Misery
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The nonstop negative news or publicities on Haiti
Hurt tremendously and disturbingly
The relentless or constant bashings of all Haitians
sometimes i am so easily decieved
I believe what i wish to be true
and when the fantasies of my infancy are ripped from my grasp
I weep at the feet of misbeliefs past
for the comfort of lies
The lights in her heart getting darker, you know?
An embodiment of grief from head to toe
The sparkles in eyes vanished & heart sank
The colourful soul is turning to be blank
Being born in one of the poorest countries, The remembered day, when the ground shook on the 12th day of January, reminiscing myquestions “...why is the ground shaking”?
I do not understand
Why he sabotaged me so consummately,
And made me look like
Such a pathetic old patsy,
Could he not discern the misery
He was shoring up by degrees,
1.24.15
I won't make you promises,
I won't tell you lies,
Most of the time
One of us cries.
One cries for love,
One cries for food,
One cries because
They're in a bad mood.
This holiday is hollow,
These cheery ones are lost.
Everyone is happy,
It seems
Everyone
But me.
I always feel alone,
My life is full of misery
I try and try but cannot undo my history
The thought of death is bliss to me
Why am I chained down by my suffering and misery?
Please, can someone set me free?
Can you send me to my eternal resting place?
To be free from my suffering.
Lie to me, to be honest, I will probably think that it's true Look at me, I will take the lies if you are willing to keep your soul open Directed to me, you said that you wanted more than I said I could give Gaze gone from me, looks like we both l
Claiming sadness to be all your own
Your only comfort in life, the sorrow you've known.
Could anyone know the tear as well as you?
Be seduced by the pain, as it cuts your heart in two?
Let no man be lesser.
For all
Are mere specs
on the
backdrop of the void.
No,
they are particles
Inside
an expanse of nothing.
We are
Merely the reality
of our
Love
is a broken promise,
signing away your life.
Trying to find
clarity;
instead, finding strife.
a smile and a kiss
the kind face of pain
The smile is genuine
but it masks pain
pain and hurt and conflict
all masked the same
I hurt to see it
it clouds his eyes
Tired of imaginingTired of actingOh, how I wish that was meCat-fishingIs now existingMirror, mirrorWhat is my birth error?Is it my looks or personality?A shame that I desire plastic surgery
The world is kind to let you pick your own poison
Misery holds you underwater like an anchor
Courage seeps through our skin, burning us alive
Truth is a deadly pillow with a silver lining
2016
January, the new year started.
I still kept to myself.
February, the days became colder.
As I became to be.
March, I met my best friend.
I don't eat cheese because it's not vegan.
Enzymes are a living organism.
Caravores don't understand.
Life isn't all that bad.
We talk to each other; complaining of our difficulties, perhaps exaggerating a little to help us feel better.
It works, for the most part.
After all,
misery
This is my story of the factors that determine me,Drive me to be who I want to be,And create my own destiny.I’ve never been a size twoAnd everything I would doWould be wrong to you.
We absent mindedly wonderThrough our sad livesAll being dragged underHoping we're the one swho survives
if evil is a flame
then sometimes the world is on fire
burning with all the cruelty of man,
the passion of lusts, greeds, and desires.
If evil is a song,
There is darkness abound in these halls
Shadows, velvet black, form the surrounding walls
Light struggles vainly to pierce the ebon' folds
But the dark swallows all, in black- shrouded the fortress holds.
I am the better side of darkness and the dim side of light.
I didn’t KNOW my blackened heart had a sense of what was right.
Standing in a room full of shadows
Darkness envelops the mind,
Fearful thoughts race around your body,
And you find yourself alone.
Thinking of past memories,
Reliving the pain,
Oh how misery loves me so faithful so heart wild and disruptive into my shallow mind and
How do you cope? How do you live?
Life, why did I want to grow up?
People around me, harrassing me about "how things are going"
Nothing is what it seems." Kids are amazing and I couldn't be doing better"
Today I say good morning to the sun!
Usually it is the sun that wakes me up every single day.
