Tag: Poetry
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Wild Thing
Perhaps I am not just a flowerSoft and delicatePerhaps I am a weedOr more than thatUnwanted but growingVigorous and wild Perhaps I am not just a flowerIndeed, easily plucked butPerhaps I am more thanThe grass you stompStubborn and persistent I am pliant and resilient Maybe I am not just a flowerMaybe I am something more…
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Succumb
Let your fire burn me ’til this longing is quenched,I’d be thrilled to submit to your passionate torment;Let your flame melt this frosty spell ’til I drip in elation,I’d be delighted to succumb to this ecstatic possession…
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Thrill
Penetrate the crevice of my oasisSlowly dip into the cleft of my wanton desireOr plunge like a skilled diverAnd swim with the waves of thrillUntil you find the sweetest pleasureThe pinnacle of our euphoriaTogether let us ride withThe raging tempest of ecstasy…
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Abandoned
You grew weary But here I stay faithfullyWith my fatigued soul You wandered farI wait for your returnPerhaps you’ll never come back Our storms were giganticYou were lanky and weakThe vows I spoke made you sick You left, I stayedAnd your words torment me moreEven when you’re gone Why did you make oathsYou cannot keep?
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Art of Deception
Hungry for power. Abuse. Fear. It’s dissipating like a virusPlaguing our chaste purposeThe more we try to curb the infectionThe more we are infectedStealth dispersion of infliction.We are downtroddenWe are doomedWe become victims. Abuse of power. Fear.They spread like wildfireAnd we are burningWhat’s the use of our struggle?Indeed, we are but lowly servantsBut do we all…
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The Abyss
The curse hasn’t been brokenwhen you tried to liberate mefrom the vicious clutch of misery,the misery you inflicted on me.Your promises were sweet,your kisses were addictiveand your warm embracefulfilled my heart’s desire, yet everything was ephemeral And I didn’t find my wayto dance freely with your fire,and your warmth didn’t permeatethrough the freezing darknessinstead, I plummeted into…
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Play Me
I sit in the cornerAlone and forgottenBruised by timeRavished by fateMaybe I already forgot to singFor I was robbed of my voice You used to cherish meAcclimated with your touchWe were one, perfect for each otherYou adored me in all my gloryNow I am in this nookWallowing in melancholy Then came that dreadful timeYou relinquished…
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Earthly Coercion
Rain me with your kisses, I won’t shy awayTo drink from your lips, I’ve been waiting for ages.With your scorching passion, do set me aflame.But would you love to swallow my sighs and cries?Nurse my wounds and kiss my scars?Embrace my nomadic soul and pacify my sorrows?Despise me if you behold my cumbersome thoughts?Or loathe…
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Ghoul
Prophecy has it, you are no longer yourself.But, a hollow, an unnamed identityYou do exist but you do not live. As foretold, you are no longer complacent.Though you believe you are simply divergent,Everyone branded you the maleficent. You became the ghoul that extracts joyAnd resistance to ignominy you are not coy.You became the demented or…
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Affliction
This afflictionIs perpetual torture.Cries clogged my throatStingingBloodshot eyes,Heart-wrenching reality,Repressed lamentsAnd muffled cries… As I crouched down on the cold floor,Hugging my trembling kneesI let my tears fallUnder the cold waterWishing all this burdenWould go down the drain.But it didn’t.It torments me more.I covered my mouthTo suppress a screamYet my heart agonizesSeverely.I felt its faint beatingAs…
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Perhaps
If you were in my shoes,You would know how many miles I walked,You would see how many times I tripped,You would feel how it’s like to rip apart(But what can I do? To you, I was just some disposable stuff.)If you were in my shoes,PerhapsYou would know how many times I got tiredBut continued to…
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Summer
May the summer breeze warm the heartOf those who were left, whose lovers hath depart.May their cheeks be kissed by the sun,May they never again be broken…
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Memory Lane
I lost count of how many times I missed a step and fell scraping my knee.I wasn’t stunned at all about how much it pained me.But I found the peace I have been waiting for,My everlasting desire has finally come to me.For quite some time I kept on traipsing down memory lane;The battles I fought,…
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Alone
On a cold lonesome night, I dwell aloneNo warmth, no laughter, no light.Almost had I made a pact with sadnessTo tarry in its addicting loneliness-Tempting, bewitching darkness.Perhaps I was desperate to flee or dieYet sooner or later I shall say goodbye.I wallow in the pain, feel it gnaw at my fleshDevouring my sanity, waiting for…
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Torment
I’ll close my eyes to ne’er see the horrendous tragedy,Shut my ears against the screams of recurring agony.So, I must take a break from pain or sorrowAnd sleep like there’s no tomorrow.But if tomorrow I won’t see the sun againCertain that I will be saved from going insane.Yet, it will be a joy for me…
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The beer got me good this time
Felt my head pounding with an excruciating sting.Wait, did I just hear someone whistling?Yet I saw visions reflected before meFlashing night lights, well, are they?Maybe I long to see a thousand visions of theeNot the dancing fireflies, not St. Elmo’s fire,But your fire that’ll consume the whole of me.Still, my head hurts like hell, such…
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Coffee and You
You invaded my life like a balm soothing my soul,Touched my bitter heart with your sweetnessAnd the bitter-sweet spell has perfectly blended in.
