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Was there a warning bell I missed?
A buzzer
A loud shrill
To alert me
An alarm bell
to tell me
Of impending pain?
Incoming missile
Lie low
Danger afoot
Go slow
Was there a warning bell
I missed
Don’t trust
Go slow
Be alert
Lie low
 Aug 2020 blackbiird
ymmiJ
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 Aug 2020 blackbiird
ymmiJ
change your heart
you mind soon follows
peace hope love
 Aug 2020 blackbiird
Siya Selani
I'm sorry for your pain
I'm sorry I made you crying
I can't promise it won't happen again
Cause that would be a selfish lie
I'm sorry for letting you down
I'm sorry for not letting you be
You are a queen with no crown
You are the strong woman in me
Letting yourself down and still have the courage to pick yourself up and dust yourself off
I didn't know what hit me
A roller coaster ride of emotions
One day I'm happy
Next, I'm tired

I didn't know what hit me
Your love so overwhelming
You caught me off-guard
A love so ecstatic
A love so pure
A love so beautiful
And I can't take it all in

I'm unlovable
Can't even take hugs seriously
Can't even make my own cup of coffee
Can't even make my brain be happy

But you taught me how to
You taught me all the things I can't even teach myself
You made me do all the things I won't even try
You even made me love myself.

But you were never mine
Never mine to begin with
Never mine to end this
I would not buy this
Even if I had the money
Which I don’t
I would not buy you
Or you
Or you
I have no doubt
You would probably all sell yourselves
For the right amount of money
Even then
I would not buy you
I simply
Don’t have the stomach
For it
The poems and the illness
No way to separate

Mother Teresa spoke the truth
The little way the great

Slept again all day
So tired! Ah! the sadness

Sarah at the bank
Her gentleness is gladness

Thankful for my father
Despite the sometimes struggle

I do not fear Antifa
Sorry there, Ray Tuggle

I want to do some good thing
I want to deep discover

Astrobiological water
The alien. The Other.
Tormented;
She could not bear
The strangers looks
The strangers stares
She only wished
To disappear
Her energy
Was Just not there
She felt hallow
She felt bare
She tried to cope
She tried to care
A smile is what;
She could not wear
She was content;
With just breathing air
 Aug 2020 blackbiird
Dayda Base
Are you one of us?
The unseen...
The undervalued...
The void...
The used...
The mistreated...
The disposable.
Come through the gate,
Into a garden made just for us.
Where our efforts aren't shrugged away
Where we don't fear the love of our friends to be conditional
Where we are afforded reciprocity
We can smile with our faces toward the sun
Facing the warmth
Embracing the growth
Planting ourselves in this fanciful garden
Never to let anyone pluck a
Single
Precious
Petal
Ever again.
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