But today is special...
At six a.m. it is I smiling down as the Sun
Stirred from his deep, deep slumber.
Darkness isn't always bad.
Darkness doesn't make you mad
Darkness isn't always wrong
It shouldn't be feared upon.
It is a normal phenomenon in our world
Hysterically, I laugh at what I want to do to you.
What you deserve.
You clearly don’t think I’m crazy.
Well, clearly I’m about to snap after you used and abused me.
Dragon Slugs
Shakespeare said expectation is the cause of all heartache that’s just simply not true
There is no cause of heartache; it is truly unavoidable, expectations or not
I wish to cut away my flesh.I don't hate myself.I just hate this skin,Weak and bloody thin!If only
I do not want to live the life she lived
For the pain and suffering she has grieved
I hear the tears she cries at night
For all her life she barely saw the light
Misery was her best friend throughout her life
The demon of loneliness sits on my chest as I lay down in bed, thinking of a life where I'd be able to say I'm happy and mean it. The demon of loneliness fills my head with strong, convincing words of pain. "You have no one." It says.
Why must they hurt for the sin of our crime?
For the hate that we chime?
We hear but do not listen,
We look but do not see.
Distracted towards the right of humanity,
But blinded by the greed of sanity.
If I could do anything,
I swear i'd have the world changing.
i'd make everyone's lives better,
create world peace and end hunger.
Cure cancer, end abuse-
keep someone from hanging a noose.
It's a broken Hallelujah that reigns over my lips,
Singing praises to something I can't prove exists.
They're like tape,
Holding me together while confining the mind I really want to speak.
Hey there
Do you hear me calling out to you?
Do you even know my voice anymore?
Calling, begging you to not walk out the door
You were the one
The only person I could trust
If I could change one thing, it would be misery.
Because misery is as old as history.
No one deserves to feel such pain,
that cannot be fixed with personal gain.
Misery can be caused by many things,
The salty tears
trickling down her face
These numerous times
can't be erased
The words that have been said
Bitch, slut, ugly, fat
Would you laugh at that?
Would you follow the others
Alone is one of the worst things to be
When all you feel
Is tired and empty.
You can cry
You can weep.
You can shut off the light
And beg for sleep.
But it won’t come
And you’ll still be
You just stand there and scream
Your head busting at the seams
Someone offers help
And yet you continue to yelp
You hang on to your misery
Wanting all to be dreary
If help is unwanted
Was this his fate?
Does your god make mistakes?
A splatter of cosmic ash orbiting naive minds
of worshipers.
But what a god he was,
For no reason other than: simply because.
Wonder what it's like in the public eye.
Everyone knowing everything,
No secrets Whatsoever,
Judging stares; hateful words.
Wonder what it's like to always have a front.
To be what others want,
Filthy hands shine in the light of the beautiful pain.
Glistening in the promise sin offers to gratify the mind’s desires.
Relief from the pain in frozen blood cries out.
Trembling.
"Don't have a big head, the world doesn't revolve around you."
There's no I in team, that's all that I knew.
There are people that are starving, homless and broke.
But that's only in movies, it was only a joke.
There she goes, falling
Down into the unconquerable abyss
Lost inside herself
There’s no escaping
The terrible monsters that live in her soul
They lurk in the looming blackness
I believe in harsh standards
I believe that all females should look the same.
Females should not have hips
Female's ribs should be exposed.
If females are as thin as a rail,
They are the ones I display.
Where footprints in single file
Where hearts not in denile
Where rose's petals fall
The Emerald braced for Finale
to revenge son's fatality
Looking in the mirror I see a girl...
I'm watching her scream
I'm rewinding her dreams
I'm watching her cry
I'm practically watching her die
I sit back and watch as she tries to wipe the tears from her eyes.
i love misery,
its artistic,
its complicated,
it paints pictures
and writes songs,
it pours hot tears
and bruises my soul
it gnaws at my flesh
and picks its teeth with my bones,
We see them every day,
But never see them crying.
We claim to care about them,
But underneath, are lying.
