Submissions by thinlane
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I just wander through my mind and pick up what's lying around on any given day. I'm not a trained poet but I enjoy writing nonetheless. It seems like a good way to drain the demons in my head in a constructive manner.
Alive
I've been down this road
Many times
And it looks like I'm walking it again
It's a road full of heartache and hurt
But it's worth the trip in the end
I have to get my head back in line
With my heart and my needs
And realize that everyone
Has their share of pain
And learn to stop bitching and whining
When it's simply my turn to feel
The ache of being alive
Many times
And it looks like I'm walking it again
It's a road full of heartache and hurt
But it's worth the trip in the end
I have to get my head back in line
With my heart and my needs
And realize that everyone
Has their share of pain
And learn to stop bitching and whining
When it's simply my turn to feel
The ache of being alive
#motivational
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Big city
I live in a big city
But on a quiet little street
Where not much happens
Day to day
I feel kind of insulated from the nasty stuff
That goes on day after day
Just around the corner
Oh sure we've had our share
Of trouble and crime
Even here in my quiet little house
But just a break in or two
Not much when you consider
The murder and mayhem
That a big city engenders
I feel lucky and bored at the same time
I can understand the luckiness I feel
But the boredom worries me a little
I don't want any of that big...
But on a quiet little street
Where not much happens
Day to day
I feel kind of insulated from the nasty stuff
That goes on day after day
Just around the corner
Oh sure we've had our share
Of trouble and crime
Even here in my quiet little house
But just a break in or two
Not much when you consider
The murder and mayhem
That a big city engenders
I feel lucky and bored at the same time
I can understand the luckiness I feel
But the boredom worries me a little
I don't want any of that big...
#home
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Peace Of Mind
A Christmas Eve wish
For peace
I'm not so naive
That I would wish for
Peace on earth
But maybe peace in my own mind
Would be a good start
I could use the peace
It's much too noisy
As it is
For peace
I'm not so naive
That I would wish for
Peace on earth
But maybe peace in my own mind
Would be a good start
I could use the peace
It's much too noisy
As it is
#healing
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Guilt, Fear And Loathing
I think it's almost time
To drop everything
And take that giant step
That takes me away from here
There's no happiness
In my life and times
Only angry words
And hateful states
It just makes me feel like
Today's the day
I have everything I need
To take me away
So what is holding me back?
Fear?
Guilt?
Maybe even hope?
I don't know why I'm thinking like this
It's an anguished thought in my head
But it's pulling me in
To drop everything
And take that giant step
That takes me away from here
There's no happiness
In my life and times
Only angry words
And hateful states
It just makes me feel like
Today's the day
I have everything I need
To take me away
So what is holding me back?
Fear?
Guilt?
Maybe even hope?
I don't know why I'm thinking like this
It's an anguished thought in my head
But it's pulling me in
#anxiety
#SelfHarm
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The Drama
It's just another scene
Going down in the drama of my life
This one is supposed to break my heart
But I find that I don't care
Too much drama has deadened my emotions
Too many tears and way too many raised voices
I can't bring myself to get mad
You might just as well save your breath
I guess it's goodbye
Hello hello
Do you hear what I say
Over your strident cry
And the tears fall hot and heavy
But I don't care about any of it
It's nothing new to me at all
So I close my heart to it
Goodbye...
Going down in the drama of my life
This one is supposed to break my heart
But I find that I don't care
Too much drama has deadened my emotions
Too many tears and way too many raised voices
I can't bring myself to get mad
You might just as well save your breath
I guess it's goodbye
Hello hello
Do you hear what I say
Over your strident cry
And the tears fall hot and heavy
But I don't care about any of it
It's nothing new to me at all
So I close my heart to it
Goodbye...
#manipulation
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Intensity
At five in the morning
You grab onto my hand
As though the whole of the universe
Was ending
You whispered in fear
Into my ear
Please hold me and tell me
You need me
So I squeezed you with all the intensity
That I feel in my soul
When I think of your face
And told you I love you
And you said that I ruined it
And now I'm just wondering how
And what
I ruined with my love
It's too much you say
And I think you're crazy
But what I think doesn't matter
Cause we need some time apart...
