Submissions by LightWithin256
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I have loved writing for years, it saved me.
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Mar 2019 3:33pm
22nd Mar 2019 3:33pm
you
There are 168 hours in the week.
I spend 70 of them sleeping.
Or at least trying to.
I spend the other 98
Thinking about you.
The speck of orange in your eyes.
Your subtle smile
both a clever hint as to whats beyond your disguise.
Call it cliche
but every night as I fall asleep
my last thought
is the feeling of your lips on cheek.
Call it overplayed
but every morning when I wake up
the sound of you saying my name
is stuck on repeat
call me relentless
because I keep fighting for this
call me stubborn ...
I spend 70 of them sleeping.
Or at least trying to.
I spend the other 98
Thinking about you.
The speck of orange in your eyes.
Your subtle smile
both a clever hint as to whats beyond your disguise.
Call it cliche
but every night as I fall asleep
my last thought
is the feeling of your lips on cheek.
Call it overplayed
but every morning when I wake up
the sound of you saying my name
is stuck on repeat
call me relentless
because I keep fighting for this
call me stubborn ...
#LifeStruggles
#FallingInLove
934 reads
21 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Feb 2019 7:40pm
8th Feb 2019 7:40pm
Wishing Well
There is a wishing well here.
Here in my mind.
A wishing well to catch my every tear.
To hold this pain of mine.
I’ve been filling the pool for years.
In the reflection I’ve been
Watching all my fears
Prance around my shoulders
Mocking me
Taunting me.
The water spills over
Dousing my feet.
A cool sensation.
On my knees now,
I stare into this seemingly never ending pool of my history.
A copper flash
Something small…
It doesn’t match.
Grasping desperately…
Just out of reach.
In I plunge. ...
Here in my mind.
A wishing well to catch my every tear.
To hold this pain of mine.
I’ve been filling the pool for years.
In the reflection I’ve been
Watching all my fears
Prance around my shoulders
Mocking me
Taunting me.
The water spills over
Dousing my feet.
A cool sensation.
On my knees now,
I stare into this seemingly never ending pool of my history.
A copper flash
Something small…
It doesn’t match.
Grasping desperately…
Just out of reach.
In I plunge. ...
#hope
#myself
#SelfDiscovery
688 reads
6 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Feb 2019 7:30pm
8th Feb 2019 7:30pm
Wonderland
Like Alice,
I tripped and fell in a hole.
In pursuit of something I didn't know.
Somehow,
I discovered a world that's only mine to hold.
A new environment.
This time I'm gonna leave a dent.
Leave my mark...
but still,
I'll leave a part a part of me there.
In the world I left behind.
Hoping maybe somebody will find...
that piece of me hidden in the snow.
But don't get me wrong.
I don't really want it back.
I don't want the life I had
I want to be like her.
And just like Alice,
i found a home.
And...
I tripped and fell in a hole.
In pursuit of something I didn't know.
Somehow,
I discovered a world that's only mine to hold.
A new environment.
This time I'm gonna leave a dent.
Leave my mark...
but still,
I'll leave a part a part of me there.
In the world I left behind.
Hoping maybe somebody will find...
that piece of me hidden in the snow.
But don't get me wrong.
I don't really want it back.
I don't want the life I had
I want to be like her.
And just like Alice,
i found a home.
And...
#home
#SelfReflection
#SelfDiscovery
699 reads
9 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Jul 2018 4:01pm
22nd Jul 2018 4:01pm
And He Wraps His Strong Arms Around Me
Nerves
Overwhelming me
Heart beat
Outracing me
Tripping over my own shoelaces
I'm clumsy
Heart broken
Hands cut open
Trying to pick up the pieces
Begging for someone to help me
Tears
Drowning me
Hands
hurting me
He picks me up, carries me away
I’m safe
Away from the debris
Setting me free
He cleans up the mess I left
And wraps his strong arms around me
Overwhelming me
Heart beat
Outracing me
Tripping over my own shoelaces
I'm clumsy
Heart broken
Hands cut open
Trying to pick up the pieces
Begging for someone to help me
Tears
Drowning me
Hands
hurting me
He picks me up, carries me away
I’m safe
Away from the debris
Setting me free
He cleans up the mess I left
And wraps his strong arms around me
#love
#strength
#hope
749 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
18th May 2018 4:16pm
18th May 2018 4:16pm
A fallen lily
Dark and empty
the souls of broken seeds
a fallen lily
almost out of time
wisps of something...
a memory...
a better time
No where to go
drifting and alone.
trudging through this sodden ground
desperately wishing to be found.
