Now Playing: Larisa Nelson
Topic: Poetry

 

 

LEAVE ME

With every glance I see you

your face haunts my mind

I thought I was through with you

I thought you were gone

 

Everytime I turn around

there you are again

My heart can't take the torture

My body can't withstand the abuse

We aren't who we used to be

 

I'm not who I wish I was

I can't dominate who I have become

All because of you

my life is done

Then without thinking

I run back to you

 

Like a trained dog

I can't control my motions

My life is in the hands

of our Creator

My mind has no jurisdiction

My heart restricted

from the eternal confrontation

How have we come this far

How did we take these paths

Walk away

Leave me in my lonesome

 

ENOUGH OF YOU

I have enough worries

I've had enough of life

I'm done with your arguments

I don't want your fights

 

This world keeps spinning

Our lives stay the same

This earth is revolving

But time doesn't change

 

My heart was broken

I found who could fix it

I was saved from myself

But not from your gaze

 

My thoughts flow through my words

But you I can't confront

To others my voice is strong

To you my silence is afront

Now Playing: Jacob
Topic: Poetry

 

 

Love is the language

We speak

When we search for freedom 

Between the sheets

Freedom from hate

Freedom from fear

But until we find it

Let's just lay right here

 

Now Playing: Jessica Hayes
Topic: Art

 

 

 

Mother Night
Now Playing: Tyler Wilson

Hello my darling, the night it haunts me so

No sleep, no precious dreams of your face

Only it and I; for she will not let me rest

So much...too much to be done she says

Rest when rest is duly earned

And as of yet you lack the knowing

of such blessed respite

Dreams will come

when dreams need be dreamt

Your heart is the wager

happiness the reward of success

Given time you will thank me

Though I know the passion

with which you despise me now...

Be aware that while you suffer

as do I

For we are bound

the two of us

I love you my dear child.

Always,

Night Mother

 

SALVATION

 

White washed simple church

Foundation, rock and earth

Steady, strong, never failing

 

The darkness behind

such perfect walls

All are prone

to slips and falls

 

The degradation of it all

Instigation

Sickening deceitful man

 

Place once holy

now soiled

by sinful hands

and as the spiral continues

Will you stand

and answer the call

to differ…

Hold fast to your faith

to find your own…salvation

 

 

 

DON’T LET GO

The color fades,

it’s been awhile

since I’ve felt

the warmth of your skin against mine.

Brown sugar, honey glazed

over the eyes of my dreams

Burning deep inside, a passion

The passion they say is wrong

This passion is love,

it’s what’s right

when everything else, everyone else

is wrong

The taste of your lips

The ecstasy of your warm meaningful smiles

Fill me with pride to know

That I love and am loved

by such brilliance, in the murky waters

of an empty life

I bottle it up…it breaks me

You speak your words and I fall;

They flow the troubles from my eyes, my heart

You just know, I don’t speak a word

You kiss me and I feel again

Feel what was missing

while you were gone…don’t let go.

 

 

Now Playing: Joshua Lee Hayes

The bleeding heart

my beating heart

Cries out for the love that's true

It cries because

it knows I'm half

the man I was with you

Half the person

I could be

Half the places

I could see

The bleeding heart

My beating heart

It cries out

For you

Now Playing: Kappa

I feel like something has taken me away

I feel like you've done away with me

I'm just your victim

Feels like you're tearing me away

I can't cut your string

Maybe if I bleed, you will sense my grief

Blackness filling up my core

I can't handle my fate

It's been molded by deceit

I can't handle my wounds that now bleed hate

Feels like I'm rotting at the core

I'm so washed over that nothing seems so real

Slowly slipping in this pain

Love, Trust, and Pixie Dust
Now Playing: Kristin Gosser
Topic: Poetry

Don't make promises you can't keep

You know the ones of which I speak

You know the ones that cut so deep.

Don't promise to remain forever close

when in the next moment you could be gone.

Just like that, no warming, no reason.

Don't promise to protect me from the world

because you may not be around.

And I'll be left tiptoeing through coals

trying not to get burnt

and failing, of course.

Don't promise to love me forever

when as the day ends you may say goodbye

Your love for me may wither and die.

Don't promise me riches you can't afford

Don't promise me jewels and pearls galore.

Don't promise me love and affection.

I don't need the attention.

Don't expect me to open up instantly

for it takes time to earn my trust.

I have built walls

that very few get through,

but they actually try.

They put up a fight

They use their brains and hearts

to earn my love, trust, and pixie dust.

They prove their friendship and care

by realizing I'm there.

The land of terror and pain

of betrayal and no mercy

And just as I stumble,

they pull me up again.

 

 

 

 

Heartbreak and sorrow

it's finished, it's over

You wait for something so long

and just when you get it

It's ripped from your grasp

Taken, gone, never to be yours again

of course

once you really think about it

was it ever truly yours?

Or was it always just an act?

Always just an out of reach dream?

True love,

is there even such a thing?

Something that will last forever?

Something no one can ever take away?

As I sit here

and cry over my heartbreak

I feel I will never be loved

No one will ever truly see me

for the person I am

and love that person nonetheless

No one will ever know the true me

unless they climb the walls

and come to the other side

Post Secret

Now Playing: by Elizabeth Wright
Topic: Poetry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We're like music

you and I

We join together

As notes slip by

We drift apart again

I think it was the high C

Where I didn't love you

You didn't love me

But wait;

how sweet, engaging

the sound

we come together at

somewhere around, the low B

Middle E

Was best for me

but you preferred low, low G

That's okay

somewhere we converge

and make the best music

you ever heard

Goodness
Now Playing: Written May 10, 2008 by Brent Lengle for Adam Redmon
Topic: Poetry

Left to Right.
You list and sway
like a maple in the wind.
It’s trunk thin,
It’s branches yielding,
while the frightened leaves cling tightly for dear life.

But your base is wide as ten men
and your roots
deep and strong.
Yours is a perpetual shifting dance of selfness.

So when they accuse me of listing,
and when the doubt comes,
and when the terror of self-delusion strikes at my heart like a poisoned thorn,

I will remember you
and I will not fear.

Left to Right.
Left to Right.