Submissions by Quincy
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Just do it. Even if it is fucking terrible. You can't edit a blank page. You can't improve nothing. Just do it.
SONG LYRICS
Published
4th Sep 2022 5:18am
4th Sep 2022 5:18am
Decipher You
Strangeness in shadows
I swim in your shallows
Not ready to decipher you
And the depths of your darkness
It seems fucking endless
Am I willing to get lost in you
Magic and madness
They mirror our muses
Are you trying to escape the truth
And there's power in pleasure
An endless endeavor
Are you trying to find something new
I think I'll leave the surface unscratched
Think I'll leave these walls intact
'Cause I'm not ready to...
I swim in your shallows
Not ready to decipher you
And the depths of your darkness
It seems fucking endless
Am I willing to get lost in you
Magic and madness
They mirror our muses
Are you trying to escape the truth
And there's power in pleasure
An endless endeavor
Are you trying to find something new
I think I'll leave the surface unscratched
Think I'll leave these walls intact
'Cause I'm not ready to...
#shadows
479 reads
9 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
29th May 2022 11:17pm
29th May 2022 11:17pm
Price Check!
Price check!
I need a price check.
What's my life worth to you?
I need a price check.
Thought I was priceless.
I need a price check.
What's my true value ?
Do I depreciate when I disobey?
How do you evaluate your monetary gains?
Are we nameless faces in the crowd?
Shuffled to our death and to your bank accounts?
Price check!
I need a price check.
What are our lives worth to you?
I need a price check.
Thought we were priceless.
I need a price check.
We don't deserve this.
...
I need a price check.
What's my life worth to you?
I need a price check.
Thought I was priceless.
I need a price check.
What's my true value ?
Do I depreciate when I disobey?
How do you evaluate your monetary gains?
Are we nameless faces in the crowd?
Shuffled to our death and to your bank accounts?
Price check!
I need a price check.
What are our lives worth to you?
I need a price check.
Thought we were priceless.
I need a price check.
We don't deserve this.
...
#anger
#death
#frustration #greed
#frustration #greed
433 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Apr 2022 3:18pm
13th Apr 2022 3:18pm
My Love
My love, don't make me a distant memory.
Don't make me someone
To cross your mind occasionally.
A passing thought,
A short-lived smile
That stretches across
The lips I used to kiss
As you make your
Morning coffee and think of how
I used to take mine.
I dont want to be a distant memory,
A butterfly on a spring day that touches Your mind then flies away.
I am your past.
I am your present.
I am your future.
I am here.
I am yours.
Now until forever.
Don't make me someone
To cross your mind occasionally.
A passing thought,
A short-lived smile
That stretches across
The lips I used to kiss
As you make your
Morning coffee and think of how
I used to take mine.
I dont want to be a distant memory,
A butterfly on a spring day that touches Your mind then flies away.
I am your past.
I am your present.
I am your future.
I am here.
I am yours.
Now until forever.
#happiness
#love
354 reads
8 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
29th Dec 2021 11:41am
29th Dec 2021 11:41am
My Dear Friend, Fear
Sometimes excitement disguses itself as fear especially when fear equals survival.
I was born into a hindered and limited capacity of love.
Fear stood beside me and comforted me.
I am scared
Held out its hand and embraced me.
I am scared
Hugged me tightly when the storms raged on.
I am scared
Wiped my tears away as the chaos commenced and showed me a safe place to hide.
I am scared
Fear saved me.
Thank you Fear for keeping me alive but now I am ready to live.
Thank you Fear for teaching me but now I am ready for my...
I was born into a hindered and limited capacity of love.
Fear stood beside me and comforted me.
I am scared
Held out its hand and embraced me.
I am scared
Hugged me tightly when the storms raged on.
I am scared
Wiped my tears away as the chaos commenced and showed me a safe place to hide.
I am scared
Fear saved me.
Thank you Fear for keeping me alive but now I am ready to live.
Thank you Fear for teaching me but now I am ready for my...
#hope
437 reads
10 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
20th Dec 2021 3:14am
20th Dec 2021 3:14am
Phoenix
Build it back up from the rubble
Stronger than before
Build it back up from the rubble
Into something I can't destroy
Pain and the suffering
Tears and the blood
The foundation for something
That must be reborn.
Just as the Phoenix flies
So shall I
Higher than the mountains
That try to knock me down
I hear them coming, the foot steps in line
Voices are whispering you won't survive
Calling my name but I can't be found
Finding my pieces scattered all around
Just as the Phoenix flies...
Stronger than before
Build it back up from the rubble
Into something I can't destroy
Pain and the suffering
Tears and the blood
The foundation for something
That must be reborn.
Just as the Phoenix flies
So shall I
Higher than the mountains
That try to knock me down
I hear them coming, the foot steps in line
Voices are whispering you won't survive
Calling my name but I can't be found
Finding my pieces scattered all around
Just as the Phoenix flies...
#happiness
#hope
402 reads
5 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
20th Dec 2021 2:07am
20th Dec 2021 2:07am
I See You Now
Paint me a picture
Tell me your lies
Paint me a picture
And say it's a prize
But I know now
I see the writing on the wall
Opened my eyes before the fall
I see you now
The man with so many faces
And so many words
You paint me a picture
And say I'm absurd
My questions seep through
The cracks in your stories
And crumble your tower of words
Your truth not so obscure
And I know now
I see the writing on the wall
Opened my eyes before the fall
I see you now
...
Tell me your lies
Paint me a picture
And say it's a prize
But I know now
I see the writing on the wall
Opened my eyes before the fall
I see you now
The man with so many faces
And so many words
You paint me a picture
And say I'm absurd
My questions seep through
The cracks in your stories
And crumble your tower of words
Your truth not so obscure
And I know now
I see the writing on the wall
Opened my eyes before the fall
I see you now
...
