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michael-marchese
michael-marchese
31/M “Cogitation; a distant fragment. Separate me from the whole. My thoughts...are now unchained.” / -A Wolf Amongst Ravens
I have been malice And solace In waiting And Alice In wonderlands Chained To degrading Expectant Intelligences Rival mine When the mind itself Woefully flawed by design And confined To this portal This palace This prison I live for The study The practice The vision And pupils Stare back Most transfixed On my visage My steady pen hand Now command me your wishes
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2d ago
Jun 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM UTC
The Educate Djinn
Not just fights And mistakes It all culminates Patterns Recurring Injurious Then it all shatters In one fragile moment You make it Or break it And wake with the fallout No choice But forsake it And losing identity Parts To unfold And it starts to bore holes In your desolate soul And you cannot let go But you have to move on Can’t get out of your head Her reverberant song As the ego dies slowly In psyche toxicity Vows rely solely On caustic duplicity All it was ever built on Ancient history
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6d ago
May 29, 2026 at 2:02 AM UTC
Another Failed Marriage
Thought that I’d write you A letter Worth reading How much I desired Once felt More like needing But this In your absence Is fleetingly Scary At times overwhelming How much I must Bury Away with you Visions Of happier days All the ways I once loved you Now seem like cliches For the truth is My ruthless Pursuit Of companionship Leaves me no choice But abruptly Abandon ship When we’ve been taking on water Two years Sinking deeper and deeper In missing you fears But we’re here now Resurfaced To come up for air Breathe a sigh of relief We’ll be better elsewhere
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7d ago
May 28, 2026 at 2:56 AM UTC
Flotsam
None to turn to None to talk to None to burn What’s left And walk you Like a dog A pet Used up Regret Alone With memories To forget As so much withering Awaits And dread itself Anticipates A feast of thinning Grinning Cries The shrieking silent Last goodbyes
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May 27
May 27, 2026 at 1:55 AM UTC
Last Goodbyes
Sharpen the focus No more hocus pocus Revisit no longer The spellbinds That broke us And choked us out Falling in Out of love Weeping In separate heads’ Separate dreads Separate beds Sleeping
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May 25
May 25, 2026 at 1:40 AM UTC
Disenchantment
This is how Two adults End things And step Into next days And fading away’s Course correct With regret Ever present But minimized Fallout And plenty belongings To parse through And haul out
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May 24
May 24, 2026 at 4:13 AM UTC
Moving Out, Moving On
Drag me around Beat me down Keep me waiting Then push me to limits Of love becomes Hating This broken Dysfunctional Family Fading So far from its Phantasmagorically Dating Why can’t it just stay this way Painless And free Should we wake From the every Daily Reverie To heartache Or misplaced faith In trust It goes on Not a place I could face Couldn’t hide Nor belong If whatever goes wrong As disparities mount As each penny And nickel And dime We could count Doesn’t seem to add up To an equal desire What once felt forever Is set to expire
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May 22
May 22, 2026 at 1:26 AM UTC
Spoiler Alert
Don’t know if these words Ever meant A **** thing Held accountable Actions Had more of a ring And they’d sing To each other On special occasion But eerily rare Serenades of temptation Beguiled at times by The lure of lust Sirens Can’t drown out Your muses now Even in silence
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May 21
May 21, 2026 at 12:35 AM UTC
What Echoes Most Clearly
When it’s happiness Misery Under one roof Does it start to seem Unhealthiness Is the truth And the rest is pretentious Performative art For familial love Still Burns as bright In the heart But I broke yours And kept crushing shattered Bits smaller By echoes of some distant Fantasy caller But falling for no one else Faltering Not For a second Devotion Or vow I forgot Momentarily Meant More than words spoke aloud But by actions that happened To be Written down Pulled you down And then deeper Into “I can’t lose you” We start to play Interdependencies Cannot refuse you Emotional Beneficence Of the doubt That we could go without A more photo filled phone That without this Imperfectly Picturesque Home If the solace We still grant each other’s Proximity Still Not enough In its total sublimity Happiness Misery Both every day It’s exhausting And costing us Precious Compassion What passions We once Wore on sleeves Out of fashion And clashing into The same Impasses Reaching Conclusions Again and again Oversleeping On this is my life This is yours Make them separate Detach And decouple Hope not To regret it This happiness/misery Marriage we’re sharing Until the last day We both stop Even caring
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May 20
May 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM UTC
Happiness/Misery
I’ll look over And see you No longer there waking But still feel your presence Without its Embracing Just taking Its unmaking toll On my soul With at least in part Playing An integral role In its unfulfilled whole Undeserving Unworthiness Constantly vying To prove its Subservience First and primarily Foremost Sincerely Yours still Unconditionally I most dearly Have held in my Frantically typing you Digits And digital fidgets Between weekly visits To somehow becoming Four years Of you here In the flesh In the form Every morning Appear At my side As my bride As my wife As my life As my balm As my psalm As my calm Through the strife Through the whirlwind Goodbyes Through uneasy Goodnights But I likened your worth To some object of mirth And it made you feel Less than A pile of dirt And immersed me In all of your hurt And your scorn And lamenting mistakes Wished I’d never been born To be sitting here Watching it all Fade away Dreading unto the last Pointless word I could say
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May 20
May 20, 2026 at 1:34 AM UTC
Eventualities