Submissions by Dante-Anon
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write occasionally to help myself sleep. I didn't want my mediocrity going to waste so I started posting on here. I don't try to be anymore or any less poetic than I feel I actually am. Check out my stuff if you want I guess.
DARK POEM
Published
4th Feb 2014 4:55am
4th Feb 2014 4:55am
As Years Go By
Thirteen years
Since the tears flowed freely
Since the blood on the sheets
Since my rapist’s remorseless grin
Since I was taught
No one is safe
Not even a four year old boy watching Scooby-Doo
Eight years
Since the tears stopped coming
Since she was too scared to protect me
Since he would show no mercy
Since I was taught
Never to cry
Unless I wanted it to get worse
Four years
Since the blood and razors in the sink
Since the needles and scorched spoons
Since watching her dying and wondering if I should let it happen...
Since the tears flowed freely
Since the blood on the sheets
Since my rapist’s remorseless grin
Since I was taught
No one is safe
Not even a four year old boy watching Scooby-Doo
Eight years
Since the tears stopped coming
Since she was too scared to protect me
Since he would show no mercy
Since I was taught
Never to cry
Unless I wanted it to get worse
Four years
Since the blood and razors in the sink
Since the needles and scorched spoons
Since watching her dying and wondering if I should let it happen...
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SELF POEM
Published
4th Feb 2014 3:14am
4th Feb 2014 3:14am
Battle not with monsters
Maybe I do need drugs to get through the day
Since they were the only things keeping the nightmares at bay
Maybe I do need to drown my emotions with drinking
Or really anything to prevent me from thinking
Maybe I do need to light up and smoke weed
Or maybe compassion and understanding are all I truly need
Since they were the only things keeping the nightmares at bay
Maybe I do need to drown my emotions with drinking
Or really anything to prevent me from thinking
Maybe I do need to light up and smoke weed
Or maybe compassion and understanding are all I truly need
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LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Feb 2014 2:46am
3rd Feb 2014 2:46am
Rejecting the Lead
Lead me on
Build me up
Invade my dreams
My waking thoughts
My every moment
Knock me down
Break my heart
Burn it all
My waking thoughts
My every moment
Did you premeditate?
Meticulously plan it?
Eager for execution
Oh the look
On his face
A broken face
Distorted by tears
Wasting more of
My waking thoughts
My every moment
Build me up
Invade my dreams
My waking thoughts
My every moment
Knock me down
Break my heart
Burn it all
My waking thoughts
My every moment
Did you premeditate?
Meticulously plan it?
Eager for execution
Oh the look
On his face
A broken face
Distorted by tears
Wasting more of
My waking thoughts
My every moment
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UPBEAT POEM
Published
1st Oct 2013 11:21pm
1st Oct 2013 11:21pm
DTF?
I love every minute spent
lost in your eyes
Your affection is
my goal, my prize
You planted a seed
inside my heart
So that I can't stand the notion
of us being apart
I hope this has been romantic enough
for me to try my luck
When I ask you quite honestly
"Hey baby, dtf?"
lost in your eyes
Your affection is
my goal, my prize
You planted a seed
inside my heart
So that I can't stand the notion
of us being apart
I hope this has been romantic enough
for me to try my luck
When I ask you quite honestly
"Hey baby, dtf?"
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LOVE POEM
Published
5th Sep 2013 4:41pm
5th Sep 2013 4:41pm
Harlot Heart
My Harlot Heart,
Bought and sold,
Belonging not to me
My longing eyes,
That first saw you,
Decree I shan't be free
Bought and sold,
Belonging not to me
My longing eyes,
That first saw you,
Decree I shan't be free
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LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Jun 2013 4:25pm
2nd Jun 2013 4:25pm
Back With Her Ex
I need to have a drink
Or three or five or ten
Get her out of my head
I don't want this pain again
She got back with her ex
She left me all alone
I felt so high when we were together
But now I'm sinking like a stone
Do I even cross her mind?
Am I so easily forgotten?
I'm breaking down, decaying
Turning into something rotten
Drowning in my sorrow
Drowning in my drink
Coughing up the excess pills
Why do I have to think?
Or three or five or ten
Get her out of my head
I don't want this pain again
She got back with her ex
She left me all alone
I felt so high when we were together
But now I'm sinking like a stone
Do I even cross her mind?
Am I so easily forgotten?
I'm breaking down, decaying
Turning into something rotten
Drowning in my sorrow
Drowning in my drink
Coughing up the excess pills
Why do I have to think?
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LOVE POEM
Published
30th May 2013 2:44pm
30th May 2013 2:44pm
Easier Said Than Done
I told you I'd leave you alone
I guess that's easier said than done
Because I still have things to say
Things that seem to weigh a ton
I'd like to start with an apology
From the bottom of my heart
I'm happy for you, I truly am
Even if it means we are apart
For once this is not a trick
This is not some mind game
I just feel terrible about what I did
And need to alleviate the shame
Now I can't say I'm not jealous
Who wouldn't be?
And I can't say I'm not bitter
Still I hope that you'll forgive me
It was wrong of...
