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PoetryUnderSqualor
PoetryUnderSqualor
@probablynotchie
I am a person // Not just a character In your world to add To collect as if glass figurines When we were children Deprived of actual childhood left To only play make believe in Some low-key fantasy About princesses trapped in in towers And you were the knight in Shining armor and sword in hand That vanquishes evil I am neither the princess nor a prince Nor a villager to applaud your achievements I am a person // Not a mouth that just Tells you everything's alright Not a hand that pats your back when Things go sour And not in your favor Because I am a person // I am not a stock character To play in the movie of your life I am not a manic pixie dream girl That'll save you from your sadness I don't change my hair every two weeks Nor am I named after a season I am not a Mary Sue That's perfect in every aspect That'll save you if you are stuck And downtrodden and in quick sand sinking I'm sinking as well I am me // a person Not quite as two dimension as you think I am not static nor a flat character i could act in more ways than in a line I could deviate There is no patter I couldn't break I could be sad, mad , angry , bad or good And everything in between I am a person // the way I want to be And not what you want to see Or imagined in your head So please open your eyes Because for once I want to be A main character A protagonist And not just someone that dies Without any fanfare I want you to see That I am alive // a person
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Sep 22, 2017
Sep 22, 2017 at 1:39 AM UTC
Person ∞
Sitting, quietly, seaside I was with you, yes, you Of the shiningly black hair Glistening, seemingly with every Ray drop of sunlight and every Tide of wave swam ashore And I was there Gazing, silently, ocean Expanding endlessly beyond vision We were holding each other’s hands It felt good holding your hands Catching minute glimpses of your eyes Watching the vast everblue Fearful and scared of the future But still beautiful; exuding allure Even after all this time Because I’ll never get tired of the ocean No matter if it speaks every word carefully And lies the next sentence I’ll never hate the ocean Even when I drown or spent years Swimming, shallow, waters
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 10:04 AM UTC
At seaside
We were two broken souls Intertwined; I was desperate to be saved You were too And I was Hopeful Scared In love You were just the same, Yet we still pretended That we were right for each other, That our love could last further, That we won’t give up on one another, We tried but it ended. It really did. What was left? An unfulfilled dream An idea of forever A broken heart Did you know this from the start? But even if our love ignited and burned, Just as fast as it vanished, I can still say with all certainty, You were the only good thing left in my world. back then
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 10:04 AM UTC
You and me
You were always there To care for me To nurture me To love me Yet I was always Bad Bad Bad So I'm sorry If I always make you mad I was too stubborn; too selfish And I couldn't understand All the things that you’ve done And all the hardships that you faced Were all for me so I'm sorry Again and again
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 9:14 AM UTC
A mother’s day poem
I could have asked for anything Maybe even what’s inside your mind? I could have told you what you remind me of0 A beautiful girl to someone who’s blind But I couldn’t so I lied I lied Lingering emotions and thoughts screamed But nothing formed words;you were but too kind Like an illusion in the dark Maybe because I was scared of you That maybe I wasn’t enough for you I was a pale comparison to your bright sun A moon burdened to hide in your shadow
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 8:47 AM UTC
Asking questions
The sound alarm in the morning The scent oh smell the roasted Coffee brewing and every morning When I started noticing Every single minute detail around me The birds chirping away their problems The leaves oh seemingly orange of age Falling towards the ground and Never going back to where it once was Being swept in a heartless endeavor In one corner in a pile that resembles Mountains of old and forgotten And left till the wind takes And leaves As I take a sip of coffee This morning, contemplating of All those leaves that have fallen I ask “When will I fall?” “Will somebody catch me?”
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 8:44 AM UTC
Old age
The concept of far away Makes mundane into magnificence If you look at the streets All decrepit ghost of buildings ****** up and built With soul and gone The new and commercialized With none; a soul at all The smoke and vices And roads filled with trash And lost dreams We see the city for What it is Ugly But on top of a view So high, overlooking The metro we are amazed By the unexpected splendor Of the otherwise routine and realize that Detachment makes things beautiful
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 8:40 AM UTC
Far away
There have been many stories told Countless poems and prose written About the forgotten ones To those spirits and souls Who laugh and cry And tells everything’s alright I say without contempt nor Doubt “You don’t have to hide.” To each one fighting their way Out Of an abyss of their own fates “It’s not too late.” Each brawl with your inner demons Every lesson along the way Every corner, every junction Every turn you had to take Turning left Right around the corner Each sober faces you had seen Still drunk With the thought of what could have been And all those moments you could have shared, but You are still alive Yes, you are still there And tomorrows another day
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 8:39 AM UTC
Stories Told
You’re lost at sea, Looking for whatever Floating mask fits, Whichever suits and Then someday when You’re not lost anymore. When you already swam ashore Who are you?
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 8:37 AM UTC
Masks
Cinderblock ashes and miles a sunder And the crestfallen seas as wide there after The nightingale as she was called Bold, brave and on a journey Searching for the missing piece in her heart She looked and looked But she couldn't find She asked and asked But nobody replied And her words came to deaf ears But the nightingale traveled still Far and wide and never wavering Wandering the great vortex within And asked every possible being But to no avail The nightingale of the dark was lost And in midst of the ever looming Swallowing shadows coalescing To a tapestry of nothing but black She recognized one fateful truth No amount of screaming nor Soothing of her pain will surmount The fact that no one Nobody is going to come help her Find what she was looking for Only herself
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 7:00 AM UTC
The nightingale