Submissions by TimWombles
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write songs without a tune. I'm a story teller. Sometimes I write about the news, sometimes about feelings, sometimes I just write.
Help Me Get Over Her
I thought her and I would last forever
Couldn't imagine my life without her
But she's gone
I need to move on
Can you picture the two of us together?
I'm not saying
There's no future for me and you
I'm just saying
I might need help making it through
I need someone to hold me
At least for a little while
Someone to talk to
Someone to make me smile
::[Chorus]::
Help me get over her
(Over her) (over her)
Can't make no promises
I don't want to lie
She's deep in my heart
maybe till the day I die ...
Couldn't imagine my life without her
But she's gone
I need to move on
Can you picture the two of us together?
I'm not saying
There's no future for me and you
I'm just saying
I might need help making it through
I need someone to hold me
At least for a little while
Someone to talk to
Someone to make me smile
::[Chorus]::
Help me get over her
(Over her) (over her)
Can't make no promises
I don't want to lie
She's deep in my heart
maybe till the day I die ...
#breakup
#MovingOn
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Smart People Do Stupid Things
When smart people do stupid things
you have no idea what frustration that brings
I mean you expect that out of someone who's dumb
I look up to people with a high IQ
I want to be like them, really I do
but after they screw up it just makes you go numb
I knew an engineer who was in his yard chasing a mole
watched it go down one of it's holes
decided to fill it up with gas and light it for a rodent roast
looking down, guess he didn't figure on the backdraft
anyone that saw it would have had to laugh
his long gray beard and...
you have no idea what frustration that brings
I mean you expect that out of someone who's dumb
I look up to people with a high IQ
I want to be like them, really I do
but after they screw up it just makes you go numb
I knew an engineer who was in his yard chasing a mole
watched it go down one of it's holes
decided to fill it up with gas and light it for a rodent roast
looking down, guess he didn't figure on the backdraft
anyone that saw it would have had to laugh
his long gray beard and...
#LifeStruggles
#funny
154 reads
5 Comments
Heartbeat - trying to write a Blackpink song
I never thought I could fall in love, was the furthest thing from my reality
I never bought into fairy tales, relationships built on emotional frailties
I'd look upward to those flickering stars in the skies
And try as I might, they'd put no romance in my eyes
Men buying my drinks, I'd cheer as they sank in flames
I'd put another charm on my bracelet and cross off their names
Never saw the sincerity, they were destined to fail
Deep down I resisted and put them through hell
Never expecting some prince would place me on his personal throne
And I...
I never bought into fairy tales, relationships built on emotional frailties
I'd look upward to those flickering stars in the skies
And try as I might, they'd put no romance in my eyes
Men buying my drinks, I'd cheer as they sank in flames
I'd put another charm on my bracelet and cross off their names
Never saw the sincerity, they were destined to fail
Deep down I resisted and put them through hell
Never expecting some prince would place me on his personal throne
And I...
#relationships
#FallingInLove
#LookingForLove
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Holding On To Love
I love you
I hate you
Don't want to debate you
On all the aspects of our life
In my defence
My love for you is immense
I only hate when I'm pissed
But I'm always happy you're my wife
Don't want to argue with you on who is right
With you telling me to go fly a kite
Don't want to sink into one more fight
I wanna change this darkness into light
::Chorus::
People don't understand
They think the opposite of love is hate
But that's not true
The opposite of love is indifference
And I still care about...
I hate you
Don't want to debate you
On all the aspects of our life
In my defence
My love for you is immense
I only hate when I'm pissed
But I'm always happy you're my wife
Don't want to argue with you on who is right
With you telling me to go fly a kite
Don't want to sink into one more fight
I wanna change this darkness into light
::Chorus::
People don't understand
They think the opposite of love is hate
But that's not true
The opposite of love is indifference
And I still care about...
#love
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One Kiss
You walked out
And straight away I felt my soul dying
Right then and there
You walked out
When I needed you the most
And you didn't really seem to care
I'm such a burden to you
You're such a heartbreak for me
I'm looking for a path through
But I'm finding it so hard to see
::Chorus::
And yet
One kiss
Will bring me right back to life
One kiss
Will raise my head
Right from this deathbed
One kiss
Is really all I need
Will fill my lungs
With all the air I need to breathe
Just...
And straight away I felt my soul dying
Right then and there
You walked out
When I needed you the most
And you didn't really seem to care
I'm such a burden to you
You're such a heartbreak for me
I'm looking for a path through
But I'm finding it so hard to see
::Chorus::
And yet
One kiss
Will bring me right back to life
One kiss
Will raise my head
Right from this deathbed
One kiss
Is really all I need
Will fill my lungs
With all the air I need to breathe
Just...
#love
#relationships
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Am I Ken?
When I was growing up
Ken wasn't made for me
I had my GIJoes
Ken was just a Barbie accessory
Joe had as much as Barbie
Maybe a little more
Ken had almost nothing
Except the girl and that's a score
Debbie had her Barbies
I had my GIJoes
Joe had his camo
Barbie had her designer clothes
We played together
They had a torrid love affair
Then one day we grew up
And she vanished in thin air
Debbie was my Barbie
But someone else was her GIJoe
I wanted my Barbie back
But that's the...
Ken wasn't made for me
I had my GIJoes
Ken was just a Barbie accessory
Joe had as much as Barbie
Maybe a little more
Ken had almost nothing
Except the girl and that's a score
Debbie had her Barbies
I had my GIJoes
Joe had his camo
Barbie had her designer clothes
We played together
They had a torrid love affair
Then one day we grew up
And she vanished in thin air
Debbie was my Barbie
But someone else was her GIJoe
I wanted my Barbie back
But that's the...
