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Brandon WordSmith

@brandon

Founder of RhymeMosaic. Author of the founding 205. Meter, Metaphor, Memory + Meaning.

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Public poems

TruthSeeker

Anchor my roots in Your dirt by the river · The Savior’s pursuit mends the hurts at my center

January 19, 2026

Seasonal Change

The stillness of the chillest air · Instills some feelings of despair

January 19, 2026

"Soon," I Sighed

The blood on these walls is so beautiful · I scratched all my nails down to their cuticles

January 19, 2026

So Much More To Gain

Earth’s built at a tilt that I am not aligned to · It’s certain I should work in a way I’m not designed to

January 19, 2026

Never ! (Version)

Adrift amid desolate waters · I recollect the depths the wetness hides

January 19, 2026

Dearly Beloved

Another relationship ends in disaster · Why can I not seem to find what I’m after?

January 19, 2026

Pink Serpent

There’s a hole in my heart the size of your love · Try to keep it below but it’s rising above

January 19, 2026

Aphasic Lamentation

Make this place amazing · And I’ll stay for many days

January 19, 2026

TinMan

You’re insane to be happy · So I must bring you down

January 19, 2026

Transmuted

I see with different eyes · I hear with other ears

January 19, 2026

Inverted Indifference

Your memory’s attached to all that I know · Your essence is with me wherever I go

January 19, 2026

Helping Hand

If you are here and reading this · I probably understand

January 19, 2026

Abscessed Insanity

By God we're molested · It's called "being tested"

January 19, 2026

Puppet Master

My body is my puppet · And my mind the puppet master

January 19, 2026

Survival

The birds are laughing at me again… ·

January 19, 2026

Life Trap

Rip the head off, shove it through · All the eyes can see is you

January 19, 2026

Not Dead, Stronger

I feel as if the floor below · Is caving in beneath me

January 19, 2026

Lover You

Her lips are an Elixir · I Sip as I kiss her

January 19, 2026

Rainy Seasons

We were together just a season · Still, effects have lasted years

January 19, 2026

At Ledge's Edge

I’m sick, I’m done, I’m through · With walking all this way just to

January 19, 2026

Quietus Prevention

Your pain is mine, I feel it deep · And for your bind these lashes weep

January 19, 2026

Half Empty, Half Fool

You can burn me, I won’t club you · You can push me, I won’t shove you

January 19, 2026

Period (End of a Sentence)

You just resist me to make me stronger · You hurry me so it can last a little longer

January 19, 2026

Anagogic (Positive Vibes)

My heart doesn’t beat at the same frequency, you see · Cause for me it beats a sweet heavenly melody

January 19, 2026

River of Time

Life is what you make it · You can build or even break it

January 19, 2026

Where I'm Going

I don’t know where I’ve been · I don’t know where I’m going

January 19, 2026

AlienOnEarth

I’ve come into this place · From very far away

January 19, 2026

God Left Me In The Whale

Cleansed from my sins · I fall back in again

January 19, 2026

Narcotics Anonymous

One is just too many · A thousand, not enough

January 19, 2026

Chameleon

Blending in again · Pretending I am one of them

January 19, 2026

Stigmata (Ritual Abuse)

Your ways conjure pictures of a kind of place · Beyond Time and space

January 19, 2026

Divine Re-alignment

Tonight, the stars have aligned · They’re Divinely designed

January 19, 2026

Reflections in the Ice

Fate twisted reflection · Locked in a gaze

January 19, 2026

Flamelit Path

These pages blaze as I shape great escapes · For playful playmates nine-eighths grateful

January 19, 2026

InVersion

I’m at your feet, I hate to beg · I shouldn’t have to, so you’ve said

January 19, 2026

A Safe Place

Your love has been replaced with a razorblade · An amazing safe place that evades pain

January 19, 2026

Reaper's Wayve

This crest is pretty sketchy · In a very etch-a-way

January 19, 2026

Les Cieux

I never feel more alive than right at that time · When my mind has declined reason and rhyme

January 19, 2026

The Source of Art

Just what you see is what will be · Not just for me – you, I, and we

January 19, 2026

Seeds of Love

Weave me dreams I can’t conceive · But leave the seams so I’ll believe

January 19, 2026

Sorrow-Drowned

I cannot stand to see you fade · To watch you as you slip away

January 19, 2026

Impending Doom

You can laugh at me · But actually

January 19, 2026

Leaving the Nest

My dear, my dear, · My Pot of Gold

January 19, 2026

End of the Rainbow

You’re abused and you don’t care · You feel pain, but aren’t aware

January 19, 2026

Numb

Kill me curse me bash me hate me · Fill me nurse me lash me greatly

January 19, 2026

Shapeshifting Lovers

You wear masks to hide your rotting faces · You never think twice bout the pain it replaces

