I sit here
Surrounded by friends
Still I feel alone
Alone in my thoughts
Alone in my ideas
.....Alone
Nothing can change this
No one can help me
Nothing can stop this feeling
Feeling worthless
Feeling empty
Feeling....nothing
These thoughts are consuming
Surrounded by darkness
Inside my head
My head spins
My head races
My head.....stops
Focusing on death
I feel joy
I feel.....relief
Relief in the fact
That it will all be over soon
As death reaches out to me
Knife in hand
Knife to wrist
Knife......cutting
The wound is deep
Blood flows red
Covering the floor
The floor stained
The floor soaked
The floor....embraces me
Slowly bleeding
Losing consiousness
Fading away
Away into nothing
Away into a new beginning
Away into.....life
Ryan Perry
8/27/2010
I sit in this darkened room
Waiting for something I cannot know
Here in this tomb
My face I cannot show
Looking up at the cieling
I wait for a sign
My head swirling
I tence my spine
I stand and walk
Where to I cannot say
Grinding my teeth to chalk
I kneel to pray
I stop and wait
For an answer
I begin to debate
Trying to fight the cancer
The cancer that has seeped
Into my mind
Mind still steeped
In thoughts that bind
Bind in blood
So I raise the gun
Next bang....thud
I lay dead under the sun
Ryan Perry
8/25/2010
I sit and wait
Wait for what
What I wait for
I cannot know
Cannot know much
About anything
About anything I see
With these blinders on me
These blinders blind
My eyes of sight
Eyes of sight
That do not see
Do not see
What you want them to
Want them to see love
Blinded by the hate
By the hate
Of my childhood
My childhood of critics
And ignorant competition
Ignorant competition of sports
Of grades and intelect
Intelect you do not have
That's why you compete
You compete with me
To make you feel smart
To make you feel smart
I cannot do
I cannot do
Anything for you
For you all I'll do
Is take this knife
Take this knife
To my wrist
To my wrist
To let the blood flow
Blood flow red
From my viens
My viens
That bleed for you
For you
This is all I'll do
Ryan Perry
8/23/2010
Eyes Open, Life Ending
Eyes open
But still I dream
Mind wandering
But still I am focused
Voices shouting
But still I hear no words
Heart aching
But still I say I am happy
Lungs breathing
But still I am out of breath
Body moving
But still I am numb
Soul dieing
But still I fight to stay alive
Life ending
But still I feel content
Ryan Perry
4-19-02
Love
The fear flows over me like a rageing river. It floods my senses with the murky waters of deception; twisting my mind until it finally snaps. I cannot say where it comes from or why it is here. The origins of my fear are like a well kept secret that only God knows.
God, our father, or so they say. How can a true father let his son suffer through the overwhelming terrors of life? His face eludes me, as does death. A just God would let death’s sweet sorrow take me somewhere else. To nothing, or to a new life without all the fear.
Death, I yearn for her sweet touch. I wish she would let me inside her. So deep inside that even my fear can’t reach me. So deep that even God can’t find me. Just the thought of the sweet romance of my one true love turns me on. I want her. I need her. I love her.
Ryan L. Perry
8/28/06
Suicidal Tendencies
I dream of death as if it were a gift
Handed down from God himself
A beautiful escape into nothing
Where no one can hurt me
My heart can’t get broken
I want death to happen
Happen like a romantic deflowering
So sweet and so innocent
I shut my eyes and see the blood on my wrists
I awake and I feel its warmth
Death flows black from my veins
It hit’s the floor and stains
A permanent reminder to those left behind
It feels so good to finally be free
Free of this life that terrifies me
Ryan L. Perry
8/18/06
Life Without You
There are these thoughts in the back of my mind
A perfect place to keep them I cannot find
I try so hard to lock them away
For it is my happiness that they slay
Sometimes they break free
And that is when I see
Me
And only Me
You are not there
And so my life is bare
I sit and cry
As I try
To understand why I am on my own
Yes, why I am truly alone
Then people are everywhere
But still it is like no one is there
They try to comfort me
And fill my life with glee
They all refuse to see
That nothing really maters to me
Except these memories of time with you
And all the fun things we used to do
Then they all disappear
And I find myself within a sphere
As I sit within the never-ending black
The full force of my loneliness comes rushing back
Within my hands I held it all
But then one day it began to fall
Now within my hands I hold my face
That is all that remains in that place
I sit and think of our time together
We managed to have fun even in bad weather
I search my memories trying to find
Answers and thoughts to ease my mind
Within my heart and mind there is much strife
Because I don’t know why you are not in my life
I tell myself that you’ll come back
And rescue me from this black
Slowly these thoughts return to their cell
Slowly they free me from this hell
Even when they are finally out of my head
I still feel as if I am dead
Then I remember that you are with me
And that fills my heart with glee
I can not put into words how much I love you
And I never want to think about life without you
Ryan Perry
11-14-01
COMMENTS
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therealthing
19:52 Aug 27 2010
Don't spend so much time thinking about what you don't have. That can lead to depression. And that doesn't mean that you forget about wanting the object of your desire. It means you balance wanting it, with making active measures to contribute to your chances of success in obtaining it, with finding other things to do while you wait in between.
Western society has destroyed respect, morals, standards, loyalty, altruism, and honor. So, of course there will be an overabundance of dysfunctional humans.
Also, love isn't everything. Love is an emotion among a wide variety of emotions that humans experience. The trick is not to let your emotions make decisions for you. Don't think with your hips, or your head, or your heart, but your spirit; that gut feeling at the core of your being. You have emotions, just don't make decisions with them. For example, you shouldn't make decisions when you are angry because you always feel differently when you come down from your mad fog.
So, yes most people want love and to be loved. However, there are so many other things that are just as worthy of your attention. You can be doing them while you look for the man you are compatible with. Take your time, because it is better to be alone than to be with someone that makes you miserable.
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Now for the subject of loneliness :
Being alone and feeling lonely are two different things.
Being alone means that you are apart from others; solitary; being without anyone or anything else. And even though you might think you are alone,
truly you never are alone.
Because being alone in this realm is IMPOSSIBLE. Just the fact that you are a walking universe for millions of microbes proves that you are not alone. Plus, with your mind, body and spirit you have three of you right there.
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Being lonely is a feeling you get. You get it when you don't feel intimacy with others, and you are craving it. And that intimacy isn't necessarily sexual either.
And these feelings of loneliness are yours to have control over. They are your feelings.
One can feel lonely in a crowded room of people. But you certainly aren't alone, that is for sure. So, don't choose to feel lonely the next time you find yourself alone dwelling on thoughts that lead to bitterness.
You can choose whatever reaction you like to any stimulus. The choice is yours. You are in charge of your thinking and no one else. In todays society people don't take responsibility seriously, or respect, among a lot of other things. No matter what life throws at you, you choose how to respond.
Be comfortable with who you are, and you won't mind being alone.