Constanty poems on Hello Poetry

ink Nov 2014

Shut Up

I say hello
My nametag dangles from my lanyard
"Hello, my name is Liz
Pronouns are kye/kyr"
it says

They see the lanyard
and they laugh.
"Those aren't pronouns!"
they say
"She is messed up."

Shut up.

A 300lb woman
looks into the mirror
she sighs
remembering her peers' words
"You should lose weight."
"You're very overweight."
"Your obeseity is your fault."

A 75lb woman
looks into the mirror
Her anorexia laughs
remembering the 300lb woman she used to be
her peers then tell her
"You need to gain weight."

Shut up. Shut up.

The boy hides his face
Not giving the teacher eye contact
The teacher calls his name
His stomach flips upside-down
She called on him on purpose
he just knows it

In front of the class
expectant, judgemental eyes glaring
Instinct tells him to run
He looks at his notecards
All he sees is chickenscratch
The teacher hangs her head in disappointment
and growls
"Just sit down if you have nothing to say."

Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.

A girl drags hersef through the day
Everything is black and white
Coming home to wild parents
Who hit her constanty
and then claim
"I love you."

Excuses, excuses.
For every welt, mark and bruise
But when she gets one on her face-
She had given one, too.
In fact, she had given many
How generous she was!
The police came and arrest the girl.
All she heard was
"Her mother is dead."

Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.

Take a breath
the girl tells herself
She goes to her parents
They stare, wide-eyed
at her dress, eyeliner and nails
they just stare.

She tells them
her new identity
They tell her
"Chris. You aren't a girl.
You're a boy."

Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.

You read a poem
titled "Shut Up"
About the hardships
The unfair, the despair
of living life.

Please know
Opinions don't matter
If you are happy,
who cares what they think?
If they criticize you
Just smile
and say

Shut up.

You are valid.
Please do not let anyone tell you otherwise.

You'll be okay.

#depression #social #anxiety #up #smile #stress #weight #shut #pronoun #pronouns

melancholy moon Sep 2013

The Battlefield

There's a new kind of war.

My blind willingness to follow you
into the darkest and most desolate alleyways,
my undying devotion to your warmth,
the overwhelming desparity of my struggle
all have me cardiac-arrested.

You're the captor.

It happened on the eve of a new moon,
her face turned away to hide her shame
over her daughter's decision to be guided by light.
The night may have birthed me,
but I could not ignore the brilliance of your glow.
Tides must be the forces behind your eyes
because I've seen the ebb and flow of emotion behind them.

Did you know the moon controls tides?

The waves are what bring you and I together,
contrasting yet connecting darkness and light.
Ebb--the moon pulls you towards her with the gravity of her breath.
Flow--she releases you from her imprisonment and into freedom to follow your own light.

Constanty swaying between two opposing forces:
that's when the battle was born.

I may possess enough strength to pull you towards me,
but other forces push you away and into her arms instead.
It is on the corner of her Push and my Pull
that the battlefield called Love was formed.

-mp

Ragde Nella Jul 2018

Untilted (part 1)

Sometimes I smell you although I know your not near and when I think about our time spent i sometime shed a tear. How could it end when it was meant to last for all time, and y cant i do nothing with out you being on my mind? Do you ever think of me i constanty ask myself? And if you did would it matter enough to put what you have on the shelf. Days are harder and nights are longer, some where along the line someone said id be stronger. I didnt feel that then and i dont feel that now. Becoming stronger means to let go and i dont want to so i dont see how. How will I grow when the sun nolonger shines, moon light and stars I now embrace as mine.

jeffrey conyers Jul 2018

Clean Up(What You Messed Up)

The police image has never been good.
The main press, can offer you all the various heroes to impress you of certain kind ones.
This the press, the best kiss up squad around.
They need a source on the inside to snitch out information.
So offending them most likely not going to happen.

Like in the fifties and the sixties when they were the worst of the "bully boys" evidence on video of abuse.
The police image has suffered constanty down through the years.

Strange but honestly true.
And although all races played apart in their negativity.
The white male stupdity has brought them the most attention.
And will continue to do so.

Until they clean up, what they messed up?
Many WON'T accept this serve and protect motto they pushing on automobiles.

Movies, of the golden years at one time presented a better view of the police officers to some extent.
While also pointing out the power to be bribed by the mobsters.

Which we still see in modern times a rogue hurting their image even more.

I'm just saying until they clean up, what they messed up?
Folks, will still continue to sue the city and the mayor.
Money, money, money.

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