waiting
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Stop rushing what you know your heart truly desires,
Because there is a reason that the dream was planted in you and why it sets your soul on fire.
waiting for you has ruined me
i have nothing left except you and it hollows me.
come back , you win i lose
my only battle is trying to forget you, im losing terribly
I read the post and I immediately thought of you,
And I know that that is something that I shouldn’t do.
But when I read it, my brain began to wonder if it was just a coincidence,
We are children in a field of dreams.
Waiting.
Watching.
The floating dreams above us wait.
We watch.
The floating dreams are always just out of reach,
It’s midnight now
I’m holding your hand on a porch that hasn’t been built yet.
Standing by a tree not yet grown
I know someday is coming
Someday
But it’s midnight now
I thought I knew what love was,
As I’ve fallen once or twice.
But when it ends and starts anew,
My heart always pays the price.
Someday somebody’s gonna treat you right
They’ll take your hand and hold it tight
They’ll keep you safe all through the night
And remind you how you loved to write
I am waiting waiting for the day to come
Why is it that we always want what we don't have?
Why is it that what is avilable to us is never good enough?
Maybe we are a society of people who fixate too much on chaning everything,
I want to talk for hours with you.
I want to hear your voice.
I want to be near and dear to you.
I want you to protect me from the voices in my mind.
Some people may tell me that I am crazy, but no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to let you go,
Told everyone I wanted to wait
for the right person,
little did they know,
I'm secretly waiting for you.
I have never been someone who would accept it when someone tells them no,
Because I believe that when things get tough, that is when you learn the most and you grow.
Waited this long for love?
Been silly for love?
Been mocked for waiting long?
That's me at 21.
The field lay,
sad, cold, brown stalks rising rigidly and meaningless
from blue snow in footprinted rows
dark in the light of the orange sun
Gazing at the stars above
Looking at the moon
The weather seems so cool
Everything beautiful and glaring
But a soul is lonely
Seeking for comfort
Hoping to find the other better half
Sitting at low tide amongst the creatures of the world underneath my lungs
Staring into the unbreaking blackness of the air hung in smoke
My eyes a lighthouse that gaze into the unknown reality
Standing in front of a big iron gate
Waiting for you, waiving at you
To return home from long journey
From far, far foreign land away
Here you are, standing in front of me
And I see her everywhere
Vanishing in the thin blue air
A sealed letter in her hand
Postmarked from a foreign land
Her uniform and face are blue
Once upon a time there was a sad little girlwho sat at the swings alonewaiting for someone to occupy the empty swing next to herso they'd swing togetherand she'd feel a little less lonely
I'll never sleep again, if it means,
Getting to see you; to prolong my life,
By an indeterminable ammount of time.
However long it takes to know you made it home safe.
A little while ago, I met someone special.
At the time I didn't realise what was going on inside me.
An emotion I hadn't felt before.
I didn't understand it to begin with.
I almost ignored it really.
Why must I imagine the most amazing things that are so far out of reach
Can't I grasp these?
If I truely believed?
They say you can always reach them
But for these I cannot
There is a person named Leon,
Who has not worked in an eon.
He is on a standby
While eating stir-fry.
His eyes are freakin' neon!
We've been down this road before.
Each time it hurts a little more.
I really don't know WHAT you want from me.
When we are doing good, WHY won't you let it be?
I KNOW that you love me, don't say that you don't...
counting knots in the wood slats-
the ones i can feel my nonexistent breath bounce off against
the ones holding up the musty mattress that does not get granted a body for most of the year
silent cabin
Time sure changes everything.
It transforms the parenthesis of reality.
The things you once cursed,
are the same that you lust.
And all you once shouldn't
now suddenly, you must.
They stare ahead with blank eyes
Like robots, or something more civilized
Not a finger twitches
Not an eye blinks
They stare ahead with blank eyes
In my dreams, we have a home together
I'm a little bit older, but you never age
We come home from work—
But it isn't work, we love our jobs—
We embrace the way we always do
I. Just. Love. You.
No words in the world are more true
People say that I want many things
Maybe a dress and maybe a ring
That I ask too much
I should love for a touch
What do you do when your mind is tired but you can't sleep?
