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joseph-m-garcia
joseph-m-garcia
Filipino
She pants exhausted thirsty her crown of hair blighted denuded robbed she chokes from the smog poisoned polluted her ***** invaded pillaged ***** she's near death gasping emaciated but a tiny pulse beats a murmur scarcely heard She needs to rest rejuvenate recreate or we perish
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Apr 17, 2018
Apr 17, 2018 at 10:01 AM UTC
Dying Earth
She is dead long before she took her life she no longer breath, they suffocated her with arrogance callousness have bruised her mind They tied her hands and tortured her with the thought of discontinuance They pierce her heart with jagged words like "forced leave of absence" No it wasn't suicide She was dead when she was born It was just her apparition and "Hoping", is just another suicide
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Mar 19, 2013
Mar 19, 2013 at 4:20 AM UTC
SUICIDE
There lies on the pavement a heap of flesh unperturbed mouth widely agape two eyes stare blankly to the noon sun the naked body immune from the scalding hot asphalt while flies buzzed like vultures sensing death, anticipating it Soon now, the body whispered as if begging death to come or to end its slow parade poverty's gauntlet of pain there is no pain now the body seized to recognize it a long time ago there are now only scars of half deluded questions a mirage of lofty thoughts justice, compassion, humanity which are also dying the sun hid behind the dark clouds feet scuttle about the noise escalates and rapidly flew and the staccato of rain drops filled the air as if announcing death is not coming today and the body cried
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Mar 27, 2012
Mar 27, 2012 at 1:28 AM UTC
Death is not coming today
there is this, an unrecognizable feeling like a question wanting to be asked but anxious of the answers a longing, a wanting a solitude refusing to be broken but expresses itself stubbornly usurping the moment a rigor mortis and a birth colliding and infusing dividing and dispersing a coil winded both urgent and passive past and becoming entangled on an intention
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Mar 20, 2012
Mar 20, 2012 at 6:16 AM UTC
Hesitations
A torrent Viral, inevitable truth has long been brewing with resentment, of a wanting to live or even just exist the hypocrites tried to explain it away but it grows sometimes not needing a reason for it is reason itself veiled in seeming chaos of a lost of logic a logic invented by the liars they themselves believed it defies, it destroys its here...change
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Jan 5, 2012
Jan 5, 2012 at 1:06 AM UTC
For all who strive to be free
Getting lost is not knowing where to go The future is uncertain so nobody knows It is not recognizing the place you have been to or the people you traveled with It is the inability to recall to remember the most important part of the journey the beginning
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Oct 10, 2011
Oct 10, 2011 at 11:20 PM UTC
Getting Lost