Submissions by WaterWet (Steve_Mbetu)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I am an open book, but life plucked all the pages!
SELF POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2019 3:00pm
23rd Jan 2019 3:00pm
Every soul is a gap, a void, a nothing.!
The world feels angry and lost,
There's no harmony here
Life has left these streets, i think
Our eyes and blood, colors so much alike
Chests frail and hollow
Every soul is a gap, a void, a nothing
Many of us look pale and deranged,
Like sinners drowning in guilt
Sinners dressed like saints,
Saints dressed in blasphemy
But i shouldn't judge,
Neither should you
No one should, actually.!.
There's no harmony here
Life has left these streets, i think
Our eyes and blood, colors so much alike
Chests frail and hollow
Every soul is a gap, a void, a nothing
Many of us look pale and deranged,
Like sinners drowning in guilt
Sinners dressed like saints,
Saints dressed in blasphemy
But i shouldn't judge,
Neither should you
No one should, actually.!.
#shadows
#TruthOfLife
#disappointment
#emptiness
#hypocrisy
376 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
28th May 2018 1:34pm
28th May 2018 1:34pm
The essence of uncertainty.
Was once a slave of time,
The essence of uncertainty
All I'd do was wait,
Then wait, and wait
Was timid,
Afraid, and
Scared!
No say,
No progress,
No defense,
Helpless.
The essence of uncertainty
All I'd do was wait,
Then wait, and wait
Was timid,
Afraid, and
Scared!
No say,
No progress,
No defense,
Helpless.
#sadness
#anxiety
#frustration
#despair
#emptiness
570 reads
5 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
12th Dec 2017 5:26pm
12th Dec 2017 5:26pm
I'm but a corpse, ready for the ceremony
I'm touching the stars
There's more life up here than there is Down there
The clouds are vast,
I'm just a dot
Swimming, I'm lost
In the ocean from where the rains pour
I could return with pictures
But would I ever wanna return?
Moon's glowly from a distance,
Lighting the way
Cold winds from behind,
Rubbing off my prints
I'm shaken by the silence
Sign of a time,
When all labor returns to dust
No longer drowning in my thoughts,
I'm a free soul now
A corpse, ready for the ceremony ...
There's more life up here than there is Down there
The clouds are vast,
I'm just a dot
Swimming, I'm lost
In the ocean from where the rains pour
I could return with pictures
But would I ever wanna return?
Moon's glowly from a distance,
Lighting the way
Cold winds from behind,
Rubbing off my prints
I'm shaken by the silence
Sign of a time,
When all labor returns to dust
No longer drowning in my thoughts,
I'm a free soul now
A corpse, ready for the ceremony ...
#anxiety
#depression
#dark
#death
#evil
452 reads
0 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
12th Dec 2017 3:00am
12th Dec 2017 3:00am
Son of fate
Son of fate,
A slave to time
By it caged, chained and tortured
Just holding onto dreams
Hoping, relentlessly praying
That they weren't bluffing
About there being light at the end of the tunnel
Awake, but still i lie
Under this pillow are all the suicidal dreams,
That i chose to leave hanging
Awaiting dawn,
Hours reduce to seconds
Not sure what to expect
What not to too
Beep!
The alarm never falls asleep
Get up! Abruptly
For a few moments heart beats race
Could that be a bad-day sign?...
A slave to time
By it caged, chained and tortured
Just holding onto dreams
Hoping, relentlessly praying
That they weren't bluffing
About there being light at the end of the tunnel
Awake, but still i lie
Under this pillow are all the suicidal dreams,
That i chose to leave hanging
Awaiting dawn,
Hours reduce to seconds
Not sure what to expect
What not to too
Beep!
The alarm never falls asleep
Get up! Abruptly
For a few moments heart beats race
Could that be a bad-day sign?...
#PopCulture
456 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
12th Nov 2017 3:13pm
12th Nov 2017 3:13pm
Does that make you feel like God?
