Alex - Hello Poetry

Alex Dec 2023

Where would you rate your pain on a scale of one to ten?

It must be bad, if the father weeps-
If the mother screams, if the sister gives, if the brother does not eat.
It must be bad.

#sadness #family #greiving #gendernorms

Alex Dec 2023

Post nut clarity

But would you stay with me, love? Would you stay here?
And you say: where?
and I think: Here, in the bed, in the house, in the city. Anywhere. Stay anywhere with me.
And you kiss my forehead, lips still wet with something, a sweet dream, and say
Goodbye, mate. Goodbye.

#mlm #love #unrequited #sexuality

Alex Jul 2023

Life cycle

In my dreams, they speak to me in whispered tongue,
Language of my embered childhood
Burning away the rotted wood of my brain,
Grasping me with sly fingers, claws long and curled hooves ready for cutting,
Sheep shaggy coated, crying for the cool relief of winter
But the lambs in their bellies craving the blazing heat of spring.

Sons must **** their predecessors to progress

Alex Jul 2023

Like father, like son

"It's your voice I hear, you know, when I get anxiety,"
How are you so blind to my inherited problem?

Alex Jul 2023

Like father, like son

Deceivingly simple, we sit down
On our ****** plastic step stools
After school in the kitchen.
You ask me how my day was. I say
Fine thanks, learned about quadratics.
I ask you where you went cycling. You say
Oh, you know, the usual. Round out
That way, and back. The usual.
We sit in silence for amount as I cut a slice of apple and hold it out to you across the room.
You take it, and we sit on our ****** plastic step stools
In the kitchen after school,
Sharing silence and an apple.
And I almost love the crisp, cool crunch
As much as I love you.

I love a good crisp apple ngl

#apples #father #dad #fathersday #son

Alex Jul 2023

Nibble time

Cos when I bite my nails with no light to see,
I wake up in the morning to them screaming at me,
Broken, torn, and fraying at the seams.
And I think
****, why do I do this to me?

#biting #nails #bitenails #bitingnails #dermatiliomania

Alex Mar 2023

I am lonely

I write the same poem, over and over again.
She once said:

It's another song about water and big feelings.

:and I said:

So sing it.

Sing to me

#music #water #loneliness