Submissions by KittyFromHell
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write mostly about my day to day emotions, experiences, and thoughts. Every fucked up thought I have usually ends up here.
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Mar 2022 2:45am
5th Mar 2022 2:45am
Living on Hope
Anxious thoughts run in circles
Carving deep ruts into their paths
As my brain is left tender and sore.
This burden looks so ordinary,
But the new normal feels fulfilling
In a way that makes me crave more.
I want to know sleepless nights
With a sick child or last minute school projects
Just to get up and face the work day, after all.
I want to know the milestones with fervent love
From the first day of kindergarten
To hearing giggles at a sleepover echoing through the walls.
I want to know the...
Carving deep ruts into their paths
As my brain is left tender and sore.
This burden looks so ordinary,
But the new normal feels fulfilling
In a way that makes me crave more.
I want to know sleepless nights
With a sick child or last minute school projects
Just to get up and face the work day, after all.
I want to know the milestones with fervent love
From the first day of kindergarten
To hearing giggles at a sleepover echoing through the walls.
I want to know the...
#mother
#parent
#motherhood
#family
#redemption
305 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Mar 2022 3:56am
1st Mar 2022 3:56am
Darling
My darling baby
I hope you'll always find safety
In my arms,
Wisdom and comfort in my voice,
And everlasting warmth
In the time I am to be in your life.
You are my light
In a world gone dark,
And when all around
Seems to crush me
Under the weight
Of my burdens,
I remember the reason
I rise up
To fight again.
I hope you'll always find safety
In my arms,
Wisdom and comfort in my voice,
And everlasting warmth
In the time I am to be in your life.
You are my light
In a world gone dark,
And when all around
Seems to crush me
Under the weight
Of my burdens,
I remember the reason
I rise up
To fight again.
#love
#mother
#children
#motherhood
#childhood
293 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
12th Feb 2022 12:12pm
12th Feb 2022 12:12pm
Nameless
From walking on air euphoria
To seeing an enemy in every pair of eyes,
I swing wildly from one to the other
In only a day
Or even a matter of hours.
Like a scared orphan,
I walk these roads alone.
No mother to be my nurturing ally
And no father to be my guiding protector.
The absence of their embrace
Is like the arms of ghosts
And hallucinations.
Who am I?
If not a number or a last name,
What is my anchor
When all else fails around me?
Netflix binges
Well into the wee hours of the morning ...
To seeing an enemy in every pair of eyes,
I swing wildly from one to the other
In only a day
Or even a matter of hours.
Like a scared orphan,
I walk these roads alone.
No mother to be my nurturing ally
And no father to be my guiding protector.
The absence of their embrace
Is like the arms of ghosts
And hallucinations.
Who am I?
If not a number or a last name,
What is my anchor
When all else fails around me?
Netflix binges
Well into the wee hours of the morning ...
#bipolar
#MentalHealth
#sleep
#healing
#SelfWorth
363 reads
1 Comment
DRUGS POEM
Published
6th Feb 2022 4:42am
6th Feb 2022 4:42am
One by One
Tears well unbidden
For a worst case scenario not passed,
And I do not know
If they are for you
Or me.
For a worst case scenario not passed,
And I do not know
If they are for you
Or me.
#love
#friendship
#alcohol
#drugs
#addiction
522 reads
1 Comment
EROTIC POEM
Published
4th Feb 2022 11:10am
4th Feb 2022 11:10am
Bad Boy
My jaw sits cradled between your fingers
as you tilt my face to meet yours.
A cold yet enticing glimmer in your eyes seems to hold me captive.
You trace the swoop of my neck to my collarbone;
I shiver.
as you tilt my face to meet yours.
A cold yet enticing glimmer in your eyes seems to hold me captive.
You trace the swoop of my neck to my collarbone;
I shiver.
#erotic
402 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
26th Jan 2022 9:55pm
26th Jan 2022 9:55pm
Appraisal
There's dirt under my chipped hangnails
with my cuticles peeling back,
and to move after being still
feels like my bones are creaking metal,
grinding and screeching as the shock
ripples through me.
I don't remember the last time I felt like a lady,
a beautiful one at that;
my old vanity is lost under holey work shirts and scuffed jeans.
My lips are chapped,
And I don't remember if I brushed my teeth.
I heave a heavy sigh as I slip away from the mirror,
an object that used to bring me great joy.
My...
with my cuticles peeling back,
and to move after being still
feels like my bones are creaking metal,
grinding and screeching as the shock
ripples through me.
I don't remember the last time I felt like a lady,
a beautiful one at that;
my old vanity is lost under holey work shirts and scuffed jeans.
My lips are chapped,
And I don't remember if I brushed my teeth.
I heave a heavy sigh as I slip away from the mirror,
an object that used to bring me great joy.
My...
#beauty
#dirty
#meditation
#crush
#sexy
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1 Comment
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Jan 2022 9:53pm
26th Jan 2022 9:53pm
Pause
The crisp January air seems to gently torment my work worn hands,
Seeping through the cracks in my skin as if to slowly turn me to ice.
My hair flops stubbornly over my face, blocking my lips
From taking a long drag from a cigarette, so I pause to breathe it all in.
