Come to work with
A smile on your face
Negativity unacceptable
Irrelevant is the weight
You carry on your shoulders
Mask your suffering
We don't want to see it
It simply shouldn't exist
Not the time or the place
For your humanity to show its face
Leave it at the door.
Jan 26, 2025
Jan 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM UTC
I was in this same house
Up late and unable to sleep
Feeling a heavy sadness
Like storm clouds in my chest
I guess some things never change
The desire for poetic connection
Lessened depression
An ache buried in my bones
For freedom from this life
Jul 10, 2024
Jul 10, 2024 at 10:26 PM UTC
Fighting at every turn
Giving up on myself
Facing danger again
Letting it happen
Instead of loving
I let others hurt me
The worst self harm
Because I don't think
Don't listen to reason
Let them touch me
When I say I won't
Am I easily swayed
Or lying to myself
Can't be trusted
To protect my body
My heart
Open for pain
To walk right in
Like I want it
Like I need it
Jul 10, 2024
Jul 10, 2024 at 9:49 PM UTC
I hate this house
Where you lived
Where you died
So full of memories
But still so empty
My heart aches for you
Crying out, "MAMA!"
And I scream but
I make no sound
My grief is an anchor
Keeping me grounded
But pulling me under
I can't fight it this year
The weight of a decade
Smothering and suffocating
I ******* miss you
Apr 26, 2024
Apr 26, 2024 at 12:13 AM UTC
We were pen pals
Exchanging poems
Back and forth
Back and forth
Sharing bits of our lives
Within each line
Spilling secrets
Sharing tales
Opening our hearts
Just to finally
Tear each other apart
Apr 19, 2024
Apr 19, 2024 at 5:39 PM UTC
Kiss me fast and hard
Til my lips are raw
And I can't breathe
Touch me softly
With your hands like fire
Burn your imprint
Deep into my skin
I want to feel you
In my bloodstream
Drink until I'm dizzy
From the taste of your skin
Sep 17, 2023
Sep 17, 2023 at 8:33 AM UTC
If they had a sound
It would be a can of loose screws
Sitting on a washing machine
A constant jangle of bits and pieces
If they had a taste
It would be sour candy
And a battery on your tongue
Electric and sharp all at once
If you could touch them
They would feel like static
And cotton *****
Unpleasantly soft with a scratchy tingle
If you breathed them in
It would be rubbing alcohol
With cinnamon and pepper
A raw burn followed by touches of spice
But when you see them
You might not realize
A bouncing leg here
Drumming fingers there
Sep 16, 2023
Sep 16, 2023 at 12:48 PM UTC
All I want is a connection
Someone to get it
To get ME
Someone that will see the darkness
That lives in my heart
And choose not to run from it
To look past my insecurities
And jealous tendencies
Remind me they love me
****
I just want someone to love me
please
Sep 4, 2023
Sep 4, 2023 at 3:16 PM UTC
I used to write love poems
Verses of my dedication to you
Now I stare at empty pages
Hoping the pen I hold
Will start moving already
Scribbling all the thoughts
Running through my mind
Pulling my memories of you
From the darkest corners
Where I put you to avoid
The pain that echoed
Endlessly through the hole
Your presence left in my heart
Sep 1, 2023
Sep 1, 2023 at 2:16 PM UTC
Where things decay
New growth replaces
Mushrooms on dead trees
Barren trees and
Blooming wild violets
Mid February
Pear trees blossoming
From early sunsets
To early sunrises
Spring following harsh winters
Changes are coming
Can I embrace them?
Mar 15, 2023
Mar 15, 2023 at 8:51 PM UTC