Submissions by gaballantyne
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I don’t claim to have any real talent, I write because I need it not because I’m necessarily good at it. I have words that overwhelm me and I need to write them down, writing happens to me I don’t control it.
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
27th Sep 2019 5:24pm
27th Sep 2019 5:24pm
The Last Text
I am so blessed to have ever had you in my life. I miss you every second of everyday, sometimes it hurts just to breathe. You and I have made some beautiful memories together and I will remember only those when I look back on us. I wish things were different, I wish I was the one. I hope you find happiness. I hope you're so happy you can't even sleep cause life is too exciting. I wish you nothing but beauty in your life. I'd give my beating heart just for you to hold me again. The only thing that calms me is the thought that maybe somewhere in another realm, you and I are still together....
#MovingOn
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6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Sep 2019 4:05am
19th Sep 2019 4:05am
Lost Wages
The spiderwebs of us,
I entangle myself with them.
Spin myself dizzy with our memories.
I embrace my bones in my hands,
Wishing it was you holding me.
Vacancy.
Silence.
What have we become?
I want to fall back under our poisonous waters and breathe the waves into my lungs.
Let’s surrender to the toxicity,
We can better ourselves another day.
Hold me one more time,
We can find peace in the quiet comfort of familiarity.
You, were mine.
Your skin was mine,
Your hands were mine,
Your blood belonged to me.
Lost...
I entangle myself with them.
Spin myself dizzy with our memories.
I embrace my bones in my hands,
Wishing it was you holding me.
Vacancy.
Silence.
What have we become?
I want to fall back under our poisonous waters and breathe the waves into my lungs.
Let’s surrender to the toxicity,
We can better ourselves another day.
Hold me one more time,
We can find peace in the quiet comfort of familiarity.
You, were mine.
Your skin was mine,
Your hands were mine,
Your blood belonged to me.
Lost...
#heartbroken
516 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
30th Aug 2019 4:30am
30th Aug 2019 4:30am
Dandelion Seed
What if I disappear?
Evaporate and drift off until I’m nothing, like steam rising into an imminent fate?
What if I fade away like ripples on a lake until everything I was becomes silent and stagnant?
What if I melt into myself and never solidify, just trickle away until I fall through the cracks?
Who would come running?
Who would remember me?
How many have already forgotten?
I am so overlooked sometimes I question if I’m really here at all.
If I inhale and keep it deep within my lungs, will it fill all the voids, will I start to float away?
Evaporate and drift off until I’m nothing, like steam rising into an imminent fate?
What if I fade away like ripples on a lake until everything I was becomes silent and stagnant?
What if I melt into myself and never solidify, just trickle away until I fall through the cracks?
Who would come running?
Who would remember me?
How many have already forgotten?
I am so overlooked sometimes I question if I’m really here at all.
If I inhale and keep it deep within my lungs, will it fill all the voids, will I start to float away?
#depression
416 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
24th Jul 2019 2:53am
24th Jul 2019 2:53am
Desire
Just make me feel something”
I say as I pull you into me,
Slow dancing drunk in the kitchen.
You say nothing and you hold me so firm and yet so gentle.
You make me feel fragile and fascinating.
I can feel your heart drumming,
A tear threatens to cool my skin in the midsummer night heat.
You so smoothly manipulate my body to the sounds of Otis Redding.
I can feel my brain slamming on the breaks to try and savor this moment.
I refuse to think about how soon I’ll be home alone again in my frigid reality.
The movement and your body keeps...
I say as I pull you into me,
Slow dancing drunk in the kitchen.
You say nothing and you hold me so firm and yet so gentle.
You make me feel fragile and fascinating.
I can feel your heart drumming,
A tear threatens to cool my skin in the midsummer night heat.
You so smoothly manipulate my body to the sounds of Otis Redding.
I can feel my brain slamming on the breaks to try and savor this moment.
I refuse to think about how soon I’ll be home alone again in my frigid reality.
The movement and your body keeps...
#lust
551 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
27th Mar 2019 3:49am
27th Mar 2019 3:49am
October tenth
It is a dream,
Tulle, diamonds, soft petals trickling.
Pretty little words of affirmation.
Lemon cake and warm champagne,
Yellow dresses is a flurry.
Hearts pounding under elegant threads,
A flower pinned to the chest.
Melodies to bring us close,
Tears of gratitude to bring us closer.
All of it on display,
A grandiose presentation
Devoured by the eyes of our parallels.
But now you’re gone.
A vacancy on my left hand,
A museum in my mind,
A ghost in my heart.
The butterflies die, wings ripped to shreds ...
Tulle, diamonds, soft petals trickling.
Pretty little words of affirmation.
Lemon cake and warm champagne,
Yellow dresses is a flurry.
Hearts pounding under elegant threads,
A flower pinned to the chest.
Melodies to bring us close,
Tears of gratitude to bring us closer.
All of it on display,
A grandiose presentation
Devoured by the eyes of our parallels.
But now you’re gone.
A vacancy on my left hand,
A museum in my mind,
A ghost in my heart.
The butterflies die, wings ripped to shreds ...
#breakup
547 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
9th Feb 2019 10:18pm
9th Feb 2019 10:18pm
Stay
My thoughts are a ticking time bomb.
