Submissions by candencecollapsing (cadencecollapsing)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
SELF POEM
Published
5th Oct 2013 3:03pm
5th Oct 2013 3:03pm
Noose Around My Neck Hanging by a Broken Branch
I carry infectious diseases that whisper in your ear
And run out your eyes
Black holes leave no time for goodbyes
And I wonder how long I'll last
With stones turning to sand and no structure intact
Because each minute I remember like a shitty love letter
Crumbled up on the bottom of a shoe box
That no one wants to reread
But I keep coming back to when the darkness finds me
One way glass so only I can see
The fettle position I consider my guard
Rocking back and forth
Trying to shake loose all the ribbons they tied around my noose ...
And run out your eyes
Black holes leave no time for goodbyes
And I wonder how long I'll last
With stones turning to sand and no structure intact
Because each minute I remember like a shitty love letter
Crumbled up on the bottom of a shoe box
That no one wants to reread
But I keep coming back to when the darkness finds me
One way glass so only I can see
The fettle position I consider my guard
Rocking back and forth
Trying to shake loose all the ribbons they tied around my noose ...
504 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
4th Oct 2013 10:25pm
4th Oct 2013 10:25pm
listen
Should I have known all along
Should I have never believed you understood what I put into words with trembling lips
And a heart beating too fast
Because my courage is so short lived
I knew it wouldn't last
And I blurt it out
In the tiniest whisper
A gust of wind
That doesn't deliver
Why do you make it so hard to say
All the words that get in the way
Should I have never believed you understood what I put into words with trembling lips
And a heart beating too fast
Because my courage is so short lived
I knew it wouldn't last
And I blurt it out
In the tiniest whisper
A gust of wind
That doesn't deliver
Why do you make it so hard to say
All the words that get in the way
533 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
4th Oct 2013 10:20pm
4th Oct 2013 10:20pm
Insanity for the Guilty
Lie to me
Again
Right before I lock the door on the stall
Like I'm trapping the shadows with a flashlight
Obliterated by third degree burns
Fill me up
When you're gone is when I'm in love
Leaving me spinning
Tell me I'm pretty
Beautiful
Fresh
Like you could ever mean that
Second chances I'll take them
Fake them
But you're the one that knows what's going on
All along
Fucking mastermind
When was I declared blind?
Or dead on site
Head drowning in the water
Where I let go of ...
Again
Right before I lock the door on the stall
Like I'm trapping the shadows with a flashlight
Obliterated by third degree burns
Fill me up
When you're gone is when I'm in love
Leaving me spinning
Tell me I'm pretty
Beautiful
Fresh
Like you could ever mean that
Second chances I'll take them
Fake them
But you're the one that knows what's going on
All along
Fucking mastermind
When was I declared blind?
Or dead on site
Head drowning in the water
Where I let go of ...
571 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
3rd Oct 2013 7:44pm
3rd Oct 2013 7:44pm
A Funeral for the Weeping Girl
798 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Oct 2013 2:50am
3rd Oct 2013 2:50am
Half
Filler
A bag of air for you to swallow
Let the stale fill your lungs
Inhaling the taste of a memory
Meant to be
Fire, fire
I'm on fire
Burning in the wasted land of nevers
Together split apart into your half
But not mine
Ember smothered by ashes
Choked by second chances
Just blowing smoke
Clinging to fabric running from
The mess I am
Remember when- instead of nothing- you looked back
Remember that?
Wall, wall, wall
But walls crumble and then fall ...
A bag of air for you to swallow
Let the stale fill your lungs
Inhaling the taste of a memory
Meant to be
Fire, fire
I'm on fire
Burning in the wasted land of nevers
Together split apart into your half
But not mine
Ember smothered by ashes
Choked by second chances
Just blowing smoke
Clinging to fabric running from
The mess I am
Remember when- instead of nothing- you looked back
Remember that?
Wall, wall, wall
But walls crumble and then fall ...
692 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2013 3:59am
2nd Oct 2013 3:59am
Threaded with a Sewn Up Smile
Call me crazy
Is this as hard for you
As it is for me
Color me wild
Candid cartwheels
I'm a kaleidoscope focusing
Like I'll never see you again
Back door goodbye
Slipped away
Only you could leave me half empty inside
Would it bother you to know
I'm at the end of this rope
Cornered by you in the lamplight's glow
Hand on your chest
Unflinching
Because I'm losing my boots running from these hills
Up over fences
Charming guards for cheap thrills
Roll on away
Cheap perfume and renegades
So let them marvel at...
