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Oct 2023 · 548
Breathe Again
Malia Oct 2023
๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ
I sigh as I breathe again,
Finally, I finally
Made it out.
Made it through.
The stormโ€™s behind me
And even if
I see another one brew
I know
I ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ what I can do.
That I can do
Everything.
Oct 2023 · 2.1k
Overwhelmed
Malia Oct 2023
Itโ€™s like a stone
Being added
To the weight
On your back
And then
And then it just breaks.

Itโ€™s like when
As a kid
You would wave
Around the bubble wand
And watch it stretch
And strain
And then
And then it just pops.

Itโ€™s like running
Until you canโ€™t anymore
Until youโ€™re on
The side of the road
And you canโ€™t breathe
Because knives
Are slicing
Into your lungs.

Itโ€™s laying on your bed
Never wanting to get up.

Itโ€™s this.
Malia Oct 2023
I am surprised
That I
Donโ€™t make whirring sounds
Like a computer come to life
Because I
Didnโ€™t see my life
Flash before my eyes
When we crashed and
I havenโ€™t cried
At all and I know
That I shouldโ€™ve that I shouldโ€™ve that I shouldโ€™ve
Been scared but I just canโ€™t feel
Anything and that scares me
Most of all.

๐˜โ€™๐˜ฎ ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด
๐˜“๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ
๐˜Š๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด
๐˜ˆ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ด
๐˜ˆ๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ฆ ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ
๐™Ž๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด.
Oct 2023 · 664
buried
Malia Oct 2023
In the past
People used my past to control me
But Iโ€™m past that so I smack back  
What they told me.
Try to hold me back
But you canโ€™t tack a label
On a fable, Iโ€™m a legend
Even if you say Iโ€™m unstable.
If in competition, they done lost to me
Take a shot at me, you intelligence apostasy.

Mockingly, they call me an oddity
Probably a product of my comedy
Step back, laugh, then step on me,
See, free entertainment for the public glee!
โ€œGee, why the negativity?โ€ they say to me
But I am not listening, glistening
In my eyes, but it ainโ€™t tears
Fears, I forgot โ€˜em, buried โ€˜em last year.
Originally a rap, but poetic enough to put on here
Oct 2023 · 629
Gold
Malia Oct 2023
Iโ€™d tear myself apart
Just to figure out whatโ€™s inside
Am I
Out of my mind?

Can I
Take it back
Cover my cracks
And be anew?
Can I
Rewrite my song
And just belong
To who I wish to be?

If I changed all my choices
Back from when I used to be young
Who would I become?

Iโ€™m not sure I want to be who
I am, right now.
If I fall, should I stay down?

Fall, then fill it with gold
I say, fall, then fill it with gold
I say, fall, then fill it with gold
Not cracks, just beautiful.

Yes, I
Can take it back
Forgive my cracks
And be anew.
Oh, Iโ€™ll
Rewrite my song
And just belong
To who I wish to be.

To who I will soon be.
Originally a song but I omitted the repeated choruses and some parts of the verses
Oct 2023 · 452
nowhere to go
Malia Oct 2023
I donโ€™t wanna go home
But I canโ€™t stay here.

I know itโ€™s after hours
But Iโ€™ve stared in the mirror
For hours
And I canโ€™t do it anymore.

I donโ€™t wanna go home
But I canโ€™t stay here.

The problems fade away
When you face away from them
For a little while.

I donโ€™t wanna go home
But I canโ€™t stay here.

When there is nowhere to go,
Nowhere to hide,
You will find
That your problems find you.
Song version:

I donโ€™t wanna go home
But I canโ€™t stay here.
Itโ€™s getting late
But I hate the tears.

I donโ€™t wanna go home
But I canโ€™t stay here.
I know that itโ€™s trouble
To not face your fears.

But I canโ€™t.

Not today.

When the problems stack up,
I just put them away.

I donโ€™t wanna go home
But I canโ€™t stay here.
Itโ€™s getting late
But I hate the tears.

