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“she sleeps, she’s quite,
she’s depressed...”

parental whispers,

I hold my breath.
 Jan 2021 Verbatim Lynnie
nish
skins
 Jan 2021 Verbatim Lynnie
nish
i love you
but i know i'll leave you.
warming your bones have
turned mine brittle.
i was 14 when the boys with sad eyes
started picking me apart
im not far from 21 and all I wished for
last year was to shed the skins
that have touched mine
It's still in here,
somewhere,
I'm sure of it.
The heart I want to give you
is somewhere at the
bottom of the ocean,
or perhaps the
edge of the galaxy.
I know that I can find it,
again,
I just need time.
She peered into the absent part of her own heart, only to find, to her surprise, the absence of lost time she’s left behind
 Jan 2021 Verbatim Lynnie
Barker
You never knew because you never had the time,
And when you let me talk,
You would never listen,
Perhaps it was my fault that I didn't speak louder,
But you should've been there for me
(c)ibarker
Why is poetry dying
when we still have the gift?
If we still have water
then we still have a ship.
We can sail to the places
these words take us.
We are still shaken
by the words that make us.
Why should we let poetry die
when there is so much to explore?
If only people read it
and discovered more.
 Jan 2021 Verbatim Lynnie
Eli
i can’t commit to anything
can i?

not people,
not plans,
not schedules,
nor times,
i can’t even do a daily write daily.
She
looked for
love in
closed lips;
being deaf
to all the
rest calling
out
her name.

Sandoval
Why do we always love what we can’t have?... #D
Only when
She wasn't enough
Did she realise
She would never be enough
And, for her,
That was quite enough.
☺️
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