Smile through the tears, babe.
They'll be the happiest moments of your life and
in a second
it'll all be gone.
Give me a grin,
don't let that waterfall of sadness stop you,
lay a hand on mine and smile.
Ignore the falling rocks and kiss me,
we're the only ones
who matter tonight.
Ignore the darkness closing in,
and let the starlight caress us,
sweetly and slowly.
Smile through the tears.
Bogged down in the past
looking forward to the future
bored by the present
happy with what I've done
dissapointed with who I am
scared about who I'm going to be
wishing I was better
knowing I'm the best I can be
hungry for something
full of it already
welling up with tears
ridiculously happy.
I feel huge and very small.
The man.
He brings me vitamins and lucozade,
a flicker of sympathy.
But only when I'm suffering.
The man.
He brings condolences and lies,
minerals and Omega 3.
Says he wants to "get me on my feet."
The man.
Brings lozenges in an ominous box.
Of course he got them cheaply.
Refuses to splash out
on his own son.
Sinking Tomorrow - Airplane by forswornbrother86, literature
Literature
Sinking Tomorrow - Airplane
The cockpit.
My cage for the next eighteen hours.
Naught but a vacuous, black expanse for company.
Faintly, the excited mumble;
tourists on holiday.
One thousand times I have left the peaceful concrete,
for the hellish, bleak sky;
no friend save for the endless drone of the engines.
I feel a change in me.
The beeps of the control board ring unfamiliarly.
I will be sinking tomorrow.
The sense of moving backwards
The rush of time scraping my skin
A torrent of thorns
torment
and tease
and fall away
and burn.
Flames flicker, searing my skin to black; crumbling........dead.
My faithful heart skips a beat.
When I see you
Fence Skit 3 27.09.09 by forswornbrother86, literature
Literature
Fence Skit 3 27.09.09
Unseen.
Behind The Fence.
One hundred throusand prying eyes.
Golden and evil,
cigarette burns on my skin.
Immortalized in the slow fire;
Unstoppable heat is both a cage and a pillow.
A comfort.
And a burden.
A bittersweet victory.
The fence moves closer,
Blackness...
dissapates.
Blinding light illuminates and destroys.
Nothing is left.
Untitled Skit 2 27.09.09 by forswornbrother86, literature
Literature
Untitled Skit 2 27.09.09
Patiently Wainting.
A coarse bed, a plastic duvet.
The machine squeaks, sixty eight bpm.
Latex gloves, doctors' eyes.
A grim smile of yellow, unbrushed teeth, a cold physical from an apathetic intern.
I'm sorry.
Untitled Skit 27.09.09 by forswornbrother86, literature
Literature
Untitled Skit 27.09.09
This ethereal dream.
A hell I wish I could stay in forever.
A cold bath of fire for a cleansed soul;
until the dirt of real life is revealed.
The blood
Crimson; encrusted on my nails.
A spatter on the wall.
I sigh and move to clean up the mess.
But my eyes close. And I slip back into the beautiful dream.
Tuneless chant
Saturday night
Sportsman's arms
can in hand
vicious words
marriage broken
fixed at sunrise
hair of the dog
skinheads thrown out
spilt beer
Stella Artois
broken britain
a whisper
a beer mat
a scream
fists fly
split lip
blood on the cold tarmac
fixed in the morning
hair of the dog
Smile through the tears, babe.
They'll be the happiest moments of your life and
in a second
it'll all be gone.
Give me a grin,
don't let that waterfall of sadness stop you,
lay a hand on mine and smile.
Ignore the falling rocks and kiss me,
we're the only ones
who matter tonight.
Ignore the darkness closing in,
and let the starlight caress us,
sweetly and slowly.
Smile through the tears.
Bogged down in the past
looking forward to the future
bored by the present
happy with what I've done
dissapointed with who I am
scared about who I'm going to be
wishing I was better
knowing I'm the best I can be
hungry for something
full of it already
welling up with tears
ridiculously happy.
I feel huge and very small.
She is,
to me at least,
perfect.
Although,
i see a sadness.
I see a struggle,
deep inside of her.
I can see it in
her closed mouth smile.
I can see it in
her meaningful eyes.
I gaze into them and see
promises,
made to her,
promises,
broken.
Inside of her is a path.
Longer than most paths.
A black path,
a light at the end.
But the light is just one more
promise.
A promise,
no doubt,
made to be broken again.
I look for a heart inside of her,
I see,
I see,
shards
You looked at me.
Or were you looking through me?
Your auburn hair was blown across your face.
Your hazel eyes were harsh...but capturingly beautiful
You did not smile. You had no reason to.
Your pursed lips vibrated as tears started to crawl over your perfect cheeks
You closed your eyes, and turned away.
Autumn leaves fell around you as you broke my heart.
As the one adventurous oaty loop
that crawls over the lip of the bowl
falls down towards the floor,
I open my ears in anticipation.
