Submissions by LostInTheCrowd
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Always afraid Lost in the crowd On the wrong path Nobody's anybody Eternally expected Alone
Hopelessly Behind
Head is clouded with constant pain
Stomach twisting in evident vain
Coughs erupting from times in the rain
The sneezes will also leave an unwanted stain
How do you expect me to learn
When my mind is cloudy, foggy
The sickness makes it hard to focus
The lack of sleep makes me eternally groggy
The names don't stick
The numbers are meaningless
All the stupid formulas create
in my mind, a useless mess
Slow down
I cant help my terrible mind
Please let me catch up
I'm hopelessly behind
Stomach twisting in evident vain
Coughs erupting from times in the rain
The sneezes will also leave an unwanted stain
How do you expect me to learn
When my mind is cloudy, foggy
The sickness makes it hard to focus
The lack of sleep makes me eternally groggy
The names don't stick
The numbers are meaningless
All the stupid formulas create
in my mind, a useless mess
Slow down
I cant help my terrible mind
Please let me catch up
I'm hopelessly behind
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Waiting
Porcelain sculptures
line the walls
People in vain
Wait in the halls
Saltwater streams
flowing secretly down faces
quickly swept away
leaving no traces
The little sculptures
painted with smiles, make-up
Remind me of those in the hall
The unwanted space they take up
Their smiles aren't true
obviously a show
physically nor emotionally
They never grow
Who are they
those in the corridor
They are the waiting ones
But waiting, what for?
fate
they try and act pleased
to get a good ending
no feelings released...
line the walls
People in vain
Wait in the halls
Saltwater streams
flowing secretly down faces
quickly swept away
leaving no traces
The little sculptures
painted with smiles, make-up
Remind me of those in the hall
The unwanted space they take up
Their smiles aren't true
obviously a show
physically nor emotionally
They never grow
Who are they
those in the corridor
They are the waiting ones
But waiting, what for?
fate
they try and act pleased
to get a good ending
no feelings released...
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Pointless
Its only been days
It feels like much longer
staying tucked inside
nothing feels wronger
I could be making memories
emotions skyrocketing, so much fun
But instead Im alone
The days coming undone
Time's just an illusion
Nothing is truer
Boredom stretches it
Interest makes it fewer
So of course seconds are hours
absence of tasks make tension grow
Everyone above me watches with laughter
As I sit pointlessly down below
It feels like much longer
staying tucked inside
nothing feels wronger
I could be making memories
emotions skyrocketing, so much fun
But instead Im alone
The days coming undone
Time's just an illusion
Nothing is truer
Boredom stretches it
Interest makes it fewer
So of course seconds are hours
absence of tasks make tension grow
Everyone above me watches with laughter
As I sit pointlessly down below
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Worth It For You
I'm so broken
Crippled and damaged
Heart has been trampled
So disadvantaged
Why would you want me
Theres so much thats wrong
So much to hate
or have you known all along?
Did you know what lies
behind my happy exterior
Whats really there
My disheartened interior
Did you know
what you got yourself into
Can you hang on for me?
It might be worth it for you
Crippled and damaged
Heart has been trampled
So disadvantaged
Why would you want me
Theres so much thats wrong
So much to hate
or have you known all along?
Did you know what lies
behind my happy exterior
Whats really there
My disheartened interior
Did you know
what you got yourself into
Can you hang on for me?
It might be worth it for you
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Fly
Tragedy I see with both my eyes
Everywhere they're starting their own harming fires
But in the end, everyone dies
Thanks to the corruption and their birth mothers: liars
All of the damage is blatantly shown
Burned is everything we have and own
Overcome with ignorance, pride
They are left with everything to hide
They all bask in their wrongful glory
Feed everyone their made up story
Of one another, they're living in spite
Shining days show their true horror of night
They're using all the innocent as their legs
And weave them into their...
Everywhere they're starting their own harming fires
But in the end, everyone dies
Thanks to the corruption and their birth mothers: liars
All of the damage is blatantly shown
Burned is everything we have and own
Overcome with ignorance, pride
They are left with everything to hide
They all bask in their wrongful glory
Feed everyone their made up story
Of one another, they're living in spite
Shining days show their true horror of night
They're using all the innocent as their legs
And weave them into their...
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2 Comments
Your Lies
Lies
Thats the only thing that can be
For once I'm are actually feeling affection
Is it too difficult for you to see?
Well I guess you should close you eyes
Because your lies won't break us apart
Unlike you, we have something called trust
And another thing some call a heart
Thats the only thing that can be
For once I'm are actually feeling affection
Is it too difficult for you to see?
Well I guess you should close you eyes
Because your lies won't break us apart
Unlike you, we have something called trust
And another thing some call a heart
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Sight
I actually sat down and starting thinking
Of everything that is wrong with me
If you want to read a self-revelation,
come along and see
I acted like such a freak
I cared about nothing, but I came out smart
People hated me and I had such a stupid
Terrible start
I loved the nerds
and not the amazing kind
and none of it ever occurred
to me in my narrow idiot mind
I took me spelling and hopped on a bandwagon
Acted like a moron that no one liked
This comes to the difficult part
when the realization of my faults should've spiked
I...
