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 Apr 2021 Shang
Beebz The Queen
thoughts in my head clouding my sight
my anxieties keeping me up at night
constantly thinking you’re not on my side
thinking that all my demons will collide

there’s something in the water i drink
i know this because i fear what i think
you tell me i’m crazy and that we’re okay
are you tired of reminding me everyday

i spin further away from my truth
i dive deeper into the pain of my youth
digging and searching for some peace
but these voices in my head don’t cease

i remember the rush the joy the ache
knowing there was something at stake
self harm my absolute longest lost friend
i hope that we never ever meet again
 Apr 2021 Shang
bs
and in that deafening silence,
i’ve never wished more to be heard,
wracked with endless demurs of regret and remorse –
impure, impure, impure.

ii.
but it’s my choice, isn’t it?
to bear the knot of pearls come undone,
to feel it shift from skin to soul,
to speak of loving, and then let go.
(i see this now as a luxury i could not afford.) iii.
if i don’t rise come blooming spring,
ring the church bells for those left unheard,
wash the red from the bed sheets,
please unhinge my strife from the earth;

and know this:

a man is no longer a man,
after his unbidden pillage,
has left an innocent soul shaken;
unholy.

holy, holy, holy.
 Mar 2021 Shang
Avah-Marie
Dark starry sky, the warm breeze fills my mellow heart
My eyes are starting to close but I coerce them open

Unspoken during this time, I lay in silence
as lifeless as I was before

Death is instore for me "hurry" I whisper

The blood runs down my arm, still calm, I drew my last breath,
this might be my last night.
 Mar 2021 Shang
Jake
How do I express,
To the people I love most,
That the emptiness I feel
is no fault but my own?
 Mar 2021 Shang
Aparna
betwixt ivy-clad cinder walls
seamless, infinite darkness
leaves aligning,
tendrils twirling unbeknownst
whilst syphid wisps shadowed
tangled wilderness
nightly haze conformed
as sombre forms arose
virtual journal/poetry stash

been awhile.
 Mar 2021 Shang
Max
Falling
 Mar 2021 Shang
Max
She said "I'm falling in love."

I said "I'm falling apart."
What's the difference?
 Mar 2021 Shang
M Vogel
badlands
 Mar 2021 Shang
M Vogel

If it ever becomes too much,
come and find me--

I'll be over here:
in the grass-covered prairielands--   waiting..  

like the catcher in the rye.


Never fully lost,
it only nearly always
feels that way..
but always,  within you
is your flesh-wrapped needle

forever pointing that
war-torn  heart of yours
towards  True  North
 Mar 2021 Shang
Kawa
“Falling in love” is a contradiction in itself, because in love there is only the rising, the ascending, not the falling.
You can not fall in love, but rather, rise.
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