Submissions by OctoberArts (Octob3r)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Waiting for darkness to end my dismay, How long will I live in shades of gray, Or until my existence just completely fades.
A World Beyond The Lyrics
Do you hear it?
No...Do you really hear it?
Take a second, fall into the lyrics
Let them speak to you, allow yourself to feel it
Float with melody, far from reality
End your worrying and take the journey
Let your emotions bleed empty
Teary eyes accompanied by a soft smile
Whispered chorus falling from your lips
As beauty envelops your imagination
Filling your emptiness with new found images
Just close your eyes and look at them
A story you can't read...
No...Do you really hear it?
Take a second, fall into the lyrics
Let them speak to you, allow yourself to feel it
Float with melody, far from reality
End your worrying and take the journey
Let your emotions bleed empty
Teary eyes accompanied by a soft smile
Whispered chorus falling from your lips
As beauty envelops your imagination
Filling your emptiness with new found images
Just close your eyes and look at them
A story you can't read...
119 reads
4 Comments
What I Mean By Nothing
What is wrong was the question
Everything, but nothing is how I said it
If only they knew how I meant it
Suffering from depression
Not knowing what world my head is in
Fed up with pointless lies
Sad and painful goodbyes
Constantly awaiting my time
As I dabble in more wrongs than rights
The idiotic trials of love with women
Tested until not one fuck is given
My sad excuse for existence
Always working to make a living
Yet never feeling alive
Drama and stress at an all...
Everything, but nothing is how I said it
If only they knew how I meant it
Suffering from depression
Not knowing what world my head is in
Fed up with pointless lies
Sad and painful goodbyes
Constantly awaiting my time
As I dabble in more wrongs than rights
The idiotic trials of love with women
Tested until not one fuck is given
My sad excuse for existence
Always working to make a living
Yet never feeling alive
Drama and stress at an all...
135 reads
8 Comments
RAVE
"Molly" running through my veins
Ecstasy taking control of my brain
Screaming voices chanting lyrics
Bass building in my chest, I could feel it
Devil eyed high beneath ray band shades
Flashing lights, glow sticks, and deadmou5 heads
Balloons, smoke, wet clothes from all the foam
Acid strips kicking in as heads begin to roll
The bass fades but the piano continues to play
Lost in a world of colors, dancing the night away
Then the music stops, lights go dark
The moment floating as the ground falls
Hands reaching for the sky...
Ecstasy taking control of my brain
Screaming voices chanting lyrics
Bass building in my chest, I could feel it
Devil eyed high beneath ray band shades
Flashing lights, glow sticks, and deadmou5 heads
Balloons, smoke, wet clothes from all the foam
Acid strips kicking in as heads begin to roll
The bass fades but the piano continues to play
Lost in a world of colors, dancing the night away
Then the music stops, lights go dark
The moment floating as the ground falls
Hands reaching for the sky...
109 reads
4 Comments
Does it bother you? Because it bothers me.
What makes my skin crawl?
It’s simple really…or is it?
The future,
The future and how it relates
To the present,
To the past,
How it’s forever the same
Never seeming to change
Always based on routine
Whoever you may be
You were a robot then
You are a robot now
And a robot you will be
Does that bother you?
Because it bothers me
Constantly having to please
Am I even doing this for me?
Please I just want to breathe
But stray from the path of society
And that’s a step closer...
It’s simple really…or is it?
The future,
The future and how it relates
To the present,
To the past,
How it’s forever the same
Never seeming to change
Always based on routine
Whoever you may be
You were a robot then
You are a robot now
And a robot you will be
Does that bother you?
Because it bothers me
Constantly having to please
Am I even doing this for me?
Please I just want to breathe
But stray from the path of society
And that’s a step closer...
606 reads
5 Comments
Staying After Sex
Comfortable or strange
I wonder as I lay
In a bed that isn’t mine
Is this wrong, or is this right
How can she sleep?
She barely even knows me
Cuddled close beside me
Her fingers finding mine
Slowly becoming intertwined
Beginning to shut my eyes
As the sun begins to rise
It was half past three
Bright blue eyes gazing deep
Complimented with a smile
Whispered hello’s and soft kisses
As we continue to lay for awhile
I wonder as I lay
In a bed that isn’t mine
Is this wrong, or is this right
How can she sleep?
She barely even knows me
Cuddled close beside me
Her fingers finding mine
Slowly becoming intertwined
Beginning to shut my eyes
As the sun begins to rise
It was half past three
Bright blue eyes gazing deep
Complimented with a smile
Whispered hello’s and soft kisses
As we continue to lay for awhile
174 reads
7 Comments
My Phobia
Love
The word itself causes me to hyperventilate
Fall to my knees, shake and cry uncontrollably
As my mind begins to flicker through every risk
The amount of anxiety formed from caring for another
Worrying if you’re good enough or if they will find another
Little fights escalate; bringing tears to each others face
Cheating, Leaving, Lying, Dying, Kids, Money, Divorce
Does anyone think before they mutter the damn word?
Love is a trap, bloodbath for pain and misery
I want...
The word itself causes me to hyperventilate
Fall to my knees, shake and cry uncontrollably
As my mind begins to flicker through every risk
The amount of anxiety formed from caring for another
Worrying if you’re good enough or if they will find another
Little fights escalate; bringing tears to each others face
Cheating, Leaving, Lying, Dying, Kids, Money, Divorce
Does anyone think before they mutter the damn word?