Is this as hard for you
As it is for me
Color me wild
Candid cartwheels
I'm a kaleidoscope focusing
Like I'll never see you again
Back door goodbye
Slipped away
Only you could leave me half empty inside
Would it bother you to know
I'm at the end of this rope
Cornered by you in the lamplight's glow
Hand on your chest
Unflinching
Because I'm losing my boots running from these hills
Up over fences
Charming guards for cheap thrills
Roll on away
Cheap perfume and renegades
So let them marvel at...
628 reads
3 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2013 3:47am
2nd Oct 2013 3:47am
Flatline______
There's a film on your eyes from staring too long
At this blank page where the words hide their song
And the dark lights keep flickering on and then off
Like you wavering on some Godforsaken thought
The blanket
That you've wrapped up to your throat
Closes tighter
And your lungs they just want to explode
But you breathe in and breathe out
Soft then real slow
Like your last chance at living is coming to a close
It's down to now
Now or never we won't know
The bulb's burnt out
And that page is still blank and all but disposed
Are you...
At this blank page where the words hide their song
And the dark lights keep flickering on and then off
Like you wavering on some Godforsaken thought
The blanket
That you've wrapped up to your throat
Closes tighter
And your lungs they just want to explode
But you breathe in and breathe out
Soft then real slow
Like your last chance at living is coming to a close
It's down to now
Now or never we won't know
The bulb's burnt out
And that page is still blank and all but disposed
Are you...
680 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
1st Oct 2013 2:33am
1st Oct 2013 2:33am
today is grey
Believe me, I'm as crazy as I seem
I've forgotten how the colors should filter in from the spaces between the autumn leaves
The sounds that tumble out and around, enveloping my head
All come in muffled, clogging my ears
And I don't know what you've just said
At times I realize I'm smiling without knowing why
It's the forced grin I use when I'm trying to do anything but cry
Not that a tear has enough strength to accumulate and descend
It seems the haze clouding my vision has tainted my skin
My heart
My mind
Coursing across this soul trapped inside of...
I've forgotten how the colors should filter in from the spaces between the autumn leaves
The sounds that tumble out and around, enveloping my head
All come in muffled, clogging my ears
And I don't know what you've just said
At times I realize I'm smiling without knowing why
It's the forced grin I use when I'm trying to do anything but cry
Not that a tear has enough strength to accumulate and descend
It seems the haze clouding my vision has tainted my skin
My heart
My mind
Coursing across this soul trapped inside of...
645 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
1st Oct 2013 2:10am
1st Oct 2013 2:10am
Slashed with Red
Folded over, crumbled and creased
The white blood cells dead from disease
Idle and denied
Floating on a dream
With a page of paper covered in red ink
Shattering everything she thought she could be
Teetering over the fine print
Her optimism spent as her last few confidants
Became someone else's blind side kick
She just kept staring at those numbers
Like they defined her
Finally shrunk to the size of which she had never truly believed
But always been sure
Now its three two one black and abyss
She was driving...
The white blood cells dead from disease
Idle and denied
Floating on a dream
With a page of paper covered in red ink
Shattering everything she thought she could be
Teetering over the fine print
Her optimism spent as her last few confidants
Became someone else's blind side kick
She just kept staring at those numbers
Like they defined her
Finally shrunk to the size of which she had never truly believed
But always been sure
Now its three two one black and abyss
She was driving...
727 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Sep 2013 5:52am
29th Sep 2013 5:52am
I Bleed, You Flee
Some days I could tell you more about the cement than the people i see
More about the alleys than the buildings in between
Tripping on the cracks that I can see coming but my depth perception looks past
Thinking they mean nothing
But the dirt encrusted gaps must mean something
A disrupted balance to the equilibrium that's finally worn down and begun to fade
My stumble goes unnoticed on this near conscious deserted road
Because everyone with eyes is looking away
Like they're allergic to the rosy blush blooming on my face
My footsteps sound like...
More about the alleys than the buildings in between
Tripping on the cracks that I can see coming but my depth perception looks past
Thinking they mean nothing
But the dirt encrusted gaps must mean something
A disrupted balance to the equilibrium that's finally worn down and begun to fade
My stumble goes unnoticed on this near conscious deserted road
Because everyone with eyes is looking away
Like they're allergic to the rosy blush blooming on my face
My footsteps sound like...
748 reads
3 Comments
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