Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Near death last breath and barely hanging on...

Studying like mad for my finals tomorrow. *cough cough* but really, i'm a bit freaked out about my french final. just a little. I mean i'm not really great in the foreign language area, but i try my best. oh well, i gave it my best shot. studying and then sleep, so sorry i'm not really posting much of anything tonight. just random mindless mumblings until i fall asleep. goodnight and sweet dreams.

I pledge allegance to the flag....

Barack Obama is now the President Of The United States Of America. And I couldn't be happier. He's filling me with newfound hope that maybe, just maybe, things will start looking better. His speech, left me giddy with hope. I can't wait to see what he will do. He is already in history, but I hope he goes down in History for something more than just his race. I just can't wait.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

As for now I'm gonna hear the saddest songs

I know it's not saturday, but i found this store called, Saturday Audio Exchange. And it gave me an idea. So this "Saturday" even though it's Sunday, I'm gonna do a Saturday Audio Exchange. and this said Audio is Screaming Infidelities by Dashboard Confessional. And the new unheard of band I suggest you to listen to is, My Favorite Highway.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

And I swear that you don't have to go...

So I really do want to go to sleep tonight. But have to wait for my iTunes to stop messing with me so I can turn off my laptop and actually get some sleep. As exciting as stayiing awake sounds, I think I'll pass. I have another final tomorrow and I really need the sleep. So, I decided to grace you all with some more poems. And mind you, this still isn't all of my notebook, since I'm giving then to you in moderation and it seems like I'm writing new ones everyday. Sorry to say, but these don't have titles.




if you had to choose
Between life and death,
You’d choose life right?
But what if you choices were hidden
Behind a veil of mistakes
A smoke screen of choices
A cloud of taking the easy way out?

Would you make it easy,
Or would you survive
Would you trade in your heroes
In order to become one yourself?

You’re enough of a fool
To almost believe
The lies they tell
Of the life they promise
With no more hurt
No more pain
No more sorrow
But what about
What will come tomorrow?

Would you make it easy
Or would you survive
Would you trade in your heroes
In order to become one yourself

Would you be a hero,
Or would you settle for less?





The snow is so beautiful
Blanketing the world
In a vas sea of white
Sparkling and showing off
With a slight tint of blue
It’s breathtaking
But I can’t enjoy this.
Because of you.

It’s your face that
Stands before me
Telling me that
You’ve had enough
Of waiting

You’re sick of calling
Well I’m sick
Of writing
These words for you.
So this is it
This is where we stop.

Saying goodbye isn’t as easy as it seems
When you’re saying goodbye
To the contents of your dreams

You start to falter
To lose confidence
Looking at me for confirmation
That what you’re doing isn’t going to break me
But I can’t promise you anything
And I still haven’t yet said a word
But let the tears glisten on my cheek.

It feels like I’m looking from above
I can see my scarf flutter in the wind
Like butterfly wings in flight
I can see the snow falling
And mixing in with your hair
White on dark
Standing out, shocking.
But I can’t enjoy this
Because of you.

It’s your face that
Stands before me
As we exchange our goodbyes

I see you with her now
You no longer glance my way
You still have the shirt I bought you
When we were still us.
You’ve already moved on,
And I’m still just saying goodbye.




Sometimes it feels as if,
I’m talking to a puddle.
Your thoughts and feelings so shallow
And as if mine are as deep
As those ball tanks
That young children play in
So deep that they can almost swim.

Sometimes it feels as if,
Words are everything to me.
That they’re all I have
And other times,
They’re like smoke
Slipping and swirling
Through my eager fingers

Sometimes it feels as if,
I set my expectations too high.
Like a bird trying to fly before its time.
I’m reaching out
And trying to grasp something
That’s just out of my reach
And other times,
It’s as if I set them too low,
Going for what’s easier
And keeping my feet placed firmly on the ground
Not moving forward,
But in a way, moving back.

Sometimes it feels as if,
I’m dancing on the tips of life.
Somersaulting, and flipping on the edges
Jumping around the feathered ends
Of a painter’s brush
Like a color waiting to be used.

Sometimes it feels as if,
I’m skirting the outskirts of life
Begging to be let in.
I’ve already experienced so much but,

Sometimes it feels as if,
I’m the ink covering the ball of a ballpoint pen
Waiting patiently
For my turn
To show the world
Exactly what it is
That I can do.