We shun, we tease, we taunt them
As if death didn't matter.
Who would of know my private catholic school would feel like a prison
We are "followers" of Christ but it all just feels like a courpt dictatorship.
They try to show us off like puppets,
The day is cloudy, no man in sight.
Not even the crows who cry in flight.
She looks up and she looks down, but no salvation is to be found.
Rising up, a wispy blissembraces a lover's memoryof your unending spoken kissthat bestows on me such misery
You sat alone every first day of school and hoped, no, prayed that no one sat next to you.
And when they did, you ignored them; it wasn’t long before they said hello, but you had already put your earphones in.
I am from the southern part of Dayton, Ohio.
I am from my dad and granddad because my dad has anger management
And because my grandparents didn't want children,
And when I was born I was real sensitive on the inside
Hi, my name is Lauren Lehman, I'm an ambitious poet from the South Florida Metropolitan Area..
I began writing poetry to help cope with traumatic events that I've overcome in my past.
I can do this, right? I can do this, write?
It's all for the money.
Writing for money.
Give me money because I wrote something.
It's everything. The only
thing.
Not love, not compassion,
Sick severed lipsHolding my bare hips.Like Achilles heel,The emotional appeal is severed.
And though I have no brainI can't really complainOf the wonders in the skyAnd how high I can go.
I've become so Numb when there was No More Sorrow left in me.
I had to Bleed It Out when I turned my back on those who had their Hands Held High, screaming "help me!"
Its 2013 and nothing has changed.
I sit with my homies and brothers ever estranged.
Watching all these people looking at us as if we are to blame.
Its 2013 and nothing has changed.
Music is for the broken whose will has been abandoned and suicidal thoughts have nested.
So quick to contemplate death.
Instead a track plays to vibe with the heart and mend the mind to health.
I step away, As he slowly approaches, Hidden out of his sight. Evil he has come to do… But I must do right. I will just wait here, If he does not see me first, My heart is beating, I’m about to burst!
I step away,
As he slowly approaches,
Hidden out of his sight.
Evil he has come to do…
But I must do right.
I will just wait here,
If he does not see me first,
My heart is beating,
My mind is a prison
The prisoner locked inside the cell
is me
Why you may ask
because i can't gain control
so i lose it every time
and when the control is lost
the pain takes over
Growing up with a father,Blinded by his own pain,I became the parent;His shelter from constant rain.Dried up his tears,Floods only became clouds.I couldn't help him like I wanted.I let him down.
Here I sit, ah this black chalice
so alone, and silence embracing my
every thought,every emotion.
Answers aren't at the bottom of a whiskey bottle,
But misery is.
You're just a child whose been hurt,
And the world has hardened your heart.
Hahahah you're hilarious!
You thought this note was about how
You broke some girl's heart!
Comedy gold.
This is coming from a place you shut off long ago.
I'm juat a simple girl
lost without a soul
I long for someone
someone who would love me
You came into my life
you let me know i have a heart
You helped me discover my soul
Take me away from here.
Take all my fears and let me watch them disappear.
You better hurry.
Take all the unnatural scars on my body and recreate them into untouched skin.
I know that
When you’re alone
In the middle
Of the night
And you want someone
To hold you
And tell you
That everything’s
Gonna be alright,
That I could be
That person
For you,
Darkness growing;
Fed by her tears.
Flooding her cheeks,
Mascara and eyeliner
Run; streaked.
I have something on my chest
That is clouding up my mind.
What if we overlook everything
Without taking the time,
to realize where we went wrong,
the things we do or say.
At the site of death we are sicken until we bite our tongues,
screaming at the anger that coats us in pain,
and as are eyes become blood shot red we are fighting to decide
Unsurpassed, unwavering, unthinkable fear. There is no assurance of tomorrow. Any known stability, ripped from my grasp. The voices without end. There is no escape! They will be coming for me. Too late!
Lately all we do is fight, can’t seem to get it right.
Why should we pretend we’re more than friends?
Can’t you see it’s hard for me?
Trusting you is what I do.
