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Brightstream
Brightstream
22/F
They say I am not me Then who am I ? They tell me to take the shoes from off my feet, And throw them away They ask me what I am wearing I know they are mocking me “Why is your hair in braids?” “You are not the right shade” They tell me to go wash my makeup off That I can’t wear too much on my face They tell me that’s not how a white girls suppose to dress They tell me to act my race They tell me to stop talking how I talk Don’t I talk how everyone talks ? Don’t I walk how everyone walks ? They are trying to lock me in a box Throw away the key that makes me, Me They try to make me change to fit in with society They are creating my anxiety Forcing my insobriety An impropriety to my surroundings So I won’t wear my ***** “white girl” hair out I wont check out “American Indian” on my applications “My skin is white” “It’s too light” So I can’t check my race ? Right ? Society will be the destruction of my soul A tsunami that gets drained by a black hole, Whole Another soul wasted, The word “variety” with no meaning Judgement with no ending Was that too straight forward? Was that not okay to say? Why pay attention to your words when u can just pray it away But praying does not fix it and make it okay
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Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020 at 7:02 PM UTC
My Black Soul
These friends are not my friends But yet I’ve never known any others I would catch a thousand bullets for them Thinking that we would die for one another These friends are not my friends Finally realizing while I die here All alone With these bullets penetrating my bones Were the fun times not real ? What happened within these years ? I am slowly slipping away Cold and afraid Memories of the good old days Tears reminding me of the pain Loving them Not noticing my ego is sprained My heart is slowing down I can’t give away too much love theres too much pain I guess I was easy easy to dispose of
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Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020 at 6:18 PM UTC
These Friends Are Not My Friends
I see now The lies you told Just to fill your crown touching her Kissing her Loving her Breaking my heart blood fills my chest my gullible veins pop Trying with everything I have left not to let the illusion stop But I see your true face monster of hearts You’ve played mine so well So claim my body But erase my mind Just make it stop I give up for our souls will forever be intertwined
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Apr 8, 2020
Apr 8, 2020 at 3:49 AM UTC
Monster of Hearts
The feeling of forever pulling me back to the night tear drops were falling from the sky Drops filling the ears of our souls As if the music was created just for us You took my hand and said we would never part My mind making you a beautiful form of art
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Apr 8, 2020
Apr 8, 2020 at 3:47 AM UTC
Round one
Watch out! this ground is sharp my heart has turned into glass you will cut yourself and never sleep Stay clear from me Because once you choose to walk this path I cannot save you anymore Watch out! I am broken and I cannot pick up the pieces but if you look at the glass you can still see the memories the love that I once gave you can feel the passionate kisses hear the music to the exotic dances melt to the butterfly’s that laughed inside my stomach Once in a while i’ll step on a piece of glass and remember trying to take it all in I can’t so i’ll break it again and again and again until there are no memories at all
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Dec 24, 2019
Dec 24, 2019 at 2:35 PM UTC
Watch Out
Like a bee You were my wings The thing in my life that made me fly Made me laugh Made me trust Made us one Flying with nothing holding us back Breathing in the love that made us feel free But you made the decision to sting Listened to the other bees and cut off my wings You made me love Revived my trust Just enough till you could make me bleed You ripped off my beautiful stinger Framed it in a glass for everyone to see laughed with all your friends and humiliated me What I thought once was destiny Was the thing that ended up killing me
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Jul 14, 2019
Jul 14, 2019 at 6:19 PM UTC
Like a bee
I’m lost in the dark Cold Shivering And nobody is trying to find me I’m alone All alone I’m trying to help myself but I can’t MOVE! But I can’t remember how I’ve been here before But now It’s permanent MONTHS I have been here Weak Not able to get up JUST GET UP AND RUN! But I can’t.. Why can’t I run ? CAN’T I REMEMBER HOW TO RUN?!?
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Apr 6, 2019
Apr 6, 2019 at 4:27 AM UTC
Alone In The Dark
You left me in the desert It was dry I felt dead You were the water that had vanished that I had longed for I needed you And you left me behind So how can I go back to that desert? Knowing how much it traumatized me Remembering the pain I went through Feeling my organs shut down Drinking my own tears So that I could drown What if.. What if the water disappears again? Decides I’m too dried up for its use What if.. What if you leave me again ?
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Apr 5, 2019
Apr 5, 2019 at 4:53 AM UTC
Desert
Don’t talk to me Don’t say hi Follow everyone else’s example leave without saying goodbye
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Mar 13, 2019
Mar 13, 2019 at 2:22 AM UTC
Everyone Always Leaves
At this moment I am happy I never want you to leave I know we are different But thats just another **** It’s been 6 months That you’ve been away The people of this country needs you right? Or at least that’s what they say I don’t know if I can handle this but for you I always will I’m sad but I’ll be strong for you These are just tears I wonder how many people cry for you or if they ever will I mean YOU ARE fighting for them Wouldn’t they care? “Baby don’t leave me” I don’t know if I can bare “Baby don’t worry, I only have 6 more years”
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Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 12:33 PM UTC
Just 6 more