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Looner
19/M/South Africa With words I revenge myself
I collect memories, moments of being states of life where I feel whole, stakes that don’t resemble loss. Things are fuzzy now, but when I look at you life could not feel any clearer. At your gaze, my mind takes a lifetime of pictures. I collect memories carried like burdens, proof that my love is always late. Maybe this was enough leeway is this how I repay life for not being punctual? A struggle to preserve what I know will matter long after the moment ends. I collect memories that demand payment for every second of comfort they give a past that consumes pieces of me when I peek, a past so consuming I'm starting to lose my place in the present. What we were still lives pressed in me like fading light time I won’t surrender.
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Dec 11, 2025
Dec 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM UTC
Where happy lives...In me
Like at a cat's embrace, it's inviting It's like music, life's most beautiful escape The melodies along with the strings of attachment that keep me leashed Shooting myself on the foot, to have me awake I fear the silence this place makes, the noise it's almost always fakes. This is how I quietly fade,so don't mind ME! (fallacy of confidence )for my life is worth the length of a hair strand, there's nothing to it It's like a disease it wears my skin (Ouroboros) A cyclical renewal that feels like an acid bath a passion that burns
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Dec 11, 2025
Dec 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM UTC
Ash-Tether
What do you know about loss? A bare bone book stripped of all its pages and left with the dead men's longest prank Wake up, I know y... wake up this isn'... Facing reality with nothing but unprocessed wounds that refuse to heal. I think for a bit you get lost in it, denial. For a while, you get lost in this episode As I've seen, it only ends when all the confusion becomes a weapon against yourself and everything around, misplaced bullets that end up finding themselves in your closest hearts. Now that you have temporarily revenged yourself, it resumes, manic it feels ,sudden emotions that lack substance or reason but just there to be a costume when lights and cameras are on. You know, I truly believed it had stopped calling my name,but somewhere at the corner of my desolate wasteland, I hear this thump refusing to quite down,for a moment when i shushed my cries I found ghosts that tried to console the inconsolable.
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Oct 19, 2025
Oct 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM UTC
A dead man's prank
I saw you chase their smiles and forget yours. Why did you forsake yourself, do you think you needed the pills. Did you mean it?, when you said you'd off yourself. I don't think you see it, I don't think you need it, Didn't think you meant it. Pondering and failing to reflect Only if i noticed, maybe if i told... why didn't i listen.
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Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM UTC
A letter for the tomb
A language not only in words but tones that either shake me or soothe me to the bone, It's when your heart giggles and you can not help but smile. It's more than just music It's the lobotomy to my soul It's when your listen with your ears but let your heart immerse Hear my signature for I feel your scales, Play my chords so we can dances to these strings. This is my high when I close my eyes.
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Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM UTC
A Connection beyond words
The lapis gem i met under the blue hour Times of dread that plead for gleam Cold shackles and frozen tears that kept her in place nonplused, now ridden of a stagnant existence let me venture your peaks for i cannot have you without the disarrayed. The darkness within you How can we purge such beauty ,like pain the most undeniable , i will find you at your end and carry you to anew start.
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Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM UTC
A new start at the end
Shhh I know you hear that, It's you screaming for validation I don't blame you really we all suffer from singularity deficiency Keep it down, I know you can't stand your own life Pick a skin and play the damsel in distress It's all lucid so why choose to be a slave In your own dream. Just shut it! I won't help you but use you So find your reason, find your worth
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Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM UTC
Singularity deficiency
Blood stained washcloth wiping away at a soul stained in secrets how do you wipe the canvas clean without having to burn it You adorn the swan that holds coffins under its wings, truths you wouldn't have found above water You adorn the swan that masquerades it's elegance,claws that found their way to your heart You adorn the swan that protects it's beauty for that's all it had,a gaze that left you with shame Tethered robes that screamed struggle Soiled jewels that told mistakes I didn't want repeated Torn photos,moments of regret I kept hidden under the bed Doesn't it look beautiful
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Jul 19, 2025
Jul 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM UTC
Doesn't the swan look beautiful
A chemical released by ones brain In time where not all turns into ash, I dance with butterflies stumbling on and on tainted flowers, cradling her rose. An untouched diamond in dark. Shadowed it keeps me In a well I'd willingly drown. flowing of nothing but genuine love A obviously mystery of anguish worth the neverending moonlight spent. I am trapped in adoration, feeling the air leave my lungs. A garden, the beauty in bliss you abandoned. watch my world turn as i stop writing about her It fades. is a question unanswered
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Jul 17, 2025
Jul 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM UTC
Her name
Never knew I'd long so deeply for what hides in the bud of nightshade. Over and over, I search for wounds dressed in makeup. Nothing and everything, sublime, for broken vases call louder to me. Don’t mistake this for fleeting love. I want your skeletons to speak. Underneath your beauty, is there a madness, too? Maybe I’m just drawn to people I think I can fix. I keep asking where I belong in your story. Somehow, I hope I’m the “right one” you speak of Only, it hurts now to admit: I was never taught how to be right.
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Jul 17, 2025
Jul 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM UTC
I can't give you her name