RiVeN
RiVeN archive of published lines and poems on Linespedia.
"Patrick came home a day early from his business trip Parked his car and opened the door Listened very closely and heard a woman Inside the house screaming for more He ran up the stairs into his ro..."
"In a sense You are beautiful in your own world These materialistic things You do not need Makeup is not a miracle Plastic surgery Is a call you need not heed Beauty is only skin deep? So why is..."
"Dear Mother, I'm sorry I haven't been there I apologize for my actions It seems as if I don't care My actions I cannot take back But the responsibility I will hold My thoughts have manifested ..."
"An arrow Shot from a distance Sent to my very heart My Mind At sixes at sevens Over the thought of you My thoughts Running circles through my head Waking me from my sleep The very thought of l..."
"Justice Why have you failed me my dear? I thought you protected those who were right Those who may live in fear Society has taught you otherwise It has taught you a different set of rules And now soc..."
"You were once the object of my desire The one thing I wished to ever obtain And now that I had you You are driving me insane It seemed like we would end every day with an argument Never choosing the ..."
"Looking Waiting Silently praying For the day that'll come My future shall come and that is what I fear The ghosts of my past And the present and sanity Two things I hold to me dear All of this nonsens..."
"A family secret kept hidden for years The elders have known it Sixty winters this very year Young John Sixteen and kickin in his prime Will soon find the answers To this unspeakable crime Aski..."
""Tell me land-- On your driest field of sand Do bodies lay buried? Is one of your plants Audrey? Tell me uncle Paul-- Why do I feel compelled For revenge against this deed Scruples of remorse ..."
"It's been a while Since a situation of this kind Has come up in the family Yes It has been a long time The votes have been counted and tallied In favor of the family Against John They consider..."
""Son, one day you will get to be as old as I am. I would tell you the cliche, 'Enjoy your days of youth while you still can.'" An old, senile man said to me on a melancholy day. There was something in..."
"Sometimes in the very darkest of night I am awakened by my sudden And overwhelming sense of fright Not knowing what I am asked of Not knowing what is expected How can I live my life to the fullest Wh..."
"Twitching in my ears Hearing voices in my mind Bound to loose sense of space Bound to loose sense of time Echoes of our love Beat in my heart Echoes of our love That is what's tearing me apart Thoug..."
"Matthew was the one That sat in the back of class He knew how to write And he could write fast Livin his life on skid row With mortal devils He always went with toe-to-toe Poetry was his outlet The b..."
"Flash One second and it's fone Is it just me Or does the dark of night Seem unbearingly long Wake up From this nightmare Staring into pitch black The unreality of the situation Is something I cannot ..."
"Climbing a crest Descending into the peak I inhale cold stale air And grasp my chest On hallowed ground Flying amidst Winter's eve I see my goal tower over me And I find it hard to breathe In silenc..."
"When was that time That seems so long ago When I had no worries And when monsters were my only foe Is my innocent lost And never to be found Or merely just tucked away for the time being The world th..."
"How could I a child Of young age Understand the world To a greater extent And a greater guage A mediocre society A media kingdom This is the reality come to reign And in such times of trouble How do I..."
"So many thoughts As deep as the sea Drowing in a black ocean of infinity Whispering in my ears Its scent is what led me here Emptying my head of its needs My mind a voyeur of the world A good view I c..."
"A living medical mystery Stumped them all A troubled future on this man would befall Living his life as a mystery and a lie A gift dropped from the sky Living his life behind a mask Keeping everything..."
"Ring Pick up the phone Bring the fear and the madness Home Paying for your sins This time you cannot lie Wind muttering thoughts About how you might die Speaking in foriegn tongues Speaking dumbly in..."
"Come with me love Grab my hand Let us escape the world And watch it become a grain of sand Run away to Saturn or the moon Does it matter of we take forever Or if we get there soon Escape our problems ..."
"Sun hanging high overhead Thoughts and dreams Pop in and out of my head Spectacles shade my view of the world Spectacles shape my view of the world An ocean big and blue My heart is aching for you Pa..."
"Late one night to insomnia I awoke The dark air around me had a tight grip And began to choke I put on my shoes and decided to take a walk Hopefully it would clear my head of voluminous thoughts The ..."