I have been up for hours tossing and turning on these sheets
he read my work and called me a tumblr poet...
I thought I found her.
I thought I'd die for her.
I thought she'd stay.
Life was better when when she was around,
but now
SHE
left
Feeling the warm rays of golden sunlight,
their gentle touch carresing
my exposed skin
as I lay still listening, watching...
The murmurr of the leaves
a whispering all of the secrets never heard,
A sun, a moon pass above without no scent
The sun has fallen for I have lost count
For how I wonder if your well
To wonder if a sheer streak still lingers
I sit here alone in the dark
staring out the window
counting fading stars
waiting.
Waiting for dreams that will never come true
Waitig for promises to be pursued
With college approaching
My sanity needs coaxing
Musing my future-
A dry, beguiled form of humor
Waiting. Debating. Suffocating.
It's the epitome of a plight
They say is only finite
I am lost in the curve of your cupid's bow,
Oh, but how it seems more like Cupid's chokehold,
So far away,
across the world; you are,
Tantalizing brown eyes searching for a purpose,
searching for bravery,
Hot vibrant flames roar in the smoke of an empty fireplace. It warms the ice chipped fingertips wrapped around a perfect pair of mittens. In the palms, knitted thread binds the spaces. Patterns. Cheetah. Floral print. Colors. Stripes.
Do me like my name is music
Treat me like I am your music or muses to poetry yet to be created
Though physically isolated and mentally shaken
Still tethered and anchored
Patiently awaiting the weight lift
The clock ticks slowly
Yet fast and maliciously
Time is running out
No time to flee
Heart hammering
Breath quickening
Bones paralyzed
Quaking with fear
In shoes that are
Two minutes till ten. 120 seconds till the world finally ends, she runs and holds her purse tight but she could not get in, the doors are locked, impaciente she waits, walking in circles bored of time.
Which way should I go?
My heart says yes, but my head says no.
Should I go up the path,
or down the road?
My hopes are high,
and then they're low.
Waiting for answers,
chasing dreams.
Young Master has not been home in a while
Master was crying
I could hear her from the big room
I missed Young Master
She had always played with me
Anxiety.
One of the many things,
That can drive me insane.
Consistently waiting for something,
Or in my case,
Someone.
"A deadly weapon in disguise
But i keep my head down
Horror fills their eyes
I search for patterns on the ground
Bright lights fills night skies
But I still feel bound
I look up wishing I could fly
"Where have all the warriors gone?
So loyal
So true
So bold
Where have all the fighters gone?
So tired
So deep
So cold
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Their stories
"The shadows are long
The shadows are dark
They always lurk
They leave no mark
The shadows are big
The shadows are deep
The shadows fall
As the world sleeps
The shadows return
The waiting is the worst part
You wait hours upon hours
To see the cast list go up
The hours go so So SO slowly
You wait and wait and wait
And then you wait some more
I sit here
painfully, painstakingly
watching minutes fly past,
too fast,
but still too slow
when I know you are on
the other end of the line
dying. I'm trying
to get through. Now
Every poem I ever scribbled in a notebook,
and every song I ever sang in the shower,
was meant for you.
every time I woke up with a smile,
you were there.
in my mind.
in my heart.
I spend a long time waiting
waiting,
waiting.
I don't really know what for
but I just am
here
Waiting for a change
I guess
I mean
What else could I wait for?
Sometimes nothing is needed more
Than a moment's rest from
The constant commotion
Burrowed in the heel of
The stride of life
But then,
In other instances,
The spaces in life seem
patience, for i have little if not time,and for you i'd wait until all else fades,until the sky cracks, falling earthward down,and the moments stretch out into decades.
Fearless in flight
Flickering, you fly
That too at night.
At night you fly
At nature you see
Within tiny eyes
I haven’t yet seen
With radiance unknown
She took her tea with sugar this timeand waited for him to call.The gate made creakings on its hingesbut he made no sound at all.
I can still feel the brush of his lips on mine
And the strength of his arms as he pulls me close.
I wish I could go back to that beautiful time
Silver-tongued or flustered, Your words make my heart pound. Awkward or with lustre, Your voice is still the best sound. You hide a smile behind your hand, You cheeks go red, that I understand. Gentle words that blow me away, You always
Tick Tock
The clock above our old TV tormented me,
it’s red numbers screaming distress every time they blinked
Where is he?
