Exclusive Ink

Category: Poetry

  • CARPE DIEM

    by PAULA

    One more thing before you go;
    I hope you know what you mean to me.
    Even though your scars have leaned on me through your darkest days,
    I still carry the burden faithfully.
    One more thing before you go;
    Just bow your head and pray
    To never waste a day,
    To never falter in your stride,
    And to always feel alive
    As you take my breath away.
    One more thing before you go;
    I have to know…
    Did you think of me when you ran from the show?
    The band still played,
    Yet, you pretended not to know
    The danger of our fall.
    We broke away.
    Did you just not care?
    Was your heart in it at all?
    Were there any feelings there?
    I know I’ve said this before.
    If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times,
    I swear.
    But, one more thing before you go;
    Would it have killed you to try?
    Say hello to the angels below.

  • ATTACHMENTS

    by PAULA

    Tears shed from loveless words
    Thoughtless abominations
    And meaningless apologies
    Truths hidden beneath the lies we seize
    Feelings destroyed
    Tossed around like a childhood toy
    Unspoken phrases left to be said
    Congratulations
    You’ve destroyed me
    Now, let the anger ring free
    No more binding ties
    Or cultivating harmonies

  • FROZEN IMAGE

    by DESTINY

    Down The Path, Away From The Road
    Bustle Of The Highway, In The Inner Quiet
    Cold Of Winter, Emptiness, Sadness
    In My Heart

    Catch Of Air, Shortness Of Breath
    Loss Of Warmth
    Crunch Of Snow
    Snap Of Branch
    Startled Revelation
    Facing The Reality
    Of This Moment

    A Remembered Echo, Residue Of The Event
    The Tree Fallen In The Woods
    Without Sound
    No Human Witnesses, But There On The Ground

    Death Frozen In Place Serenely
    As It Should Be,
    With Swallowed Feelings

    Frozen Image Fleeting
    Under Melting Life And Death
    Lost In Time Transformed By Internalizing

    The Image, Years Old
    A Metaphor
    For Today
    Brooding, Ponderous Steps
    Footprints Of The Road
    Down The Path I Must Take
    Alone After The Dying Sudden,
    But Inevitable Nonetheless.

  • MY GRAVE

    by KAT

    On a day so bright with the sun to shine on this winter grave, I can’t believe that such thoughts would approach my way.
    To have the one I love say the words that ensure my doubts in me. For him to say “You’re truly far away, not a part of society.”

    To say such things and make me think I should internally go away. That maybe society would do best without me.

    So let me fade. Let me fade into nothing.

    On a day so bright with the sun to shine on this winter grave. I’d never expect all that has happened to me. I’d never guess on today of all days I would have beaten and bruised physically. Pushed to the edge of my sanity. With the devil’s girly minions saying how I am so ugly. While loading me with their stuff and forcing me to have no fuse. Telling me to take it like a lovely little young lady.

    On a day so bright with the sun to shine on this winter grave, I would have never have foreseen the emotional load put on me. Everyone bossing me around with no such thing, a misery. While seeing such disappointment in my one and only’s eyes. To feel no purpose on this day of my life. To have this burden put on me is nothing but torture to me.

    Then they lifted it and along with it my feelings for everything. Except the part that chains down the oh so lonely inner me.

    All I want is someone to hold. To go somewhere far away from all this pain and suffering. Some where no one knows. A place far away from any three of my homes.

    On a day so bright with sun to shine on this winter grave, I would have never thought it would have my name.

  • LET ME OFF EASY THIS TIME

    by BRANDON B

    Let me off easy this time,
    Jus do me the honor of being mine.
    Let me off easy this time,
    I promise I’ll save your mind
    From all the typical boring rhymes.
    Let me off easy this time,
    Our love will be the definitions of Valentine’s
    Day where me and you unwind.
    Let me off easy this time,
    And try your best to give me your all with all your might.
    Let me off easy this time,
    When we say good night don’t end it with an “aight.”
    Let me off easy this time,
    And before hand let me know that I’m wasting your time,
    I don’t whine jus ask nicely to my man above,
    That my next love lets me off easy this time.