Ink Spills From My Veins

Original poetry from someone you don't know

[thefateofmankind]

Day Dreamer Night Screamer

I am a day dreamer

A night screamer

An over thinker who just can't think.

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I am a hider

I am a confider

I bottle things up yet tell things to strangers.

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I love the quiet

I hate the silence

I find my peace then fall to pieces.

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I am a feeler

I am a concealer

I feel nothing yet everything wanting to feel anything.

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I am a conundrum

I am a contradiction

I am who I am flaws and all.

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I am a lover

I am a fighter

Neither side ever seems to win.

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I had a beginning

Now this is the end

Time to close the lid.

[thefateofmankind]

There is no peace

There is no peace

No quiet in my soul

A battle is being fought

My spirit is out of my control

The silence is deafening

There's no rest for the wicked

My memories blind me

I make myself feel sickened

Up and down

All  day long

My emotions they rise

Then fall along

Life just doesn't feel worth living

And yet here I am

Struggling each day

To hell I will be damned

05/19/19

[thefateofmankind]

Mess of A Man

Murky muddled mass

A magnitude

Of memories

A mess

Of a man

He means what he says

A mist

Settles upon the mind

Missing the meaning

Behind those malicious eyes

Moments in time

Make haste moving on

My forgetfulness

Most often the key to my demise

A mirage

In the mirror

Reflecting back a maroon haze

Make way

Make way

It is the end of my many days

[thefateofmankind]

Blue Bird

The  eyes

Behold

The beauties of this land

The bounty of the harvest

As blue skies

Bare raw against leaves of red and rust

The blaze

Burns

Through blackest haze

The beat of time

Beckons death to all

In winters baying winds

The icy breath

Settling in rattling bones

Then birthed

Through biting teeth of frost and snow

Spring, bringing life

To the blue bird

Outside my bedroom window

It's binding tune

Bringing me back from daydreams

[wordsnquotes]

““Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you’re in love or you’re partners in crime. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel alive. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something.”

— Auliq Ice | @wnq-quotes  | @wnq-quoteoftheday | @wordsnquotes

[thefateofmankind]

There Will Come Soft Rains

There will come soft rains

To wash the tears from our face

Wash the blood from our hands

Gently it comes

The pitter pat on the roof.

And just like that

The rain will disappear

Leaving us tear stained

And blood soaked

Guilty of our crimes.

[thefateofmankind]

Beautiful in The Dark

As I walk in fields of inky black

The grass damp under my bare feet

I hear the crashing of the waves on the shore

I can smell the salt of the ocean

Drifting gently on the breeze

Closer I get, the farther my worries have gone

At the edge of the horizon

There is a hint of light

Rising in the air

A smile brushes against my lips

As the light becomes all the clearer to see

Because after every bout of darkness

Comes a beautiful sunrise

[wordsnquotes-net]

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[wnq-quoteoftheday]

Rachel C Lewis | @wnq-quoteoftheday | @wordsnquotes-online

[thefateofmankind]

As Meaning Fades

As meaning fades

As my thoughts turn to dust

As the fires I walk through

Bring me no rush

All that surrounds me

Fading to black

I no longer hear the sounds

Not the click Nor the clack

Empty

So empty

Filled with no joy

With all that I do

Nothing left to enjoy

Meaning is fading

It's almost gone

My grasp on it is failing

Nothing

Is

Left

To

Hold

On

[abstractcommunity]

The Prompts

Here is a list of available prompts. I won’t let it get too long, over time, i’ll retire, and replace ones that are not being used.

I collect words. I love sentence building. Every step leading to a verse, or an insight.

Making some of them available to others, has proved a huge benefit. It inspires me in a new way, a shared way, and I am grateful to everyone that participates.

These prompts are always available.

Keep writing, Be well    …

A lost fragrance

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Dependent upon the soil

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Outside my imagination

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A buried butterfly

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Dreaming of calm

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Reminders that beauty surrounds us

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Growing flowers in the hole

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As meaning fades

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A fragment of the fire

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I am both

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Crawling from the river

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A sound at the door

… An embrace of great length

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The burdens of appetite

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True measures of value

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Beautiful in the dark

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Stepping through the ghost

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Such a small flower

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Angered, and ashamed

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An act of creation

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Becoming less

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All dawns are inevitable twilight

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When efforts collide

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[thefateofmankind]

I'm Alive

I’m alive, I believe in everything

Humble. Boastful. Silence. Noise. God.

Optimism. Inky blackness. Art. Music. Song.

Walking. Running. Jumping. Flying. Freedom.

Time. Ticking. Tocking. Slipping through our grasp.

Beautiful lies. Ugly truths. Broken promises.

Healing. Fixing. Trusting. Innocence is an illusion.

First steps. Last breath.

All things must come to an end.

Blue skies. Green leaves. Red roses within grasp.

One thing we all know. Nothing lasts.

Nothing and everything. That is what I believe in.

Endless space. Limited resources.

Places you want to see, but never will.

Eternal. Temporary. Everlasting. Transient.

I’m alive, I believe in everything.

I'm alive, I believe in it all.

Trees swaying with the wind.

Colours changing with the seasons.

Fire dancing in the twilight.

Rivers flowing. Gurgling. Whispering.

Waves crashing against the shore.

Butterflies dancing from flower to flower.

Hummingbirds flittering through the air.

Birds flying overhead in the sky.

Laughter ringing clear through the noise.

A candle in the darkness.

Shedding light for all to see.

I'm alive, I believe in everything.

I'm alive, I believe in it all.

[theinkthatflows]

Burn. Burn. Burn.

Set it ablaze.

Burn it into oblivion.

I don’t want it.

Any of it.

The pain.

The suffering.

The regret.

Ignite it.

Incinerate it.

Dissolve it into ashes, which the wind does spread.

It shall be lost, but not forgotten.

It shall be forgiven, but the lesson will always be Remembered.

Let us be sent up in smoke, clouds forming overhead, droplets falling gently onto it. It shall be gone when the clouds have left.

It shall be gone When the clouds move on.

When the mist dissipatates, leaving the grass full of dew.

It shall be gone, in the morning.

[thefateofmankind]

Contrast

There is light to darkness

Sadness to joy

There are regrets that besiege us each and every day

There are fears that fester

Like an open wound cut with a dull rusty blade

But even though these things may be

Never Give Up.

Never Lose Hope.

Fight On To Another Day.

Fight On In Another Way.

[thefateofmankind]

Snowfall

It falls from the heavens

White and unique

No two flakes the same

It symbolizes innocence

With the blinding white

Reflecting off its gentle curves

The snow has fallen

Just as I have

It has fallen

To be crunched underneath the careless boot

It has fallen

It has fallen

[thefateofmankind]

In The End

All that is, and all that has been will cease to exist. All that will be, will be nothing. These thoughts that we've had, will be lost in the long arms of time. But still, our choices matter. They define us. They define our beliefs, our moral codes. And as time passes us by, everything gone in an instant, we will again return to the dust from which we were.

[thefateofmankind]

The Time To Heal

As the days pass me by, as the mornings turn to night, as the sun dies to let the moon breathe, I ache. Deep within me I ache. The paths I never chose, and those I did. My regrets heavy on my mind. As silence beckons me into its welcoming embrace, surrounding me, within it's enfolds, I am finally at peace. I have accepted the outcome of my choices, but do not mistake that choice for giving up. In all my years on this earth, I now know, that God is in control. So I am at peace.