As that adventurous oaty loop
collides inevitably
with the varnished wooden floor,
the most wonderful noise fills the hallway.
The noise is full of sugary optimism.
It is a noise of hope, a noise of...
promise...
And as I pick that loop up and place it
back in my bowl, I can't help but
think about tomorrow when the little
cheerio will fall out and fill me with joy all over again.
Pink shirt.
Black jacket (leather jacket).
Hat.
Scars of love and addiction
paint a portrait of
desperation on your arms.
You could fit a million ideas into
the brain behind those
burning, stoned eyes,
but instead you fill it with
abscence.
Why?
My two sides collide inside of me;
a marriage of the hope of a better day,
and the knowledge that one will never come.
The conflict remains unchanged,
a miserable rain-soaked war of principles,
neither army seeming to break ahead,
just increasing their powers, as if
the devil heard my prayers,
and decided to reverse them.
Grey clouds put further shade to the hellish performance,
the ceaseless hostility that shows no signs of relenting.
Its gradual attempts to fracture my weakened skull
appear to be succeding,
as back in the real world,
a headache resembling torture ravages my everyday life.
I get looks that I can no longer co
Even the tabloids would not print
the atrocities that are your tuesdays,
hidden in scandals and disgust.
Even the life that awaits you,
one full of despair, disease and tuesdays,
won't be broadcasted to the world.
Even through good times and the bad,
the critical public frown on tuesdays,
never a change from what they feel.
The room you love to sit in is characteristically minimalist. The only object inside the four white walls is a flowery red cushion sat perfectly plump, perfectly in the centre of the room. There is a window on the south wall, so at least some of the room is illuminated in every daylight hour. There is no light bulb hanging from the ceiling because there are no light bulbs anywhere in your house. You sit in this room, facing away from the window, with the sun pulsing lightly on your back, delicately sculpting origami models of your favourite animals; mostly swans but also others. You are perfectly content when you hear the wind whistle through
A Man Mourns His Muse
We were all paired on Parnassus.
But when the city sank
under the howling water I left him.
Snap. I caught him old
on his deathbed. He spoke
quietly. I leaned in, deftly:
Once I dreamt
of flickering elms
the dancing cars
O I chased them till I wept.
I could not match them
for speed. They threw
spooling loops of light
as though they knew
I would not catch them.
In another dream
I skated
the wafer of light
between evening and night
balanced, glacial
until the moon rose
and I fell. Today I felt
I'd slipped into the space
between terraced houses.
He could not have known.
I
i try and tell myself that it's all in my head
that you would never play with my emotions
i have no regrets about what was said
you're a completely different person to me now
and you can never go back
you've changed so much
our love used to be something no one could touch
hidden from the world, only visible in our eyes
the sparkle i would get each time i saw your face
the immediate mood change
the inability to frown, it's all disappeared
like ashes into the ground, forcibly seared
never to be seen again
and these flames have burned on
never-ending, we're only pretending
i used to look at you and see someone who would never hurt
I'm just a kid. No, scratch that - I'm just a punk kid; isn't that what you'd call me? I've got a pierced eyebrow and a pierced lip. My hair is long, shaggy, and black with purple streaks. I've got over twenty tattoos and circles under my eyes from one too many late nights. I'm just a dumb, punk kid, and you hate me, don't you? You know I'm a user and an abuser. You know that if I didn't have this leather jacket on, you'd see a line of needle marks up my arm. You know those circles under my eyes are from nights spent drinking, downing pint after pint, popping pills like candy. You know that in five years I'll not be able to climb a fl
Mum's the Word on Mum's Day by BlueGreenGrey, literature
Literature
Mum's the Word on Mum's Day
I hear the sting of his palm
But I feel a pain not yours
The house takes on an eerie calm
The truth's hidden by locked doors
Shattered glass litters the halls
Of this home that was once warm
I harken to my siblings' calls
And take all three in my arms
My head is filled with cotton
My movements aren't my own
As we dwell on loves forgotten
And the seeds of grief he's sown
Fears hidden 'neath the covers
That you had made for me
We lie in bed together
And cry in harmony
When I'm sitting all alone
And feeling real depressed
My lover calls me on the phone
And tells me not to feel helpless
But you won't ever learn
That your chil
That Man Had A Way With Words by forswornbrother86, literature
Literature
That Man Had A Way With Words
They say, sanity is clear. It runs, as fresh as spring water through the core of every person still holding on to the plot. Sanity doesn't shout out at you, does it? Its one of those things that you only value once is gone. Needless to say, I have met many sane, and many insane people in my life, yet my favourite encounter must be with a man I shall call K. His personality was fantastic. I walked into my local library one day, as I did on alternate Wednesday evenings, and there he was, sat at a table, halfway through Tolstoy's War And Peace. He was a striking figure; you could tell even whilst he was sitting that he was tall, six foot nine,
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