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Rania Dec 2018
The noise is loud
The people here
They come and go
Like a winter breeze
My eyes are red
They no longer see
A light ahead
Or a way to breathe
My hands they tremble
My lips they shiver
And no one here
Knows I’m not listening
The music colors me
And blends me in
But the way my body moves
It’s a covering film
To what lies beneath
This sadness grows
And the lights they fade
They melt away
And leave behind
A colorless soul
Rania Dec 2018
The words dry out
And every feeling floats
In a river where a fisherman
Empty-handed heads home
My heart sinks below all the feelings that run
And your touch would silence the old souls that sung
The song of the divine in my ears
Telling me to give out to my fears
I close my ears shut and listen to your breath
Like wind blowing away
All the dead leaves that fell
Giving hope of a flourishing season to come
Rania Dec 2015
How can I not write
When I have so many things locked up inside me
How can I not write
And who would listen to all the unexpected rising memories if I didn't
Who would know that all I need to hear is silence
Who would know that all I need is acceptance of who I am
How can I not write
When I can't explain to you in person that I need a time out
How can I not write
When the question "are you okay?" doesn't bring to mind anything that I could share
How can I not write
When I know that I have cried and told my secrets before and I was left behind
How can I not write
When people only see how easily I let go of people that I used to know and cut them out of my life
But don't see the struggle that lies beneath the surface of my thick skin
Or the one hundred times I wanna vent to an old friend
How can I not write
When I can't tell you that I love you as many times as I want
In fear of many things one of which is to eventually hurt you
How can I not write
When I can't bear life anymore
When suicide is a normal daily thought that doesn't worry me a bit
When my mind works in every way possible to let me dive in silence
When I don't find the words
When I don't hear any words
When I can only write these insignificant letters with ink
How can I not write?
  Dec 2015 Rania
Nigel Finn
Words are harmless, so they say,
That's where the problem starts;
Sticks and stones
May break our bones
But words will break our hearts.



Words are harmless, so they say,
And point you to their charts;
It's harmless fun,
No damage done.
But... Who will mend our hearts?



The x-rays show no damage
Where words have scathed across,
But it still feels hard to manage,
And leaves you at a loss.



Words are harmless, don't complain,
That's where the problem starts.
It's quite absurd-
A single word-
Enough to break our hearts!



But words are harmless, they maintain;
The subject of their parts,
No less or more,
So let them pour
From all our broken hearts
“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts” is a quote I have stolen directly from Robert Fulghum.
In my defence, he'd already stolen half of that quote himself.
Rania Nov 2015
You're not obligated to be here
I can do this on my own
Pick myself off the ground like I did for all the days you were -I don't know where-
Don't expect me to utter the words need followed by your name
I don't need you
I don't need you
I don't need you
I will break down inside and reach for you begging you to hold me tight
But my hands will stay still
And don't you try to soften me up because I will push you away
My brain will drift away with the fever and feel your touch
Imagine I'm in your presence
And I will tell you things that I won't tell anyone again
"Where's my dad?
What happened?
They're lying to me, right?
I haven't seen him in a year
I am a smaller version of him
Now where am I gonna go when I lose myself
Who will tell me who I am and what I'm like?
Where do I go now?"
And I will keep calling your name
Waiting to hear you say yes everything will be okay
But my mouth will say nothing but short unnecessary answers that won't reveal anything
And You should stay here and I should cry to you
Because my tears won't fall any other way
And if they don't I might never heal
For those who break and fall must rise again
But those who take the sadness in silence
Implant it in themselves and live with it forever
As a part of everyday life
As a part of them
And it will never die and they will never rise until they rise from the dead
Hah do you still believe in death?
I have died once
How many is yet to come?
Go back to where you came from
Rania Nov 2015
I keep putting bullet after bullet inside my head and heart
Hiding the bullets away so you won't see or feel the strength of your love to me
But there's one (maybe two) that has gotten way too deep
I can feel it in my chest, the pain of something ripping away
On other days I notice the bleeding from my nose and mouth
Your love is killing me from the inside out
And each time I come to my senses and plan a getaway
I get a glimpse of you reaching for me and all my plans crumble into a pile of blood and tears
Covered with the armor I wear to make you feel safe
I have lost count of the scars and bruises intentionally so as not to have anything to blame you for
And I'm not good with metaphors
So pardon me and excuse me for what I'll do
But this has to be hidden all the way
Don't go around asking why I moved away
I noticed my death getting closer by the day
And dying under your feet or in your arms
And saying my last words to no one else but you
Would have ruined all the pain I've been through
So don't go around asking why I ran away
I'm living a happy life with a new love, maybe a kid
And yes I have forgotten all the things we ever shared
Also, you did not mean that much to me
This one shall be the end of me
Rania Aug 2015
So that's what it is
That's what therapy is
Giving you a temporary solution
To what you have already missed
But we should be taught
That satisfying desire is not right
Tell these people they need to make peace
With their inner selves
That wild animal inside your head
Should not be fed and spoiled
But should be disciplined instead  
It's hunger will never end
And each time the hunger is stronger
Until no end
So teach that animal when it wants a bone
Or else you'll have to teach it when it wants the world
And live beyond what you want now
The now is something you can't catch
The moment flies and with the flying comes regret
Until you live in anxieties that you can't forget
And you go mad
And you go blue
And you hold your head
And you can't get through
Because science is not everything
Because
"Science goes only so far, then comes god."
Therapy life
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