#love
#childhood
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Humpty Dumpty Heart [Songs for the female voice]
You lied to me
When you told me you'd never leave
Yeah, you lied to me
And you still want me to believe
I see that the girl you left me for now is gone
So you come back to me?
It's to late, I've moved on
::CHORUS::
I was like Humpty Dumpty
Sitting on a wall
You pushed me down
Just to watch me fall
All my family
And all my friends
Worked real hard
Getting me back together again
Now you've returned
You've come back for more
Now that my heart has healed
Let me show you the door
All the...
When you told me you'd never leave
Yeah, you lied to me
And you still want me to believe
I see that the girl you left me for now is gone
So you come back to me?
It's to late, I've moved on
::CHORUS::
I was like Humpty Dumpty
Sitting on a wall
You pushed me down
Just to watch me fall
All my family
And all my friends
Worked real hard
Getting me back together again
Now you've returned
You've come back for more
Now that my heart has healed
Let me show you the door
All the...
#strength
#breakup
#conflict
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Shattered
Gotta heart that turns to glass
With the fear of being alone
Call you up, you turn into an ass
Your words all turn to stone
Little glass shards all over the floor
Stuck in a house of windows without any doors
Scattered
Shattered
Don't get cut
Save yourself
I tell myself...
But...
How do I let someone in
When my hearts defenses are this thin
Why do you hurt me everytime you speak
Why do I find myself always this weak
Little glass shards all glued together
Placed behind walls perhaps...
With the fear of being alone
Call you up, you turn into an ass
Your words all turn to stone
Little glass shards all over the floor
Stuck in a house of windows without any doors
Scattered
Shattered
Don't get cut
Save yourself
I tell myself...
But...
How do I let someone in
When my hearts defenses are this thin
Why do you hurt me everytime you speak
Why do I find myself always this weak
Little glass shards all glued together
Placed behind walls perhaps...
#depression
#breakup
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Fantasy to kill
I wanted to be a rock star
But I started to late
Had a life to live
Let's chalk it up to fate
Got my first guitar
At the age of 22
Never learned to play it
It's sad but it's true
--Chorus--
Because just cause you want to do something
Doesn't mean that you will
I learned that lesson the hard way
And I'm learning it still
I spent my life dreaming
Till I finally reached my fill
No sense in wishing
Just another fantasy to kill
I wanted to be a pilot
But I never learned how to fly
Joined...
But I started to late
Had a life to live
Let's chalk it up to fate
Got my first guitar
At the age of 22
Never learned to play it
It's sad but it's true
--Chorus--
Because just cause you want to do something
Doesn't mean that you will
I learned that lesson the hard way
And I'm learning it still
I spent my life dreaming
Till I finally reached my fill
No sense in wishing
Just another fantasy to kill
I wanted to be a pilot
But I never learned how to fly
Joined...
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
#LifeGoals
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Trip to Hawaii or the Cautionary Tale of Writing Someone Else's Tune.. (sung to the tune of 'At Seventeen')
Stepping on broken shells
Caught up in some enchanted spell
Walking along a sandy beach
With the ocean just outside our reach
We climbed a mountain just to look at the stars
Drove on roads not meant for cars
Playing tag amongst the banyon trees
And lay out with the ocean breeze
You and I, hand in hand
Listening to some hawaiian band
Watching as the big whales breach
Or scuba diving underneath
For two weeks we're in paradise
Never thought the world could be this nice
It's gotta be a dream ...
Caught up in some enchanted spell
Walking along a sandy beach
With the ocean just outside our reach
We climbed a mountain just to look at the stars
Drove on roads not meant for cars
Playing tag amongst the banyon trees
And lay out with the ocean breeze
You and I, hand in hand
Listening to some hawaiian band
Watching as the big whales breach
Or scuba diving underneath
For two weeks we're in paradise
Never thought the world could be this nice
It's gotta be a dream ...
#WritingPoetry
#travel
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Everyone is Broken
She's been broken.
Sexually abused.
No way to describe how her body's been used.
Look at her dead eyes.
No more tears for her cries.
See her looking down
Eyes to the ground.
No hope for the skies
She's been broken
Everybody's broken
We are all sisters or brothers
We need to look out for one another
If you see someone in need
Don't just watch them bleed
Sometimes all we need
Is a lifeline to be thown
The life you safe might be your own
Cause everybody's broken
He's been...
Sexually abused.
No way to describe how her body's been used.
Look at her dead eyes.
No more tears for her cries.
See her looking down
Eyes to the ground.
No hope for the skies
She's been broken
Everybody's broken
We are all sisters or brothers
We need to look out for one another
If you see someone in need
Don't just watch them bleed
Sometimes all we need
Is a lifeline to be thown
The life you safe might be your own
Cause everybody's broken
He's been...
#abuse
#drugs
#support
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Never Letting Go
Outside a small town in Indiana, amongst the sycamore trees
There sits a young grieving woman, praying on her knees
"Honey, I need you badly, come back to me please"
She feels her body shiver, from a cold November breeze
::Chorus::
She thinks it's witchcraft
As she sees him standing there
She knows it may be visions, but at that moment
She didn't care
When you lose a love that's true
If it cones back to you
You don't let go
You never, never let it go
She hears towns people talking about her, when she goes out alone...
There sits a young grieving woman, praying on her knees
"Honey, I need you badly, come back to me please"
She feels her body shiver, from a cold November breeze
::Chorus::
She thinks it's witchcraft
As she sees him standing there
She knows it may be visions, but at that moment
She didn't care
When you lose a love that's true
If it cones back to you
You don't let go
You never, never let it go
She hears towns people talking about her, when she goes out alone...
#grief
#heartbroken
#FeelingLost
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