A Knife In My Chest by mourningstar1414, literature
Literature
A Knife In My Chest
A Knife In My Chest
There is a knife in my chest, friend.
I feel it's weight, like a heavy stone
It's settled in my heart and made a home.
It's scratched and dull, but it pricks me to no end
That people don't see that at best
I'm worried, and at worst, distressed.
They don't feel the knife in my chest.
You glance at me quickly, but don't look away
Your mouth opens, but you have nothing to say.
It makes sense that you see it-your chest is just as marred.
Don't be surprised-
No one leaves a knife fight unscarred.
The words tumble out,
they fall like rocks from your lips.
Gravity pulls them down, and they sink like ships-
And yet
"Can I jump that high?"
I asked, tilting my head upwards.
A wall stood before me,
paved with dreams deterred and the words of reality.
The real world is a red brick wall
and nowhere to go.
"Can I jump that high?"
I asked myself.
Through, over, under, around
The only ways to get where you're going.
Where am I going?
"Can I jump that high?"
A gloved hand reaches out,
but I don't accept help.
The world is colored yellow
gray
green
blue?
I begin to lose the ability to tell the difference.
A multitude of people surround me,
moving as though zombies.
"Stay on the ground, nobody knows what's on the other side!"
"Sta
What happens when I'm dead and gone
when my life is lost,
when there's no more dawn?
Sunsets sinking on empty hills
No more laughs, no more thrills...
Will you remember me?
A breaking laugh, phones and green, a lucky chance and a movie-
Memories of you, you see.
Are they memories of me?
Will I be free
of the mixed joys and pains of life's insanity?
Will you forget me, my name, my face?
Am I just another girl for you to chase?
Will I be just another voice trapped in the cage
of the woes of a dying age?
Will I be a sweet memory,
or will I be the gilded lily?
Perhaps the snow smuggled to the road you paved?
The simple rose on t
I have a desperate desire
that burns withing me,
burning like a star:
driven by a dire, drastic, despairing need
to burn as bright as possible
before losing everything that makes it what it is.
This hope lies in my hand like a tiny candle, ready to be blown out
by anyone foolish enough to say
"Happy, happy birthday!"
and make a wish...
Life, with it's shiny baubles and twinkling lights,
beckons me towards it with a hopeful smile,
saying "enjoy," in words covered in wrapping paper,
with a shiny little bow on top.
Reality, with it's cold eyes and cruel smirk,
turns towards me and asks with metal in its voice,
"What's the d
You are the lifeless grackle crowding the telephone lines.
You fly in large flocks with your
smooth, slick, shiny feathers,
the color of an oil spill seeping into the ocean.
Your eyes are as yellow as a kindergartner's paint,
sickly and beady, always hard, always angry.
In true form of the grackle,
you cackle and screech for attention,
begging for the trash and scraps of strangers, unaware
that your voice is drowned out by the squabbles of others, and never heard.
Were we to listen for you, all we would hear
is a cacophony of discord.
In my mind, you are a shallow pond,
reflecting images of what I don't see:
bent over flowers, w
A Knife In My Chest by mourningstar1414, literature
Literature
A Knife In My Chest
A Knife In My Chest
There is a knife in my chest, friend.
I feel it's weight, like a heavy stone
It's settled in my heart and made a home.
It's scratched and dull, but it pricks me to no end
That people don't see that at best
I'm worried, and at worst, distressed.
They don't feel the knife in my chest.
You glance at me quickly, but don't look away
Your mouth opens, but you have nothing to say.
It makes sense that you see it-your chest is just as marred.
Don't be surprised-
No one leaves a knife fight unscarred.
The words tumble out,
they fall like rocks from your lips.
Gravity pulls them down, and they sink like ships-
And yet
"Can I jump that high?"
I asked, tilting my head upwards.
A wall stood before me,
paved with dreams deterred and the words of reality.
The real world is a red brick wall
and nowhere to go.
"Can I jump that high?"
I asked myself.
Through, over, under, around
The only ways to get where you're going.
Where am I going?
"Can I jump that high?"
A gloved hand reaches out,
but I don't accept help.
The world is colored yellow
gray
green
blue?
I begin to lose the ability to tell the difference.
A multitude of people surround me,
moving as though zombies.
"Stay on the ground, nobody knows what's on the other side!"
"Sta
What happens when I'm dead and gone
when my life is lost,
when there's no more dawn?
Sunsets sinking on empty hills
No more laughs, no more thrills...
Will you remember me?
A breaking laugh, phones and green, a lucky chance and a movie-
Memories of you, you see.
Are they memories of me?
Will I be free
of the mixed joys and pains of life's insanity?
Will you forget me, my name, my face?
Am I just another girl for you to chase?
Will I be just another voice trapped in the cage
of the woes of a dying age?
Will I be a sweet memory,
or will I be the gilded lily?
Perhaps the snow smuggled to the road you paved?
The simple rose on t
I have a desperate desire
that burns withing me,
burning like a star:
driven by a dire, drastic, despairing need
to burn as bright as possible
before losing everything that makes it what it is.
This hope lies in my hand like a tiny candle, ready to be blown out
by anyone foolish enough to say
"Happy, happy birthday!"
and make a wish...
Life, with it's shiny baubles and twinkling lights,
beckons me towards it with a hopeful smile,
saying "enjoy," in words covered in wrapping paper,
with a shiny little bow on top.
Reality, with it's cold eyes and cruel smirk,
turns towards me and asks with metal in its voice,
"What's the d
You are the lifeless grackle crowding the telephone lines.
You fly in large flocks with your
smooth, slick, shiny feathers,
the color of an oil spill seeping into the ocean.
Your eyes are as yellow as a kindergartner's paint,
sickly and beady, always hard, always angry.
In true form of the grackle,
you cackle and screech for attention,
begging for the trash and scraps of strangers, unaware
that your voice is drowned out by the squabbles of others, and never heard.
Were we to listen for you, all we would hear
is a cacophony of discord.
In my mind, you are a shallow pond,
reflecting images of what I don't see:
bent over flowers, w
I am a girl. I exist, sometimes. I write poetry and pretend it's good, mainly because I'm a crappy artist. Some of my favorite bands are Three Days Grace, Evanescence, and My Chemical Romance. I also rather like Green Day and Black Veil Brides. Three Doors Down aren't half bad either. I really don't know what else to say, so I'm just gonna end with AWKWARD TURTLE.
Current Residence: Mofo Favourite genre of music: generally rock, and most of it's subgeneres, though I do listen to other stuff from time to tim Personal Quote: "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." -Joe Lewis
Favourite Visual Artist
y'know, "My Chemical Romance" sounds like a drug addiction...
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
-Another poem that I really like
Here's one of my favorite poems, and I just found it online so I thought I'd make a journal out of it:
TWO DEAD BOYS:
Ladies and Gentlemen, skinny and stout,
I'll tell you a tale I know nothing about;
The admission is free, so pay at the door,
Now pull up a chair and sit on the floor.
One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight;
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A blind man came to watch fair play,
A mute man came to shout 'Hooray! '
A deaf policeman heard the noise and
Came to stop those two dead boys.
He lived on the corner in the middle of the
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1. If you draw, what is your favorite thing to draw?( If you write, write and if you take photos, favorite subject)
2.What is your biggest fear?
3. Who is your bi
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