This story tale like of mine,
Has an ending so anti-climatic.
It’s almost as if
It’s all built up to this
A sudden drop off.
A cliff appearing out of nowhere.
A jump off from reality.
I find myself
Just another casualty
Tossed to the side,
By this life that I’ve been living
I’m standing on the outside
Of this store-front window.
A window that separates me
From the obvious brightness inside.
My reflection is placed next to
The flickers of neon
The signs sprinkled down the street
Slogans for happier people
Anthems for the overjoyed
Advertisements for the weak.
Headlights are framing my still form,
And causing it to stand out
From the snow whipping around me.
Physics states,
That we’re only as strong,
As our weakest point.
And right now,
My weakest point is breaking.
Caving in under the pressure,
Of taking another breath
Just using the energy needed
To stay alive.


I’m just another tool to be used.
Another person for the government of America,
to wring money out from.
Another perfect example
Of teen-aged angst.
These words that I write,
Sound better in my head
Then the actual phrasing and lettering
Copied down by my stumbling fingers.
Sometimes I wish I couldn’t speak,
Or at least coherently
So I’d have a better excuse
When you leave me speechless.
My sometimes nimble tongue
Trips over itself
In its eagerness to push out words
To get my point across
And somewhere in between
My brain and my tongue,
My words get twisted,
And lose their actual meaning.
It feels like I’m only me
When no one’s looking.
Pouring out my true thoughts
On flimsy pieces of paper.
To always wear a mask,
Isn’t all it’s made out to be.
Sometimes I wish
I could untie this mask,
Unravel my tongue,
Slow my racing thoughts,
And just be me.
But then again,
It just feels as if,
I’m fighting a fist-fight
Without fists
In a war
Without a cause.




Has anything that someone said,
Ever struck a chord in you?
Has it ever made you feel
As if someone finally understands
Of that they accurately expressed
The way that you feel
So precise it’s scary?
I wish I could do that.
Say something that sticks
A phrase,
A sentence,
A couple words,
That haunts you
Stays in your head
Something you could hold on to
When everything else seems blurry.
An anchor,
A safety belt,
A light in the darkness,
Something that makes you feel less alone.
Maybe that’s why I write there poems.
Hoping that someone will finally understand
Or just try hard enough
To see through
All of the shit I put up
In order to feel,
Safe
Accepted
Wanted
Loved.
Because it feels
Like I’m never truly me
Like I’m never really real,
Unless I’m hidden.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

head for the hills the kitchen's on fire

That's it, I'm caving to my inner beastie, and I'm gonna type up all of the poems in my journal. Finished or not. That is a present for my birthday, except it's for you. Yes, this is it. and it's gonna be epic. Here is a glimpse however small, into my mind.

Kiss Me Goodbye

You think I would stay
When you just tear me down?
You push me and shove me
And watch as I fall
Deeper and deeper
Into this corner
That I've backed myself into
Unseeing, unfeeling
Unknowing, but thinking
You're leading me blindly
Off of this cliff
That I've made for myself
I can see the ending
That's been fabricated for me
I'd fall down fast
Deep into the abyss
Unable to turn back.
This isn't what I wanted
This isn't what I dreamed
But I can't see a way out
All there is, is what you've given me.

In my head I see a light
A glimpse flashing in this blindness
I've got to follow my instincts
And leave this mess behind.

So here I go
I won't look back
Don't bother,
I'm not yours anymore.

So kiss me goodbye
I'm gonna leave this all behind
I don't know if I'll make it out alive
But I've got to try
Before this hope disappears
And shows me again
The malice in your eyes



Tonight

Tonight I'm not going to hold back
I'm gonna sing, I'm gonna cry
I'm gonna let it show
Everything I've been holding inside

I'm gonna let it all out,
I'm gonna scream and shout,
This is my time
This is my time.

I'm gonna break free of these chains
The ones that have been holding me tight
I'm sick of drowning in my nightmares
I'm surfacing now
I'm gonna bask in this moonlight
While it lasts

I'm gonna let it all out,
I'm gonna scream and shout,
This is my time
This is my time.

I'm not gonna sit still
The time is passing
I only have one hundred years
To reach my dreams
I'm not gonna take for granted
The time that others don't have
This is a chance that I'm not gonna miss.

I'm gonna let it all out,
I'm gonna scream and shout,
This is my time
This is my time.

So say farewell,
Wish me good luck,
Kiss me goodbye,
Adios, Sayonara,
Arrivederci babe.
I'm leaving this place
That's holding me back
And I'm not looking over my shoulder
At all of the things I'm leaving behind.

I'm gonna let it all out,
I'm gonna scream and shout,
This is my time
This is my time.


