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You know when you wake up, and you have that moment where for just a second, everything's perfect. There's no lingering questions on you're mind or deep regrets.
One foot tracing the path of the other Which passed before it, and stepped carefully Onto the soft, blossom-littered forest floor, I walk, half in a dream through the glade With the beams of...
I sometimes have that feeling, I don't know what it's called, when I feel like the loneliest person alive, like everyone hates me, like there's no point living.
Something I wrote a while ago and kept to myself. I hope it's not too bad it means a lot to me, enjoy. I hear it again, it's that sound, the sound of that vain thudding in my ear.
Why do I lie awake a night...
There is a sadness, washing down the road, In the perpetually falling rain. I can see unhappy faces, Looking back at me, Actually needing some of their pain.
Sometimes enlightenment. Can feel like a punishment. You can never not know. What you all ready do. You can never forget. Knowledge causing upset. You can never unwind. The pre-existing time.
Endless dark sky ahead. Heading towards nowhere. The mumbling of families speaking. The whimpers of young children. My current surroundings. I tend to write better alone. When darkness is around.
What I want and need most in this life is something that stays. Something that I can always look back into. Go back into when everything else go on their own way and disappears. People change.
(Another free write aided by the night). Just give me a day. One single day. That's all that I ask. Send it my way. Just give me a night. One peaceful sleep. That just may be. All that I need.
I'm starting early. Resolutions - I will love myself more. I will not fall under the expectations of others. I will cry less. Unless its angry tears in which case, I can't help that.
#acrostic. Inspired by @leelee101. And his brilliant piece titled "triple". Undecided Upon a I me or yoU. Never drawN cards over sooN. Losing grip Lost taste surreaL. Entrapping Earths laws you'rE.
There is something in the tree. Maybe if I climb up from the base, Into the sky, Oh I, oh I, I will find What I am looking for.
I'm looking out on a line of lights, To see the place where she may lie, Sleeping, If not today.
You know, I'm rather curious As to Just why.
The eyes are windows of the heart Wherein transparency will show A myriad feelings to impart From where in sadness, tears do flow.
December twenty second, Take a deep breath. Close your eyes. Grit your teeth. Move your toes. Let your heart beat get louder. Feel the rush of blood between your veins.
I have always tried to be myself Succeeded most of the time But now I need some help I don't feel right now and I don't know why Ive got to figure it out somehow I have got to try It could be...
I want my demons to go, Wished they'd leave me alone. So that my every decision, I don't constantly judge myself on. So that with the little things I can just leave alone.
Something oh so funny is fear, For what terrifies me most may come as a shock, Tis not a thousand serpent nor an unexpected knock, Tis not rejection, nor the thought of being alone, Tis not monsters...
Come to think of it I'm not entirely sure Where I lost myself Maybe it was in those 8 hours of classtime Lost in notes and due dates Equations and definitions In beds of strangers or Old friends...
Someone said I could dream like only I want to. They said that I had quite the style to be a ghost. They said I was pure in my ways of love and rotten in my ways to live.
End of the world: I lay here and I'm thinking. What can I do right now to make this special. I play back the memories in my head.
(This is quite a rough draft, It was literally a string of thoughts that popped into my head when I was making a sandwich. I wanted to put them down on paper/screen just to see what they looked like.