I hold my hands to either side of my skull to keep it from busting open.
Is it better to cut out the toxins and be alone, or live with poisonous company?
If I let your venom swirl into my blood, will you stay and watch me expire, or will you keep on traveling?
I just don’t want to be alone.
I can be your pin cushion,
Your ash tray,
Your throw away girl.
All I ask is you stay with me until it all bleeds out.
Stay with me until I’m just a body.
You don’t have to speak, just lay near me while I take my last...
I hold my hands to either side of my skull to keep it from busting open.
Is it better to cut out the toxins and be alone, or live with poisonous company?
If I let your venom swirl into my blood, will you stay and watch me expire, or will you keep on traveling?
I just don’t want to be alone.
I can be your pin cushion,
Your ash tray,
Your throw away girl.
All I ask is you stay with me until it all bleeds out.
Stay with me until I’m just a body.
You don’t have to speak, just lay near me while I take my last...
#loneliness
604 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
9th Jan 2019 4:47am
9th Jan 2019 4:47am
Keep me
Open palm,
Let you go,
I watch you drift away.
I am breathless,
Rip out my spine.
The thread that holds me frayed.
I am here,
Where are you?
I haven’t known you for sometime.
You’re almost gone
I won’t go on,
Take my ghost with you.
Let you go,
I watch you drift away.
I am breathless,
Rip out my spine.
The thread that holds me frayed.
I am here,
Where are you?
I haven’t known you for sometime.
You’re almost gone
I won’t go on,
Take my ghost with you.
#despair
503 reads
5 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
27th Dec 2018 5:52am
27th Dec 2018 5:52am
Letting go
Erasing someone from your mind when they were your whole world is the strangest thing to do. I feel like I’m throwing valuables in the trash. It’s like I’m just cutting off a piece of me. But I can’t keep him here, it takes too much out of me to let him stay in my mind or in my heart. So I guess I just have to cut out all the parts that he’s tainted, but what if I’m left with nothing? What if I just become a hollow shell? I feel like I am moving forward but I have no idea what I’m doing, kind of like when you miss your exit but instead of turning around at the next one you just keep going...
#breakup
490 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
16th Oct 2018 00:55am
16th Oct 2018 00:55am
Meet me at the train station
Meet me at the train station.
You’ll know it’s me
I’ll be in a grey hoodie,
And you’ll forget your halo again.
I’ll be standing on the corner
Where time hasn’t moved.
You’ll walk beside me,
Slow and rhythmic, as though there is a song in your head.
We’ll go downtown to watch our ghosts meet again for the very first time.
I’ll say all the things I should have,
Your cheeks will become hot as you laugh to stop yourself from believing it all.
I’ll search deep within those troubled eyes
To see if time has tainted you. ...
You’ll know it’s me
I’ll be in a grey hoodie,
And you’ll forget your halo again.
I’ll be standing on the corner
Where time hasn’t moved.
You’ll walk beside me,
Slow and rhythmic, as though there is a song in your head.
We’ll go downtown to watch our ghosts meet again for the very first time.
I’ll say all the things I should have,
Your cheeks will become hot as you laugh to stop yourself from believing it all.
I’ll search deep within those troubled eyes
To see if time has tainted you. ...
#love
594 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Sep 2017 5:45am
4th Sep 2017 5:45am
the rush
I get loud and I feel good, I feel clever.
But then I break us and I feel small, inverted.
I'm scattered and panicky and I just want to fucking stop.
I just want to stop and hang on to this fleeting moment because even though its jagged it may be the last time I see your face and feel your voice reverberate off of my skin.
Say you hate me,
say anything as long as you make me hear you.
Wake me up and shake me until I see what I have done.
Why do I taint everything I love?
Why do I live in my own fucking poison?
I get on this love high and I get off...
But then I break us and I feel small, inverted.
I'm scattered and panicky and I just want to fucking stop.
I just want to stop and hang on to this fleeting moment because even though its jagged it may be the last time I see your face and feel your voice reverberate off of my skin.
Say you hate me,
say anything as long as you make me hear you.
Wake me up and shake me until I see what I have done.
Why do I taint everything I love?
Why do I live in my own fucking poison?
I get on this love high and I get off...
659 reads
3 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
3rd Sep 2017 11:31pm
3rd Sep 2017 11:31pm
effect and cause
I blame you because it’s convenient
It’s so easy to say you are the reason why.
It was you that cut the ties of every person who meant something to me.
It was you that hindered intimacy with every lover who has been insecure by the shadow you cast.
I’ve stopped dancing because you've broken my legs.
I’ve forgotten how to feel because you’ve slashed me open and hung me up to bleed out.
I take the jagged glass and pounds of salt and I swallow it down without hesitation,
Because you told me I deserve nothing more.
You live your life in...
It’s so easy to say you are the reason why.
It was you that cut the ties of every person who meant something to me.
It was you that hindered intimacy with every lover who has been insecure by the shadow you cast.
I’ve stopped dancing because you've broken my legs.
I’ve forgotten how to feel because you’ve slashed me open and hung me up to bleed out.
I take the jagged glass and pounds of salt and I swallow it down without hesitation,
Because you told me I deserve nothing more.
You live your life in...
667 reads
1 Comment
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