You're the only one who can lift me up, make me happy with little to no effort. Just you being who you are is enough alone to remind me of all the reasons why I love you.
I'm in between waiting
for food and exictment
I'm in between waitng
for my car and joy
I'm in between waiting
for shoes and anxiousness
As you can see I'm waiting
Did you ever see a future with me?
Because most woman want a man
But I waited for you to outgrow your
Boy tendencies
Yet you’re still here breaking Lego hearts
And drawing out our hopeless story
One tear
Because that's all I can spare
You slowly walk away
It is finished
This last sunset
This last laugh
This last moment
Gone, forever
The rain then came
Do you remember me?
I remember you.
Will you ever return?
I do want you to.
Do you know how long it's been?
Or have you forgotten?
I know how long it's been.
I have it here written.
If you love him
Waiting will be simultaneously
The easiest and most difficult
Thing in the world
If you love him
Do not tempt him
Do not be alone
Guilt will eat him
Nibble at your love as it
I put all of my feelings about you
In jars of glass,
Transparent to everyone
But you.
I've hung out with your friends
Multiple times
And I'm certain they'll be questioning
My special someone,
Why are you so far away?
My special someone,
Why don't you just stay?
Every day I stared outside my window,
Waiting for your return while hiding my sorrows.
Who am I?
I am the seconds in between breaths where the thoughts creep in
I am the smile in the sunshine with the windows down in my jeep
I sit and I wait and I wait
But no call comes to say,
That you will be late.
No calls come to say I just can't make it today.
My time is passing me by
While I wait watching the sky
Every moment i perch myself upon that plastic seat,
i wait.
Every time the sting of feelings prick my eyes,
i wait.
Every sound that occurs to my ears,
i wait.
Tomorrow Tomorrow
That is when you will be all mine
When our hands fold like cards
When I feel your marrow against mine
every night i sit
watching the stars dance infinitely
hoping somehwere you are sitting
watching
waiting
wondering
if i am doing the same
((We're hanging here by our nails and our toes
while the lights flash red and the feeling goes.
I give you this lonely flower
Which contains all i can give
I'm sorry I didn't have the power
To give you a better chance to live
But in this world that's dying
Hope for a better tomorrow is rare
I am a lonely face
searching a heart to rest in
Yearn for a warm embrace
Soft and gentle skin
To protect and nurture
Help that being grow
I will search for her
Till the day I know
You'll always be the one I wanted most.
The one I gave the most time too.
Put in the most effort.
The only one I'l ever wait for.
And you didn't even seem to notice.
You always had some other girl,
I lied every time I said I'd never leave
Then again so did she
But now she's happier without me
I am waitingDisney college programMy friends are being acceptedDisney college programMerchandise, Quick Food & BeverageDisney college programAcceptancesDisney college programI am waiting
Couldn't see, couldn't hear, darkness was everywhere
Why did you leave? I needed you
More now than ever I'm so lost without the two of you
Remember when you would call me boo?
I could be addicted to heroine,
but your love is so much brighter
I could swim around in a pool of alcohol,
Last night I prayed for you;
I asked God to keep you safe for me, I laid in my bed
Wondering if you had the chance to steal a glance of me last night, because
(read like to the beat of a metronome or a ticking clock)
Water drips,
puckered lips.
Tapping sounds,
making rounds.
Hitting bars,
counting stars.
one, two, three, four.
I have loved you faithfully though I tried to forget you.
There has never been another.
Your friendship has meant everything to me:
Tell me about how the end of the world
Tell me about how much we have been fighting for.
Should I hold on to the ideas of how I wanted to save this world by myself?
Poetry
The tall, dark and handsome man I long for
His broad shoulders are the frames to the most
beautiful painting
His eyes illuminate in the sky like the stars
Almost as if you could touch him,
People don't listen, they push you down and say you have no voice.
You hide in the shadows, wanting to speak but never knowing how.
You have an opinion, but they say it's not allowed,
Its better to wait...
Better to wait because you keep your heart and mind safe.
Its better to wait...
So that your love it doesn't become tainted.
Its better to wait...