"What once alive Now been slayed What once was breathing yesterday Choked today ...Disillusion... Was it a love or a game One whose purpose was to drive me insane It was all an illusion I was just c..."
"I am deep in thought And I have this urge I cannot overcome It cannot be fought And so I succomb I create you in my image Right down to the last detail I give you a name I give you a face And I put y..."
"I have spent my whole life Looking for something I thought Would never be found I have spent minutes in eternity And I can mimic the sound One that does ring true I would take out my heart And give i..."
"The soft winter rain Taps on my window And beckons for me to come outside But I do not play that game I'll stay inside You may taunt my ears But I am retracing my steps And going through the years Pe..."
""The human mind Can only possess certain powers At a certain time What one may perceive at night May be different by day When the mind is asleep Your subconscious is at play" The doctor began His ent..."
"Awoken from a century's slumber The toils of our past Along with it's demons Have awoken And now they're here to have a blast Seemed so long ago they dragged me down I became a victim of my own devil..."
"John woke up and poured himself a cup Cold stale brew The ideal way to wake up If there is a monkey wrench in the stew A quick stop at the library Need to find todays top story And revel in the rats ..."
"The population mimics the name The delinquents are the players in the game Exiled from society "Uncapable of sobriety" Out of the ashes And up from the ground Welcome to Nowhere Town Home to procrast..."
"It felt like judgement day in Hell Dr. Keith Jones was a doctor in the field And was giving his findings To a court of his peers He had been working on for years They didn't see the point In extra t..."
"Sell your soul Tumble down the mainstream's rabbit hole Manifest your thoughts and dreams And welcome to the machine Everyday you pour your heart into your work For some fat cat on the hill If you wi..."
"The midnight air blows across my face Too hot indoors so I sleep outside In this surreal place Opposite of my state of mind I do not wish to define the place or time The thoughts of when I dream Chalk..."
"Born into a world of sound Raised outside of isolation Happiness- his only consolation Stumbled upon an underground world Sudden Silence No more sound Exposed to a new realm and light Changed his out..."
"Senses deprived I was feeling so alive What happened? I became blind to your needs Your signals and calls I couldn't heed As if I didn't know where I was going Or what I was saying Oblivious To the g..."
"[...Torn apart and split...] [...You could say my life is full of shit...] [...But I prefer to think of it differently...] [...Looked down upon by my peers...] [...My eyes are tired from shedd..."
"An old man as old as the year Came to me one eve And warned me of a future near A grave prophecy he preached "Happiness in seclusion is what you seek Why else would you be in the night desert by fire ..."
"The winds from the north Came and brought with them plague Of the mind and the soul Seven deadly sins consume the town as a whole The fire in the bar turned a ghastly shade of black As darkness rode ..."
"What you may believe Maybe different from what the government may perceive What you may say is right They'll say it's wrong An uphill battle Lasting horrendously long Happiness is only defined by the..."
"Irony; the difference between what we expect And what comes true If a dream is only in my mind Then why is it I have found myself in a new place and time If it is only two dimensional Then why am I fe..."
"John had called me over one night. He had something he needed to show me. I stepped out of my car and the midnight air had a sharp bite to it. John lived in an old Victorian style house on the top ..."
"I took the light and walked back into the room upstairs with the noose and opened the door. I held the light up and still saw nothing. I went across the hall to the adjacent room. The door was lock..."
"We live and die by it And yet we have never grasped it's concept Couldn't nurture it's cause And now we are attempting to defy its laws? Why are we trying to find The answers To where time Lies It's..."
"Opportunity Is at my door But it has the potential To be so much more If I open it what will I find The key to unlock my mind? It has potential for a window of danger A doorway to a Netherworld An ab..."
"There was no time for pain No energy for anger The sightlessness of hatred slips away Walking through winter streets alone He stops and takes a breath With confidence and self control I look at the w..."
"Alcohol, you are my friend You have stuck with me until the end In a matter of weeks-- My mother died Wife said I lied I couldn't find peace, but I tried I seek solitude in a personal hell I crawled i..."
"John stepped out into the cold midnight air Insomnia plagued him like a string of the flu Wandering up and down the streets at night Did he hallucinate that they had turned blue. Walking down s..."
"She steps out and reaches for the towel Wipes away the water that made her clean Wipes away on the mirror the steam What she sees in the mirror Is an image that she has feared In her heart sh..."