I'm a walking skeleton
There's deafening an echo
Of the emptiness inside
Like a log by the riverside,
Now I just lie
Broken, helpless and lifeless
Didn't see the first rays pierce through the curtains
Hiding under my sheets
Cause why wake up to nothing ?
Gave you all that mattered
Wanted you to feel like the queen you were to me
Turns Out queens are savagery
You wanted more than flowers and warm cuddles,
More than diamond rings
And more than silk robes
You wanted...
There's deafening an echo
Of the emptiness inside
Like a log by the riverside,
Now I just lie
Broken, helpless and lifeless
Didn't see the first rays pierce through the curtains
Hiding under my sheets
Cause why wake up to nothing ?
Gave you all that mattered
Wanted you to feel like the queen you were to me
Turns Out queens are savagery
You wanted more than flowers and warm cuddles,
More than diamond rings
And more than silk robes
You wanted...
#lover
558 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
12th Nov 2017 11:32am
12th Nov 2017 11:32am
Make your voice hoarse, naughty kid
I've done the math
And I've found myself worthy
Of calling myself a great poet.
My opinion of art,
is something deep in heart
That you express when hurt.
I'm an angry writer,
An emotion igniter.
Fiction
That's my mind's fixed-on
And for a naughty kid,
I always make my voice hoarse!
And I've found myself worthy
Of calling myself a great poet.
My opinion of art,
is something deep in heart
That you express when hurt.
I'm an angry writer,
An emotion igniter.
Fiction
That's my mind's fixed-on
And for a naughty kid,
I always make my voice hoarse!
#ShortStory
487 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
11th Nov 2017 5:51pm
11th Nov 2017 5:51pm
Just write
It's like a whole different state of mind. Like being insanely sane and at the same time having no idea just how sanely insane you could get.
It's POETRY!
It's for those willing to lose their mind but at the same time would die defending it.
It's the only language you understand when silence is all you can hear.
It's divine and, but cultic,,!
Lively and suicidal,
All at equal magnitudes!
It's the one abomination that masses choose to worship.
Isn't bittersweet, Rather tasteless like strawberry and sweet as water.
It's something you can live dying...
It's POETRY!
It's for those willing to lose their mind but at the same time would die defending it.
It's the only language you understand when silence is all you can hear.
It's divine and, but cultic,,!
Lively and suicidal,
All at equal magnitudes!
It's the one abomination that masses choose to worship.
Isn't bittersweet, Rather tasteless like strawberry and sweet as water.
It's something you can live dying...
#MyInspiration
#WritingPoetry
#PowerOfWords
519 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
10th Nov 2017 4:13pm
10th Nov 2017 4:13pm
Me, Myself and The Two Of Us
Incomplete missions
Discussions, left hanging
Passions never followed
Emotions, no chance to manifest
No accommodation for new friends
Old friends in the "blocked" list
Anger always suppressed
Deep down into the inside
No weak spot, no eruption point
Family and relatives, hated!
No love, no compassion
Your feelings hurt? Who cares!
Only slogan followed be
ME MYSELF and THE TWO OF US
No dreams chased,
Not their speed be too high
They just never exist
Serious issues taken lightly ...
Discussions, left hanging
Passions never followed
Emotions, no chance to manifest
No accommodation for new friends
Old friends in the "blocked" list
Anger always suppressed
Deep down into the inside
No weak spot, no eruption point
Family and relatives, hated!
No love, no compassion
Your feelings hurt? Who cares!
Only slogan followed be
ME MYSELF and THE TWO OF US
No dreams chased,
Not their speed be too high
They just never exist
Serious issues taken lightly ...
#PopCulture
528 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Nov 2017 7:41pm
8th Nov 2017 7:41pm
NO
My promises weren't fake
My words never said for the sake
At the shores of that lake
Said it out all very well
Each point as straight as rail
Hammered as hard as nail
For sure, i wasn't lame
At least not at this game
Later my heart it'd maim
Was it my poor grammar?
