So this is life -Poetry of sorts

[KCADO]

So This Is Life is an ongoing collection of all the poetry I have ever written. There is no particular order to my posting of poetry, with the oldest poem being from around 2013. If this is not what you're looking for, feel free to ignore this, and I hope you find it elsewhere! Please do pm me critique or just your thoughts; I'd love to hear them! However, please don't leave hurtful comments or post in this thread as I would rather keep this for just poetry. I have also used a lot of little pictures and gifs in this thread, and have tried to credit all of them- if you click on them, they'll take you to the original artist or page they're from! Happy reading and thank you!

[KCADO]

Moonlight Whispers

The silver light
that comes in the night
from my window,
from the moon

It cuts through the dark
like a wave, like a shark,
and whispers me that soon,

Soon you'll be there
with your warm soft hair
and your gentle, golden smile

and then we'll sit
in the darkness, starlit
and dream a little while

of forests, slowly creaking
till it seems though they are speaking
to me, to you, and to your smile
-KeepCalmAndDrarryOn

[KCADO]

Raindrops

Sometimes I like it when
the rain beats down outside;
when the constant onslaught of
the ground sounds soft
and soothing, and it
all just blurs into one
big soporific drumroll.

Sometimes I hate it when
the rain beats down outside;
when the soft, constant drumroll
is erratic and startling
interspersed with all of the
unevenness of life,
like

the birds on the rooftops taking
flight, a
sudden raucous explosion
of wing beats,
or the droplets of cloud
that get caught on the
windowsill above mine
and drip down with
no real pattern,
just noise.
-KeepCalmAndDrarryOn

[KCADO]

Golden

You are golden
Everywhere I think of you

I remember you
Curled into a ball of happy exhaustion
By my side
You were golden then
It shone slowly out
Like a nightlight

I remember you
Laughing like you would never laugh again
And then your laughter was golden
It filled the room
And my heart
With light

I remember you
Wrapped in my scarf
And my arms
Then you were trying to hide your light
But still it shone out
Reflecting golden on the faces of the people around us

I remember you
Sitting with me on the cold stone steps
You lent me your light
To warm us both
And that was golden too

I think of you now
And everywhere I think of you
You are golden
-KeepCalmAndDrarryOn

[KCADO]

Colours and emotions

We're a colourwheel of emotion, you and I.
You say you like purple, and I know I like you.
I like black and red, the colours of my life's worth, the colours of my heart that beats every
Desperate Drowning Beat for you.
You like silver and I like gold, and we're opposites yet complimentary.
I think
But my thoughts are not important, not when you're here in my arms and you're all I can see and all I can breathe,
Because I would beg to drown if it would mean that I could watch my dying breaths rise with you.
-KeepCalmAndDrarryOn

[KCADO]

Sleeping

The car has stopped
And as you burn a hole into my shoulder;
Perhaps you are sleeping,
Perhaps you are not;
I sit
And write
And try not to dream.
I think that perhaps this should mean
Something,
But
I also think that perhaps
It should not.
I want to stay like this.
Does that mean something too?
I think and as I think I realise that you can see right
Through me;
You can see who I am, better than I can see myself, and
You feel like safety to me;
A bubble of not-quite silence.
The fiery outside sounds can't permeate it.
And in the end,
Is that really such a
Bad thing?
-KeepCalmAndDrarryOn

[KCADO]

Supernova

They're telling me to get back on my feet
but I don't know where
the ground is
anymore
I was drifting quietly
until he crashed into me
on his way down
and now I'm falling
at a hundred miles an hour
I'm freezing on the inside
and burning on my skin
and all of me is starting
to give in
As I burn through the atmosphere
I can only hope
that when I'm done
crashing and burning
you'll be there to pick up
all the tiny pieces of me
and keep them safely
until the time comes
for you
to join me
and then I'll be there
to welcome you home
with open arms
and a softly glowing smile
and I'll say
'hello, my supernova'
-KeepCalmAndDrarryOn

[KCADO]

I read your note

I read your note
Sitting in the rapidly enclosing space of my mind
The train tracks racing around my head
Took me directly to the darkest station
The worst possible conclusion
So I sat for a moment
Then I read your note again
I noticed the heart sketched at the bottom
And the postscript;
'smell the ink'
So I did
And the trains slowed down,
Running out of steam
And relaxing to a gentle buzzing murmur
And I could breathe again
And I read the whole thing through for a third time
Running my fingers over the letters,
Tracing your thoughts
As they left my head
So thank you
For being there
For helping my racing train track thoughts
To slow down
And curl up
Into cotton wool
And kittens
-KeepCalmAndDrarryOn

[KCADO]

Hear me Shatter

As you marked me
for the first time
I laughed
and blushed
and covered you in
markings
of your own
But the marks
are fading
faster each time
and my
lungs
are learning not to
gasp
And very soon
I think
that to even
{Hear Me}
at all
you're going to have to
{Shatter}
me into
a million
fiberglass
shards
-KeepCalmAndDrarryOn

[KCADO]

Oases and Whirlpools

I've been standing out
here in the desert
for too long
And the oases
in my eyes
have all dried up
and clotted
There is no water left to give
I try
And I try
to find a reason
but the water is long gone
and it's not coming back
for me
So I think
I'll sink
into the sand
and try
and try
to cry
And my weary heart
will thump its way
Slowly
Lower
And lower
Through my hands
and into the bottom
of this desert whirlpool
-KeepCalmAndDrarryOn