Submissions by _certified_ (Sapphire_certified)

Shattered like glass,
There goes my make-belief wall!
Trampled on like grass,
There goes my faux perfect!

I tried keeping the grass greener on my side
But I still keep having nightmares of the beauty outside this yard
Every time I feel like I moved a mile
I hear the click of the gun, my cue to go back home

Home, the pathetic place I created right in the center of my mind
Greeted by its cold dark haunted walls
Shoving its claws at me to settle in
Chilling me right straight to my bones

The will of choice I gave up a...

I was gone with the wind of life
lost to the world
a drop of wine in a sea
never to be salvaged
and tasteless I became

You, one like the rains that fall on a sunny day
I got soaked because of the illusive beauty of the rainbow
dancing to the soft spatter of the droplets
but come tomorrow, I was cradled in my sickbed
beauty of the rainbow vanished with my health

As the petals fall from a once beautiful rose
remember my demise
like the rain soaks the earth
I soaked my pillow with muffled cries and woes
while you...

Closed as I was
I felt safe from the world
Built a wall, I called it the Hadrian’s wall
the best cataphract intact
Flashes of Perfidy-the bane of my existence, I called it a trojan
And history this will remain, a partner I dance with in the dazzling moonlight.

The war is back and the dams are open to flood the land
No matter how much the iron gates are barred
It’s like a dark cloud hovers around and leaves just to get lunch

A war in the land of the mourners
Fighting for personal freedom and fighting for others
But growing up, we were told to put others first

The resentment for thinking of yourself lurks in the shadows
When the others wear matching frowns
And condemn your existence with no regard
Why you flood your land for those that walk on dry ground?

Why you walk like empty...