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Broken

May 31, 2014
By LavanderMayday SILVER, Oroville, California
LavanderMayday SILVER, Oroville, California
7 articles 0 photos 72 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Writers aren't exactly one person, they're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person"


Shivering in the darkest corner of your heart- trying to search for something in your eyes.

Your fingertips graze your own skin.

Heart pounding to the mournful cry of a wounded feeling.

Crying
Sobbing
Screaming
You're dying.
Dying, shivering here.
Alone.

Only the ears of silence can hear the screaming.
It's as if you're turning the worn pages of a breaking heart.

These words are so blurred in your now flooded eyes.
It pauses-for a second.
The pages pause.
The would is slowing down.
This pain skips a beat.
You hear the book fall onto this damp floor, and it echoes off those concrete walls.

So you sit
Alone
Shivering.

It starts again, faster then ever the pages turn!

This heart is pounding-in the distance you hear screams-your screams.

They are coming.

Turning the last page of a moribund heart...

All of the air escapes your lungs.

Just as the screams almost touch you

You let go.

The silence echoes off these concrete walls.


The author's comments:
These was a piece that I jotted down a while back.
I'm unsure of what it is about but maybe you can figure it out =)

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on Aug. 26 2014 at 10:17 pm
LavanderMayday SILVER, Oroville, California
7 articles 0 photos 72 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Writers aren't exactly one person, they're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person"

@mikki  Thank you!

Mikki GOLD said...
on Aug. 26 2014 at 3:53 pm
Mikki GOLD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." (Albert Einstein)

Great poem :) I especially love the irony of the silence echoing in the last line. Stark juxtapositions like that tend to emphasize the point the sentence is trying to convey.

on Aug. 5 2014 at 6:14 pm
LavanderMayday SILVER, Oroville, California
7 articles 0 photos 72 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Writers aren't exactly one person, they're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person"

Okay I'll keep your advice in mind thanks!

on Aug. 5 2014 at 2:19 pm
PianoKeys97 PLATINUM, Medford, New Jersey
22 articles 35 photos 59 comments

Favorite Quote:
"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches." -Dita Von Teese

Creepy. Very scary. I like it. Just as "faster than ever the pages turn!" I ended up reading your poem faster and faster. It was suspensful and hooked me right away. Though metioning "alone and shivering" so bluntly was a bit too straight forward for me (I would have liked to read something more metaphorc), the meaning overall of your poem is so deep and thoughtful. Keep writing!

on Aug. 5 2014 at 10:23 am
LavanderMayday SILVER, Oroville, California
7 articles 0 photos 72 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Writers aren't exactly one person, they're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person"

...thank-you

on Jul. 12 2014 at 9:51 am
Myvoice4change SILVER, Other, Other
9 articles 3 photos 164 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

I like this.

on Jun. 7 2014 at 8:49 pm
LavanderMayday SILVER, Oroville, California
7 articles 0 photos 72 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Writers aren't exactly one person, they're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person"

Typo: *the world is slowing down Typo in authors comments: *This was a poem... Sorry about the mess-ups guys. I tried to fix them before it got comments but it don't seem to have that option. :( Well, yeah...Hope you enjoy the poem nonetheless! -Thanks4TheTragedyINeedIt4MyArt