These are my most recent poems. They don't feel as good as some of the stuff I wrote about a year ago but thought I would share on here to see what people think. I'll post my older stuff at some point as well.

 

I guess these are inspired by the pressures of life and the expectation to be successful. And not forgetting love. And how it is absent. Enjoy.

 

Oh WELL, OH well, At least you are well

 

You are not good enough

Your past success is not for us

You do fast things too slow

That is not for us right now

Ambition, bitten by the snake

Poisoned, your position of fake

Stunned, slipping through a frozen lake

Dawn, the frozen walk hits the wake

You are far too strong

You past success is for many people

You do fast things too slow

But at least your heart is in the right place

 

 

 

Shoot the star

 

Ice slip me a great fall

I've been sliding down 

To walk on ice would save

See the stars not you

Black and moon perfect view

Irony of failure

Not failure

Failure

I've slipped up

Road is long too far

Wrong turn cost dear

Success

Success

Success is the other road

Shiver

Shiver

Could have done better

Must try harder

Not good enough

Secretly proving 

That shiver failures success

 

The old man

 

He wanted Champaign and roses

Fed up with stress and political poses

He dreamed of silver and gold

The open road to dead and old

 

He wanted presents and satisfaction

Fed up of preventing an angry reaction

He dreamed of sunsets and palm trees

The gale of a deafening breeze

 

The old man is young today

He walks a lonely road

The old man will see you today

He is not just dead and old

 

Music is the only drug

 

I want to take you out tonight

Bring me blurry lights to take my mind off you

I want to shout hey hey and say now is too great

Flashing lights and red drinks

Crazy dancing and no shit about what people think

My mind can be absorbed enough tonight

I want to celebrate our story, our love is fake

For we are what everybody could talk about

In the morning I will forget you all together, but there is more

I want to shout about how I can be so great to life

I'm silent but would do anything to bring out the smile

Passion, love, regret, heated arguments I'm not part of

I want to scream sensitive to fate not in a drunken mess

For life is not simple but tonight is great

Ripping up like a madman until it is way too late

And then there was you, I just about remembered

I can see that life can be great

And muttered words smash like plates

You may label me crazy

But tonight I'm with you

I only have eyes for the music

I'm glad I took you out tonight

But I never meant any harm

 

The Incident

 

I was the apple cart

You turned me over

I dreamed of being art

You shook me over

I cried out my heart

You screamed it was over

I was back to the start

You made me do it over

 

Storm and storm

 

There will be some trouble 

I can feel the trouble coming

There will be something new

I can feel the dawn is coming

 

You made me

Made me, angry

 

I am very disappointed in the way you breathe

I could cancel every last drop of poison you release

Yet duration is impossible to cure

Bleak is you my not so cure

 

Decade

 

You shock me 

You shock me

You're electricity

You shock me

You shock me

So  effortlessly

 

I fail you 

i fail you

I'm deadwood

I fail you

I fail you

 Our love misunderstood