Love is a trap, bloodbath for pain and misery
I want...
133 reads
8 Comments
What Now?
What comes after death?
Not the death of yourself, But the death of your life
When you wake to the realization that all is lost
No….not lost, but never there to begin with
Trying to remember what it meant to be living
Could any of it even be called that … I wonder
As misery pushed through every door
Unasked question began to come forth
Making any sense of purpose lose its worth
Causing happiness and love to yearn for more
Although its instability only makes it worse
It almost seems pointless to...
Not the death of yourself, But the death of your life
When you wake to the realization that all is lost
No….not lost, but never there to begin with
Trying to remember what it meant to be living
Could any of it even be called that … I wonder
As misery pushed through every door
Unasked question began to come forth
Making any sense of purpose lose its worth
Causing happiness and love to yearn for more
Although its instability only makes it worse
It almost seems pointless to...
88 reads
2 Comments
I love you is best said..
I love you is best said ...
The first time
The time after that
To the one that matters most
With every ounce of emotion
Sober maybe drunk
Whispered softly in the ear
Yelled at the top of your lungs
Whenever its time to go
After some corny jokes
Broken between kissing lips
Before during and after sex
When tears are flowing
When smiles are showing
Sunrise and sundown
Written in the sky
Drawn into the ground
Sound asleep or by the beach
Holding hands or cuddled in bed
On a notebook scribbled in...
The first time
The time after that
To the one that matters most
With every ounce of emotion
Sober maybe drunk
Whispered softly in the ear
Yelled at the top of your lungs
Whenever its time to go
After some corny jokes
Broken between kissing lips
Before during and after sex
When tears are flowing
When smiles are showing
Sunrise and sundown
Written in the sky
Drawn into the ground
Sound asleep or by the beach
Holding hands or cuddled in bed
On a notebook scribbled in...
202 reads
10 Comments
Goodbye
Its seems you have become satisfied
Contempt with your new life
As I sit and let mine pass by
Stay fucked up to pass the time
Because sober thoughts make me cry
Make me sick and want to die
Selfishly wishing for what was once mine
Praying that someone would reverse time
Yet you live by every engraved line
Afraid, scared or simply moved on
Whatever the reason I hope you stay happy
Smiling and laughing, never crappy
Forever I will dream of you, forever I will think of you
Forever...
Contempt with your new life
As I sit and let mine pass by
Stay fucked up to pass the time
Because sober thoughts make me cry
Make me sick and want to die
Selfishly wishing for what was once mine
Praying that someone would reverse time
Yet you live by every engraved line
Afraid, scared or simply moved on
Whatever the reason I hope you stay happy
Smiling and laughing, never crappy
Forever I will dream of you, forever I will think of you
Forever...
142 reads
3 Comments
Gray
Lost between the black and whites of life and death
I continuously fail to paint my existence
Full of emotion yet still emotionless
Lost love and unable to love again
A million answers to questions I can’t answer
Am I happy or am I sad?
Am I alive or am I dead?
Is there a god and does it matter?
Do I have a purpose, does that matter?
Forever soaking in my pool of gray
Like a dancer without a song
A bar after everyone’s gone
A leader with no followers
Just a moment captured in a...
I continuously fail to paint my existence
Full of emotion yet still emotionless
Lost love and unable to love again
A million answers to questions I can’t answer
Am I happy or am I sad?
Am I alive or am I dead?
Is there a god and does it matter?
Do I have a purpose, does that matter?
Forever soaking in my pool of gray
Like a dancer without a song
A bar after everyone’s gone
A leader with no followers
Just a moment captured in a...
103 reads
2 Comments
Computer Hearts
Love living behind computer screens
I miss you and I love you written beautifully
If I capitalize will you hear me scream
Constantly worrying about someone you can’t see
Waiting the extra five minutes
To read them say goodnight back
Checking if they are on every minute
Leaving x’s and o’s hearts and smiley kisses
While staring at the faint light wishing
Wishing wishes that live beyond faint lights
Wondering if there will ever come a time
I miss you and I love you written beautifully
If I capitalize will you hear me scream
Constantly worrying about someone you can’t see
Waiting the extra five minutes
To read them say goodnight back
Checking if they are on every minute
Leaving x’s and o’s hearts and smiley kisses
While staring at the faint light wishing
Wishing wishes that live beyond faint lights
Wondering if there will ever come a time
123 reads
1 Comment
Tired
Just live life and be happy”
Please stop with the obscenities
Witness the bullshit in your normality
I have faded, slipped off what is now outdated
This fucking spectrum of life
To wake and strive
Day after Day Night after Night
Sixteen to twenty years of education
Work until your sixty then get a vacation
Live to dream and to achieve
Don’t worry the second you want to bleed
Health care will provide you therapy
Once you witness there is nothing to this world
Once you bathe in the harsh reality
Once your purpose or reason...
Please stop with the obscenities
Witness the bullshit in your normality
I have faded, slipped off what is now outdated
This fucking spectrum of life
To wake and strive
Day after Day Night after Night
Sixteen to twenty years of education
Work until your sixty then get a vacation
Live to dream and to achieve
Don’t worry the second you want to bleed
Health care will provide you therapy
Once you witness there is nothing to this world
Once you bathe in the harsh reality
Once your purpose or reason...
224 reads
5 Comments
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