Seems like all you want is to hurt me.
I don't know what to do.
You don't look at me,
The same way I look at you.
I don't know what to do.
To think it had only begun,
And already, we're through.
I don't know what to do.
Challenged with it all my life.
The kids laughing,
the kids talking.
Enemies and friends alike.
she silently stares at the monsters under her bed
chin resting on the knees she has pulled to her chest,
eyes as empty as the rhythmic heart beating—
out of obligation—
between her ribs.
He was brought up in finest pride,
Desire matched all gifts,
Seized more than all a soul could need,
Much more than ever dreamed.
Lavish lies conceal flattering false prophets
Under a guise that is layers deep
A ritualistic routine of self masocation
Of emotional measures physicality intact
Progressing and digressing
I wish you could see you as I see you,
So for a little bit, let me break through,
Through walls of stubborn mortar and hard brick,
I promise you I will be very quick.
I’ll cry silent one more day
Hide my tears behind this mask
Move the broken shell of a body
And pretend I’m not shattered
I’ll laugh so you don’t see
And I’ll cry silent one more day
The Hope,
It sits there.
Right there.
Trapped.
The Hope,
Is yelled at,
Is tugged at,
Yet it sits there.
Right there.
Waiting.
Sadness floats around me
Hovering
Always with me.
Like mist,
It creeps over me
Settles down and suffocates me.
The fog of depression hides the sight of happiness.
The shadows are dark,
Sometimes I despise people
when their eyes are cheerful
And they smile around me
it feels like they are teasing me
because I am always alone
Well it's better than being just another clone
darkness the scary and dark place
being afraid of something that's not there
it may be concealed in the blanket of night
doesnt mean its bad
I feel these emotions
They come in waves
I breathe thick fury
This hateful rage
It turns around
Pulling me out of the deep
Offering me a hand
Pulling me back on my feet
I know it wont last
Never been on top
Never been good enough
Had a couple of blessings
But I never had good luck
Always underestimated
Nobody believed in me
But I see why because
I was never in the lead
Numb is
always my
emotion
I've become
so bland
nothing
effects me
anymore
I only cry
to know
I'm still
alive and
because I
know they're
right.
Am I too weak to say something, but too strong that I may break them?
I am too scared to show them my skin.
My mind is blurred by the images of doubt.
By their stupid ways. Why?
For some reason they like to hold us back.
Even though they seem to have the control, we are probably our strongest.
I've never felt so strong, beaten down to one finger on a rope.
I've probably never had so much hope...
In the early evening, I come home from the park.
And inside my house there are shadows in the dark!
I live in a dollhouse
Where the Barbie's are five feet tall
And their pretty pink dresses
Resemble summer's fall.
Get away from me.
I don't want you to visit again.
Last time nearly killed me.
The pain; the crying.
The worthlessness.
I have no strength to continue.
Alone at the piano,
Tears track my face,
As my fingers a melody trace
In the dark.
Light
That is all I ever asked
The stars are receding
And I have failed my task
I wonder
I wonder
What did I fail to do?
A dark hole called home, but it's not even mine.
Not living only existing, no hope, no worth, dealing with what I've been dealt.
Keep it all inside, the words inside my mouth. We'll all be the same, lying in the dirt.
Remember when you caught me
Bleeding in my bed
Hands and face the deepest shade of red
And I was floating
Through those stars that you call eyes
That are brighter than the sunrise and
I've wandered into the morbid side of life and I don't plan on coming back.
You can chase me all you want, but you'll just get hurt in this dark place.
It kills anything positive.
But I don't have to worry,
I'm riding in a car with people I just met,
Realizing that my mind is so far away from theirs.
I look around outside the car window seeing the life I live in,
While questioning the thoughts that are going through my head.
I wake up but keep my eyes closed.
I just lay there in my bed.
Seems like everyday is the same,
I hear the same old story playing over and over in my head.
I’m afraid,
To let people
See the tears roll uncontrollably
Down my face
Each one mimicking the last.
And, I don’t want
To have to face them
And show them that I feel.
