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I think I am consuming myself again, I know it’s wrong but it feels so good. So familiar. Disappointing, yes, but that’s just what’s in my cards. I’m tired, always tired of waiting for something or somebody. God damn it.
Who thought a flower could look so small in my hands
That rocks could tumble and fall
That the world melts into fountain of shifting shadows
When your skin begins to crawl.
Words tumble from your lips in scattered puzzle pieces
And I’m lost again in the violence of thought
That starless sky awaits my lonely return
Return to solitude, return to sender, return to my home
It is a house of forgotten miracles
Memories cursed to disappear
It is my past and future
It is the demon that chases my across the stars
It holds my hope and dreams in a net across its shoulder
Dangles them in front now and then
This is the house that I died in yesterday
And the house I will die in tomorrow
Cause I have been dying in there for quite some time now
Alone in the darkness
I am trapped there,
And each door Death awaits
Why do I open the doors?
I should stop.
But I don’t because an ember is not dead,
Not yet
It remains alive through the years of smothering and starvation
So stubborn I wish it would leave
It hurts
It burns
But they say it’s good
They say it keeps me from giving up…
And I hate them all the more.
Would you give me a moment to think
To feel
To spend one moment right here.
Cause this world’s blinding, it’s just anger and fighting
And I’m losing myself to the smoke.
Cause I’m taking all the hits that aren’t meant for me
But no one runs to help me cause I’m falling suddenly.
I’m lost, they lost me, and I’m running out of time
The walls are filling up with filth and grime.
I’m no longer clean, a dark stain on the wall
I need help desperately but too anxious to call.
This is all a dream, I need this to be a dream
So I can wake up and finally stop my endless scream.
I died last night and now live in a blur
My only friend, the mind’s dark whisperer.
Where is thy faith young wanderer?
You trust yourself, like a mouse trusts a snake.
Now is your moment
Now is your time
Now is your moment
To take your chance
Face your opponent.
Cause the world won’t wait
For you to get your crap together
Come on cupcake,
Time to see can you weather the weather.
Put on your big boy pants, play big
The rodeo plays rough, ‘ll snap you like a twig.
If you replay replay all the mistake you’ve done made
You’ll never come out of that place where you’re always afraid.
Now I know you’re scared, aren’t we all
But this world wasn’t made for us to feel small.
You’ve got to find that place deep within
That says “Hey I’m the star, not just someone’s stand-in.”
Get off the side lines
Make your mark!
Cause these are rough times
And we all need YOUR spark!
Courage don’t run smoothly in our blood
But we ain’t afraid goin’ sludging through that mud
Cause it’s better than sleepin’, and waitin’, fearin’ all the time
If it’s that or up, imma do that climb.
Cause no matter the exhaustion, sadness and pain,
Keeping my feet on the ground is what’s drivin’ me insane
So reach up, reach up, dream bigger than before
Yes, for sure you’ll lose lots, but you’ll gain much more.