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Raika Parzella Jul 2022
I know we have fairly different experiences
But I just have to share how I feel

It’s the last,
maybe second to last day of school
Summer is in the air
It’s hot but
there’s a breeze so its also feeling cool
And it feels like potential.

I have the house to myself
The excitement just begins
I can do art and I could just write
Or I could do nothing at all with no one watching
Or judging

And now: the town is my house
There’s art all around
and the breeze is a constant
Like you, in my life
Thank you for that
Raika Parzella Jul 2022
Him
Just breathe with me
Until the world stops
Those butterflies are my loyal companion now
Listen to this heartbeat
Fast before you get here
Calm when you arrive

Do you feel it too?
The race and the wind?
Looking into those eyes,
feeling our souls touch

Just wait until we know
It's gonna be better than all
This is what it means
To be free but not alone
Remember when we looked?
Now we just listen to it
Raika Parzella Jul 2022
I am not myself when I'm around you
I am not even myself when I'm alone
How can I be when I was taught
to keep myself away
To lock that mind and shackle that body
So when I'm alone I just sit and think
of things that I could do
But I should get up and play that song
and write that letter
and sing that melody
Because who is gonna stop me?
I don't get up
I don't have the key to free it all
So I'm keeping me to me
Raika Parzella Jul 2022
Forty thousand years have come and gone
Still we’re here to look at the sky and smile

Fifty thousand grains of sand on this beach
On the shore of admiration and belonging

Thirty thousand dreams of wind and storm
Have come to stay and cloud our minds

Sixty thousand waves in the endless ocean
Brushing over the smallest feeling of hope

Twenty thousand prickles on my whole skin
Leavened by all that’s been left behind

Seventy thousand years will still come for us
To make sure we understand all their ways

Ten thousand voices will be heard for them
When the day comes to make amends

Eighty thousand ears will listen to our voices
When we start to sing our song of freedom

Only one thing I can say for certain when
I stand in front of you with tears in my eyes
To tell you all these incomprehensible things
And beg for you to understand them still
Raika Parzella Jul 2022
A spark flying from a fire
Exhausted from burning up
Looking for a place to settle down
To rest it’s body softly
Raika Parzella Jul 2022
It’s at night that it occurs to me
that I could live
That I could do what I like
That I could be

It’s at day that my brain just feels
Tired and alone
Spaced out in a dream
Of nothingness

At night it wakes and wants to dance
The skin starts to glow
The eyes start to sparkle
The heart starts to fly
The body starts to vibrate

It’s the day that drowns it out
Just numbness of the body
Eyes unfocused
Ears and nose not active
Mouth as heavy as stone

But at night it’s alive
And everything is light
The pressure’s off
The curtain calls
I could live - I am alive
Raika Parzella Jul 2022
Whenever someone asks me
who my closest friends are
I always say, well
The closest are often the furthest away

I always so proudly tell them of you
How your words make me smile
And your love reaches 2.931 miles
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