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A war broke out inside my brain
A war broke out between angels and devilsVying for freedom, perhaps supremacy And I can feel their strengths as theyHurl lances and mortars hitting my fences.I cry out in each blow, I tremble in anguish.This misery I endure, how will it vanish?Gladiators stomped in like giants Throwing fists, blades and armors clanking.For days, they battle unwavering they…
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Boxing My Office Stuff
You make my world spin while bitter memories flood in.You are the epitome of my miseries, I loathe your presence.So, I gotta clear the clutter and ditch you in the dumpster.Gotta do it sooner before the countdown to 30 is over.‘Cause I see you like a trauma that makes my gut churn,You murdered my dream…
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Fading to black
Her mournful sobs doth echo in the night,While the crickets sing hymns of travesty;Her heartbeat faltering like the fading lightFor your affection, her soul’s thirsty.Then the church bell starts tolling death.Alone in the dark, she was shivering.Cursed she was, her illness was not a myth.Doom her life met, she was withering.
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Smudges
I wish I could paint my skin with sunset huesSo I could look bewitching even in this darkness,But these monstrous scrapes and scars, and lesions,Embellish my sky.Some tried to cover it up with lies and left even without a goodbye,And in the canvas remains the smudges of thoseWho tried to repaint it but fled with…
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Web of Doubts
I found myself mourningFor a love that has never been,Shattered to bitsFlown with the windLike it was never meant,For I was never once and never will beThe rhythm and the rhymeTo complete a masterpiece,For I was never once and never will beA whisper from your lipsNor a cry from your want and your needs,For I…
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The Gallows
Laid out all my cards like there was no tomorrowBut that bitter-sweet game only gave me sorrow.If I had stayed within the confines of my keepPerhaps I could still enjoy a peaceful sleep.But as selfish as you were, you wouldn’t let me beI took the fall, but my suffering, you wouldn’t seeWho should be blamed…
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Untitled
Some are meant to suffer,Some are meant to be loved,But this cursed life deserves nothingBut deathSo, let me sleep forever…
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Change
Seasons change and life seems an endless journeyAnd though we sometimes wish otherwise,Life ceases but time ticks by unceasing.And oh, the rain pours down unexpectedlyWhen just a wink ago, the sun was blazing,And who knows what might happen nextWhen life is full of surprises in betwixt.We witness the dawn break into new hopesAnd watch the…
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Solitary Confinement
Must I go back to where I wasTo the place where I was confined alone,When I wandered far from homeIt sheltered me inside cold walls.Though it kept me withheld in doorsAnd silence was my companion,It never let me feel sad and alone,Hence, on its shoulders I clung on.Perhaps I was blind for I couldn’t seeNobody…
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Ghosts
There’s something in the night that she fears.There’s something in its silence that torments her.There comes the rain, it terrifies her moreThe raindrops feel like needles pricking her torn heart.
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Memory Lane
In this nameless street where sorrow and joy meetWith a tempestuous mind and unsteady heartbeat Quite dull and feeble, battered with exhaustionI walk still very unable to contain my emotion. Traipsing down on memory lane perhaps,Recollection of the gleeful past perhaps,Though wearisome as it may seem, I mustWalk along, rest if need be, but I mustn’t stop.But,…
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The Road To The West
I’m in the middle of the roadThat to the East, there, to the WestWhich road must I chooseWhen I often think I am lost?Must I take the road to the westMaybe I’ll find peace and solace,There in the land of the dead,There in that forgotten land,Maybe I could rest.This exhaustion is gnawing at mePerhaps it’s…
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Shall You Find Me Not At The Necropolis
Shall you find me not at the NecropolisSearch for me, maybe, on the shoreFor I may be sitting on the dockI’ll be waiting to be found by thee. But if you let me a-wander after thisKnow that I will still understand you moreI’d tarry till night-time to try my luckI’d be waiting still until you…
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Quarter to Six
I got off the bus for luck wasn’t on my sideCould it be that the premonition was a lie?With these weary legs idly I stepped asideSat on the wooden bench, just knapsack and I.The sun was shining lazily the whole day,Though with a heavy heart I smiled thankfully. Maybe I must continue this journey laterOr tomorrow…
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Meet me at the Necropolis
When the final breath escape from my parched lipsAnd this frail, cold and lifeless body demiseWill you weep and cry a river upon this lossOr will you rejoice and be gratefully joyous? When my body finally meet its resting placeFreed from the torture of horrible monsters,Will I then obtain my dearly desired peaceOr still, be…
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Nameless Street
Took the ride off to the countrysideEven without you by my sideStill hoping you’d meet me somewhereBut you were never there.Sadly, I couldn’t see you aroundYou were nowhere to be found.I was alone, lost and torn andTears cascaded like waterfalls.My knees gave up, down I knelt.Hopes flew, courage did melt.Might better be numb, thought I.Might…
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Bullying, not a fiction
“Hey, dork!” I think this sounds familiarLike the “Hey, ugly duckling!” that’s quite vulgar.“You’re not good enough!” So and so…But I got used to it. So, what’s new? How many tears have I shed soaking my pillow?But I couldn’t cry out loud, I silently wallow.How many times I wished death to take me?Perhaps misfortune graced…
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Bullying: a reality, not poetry
At daytime, it hunts me like a stalker.At night, it haunts me like a nightmare.It cuts deep through my soulThat leaves scars, an everlasting tattoo. It preys on my confidenceAnd binds me in decadence.Have I been told to clapback?I was. For I, too, wished to bounce back. But as frail as I was, I crumbled.My…
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Goner
A deep raspy voice called to me, “Come hither, come hither,Follow my voice, come to me.”As fear embraced me, I shudder.Towards my demise, I walk nigher.Damn! It dawned on me that I’m a goner.