I donโ€™t wanna go home
But I canโ€™t stay here.
I know that itโ€™s trouble
To not face your fears.

Ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah

I donโ€™t wanna go home,
But I canโ€™t stay here.
When the day grows short
The night always appears.

I donโ€™t wanna go home,
But I canโ€™t stay here.
Iโ€™ve walked the long road
And the end isnโ€™t near.
Malia Sep 2023
When the floating moment passes
Everything crashes down.
A second, a millisecond, a microsecond
Itโ€™s short and long and short once more.

Nobody expects the end.
But we know it is coming
Because it always does.

The wind whispers to me:

๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐’น๐’ท๐“Ž๐‘’
Iโ€™ve been really busy with school, so I havenโ€™t posted in forever lol

Also, a friend of mine is like weirdly against italics, t h i s, and boldโ€ฆwhatโ€™s your opinion on that?

I know I totally overuse emphasis XD
Malia Aug 2023
clear your heart
and follow your mind
turn impossibilities
into things you can feel inside
clear your heart
and meet my eyes
even when your wings get heavy
you will find a way to fly
originally a song
Aug 2023 · 231
The Bus
Malia Aug 2023
Terribly
Terribly hot
โ€œโ€ฆNo wayโ€ฆโ€
โ€œโ€ฆtoday was reallyโ€ฆโ€
โ€œ..every dayโ€ฆโ€
โ€œโ€ฆsheโ€™s been acting soโ€ฆโ€
The conversations
Blend and babble
Around me like
A brook and the bird-calls
In the mountain green
The leather seat
Sticks to my skin like glue
I bobble and bounce and I
ACK! Gosh **** turns!
on the school bus rn
Aug 2023 · 1.5k
If I Dare
Malia Aug 2023
If I dare
To let go
I release
My control
And I canโ€™t
Be here alone
With volatile
Sticks and stones.

If I dare
To be free
Then Iโ€™ll have
No more of me
Because shackles cold
And leashes gold
Are better than
The days of old.
BLT Merriam-webster daily word challenge! โ€œVolatile: tending to erupt into violence : EXPLOSIVEโ€œ

Ngl, I donโ€™t even really know what have of this poem means XD
Aug 2023 · 134
Reticent
Malia Aug 2023
I donโ€™t hate you.

Iโ€™m just reticent.

Reluctant to share where
This hesitation came from
But I swear I care,
I swear I care.

It doesnโ€™t make sense,
This reticence is like barbed wire fence
Around my heart so when
You try to touch it h u r t s.

๐˜ ๐˜ด๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต ๐˜ ๐˜ด๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต ๐˜ ๐˜ด๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต ๐˜ ๐˜ด๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ-
BLTโ€™s Merriam-Webster word of the day challenge! โ€œReticent is often used as a synonym of reserved to describe someone who does not readily or openly talk to others. Despite objections from some, reticent is also often used as a synonym of reluctant.โ€ -Merriam-Webster
Aug 2023 · 543
daughter // trigger
Malia Aug 2023
iโ€™m not a daughter
iโ€™m a trigger
iโ€™m not person
iโ€™m a gun
every problem
i make bigger
reminds me i ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ one

iโ€™m not a daughter
iโ€™m a trigger
iโ€™m the stain on your white blouse
and everybody, everybody knows
i am the darkness in this house.
I actually wrote this originally as a poem, but then I put a melody to it and I might make it a fully-fledged song later!
Aug 2023 · 2.8k
Midnight (edited)
Malia Aug 2023
The shadows
Creep up.

I should be sleeping.
The comforter is not comforting
At all.

๐˜›๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ
But the harder I try the more that my mind
๐‘น๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’”.

๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜โ€™๐˜ฎ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅโ€ฆ
This one was pretty old! I liked it but it was still kinda meh so I added ~pizazz~

Itโ€™s really interesting to see how I have progressed as a writer since 2019
Aug 2023 · 1.2k
Another Desert Night
Malia Aug 2023
It is quiet
It is ๐˜ฒ ๐˜ถ ๐˜ช ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต and I cannot fight it
I stare the sandy void
In its ๐˜ฆ ๐˜บ ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด and I
And I
And I ๐˜ด ๐˜ค ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฎ
At the endless dunes
The grit in my face and my teeth and my hair and I
And I
And I wait for a boon but itโ€™s not coming soon
Who knew that the moon looks like a cartoon
When you ๐˜จ ๐˜ข ๐˜ป ๐˜ฆ at it too long
I could write a song
About it but Iโ€™ve ran out of music
Choose it, I would have to choose it
But I canโ€™t make decisions when I have this incision
Visions, they cut with surgical precision
The wind ๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ธ ๐˜ญ ๐˜ด at me so I ๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ธ ๐˜ญ back
And Iโ€™ve lost track
Of where I am
Of who I am
But I still
I still
I still must ๐˜ด ๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฆ the void in its eyesโ€ฆ

Oh, but itโ€™s just another desert night.
My gf said her favorite kinds of poems are long, rhyme-ey, and use onomatopoeia! Ask, and you shalt receiveโ€ฆ
Jul 2023 · 426
The Infallibility
Malia Jul 2023
I donโ€™t believe in the ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ
Of love, of teenage love.

But you do.

When Iโ€™m around you,
When Iโ€™m ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ to you,
All the doubts disappear.

But when itโ€™s just me
I worry, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜บ, ๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’“๐’š
That Iโ€™ll ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ you,
Iโ€™ll ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต you,
Because you thought
That we were made of steel.

You donโ€™t ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ that our chances are ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ
Of being high-school sweethearts
That make it to the other side.

You donโ€™t ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ that when I think of our ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ,
We part ways and come back again.
You donโ€™t ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ that I think steel melts
And then can be reforged.

I donโ€™t ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ if I want you to.

I feel so ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ sometimes,
But I swear youโ€™re even more ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ
Than me.

I want to protect you.

But I donโ€™t believe in the ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ
Of love, of teenage love.

I donโ€™t believe in ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ.

But I believe in ๐’–๐’”.
Hmm anxiety sure makes for good poetry
Malia Jul 2023
I spill over my skin
So messy, so messy
I am a puddle
You are a stone.

As you ๐’„๐’“๐’‚๐’”๐’‰
Into me,
It ripples my entire
๐’‡๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’“๐’Š๐’„ ๐–”๐–‹ ๐•“๐•–๐•š๐•Ÿ๐•˜
All while you canโ€™t
๐“•๐“ฎ๐“ฎ๐“ต ๐“ช ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ฒ๐“ท๐“ฐ
New stuff from old poems!
Malia Jul 2023
I crave affirmation
I live off of praise
Why do I need this?
Is it my fate?
โ€œYou just want attention!โ€
Thatโ€™s what Iโ€™ve been told again and againโ€ฆ

Maybe theyโ€™re right.
Maybe theyโ€™re not.
Maybe I just canโ€™t be alone with my thoughts.
Looking through my old poems, found one I thought had potential but sounded bad!
Malia Jul 2023
i sit next to you
and we are silent and
i am scared but
you are more scared than
i am and when i
look at your eyes i
see a burning man
being stabbed from the
inside out and
i do not know what to say
because some things are
just not built for poems and
this is one of them.
man, copying and pasting all 649 of my poems into google drive is actually kind of tedious
Jul 2023 · 413
Pinch
Malia Jul 2023
Iโ€™m not here
All the way so I
๐‘ท๐’Š๐’๐’„๐’‰ my skin
Between my nails to
Try and ๐’‡๐’†๐’†๐’ something but itโ€™s
Like ๐’Œ๐’Š๐’„๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ a stone and
๐‘พ๐’๐’๐’…๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ if the rock ๐’‰๐’–๐’“๐’•๐’”.
donโ€™t worry, Iโ€™m okay
Jul 2023 · 891
WEAK
Malia Jul 2023
Wฬณell I guess my
Eฬณxistence is just a collection of pride
Aฬณnd failures that I cannot
Kฬณeep tolerating
โ€œIโ€™m weak, and whatโ€™s wrong with that?โ€