#deception
532 reads
4 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
3rd May 2021 3:05pm
3rd May 2021 3:05pm
Rise From the Ashes
Will you be my Virgil?
Guide me through this Inferno.
Oh please light the way.
What's the price I have to pay?
All the secrets that we keep
Kill me softly as you sleep.
Will I burn from the inside?
Chorus:
Will my demons fade away ?
Why do you say it's all ok?
When Hell and Heaven burn the same
What will rise from the ashes?
Take my hand and lead the way.
Show me the light inside this cave.
Will you guide me to Paradise?
I don't want to live just to survive.
All the secrets that we...
Guide me through this Inferno.
Oh please light the way.
What's the price I have to pay?
All the secrets that we keep
Kill me softly as you sleep.
Will I burn from the inside?
Chorus:
Will my demons fade away ?
Why do you say it's all ok?
When Hell and Heaven burn the same
What will rise from the ashes?
Take my hand and lead the way.
Show me the light inside this cave.
Will you guide me to Paradise?
I don't want to live just to survive.
All the secrets that we...
#hope
391 reads
7 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Mar 2021 4:55am
1st Mar 2021 4:55am
Good Intentions
You're on a sinking ship called Good Intentions.
But now the water flows all around you.
You can't hold your breath forever
Despite your foolish determination.
They say the way to Hell is paved
With good intentions.
I wonder who else is captain of that same ship?
This is not a greedy man's game
But you thought you could make it just the same.
When did the lines blur
On this vast horizon?
When did your greed take over
Despite your good intentions?
They say past experience leads to wisdom.
I...
But now the water flows all around you.
You can't hold your breath forever
Despite your foolish determination.
They say the way to Hell is paved
With good intentions.
I wonder who else is captain of that same ship?
This is not a greedy man's game
But you thought you could make it just the same.
When did the lines blur
On this vast horizon?
When did your greed take over
Despite your good intentions?
They say past experience leads to wisdom.
I...
#bittersweet
478 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Jan 2021 3:54am
30th Jan 2021 3:54am
Picture
Pick apart a crooked little picture.
Don't let it break or you'll release a whisper.
Who will keep your secrets now
If a picture says a thousand words?
Pick apart a perfect little smile.
What hides beneath those aching, hollow eyes?
While toothy smiles may be deceiving
What hides beneath the still and shiny surface?
There is no more thought or soul to bare.
Pick apart a fading silhouette
As it slips through a thin and lifeless veil.
Potential and perfection cast into the wind.
What remains after the shell is...
Don't let it break or you'll release a whisper.
Who will keep your secrets now
If a picture says a thousand words?
Pick apart a perfect little smile.
What hides beneath those aching, hollow eyes?
While toothy smiles may be deceiving
What hides beneath the still and shiny surface?
There is no more thought or soul to bare.
Pick apart a fading silhouette
As it slips through a thin and lifeless veil.
Potential and perfection cast into the wind.
What remains after the shell is...
#memories
642 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
27th Sep 2020 5:35am
27th Sep 2020 5:35am
Fantasy
You whisper in my ear
Sweet nothings you think I want to hear
Lovely little lies
Soft and sultry lullubies
But I'm waiting for that bittersweet goodbye
The one that breaks my heart
And makes me cry
You can't be the one that got away
For you were never truly mine
And never meant to stay
We're living in a fairytale
Where we both know
This heavenly hell tastes so sweet
So I'll bow my head and take my leave
Before reality can bring us to our knees
But darling, I'll keep...
Sweet nothings you think I want to hear
Lovely little lies
Soft and sultry lullubies
But I'm waiting for that bittersweet goodbye
The one that breaks my heart
And makes me cry
You can't be the one that got away
For you were never truly mine
And never meant to stay
We're living in a fairytale
Where we both know
This heavenly hell tastes so sweet
So I'll bow my head and take my leave
Before reality can bring us to our knees
But darling, I'll keep...
#forgiveness
#honesty
532 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Jul 2020 5:04pm
28th Jul 2020 5:04pm
My Paradise
My paradise is a place where I can walk freely without fear of a lingering eye or unsolicited touch.
A place where sexist ideas, objectification and entitlement to my female body are unwelcome and no where to be found.
Where I don't worry about how late it is and the potential threat of walking alone.
My paradise is a place where the word "no" is accepted without agitation and is not a trigger for assault or murder.
A place where I don't have to teach my female child life saving skills for social situations.
Where I don't...
A place where sexist ideas, objectification and entitlement to my female body are unwelcome and no where to be found.
Where I don't worry about how late it is and the potential threat of walking alone.
My paradise is a place where the word "no" is accepted without agitation and is not a trigger for assault or murder.
A place where I don't have to teach my female child life saving skills for social situations.
Where I don't...
#women
#fear
530 reads
10 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
27th Jul 2020 5:23pm
27th Jul 2020 5:23pm
Hidden in Shadow
Who hides there in the shadows
Who hides there just below
The windows of your soul
Someone you don't want to know
But you do
Intimately
Subliminally
Completely
Who hides there in the shadows
Who hides there in the corners of your mind
Someone you thought
You left behind long ago
But you can't
And you won't
For it is you.
You can't hide forever.
Your actions are a mirror.
Your words are its frame.
Forever calling out your name.
Who hides there just below
The windows of your soul
Someone you don't want to know
But you do
Intimately
Subliminally
Completely
Who hides there in the shadows
Who hides there in the corners of your mind
Someone you thought
You left behind long ago
But you can't
And you won't
For it is you.
You can't hide forever.
Your actions are a mirror.
Your words are its frame.
Forever calling out your name.
#SelfReflection
544 reads
9 Comments
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