Of everything that is wrong with me
If you want to read a self-revelation,
come along and see
I acted like such a freak
I cared about nothing, but I came out smart
People hated me and I had such a stupid
Terrible start
I loved the nerds
and not the amazing kind
and none of it ever occurred
to me in my narrow idiot mind
I took me spelling and hopped on a bandwagon
Acted like a moron that no one liked
This comes to the difficult part
when the realization of my faults should've spiked
I...
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Atheist
Atheist,
Im going to hell
From the things I've done
I might as well
Why must you act
like such an ass
Do you have ANY proof?
Or is it horrid just to ask
So theres a book
quite a best seller
You look at it
like a fortune teller
Speaks of things
For after your life
How would the writer know
When he has yet to meet that strife
There's an invisible
man in the sky
Watching your movements to judge you
After you die
Because that makes sense
Because thats fair
How can you prove
He's even there?
Why do you...
Im going to hell
From the things I've done
I might as well
Why must you act
like such an ass
Do you have ANY proof?
Or is it horrid just to ask
So theres a book
quite a best seller
You look at it
like a fortune teller
Speaks of things
For after your life
How would the writer know
When he has yet to meet that strife
There's an invisible
man in the sky
Watching your movements to judge you
After you die
Because that makes sense
Because thats fair
How can you prove
He's even there?
Why do you...
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Rain
Rain rain, please come stay
Never ever go away
Lightning lightning also may
take up all the night and day
Let not be seen a single light ray
Flood the streets all the way
Put all my many worries at bay
Hurry now, with no delay
Bring hard winds, so trees sway
And crash on them so that they
Will never know that I say
I hate them more than a thousand ways
Then come down on my house today
Relieve me of my horrors, decay
Leave the living with debts to pay
Fill my lungs with water, so with death I can forever lay
Never ever go away
Lightning lightning also may
take up all the night and day
Let not be seen a single light ray
Flood the streets all the way
Put all my many worries at bay
Hurry now, with no delay
Bring hard winds, so trees sway
And crash on them so that they
Will never know that I say
I hate them more than a thousand ways
Then come down on my house today
Relieve me of my horrors, decay
Leave the living with debts to pay
Fill my lungs with water, so with death I can forever lay
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Elementary School Ties
Its been a while since we spoke
I moved away and you did too
We talked for a while but
Honestly, who are you?
You've got a boyfriend I don't know
Your fiery red hair replaced with dyes
So much has changed but I wonder if
If you have even realized
We were best friends
bonds that seem strong
We thought they'd never break
But would they ever last long?
We're are separate, no longer one
Wait, but were we ever?
I think not, but maybe we'll learn
Elementary school ties don't last forever
I moved away and you did too
We talked for a while but
Honestly, who are you?
You've got a boyfriend I don't know
Your fiery red hair replaced with dyes
So much has changed but I wonder if
If you have even realized
We were best friends
bonds that seem strong
We thought they'd never break
But would they ever last long?
We're are separate, no longer one
Wait, but were we ever?
I think not, but maybe we'll learn
Elementary school ties don't last forever
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Consequence I'll Have to Take
You make it so hard to hate you
You call me babe and flirt away
Then leave me in suspense
For days upon days
Then come back to me
Treat me like a Goddess
And leave me in your silence
And make such a mess
When you spoke it was enticing
Then you would stop out of nowhere
And I try to hold on to my love
But how can I tell if yours is even there?
Its a hard decision
One that I'll have to make
I have to make the right choice
and the consequence I will have to take
You call me babe and flirt away
Then leave me in suspense
For days upon days
Then come back to me
Treat me like a Goddess
And leave me in your silence
And make such a mess
When you spoke it was enticing
Then you would stop out of nowhere
And I try to hold on to my love
But how can I tell if yours is even there?
Its a hard decision
One that I'll have to make
I have to make the right choice
and the consequence I will have to take
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Horrors and Strife
How did we become this way
Typing like you're uneducated
Taking pictures like you weren't raised right
Swearing like sailors is nothing unusual
Everything ends up in a futile fight
Saying people are fake
Because thats not what you are
Making stupid videos because
you're trying to be the next 'internet star'
People are shades of orange
People are saying they are 'the shit'
People wearing shorts up to their butts
Dont they realize that this is it?
People making 'music' thats completely wrong
Talking downright about sex
Why would you...
Typing like you're uneducated
Taking pictures like you weren't raised right
Swearing like sailors is nothing unusual
Everything ends up in a futile fight
Saying people are fake
Because thats not what you are
Making stupid videos because
you're trying to be the next 'internet star'
People are shades of orange
People are saying they are 'the shit'
People wearing shorts up to their butts
Dont they realize that this is it?
People making 'music' thats completely wrong
Talking downright about sex
Why would you...
621 reads
1 Comment
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