-โ€œWeakโ€ by AJR
Jul 2023 · 391
DEADEYES
Malia Jul 2023
Dฬณo you
Eฬณver just
Aฬณccidentally
Dฬณissociate so
Eฬณverything
Yฬณou see
Eฬณscapes
Sฬณight?
yesterday was hard
Malia Jul 2023
Your voices sing their song
This moment feels so right itโ€™s wrong
Or maybe just surprising
I can feel it rising
That emotion:

Feeling that I belong.
Inspired from the idea of poetโ€™s corner from the book โ€œEvery Last Wordโ€ by Tamara Ireland Stone.
Malia Jul 2023
I think
my dog must be smarter than me
he may chase his tail
(even though he has no tail)
he may sit in front of an open door
waiting for me to open it

but heโ€™s happy

therefore, my dogโ€™s clearly smarter than me
โ€ฆexcept he has tons of anxietyโ€ฆ
Malia Jul 2023
Who would want to be a leader
In this world full of tricks
Where problems keep arising
Enough to make you sick

Who would want to be a leader
In a globe that slowly melts
Burned up from global warming
And the heat youโ€™ll face if you fail

Who would want the power
That everyone knows corrupts
When everything you do
Will never be enough

Who would want to be the person
Everyone depends on
To make the hardest decisions
You must be stone strong

Who would want to be a leader
When you sacrifice yourself?
The most human part of you
Compassion, put on a shelf
To be forgotten.
ah, politics
Jul 2023 · 798
oops kinda dark
Malia Jul 2023
Chained here
Watching someone build a palace
Of my broken pieces
And Iโ€™m screaming
Because they were mine
Iโ€™m being used
My tears for windows
My blood for paint
Every hammerstrike, I feel it
Every hole drilled in, I feel it
The holes in my pieces
Like your stare in my spine
I watch numbly
As you use up what was mine.
Favorite line here: โ€œWatching someone build a palace of my broken piecesโ€.
Jul 2023 · 443
Ajr inspired
Malia Jul 2023
So much all the time
I give so much all the time
I just want it back.
Inspired by the song โ€œKarmaโ€ by AJR.
Jul 2023 · 393
Destiny, Not Fate
Malia Jul 2023
I believe in destiny, not fate
Because our lives are steered
By the choices we make
Left or right, right or wrong
Our choices, not fate, make us strong
And yet, a certain destination
Is the best-case situation
Left or right, right or wrong
Or any path we walk along.
Hmmm this has Shel Silverstein vibes
Jul 2023 · 193
Must Go On
Malia Jul 2023
Hardship made the lines in her face deeper.
Cries echo as she stares bleakness in the face.
It is strength, but the kind of strength
That was worn down and beaten up.

She is the remains of a forest fire.

She is the mountain cliffside that still stands
Once the stones come crashing down.

There is no hope in the land where she lives.
There is, however, hope in her.

She must go on.

Again and always, she must go on.
Favorite line in this one: โ€œShe is the remains of a forest fire.โ€
Jul 2023 · 462
callused hands
Malia Jul 2023
Your callused hands
Warm me up
Like sโ€™mores on the fire
Like some fries in the fryer

Your callused hands
Protect me
My insurance against humanity
My sword against insanity.
My gf gave me two random words (callused and insurance) to include in a poem, so I did.
Jul 2023 · 633
To-do list
Malia Jul 2023
Here I go again
A vicious circle in my brain
A rainbow road, a rainbow rock
I just live to check a box
But at least your color i can see
When itโ€™s just rainbow rock and me
Poem inspired from a book title in a random book store called โ€œRainbow Rockโ€
Jun 2023 · 1.3k
4, 3, 2, 1; 1, 2, 3, 4
Malia Jun 2023
I walk on the four-est floor
With three scrapes on my knees
Two hands clasped together
As we climb one tree

