The wound vanished from sight.
The well of torment flowing from my hand
It now stands dry
Dry from sorrow, devoid of any strain.
And the bliss is glowing on the horizon,
Calling to its promising shores.
I gulp, I cling, I grasp,
I devour it all.
The sweet taste of elation
The mythic lush of its nectar
I can taste it with trembling lips
Ephemeral, exquisite and dainty.
Forever present, yet awfully timid
Easily losing clasp in one blow.
An inconstant companion
A delicacy we crave for at each turn.
Compassion is Confusion by RideTheSpiral19, literature
Literature
Compassion is Confusion
You look around, but you can’t see
What it is you mean to me
Kindness and compassion you can’t comprehend
My concerns and interest for your sake
For acts of deception you mistake
Your self-worth that you can’t understand
A diamond buried in the sand
Burned by the fires from which you were forged
Pressure comprised of beauty mixed with fear
Dominating, complicating the thoughts in your mind
The candor and honesty to which you are blind
Your confusion rings and echoes in my ears
Please help me to unfog your eyes
Deliver you from your lies
Open you to the beauty that lies inside
But still you try to defy
Humanity which you d
How to Insult Poetically by WordOfChen, literature
Literature
How to Insult Poetically
Once I happened upon a callow young lass,
Who apparently thought that it was cool to be crass.
And she turned her tongue upon the profession of writing;
Apparently she felt that it was in need of a smiting.
Though her raving and ranting made very little sense,
She seemed to be taking a rather harsh stance.
Apparently her pain was too great to be understood,
Far beyond the comprehension of this man from the hood.
So I stood there in swagger, clad in my bling.
While she behaved like 'Moon-Moon', in search of a thing.
She spouted some nonsense, some far fetched line,
About never idolizing the keen writer's mind...
...Aaaaaalrighty then,
If t
Capricious, erratic creatures,
You observe the likeness of unknown features,
Condemning, curving your mouth with disdain
For the decorum of oneself shall obey your malicious reign.
The abomination you painted in your narrow mind,
Was no more than an eccentric brother yet to find
Utter compliance you seek,
Yet of vain dejection you only reek.
The enmity that guides your every line
Is but poison you gulped instead of light so divine.
Depart from the ignorance that compels you,
Underneath the deception lies all that is true.
Maybe I should have questioned
why your teeth always chattered
like fingers clicking on a typewriter,
and why your fingernails
looked as though faint, blue ink
had bled through
but who questions anything
but hair,
makeup,
and boys
at the age of sixteen
and maybe I should have noticed
the lunches you spent
doing homework,
or listening to music,
as you gave away your lunch,
because you said
you were not hungry-
and I silently thought
more for me
and maybe I should have wondered
why you walked through the hallways
with pockets of graphite
under your eyes,
as your knees knocked together
like keys on a lanyard:
clink
clink
clank
and maybe t
I'm hollowed to the marrow
Torn apart by this constant wind of emptiness,
My eyes seeking for the answer of a better tomorrow,
The malevolence of a disapearing bliss
Gripping the infinity of a starless night
Lost in a sphere of never ending torments
Riving the scale of an excruciating moroseness.
Struggle and despair you carry
Euphoria and passion you exult,
While I can share nothing but a gap
Attached to a breeze
Falling into nothingness
Fatigued by the time flowing
Hollowed to the marrow
The sudden void into the unhinged mind of a demented soul,
The rapture of a lucid dream, falling into an obliterated consciousness
The devastating coma of a genius protagonist, completing the epic tale of a life
It was all but a dream, a chimera, an excruciating lie.
The nothingness digging its claws into a cryptic vision,
The finality of a banal, vain existence
Never to be remembered, nor praised for its perpetual battle against agony.
There is nothing,
Nothing but the sharp sound of shattering glass,
Nothing but a hollow shell on the edge of the world.
This is where I depart, this is where I bow down,
This is where my crude hatred vanish
Why must I care so much?
About every scrape or brush
With each and every bump or bruise
To your aide I always rush
Why am I so eager?
To be brittle so you don't break
To build you strong and sturdy
While my own foundation I forsake
Why do I keep falling?
Just so you can stand
To bear your burdens
While always offering my hand
I suck the poison from your wounds
Every chance that I see
Swallow and drink deep
Just to taste your misery
A desperate grasp of desire
Such folly that I pursue
I'll suckle on your sorrow
For any piece of you will do
Why do I care so much?
I ask again and again
Why must I bleed myself?
For someone who's barely mor