Lacking shelter...
lacking a home.
all seems lost
lost in the wind
never to be seen again...
Dark and empty
the souls of broken seeds
a fallen lily
the souls of broken seeds
a fallen lily
almost out of time
wisps of something...
a memory...
a better time
No where to go
drifting and alone.
trudging through this sodden ground
desperately wishing to be found.
Lacking shelter...
lacking a home.
all seems lost
lost in the wind
never to be seen again...
Dark and empty
the souls of broken seeds
a fallen lily
#heartbroken
#flowers
#FeelingLost
782 reads
9 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
27th Mar 2018 2:00pm
27th Mar 2018 2:00pm
waking up next to you
#happiness
#lust
#romantic
1170 reads
11 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
27th Mar 2018 1:46pm
27th Mar 2018 1:46pm
Another Night Without You
#lust
#sex
#erotic
961 reads
7 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Feb 2018 2:02pm
26th Feb 2018 2:02pm
Mount Denali
If the world ends where would I stand?
on a pedestal in the minds of those who can remember?
or in the void of oblivion carved for those didn't get the chance.
we all fight for our place in society but in the end where does it get us?
our names...
carved on a plaque and emboldened in our worlds history?
or crumbled into sand.
like ashes from a cigarette bud that has been tossed out a cracked car window.
either one is noticeable.
So if the world ends, where will you be?
truthfully, I would like to be sand.
I want my ashes to float across...
on a pedestal in the minds of those who can remember?
or in the void of oblivion carved for those didn't get the chance.
we all fight for our place in society but in the end where does it get us?
our names...
carved on a plaque and emboldened in our worlds history?
or crumbled into sand.
like ashes from a cigarette bud that has been tossed out a cracked car window.
either one is noticeable.
So if the world ends, where will you be?
truthfully, I would like to be sand.
I want my ashes to float across...
861 reads
18 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Feb 2018 1:56pm
22nd Feb 2018 1:56pm
Feels like...
I love how this feels...
it's almost like
being completely frozen in forever.
our breathing even
I wonder what would happen if
we shared our forevers
and you ran away with me tonight.
it's almost like
being completely frozen in forever.
our breathing even
I wonder what would happen if
we shared our forevers
and you ran away with me tonight.
604 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Feb 2018 1:52pm
22nd Feb 2018 1:52pm
1,2,3,4
One.
I promised we’d be fine
Two.
Even after the fight.
Three.
But I still don’t understand.
Four.
I’m kind of mad at you.
Five.
A little on the hurtside too.
Six.
You swear you love me…
Seven.
She believed it too… didn’t she?
Eight.
You were everything I ever wanted.
Nine.
But now by your memory… I am haunted.
Ten.
You never gave us a chance.
Ten.
All this time I’ve been stuck in a trance
Ten.
All I wanted was you ...
I promised we’d be fine
Two.
Even after the fight.
Three.
But I still don’t understand.
Four.
I’m kind of mad at you.
Five.
A little on the hurtside too.
Six.
You swear you love me…
Seven.
She believed it too… didn’t she?
Eight.
You were everything I ever wanted.
Nine.
But now by your memory… I am haunted.
Ten.
You never gave us a chance.
Ten.
All this time I’ve been stuck in a trance
Ten.
All I wanted was you ...
#breakup
#TimeHeals
#MovingOn
#escape
#IMissYou
625 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
16th Feb 2018 11:52pm
16th Feb 2018 11:52pm
Once upon a...
Once upon a...
you played your part
acting out all of...
the things you said to me
I wonder why I still...
fall for fake loves
and all that's left to do is blame you.
you played your part
acting out all of...
the things you said to me
I wonder why I still...
fall for fake loves
and all that's left to do is blame you.
#acrostic
645 reads
10 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th Feb 2018 4:57pm
13th Feb 2018 4:57pm
Everyone could see the trapdoor but me
I fall away from everyone
fighting for what I could
wondering what I had failed to see
feels like the end of the...
No. Don't fall through that trapdoor.
I could blame you but...
it's time to focus on me.
fighting for what I could
wondering what I had failed to see
feels like the end of the...
No. Don't fall through that trapdoor.
I could blame you but...
it's time to focus on me.
#acrostic
663 reads
13 Comments
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