One sky almost as blue as her eyes
Two clouds that look like sighs
Three times I trace a scar on her thigh
The four-est floor below me
why was six afraid of seven? cuz seven eight nine
Jun 2023 · 679
A short one
Malia Jun 2023
If I had a dime for every instance
I self-sabotaged my own existence
I would be richer than Elonโ€™s kids and
I would be shiny, and I would be drippinโ€™
Something is missinโ€™, you got my permission
To take a blade right to my wishinโ€™
Jun 2023 · 800
(you)
Malia Jun 2023
One person in this world
That Iโ€™ll always trust (itโ€™s you)
Two beautiful brown eyes
That set my soul afire (theyโ€™re yours)
Three weeks, and she had me
Thatโ€™s when I understood my heart (itโ€™s yours)
Four seasons in the year
That are better when sheโ€™s around (thatโ€™s you)
Five times I smiled today
Because of some brilliant thoughts (of you)
Six times I thought of the future
And it looked so bright with light (from you)
Seven days in the week
But the best ones always have someone (whoโ€™s you)
I could count all the way to infinity
Reasons why itโ€™s always (you)
what happens when a frogโ€™s car breaks down? it gets toad away :]
Jun 2023 · 95
the sphere
Malia Jun 2023
itโ€™s just them
in the square
and theyโ€™re alone
amongst a thousand people.

if a droplet
can stand out in a sea
thatโ€™s what they are
but if droplets can be crying.

i think that sometimes
peopleโ€™s stories are so strong
that the universe
makes them the main character
for a moment.
what do you call a flightless bird with a trophy? a peng-won.
Jun 2023 · 569
haiku
Malia Jun 2023
I cannot decide
If I am totally numb
Or oblivious.
I havenโ€™t done one of these in a while!
Jun 2023 · 302
cry without laughing
Malia Jun 2023
i donโ€™t want to be sad.

but for once, i wanna cry without laughing.

i donโ€™t know why itโ€™s so hard to simply cry

like a normal person.

if iโ€™m gonna hurt, iโ€™d rather hurt

the way most people do.

so, brain, you better be taking notes.
Anyone know how to upload a pfp? I tried to do that, and it was the right size, but it just wonโ€™t load. Itโ€™ll begin to load, and then just stay there. I quit after an hour or so.
Jun 2023 · 156
waves
Malia Jun 2023
it comes and goes like waves,
she said to me.
itโ€™s okay, one day, itโ€™ll go away,
she said to me.
the ocean never stays the same, you know,
she said to me.
if that great, big body of water can change,
so can you,
she said to me.

i love you,
i said to her.
lol typing without proper capitalization is so ~aesthetic~.
Jun 2023 · 146
Carpe Diem
Malia Jun 2023
Iโ€™ll do it tomorrow.
Thatโ€™s what I say every day:
โ€œIโ€™ll do it tomorrow, not today.โ€
I ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ itโ€™s a bad idea,
but I canโ€™t stop;
๐˜ ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ.
Every day, when I wake up,
All I want to do is go back to bed.
I want to ๐’˜๐’‚๐’Š๐’• for tomorrow like itโ€™s something that ๐’‰๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’” to me.

Itโ€™s just something that ๐’‰๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’” to me.

๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ.
They say you should ๐’”๐’†๐’Š๐’›๐’† ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’…๐’‚๐’š,
But I canโ€™t.

I canโ€™t when itโ€™s just something that ๐’‰๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’” to me.

We are all a victim of life passing us by.
Of time passing us by.
Of the universe ๐’‘๐’‚๐’”๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’–๐’” ๐’ƒ๐’š.

The universe is so ๐’Š๐’๐’…๐’Š๐’‡๐’‡๐’†๐’“๐’†๐’๐’•.

But maybe, just ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’š๐’ƒ๐’†, I donโ€™t want to be a victim anymore.

