I’m sitting in the sink
I have to hold my breath
The water brims around me
I’m churning in its depth
I’m sitting in the sink
Thinking how nice it would be
If I would have learned to swim
When they tried to teach me
I’m sitting in the sink
My finger’s waterlogged
I want to d...
How easy life would be
If I could just take all those pills
Pop one or two
Or five or ten
And write my living will
I’d fly through outer space
I’d ride a unicorn
I’d count to three
And make my wish
And wait to be reborn
How much sorrow can one take
Until they learn to appreciate...
You’re weeding out the worst of me
Every inch exploding greed
I lock myself away from you to hide from all your need
You wrap your fear around me so I never see the light
A self-destructive method to demean my human plight
I find myself positioned underneath your solid hold
I lower myself ...
An opportunity like this you cannot neglect
Fly under the radar, no one will suspect
That under that shirt you've got something to hide
Be it from anger, or be it from pride
Amidst the group you wear "normal" so well
Who would imagine the hot steaming hell
You've kept p...
My ear pressed against dark-stained oak
I await the soothing ripple of vocal power against vocal power
How difficult it would be to sleep without knowing you are both still there
Still together
Still waiting
For me
It may creep up like an insidious disease
A slimy worm inching beneath my skin...
An endeavor I have yet to pass with anxious scars yearning to tear
Crazed, am I, among brothers who suffer diligently for their purpose
A crisp edge on which we walk separates us from society
Cold, forbidden, untouched
A crying child in each of us who wanders blankly about a fallow heart
I wish...
Is there a death we celebrate more extravagantly than the passing of a devious thought?
Could It’s eyes have plead more deeply? Could It’s lips have been drier? Could It’s smile have been more profound?
Can any presence be forgotten so kindly, so weak an image that it is drawn out of our min...
I never learned from my mother
That honesty will always accomplish
More than lies
I never found out the truth about that
I never learned from my mother
That time heals even the deepest
Of all wounds
I never waited the time to figure that out
I never learned from my mother
That a hug can...
She sits in her chair
Clad in the gray underwear
The left side with a tear
Peers into the mirror
But not into her eyes
She can't handle them today
Today she knows they are fire
They are wild as a stallion
They are dangerous, untamed
Mystery lurks beneath their glaze
Shielded ben...
A life has such an effect on one
I contemplate on how it can
With whiskers like little laces undone
A pitter-patter to places unrun
Have such an enormous impact on man
For a soul so slight as to fit in my hand
A watchful eye beneath the brush
Clenched between the left and right
How easy it...
We are all craving a spark
A dim speck of light
Whatever it may be
To tell us what’s right
But nothing ever comes
We sit day after day
Waiting and waiting
Slowly fading to gray
And one day we wake up
Know it doesn’t exist
And we waste all this time
And near end you are pissed
B...
One Father
One whose voice rose above
One whose purpose was to love
One whose head, above the clouds
One who silenced all the crowds
One who lived, never to cease
One who brought much more than peace
One who spoke, but not with power
One who’s brave, no need to cower
One who achieved far ...
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