Steady beat of the drum
Just the turn of the thumb
But I don't have the nerve
So I kick it to the curb
She doesn't seem to have a heart
Even if it hit her in between the eyes she wouldn't know art
Don't show
How in my world the cold wind blows
I tried to see it within her
But it's all a blur
You can tell that she doesn't root for the underdog
Even though she is older than I, she doesn't know how to see through the fog
I thought that you were one of the good guys
I now know the truth and the seemingly harmless lies
There's nothing you can do
I already wrote a poem about that too
I don't want her to see
The inside of me
The things about me that she doesn't get
Outside of her net
For not doing it, she thinks I'm crazy
She thinks that I'm just being lazy
She probably thinks that I'm dumber than dirt
But I'm just a bit broken and hurt
I got a second chance
Away that idea went as I danced
I've learned too late
But that's just my damn fate
So, I would prefer
If you please don't show my writing to her
When I'm happy
Happiness won’t seem like a foreign word
And there will be tons of space
To run free at a great pace
I won’t feel like I'm constantly getting criticized
For just being me
No longer shall my work,
Be torn up by jerks
I won’t feel snappy
And the lines won’t be blurred
I won’t feel condemned to hide myself behind them
As a flower never give away your stem
There will be boundaries
Because people don’t think I deserve them
Because I'm not of age
And never will be because I'm just baby sage
I stopped dreaming
When I got tired of society feeding on my dreams
And twisting them into something I didn’t want
So I just played off nonchalant
But maybe one day
I’ll find myself…
Petting a german shepherd
While listening to Def Leppard deafeningly loud
And fall asleep with a tired smile
One that I wore all day
I’ll be able to get lost in a dream
And come up with even crazier schemes
Just watching your grades drop down to failure
What specific grade makes you a failure?
At what point are you considered a success?
If a 65 is passing, what’s so bad about a 64?
Are you a failure if you have a 0?
Or are you beating the system of grades;
And beating the government?
The difference between a 100 and a 0
Is just one
One point, that’s all
So let me make a good one
When we meet we shall laugh about those bad grades
And those teachers who said you were going nowhere
And all the classes that laughed at you and took you as a joke
School doesn’t teach you life; life does that
School is just an old factory that produces brainwashed people
You are taught to want to graduate and move onto college
Then get a job, fall in love and have a family
But for you and me
We need something different!
In the beginning
I was on a road
That was headed toward only good things In the beginning
I did not realize that it was
Only too good to be true All it took
Was one
Night And now I don't
Even remember what
The beginning was like Just a few hours deceased
And they killed my naive stupidity with them
For thinking about sunshine and rainbows I want to be
So far in the end
That all is forgotten
I'm so cold
I won't be able to sleep tight
I'm not done with this fight
I'm so clammy cold
I need time
And for that person who has a crush
I can't make a decision my brain is mush
If only I had time
I need something in my side
I was just a silly goose
But then all hell broke loose
Someone to help guide
Too stressed
I can't think
Staring at the wall I refuse to blink
I can't function my best
A cure for the cold would be a warm hug
But not for this grinning little punk
A hug would not fix a heart that has already sunk
Too late, too bad you're a slug
How can someone help me?
They can't, my problems of empty love are ungratefully big
I'll tell you everything when there are flying, majestic pigs
Through me, it feels like you can see
I'm stuck
And you can't do much
For you can't touch
I'm afraid you seriously can't help,yuck!
I'll live my life cold
At least I get to live
The downside is I'll have nothing to give
Nothing lasts not even a heart of gold
Too good to be true
In the back of my head I knew
Do you really have a freshman crush?
You're still keeping hush
You're a chicken
You're heart is too alive and kick’n
You fall in love to easy
In my world it’s cold and breezy
You loved me
Please
Just tell me how come you don’t want me anymore?
I thought you wouldn't walk out the door
I see how you're just going to leave me like this
Without my first kiss
I was so ready
I won’t believe you if you ever ask me to go steady
Don’t you even dream about coming back!
Intelligence is what you lack
You're kissing a golden one goodbye!
I can’t wait for you to move in four months, I'm not going to lie
Broke my heart without even touching it
You need to teach yours how to heel and sit
I remember when I was still…
I was chewing the idea of you and I over and over like a sweet jolly rancher in my mouth
You're such a hot head you have to move south
Why don’t you just tell me?
Don’t break me slowly while you get to flee
That rumor I heard
It hurt, I now see you as a wimpy little turd
Do you want to change that?
Or are you just going to keep on hiding under your uninterested mat?
The weather is angry
I'm all strangely
Come near me at your own risk
Permanently scratched your video game disk
Oh I can be bitch!
I'm that annoying out of your league back itch
So you don’t want to love this blue eyed mess?
Boy, I'll make you confess
Straight to my face
I'll beat you at the end of the race
You'll want be back after
When that happens I'll be the one making all of the laughter
I day dream because I accidentally woke up today
When reality struck noon
I was soon,
Met with what other people say
Being the drama queens that they are
They made a small thing into a big deal
And now I feel
Less than par
I'm also annoyed
With Jay
Because he has a hard time seeing things my way
It seems that he likes to avoid,
Putting himself in my shoes
As I do his
Give us a quiz
And I know who would lose
During school
He was my favorite subject to study
But now he has made my shoes all muddy
He insecurely lives on gender roles like a fool
And it messes with my side
Of knowing that I don’t need a guy
To protect me from my
Nonexistent fear of getting pied
But at the same time of being annoyed
I like being together
All cuddled up in the blankets of bad weather
And a bolt of cuteness you created for me and destroyed
I crave you
And your touch
So much
That I wish I could wear you like and outfit of blue
Its hard to be in love with the earth
When there are so many things wrong with it
Sometimes it just rains shit
And I don’t feel very full of mirth
I daydream like Walter Mitty
Because it makes life way more fun
Than it actually is when you're on the run,
In the ghetto city
People say that words can’t hurt you
But words can make you dangerously blue
They say that sticks and stones hurt more
But they don’t get that words aren’t a bore
Words have a lot of meaning
Stop the brain cleaning
Why do you think I write poems?