A Lady of Sorrow

She gazes slowly
As the street lamps flicker.
Hiding 'neath a veil
Of her raven feathered hair.
The shimmering emeralds
Of her eyes,
Give her emotions away.
But only here in this seclusion,
Does she truly show
How she really feels.
In the depths of her eyes
You can see her sorrow.
Her once pristine black satin dress
Is now ripped to shreds,
As memories of past happiness
Whisper like ghosts through her head.
A single tear
Of sparkling emeralds
Falls to the ground.
Her reason to be
Exists no more.
For he has died
And left her alone.
As the tear descends
She whispers a prayer,
"My dear old friend,
Can you hear me?
This life is unjust,
And this love is unkind,
But i could've managed it all
If you hadn't left me behind."
In this seclusion she stays
For she herself knows,
That she has the fear
To finally show
What she feels inside.
So she'll always be here,
In her own personal hell.
Unfeeling,
Unknowing,
For she has lost the internal war,
Between what we feel,
And what we hide from the world.

Anger

Anger swirling
mind racing
hateful thoughts
hoarse voices
he screams
he hurts
the pain he physically inflicts feels like nothing
in comparison to the salt that he puts on it
with his stinging words.
He stalks away
leaving me in tears
and blames it on me
as he has done for years.
The next day
it's all the same.
In this crazy cycle
of inhumane pain.


Noticed

He was everything I thought I wanted
Everything I thought I needed
But he let me go
Dropped me
Watched as I fell
And turned his head
When I hit rock bottom
And left me alone

But I wasn't really alone
You were there
You came to pick of the pieces
Of my shattered heart
You put me back together
And I clung to you
Like a flame to a candle

I told you "I love you"
But you thought you were just my rebound
I promised you you weren't
And you finally believed
He was my addiction
But you were my savior
Under your loving care
I never relapsed
In this half-way rehab

You're gentle fingers
Grazing over my arms
Giving me goosebumps
Spreading sparks
That reached into me
And circled around my heart

Your loving eyes
Deep as a valley
I could fall into
And never want to leave
Just one glance
And my heart explodes

I feel this way around you
So full of emotions
Filled to the brim
Overflowing with happiness
Blocking out the pain
But you are like an eclipse
True beauty
That can never stay
So I enjoy the feelings
When I'm with you

But still I can feel
The spiderweb cracks
Reminding me of weakness
That I try so hard to hide

I'm sitting all alone now
By myself I can't hide my feelings
By myself I show how I truly feel
My doubts and fears surround me
They suffocate me
And chain me down
I'm dying here
And still no one notices
Maybe it's better this way anyway
Happy by day
And nothing at night


Caged

It's been building
Brick after figurative brick
Forming this wall
That's enclosing on me
Encaged like an exotic bird
All I want is to be free
But I'm shoved into a corner
Unwanted, Forgotten
Chained down
These chains are encircling me
Holding around my waist
No matter how hard I try
I remain chained to this wall
Like a prisoner
It's holding me back
I need to break free
I need to get loose
I need to escape
But I can't.
I scream for help
But my pleas
Fall on deaf ears.
I won't escape
I'm stuck here
Imprisoned
Enchained
Caged
In the darkness of my mind.


Happiness

the sunlight filters through your shades
and you wake with your dreams still on your mind
as you're slowly waking
you witness
the dust dancing in the bright
the world yawning
and releasing the sounds of morning
the sun stretching its arms
and encircling the world
you're gazing absentmindedly through a window
while still smothering yourself in the warmth of your covers
suddenly yet reluctantly you swing your legs out of the warmth
and scramble out to the carpeted halls
you amble your way into the kitchen
and yawning,
you turn the coffee-pot on
leaning against a counter
rubbing your cold arms,
you slowly wake up.
lazily pouring a cup of coffee
before the whole pot is even done,
you enjoy it so sweet,
a spoon can stand on its own.
with enough milk
to turn it a delicious hazelnut brown
while warming your fingers
by gripping around the cup
and sitting on the counter
swaying your legs
you realize
that this is happiness
in one of the simplest
and purest forms.

Collaboration

Snow falls gracefully
waltzing with the wind.
And in its midst
stands you and I
Together again,
but not for long.

Maybe if you opened your eyes,
You could see
what's right in front you you
And was always has been
I love you.
Isn't that enough?

You were everything I wanted
But somehow
We just couldn't make it be.

I've kept my eyes open this whole time
In the hopes
That I would finally glimpse
The thing called love.


(I'm not even close to being done but I don't want to drag this on too long, so I'll post them in moderation. This is all you get for now.)

Friday, January 2, 2009

For diamonds to appear to be, just like broken glass to me.

I've been lazing around for the past couple days, so i haven't really been on here. I'm sorry for that, but my new years resolution is to update this more often. One of many actually. Anyway, I'm a bit pressed for time so this one will be short. I just wanted to say Happy New Year world! have a great one. I know I'm a bit late. that's my fault. but anyway, I'm not gonna be on here for a little while, because i got my computer confiscated by my mom. Yes, i know it's sad, but I can promise you that when I'm back I'll have a couple surprises that will make it worth the wait.

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