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to inspire hearts
bring eyes to tears
with simple words
a writer’s gift

to wreck someone
build them up again
with simple words
a writer’s gift

to express pain and joy
with a single utterance
with simple words
a writer’s gift

to create a world
and destroy it
with simple words
a writer’s gift
for suffering I pray
to be discriminated against
to be hated for
the color of my skin
I pray for this

for suffering I pray
to be diagnosed
with an incurable
and painful disease
I pray for this

for suffering I pray
to be struck down
by the loss
of those I love
I pray for this

for suffering I pray
to be crippled
and face the
new hardships of life
I pray for this

for suffering I pray
to love
and not be loved
in return
I pray for this

for suffering I pray
so I can comfort
and hold those
who suffer
I pray for this

for suffering I pray
so I can wipe
away tears
and understand
I pray for this

for suffering I pray
I want a day
just a simple day
and I want a night
a single night

A day without anger
rotating through
my friends and I

A day with no hurt feelings
and no apologies

A want a day of peace
that we look back on with
fondness and joy

A day in which our love
for one another trumps all

I want a day
just a simple day
and I want a night
a single night

A night without terror
or an anxious heart
keeping me up while I'm sleeping

A night without physical exhaustion
coupled with emotional wreckage

I want a night of peace
that comforts my soul
so I can face the day

A day that will have anger
rotating through my
friends and I

A day with hurt feelings
and apologies

A day full of war
that we look back on
with discomfort and tears

Ad day where our love
for one another loses out

I want a day
just a simple day
and I want a night
a single night
Surrounding by others
I am still alone
looked upon but never seen
unknown
because I don’t
even know myself
a new peg
and the same shape and
also a different one
fitting but not
belonging
I have to discover new tools
if I want to blaze my
own trail
discovering what it
means to be part
of so much and
belonging to none
I don’t march
to any drum
With a past of anger I long
to feel the passion rise up
inside me again
to feel enough,
enough to get angry

I sit here apathetically,
not caring, not feeling
and yet feeling so much

I can't put words to my emotions
and never seem to feel when I am
supposed to
I’m lost in these words I don't
know the meaning of
because for so long
I was told it
was wrong to feel

I pushed the emotions down
into the black oblivion of
my soul only
to be told later
that I was lied to

but I couldn’t feel
not even the familiar anger
that had kept me company
for years
and now I’m experiencing
this thing that
I don’t understand
and all I want to do
is know

to know if this is happiness
I'm feeling or something else
entirely
to know if its despair or
love. I never learned,
It was wrong
Tears fall
as I unravel
and nothing is
there to hold
me together

I started with stitching
myself back together
and using intricate
patches

but I can’t keep
up with the wounds
I’m reduced
to using twist ties and
scotch tape and they are not
holding

makeshift bandages are not
strong enough to hold
together my
weakness, my brokenness

tears fall as
I unravel
and nothing here
can hold me
together
No one knows me
And I can’t tell them
Who I am

Who knew
You could lose something
That is always there

I’ve been lost
In my lies
In their lives

I’ve been erased
By beliefs I thought
I had to believe

I’ve evaporated
Into what I wanted to be
what they wanted to see

I’ve been emptied
of my passions
I’m a shell of what I was

I’ve been deleted
through indoctrination
and unwelcoming hearts

I’ve been undone
By my mistakes
That I don’t regret

I’ve been changed
molded into an unrecognized
face in the mirror

Who knew
You could lose something
That is always there

No one knows me
Not a soul
Not even me

No one knows me
Not even me
Who am I?
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