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With pain comes beautiful words With sorrow comes moving pictures With every depressed emotion Comes a moment to inspire with one's growing wisdom This is the way of the poet And the objective of his pen and paper For poetry is not only a way of expression But also a release for the poet... - Poetry > BalladI'm drowning in my troubles, but you're swimming in it And all I want to do is follow you upstream Whirlpools swarming at your feet, but you're spitting in it With your hair shining from the gleam Coming from the sun, radiating from heaven to pavement Fueled by every one of my di...
- Poetry > All PoetryThese men are fighting for your freedom I'm just fighting my way back to your heart Back to wherever you are May my blood so red turn you an innocent white May you and our sons keep breathing while I turn blue There was a time where I couldn't differentiate the fireworks from th...
- Poetry > BalladYour mascara is running But don't worry, it's covering the worst of your wear Silence is soothing Caresses the essence flowing off from your black-ridden hair From now until forever, He'll love you. Time and time again, You become tongue-tied. And that's when running ...
- Poetry > BalladWherever you're going, that's where I'm not Or at least that's where I don't want to be The after burn from your heart that's here Is just slowly burning out into a faint memory All our stories are being ripped from my wall And your pictures are going up in flames ...
- Poetry > BalladYour Milky Way hair Pulls me into the wonder Worth taking hundreds of years To travel to It took billions of years Before you came along But I know in another billion years I won't find another you It's like I'm gazing At a shooting star That coincidentally Fell at my feet ...
- Poetry > BalladThere's a beating under the floorboards That's keeping me up at night I have no idea How this wrong seemed so right You ask me who is down there I slowly sigh "Alright" I open up the floorboards To show you her heart stuffed deep inside "I wanted to get rid of her ...
- Poetry > Free VerseYou can promise me everything And give me nothing. But I promise I'll see you out Till the end. You can promise me a song, But it's either one note too short or too long. I'll lay it down On your riverbed. That way it can swim out to sea, Contaminate the waters. Drink it...
- Poetry > Song LyricsLet me take a stab at this You looked more into what passed Than what was there Than what was there Than what was there Put the pieces in your head back together And take it all in stride The weather seems fair The weather seems fair The weather seems fair Fairer than what you ...
- Poetry > BalladThis place seems so empty Where the memories use to be Shackled in the corners of my mind When they must and shall go free Polaroids forming what was once there But backwards, fading into gray My voice is turning into a muffled tone To where you can't hear what I'm trying t...
- Poetry > BalladAs I'm reminded of all my failures, I try my hardest not to hurt You know I won't leave you seething that way And as you scream "Forget me not!" I'll take the shot Drinking the same wine as Jesus did in His day Drowning my sorrows in whiskey bottles ...
- Poetry > Free VerseI feel like a deer Caught in front of headlights Only with a thousand eyes Waiting for me to move They cheer when I lift a finger Sigh when you say stop once more "This isn't a picture opportunity!" In a picture Time stands still It points out a fail and a flaw You'...
- Poetry > Free VerseAre you watching closely? A sleight of hand trick To pull a solution out of the air And in return To dematerialize a plan b to use later White gloves and white rabbits Neither magical nor lucky Then again What is magical? What is lucky? What are they made of? Made from? But one thing...
- Poetry > Free VerseOpen your eyes To all you use to be Fire and smoke A few days later, no time left to flee Show me to glory From your newfound view Smoke and mirrors Cities, skyscrapers, just more virtuals you have to eschew Don't become confused When the sparks fly towards you For without them H...
- Poetry > Free VerseSeconds Days Weeks Years How long have I been gone from my love? The one thing that has kept me going and longing for more in life? They say that love grows when we're farther apart But through wind and wave, you start to forget Forget, my Love Not about me, but about the miles betwe...
- Poetry > Free VerseTo live Is to feel pain So what is it to heal? What is it to rejuvinate? What is it to regenerate? What is it to pick up the pieces? What is it to bring me back to my feet? Can you really feel better when all you know Is ripping through your soul? Your state of mind? Can you really fee...
- Poetry > Free VerseI see my footprints in the sand Leaving marks on the ground as I walk My eyes catch the salt water splashing towards me I am soon caught by the sight of the blue Washing over my footprints behind me Leaving the shore looking as though Nothing has obstructed it I saw my footprints cleaned befo...
- Poetry > Free VerseWith every grave you dug for yourself There's another hole that needs to be filled But if not with yourself, then with what then? At what point do you tell yourself That you should stay away? At what point to do you convince yourself That the only way out is down? With every dark moon ...
- Poetry > All PoetryDreary eyed, weary eyed Often tied, soften tide Wondering why love always dies Make me feel alive, alive Quiet tone, a soft tone Dead phone, still stone Still wreaking of cheap cologne Makes me feel alone, alone A slight shove, an unprovoked shove Like a dove, comes from above Loneline...
- Poetry > All PoetryWith every breath, a breath of you With every chance, cut me loose With every dance, a call for truce With every breath, a breath of you With every light, a sense of safety With every blind heart, there is understanding With every thought, a thought will do With every breath, a breath ...
- Poetry > All PoetryAs a melancholic laugh fills the room We give a small smile to me, to you "It will all be over soon," you say I simply agree and nod away Our foot steps echo as we stroll across the hard wood floor We're quite uncertain when they're going to burst through the door So ...
- Fiction > All FictionOver 57% of people in this world are crazy. That means we're the majority. It's the people with the mom, the dad, brother, sister, dog, little white picket fence, happy marriage, picture-perfect life, they are the freaks! I love screwed up people, because they know how to deal with problem...
- Poetry > Song LyricsYou stay there lost, alone, and fading I can see in your eyes that you're wasting away You say that you have somewhere to go But with a heavy heart, I tell you to stay I hate to see you hurt like this The bruises on you break you down whenever you see the...
- Poetry > Song LyricsI'll wait, wait, wait, wait For my time is about to come So I'll sit, sit, sit, sit That's all I can do 'til grace comes around It all seems quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet No more footsteps heading for the door I give a shout, shout, shout, s...
- Poetry > All PoetryYou're not looking for trouble, you walk with glee You make a scene, but eloquently Pain is what you make of it, and you thrive on each and every nagging one You get right back up fighting to prove you're not one-and-done You fall with style, you fall with...
