Brandon WordSmith
@brandon
Founder of RhymeMosaic. Author of the founding 205. Meter, Metaphor, Memory + Meaning.
Explore the Founder's Canon →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