I donโ€™t want ๐’๐’Š๐’‡๐’† to be something that just ๐’‰๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’” to me.
This oneโ€™s a little happier.
Jun 2023 · 157
How Are You?
Malia Jun 2023
I think itโ€™s really ๐’‡๐’–๐’๐’๐’š when we ask, โ€œhow are you?โ€
The answerโ€™s ๐’‚๐’๐’˜๐’‚๐’š๐’” the same.
โ€œIโ€™m good, how are you?โ€, โ€œIโ€™m fine, how are you?โ€, โ€œIโ€™m ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’†, Iโ€™m ๐’๐’Œ๐’‚๐’š!โ€
I think itโ€™s funny, because sometimes itโ€™s a ๐’๐’Š๐’†.
We have made it ๐’„๐’–๐’”๐’•๐’๐’Ž to ๐’๐’Š๐’†, to give an ๐’‚๐’๐’”๐’˜๐’†๐’“ that doesnโ€™t ๐’‚๐’๐’”๐’˜๐’†๐’“ anything.
We have made it ๐’„๐’–๐’”๐’•๐’๐’Ž to ๐’”๐’•๐’๐’‘ ๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ, because we ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’˜ what theyโ€™ll say.

We ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’˜ what theyโ€™ll say.
We ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’˜ what ๐’˜๐’†โ€™๐’๐’ say.

You know what weโ€™ll say?
We wonโ€™t say ๐’‚๐’๐’š๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ.
Weโ€™ll say ๐’๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ because words are not ๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’…๐’” when theyโ€™re ๐’†๐’Ž๐’‘๐’•๐’š.

Weโ€™ll repeat it, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ต-

Canโ€™t you see how ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ด this is?
Random fact of the day: We have the same number of vertebrates as giraffes. Missed opportunity for us to have giraffe necks, in my opinion.
Jun 2023 · 660
Jabs and Crosses
Malia Jun 2023
It creeps up ๐’Š๐’๐’”๐’Š๐’…๐’† of you
The darkness.
I can feel it too.
It reaches up and ๐’ˆ๐’“๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’” you
And pulls you
๐‘ซ๐’๐’˜๐’
๐‘ซ๐’๐’˜๐’
๐‘ซ๐’๐’˜๐’
Some days it has me in a ๐’‰๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐’๐’๐’„๐’Œ
A headlock inside my ๐’‰๐’†๐’‚๐’…
Locked because I
๐‘ช๐’‚๐’โ€™๐’•.
๐‘ฎ๐’†๐’•.
๐‘ถ๐’–๐’•.
Some nights my mind ๐’”๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’Ž๐’” at me
Like itโ€™s ๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’“๐’š
Like itโ€™s ๐’‘๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ me for something.
The ๐’•๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’•๐’” fly so fast theyโ€™re like ๐’‹๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’„๐’“๐’๐’”๐’”๐’†๐’”
In the boxing ring.

I try to fight them.

Some nights I come out ๐’—๐’Š๐’„๐’•๐’๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’”.

Not tonight.

Iโ€™m ๐’„๐’๐’“๐’๐’†๐’“๐’†๐’…, feeling each ๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’˜ like a million ๐’•๐’๐’๐’” on my ๐’„๐’‰๐’†๐’”๐’•.

๐‘ฐ ๐’„๐’‚๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’†.
๐‘ฐ ๐’„๐’‚๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’†.

๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’†.

๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’†.

Why canโ€™t I ๐’“๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’†๐’“ how to ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’†?
ngl the slam poetry format just hits different. Ha, get it, ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด different XD
Jun 2023 · 945
I donโ€™t deserve
Malia Jun 2023
Iโ€™m ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ everything I need
Iโ€™m spoiled and I should be ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜บ.
โ€œ๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ฆโ€
Itโ€™s like a ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต or maybe a ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ.
โ€œ๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ฆโ€
It doesnโ€™t matter if itโ€™s just fog and conjecture.
I donโ€™t deserve to be sad, I donโ€™t.
Iโ€™ve never experienced hardship the way
My ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ did, my ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ did,
Or the people I read of online.
There is no cause for me to lash out,
There is no cause for me to run away
From my own ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต๐˜ด in my ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ.
And yet, they tell me I donโ€™t deserve to be ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜บ either.
โ€œ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ง๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ,โ€ they whisper.
Did you know that whispers can be loud?
Did you know that quiet can hurt?

