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It's funny.
I find myself running,
unable to breathe.
The pain in my feet told me to keep on going,
Even though my turning stomach disagreed.
I felt like I swallowed the whole ocean
i walk outside, my four walls behind me, a subtle breeze sweeps across my cheek i stand frozen as my eyes take in whats around me, i feel the earth’s beating heart, the air deep in its lungs; it pulses, it breathes in it continues, but i am not
we are frozen in time - stuck in the muck of the present
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© 2020 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
I miss someone who I shouldn't miss
I think about someone who doesn't think about me
I dream about someone who I shouldn't dream about
I am falling in love with someone who isn't mine to fall for
Repeat
How are you?
Im fine.
Are you sure?
Im fine.
You look sad though...
Im fine.
So no cravings?
Im fine.
It's not fair,
It's not right,
I lost power,
I lost might.
One's eight
Who can't skate
One's two
Who never knew.
The little one's
Not yet one,
He just wants
To have fun.
who you talkin' to wit' that attitude
chicks lookin' 'atchu like you something different dude
actin' like they know it all when you've said nothing at all, rude
Oh!
How I long to soar
On gilded wings forevermore
But stuck I am upon this ground
My feet crunching, making sound
Get up from bed and something isn’t right
Everything is muddled, dirty and foggy
I scream and cry not knowing what is going on
I go to the bathroom and see Myself in the mirror
Anxiety stirs my stomach like a lost ship at sea.
I have no control
which way the wind is blowing.
I'm alone.
You were mean it was kind.
I want to genuinely smile and have real friends that make me laugh..
Even more than that - I really want to get my life back on track...
But it's hard to have hope for the future - cause I just can't let go of the past....
Locked in
The keys are lost
Across the river
The bridge is burned
In the corner
All painted in
On the island
The ship has sunk
sometimes i find
i want to press myself in a book like a flower
to flatten my spine so my shoulders can be higher
but if my body wasn’t fragile
At first they're painful, but then they get sore
At first they're exciting, but soon start to bore
Yet people still stick them on their skin
Only rarely regretting their sin
That beautiful boy across from me will never know.
He looks at me, now, like I’ve never told him th is before and he knows he could
never
Understand.
I DONT WANT TO
So don’t
But I can’t
Can’t? Good!
No I can’t not
I can’t can’t
I can’t not do
What I dont want to.
But you try
Do I try?
When I try
I fail
Dear Life Problems,
Why don't you understand? I want to be me!
But, why do you try to take over my life? You don't understand.
It's gone too far! It stops here, now! You cross the line.
It's worse to think about it.
Knowing there is a better way,
Yet continuing not to improve.
It's easier to be passive,
Its more relaxing to just be in the moment.
And not think
About-
Slow and steady
Constantly worried
Asking what am I going to do?
You're gone for a whole another year
How can I move forward without you?
Stuck in a standstill
Not sure where to go
Or even what to do
I’m in a bad place
No matter how far I run
I cannot escape it
And I cannot live without it
I’m stuck within my head
There was once a boy, in the 1700s
who survived in his house's basement.
Stuck he was,
for the sadness exhausted his will to go out side.
His mother too, for she was distraught at the idea of bearing a 'mad' son.
Follow the flow of the wind.
Long days and clocks never say goodbye,
Going in circles watching your whole world spin.
I've realized it's really hard to write without having someone in your mindbecause, in your thoughts, they spend most of their time.
After the first time
Everything has changed
Maybe the second time is the charm
Maybe words can fly into my mind
But silence and borders keeps your mind quiet
And erasers are wasted like time
I wake up in a hole of darkness
My wrists tied tight with rope
My feet shackled so I can’t cope
I taste blood in my mouth
I struggle against the bonds that hold me
My struggles cause my body to be cut deeper
That day will never arrive
I am stuck in a deep hole of burdens
My mind glazes over with my responsibilities
I may be in new places but responsibilities I left behind pop up
Free?
I don't know what free is
Growing up sucks in this world
Having pressures to be perfect
You try to get away from it
Clear your mind and run away
But you still have that voice
The one in the back of your head
I feel so sick
I'm floating in the air
My feet is walking all over me
My head wants to explode
My hands are in the air
I'm drowning in despair
My soul is moving fast
Life changes and everything about me is new.But there's one thing that's always stayed the same...I still hate myself the same as yesterday,and I still think of death like it's unavoidable.
I'm suffocating
I'm drowning
I'm stuck in a cage
My wings are clipped
Blood and tears try to mend but nothing
It's like locking up a butterfly in a cage. It'll fly around feeling trapped looking for freedom.
I remember his eyesThat they reflected mine,The golden encapsulated,Red-flecked beautiesThat so often got us confusedFor brotherAnd sister.