I’ve been broken down and restored
Set back
Been attacked since the day I was conceived inside my mother’s womb
Attacked by gallons of liquor bottles,
Making me kick within my mother’s belly,
Upon each wingéd criticism float
hollow sadness extending infinite within,
devouring seeming core of self eroded,
still suspended in earthly bondage.
Feeling a depth of despair inescapable,
an entangled mindweb is my dwelling
and my tongue tastes of bitter longing.
What is a best friend?, I ask
I can sit and ponder all day,
But I can't pretend the thought doesn't last,
Someone I can confide in, lean on, laugh, and cry,
It's something, a feeling, that most people would die
Through the glass,
she sees a person she hates.
A big pile of ugly mass;
a twisted game of fate.
The person never forgives and never loves;
a person unfamiliar with kisses and hugs.
The ugly personality
They'll label you
Try to give you drugs that disable you
Saying this will never hurt, its to save you
But it cures you
Cures you from not following the status quo
Wipe out all the truth you may know
Of the darkness
emerging from
our souls, beyond
threshold of
the black mire
falling
headfirst
into the pits
dying, our souls
Normal... it's such a strange thing
With its hum-drum ring
That makes you want to wheel it into a hospital wing and just let it die
Mirror mirror on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?
With all these noises and TV lies,
I fail to see with worldly eyes.
For You I have changed my ways
I have gone from that nice little girl to someone older in age.
For You I have turned my back on all things that sing
A sudden fear approaches
As foot steps draw near
Tears release from pain
And words of lash at my heart
The monsters want me dead
But I keep fight...
To find a light in this
Forever Nightmare
Empty within compare,
Lost within despair,
Alone always alone,
And that's what I've always known.
Why is no one answering my cries?
I lash out in hopes that someone will notice,
But all that responds is never-ending silence.
Music used to be my perfect muse…
Now it doesn’t even offer me comfort.
I can't see the future but I can't dare look at the past.
I told myself I was done and this was the last.
I can't handle the pain!
The guilt or the blame.
But I can't escape this life.
This toughness and rage.
I lost my mama one cold fierce night. Thinking she would return to her daughter might. I cry everyday i was just a little girl, out in the cold freezing world. things started changing, people dont remain the same, they are not true their word.
That light at the end of the tunnel -
It is slowing losing its shine.
The walls are starting to cave in –
you just might have to rewind.
Running numb
Blind to the path in front of her
Crushing everything she's been taught
It's not fair...
There's a prettier place where women can smile
These four walls hold me in
Blank and bare, so naked, I stare
The dimmed light from the screen
Makes a
Glow.
A dull glow because it is dark, past 11.
They tell her she isn't as alone as she thinks
But they never lived everyday alone as her
Unable to form real relationships with people
Because of her fear of rejection
With only her thoughts to tempt her
Sturdy and strong,
From the outside nothing could go wrong,
Crumbling on the inside, this tower
So tall and so bold
Colorful yet vague
As it watches and stares at all that pass by,
Rainy days, sunny days,
Brighter than the suns strong smile
Her eyes have been searching for miles.
Miles to go, miles to go*, oh how she wished she’d know.
Never stopping to take a breath,
Please forgive me, I know I'm nothing to be proud of
One awful monster created out of an act of love
The irony is often too much to take
I am sorry for being the worst mistake
Over in a moment
Death is nothing to be feared;
Life, love, and everything else
Is a tragedy for the mind.
Masked from all light, hidden in plain sight
His outside appearance is fake, with interference
From his brain, he hears it, dazed with incoherence
The boy afraid to try, shrouded by fright.
What's real in this masquerade called life?
Behind these masks
Underneath the painted on smiles
I am from ashes
from shards and legendary rebirth.
I am from darkness beneath moon's shadow
lonely, silent,
it feels like snow.
I am from the world's remains,
the dark abyss
The words you speak to me
Knock me off my feet again and again.
Making me feel like I’m nothing
Fiercely throwing me off the deep end!
Pointing out every one of my mistakes,
As if I’m not aware!
