My Life in Poems

I’m a bad teen poet who writes poems and kicks butt at the same time.

[hownottopoetry]

It’s almost like

My wish was granted

Time truly has stopped

And I can rest my head

.

If I had known

My wish for life to stop

Would be granted in this way

The words would never

Have left my mouth

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

I never knew

Learning to juggle

Would take so little time

.

What am I supposed to do now?

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

It feels as if

I never truly looked at the sky

But now that I can’t

I miss the sun’s warmth

And the moon’s light

On my tender skin

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

Who would have thought

It would only be us

Trying to save the world

Against the chaos wrought by others

.

AL

[hownottopoetry]

Trinkets

It’s the little things

The things that sneak up on us

Like the way she drinks her tea

With both hands holding it up

Like a gift from the world

.

It’s these moments added up

That make the best memories

Like when we held hands at the carnival

Or raced to the ocean

.

These moments are small and fleeting

Impossible to forget

Yet mean the world to us

When we become only memories

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

I know you don’t think

I hear you from over here

When you say my name

And the mistakes I made

.

It’s not that I care

It just hurts that

You don’t have the decency

To do it behind my back

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

I guess I’m the wrong one

When I get annoyed

When I don’t read your mind

When I’m not obedient

When I become too much

.

I guess it’s fine

If you project the

Hatred you have of yourself

Onto me

When you’re mad

.

Just remember

I wasn’t the one screaming

At a crying human being

Over simple response

Said due to exhaustion

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

I’m ready

For the greatest

Coming of age story

Of all time

.

I want the drama

I request adventure

I require romance

I need it all

.

I don’t understand

Why I’m stuck

In my lonely town

When the world exists

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

I have lost my way

My passion

My hope

For any future

.

I reached all my dreams

And yet

None of them came true

.

Why does succeeding

Always end

In failure?

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

To whom it concerns,

I regret to inform you

That I have disappointed you

Again

.

I know,

I would give everything

To change that fact

.

I thought the right choice

Was the easy way out

I have learned my lesson

.

Much too late

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

Success

I’m scared

Not scared of failing

But terrified of succeeding

.

What do I do when I

Achieve my dreams?

.

There will be nothing left of me

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

I want to break free

Of the chains that hold me home

The ones that force my mouth closed

That ones that tie me down

.

~AL

[soundoflaughingwind]

we’re stargazing but I can’t look away from you

The universe is wondrous

Vast Cold

And you are Here Beside me

Warm Bright

And there is no loneliness

- S.A.W. (soundoflaughingwind)

[in-my-thinking]

and my words

in my books

that you’ve never read

will be all

that is left of me

when I’m dead

[hownottopoetry]

How am I supposed to know

The answers to all the world questions

When I have been given

An inadequate education?

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

Laughing,

They walk past me

Their giggles resounding within me

Exposing my emptiness

.

Bearing my soul to the world

I smile

A fake, broken, unforgivable smile

And hope to fill the void within

.

One day

I will have lifelong friends

I will be whole

I will laugh without feeling broken

.

~AL

[hownottopoetry]

Normal is boring

I thought being normal would be perfect

Fitting in would help my mind slow down

That if I pretended long enough

My fake world would become real

.

It doesn’t work like that

I’m bored now

Leashing my mind is exhausting

.

Normal is boring

I want to break free

.

~AL