Damocles

May 4

Sherri Woodman

I saw the light in your eyes go out as I leave,

heard you struggle for breath 'cause the air went with me

I have to admit I was more than pleased,

for the past hundred years you did it to me

I wanted to look back & see if you were crying

and it took all my strength to stop me from trying

  I wanted to watch your heartache firsthand

  but then I'd be like you & I'm better than that

  I'd have to be satisfied leaving you sitting there

   knowing that I hate you & now life is fair

#selflove #selfworthpeacelove #happyright

Damocles May 3

Fifty Shades of Gray

How many shades of gray can you count
Staring up at the rain clouds?
Would you be able to name them,
Give them a purposeful pallet in which to contrast against
Would they go well with marble or subway tile?
Could you see it defaulting a room to a “create-a-character” meh?

Could you assign them to moods?
Let each shade or shape of the clouds tell a story
Each one or color depicts a mental illness and how it cascades in the mind.
What depicts depression, is it the darkest gray or the lightest?
How would you label the spectrum?

What of the rain?
Could we categorize how it pours down?
If it’s by its sides is it sliding into indifference?
What about the dull droll of straight down,
Is that just melancholic, or simply a chance to shower outside?
Let the natural spritz renew with vigorous remiss
And chase away sorrow in cool or warm damp praise.

Whatever the case,
However, the time is spent in malaise
Remember the sun will return,
And so too will color.

It's a rainy day and bumming me out, so this is what my brain concoted

#storm #mentalhealth #humor #nature #society #freeverse #rainyday

Damocles May 2

Day Break

Hereupon the roof of this house,
The chill of a breeze brushing to cruise my skin,
I can see the canvas changing,
From the dark speckled indigo
To indigent ice blue.

Pastel painting ‘cross the expanse
Blues, oranges, with pink undertones,
And here I am dropping tears like dew drops,
Hoping that when the day comes
I can put the pain down.

Orange fireball in the sky
Peaking over the horizon
Please cleanse the pain away
Wash me in your yellow glow,
I wanna be less blue than the robin’s egg overhead
I wanna feel less sick than the lush verdant grass beneath my feet.

Vibrating through my veins
My flesh feels blanketed,
I can coo into this happiness
As the colors bleed into a scene
Of what today may bring
I’m here like an early perennial
I’ll bloom like an early spring.

Just chase away the indigo,
Don’t want to be allured by the diamonds’ glow
Need to find a way to stay within the light,
Bask til I’m golden brown,
No more sorrows and no more frowns
I’m ready for a day break.

i love the colors just before the sun rises in the sky. Its always healing.

#sunlight #daybreak #healing #mental #nature #pastels

May 2

deanena tierney

And we are ok with this???

So silly.
This thing called pride.
Silly and simple.
It is almost always the sole reason
A man doesn't go after what he wants.
And, therefore, also the sole reason
A man never gets what he wants.

May 2

Benzene

Starlight

You stand where the night devours itself,
drowned in the sickly glow of dying stars.
The air does not move it waits,
as if it fears your departure more than I.

Take my hand, if hands still matter,
if the flesh is not yet weary of grasping.
Beyond the horizon, the void hums,
a song without memory, without end.

Would you stay, if the sky collapsed?
If the gods turned their backs, indifferent?
I would cast my name into the fire,
let time devour me, if only to remain.

So let the dark stretch infinite and cruel,
I will walk where shadows have no shape.
And if you call, I will follow
not as a man, but as a whisper in the abyss

Hii beautiful people…