January 19, 2026

SuperBlue

I cut my feet so that every step will be a reminder of who I am · Voices in my head talk me off to sleep, as tears fall down my cheek

January 19, 2026

Traces of Life

We’re addicted to our lives · We try so hard to hide

January 19, 2026

Revolving Door Exit

Perpetual youth is a thing best attained · By spending time you gain on those less vain

January 19, 2026

ReplaceMint

She's better than you'll ever be · So drown now in your jealousy

January 19, 2026

Cyrcle of Life

In life I’ve found out lots · And as near as I can tell

January 19, 2026

PsychoLogically Naked

Come with me! Leave your body behind ·

January 19, 2026

CornerStoned

Leave your mind behind · Read between the lines

January 19, 2026

NeverWonderLand

Rainbow jellyfish · Float through the sky!

January 19, 2026

BloodDebt

Standing here staring · I’m glaring

January 19, 2026

Mister Nice Guy

Why don’t people like me? · I often wonder why

January 19, 2026

ComeBack

Were it me one with you · Then I’d be what you choose

January 19, 2026

Open Your Eyes

Something sang to me a song of inconsistency · And so I questioned what it really meant to me

January 19, 2026

Masquerade

Our life is a luxury we don’t enjoy · And sadness the worker we often employ

January 19, 2026

Same

I’m staring at before · And now for sake of grief

January 19, 2026

Dead Love

The life inside has died · It does no good to close my eyes

January 19, 2026

Fallen Away

Again have I fell · I am mad with myself

January 19, 2026

Regret

Whispering regrets through air · Struggle so hard not to care

January 19, 2026

The Truth of the Matter

When the only good thing in your life leaves you · And you know you are to blame

January 19, 2026

Cancer

Alcohol swabs get me ready to accept · The needle into my vein

January 19, 2026

Blink

Homogeneous mechanical melting pot · Fluorescence blinking a thousand times per second

January 19, 2026

Reflection

Circular reflections distort trees · Swaying in the breeze

January 19, 2026

Black Hole

Your hole is a black one · I cannot escape

January 19, 2026

Collapse

I can feel myself rising with the smoke · Up to meet the sky in broad daylight

January 19, 2026

Waiting

Existence is dreary · I find myself weary

January 19, 2026

Addicted

I feel it again burning deep from within · Feel it creep down my skin to the ink in this pen

January 19, 2026

The Sky Is Falling

The sky is falling · I’m screaming and calling

January 19, 2026

The Chauffeur (Driving Myself Crazy)

The road is crooked and the streets are wavy · I’m the chauffeur that is driving myself crazy

January 19, 2026

Incoherent Rambling

give · live

January 19, 2026

Amputated

The walls of life are crashing down · I cannot find a way to feel

January 19, 2026

The Light

My God, why do I feel so worthless? · All I want to do’s your purpose

January 19, 2026

From God to You

If you’re sick, I want to heal you · If you’re evil then I’ll kill you

January 19, 2026

Ascend

This is a kill yourself list · Hit your head with your fist

January 19, 2026

My Savior

So many times · I should have died

January 19, 2026

Delusional Illusion

Delusional illusion, confused and used to bruises · The fuse is the problems reduced to tightened nooses

January 19, 2026

Innocence Lost

It was a cold December night · And I was upstairs in my room

January 19, 2026

Love Like A Child

If we loved everyone as our child, · The world would be a better place

January 19, 2026

Between Cracks In A Broken Heart

There’s nothing more in the world · That will make you truly happy

January 19, 2026

Since I've Been Away

Hello friend · So good to see you again

January 19, 2026

Defective

My teardrops keep on falling · The steady river never halts

January 19, 2026

Leaves

The leaves paint pictures on my walls · For me to see as they sway back and forth

January 19, 2026

Parallel Lines

We’re parallell lines · And I can see you from where I am

January 19, 2026

The Urge

Someone please release me · From this terrible disease

January 19, 2026

Somewhere

I know you’re there somewhere · But where, I just don’t know

January 19, 2026

Surrender

It sounds so simple · To the uninitiated

January 19, 2026

Wake Up Call

Up and at ‘em, rise and shine! · Take your place in back of line

January 19, 2026

Hypnogogia

I saw a shadow last night · Not the kind you see on walls

January 19, 2026

Too Soon

Seven AM came too soon · I’d give up anything for noon

January 19, 2026

Prayer

My Lord, My God, protect me · Please don’t let them get me

January 19, 2026

Streetlights

The streetlights drape and cover the world, · Their light stretches through the inky depths

January 19, 2026

Hospital Poem

How selfish I can be · To see it all the way I see

January 19, 2026

A Part Of

I am a drop of water · Dripping down into the sea

January 19, 2026

Beautiful Temptation

Beauty, you simply · Now tempt me again

January 19, 2026

Make Up

You don’t know what you do to me · You cannot comprehend it

January 19, 2026

Control

Why am I happy one minute · And then so sad the next?

