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May 2021 · 120
Bedtime story
Merna Ketana May 2021
I sleep with memories in my heart
Ache in my stomach
And thunder in my mind
And I don't hesitate about breaking
Instead I cry myself to sleep
Like any human with love that never belongs to anyone
May 2021 · 108
Flame
Merna Ketana May 2021
You are blind to your desires
This broken sin, it is ours
Born from our weakness
Into our bleakness
Well-fed guilt and brutal shame
A flame that has no mortal name
Apr 2021 · 789
Worry free
Merna Ketana Apr 2021
I'll speak freely to your liveliness

Till all threads of life are torn

Cause we're dying, we've been dying

Since the day that we were born
Apr 2021 · 304
Trust
Merna Ketana Apr 2021
Those flashes of remembrance
So greedy and unjust
Won't give her one a chance
Of giving in to trust
Apr 2021 · 206
Faith
Merna Ketana Apr 2021
Learnt to aim, learnt to shoot

And your shot, it never missed

Fed your rifle sacred words

Vowed you faith will pass the test
Apr 2021 · 296
Falling in love
Merna Ketana Apr 2021
I still stumble when I fall in love

And I break my heart in two or three

And I use the pieces to fuel my lust

And I use my lust to feel free
Apr 2021 · 114
Romantic hesitation
Merna Ketana Apr 2021
I know it's in your eyes
You like to fool all night
I'll wear my favorite riot
And crawl my way to you

I know you feel this shame
You cannot tame your pain
I'll break my heart again
To build this home with you

I'll shut my inner voice
Ignore this demon's noise
I'll make one final choice
And fall in love with you
Feb 2019 · 310
Kiss
Merna Ketana Feb 2019
An espresso for the mind

So the tongue can express

In simple words with perfect rhyme

How it feels like when we kiss
Feb 2019 · 681
Endless questions..
Merna Ketana Feb 2019
Would you spend the night and talk?

Tell me secrets, maybe walk?

Laugh around and share my air,

Show me someone could still care?

Fix the bruises on my back,

They are painful, turning black,

Save my soul from leaking out?

I can't keep myself about..
Feb 2019 · 389
Solitude
Merna Ketana Feb 2019
And in chaos, rose a forest that grew with the rain of rage,

And took light from the fire of my everlasting shame,

And through puddles of my misery, life found a way to be,

And grasped spirit from my memory, and on agony it did feed,

There I learned, stone by stone, how to build a safer home,

There I learned, bone by bone, how it's like to be alone.
Aug 2018 · 379
A friendly stranger
Merna Ketana Aug 2018
The world moves in rhyme with the beats of his heart,
Taking shapes of everything that sets his mind apart.
His fingers sway to play the notes of, both, dear life and death.
For his strings were blessed to hold, both, dear peace and mess.
The music in his veins fuels his pain to ignite a flame,
To dawn over his shame, shut madness' claim he's insane.
It's swinging on the walls of every home he's ever had,
That home was never really part of any room or flat.
But dwells inside his lonely guitar a heaven of his own.
The tragedy of the closest thing to home he'd ever known
Aug 2018 · 1.5k
Someone unloved
Merna Ketana Aug 2018
So I found a place
So I found a place to cry
Why does it hurt?
Why does it hurt to see me die?

I thought you wanted to break me
I thought you loved my pain
Can it be you may,
You may have gone insane?

So I learned my lesson
So I learned to feel
Why isn’t it ever,
Isn’t it ever real?

I thought you wanted to break me
I thought you loved my pain
Can it be you may,
You may have gone insane?

So I placed my heart on a silver plate
Served it with a fork of gold
All I got was shame and hate
But I only wanted to find home

I only wanted to find a soul
Why am I broken to the bones?
I only wanted to find love
Why do you want to break my heart?

— The End —