| Untitled By Suzyq
The wind blows steadily With a clear crisp cut As it winds and twists Between buildings along streets Within the alley the child huddles Rags wrapping the pale frail body That houses a soul without happiness This child has so where to go He has run the streets since very small His parents know not where he has gone But then what did they care If but for them he would have known love He dwells on bits of the past The hunger, the tears, the pain Why was he born Why is he here He tries to remember as he drifts to sleep Has he ever known love Felt warmth, ate his fill It is so cold out here Yes he feels cold this night As he drifts into deaths sleep As he looks to the crumpled body And turns to the only warmth he has ever known He enters a new existence Where only joy and love exist For he did not mean to die God just came to take him home | Stuck by Megan B. Why do I inflict such torture among myself This bubble I purposely surround myself with. Choking me, And killing me slowly. The world around me Laughing, joking, living, And I'm stuck In a hole In a bubble I blew myself. Untitled by Megan B. One foot in front of the other, Balancing the weight of these burdens. It feels like forever I've been walking this rope, Same situations, struggles, and grievances. People, romances, and dirty words. Each one making the rope wobble, Losing balance with each following step. What happens when I fall? Will you even care? Will you stop the dirty words, And feel sorry for the girl you left behind? Learn a lesson from the mistakes long past, Or loosen the rope more For the next poor soul to cross your path? |
| Stairways to Eternity By Alex A.
An endless stairway climbs To a tower of souls A hidden confinement A stairway slips down Into darkness Knowledge sought now lost Mysteries untold of Wandering aimlessly Up and down steps Of tears and human toil Into madness Out of innocence Plagued by Demons unseen to the eye Riddled by journeys A thousand steps A thousand souls This hidden memory Haunts us all A terrible reminder Of the fall An endless stairway climbs Through Eternity |
Leaving by "Icing on the Cake"
On the first train out I'll leave this behind Hurtle myself from the storm And into solitude Away from chafing words Away from disappointment Into a place to dwell On the happiness I have This first chance I get I swear I'll pull away Be nothing to everyone Just something to the sky |
| Difference by Jennifer M.
A healer, I dreamed of being. Someone with powerful hands That pulled pain away, into myself. And that's why I bite my tongue as you lie here Screaming before me, and my hands can do nothing Aside from hoping and pretending I made a difference. |
Mask by Angel of Death
I put on my mask today Sorrow and pain creep through my soul The hard shell What has happened to this sweet little girl? She is fading The pain is taking over The dead line hasn't come Yet I'm getting no better Only rolling down the hill Gathering a larger coating To cover up the pain These are put words on a page Nothing but words On a sea of endless white paper Thoughts Babbling I put on my mask today and that makes all the difference |
| Intruders by Silver Snowflake
She senses something different. What is she feeling now? An empty space that's always been filled before is now hollow. Her world is a sea of turmoil. How dare they mess with her world, these intruders, whoever they are. It matters not that they have no face, for she cannot look them in the eye. That they have seen something real, hidden for so long, is why her tears come. Get away! She can no longer see them they've faded away. She closes her eyes, and lies down to sleep, praying them out of her dreams. |
I Watch You Cry by "Icing on the Cake"
I watch you cry I watch you fall I watch you drag And tear your wings I wring my hands And watch you crawl I watch you scream Of how it stings I bite my tongue And wonder why How could I only Watch you cry? I bite my tongue And wonder why Why did I only Watch you cry? I watch you fall And break again Nighttime at home I dream in pain I never tell What things I do. At night when I'm Not quite as sane I bite my tongue And wonder why How could I only Watch you cry? I clench my hands And wonder why Why did I only Watch you cry? |
| Don't Leave Me This Way By Jessi
Life gets worse every single day Why does everyone leave me this way? I'm supposed to talk to someone for them to help me But I can't talk to them if they won't talk to me My parents don't love me My friends aren't even friends Well maybe there's a few But that's where they end How come I can't force myself To walk out that door I can't run away But I can't stay here anymore I'm stuck in a place with no way out I trust very few and I have a lot of doubt That anyone will care about me tomorrow That my life will be filled with anything but sorrow It's all a world Too full of pain There's nobody that's innocent But nobody here to blame And life goes on As if everything is fine People know about their life But they don't know about mine Now that I can act like I'm in a good mood I could probably survive but still feel blue I'm not happy but they don't know What they think I am is what I show Life never gets better It just gets bad Everyone leaves me And I just want what I had People are dying Sometimes I wish I could I know they wouldn't care Although they say they would I know I'd like to run away and live somewhere Where I was treated right, where people really cared I don't want to always hide away from them and wear a mask But things I want to tell them they never even ask I should be so happy I have everything I need Maybe you think I'm selfish Or that I'm filled with greed It really isn't that I want a lot more I just need a friend Something to live for You say I could be so much when I am older But as I get better, your feelings get colder People never seem to be nice to me at all They criticize and hate and judge me till I fall Compliments are given But they don't mean a thing What they say can hurt Yeah almost everything I don't think it's worth Living just to die When I sit here every night And I think and then I cry Maybe there is some way to get away from here All I want is someone to dry away my tears I just need a shoulder to lean on when I cry Just a friend who I know would care if I died | Dissapoint By "Icing on the Cake"
I've turned up the stereo So I don't have to hear you Talking about what I've done Another thing I've failed I've failed you again I feel like that's all I do I fail people, everyday I don't live up to you Your expectations Seem to pass miles high Above my dirty head And now I'm crying Because I hate to fail I hate imperfection No, not in you, in me It makes me filthy Until I hate mirrors I want to smash them But, they aren't what see They don't see this miserable Pitiful, worthless, little rich girl Because she dwells in here In my own reflective mind See them flying up there? I can't even reach my own standards Let alone make anyone happy Because I'm sinking in quicksand Made mud by my own tears I want to sink into the pit Before I have to, before I have to Disappoint anyone again. |
| Error of the Rain By Hannah A.
