Author: chewingonglass

  • This Is All…

    With scars so deep it’s amazing I can even sleep…  The dark moments they passBehind closed doorsBehind closed eyesStanding in plain sightThis too will pass  

  • Something Different… More Of The Same…

    Breakdown Working towards somethingPushing myself to the edgeThe brink of everything that’s realThe point at which I am deadKeeps digging, the mind wants moreKeep reliving, the memories I deserveStains on broken glassVisions left without wordsBring to life everything that I fearBring the innocent to their kneesBeg for forgiveness though no…

  • Sympathetic to Your Needs…

    “Am I being recorded?”“I hope you don’t mind. It is for journalistic purposes. Try to not let it affect you or your responses. Best to think of it not being there.”“Okay.”“So you wanted to tell me something about where you work and how it pertains to my story?”“You won’t publish…

  • Broken Thoughts…

    The blood cascades down the wallYou know you are homeWhen everything is comfortableBones line the edges of the roomYou know you are homeWhen everything seems fineSkin drapes the furnitureYou know you are homeWhen everything is normal Scars scratched deep across their faces… Tangled up in all your razor wireThink about…

  • Something Different…

    Laughing In the Face of Darkness There is a story I’m always trying to tellIt doesn’t have a beginning, middle, but it does have an endIt is long, some might say endlessA story I can never seem to get straightGive it all I got, in the end, it never makes any senseWish…

  • Broken Thoughts…

    Another shitty night bleeds into another subconscious dayLocked into nothing at all, fight to stay awakeBreaking bones to stay in the game with no goalIf only I had known the rules might not have tried at allGave it away for nothing at all, Giving it awayA cause and effect of…

  • Beginning of All Things to End…

    “Things went from bad to worse,” he says as they walk down the long corridor. “What do you mean?” One of his colleagues asks. “Most importantly they are being taken to the facility right now to insure there will be a future them,” he says ignoring the question all together.…

  • Broken Thoughts…

    We give it upWe give it all up in bloodUntil we are nothingNever enough for some or no one at allWe turn it overWe turn it over with our soulsUntil we have nothing leftNever enough for most or anyone at allWe work it allWe work it all with our livesUntil…

  • What Can We Say…

    “The world shatters around me. Falling shards of a broken mirror reflecting all the past actions of my life. Regret is something that can only happen after everything is said and done. How I wish I could take them all back, but I can’t. Each broken shard plunges into me…

  • And Other Things From This Time…

    Time Within Time If I say it enough will it come trueSelf-full filling prophecy made up of dreamsBeen looking in a mirror saying it over and overAnd yet the image doesn’t changeStill the same asshole as yesterdayHopes and prayers are for our childrenPraying and kneeling are the same thingsNeither is…