We were driving back from a long night that consisted of frosted lips, too much eyeliner, beeping car alarms, and ran-thru stop lights
They are waiting
I am waiting
I don't know them, they don't know me,
But we are waiting for each other.
I have prayed for them already.
I want to be a missionary.
All my life I've
I've been counting down the days
Untill I see you again.
It does not matter where or how;
All that matters is when.
My paper, Blank and voidNothing comes to mindAs I write, nothingInspire me I sayStill I have nothingMy poetic words, lost
Days,
Weeks,
Months,
They pass.
And I wait.
I wait on you.
I wait on a FaceTime,
A call,
Some word.
But you don't call.
You don't FaceTime,
You send no word.
They call themselves boyfriends,But are they really?Yes, they’ve asked you out.Some don’t even do that.They message you dailyWorry about you every secondIf you don’t answer,They might even get mad
If Time passes like the wind
is it really that Important?
If people die every day
do their lives even mean a thing?
Why are we even here
if we will just pass away someday?
Why are we existing
Sometimes i stop believing,
i just think about it and stop breathing,
i cant take the fact that the things that i lack
are the things that i need
i mean please, please
let me find happiness,love,
I feel cold.
Colder than someone should feel.
I want to be alone
All the time
What is there to live for?
There is no point
Without love, life is pointless
I've waited for change
But no change has come
Maybe I just realized
No change will ever come
I'm never myself
Or happy at that
Well I could never assume I were happy with that
I was scared,
Scared of what we could of had.
Scared of what we should of locked on a pad.
Scared of something that could go bad.
And now, I stand.
Confused with these flowers from another man.
Despite the distance and the pain
even in my tears like rain
Just like the last leaf on a tree
The same as the way you have loved me
Even if the world ends
Everyday I make new friends
Wonder what it's like in the public eye.
Everyone knowing everything,
No secrets Whatsoever,
Judging stares; hateful words.
Wonder what it's like to always have a front.
To be what others want,
So this is me
Shoegazing
Always
An epiphany
And your garage rock sound
Does nothing to stir me
I just sit back
Watching the flow
Smooth over my edges
The seasons keep changing and I only grow older
In the summer i am wild and free like the bonfires on the beach
I am not searching for anything but simply enjoying life as it is
Life is simple
Then comes fall
There are so many things I want to tell you
I was the quiet one in class who did all of his work
But you still gave me the bad grades because I did not talk throughout your class
They wait upon this platform,
sleeping in benches, covered with papers of the year they arrived,
let slip their arms to play a clink of glass to echoe amongst the bare and naked walls,
They intedned not to stay long,
I played along like it was nothing,
a crush that wouldn't last.
I never knew you felt the same,
we could've skipped the pain of the past.
I denied the accusations,
But I knew I loved you from the start.
It started with a touch, a feel, a glimpse.
The way your name feels, so soft on my lips.
The sound of you, it drives me crazy.
They mention your name, I love you, baby.
You bring back feelings, long pushed away.
Voices and ventilators echo,
Through suffocating hallways,
As I walk in a long beige coat,
My hair a shoddy bun.
Skin transparent,
Veins blue,
Blood burning,
Clawing to my center,
Liar, Liar pants on fire
“Mama,” her body began to spark more and more with each step
“I’m going to Emily’s house,” her eyes began to glow hungry for fuel
A lonely path I walk along
Waiting for the one to take me home
To hold my hand and smile sideways
To brighten up my darkest sad days
To keep me guessing with sweet surprises
Everlasting, perpetual, eternal wait
Each moment longer than the last
Seems hopeless to leave it to fate
Each joyful moment too short to last
Biding time till the day should come
My heart is heavy and my head is unclear
Waiting to Exhale
My eyes are watering and my soul is crying
Still waiting to exhale
My hands are trembling and my smile is weak
And I'm still waiting to exhale
Although it is still summer, all my friends are at school
And I'm here thinking: "quarter system, why you so cruel?"
I was looking forward to the longest summer yet,
But hearing others' fun stories just makes me upset
Lira, Lira by the river
Does it yet reflect the sea?
Your ears can hear the softest whispers
Do they hear my quiet plea?