A heart should never ache like this,
my soul should never feel this much pain,
I need the dose of a loving touch,
Once there was a little girl
With blonde curls and wide eyes that shined like a pearl
She sat alone waiting for
Her carriage and prince to come knock at her door
As she turned the pages of her books
Like a snake shedding its old skin. Its itchy and uncomfortable. Heavy and bothersome. Makes the insides of the stomach roll around in anxiety and half disgust.
I can hear time fly by, I can see it disappear
I can taste the world’s tears, I can smell its fears
The angry oceans, the forgiving shores
The turning mountains, the closing doors
Don't know what to do.
Can't have my cake and eat it too.
I can go to one school and then transfer. Or I can go to another school and transfer somewhere else.
I don't know what I want.
Everything seems to be getting better for everyone except me.
Is it because I don’t try hard enough?
Is it because I don’t pray enough?
Or is it because this is just where am I supposed to be?
I’m stuck in a rut.
I still hold onto you like a newborn baby to his mother.
Stuck to you like rain in the clouds
You are my heartbeat, although, I should let go
I cannot let go on what's been with me for so long
All over America, there are towns
And yet no one knows them
Except the citizens themselves
And can you blame them?
(It is their right, after all, to know the town they live in)
Part of me got stuck in a galaxy,
I called it "whats-its-name".
I just remebered after being ripped in half,
things would never be the same.
I am too young to be in love.
I am too immature to be dating.
I don't really know what I'm getting myself into.
No.
I am in love.
I am mature.
I know exactly what I'm getting myself into.
My brother was forced from home
I tried to ask, "why?"
The seeds of our love were sown
I received no reply
The inevitable futures looms over me
On this journey to find myself
To pick a major is to pick a future
As I sit my mind wanders the world of options
Simply hoping to discover what’s next
They shape our lives and watch us grow, they are a part of us. They humiliate us and make us laugh, you can't help but to love them. However, ometimes things don't go as planned, it spirals out of control and leaves you feel breathless.
“Be interested,” everyone tells me,but this interest is so hard to be found;There is only apathy.
I am stuck, stuck in between what is wrong and what is right for me. I am stuck, stuck in-between someone that will make me feel alive tonight and someone that will make it right.
Sitting at a desk in front of a screen with a blinking line
My fingers don’t touch any keys,
But rather they trace the edges of a box,
Almost always
you need my help
I'm stuck
comforting you
You need my help
Never a chance for me
comforting you
is all there's time for
Never a chance for me
You
More emotion than you could ever know is poetry
Yes , its when I feel a vague entity
But you do understand, you understand the monogamous relationship
I’m drowning
circling the drain in a sea of circular thoughtsthere’s too much gray area in these life lessons
Stuck in an elevator with youThat's enough to make me spew
Ew!
You're gross and slimy to the touchIf it weren't for that you'd deserve a punch
Awk!
i sit there quiet as a mouse watching you scream back and forth. i sit there wanting you to stop wanting to say something to make it end. i sit there my stomach in my throat confused at why you are yelling.
Behind her smile, there’s a child with enormous dreams and improbable chances of reaching them.
Behind her smile, is a mother that struggles to make ends meet every month.
such a sweet sorrow
yet delicate as a lilly
but raged as fire
to be put out with
more love
damages fixed with
kindness and compassion
love
true love
such a beuty
7 years ago I lost my mother to love.
She walked away with hate in her eyes.
I remember the day she grabbed me and said, "leave this house and never come back. I love Benny and I want to start my life with him".
Meeting you was all I ever wanted.
You made my wildest dreams come true.
I dreamt of what we would be every night before I went to bed and into my sleep.
The thing with dreams is, they aren't real.
Here I am
Locked up in a tower
Not allowed to come down
Always wondering how it would be like on the ground
Always wondering how it would be like to see the world
How does the grass feel between my toes?
Sometimes, I find myself lost in your eyes
I never knew love until I saw you
My empty heart only knew its demise
But you, somehow, were able to break through.
You were the beauty and I was the beast
You call, I pick up, and here goes the bull
You hang up, I look, and here comes the emotion
I tell myself I'm through
That I'm never dealing with you
Again.
One year of college down, five to go
And I'm already drowning in debt.
Rising costs of tuition cause me woe
And inability to get loans makes me fret.
If I can't find a way to pay for school
Days Waste Away
And I Sit Frozen In Space.
A Thinking, Feeling Blob
Of Emotionless Apathy,
Focusing on Nothing,
Yet Everything.
Walking Contradictions
In My Analytical Head
Can't Focus,
Blending together, they are.
Like reflections on water.
Memories, like a cookie jar.
These thoughts they slaughter.
I search above me for what I could see
Clear as day only two years ago
An entire star disappeared before my eyes
But still the light overtakes my subconscious
Unknown to me as behavior's influenced
Focus our eyes.
Are we stuck in the wilderness?
Lead us to the promise land.
Lead on, lead on...
We are the chosen ones.
We stand together.
When you call, we will answer.
You will provide.