Bet i didn't stammer
Not even after that glass of lager
Your spirits were low
You could take no more
My conscience advised me to go,
Cause I couldn't wait for a NO
My words never said for the sake
At the shores of that lake
Said it out all very well
Each point as straight as rail
Hammered as hard as nail
For sure, i wasn't lame
At least not at this game
Later my heart it'd maim
Was it my poor grammar?
Bet i didn't stammer
Not even after that glass of lager
Your spirits were low
You could take no more
My conscience advised me to go,
Cause I couldn't wait for a NO
#sex
#porn
#sexy
#manipulation
#deception
667 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
7th Nov 2017 7:20am
7th Nov 2017 7:20am
Imperfect, I am.
And so I'm consciously imperfect!
From the scars on my skin
To the wounds of my heart,
I'm perfectly imperfect!
I don't always see the light from beneath my 'lids
Many a times it's darkened,
I'm shaken
And I shiver
Maybe I want someone to whisper thru the silence of the creepy dark room
And say "don't make a sound"
Maybe i wanna get up and run,
Till the first sight of light
In the dawn, maybe
Or do i wanna wake up to bouquets of flowers?
To love and tenderness?
To rays piercing through the...
From the scars on my skin
To the wounds of my heart,
I'm perfectly imperfect!
I don't always see the light from beneath my 'lids
Many a times it's darkened,
I'm shaken
And I shiver
Maybe I want someone to whisper thru the silence of the creepy dark room
And say "don't make a sound"
Maybe i wanna get up and run,
Till the first sight of light
In the dawn, maybe
Or do i wanna wake up to bouquets of flowers?
To love and tenderness?
To rays piercing through the...
#SelfReflection
#SelfDiscovery
727 reads
0 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
2nd Nov 2017 2:22am
2nd Nov 2017 2:22am
..Poetry..
On a poet's mind poetry establishes,
By illusion of the eye it thrives
Through emotions of the heart, it spreads
Across vast Seas it travels
Out to conquer human thoughts
Poetry gives accolade to the deserving,
Condemns the condemnable
Fights for the meek
Sarcasm and imagery,
Among its greatest weapons
Rhyme, the pillar where it stands
It's like a heavy load,
One only put down on paper
An emotional ignition of the heart,
To just let the pen glide
Left to right along the lines
Line after...
By illusion of the eye it thrives
Through emotions of the heart, it spreads
Across vast Seas it travels
Out to conquer human thoughts
Poetry gives accolade to the deserving,
Condemns the condemnable
Fights for the meek
Sarcasm and imagery,
Among its greatest weapons
Rhyme, the pillar where it stands
It's like a heavy load,
One only put down on paper
An emotional ignition of the heart,
To just let the pen glide
Left to right along the lines
Line after...
#WritingPoetry
604 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Oct 2017 2:31pm
30th Oct 2017 2:31pm
Sorry
I penned you a letter,
A one-word letter
My letter, only you should read
Our language, only you would understand
I did it in prose,
Line after line
No column no row
No errors, no spelling mistakes
Cause i wrote to mend my mistakes
I know my image is tainted,
My conscience, haunted
All the wrongs i did, I'm sorryful
For the wrong paths I took, I'm egretful
A guilty soul i bear,
Beneath the masks that i wear
"sorry"
Is what my letter reads
Five sorry lines,
Then a signature ...
A one-word letter
My letter, only you should read
Our language, only you would understand
I did it in prose,
Line after line
No column no row
No errors, no spelling mistakes
Cause i wrote to mend my mistakes
I know my image is tainted,
My conscience, haunted
All the wrongs i did, I'm sorryful
For the wrong paths I took, I'm egretful
A guilty soul i bear,
Beneath the masks that i wear
"sorry"
Is what my letter reads
Five sorry lines,
Then a signature ...
#regret
#ImSorry
#confessional #myself
#confessional #myself
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