A lonely man Walking down a stone street At night In the rain Is in my mind. He looks at me With rich, chocolate eyes. Sad-eyes. Without words He speaks of his regret His passion His sorrows His pain. He is but a man, After all. A mere man With errors. Now he walks Lonely In the rain. In my mind. Lonely. | |
| Dishwasher "BigRedHen"
Throwing the dishes into the cabinets I hate unloading the dishwasher Because it's yours. I hate the dishes Because they're yours I'd love to break them. Wouldn't you know I'd love to break them Shatter the crystal glasses. Blast the plates into oblivion Crush the mugs The flowered Noritake ones you love so much The ones you don't yell at Or criticize Or make to feel worthless- The ones you love. Shattered. |
Special "Canary Yellow"
I am not worth anything to anyone I never was I can't be Miss perfect for anyone anymore Cause I am broken down I am on ground And I don't think I'll ever get up again I can't solve anybody's problems Never could I can't change their views of me I want to run I want to hide I want to remember how to cry I want to return to my days of self-oblivion I am going to curl up inside And there no one will find me The person I forgot to hide… The person I forgot to kill Cause no needs her anymore… And I doubt that anyone ever did And bet that she'll never think again That she's special |
| Untitled By Hannah A.
If you look hard You may find me. Wandering the empty streets of my mind. Wondering where the time has gone And why I have no friends. But only if you look hard Which I'm sure you won't Because no one cares For the shadows. |
Being Beautiful By Jennifer M.
I saw Venus de Milo the other day. In a tight pair of jeans, frowning At me from a glossy magazine. I know why she's frowning Venus is starving. Off TV and French fries, Survivor™ and "Does he love you" surveys Yes, he loves me. I weigh one hundred three. I can loose even more if he wants. One less meal and one more Who wants to Be a Gazillionare, And I'll be fine. Venus dreams of days past, When she was carved from marble And stood, proud, and full. Before she grew thin And thinner She was just as attractive. Venus is dying. She still breaks many hearts, Staring pouty lipped, Into their eyes. But she breaks mine too, For a different reason. Farewell Venus de Milo. I'd rather swim in Hades Than be beautiful like you. |
| If I Showed You "BigRedHen"
What would you think If I lowered my mask And what would you say If you knew That I wasn't who I said And what would you see If I showed you The real me My true self, not just The person I pretend to be And what would happen To you And me As an us And as a we What would be If you could see The real me? You might see me As I am And not make me change And not try to make me be More like you But I can't show you Because of the theys and the thems who could And would try to make me like they think I should Be, And change me. So you see my mask And not who I am. But to tell the truth I am used to it Because I have lived my life behind this mask With the pain Behind the mask So the pain is still there, But I can no longer feel it | |
| Here in my cage By Hannah A.
My nice little cage I am safe. Protected. But I long to be freed. To soar and to feel the wind In my wings. To see the world beneath me As I glide. But you have the key To my cage And you shake your head Sadly Because you will not let me go. I want to soar. But I am safe, you tell me. You will not let me go. From my cage. | |
| Untitled By K. Overland
Sighing Alone by yourself, no one to guide you Reveling in self-pity in the world you've grown to hate And though you despise it You yearn to join in Fun and Games Bread and Circuses Is this real? Or a reflection in a pool To disperse with a touch Wishing to fly away from all this leaving behind the weights and measures associated with the world today Starry eyed and wondering Staring at the sun Picking flowers from the ground And marveling at the futility of it all | |
