Gea Venise: Poems

Gea Venise Oct 2020

I did ask for it.
I wanted him to touch me.
I did ask
For the happiness
It might possibly bring.

But he touched me too hard.
It made me bleed.

#abuse #helpless #bleed

Blurry Vision

Gea Venise Apr 2022

Blurry Vision

Does it count as object permanence
     When you can’t see the details of the mountain
          Each rock formation
          Each tree
          Each leaf
          Only its greenness
     When you can’t see each line the waves create
          Only the horizon that is impossible to miss
     When you can’t see the clump of the clouds
          Only where light starts and shadows end
Yet you know it’s beautiful
Always have been
And always will be

ngl this is just about watching a sunset with poor eyesight lmaooo

Fireflies

Gea Venise Oct 2020

Fireflies

Fireflies in a bottle
Beautiful, aren’t they?

Bottled to be appreciated
Trapped to be admired

Left suffocating
For our own convenience.

#fireflies #trapped #suffocating

Give and Take

Gea Venise Oct 2020

Give and Take

The time you felt I started giving less
Was the time I started giving more to myself.

Haiku #1

Gea Venise Oct 2020

Haiku #1

If ever I'm lost
Please call my name, for your voice
Epitomize light.

I'm thinking of creating a collection of haiku ♥

#haiku #3line #voice #light #lost

Haiku #2

Gea Venise Oct 2020

Haiku #2

There's love and anger
Incorporated as one.
In red, they unite.

I Heard Too Much

Gea Venise Oct 2021

I Heard Too Much

I wanted to hug you
Close enough to hear your heartbeat.
I wanted to sleep to the sound of it.

And so I did.

I hugged you.
I heard it.
It was as beautiful as I expected.

But I am afraid I hugged you too close.

I heard too much
That I was not able to sleep
To the sound of it.

I heard how it did not beat for me.
It kept me up.

Still, I took my time listening.
Then I thought
How I will never be able to afford
Something that beautiful.

I failed to feel it beating my name.
It tore me out
So I just slept to the thought of it.

I Stopped Swimming

Gea Venise Oct 2020

I Stopped Swimming

It's not that I don’t know how to swim
It’s just that I'm okay with drowning.

I'm okay with sinking
Staring up at the light
That I'll never be able to reach

Because a part of me
Doesn’t even want to try.

#drowning #emptiness #sadness

Like a Moth to a Flame

Gea Venise Jan 2022

Like a Moth to a Flame

"The closer the moth is to the flame,
the higher the chance it'll burn."

If you think the light
could hurt the moth,
but the moth thinks otherwise,
who's to say it's not a happy ending?

If the last thing the moth wanted to do
was touch the light,
death
in the form of warmth and comfort
comes upon touching it.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful way to die,
still?

#moth #flame #burn #light #death

Moving Out

Gea Venise May 2022

Moving Out

You never notice how much you have grown until you have seen how small your room has become.

My Muse

Gea Venise Oct 2020

My Muse

If you ever wonder why I write about you
It’s because writing about you never goes wrong.

You remain certain when everything is uncertain.
So if I’m going to write about you
That’s when I know that I’m writing about something right.

Ocean

Gea Venise Oct 2020

Ocean

Sometimes
I tell myself to go back.

Back when everything was pitch black
In an unreachable depth
Where it is cold and lonely
Yet the safest place I know
Away from everyone else.

Sometimes
I tell myself to go back

To being an ocean
Where the underlying danger
Only comes from myself.

Sometimes
I tell myself to go back
But then I don't do it.

Maybe because I am fully aware
That the ocean
No matter how mysterious it is
No matter how beautiful it is
No matter how magical it is
It is not the safest place to be.

But then again
Like the ocean
I only have myself.

Where else would I go?

#ocean #alone #lonely #freeverse

Si Diwa at si Ligaya

Gea Venise Oct 2020

Si Diwa at si Ligaya

Ang mabuhay ay ang hanapin ang ligayang hindi matatagpuan kung hindi payapa ang diwa.

Ang mabuhay ay ang panatilihing payapa ang diwang hindi makakamtan kung walang ligaya.

#diwa #ligaya #filipino #tagalog #tula

The Ocean at Night

Gea Venise Oct 2020

The Ocean at Night

Like the ocean at night
She's calm
Quiet
Glistening
As the moon reflected in her eyes.
You thought, perfection.

You wouldn't wish for light to return
Where every crash of the wave is present
Running across every shore.
Where everything is exposed
Seeing things concealed by its absence.

What you fail to remember is
Without the light
She's an ocean at night.
Deep
Dark
Cold
As you keep sinking further.

#ocean #night #deep #dark #cold #calm #quiet #moon #wave

The Strong and The Weak

Gea Venise Oct 2020

The Strong and The Weak

Stop telling me I’m strong
When I know how weak I am

Strong people aren’t hunted with thoughts
That keep them awake ‘til sunrise
Only to sleep through tired eyes
From either staring all night at the ceiling and the walls
Or crying.
Strong people don’t cut
Nor punch walls
Nor starve themselves
Just to feel pain

Because strong people wouldn’t have the need to feel pain at all
In order to stay sane.

Trigger warning // This is how I see myself, I'm not saying you have to apply this to yourself as well.

#tw

Until When?

Gea Venise Oct 2020

Until When?

Or so they say
𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕.
And so I ask
𝑼𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏?

#idk #4line

Untitled

Gea Venise Jun 2023

Untitled

When outgrown,
You change the shoes.

When blisters kept appearing no matter how thick the callouses already are,
You change the shoes.

How do you expect yourself to walk the distance with such discomfort?

What Are You Fighting For?

Gea Venise Oct 2020

What Are You Fighting For?

I fight for the people fighting alongside me, who continuously believe in me and share the same love I give.

I fight for the dreams the child in me is yet to achieve; to travel places I am yet to see; to discover things I am yet to learn.

I fight for the battles I have won, giving all those fights the value they deserve.

— The End —