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 Oct 2015 Nyah
W. S. Merwin
Gray whale
Now that we are sinding you to The End
That great god
Tell him
That we who follow you invented forgiveness
And forgive nothing

I write as though you could understand
And I could say it
One must always pretend something
Among the dying
When you have left the seas nodding on their stalks
Empty of you
Tell him that we were made
On another day

The bewilderment will diminish like an echo
Winding along your inner mountains
Unheard by us
And find its way out
Leaving behind it the future
Dead
And ours

When you will not see again
The whale calves trying the light
Consider what you will find in the black garden
And its court
The sea cows the Great Auks the gorillas
The irreplaceable hosts ranged countless
And fore-ordaining as stars
Our sacrifices
Join your work to theirs
Tell him
That it is we who are important
 Oct 2015 Nyah
A Lopez
Quiet loners
 Oct 2015 Nyah
A Lopez
Why do we do better
To make things only worse
We make our houses big
Our kids are grown
Telecommunication
New yard, technical phones.
Staring out of our window
Lost, lonely in a thoughtful watch
Wondering will someone make it
To our door or stop on our block
Or leave us in our house alone
As the quiet loner's we are.
 Oct 2015 Nyah
Ash Saveman
The truth about love
Is that there is no truth
Love is a chemical imbalance in the head
It doesn't last and always leaves depression in it's wake
 Oct 2015 Nyah
Kai Kai
Tsunami
 Oct 2015 Nyah
Kai Kai
What if I told you
That my life is not like a smooth flow or a flood?
It is a tsunami
Will you still willing to go with me
For one last ride?
 Oct 2015 Nyah
pastelflowr
REBIRTH
 Oct 2015 Nyah
pastelflowr
The pills didn't work
Useless anestheticĀ 
To this raging storm inside me

Each and everyday passes by
I fake a smile to the world

No one ever knows
Underneath my smile
Is my broken heart

I had reached a breaking point
The crystals streamed down my cheeks
I screamed, I shouted, I yelled

"SOMEONE ! PLEASE !"
"HELP ME ! HELP ME !"
"I'M DYING.."
"I'M DYING INSIDE..."

"PLEASE..SAVE ME.."

I can hear them in a whisper
Yet they can't hear me screaming

Tick tock goes the clock
Waiting in the amber of darkness
Embraced only by the lonely night's breezeĀ 
Facing my daunting life's misery

"FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"

A voice kept playing in my head
Repeating the same words
Over and over and over

As I see
A light at the end of the tunnel
A ray of hope

For in this very moment
I only have me
Only me

I have to fight
No! I must fight

This is my life, my match, my war
If there is only one winner
It will be me!

This game of mine
I am going to blow it up

As only I and I alone
Can paint a future that I truly deserve
Never give up in life..
Try to fight the negative vibes around us..
And shine.. ;)

*this poem related to my poem 'Depression'
 Oct 2015 Nyah
Evie Colosimo
It is a time to bring
the pages out in the open,
to open this book
and to allow it
to be read.
i don't expect well wishes,
or polite words exchanged.
all i ask,
is do not be cruel.
this heart has been crumbled,
like forgotten homework,
and stretched out, and rewritten.
but the wrinkles still remain,
and the words are hard to see.
but they can be read,
if the page allows.
you just no longer have the eyes to read.
 Sep 2015 Nyah
Akira
Scar
 Sep 2015 Nyah
Akira
He told me my scars weren't beautiful
And I told him that no one could ever really admire a masterpiece
Without taking a few steps back
Your scars make you who you are and no matter what you are beautiful
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