I guess that's easier said than done
Because I still have things to say
Things that seem to weigh a ton
I'd like to start with an apology
From the bottom of my heart
I'm happy for you, I truly am
Even if it means we are apart
For once this is not a trick
This is not some mind game
I just feel terrible about what I did
And need to alleviate the shame
Now I can't say I'm not jealous
Who wouldn't be?
And I can't say I'm not bitter
Still I hope that you'll forgive me
It was wrong of...
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LOVE POEM
Published
29th May 2013 11:10am
29th May 2013 11:10am
Always number 2
Always number two
Never number one
I guess that was implied
But fuck you because I'm far from done
Said she didn't want to lead me on
That it was no fault of mine
But this wasn't going anywhere
So down the hatch go copious pills and wine
I know I shouldn't care this much
I know I move too fast
I know I'm an intolerable asshole
Just by looking at my past
I wish she'd say she hated me
So that I could hate her back
Hate is better than misery
But I like her too much to go on the attack
I used up all my tears...
Never number one
I guess that was implied
But fuck you because I'm far from done
Said she didn't want to lead me on
That it was no fault of mine
But this wasn't going anywhere
So down the hatch go copious pills and wine
I know I shouldn't care this much
I know I move too fast
I know I'm an intolerable asshole
Just by looking at my past
I wish she'd say she hated me
So that I could hate her back
Hate is better than misery
But I like her too much to go on the attack
I used up all my tears...
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LOVE POEM
Published
10th Apr 2013 5:44am
10th Apr 2013 5:44am
If only...
(not my best work, I know, but bear with me)
If I could turn off my feelings
I wouldn't get my hopes so high
Only to plummet towards an unforgiving surface
If I could turn off my feelings
I wouldn't get too close
Close enough to feel the warmth of what could have been
If I could turn off my feelings
I wouldn't feel the hurt
Of being pushed to the side again and again
But I can't
The once so beautiful heart I wear on my sleeve
Is now too decimated to be broken any more
So jaded by the constant abuse
And yet I feel...
If I could turn off my feelings
I wouldn't get my hopes so high
Only to plummet towards an unforgiving surface
If I could turn off my feelings
I wouldn't get too close
Close enough to feel the warmth of what could have been
If I could turn off my feelings
I wouldn't feel the hurt
Of being pushed to the side again and again
But I can't
The once so beautiful heart I wear on my sleeve
Is now too decimated to be broken any more
So jaded by the constant abuse
And yet I feel...
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LOVE POEM
Published
24th Mar 2013 4:01am
24th Mar 2013 4:01am
Two Peas in a Comfortable Pod
Trying to write a poem
For Evania Meehan
It's harder than I thought
But for her I know I can
The one that got away
I know it was my fault
But every time I think about her
My heartbeat slows to a halt
She wears elven beauty
With vampiric sex appeal
A stone cold fox
But as hot as molten steel
I want to hold her close again
I know that I cannot
This would be a lot easier
If she didn't occupy my every thought
She's always there for me
And I'm always there for her
I pick her up when she is down
And...
For Evania Meehan
It's harder than I thought
But for her I know I can
The one that got away
I know it was my fault
But every time I think about her
My heartbeat slows to a halt
She wears elven beauty
With vampiric sex appeal
A stone cold fox
But as hot as molten steel
I want to hold her close again
I know that I cannot
This would be a lot easier
If she didn't occupy my every thought
She's always there for me
And I'm always there for her
I pick her up when she is down
And...
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LOVE POEM
Published
20th Mar 2013 4:06am
20th Mar 2013 4:06am
Hopeless Romantic
I don't know you as well as I'd like to
And that would be fine I guess
If all these inexplicable feelings of affection
Would stop causing me such distress
I try not to be weird
I try to come off as cool
But every time I talk to you
I end up feeling like a fool
Introspection isn't helping
Not in the slightest bit
I don't know why I care so much
Now I'm further lost in it
Not sure what I expect from you
Understanding would be great
But how are you to understand?
And after all these confessions it's to late to clean the...
And that would be fine I guess
If all these inexplicable feelings of affection
Would stop causing me such distress
I try not to be weird
I try to come off as cool
But every time I talk to you
I end up feeling like a fool
Introspection isn't helping
Not in the slightest bit
I don't know why I care so much
Now I'm further lost in it
Not sure what I expect from you
Understanding would be great
But how are you to understand?
And after all these confessions it's to late to clean the...
335 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
13th Jul 2012 6:04pm
13th Jul 2012 6:04pm
Futility of Life
Looking in the mirror I feel my insides churn
My mistakes are something from which I can never seem to learn
For this alone, I know eventually I will burn
But my own fate is something that causes me little to no concern
Because why should I be concerned with my own insignificant fate?
When there is no higher power to arbitrate
My life will not be something for the weak to arrogate
But am I truly enlightened or is it a facade I create?
Is it an honest world view is arrogance my true trait?
And is my mind something I can just decide to liberate?
I ask...
My mistakes are something from which I can never seem to learn
For this alone, I know eventually I will burn
But my own fate is something that causes me little to no concern
Because why should I be concerned with my own insignificant fate?
When there is no higher power to arbitrate
My life will not be something for the weak to arrogate
But am I truly enlightened or is it a facade I create?
Is it an honest world view is arrogance my true trait?
And is my mind something I can just decide to liberate?
I ask...
125 reads
3 Comments
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