January 19, 2026

Alive With You

Time itself freezes in your prescence · The hands of clocks, they slow

January 19, 2026

Do Not Cry

Do not cry · Dry your eyes

January 19, 2026

Submissive-Destructive Relationship

When I do you don’t · And when I want you won’t

January 19, 2026

The One

Let me be the conduit · Through which you manifest

January 19, 2026

Think

Think How Each Reason Exists · Inside, Surrounded

January 19, 2026

Connecting Through A Screen

I’m sitting here so silently, · And restless in my chair

January 19, 2026

Fallen Hero

I’m weeping for your pain · I feel sorrow for your scars

January 19, 2026

Being Human

We are all the same · Just in different stages

January 19, 2026

All My Lies

I’m lying to myself again.. · Sometimes I remember when

January 19, 2026

Mirror

I’m like this always, you see · It’s not you, this is me…

January 19, 2026

Natural Selection

Help me, I’m coming apart at the wrists · How can my yelling and screaming be missed?

January 19, 2026

Mine

I can smell Heaven in your hair · Taste infinity in your kiss

January 19, 2026

Sustenance

Some days I sit and wonder how I ended up this way, · And why just when I feel that Peace, it so soon fades away,

January 19, 2026

Pegs

You are square, and I am round · My hole’s right here, yours can’t be found

January 19, 2026

What I've Found

Broken records keep repeating · Broken hearts, somehow, keep beating

January 19, 2026

Together

Everything’s mechanical these days · But no one seems to notice

January 19, 2026

All Along

For the longest time, it seems · All I wanted was dreams

January 19, 2026

Every Time

Every time I’ve held it tight · It all has come unwound

January 19, 2026

Behind Your Back

I wanna scar my face for all to see · The way I feel’s your fault to me

January 19, 2026

Glass Onion

I speak my words through onion breath · There’s more to what I say

January 19, 2026

White Lies

I close my eyes, so I can’t see · Then open, still in front of me

January 19, 2026

Abrogation

If I could, I would choose life for two · Life for her, yes, and even life for you

January 19, 2026

0.5

I can’t smile, sing, or laugh, · Or be happy, when I am half

January 19, 2026

Maternal Asphyxiation

Gasping for breath, for truth, to be free · Struggling to break your hold over me

January 19, 2026

Embracing Change

Impatiently we wait, far beneath the rain clouds · Crying out for water, yearning for relief

January 19, 2026

My Place

I say I can’t deal with it anymore · But the very fact that I’m able to say that

January 19, 2026

Open Letter

To anyone who reads this · To anyone who cares

January 19, 2026

The Will to Survive

Wretched bones and tired look · Upon the beaten face

January 19, 2026

Redivivus

You can’t see the happiness, · Or how much that you’ve helped,

January 19, 2026

Violence

Push me once more, you’ll receive · The pain you’ve inflicted on me

January 19, 2026

Throw It All Away

You’ve been so blessed with an enlightened way · You see the world in varied shades of grey

January 19, 2026

A Little Off

It’s never quite the way you thought it would be · Always a little off

January 19, 2026

Pieces Have Their Place

A puzzle, it seems, · Where all pieces have their place,

January 19, 2026

Recidivism

Maybe I should jump · And see who’d catch me if I fell

January 19, 2026

Someone

Head in my hands · And heart in the trash

January 19, 2026

H.M. (The Light That Shines Through Rain)

I put it all behind me, · But I always turn around,

January 19, 2026

Just a Touch

It was just a touch · A brief moment of contact

January 19, 2026

Never

Adrift amid desolate water · I recollect the depths this surface hides

January 19, 2026

Hypocrites

I’ve got an idea! · Let’s jump to conclusions!

January 19, 2026

Not Today

Death slides close to me, · I say,

January 19, 2026

Stupidity

Ignorance lifted up, high on a pedestal · The dumb are treated as gods,

January 19, 2026

Igneus Velius

First a sting, · Then a burn,

January 19, 2026

Excuse Me

Excuse me while I vomit · While I spill my insides here before you

January 19, 2026

Riddle

It comes when not needed, · And flees when it is,

January 19, 2026

Bleeding

I feel myself inside · Bleeding,

January 19, 2026

Future

In the gentle depth of introspection I concede, · That in the wreck of my defects in you I find a need.

