'm just a ghost in a shell
Maybe I just need some help
Should I wanna get well, get well?
I don't feel unhealthy, don't feel myself
I'm fading away, it's my personal...
#despair
#emptiness
#hope #suicide
#hope #suicide
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My Last Goodbye
I've been searching a lifetime for true love
But it's not real
And I've been denying that fact
With every heartbreak and trauma they've given me
I've unravelled
And I've been denying that fact
I have nothing left to give
To this world
So take this as my resignation
The shows gotta end some time
And this
This is my last goodbye
I wish that the past could be erased somehow
It's permanent
And I've been denying that fact
And once upon a time I'd still love you so
But those days are gone
And I don't...
But it's not real
And I've been denying that fact
With every heartbreak and trauma they've given me
I've unravelled
And I've been denying that fact
I have nothing left to give
To this world
So take this as my resignation
The shows gotta end some time
And this
This is my last goodbye
I wish that the past could be erased somehow
It's permanent
And I've been denying that fact
And once upon a time I'd still love you so
But those days are gone
And I don't...
#depression
#despair
#emptiness
#heartbroken
#suicide
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"I'm Fine"
Stepping outside to another grey sky
Another day when you ask yourself "Why?"
Running to buses to make it to work
Some days you can't help but feel stuck
Please tell me, what am I living for?
I tell her "I'm Fine"
Though I can't lie
It took me an hour just to get out of bed
I let out a sigh
Please tell me why
My heart feels empty and there's a pain in my head
As hard as I try
It's hard to not cry
I wonder some days if I'd be better off dead
I tell her "I'm Fine"
I tell her "I'm...
Another day when you ask yourself "Why?"
Running to buses to make it to work
Some days you can't help but feel stuck
Please tell me, what am I living for?
I tell her "I'm Fine"
Though I can't lie
It took me an hour just to get out of bed
I let out a sigh
Please tell me why
My heart feels empty and there's a pain in my head
As hard as I try
It's hard to not cry
I wonder some days if I'd be better off dead
I tell her "I'm Fine"
I tell her "I'm...
#emptiness
#heartbroken
#UnrequitedLove
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Queen Of Hearts
I've always been a gambling man
Betting my heart on love
Rolling the dice, spinning the wheel
Taking a chance, you know the deal
And you know my heart never folds
If I asked you, would you take this chance
To take my hand in this marvellous dance
When the present is past and the past is all history
What's left of my love for you, that's a mystery
I'll show you all my cards if you show me all yours
Maybe we'll have a pair of hearts, King and Queen
I'm always pulling on the slots
Every heartstring I've got
I've...
Betting my heart on love
Rolling the dice, spinning the wheel
Taking a chance, you know the deal
And you know my heart never folds
If I asked you, would you take this chance
To take my hand in this marvellous dance
When the present is past and the past is all history
What's left of my love for you, that's a mystery
I'll show you all my cards if you show me all yours
Maybe we'll have a pair of hearts, King and Queen
I'm always pulling on the slots
Every heartstring I've got
I've...
#hope
#love
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King Of Broken Hearts
Pieces of my past lay decaying in my castle
All the Queens are gone or dead
What was going through my head?
I turned to Jack, to whom I asked
Should I try to get her back?
He looked to me and then he said
"A pair of hearts is not a full house"
I went down to the Ace of Clubs
To partake in a drink or two
Barkeep asked "What's the matter, you?"
I shot my shot of good ol' Jack
"Should I try to get her back?
The Queen of Diamonds is crying
And she's talking like she's dying"
What comes...
All the Queens are gone or dead
What was going through my head?
I turned to Jack, to whom I asked
Should I try to get her back?
He looked to me and then he said
"A pair of hearts is not a full house"
I went down to the Ace of Clubs
To partake in a drink or two
Barkeep asked "What's the matter, you?"
I shot my shot of good ol' Jack
"Should I try to get her back?
The Queen of Diamonds is crying
And she's talking like she's dying"
What comes...
#heartbroken
#ImSorry
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Wither
Wither:
[Spoken Verse 1]
Growing isolated
Lonesome in solitary nature
Filling the emptiness
[Spoken Verse 2]
I worship you
Only you
The flower blossomed in the desolate expanse of my existence
[Spoken Verse 3]
Every petal painted by divinity
Beauty unparalleled
Desire of my eye beheld
[Sung Chorus 1]
I am the desert,
Draining your roots,
Stunting your growth, overshadowing your beauty.
I love you,
But my presence decays.
[Spoken Verse 4]
Blooming isolated
In...
[Spoken Verse 1]
Growing isolated
Lonesome in solitary nature
Filling the emptiness
[Spoken Verse 2]
I worship you
Only you
The flower blossomed in the desolate expanse of my existence
[Spoken Verse 3]
Every petal painted by divinity
Beauty unparalleled
Desire of my eye beheld
[Sung Chorus 1]
I am the desert,
Draining your roots,
Stunting your growth, overshadowing your beauty.
I love you,
But my presence decays.
[Spoken Verse 4]
Blooming isolated
In...
#admiration
#despair
#obsession #UnrequitedLove
#obsession #UnrequitedLove
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Defect
Defect:
[Spoken Verse 1]
I am the teardrop
Soaked into your shirt
Staining you
[Spoken Verse 2]
I attract, repel, attract
Romantic magnetic erratic
So frantic
[Spoken Verse 3]
I have no direction
Moral compass never north
I belong to my vices
And they leave me despising
The sight of love
[Spoken Verse 4]
I worship you
Only you
The flower blossomed in
the desolate expanse of my existence
[Spoken Verse 5]
I defy my creator
The darkness you built for...
[Spoken Verse 1]
I am the teardrop
Soaked into your shirt
Staining you
[Spoken Verse 2]
I attract, repel, attract
Romantic magnetic erratic
So frantic
[Spoken Verse 3]
I have no direction
Moral compass never north
I belong to my vices
And they leave me despising
The sight of love
[Spoken Verse 4]
I worship you
Only you
The flower blossomed in
the desolate expanse of my existence
[Spoken Verse 5]
I defy my creator
The darkness you built for...
#anger
#despair
#loneliness
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