I canโ€™t be ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ฅ and I canโ€™t be ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜บ-

I canโ€™t be ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜บ and I canโ€™t be ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ-

What is there left for me to be?
Malia Jun 2023
Hi, Iโ€™m back and wellโ€ฆitโ€™s been a while since Iโ€™ve been on here. I wonโ€™t be as active but I will be here.
Mar 2021 · 181
Each step forward
Malia Mar 2021
I will always fall
I cannot truthfully say
I am on the right path
I know for sure
I cannot turn around now
I refuse to believe that
There is still hope
If the coyote still howls
I am done for
Only at the worldโ€™s end will I believe
That I may be enough at last
Indeed, I think now
I am already past the edge
Indeed, it is untrue that
A kernel of hope can grow in this soil
Now read bottom to top
Mar 2021 · 467
Almost Too Much
Malia Mar 2021
Almost too much, a cursed grail
A heavy stone rolling down a hill
Almost too much when I fell down
Almost too much when I hit the ground
Almost too much when the she-bird sang
A sorrowful song sodden with pain
Almost too much, too much when I failed
A heavy stone rolling down a hill
Almost.
Feb 2021 · 178
Solemn Silent Elegy
Malia Feb 2021
On a voyage quite far
I said to he
A solemn and silent elegy
Of times long past
When I was a child
Exulting in small things
Innocent and mild
Alas, but those days
are long gone
My anchor broke
My keel did yawn
As wide as the rack
That chased me so
When I was flung
So far from home
Tread on water, I did,
I swam and sank
A voyage I took
Until I saw seabank
That home that I thought
I knew as my own hand
But the home that I sought
Was no more than the sand
And now I shall sing
A solemn silent elegy
To childhood missing
Lost to a vicious sea.
Feb 2021 · 221
Land of the Free
Malia Feb 2021
Why do we look up into a stormy sky
Stare out into the grey because we could not see the light
Hope is a fragile thing, how is it not broken yet?
The walls are closing in, feels like weโ€™re breathing our last breath
What do we do? Who will we save? This land of the free and the brave
Is sinking into fiery waters of all of the lives that we gave
Defeat us not, we wonโ€™t despair
We keep on going, we donโ€™t know where
Sacrifice, hope, human resilience
We are pressing on with purpose
Thatโ€™s our human brilliance
Search on, search on, search on
What is it we will find?
An ember of hope burning
Whose flame will never die.
Feb 2021 · 899
Acrostic FINE
Malia Feb 2021
F-flippantly finding four friends of mine praying
I-in cages bound wrists floundered hopelessness
N-nevertheless, the day after was flaying
E-everything, it was changing, donโ€™t worry, Iโ€™m fine.
Apr 2020 · 175
Maybe
Malia Apr 2020
Maybe
If I write happy things
Itโ€™ll leak onto me...
Apr 2020 · 154
We Will Be Okay-Just Wait
Malia Apr 2020
Evil and good is based on perspective
But I know that you are not even close to evil

You might be afraid I might leave you
But I wonโ€™t, I wonโ€™t, I wonโ€™t

Happiness is hard to get and even harder to keep
But you are it, and I wonโ€™t leave you

The world may be scary and sad
But I am here, and we will be okay

We may not be okay
But it will happen
Someday

Meanwhile
Accept your demons
And accept yourself
While you still have to deal with them
Apr 2020 · 150
Poor Sisyphus
Malia Apr 2020
Poor poor Sisyphus
Rolling a stone up a hill
Nearly get to the top, he did
But the rock rolled down and fell.

Crushed beneath the burden
Of his own type of hell
Destined to labor forever
Rolling that **** stone up a hill.
Anyone else feel like Sisyphus sometimes?
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