Poems are my home
Sticks and stones may break your bones but they can’t ever hurt your soul
Unless you let them slip through a little hole
Words have a way of sneaking around everyone’s hearts and minds
Too bad you don’t have to pay a fine
Some words hurt like knifes
Don’t let it ruin your life
Words can leave marks,
Scars and painful friction sparks
Other words are kind
Some can blind
You can’t only say I love you to me
You have to not just prove it but make me see
I now don’t trust easily at all
People who I used to trust have made me fall
Not only did they do that they made sure that I heard their laughter
After
I can still hear them in my head
When everyone else is in bed
Sleeping
While I lock myself in my room weeping
Their laughter always growing louder
Why must I cower?
I wish I was strong like everyone else
I just want to be my old self
Everyone says I'm strong but really I'm not
They don’t know I cry a lot
They say I'm strong
But they're wrong
They all think I'm fine
They say that while all they do is shine
I'm just the cloudy, dirty, run down, rusty
Musty…
No one ever wants me
I'm the third wheel all the time, you see
You always tell me someone is worse off than me
Why can’t you just flee?
The laughter is so loud that it is part of the beat of my drum
What have I become?
Why do you enjoy making me feel worthless?
You are careless
The stress
Of always trying to be the best
You’ve made me a mess
I just want to be me
You never hear my pleas
Of just let me be me
I beg you please
Just turn it off
And step off
And you wonder why I don’t tell you anything or even speak at all
I just don’t want to bawl
Stop looking at me with that stupid judging look
I gratefully have unhooked
From you
We’re not stuck like glue
I've lost faith in the human mind
You can’t even be somewhat kind
Words make up the human world
Sometimes they can be bold, twisted and curled
Words hurt more than physical pain
You have a box of permanent letters in your brain
Of all the mean,
Things ever said to you, you're fat, you should be more lean
Some of the letters are signed with your name
Yes you are that lame
You really are your worst enemy
Slowly killing yourself…
I'm tired of this shell
And this name
And the world spinning
The problem is that I need to shatter myself
And it just seems impossible
Like an equation that I can’t figure out without being unstoppable
Problem is, the issues grow longer like this infestation of words
If only I knew the answer to the question of why?
Then I would have just another key,
That would lead to another empty chest
Because there’s none for me, nope not a pair
Except for emptiness like two pits of despair
Can’t you feel through your metallic layers?
I don’t like wannabe robots
Even if all you’ve done is make a helmet out of a kitchen strainer
Bee hives don’t dance for nothing, honey!
And I'm buzzing with kinetic energy,
With nowhere to go but this shell
Solved are not my problems,
Of being fucking stuck
Either way I'm seen as an evil little fucker
Stuck like cling wrap to this plastic world
Seemingly unavoidable in every imaginable possibility that I can think,
With my eyes held wide open I can’t even blink
In this torturous place I can’t live forever
Even if I can call it my own
Even if it’s here forever
My need to have this shell shattered is strong
I want to feel it shake and shatter
Hear it crack down like pitter, patter, smash
Shell, hell, what's the difference?
I like the fire in the devil that melts my cold heart
Because I'm tired of this invisible prison cell
It won’t stop running I won’t stop chasing Instead I find myself pacing Awful is when you can’t think All of my friends are off and on sick As we get better, we’ll come back to butt kick Mom, let me do what I want Monsters are in my veins My eyes, they make bloodshot and they strain Sniffles are evil Super fun when they stop Stay silent and listen, you'll be able to hear me drop I refuse to go to the doctor Inventive is what you become In my world, my guitar I’ll strum Comparing myself to others, I need to stop Constantly, I find a new tissue in my hand Cramping, I force myself to stand Knuckle, with me monster! Knife to my life Kazoo in hand, no I’ll learn the fife! Blurred glasses Burning nose Bring a fire hose Ugly monster Utterly terrifying is how I look Useful is the medicine I took The sneezes that make your, Throat kill The fever chill How am I going to survive tomorrow? How am I going to get through school? How do you know when you’re being a fool? Orderly is everyone else Out of service is how I feel Ordinary is not how I peel What to do? Which friend to blame? Who stole my burning flame?
We don’t realize that we are the forest,
Not a tree
A nest of dripping honey
Not a bee
We don’t realize that we are the ocean
Not a drop
We don’t realize that we are the mountain
Not just the mountain top
We don’t realize that we are a band or an orchestra
Not a single instrument standing out alone
We are a skeletal system
Not a bone
We are a class
Not a single student
A mass
Not volume or weight
We are an entire troop
Not a soldier
The whole soup
Not the noodles
We are society
You are bigger than you think
Yes there is a big human variety,
But without you to fill the small hole, the waters would come flooding in and we would all sink
Hello over there! I love writing poetry. I have a dream of becoming a writer! I hope that my poetry makes you feel like you're not in this world all alone.
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