Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
 
 Jan 2017 Doug Potter
Inkveined
You
 Jan 2017 Doug Potter
Inkveined
You
You.
You, you, you
Why you? Why YOU?
...why you?
I don't know why it was you
But my heart isn't the best
At making important decisions
If I am an angel then where are my wings
If I am of grace why do I feel so far from heaven
If I am beautiful why don't I see it
If I am God's favourite then why do I resent him
If I am the one you worship, stop
Because I fell for a reason and that reason is sin
 Jan 2017 Doug Potter
Dhia Awanis
Maybe home,
is not a place
not even a person
but instead a feeling

It is a feeling where you can finally
adapt to your society and
be comfortable to walk in your skin
without being afraid or scared anymore

And now I'm homesick
I could bleed all the ink from my pen,
As a fountain of my sorrows,  
Streaming endlessly from a shattered heart
Masked behind these dry, but weary tears

But, the length of my scroll,
Short of a new page,
Appeals for a new chapter,
That I return to its headers,
To write within my past,
The story of a new self
 Jan 2017 Doug Potter
Sarah
It's my third rain
in the desert
and the sky's a
peach-cream hue

and the droplets are bigger
than Oregon
and the mountains are
clearer in view

I'm back on the
freeway
in my end-of-day commute

It's nothing like the
Northwest,
but
I'll love the
desert for you.
 Jan 2017 Doug Potter
Hannah
Lay beneath the willow
beside the waters edge,
and listen to her secrets
they are spoken in the wind.
Next page