a knIFe In LIfE

a knIFe In LIfE

Ever woken up in the middle of the night?

Cold bites, lungs tight, nothing's ever really right.

You wait for the sun to shine in the morn and be bright,

but to survive to that point you'll have to put up a fight.

The fear is such a sight. In your eyes, blinding white.

Put pen to paper, try to write. Still it's killing you with fright.

You promise that you'll be alright, but I know you're just polite.

You invite death with your last breath, and hope that it will come tonight.

It's dark. Take a light.

i'M SorRy

We are the people of dreams, where everything tears at the seams.

We are the people of things, where everyday we kill the kings.

We are the people of tunes, 'cause they blow us up like we're balloons.

We are the people of confusion, 'cause people wish that we were an illusion.

We are the people you can't understand. We are the people that need to be banned.

We've defeated your will. Under our spell, under our thrill.

Burns like you're in a toxic spill, but you'll be fine if you tread with skill.

Tread with care, if you dare. Be on the grill, if you will,

'cause we're all hungry, and a bit insane. We've waited to eat. We're a bit profane.

i'M SorRy

We swill the thrill from the kill. Be still.

With a quill we will fulfill freewill.

Decipher those ciphers, if you're the pied piper.

Cause codes are the roads that I use. They flowed

with indecent frequency throughout my delinquency.

Back to the start where I carved in my heart

the first part of an art that I'll finish with darts.

Throwing darts at the wall, but they always will fall

far short of their mark. I hope still for a spark

to revive all the rhymes that I made in my prime,

but that time is long past. And I'm still aging fast.

This day may be my last. So take a knife.

i'M SorRy

We are the people of dreams, where everything tears at the seams.

We are the people of things, where everyday we kill the kings.

We are the people of tunes, 'cause they blow us up like we're balloons.

We are the people of confusion, 'cause people wish that we were an illusion.

We are the people you can't understand. We are the people that need to be banned.

A dead man's brain makes a live man insane.

A dead man's got no game because he's got no name.

And a hurt man's cry makes a full man die

'cause a weak man's prayer burns an evil man's lair.

And the dead man's ashamed 'cause the dead man's always blamed

and the dead man's always flamed, but his baggage goes unclaimed.

He's a killer never tamed, and a body never maimed.

Nothing I can say makes sense to you because it's so sporadic and it's denser, too.

'Cause I'm denser than you and you're more free than me, 

but not all of the time because people still flee.

i'm SorRy

Who is Dead Man, you ask? Well I just can't tell. 

Because Dead Man is me; I'm the dead man that fell.

But you see the body and you immediately flee, 'cause you don't know me. 

No, you don't know me.

And you don't know what this poem means. You don't how this poem holds my screens.

Shows a captive soul locked up and bound and tortured with spikes that go round and round.

'Cause this poem is freeing, but with myself I'm disagreeing.

Now I'm almost out of battery so this is the end of my crazy s**t.

Not sure where I started or where I'm at, but I've got no time for it.

i'm SorRy

Read requests go unread, dying men go undead, and I know that I'm alone.

Call my number, smash the phone, 'cause this is my crazy tone.

i'm SorRy

I am the man of dreams, where everything tears at the seams.

I am the man of things, where everyday we kill the kings.

We are the people of tunes, 'cause they blow us up like we're balloons.

We are the people of confusion, 'cause people wish that we were an illusion.

I am the person you don't, can't, and won't understand. 

We are the people that need to be banned.

Author's Note

I know.

Reviews

[Riley Justine]

I LOVE this! So creative and an amazing read! Really well done!

[Not here]

thank you so much :)

[zunie frost]

emotional ,scary and sad !!!! love reading it !!!! you are really talented ... keep it up !!!

[Not here]

thank you very much zunie :) i like ur name by the way

[zunie frost]

it's my pleasure !!!! and thank you

[Dani The Unreviewed]

anyone else noticed? if you take the capitalized letters from the title, and put them together, you'll get "if i lie" xD was that intentional? great piece here my friend.

[Not here]

no that actually wasnt lol. thats pretty cool. i didnt mean for that. thanks for the review danny :) good eye

[Dani The Unreviewed]

your welcome :-)

[Stan Lee]

Scary and sad. But always well written...

[Not here]

thank you thank you :) i appreciate your review

[Aphy!]

DAMN This was brilliant Dante! Liked every bit of it. The darkness and conflict!
Nicely put hey

Take care

Aphy

[Not here]

thank you :) i appreciate your review

[Aphy!]

my pleasure

[Astrid Blake]

Well I will be darned. Anyway, I really liked it and I hope you will keep on writing! I saw that you also go by Dante the Cheese Man. I am also known as the Cheshire Cheese Cat. Haha, I like your stories!
~~The Cheshire Cheese Cat. ☺

[Not here]

thank you thank you :) im glad you lked it. i appreciate your review

[Astrid Blake]

Bu yong xie. (Your Welcome in Chinese)

[Not here]

that blew my mind

[Astrid Blake]

Sorry. Natural habit. I'm not Chinese, but I have to take a class. Sorry!

[Not here]

lol no no it was good. thats pretty awesome. is it hard?

[Rajat malik]

Brilliantly Crafted Dante.........I think Humanity have lost its value from the world.
Thanks for sharing such a great piece.
I wish i could say much more about it but really I can't grab the words right now....

[Not here]

its okay rajat :) thank you for your review very much

[Tomoe Tellez]

Óh my gosh this is so awesome and as much as I love all your other poems this is definitely the best one and my favorite, so this one goes to my library. And I don't think it is hard for you to explain emotions because the structure and the diversity in vocabulary are incredible. The big letters and change in size format make it seem like there are words of this poem that you want to shout out loud. This is a great piece of poetry, it is dark, but that same darkness gives it power. Great job!

[Not here]

thank you alondra. sometimes its scary putting yourself out there, so im glad you liked it. :)

[Not here]

Emotions are hard to explain.