You grab onto my hand
As though the whole of the universe
Was ending
You whispered in fear
Into my ear
Please hold me and tell me
You need me
So I squeezed you with all the intensity
That I feel in my soul
When I think of your face
And told you I love you
And you said that I ruined it
And now I'm just wondering how
And what
I ruined with my love
It's too much you say
And I think you're crazy
But what I think doesn't matter
Cause we need some time apart...
#frustration
#confusion
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Looking
I haven't found love
I haven't really truly been looking
I've been telling myself that I have
But that's not the same
Is it?
I haven't really truly been looking
I've been telling myself that I have
But that's not the same
Is it?
#honesty
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The Shout
She whispers
Words that I cannot hear
I ask what she said
And she whispers it again
And turns to leave
Always to leave
Words that I cannot hear
I ask what she said
And she whispers it again
And turns to leave
Always to leave
#MovingOn
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Open Heart
Wearing my heart on my sleeve
My face gives away everything I'm thinking
It makes it easy to hurt me
But I don't dare change
Better to suffer some pain
Than become so inured to pain
That I can't feel anything real
I live to find someone
Who doesn't use the power that they have
But leave their own heart open to attack
An attack I won't make
Honest and open love is the goal
My face gives away everything I'm thinking
It makes it easy to hurt me
But I don't dare change
Better to suffer some pain
Than become so inured to pain
That I can't feel anything real
I live to find someone
Who doesn't use the power that they have
But leave their own heart open to attack
An attack I won't make
Honest and open love is the goal
#motivational
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Magic
Walked in the wind and the rain
I just needed to see you again
I don't have a particular reason
I only wanted to see you
And your smile once again
I need you to warm me from the cold blowing wind
I need to feel that special touch that you bring
It's like I was suffering from withdrawal
And you are the cure for the pain
And now I'm walking with my head in the clouds
You have such an effect on me
It makes the sky seem a deeper shade of blue
And I just need more of what
Is the magic of you
I just needed to see you again
I don't have a particular reason
I only wanted to see you
And your smile once again
I need you to warm me from the cold blowing wind
I need to feel that special touch that you bring
It's like I was suffering from withdrawal
And you are the cure for the pain
And now I'm walking with my head in the clouds
You have such an effect on me
It makes the sky seem a deeper shade of blue
And I just need more of what
Is the magic of you
#love
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The Swipe
Lying here in a hospital bed
Feeling like death took a swipe at me
But just missed
Let me tell you a simple truth
When you can't breathe
You miss oxygen
Like a kid at camp
Misses his mom
It's a mournful longing
That fills your soul to the brim
Pushing the everyday
Right out of the picture
When you finally get a breath
You savour it like the finest wine
Man I was scared
It's not every day that you might die
Life sucks but I cling to it
Because life can get better
But dead just stays dead
Feeling like death took a swipe at me
But just missed
Let me tell you a simple truth
When you can't breathe
You miss oxygen
Like a kid at camp
Misses his mom
It's a mournful longing
That fills your soul to the brim
Pushing the everyday
Right out of the picture
When you finally get a breath
You savour it like the finest wine
Man I was scared
It's not every day that you might die
Life sucks but I cling to it
Because life can get better
But dead just stays dead
#illness
#vulnerability
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Ghosts In The Night
I just can't sleep
My eyes open wide
The stars spin round outside My window
Seeing ghosts
Just a trick of a tired mind
Or maybe that's just when you
See them for real
The long dead past
Come to life
To show you the mistakes
That you've made
And while I lay here awake
And praying for sleep
I wonder if my ghosts
Have ghosts of their own
To show them their own mistakes
My eyes open wide
The stars spin round outside My window
Seeing ghosts
Just a trick of a tired mind
Or maybe that's just when you
See them for real
The long dead past
Come to life
To show you the mistakes
That you've made
And while I lay here awake
And praying for sleep
I wonder if my ghosts
Have ghosts of their own
To show them their own mistakes
#insomnia
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