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Here Lies The Soul of the Tricked
Here, lies the soul of the tricked Some say she’s weird; others say she’s wicked.But what matters most in this instanceWhen she was a victim of a circumstance. She loved true. Was it a sin?She fought for her love but what did she gain?She loved and lost the most cruel way.Would you pity her? Would you…
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The Heart That Once Loved True Lies Here
You proclaimed your intent too sweet for her liking,Perhaps it was one of those scripted litanies.Her naïve heart swooned over your tender words,Unaware her peaceful world would crumble. For quite a while she danced gayly,Oblivious to the looming malady.She sang melodies, laughed her heart outLiving in fantasy, without a hint of doubt. But one day,…
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Waiting
There is agony in waiting when time ticks slowThe unanswered riddles, the waves of skepticismThe surges of turmoil are a dreadful reality… Agonized are those who wait for what may or may not come.
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Last Sunset
I blinked away the tears threatening to flowWhen the last sunset faded its glow,I watched as the curtains of grim clouds drew in,Felt your strong arms imprisoned me then.I could not wrestle-off from your steel hold,Could do nothing but to let the story unfold.You stoked the fire, lit me up with a single sparkWhen you…
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Remember Me
Remember me…Through the breeze on a cold morning,Through the crisp wind on a warm evening,Through the pale glow from the moonlight,Or the flickering neon lights on a lazy night.Search me through the crowd in the bustling streets,On the crossroads or passers-by in front of your car, When the red light is on while you’re behind…
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Wanderer
IAm a wanderer lost for so longBeen in the dark for a quite timeCondemned by fate… LoveA treacherous journey I tookBeen poisoned by a kissWhose lips seemed cherry sweet… But here I am again in this adventureToo beautiful to resist and IChose to take the risk because ofYou.
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Drifting
I am drifting away but you don’t seem to noticeOr maybe you don’t care, or maybe it’s youFading and our memories slowly obliterating…
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Journey
And if by chance, I’d meet you down the road,I pray you’d help me with this burdensome loadFor, my feet are weary, this journey is scaryThe road is long, exhausting, and tricky.But I’m ready to face the consequences, I must say,Aye! This quest shall go on, come what may.
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On the Shore
Shall you find me not at the NecropolisSearch for me, maybe, on the shoreFor I may be sitting on the dockI’ll be waiting to be found by thee.But if you let me a-wander after thisKnow that I will still understand you moreI’d tarry till night-time to try my luckI’d be waiting still until you find me.And…
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What am I?
I found myself mourningFor a love that has never been,Shattered to bitsFlown with the windLike it was never meant,For I was never once and never will beThe rhythm and the rhymeTo complete a masterpiece,For I was never once and never will beA whisper from your lipsNor a cry from your want and your needs,For I…
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In the arms of the shadows
(Will she ever find comfort out in the lightWhen she loved how warm it is to be in the dark?Will she ever feel safe out in the lightWhen she found compassion in the dark?)… The intoxicating chill nips at her soulThat slowly numbs her inner turmoilLethargic, she found a new obsessionSpellbound, she succumbed to addiction.For,…
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Embers of the Past
The horror of the past still lingers in my skinThat smells of betrayal and tears and torment.What must I do to forget the taunting aching?What antidote will work to numb these fears?If I strip myself before your eyes and pose bare,You’ll see marks and scars tattooed forever,A living testament of the battle I foughtAnd on…
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Fragments of Yesterday
[Fragments of Yesterday It’s Sunday morn and the sun’s up and brightThe throbbing pain in my head doesn’t feel rightFlashing pictures in my memory now an agonyCold sweat, too dizzy to get up, I might throw up.I am alive. I pondered staring at the ceilingBut where am I? Clueless with this sickening feeling.My thoughts seem…
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FAREWELL
Shall this life expires at a sudden moment‘Tis certain I fell in the hands of my opponent,This instant allow me to opportune this chanceTo vent my goodbye by chanting my rants. For emotions I touched, skins I prickedFrom the visions and words I fancily createdMe self condemned, though random verses I played.Clear is my conscience, edgy…
Yoona 