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 Jan 2022 Papaya
Meow
Cashful rain on the apocalypse,
How can they be so generously obdurate?
Answer them, for they are poor
"Vote me for I gave you your money.
I will protect you only if you make me rich;
Ten for me, five for each.

Still not happy?
Here, buy yourselves shoes
I wanna see you kneel, clap and praise
To this rod I raise,
To this deluge, do converge
Yell and panic, your worth is my business."

Always, it is an open television, always
Fat men in fat suits watching their favorite shows
 Jan 2022 Papaya
Meow
Yesterday, we had conversation
We talked about your school,
Said that's your only life

Yesterday, we made out at karaoke bar
You sang The Velvet Underground,
I was stuck on The Fray

Yesterday, we wrote poem
It was to reimagine lost diary,
We only felt empty

Yesterday, I walked you toward terminal
We tried to embrace,
Driver shouted go or stay

Yesterday, you gave me book
It was about your life,
How I failed to save you

Yesterday, it was two years ago
It was the end,
I already lost you
 Jan 2022 Papaya
Meow
Therapy
 Jan 2022 Papaya
Meow
It was a busy day, I can remember
She was across the street, dressed in purity
She was waving at me, about to run towards me
But the light was red, it never turned green

People around me are talking about me
I heard them cursing my name under their breath
I took away the angel for me
But the light was red, it never turned green

My family hates me for being ignorant
I never learned anything but the words of that woman across the street
She was about to learn everything for me
But the light was red, it never turned green

It was a funeral, I was not invited
How can I say sorry to them?
Nobody forgives a sinner
Because the light was red, it can never turn green

She loves me, and she will never leave me
She tells me life is never easy,
People will save no one but themselves (and that's ok)
So when the light was red, nobody made it green
heaven is above hell is down below
it  is up to  fate which way we will go
we will only know if and when we die
to the fires down below or the angels in the sky

theres no answer to this question we dont really know
the answer is with fate knows which you go
is there angels waiting with a big halo
do we face the fires burning down below

you will never know when your fate is due
is it down below or to the sky so blue
the devil or the angels are waiting there for you
only fate will know which way your going to
 Jan 2022 Papaya
Sonorant
Quietly, I slipped into a vale.
Where the ash stands stagnant as my locket memories, and the gravity of those peel reeds back from an ancient spruce I watered long ago.
Though he embowed, wounds rewarded the vehement flesh with bark. I ******* soul’s decay and sip a silent vice to subside the grief, dip a whetted shoot into ruby waters.
On that welkin, I rubricate the evening mist in scarlet poetry  as spindles of bough became lines on a paper sky, sketching and swelling with childlike-visionary.
Until I stood on the brink of a parapet in a dance with death. I realized there weren’t any shapes all along, but only clouds.
 Jan 2022 Papaya
Melissa S
Grief has to many phases and passages to name
In life we can take one path or many pathways
There are people who lie and then there are liars
People who are kind or people who show kindness
People can be great or they are grateful
People who feel safe then others who need a savior
We only have ourselves to blame and be held
accountable for our mistakes
     With knowledge and struggles comes strength
and
We are never truly alone...

 Jan 2022 Papaya
Emily
and that's how you left me.

drenched,
in rain water,
and heartache.
surrounded by a pool
of emptiness.
the cold was unbearable
yet,
i couldn't bare to move.
knowing once I did
it would be
the end,

of everything.
 Jan 2022 Papaya
Ashly Kocher
Living in sadness
So you disappeared
Now you left your sadness
With those still
Living here…
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