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 Mar 2020 Smothered Divine
Celia
I feel foggy
With this self-medication,
        my mind thickens still
An unasked yet unanswered query
What exactly is in this pill?

A means without end
An end far from near,
        there's a pain in my heart
The saddened fate of system made,
        too late to tear apart.
 Mar 2020 Smothered Divine
TC
Happy quarantine everyone.

Please don't fret,
Try not to fear;
Take deep breaths and maybe nurse a beer.

Soon we'll see,
Although we know
Another Chinese flu
Another month to go.
It just rained
Bullets
Puddles in the streets
Blood
Water falls down
Tears
 Mar 2020 Smothered Divine
Her
My name is Erin
and i was *****
at the age of 7

it has taken me
14 years of my life
for those 13 words to escape
my hollow mouth

the only questions i come to now
is why
why lock me in that room
why take everything from me
my innocence
my purity
my childhood

in that room
where my family trusted you
where i trusted you
the night terrors i have to this day
still haunt my mind

like a never ending
drive in movie that plays
over
and
over
only the moon in the night sky
isnt made to be found here
there is no light in these terrors

i cant sleep this time of year
because every time i do
its you
in that room
locking the door
shutting the windows
******* me
yelling at me
every single night
i close my eyes

it has taken me 14 years
to accept the fact that i was taken by you
i have been numb ever since
left in the dust
rotting away at the core
thinking i was nothing
thinking i deserved nothing
because you took everything

but not anymore
i will recover from this
i am strong enough
i believe in myself
i believe in my own happiness
and i promsie
that when i have children one day
i will never ever let them rot at the core
i will find happiness
the darkness will not take over this time
Tigers come at night and sweep through women's dreams.

Elephants and leopards watch as tigers grab their prey.

They say a tiger is in every man who roars when he's excited.

When tigers stalk, women weep in deep, deep sleep while shedding
tears of fear.

Women walk cautiously through darkened dreams and sometimes
scream when feeling they're the prey.

When morning comes, tigers leave alone the deer and boar.

Women survive night's long foreboding. They then awake and
leave their dreams in lands distant and forgotten.

Women do not remember tigers come at night when shine
of sun brings forth another day of happiness and hope.

Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He recently finished his novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
 Mar 2020 Smothered Divine
Dez
Horror is
It screams to some
It whispers to others
Have you ever felt her?
Her fingers close around your heart
Darkness is her companion
Has he ever engulfed you in the night?
Their child is fear and she wanders the halls
Do you hear her creeping on your floor?
Death is their son
And he is often just around the door.
These are not my friends
But they have visited before.
They come knocking at the door
But then enter even if one denies them.
Have you seen their pale faces?
Look into the dark
For that is where they usually leave their mark
Before you go to bed
Lift up your head
Are they near you
On the floor
In your door
Crawling under your bed
Or is this all in your head?
Awake from sleep
It was all a dream
But why does that seem
Like things are rearranged
Is someone their?
You can sense the air
Oh do take care!
Horror is there!
Oh, calm down
No need be bound
By some thought
Or imagination
If that is what it was?
My Love My Master
In this helplessness and dejection I have no one to recall
But my Lord you are only one who can bring me solace
I have no escape surrounded but fromhigh  wall to wall
I can't find any one less you who  can take me pace to pace

You have gracely paved my way from every torture,pain
I have never been able to stive in my life but you took me
To my destination with all your mercy in all dazzling rain
I never deserved a drop of water but your guided me to sea

My Lord I have wonderful gift from you as soul to associate
Our One on one relation was the outcome with your kindness
I love you I praise you and bow my head in fron to narrate
You are my Master in love you always looked after me to bless

Col Muhammad khalid Khan
Love and Hate
Are not opposites
We hate what we love
And love what we hate
And I have never hated
That which I’ve never loved
And I’ve never loved
What I have not hated
Indifference
Apathy
Hate and Love’s
True antonym
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