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 Jan 2020
nivek
signed on the dotted line
and untold babies died
and I went on my way
blissfully unawares
 Jan 2020
Chelsea Rae
Time feels slower than usual.

I feel like I'm walking around in a freeze frame.

Everything quiet.
Everything still.

Like the ambience of snowfall
There's a softness in the air.
 Jan 2020
Rob K
I've come to realize baggage,
Is really a woven empty bag.
Yarn of broken hopes and expectations.
Woven together of things, we thought we once had.

Mostly made up of people,
Really just of the memories.
That over time we have formed.

Memories needled together.
In some knit stitch,
Knitting kind of storm.

The key to baggage is in part knowing,
A few things, right from the top.

It's only an empty bag you've been making.
That you have to unravel, to get the knitting, to stop.

Unravel all of those people.
From the strings of moments,
They've been trapped in.

Like a web of a spider, life *******.
Removing the web, is where you begin.

Hopefully you'll find yourself in the remainder.
Of the now useless, pieces of thread.
And once you've untangled all that madness.
You'll find, it's made, a pillow for your head.
 Jan 2020
Chelsea Rae
Let me begin to chip away,
Piece by piece,
The idealistic fantasy of
The White Knight.

It was never fair to you
Nor I
To expect saving
And almost.. perfection.

A story so often spoon fed to us all
From young ages.
Promised, almost.
So young our minds cling to this projection of what "should" be.

You men carry things
We women could never fathom
Until we open our hearts to see you,
Truly see you,
And graciously allow you
To also be human.
Toxic masculinity is worse than we realize.
Men have feelings too.
Express yourselves.
 Jan 2020
Chelsea Rae
It feels like I'm swimming in the unlimited.
It feels like my mind is just floating around out there somewhere.
Enveloped in the warmth.
Finding bliss in the unknown.
Almost sinking to the deepest parts of the ocean floor
Yet it feels like it could stretch on forever.
As if there is no floor.
There is no end to the void.
I feel like I should feel lost but I know I am not lost.
I am always right where I'm meant to be.
I feel like I'm searching but only feeling through darkness.
Almost feeling nothing and everything together simultaneously.
Floating around in the womb
Of the universe,
Wondering,
Curious,
Waiting on my rebirth.
 Jan 2020
nivek
a shared sky
fire

clouds of wet
dark

red and orange
burning

the worship worshipping
sacrifice

a time ending
departed.
 Dec 2019
Seán Mac Falls
.
Silent pond ripples
She dips her toes in water
Soft ******* stiffen
.
 Dec 2019
Ashly Kocher
In this lifetime
We will give a little, get a lot
We will give a little, take a lot
We will make mistakes, learn a lot
We will fail, yet grow in the process

In this lifetime
We will
Live
Love
Learn
Grow
Succeed

In this lifetime....
We will rise and fall
We will risk it all
We will fight
We will win
We will face sin

In this lifetime....
We will
Dream
Wish
Believe
Be challenged

In this lifetime
We will
Learn so much
Give so much
Be so much
Do so much

In other life
We will guide
We will support
We will trust
We will love
We will give
We will grow

In this lifetime and on the other side....
Added more to my original poem from yesterday...
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