Fail to see the stars

A Poem by Jessica Lynn Polley

Sleeping with translucent eyelids

and you still fail to see the stars

when waking to the white noise

it all you hope for, its all you are.

For what kind of life is tangible

when you have lost the ability to breathe?

And what kind of hope still holds you

with no stars to help you see?

No guidance through cold and living fear

that squeezes tight from the inside.

No one to tare down all of the monsters

that are watching from the sky.

With shackled hands and shackled feet...

your chains are drawing pictures in the sand.

A heart that breaks with every step

as love slips right through your hands.

You live as less but think of more

while thoughts are thoughts and nothing else.

Nothing real has changed here

and you have become less real than yourself.

Change unreal and far away

like visions fighting in your eyes

but what you see here is false hope

and you should not even try.

You see no one stops to point the way

and no one stops to breathe

the toxic air inside your head

or the demons that they don't even see!

When life is gone and love is gone

and everything is painted red...

When the hope is weak but the chains are strong

and dreams have long been dead...

When there is no where to stop and nothing to do...

and your haven't one safe place to hide

all the while fighting fears like pulling teeth

because you just can't kill the one inside!

Remember this place as your only truth

let the monsters become your friends.

Bow down to the unrelenting evil

that will surely come for you again.

Join the march to heavens gates

and break what you can not have

to love is to loose to loose is to hate

so love like the love wont last!

When everything is temporary

you can find comfort in short live pain,

solace in the tears you did not cry,

and maybe even a chance to feel sane.

Take pride in the crack you do not have

and use it to fill the ones that you do...

Until you get all of the smooth and shiny back

to the prideful lies that protect you.

© 2014 Jessica Lynn Polley

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C. Rose

*loose should be lose
*heavens should be heaven's
missing apostrophe in wont

Posted 10 Years Ago

Kiynteyh

I'm growing a little more addicted to your poetry with every piece I read. Your writing displays emotion so wonderfully through the use of witty imagery. The lines flow effortlessly with the aid of well-written rhymes. Magnificent job, well done.

On the critique, a few typos but nothing major.