beating freely,
adorn atacked by a thorn,
or wrapped in chains,
in wrath or change,
a single bounded heart,
notices another.
because there are thousands.
thousands bounded.
thousands of hearts,
branded and marked.
completely ripped and torn apart.
millions bearing thorns
that we won't even know,
in this lifetime
or the next.
is it our little numbered groups
that is the reason
we share such amazing embraces?
or is it witnesses
to opening and closing instances?
it just who we are
or is it who we are becoming?
Or is it despair?
Or is it just to share?
the thing about affliction,
is you can sense
the keeper of secrets by thebetterlifex, literature
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the keeper of secrets
let's take all your demons and we'll drown them out at sea.
don't you dare sit and tell me of the man you were supposed to be.
she pulled you to the pantry,
she shook you by the shoulders and told you
to fight like hell like she had all those years.
she'd made you the only man in her life
that wouldn't stand on by and let her
give into her own fears.
a small boy still stands under the bleachers
holding his post, the keeper of secrets-
you smile and wipe my eyes,
all the stories you told for the first time
and all the ways they'd tried to take.
and i sit here, like
some accident in your life
but i love you like there's no mista
Sleep never comes
Hands grasp at the hem of clothes
Nails bite into flesh
Teeth dig into lips
Hands run through hair
Sleep never comes
Nightmares overide sanity
My insides boil at your sight
Which acts like torture and harshly bites.
All my shatered tears are spent
And I am left with only you in my head.
The dreadful horrors of life be
Passes its way with such simplicity,
Yet leaves behind such agony
That dissolves into wistful memory.
But the hate I feel inside of me,
Equals the love I sense in my body.
These inseperable feelings of agony
Surprisingly come from the simplest glee.
What Lies Behind Our Eyes? by FallenfromtheStarz, literature
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What Lies Behind Our Eyes?
Look at all the faces.
Theres so many.
Attached and connected.
On the invisible dotted line,
there is sever, harboring disconnection.
New instances across new distances.
Lights and shadows flashing in the backround.
Silence never heard outloud.
A face beyond the edge of the crowd.
A glimpse so loud, you would have never heard the sound.
without choice,
living by experience,
growing and delirious,
lives are thrown together into a mix.
without explination as to why I feel so sick.
Eyes close and the picture fades slowly.
Along side a thousand puncturing guiding hands.
But by this desolate hand, is it the only that is guided.
d
You're a faceless distraction,
A bouquet of broken dreams,
A walking contradiction,
Falling apart at the seams.
Defined by your affliction,
Your tears are heartless streams.
I broke this down
traced the lies to their origins
breaking the boundaries where they lay.
breaking, breaking, gone.
cruel of me, isn't it
when will I learn, eh?
hey, hey, I still love you
and I know you love me too.
now tell me how much of a lie that was,
and we'll laugh together
take our drinks as one
throw them back 'til only words remain
so hey, babe
it's late
gonna be a lonely night tonight
so you better get home soon
get back to your new lover
find comfort in warm arms
while I stare out the window
rolling wineglasses across the floor
sure, I'm okay.
smiling at you, aren't I?
is it so wrong for me
to invite you ove
Waves strip along the pores and crevices of my moral face
Creating bumps where neurons scream bloody murder
Synapse millions
Each one awake
As if the day was fresh
The night young
And the sun a bloody mass
Mocking us all
As if Icarus
Could dare be slashed from the sky with the wipe of the brush coloring water
Each thing that grabs the stubble on my chin cheeks
So where will the eyes shoot blood next
Investing in wicked worlds and habits
Each worse than theist clogging arteries
Only metaphorically
My breath hurts
Dripping a light white stream of steam
Through the my tear ducts
Where does one life end?
The other begins s
It is something that catches my critical mind
When I look down to my feet and see
That I am not walking on a gravel pathway.
Instead, there is something unique and subtle,
A trail of slate platforms set into earth.
Each stone an individual island of unique traits,
Each worn smooth and flat by weather and humanity.
Puddles of rock settled deep in thick soil and moss.
They shine black and silver, slick from dew,
Like holes into a separate place, doorways.
There is something about a Japanese Garden in Portland,
Set away from the madness and concrete reality,
That unlocks creativity to construct ideas.
There is something incredibly
Darkness to Blood by PoisonPineappleBread, literature
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Darkness to Blood
It rained hard outside as I sat in my room, my head against my knees as I cried. My phone beside, me having no messages on it. A note left on my dresser that looked ripped up. A soft guitar started playing dark notes, but they sounded light. I lifted my head up showing I was crying bloody tears.
"A note lies on my dresser...no question I know the sender..."
"Your handwriting is always the same...so calculated yet so plain..."
"The words I read how they haunt me...how I wish'd they'd never be..."
"I took one last look at the letter...tore it up and threw it in the shredder..."
"My heart is torn...my world is black..."
"The scorn I kn