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Another pointless, quiet fight.
Another message: “Yeah, you’re right”
Another text reading “goodnight”
Typing out “sleep tight”
as my phone screen turns to white.

I don’t turn off the music,
I do start to panic.

Everything reminds me of us,
The way you think I overuse “we” and “us”
turns to one more thing we used to discuss.
The way you tell me not to fuss
taught me minus and minus equals plus.

You never thought I had it right.
But I still hope you sleep tight.
Sorry for not writing much this week. I hope you enjoy this poem and I hope you sleep tight.
Can’t shut my eyes
Can’t miss a sound
Even if it’s lies
I want to hear it—I found

I catch titles, labels
Can’t stand that
My head is wired with cables
But I feel like an acrobat

Balancing between
Either being unheard
Or unseen
"Politics" is just a word

But it makes me grasp for air
Whenever I hear it voiced
Perceive it as if I am not there
Yearning to belong and be rejoiced

Nevertheless, I pay attention
To all the names and surnames
I feel a tension
My brain’s on fire, I can’t calm the flames
This is about hearing all the complaining about the current state of Dutch politics and listening but not understanding ('cause no one explained it) and also having a very bad fear of missing out
In this world they are

Thoughtful
Attentive
Awful
Ineffective

They drink
Knowing it’s poison
Smile as they sink
Can’t unpoison

How could they float or swim
In this darkness
Only one light so dim
Oh goodness

Try to embody
It’s a hole
A body
With zero soul
Go check out white lies & red whine. This is a poem is about me in that poems like world. Somethings like that <33
All this jewellery,
What for can it be?

Earrings you got at birth,
What are they worth?
They are with you
Always

Exchanging friendship bracelets,
The expectations it sets.
Best friends
Forever

Necklaces from family,
Might not know what you see.
They’re still there for you
Truly

Engagement and wedding rings,
More than beautiful things.
Boyfriends, girlfriends—lives entwine,
Becoming husbands, wives in time.
I guess what I meant to say was: everything has a meaning
As I sat in church today,
Couldn’t find words to pray.
Because dear God—if You still hear.
Look down—we’re filled with fear.
You could change this. Couldn’t You?
Just one breath—or a spark or clue.
You are the reason why children still cry,
Why unarmed, hopeless people die.
And there still are wars down here,
Not enough reason for cheer.
I find it really hard to believe,
This is what You would wanna achieve.
Sorry to say, but that’s why,
I believe You are a very well-told lie.
I feel like believing God helps, but God doesn’t.
He doesn’t know what to write about.
Not many things to be said out loud.

He’s sad, the world’s a whirling storm,
A place that lost its gentle form.

He sat in the bathroom for hours on end,
Scrubbing off the guilt—too much to mend.

Looked himself up and down with a frown,
Wished he could wash those details down.

Cut his already painfully short nails,
Still couldn’t forget the smallest details.

Mindlessly scrolled through Instagram,
But didn’t really give a ****.

He deleted TikTok, Insta, all that noise,
Left with google and Wikipedia—no joys.

So he scrolls through YouTube shorts,
At least it’s not meta or Chinese imports.

Still can’t delete WhatsApp,
Feels like a trap.

But he uses Signal most of the time,
And then tries to make his words rhyme.
I feel like writing about something else than being mad or disappointed or upset about Nawrocki might help me feel better
Nothing changed,
Their world hasn’t been rearranged.

The children still go to school.
One of them is dressed uncool.
Mourning, only wearing black,
There is no way back.

Another kid comes in—
laughs and mutters: "**** it! we never win.”

There is a boy in the hallway,
Crying because he doesn’t get a say.

Karol Tadeusz Nawrocki is now,
THEIR president,
THEIR leader,
THEIR ruler,
THEIR FATE.

They lost.

They heard Magdalena Agnieszka Biejat—
her name sadly couldn’t make it.

Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski?
another face on the losing ballot.

PiS won,
but at what cost?
A corridor of silent tears.
A playground where laughter dies.
A future stolen from poor kids.
i am so dramatic. but like **** Nawrocki. like **** have you seen him? he can’t represent me. he doesn’t. he can’t represent us.
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