Eighteen wheelers whir by in what seems like a blink of the eye,
Dodging the shit boxes and eye candy as they fly past in a race to the finish line.
I wonder if they even stop to marvel at the tall rye grass
As it blows in waves across the fields,
Or the way the pine...
Seeping through the cracks in my skin as if to slowly turn me to ice.
My hair flops stubbornly over my face, blocking my lips
From taking a long drag from a cigarette, so I pause to breathe it all in.
Eighteen wheelers whir by in what seems like a blink of the eye,
Dodging the shit boxes and eye candy as they fly past in a race to the finish line.
I wonder if they even stop to marvel at the tall rye grass
As it blows in waves across the fields,
Or the way the pine...
#love
#beauty
#nature
#peace
#memories
447 reads
2 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
26th Jan 2022 12:57pm
26th Jan 2022 12:57pm
Come Back
The devil takes me apart
Piece by piece
Licking my essence from his fingers
And staring me down
With a horrid gleeful smile.
Gone is another piece of who I was;
Where the hell am I going now?
Piece by piece
Licking my essence from his fingers
And staring me down
With a horrid gleeful smile.
Gone is another piece of who I was;
Where the hell am I going now?
#addiction
543 reads
1 Comment
DRUGS POEM
Published
26th Jan 2022 12:56pm
26th Jan 2022 12:56pm
doesn't rhyme and doesn't reason (I'm Tired)
It starts with losing my appetite.
Nothing sounds good,
And the state of my kitchen sink and fridge
Is sad enough from neglect already.
My mouth grows cotton mouthed,
My throat hurts, and I cough more
From chain-smoking cigarettes
Until I run out, even if they're all I taste.
Crowds feel like suffocation,
And every conversation is a strain.
I have nothing to talk about,
And if I do, it's a thought of regret.
I see hands reaching out for me
Willing to be the one I can lean on,
But for some reason...
Nothing sounds good,
And the state of my kitchen sink and fridge
Is sad enough from neglect already.
My mouth grows cotton mouthed,
My throat hurts, and I cough more
From chain-smoking cigarettes
Until I run out, even if they're all I taste.
Crowds feel like suffocation,
And every conversation is a strain.
I have nothing to talk about,
And if I do, it's a thought of regret.
I see hands reaching out for me
Willing to be the one I can lean on,
But for some reason...
#SelfHarm
#drugs
#addiction
#support
#SelfWorth
394 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Jan 2022 3:29am
26th Jan 2022 3:29am
Through Your Eyes
I imagine the endless questions
that have no satisfactory answer
when days turn into weeks
that you've not seen my face.
I see the look of hurt on your face,
the crestfallen expression
that takes over your pretty face
as excitement fades to disappointment
when I am late to show
or never show at all.
I imagine the chemicals in your brain
wiring themselves into a rollercoaster
of hopes up and fulfillment,
descending into a chasm of emptiness
and despair become all too familiar,
when the pattern I've...
that have no satisfactory answer
when days turn into weeks
that you've not seen my face.
I see the look of hurt on your face,
the crestfallen expression
that takes over your pretty face
as excitement fades to disappointment
when I am late to show
or never show at all.
I imagine the chemicals in your brain
wiring themselves into a rollercoaster
of hopes up and fulfillment,
descending into a chasm of emptiness
and despair become all too familiar,
when the pattern I've...
#love
#motherhood
#faith
#addiction
#daughter
444 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
19th Jan 2022 1:10pm
19th Jan 2022 1:10pm
choking on every word I ever said
A moment of horror
Is realizing one of my biggest idols
In younger years
Did her makeup with the infamous "raccoon eyes" for a reason:
The same reason she was so skinny
And the same reason her music
Was so deliciously dark.
The poems I read with my young eyes
Were those of junkies,
And I saw nothing but a beautifully broken soul
Bleeding into their words
With such intensity
That it snatched me onto the page with it.
Now the only person I feel comfortable showing my dark side to
Is one of the same ...
Is realizing one of my biggest idols
In younger years
Did her makeup with the infamous "raccoon eyes" for a reason:
The same reason she was so skinny
And the same reason her music
Was so deliciously dark.
The poems I read with my young eyes
Were those of junkies,
And I saw nothing but a beautifully broken soul
Bleeding into their words
With such intensity
That it snatched me onto the page with it.
Now the only person I feel comfortable showing my dark side to
Is one of the same ...
#addiction
331 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
19th Jan 2022 5:53am
19th Jan 2022 5:53am
Don't Wanna
I don't wanna fly no more.
I wanna sit back in the driver's seat
And cruise to the distant shore.
I wanna feel the wind in my hair.
I don't wanna be rigid, teeth clenched,
Numb to becoming one with the air.
I don't wanna sit eyes locked on nothing,
With my mind somewhere far away.
I wanna let the moment fill my heart with songs to sing.
I wanna sit back in the driver's seat
And cruise to the distant shore.
I wanna feel the wind in my hair.
I don't wanna be rigid, teeth clenched,
Numb to becoming one with the air.
I don't wanna sit eyes locked on nothing,
With my mind somewhere far away.
I wanna let the moment fill my heart with songs to sing.
#rebirth
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