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Timing couldn't be any worse
We were living in a makeshift flat
While barely making ends meet
But we always wanted a baby
So we were thrilled anyway

Yet life had other plans
Of loss and unbearable pain
As it does over and over again
My wife got pregnant and ended up having a miscarriage late 2023. It's a little over a year now, but it hurts like it happened just yesterday.
We cut one another
Down to the very flesh
While we miss each other
Deep inside our bones

Isn’t that ironic?
Why do we tend to hurt the ones we love (and vice versa)?
Now at the end of all things
As we're breathing sulfur and
Lead's pouring over our heads
I'm glad you're the one I'm
Sharing the trenches with
This is the first thing I'm able to write in almost a month. A little piece about my mental health struggles and how grateful I am to the ones that have my back right now.
I have loved you
From the moment our eyes
Met across the crowded street
On that scorching summer day

And though summer
Soon came to a bitter end
I have loved you through
Every season ever since

And I guess I always will
I held you close to my heart
While you kept me deep
Within your teeth
Just a small piece about reciprocity.
if i were to close my eyes
take away the pain
i could fly
like a bird
not a plane
id reach the moon
the stars
the sky
i close my eyes
and i can fly
fly
tuesdays child has far to go.
a child borne
of beauty and grace
so much more
a pretty face
her mind usually still
calm
is wild
racing
she fights
not only to survive
to live
to love
for her right
to be a human

Tuesdays child has a voice
tuesdays child made a choice
to many a persons dismay
Tuesdays child decides
to stay

Tuesdays child
not full of woe
unfortuntely
still far to go
19 days left
𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑑𝑒𝑛
π‘™π‘–π‘˜π‘’ π‘π‘Ÿπ‘¦π‘ π‘‘π‘Žπ‘™π‘™π‘–π‘›π‘’ π‘‘π‘Žπ‘”π‘”π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘ 
π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘šπ‘π‘™π‘–π‘›π‘” π‘œπ‘› π‘€π‘–π‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿ'𝑠 π‘“π‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘‘ 𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒
Trying my hand at haiku for the first time
the walls heave
deep and frantic
each exhale
shrinks space
tightens air
closer
still

until
I
am

n
o
ο½”
h
i
n
g

.
I stood at the centre of it all
your attention and your promises,
and yet, it was ink
on brittle pages
that held me like roots hold the dead.
these words held me in ways
your arms never did,
and your presence never could.
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