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Each year the weight accumulates, sadness cuts deeper, life feels more crushing, tears never cease.
ebonymarie93 Aug 19
Loneliness deepens, days blend.
Phone in hand, heart sinks.
Memories taunt, 'what if' whispers.
Self-worth unravels, sparkle lost, emptiness remains.
ebonymarie93 Aug 19
I'm haunted by the memories of him, and the thought in my mind of what could've been. Distance doesn't diminish the echo of his words, 'maybe in another life.'
ebonymarie93 Aug 19
I conceal the brightest parts of myself, as if they’ve lost their worth
  Aug 15 ebonymarie93
ogdiddynash
she inquires why I write so many poems,
easy comes reply:
It gives me a fantastic living,
it makes and gives, each poem,
a calculation, a reconciliation
of who I am...a miner of the
mineral wealth in my veins
  Aug 15 ebonymarie93
Dianali
They asked me what you were.
“a cancer man,” I said.
They frowned and politely clarified —
“we didn’t mean astrology.”
“Neither did I.”
A soul’s malignancy
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