All I love is in the river
All you know is out at sea
I’m waiting:waiting for freedom, for a spectacular burst.I’ll know its appearing, though all I know now is the thirst.Just a distant echo now, but how could not the symphony be grand?
You sat alone every first day of school and hoped, no, prayed that no one sat next to you.
And when they did, you ignored them; it wasn’t long before they said hello, but you had already put your earphones in.
Do not despair
in loneliness
be like the sun and the moon
(for even the sun and the moon meet to kiss)
wait for the right time,
wait for your eclipse.
A blank
page
just sitting,
waiting,
for my
words.
A blank
page
just sitting,
waiting,
for an
adventure.
You told me you love me,
Yet where are you now.
My birthday approaches,
Yet not one word from you.
You are always waitingBut what are you waiting forAre you afraid if you go out to find itThat it may leaveOr that it will end up where you once wereSo shall you wait forever for something to happen
When you are scared it feels like hell
that it will last forever
every second lasting for years
everything feels horrible
When you are happy it feels like heaven
that it will last forever
two months have passed. dinner is waiting, gratingall this on my mind. nothing has passed. I'm like a lightbulb fading.I was in it to win it but nothing came with it and now I'm just sitting alone.
As you can see...Im still here waiting for youWith my hopes in my handAnd my will to get close to you. Can't you see...That all glitters aren't gold?And not every star will sparkle?Now I know you are between the devil and deep sea. I know that...
Alone I am
This feels like one big scam.
I have no one to turn to
Just empty dreams to pursue.
Im here for you!
But is your support for me true?
When put to the test,
All you do is rest.
Love came with you, engulfing me like a flame.
We were supposed to be forever,
But all that’s left is blame.
You promised you adored me like no other
If the void between us
Becomes too far to handle,
I will make a teleportation device
So I can be close to you once more
If the time apart
Fades memories from my mind,
Five Hundred, Twenty-Five Thousand, Six Hundred Minutes...
Times Three.
That's how long I must endure this ache in my chest.
All I want is you.
Your heart.
Your Love.
Upon your return
I shall wait.
The deepest parts of my
Confused heart become
Your sanctuary.
Shall I continue this journey
Towards horizons yet unknown?
This eternal heart
I sit patiently waiting for you to get here. Why do you keep me waiting? On my skin I feel the sun’s rays, blanketing me in faux warmth, whose real counterpart I can only feel once you get here. Yet still I wait. Why am I still waiting?
do you remember that night
the night we felt something new
were you there in the moment
or were you checked out too
Too young to understand
too naïve to comprehend
But you’ve sold me short.
You’ve pulled the wool over your own,
building up the walls of your fort.
I look out across the dingy city.
Towers loom over the filthy streets,
the roads, broken, have no destination,
and the street signs, blank, give no direction.
If I did love If I did love
it would be so glorious
so clumsy on a spring afternoon
as Shakespeare
or Keats
as a ungraceful trip
caught merely by chance
It's that feeling of elation
between what is and what could be.
It's impatiently waiting for the celebration to begin.
& without warnin', you are already in; the new moment has won
I'm shutting down
What else am I to do?
Till you come around
Till then I'll wait for you
So broken
How I feel inside
words unspoken
All these feelings denied
Remember when you caught me
Bleeding in my bed
Hands and face the deepest shade of red
And I was floating
Through those stars that you call eyes
That are brighter than the sunrise and
I wake up but keep my eyes closed.
I just lay there in my bed.
Seems like everyday is the same,
I hear the same old story playing over and over in my head.
What is Time?
Time is something that keeps the world going,
Something that two people may love to share.
Sharing is caring but what if the time you shared,
you really didn't care?
The worst thing about myself is that I’m too goddamn impatient.
Though I’m not alone because I was born and raised in this nation
where waiting on anything from the internet to a Starbucks coffee
Everyday we walk
Everyday we keep silent
Everyday we wait
We wait, for God gave us patience
We wait, for success comes in time
We wait, for our voices are still merging into one
I don't know what being in love is like,
But some say it's easier than riding a bike.
I have a few ideas of what it could be,
And I hope one day it could happen to me.
Some people say true love is blind,
It's hard waiting for the guy you love.
It's like waiting for a plane to arrive,
And hearing it crashed.
It's like watching a sad movie,
And not knowing how it ends.
