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20/M/Nigeria I am alone / I am a nobody / I am me
In the top floor of an overly idolized apartment, In room 26B. There’s a door just beside the bed, this door leads to a kitchen and inside the kitchen, in one of the bottom lockers, the one by your left when you stand facing it, there is a knife. This knife has a purple hilt, and a rusty metal ***** at the center of the hilt fixing the blade to the hilt. The bottom of the hilt has a few pale spots, as if its color has faded. And by the edge of the blade there are a couple scratches, from a number of poor sharpening attempts. I reside in that room, I sleep on the bed next to the door and every night, before I sleep on that bed, I stare at the knife in the cupboard for about 2 hours. I think about the scratches on the blade, how they disfigure the glint of the steel. I think about the rusty ***** how it holds the blade and how as time passes the rust spreads and the ***** weakens. I don’t think of how long I’ve had that knife, and in all honesty I have no recollection of how that knife came to be mine. I have no knowledge of whom it belonged to before it was mine. All I do know is the knife is here, immobile, waiting to be used. But I am much too weak to use it. I suppose hanging would be easier. But I have no rope, my belt is fragile and my clothes of subpar quality. So all I can do is stare and wait for courage to come.
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Feb 15
Feb 15, 2026 at 3:35 PM UTC
The Room you didnt know about
Dawn is closer now And we set in the night sky Not knowing our truth
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Jan 31, 2024
Jan 31, 2024 at 2:08 AM UTC
Sunset
I want to explore I want to be lost I want to run To Feel my heart, beat, Pounding in my chest To live without regret To be happy That is what I desire
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May 31, 2023
May 31, 2023 at 7:06 PM UTC
Desire
If our worlds do collide Somewhere deep in the sky My angel dressed in Saint Laurent Will you call me Will you call me When our inner thoughts collide Somewhere deep within the night A fragile girl dressed all in white Will call your name And say her vows
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Apr 25, 2023
Apr 25, 2023 at 9:55 AM UTC
Will you Call
Our love is a silent story No words, no letters Just you and I.
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Apr 14, 2023
Apr 14, 2023 at 5:53 PM UTC
Us
Rain will come as the seasons change. Butterflies dance watching my memories fade. Know I chase not your love, but the thought of you A heart given away, broken and fixed with glue. Left alone to collect dust The shattered fragments of us. Healing is a distant land And I remain buried in the sand
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Mar 17, 2023
Mar 17, 2023 at 6:29 PM UTC
Buried
If love is war, I'm still fighting. If love is war, I'm still trying. And if love is war I might be dying Broken inside, but I won't give up the fight
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Jan 30, 2023
Jan 30, 2023 at 2:21 PM UTC
Love is War
Forgotten, broken, mourned. Remembered, fixed, celebrated. Some stay forgotten, Some always on mind. Some forgotten to be remembered, And I remembered to be forgotten.
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Jan 28, 2023
Jan 28, 2023 at 4:50 PM UTC
To Forget
When I was little The world felt so big, And I so small. But now, I am older The world feels small And I even smaller
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Aug 25, 2022
Aug 25, 2022 at 10:57 AM UTC
Growth
I have come to realize That everyone Good or bad Rich or poor Young or old lives in a hell of their own
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Aug 25, 2022
Aug 25, 2022 at 10:49 AM UTC
We all do