I'm leaning on the curtain -
back against the wall. It's 5:33pm
And my ink is about to
                                   fall

I know I breathe the same
air. Walk the same
                                   road

I know I drink the same
water. Or sit on the
                                   bowl

I know I'm not good in expressing
my thoughts. Or even making others
Feel...

Like how agony writers
Die like a spinning wheel.

October 7, 2014

We're at a crossroads ~
The path ahead is frighteningly unfamiliar ~
I may leave you standing here ~
I can't keep waiting for you to make up your mind ~
Because the pain, love ~
It stabs at my delicate skin ~
It tears out my too human heart ~
I was ready to walk with you ~
Now I just want to walk ~
We're at a crossroads ~
And you still ~ don't know which path to take ~

Copyright © Tia Jane Fajardo

it would be good to have the idealist teenager running through my blood
and all the innocence of love in my heart
its there methinks .... just needs a nudge now and then
by reading the teenage poets of today on Hello

You put clichés in you get clichés out
Even I know what I am talking about
Pop stars stealing old lines
Writer forgetting to write their own minds
It is hard to break that cycle
I know, it is so hard to grow
I recycle myself and everybody else
This cliché trend is my sin to
But I am working on it

This poem has ten words, with the title Redundant Insanity.

I need a moment to grieve
the moment you gave me to leave
I don't know anymore what I believe
I won't show you the door
Leading to where I'm sore
Cause I know from before
where I'm bleeding, you pour
salt upon the vulnerable

Stuck in this empty place, with no saving grace.
This world is so consuming, we think we know what we're doing.

Without even thinking
I blink and then I'm drinking
Unconscious then I'm dreaming
of a place that's close to heaven
but I know I'm there cause I've sinned again.

Take me out this dreadful place
And bring me back to the party again.
Let the ethanol drown my soul.
Let the music be within me
so I can drop to the beat
that brings the heat,
when I dance with my feet.

So listen to the words I say,
Cause the party queen doesn't come out during the day.