sal-gelles
Whisper
American
Poems
198
Followers
64
Words
5.4k
Poems + Reposts
Poems
Poems + Reposts
Untitled
how can silence be so loud? / i can hardly stand it, i want to put on a record and turn it all the way up. / i want to plug my guitar in and crank the amp the whole way and just play one chord.
10
Dec 4, 2023
Untitled
my kids sleep without knowing / that soon their home will be broken, / that they'll have to live in 2 houses
6
Dec 4, 2023
Untitled
my fire's burnt out / and i don't have another match. / i'll freeze, for sure.
7
Dec 3, 2023
Untitled
numbing the parts that fought / to numb the parts that say it's best not / to fight.
11
Dec 3, 2023
I bought my wife flowers
I bought my wife flowers a week after she told me about her affair / -----she promised me it wasn't anything physical, but that didn't stop me from being physically ill. / I framed a wedding picture so we'd finally have one after all these years
16
Nov 13, 2023
O(PEN)
I'd empty every devilish idea / in a minute to fulfill your imagination, / And I'd open every crack in every corridor
13
Mar 7, 2020
wipe yer own ***
it isn't some hard thing you have to do / you bunch it up in yer hands--- / you can't seem to let it all flush itself out anyway,
18
Feb 27, 2020
Untitled
Emptied of empathy / I forget / Anyway
3
Oct 7, 2018
Untitled
old scars, picked and bleeding. / a half empty bottle of whiskey, / violence in my headscape, escaping unnoticed,
14
Jun 30, 2018
I SLeeP
I sleep in your dreams / And awaken in my own. / My own nightmares
5
Jun 20, 2018
Load more poems
Explore
Hello Poetry
Voting
Write