January 19, 2026

Interstice

On lonely nights I sit, · And trace my thoughts across the sky,

January 19, 2026

Payback

I care not what you do · I care not where you go

January 19, 2026

Malicious Aide

Skin is made of razorblades · Eyes are cold as steel

January 19, 2026

Dive

Reflection in the water · The face inside that’s me

January 19, 2026

Changed

The blood that flowed, · From my wrist,

January 19, 2026

Wasted

Wasted so many tears · Crying over you,

January 19, 2026

Shattered Existence

Never have I needed help · I’ve always made it through myself

January 19, 2026

Selfish?

I look and all I fucking see · Are memories of you and me

January 19, 2026

Runner-Up

Second best at most, · But mostly second best,

January 19, 2026

Words

Your words when put, · Together form,

January 19, 2026

Mercurian

Through distances I feel you, · Even though you’ve left,

January 19, 2026

Parting Ways

And so, I see, it’s come to this, · Fate’s gone against our strongest wish,

January 19, 2026

The Day My Heart Froze Over

Three times since, and three times then, · Three times to realize I can’t win.

January 19, 2026

Without You

My hands are lonely, · Without yours to hold.

January 19, 2026

Rid of You

You know I’d get rid of you if I could. · But I can’t seem to get rid of you,

January 19, 2026

Don't Tell Me

Don’t tell me not to be sad. · You don’t know what it’s like.

January 19, 2026

Difficult

Many things are difficult in life, · But very few things are beyond difficult.

January 19, 2026

Oops

I lay down and rest, · Like my finger resting on the trigger.

January 19, 2026

Thanks For Everything

I’d like to take this time, · To thank you.

January 19, 2026

Your Fault

Look into my eyes, · See the pain?

January 19, 2026

False Hope

I hate to ask, · Because if I don’t,

January 19, 2026

Confessions of a Liar

Looking, I see reminders, · Reminders of things long past,

January 19, 2026

Absolutes

As the sun sets every day, · So do my dreams fade away.

January 19, 2026

Delusion

I’ve been thinking, you know, · About us, this, and that,

January 19, 2026

Sleep

When life overwhelms, · In sleep, I find peace,

January 19, 2026

Wish

I’m so empty here without you, · All I do is think about you,

January 19, 2026

Regretfully Apologetic

I’m sorry for the things I’ve said, · You know I didn’t mean them

January 19, 2026

Wonder

I shiver in the moonlight, · And look up at the stars,

January 19, 2026

It

From whence it was, and whence it came, · And since it was, was not the same,

January 19, 2026

Questioning Good

Everything is going well, · How long until it falls?

January 19, 2026

Give Me

Give me your hate, · Give me your fear,

January 19, 2026

Forever

How long is forever? · And will it ever end?

January 19, 2026

I Love You

With my every breath, · With all I have left,

January 19, 2026

Nightlight

Love bursts forth, · Like rays of light,

January 19, 2026

Ascension

The young man who feels so old, · Had stumbled through his life,

January 19, 2026

True Perfection

Last night I experienced perfection, · Everything was perfect between us,

January 19, 2026

Clone

I see myself in another place, · And see a person with my face,

January 19, 2026

Scars

Skin is thin and unbroken, · Like words of hate, left unspoken,

January 19, 2026

The Destroyer

Suffocate me with words of hate, · Drown me in feelings of scorn,

January 19, 2026

I Remember

When I think of you, · In my heart I feel pain,

January 19, 2026

Bad Thoughts

I took the knife at night, · And pressed the blade against my skin,

January 19, 2026

Perfect

Last night, I dreamt of perfection, · Everything was perfect between us,

January 19, 2026

The End

I soar on wings of broken dreams, · And heed the facts as mere warnings,

January 19, 2026

Deception

The lies flow like water, · The hate pours out like rain,

January 19, 2026

The Love Dream

Laying on the beach · On a cool summer’s night

January 19, 2026

Don't You?

You love me, don’t you? · Then why can’t you show it?

January 19, 2026

Sometimes

Sometimes I feel I’m falling, · And can’t come back again,

January 19, 2026

What Would It Be Like?

What would life be like, · If we had never met?

January 19, 2026

The Reason

All my life I’ve searched · For someone to truly care

January 19, 2026

The Descent of Happiness

There! I can see it! · Love within my grasp!

January 19, 2026

Confusion

I’ve been searching · For someone lovely

January 19, 2026

I Love You More

I love you more than life itself · For life itself is worthless

January 19, 2026

Fifty Things I Love About You

From your beautiful hair, · To your cute little hands,

January 19, 2026

Panic

At night when I’m alone · And I’m lying in my bed

January 19, 2026

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