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#dialogue #haiku #575 #image #poetry #music #language

Oct 2021 Maitsholo

Dear self

Oct 2021 Maitsholo

Aishu

Dear self

Dear self,
In losing you

Days seem blurry
Nights seem scary

Heart grows weary
Eyes turn teary

I lost the merry
I lost the power to write my story

Oct 2021 Maitsholo

when darkness sat down next to me

Oct 2021 Maitsholo

Esther

when darkness sat down next to me

lights flicker
in the distance
far far below

I’m here
looking down on it all
wrapped in a blanket
a book lies next to me
pages flipping themselves
in the cool summer breeze
inside are the sounds of life
outside are the sounds
of the questioning
the air is filled
with random notes
fluttering around me
like guardian angels
I know why they’re here

darkness
sat down
next to me
to keep me company
we look at the flickering lights
in the distance
he tells me
you’d do fine down there
if you wanted to
be a light
surrounded by light
but then he shifts his gaze
the moonlight
dancing through his being
but you’d do great
up there
be a light
where no one has dared to be
and with that
he left

#darkness #light #depression #hope

Oct 2021 Maitsholo

It didn't stop her

Oct 2021 Maitsholo

Aishu

It didn't stop her

It hurt her so badly
Yet, it didn't stop her
from moving forward

Oct 2021 Maitsholo

Bad Dream

Oct 2021 Maitsholo

Emma Elisabeth Wood

Bad Dream

I woke up from a nightmare
I could not stand to keep
to myself

you were stretched across the couch
coffee going cold on the table
a half finished cigarette
still burning

you wrapped me up
in kind words that
I could not bare
to hear

whispered into my ear
"one day we will go wandering
and this tiny house will overspill
with dreams'

you are not your memories, darling
you are not the bad things
that have been done to you
you are a fierce flame
that warms my heart

forget them, my love
they are nothing
and you, and you
are everything

Oct 2021 Maitsholo

The World We Suffer In

Oct 2021 Maitsholo

susurri

The World We Suffer In

He asked her what it's like living with anxiety.

She smiled sadly, "It's a never-ending pulse-race. Like knowing you don't want to jump off a cliff but not being able to talk yourself down from it.

Your fears take on a nebulous, unidentifiable form that tightens around your throat and incapacitates you.

There is no calm. No peace. Only the edge of a very strained thread."