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joshua-michael
joshua-michael
29/M/South Africa/Bangkok Express / Release / Feel / Share / Admire / Learn
We lost the baby on a Tuesday. No name, no warning, just blood, and her crying in the bathroom, and me frozen in the hallway like a ******* coward. She called it nature. I called it punishment. Neither of us said the truth: we didn’t know what to do with all that grief, so we turned on each other. I held her after, but not the right way. She needed rage, I gave silence. She wanted me to scream with her, I whispered and checked my phone when I couldn’t take her breaking anymore. She said, “You didn’t care.” I did. But I didn’t know how to show it without falling apart too. And I thought I had to be the strong one. What ******** that was. We stopped talking. Started sleeping with our backs turned. Started looking at each other like strangers who shared a secret too painful to survive. And yeah, eventually she left. Packed her bags like she was cleaning up a mess we both made, but only she had to carry. We don’t speak now. I don’t blame her. I blame the silence, the shame, the ghost that never grew, but still haunts everything. I still think about them, the little one, and her. Both gone, both real, both things I couldn’t hold on to.
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Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM UTC
What We Couldn't Carry
The cigarette burns, I watch it fade, Like the smoke that loops, like the love we made. Infinity twists in the cold night air, Mocking the "forever" that led me here. She’s gone, but I still wear her ghost, Clinging in nicotine, stitched in my sleeves. The scent of goodbye lingers the most— Smoke stains stay, but she had to leave.
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Mar 25, 2025
Mar 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM UTC
Iroic Infinity
Do not fear my child, for I am not gone. I am the wind that blows through your hair. I am the sun that kisses your skin. I am the rising sun with rays that glow. I am the first star to watch you at night. For you see I am not gone, I am here. I am eternal in our love, and in our memories.
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Apr 27, 2022
Apr 27, 2022 at 11:27 AM UTC
Sammy(A dogs love)
A part of you i saw A part i think you've never seen It was beautiful and serene   Why do you hide it Put on a brave face A hard closed facade I've seen your heart The love you have hidden Behind your coarse surface Set your heart free I promise its safe I'll gaurd its gate Set your heart free Let your truth grow let our love flourish Allow me to love you ...
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 12:47 AM UTC
A locked up heart
Sick of feeling sick of it Sick of the adictions im aflicted with Sick of counting flocks of sheep Sick of tryna fall asleep Sick of being sick of voices Sick of bieng the designated driver the designated driver to all of it
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Sep 7, 2018
Sep 7, 2018 at 4:44 AM UTC
Sick of feeling sick
I’m sorry I’m sorry I said, Stepping in The mental hospital I’m not right in the head I’ve been constantly slicing Cutting through skin To escape myself To survive my hell I wish to see your face when they finally let me free. I wish you would write or call me just once But for now, just visions of you While I’m drowning In my own crimson blood Tearing        Splitting             Ripping Searching for the key To this mental prison The nurse walks away After haven given Me some medication Something to calm me The straight jacket now Holding me firm They put me down I Sit there an empty stare    They filled me up with drugs keeping my head in narcotic haze. Pill after pill all day, every day I am broken and defeated Paralyzed Broken Alone Sitting here in a mental home.
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Aug 25, 2018
Aug 25, 2018 at 11:44 PM UTC
“I’m inside the mental hospital now”
Take my clothes One bag Forget the sentimentals Start again Quit my job Free again Open my mind Just roaming Tell no one Just go To where next Who knows No plans needed Just wanderlust Dessert Sea Snow Baring all Never ending journey Forever going A lost soul Just wondering
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Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 12:47 AM UTC
It's time to leave
I walked passed the park today You where between the trees as they sway It was a day dream, my imagination A tear shed in my eye to this realization This whole town now tainted Memories of you everywhere, all dated Home now feels hollow missing you I have to leave to somewhere new I have to find home again I have to find you ...
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Aug 15, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 at 11:56 PM UTC
You're Home
We drive on But in the steps of time We are mere electrons In the eternal slime
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 10:22 PM UTC
We drive on
How sad is it to be so afraid of being too happy You feel at any minute things will change That happiness all ripped right out from fingertips the moment you claim it The moment you realize you deserve it
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Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018 at 11:57 PM UTC
Afraid of happiness