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May 2021 Em

Distance

May 2021 Em

ryn

Distance

My heels had felt
harsh gravity
of the steep downhill...

My toes suffered,
the vicious bite
of the incline.

My soles had tasted
the everlasting bland
offered by the flat of the earth.

I know the distance.

Alas I run unequipped,
with a horse’s breath.

#hellopoetry107 #distance

Apr 2021 Em

Ghost

Apr 2021 Em

ryn

Ghost

I watch with no eyes
and listen with no ears.
I am just the shadow
cast still within that of yours.

I whisper no words
and scream without a voice.
I am the quiet between each phrase,
the pause before and after every thought.

I reach with no arms
and stand on no legs.
I am the breeze you feel
on windless nights.

I feel with no heart
but love with no boundaries.
To most I am faceless,
nameless and bear no threat.

I am a sihouette in the distance
no one notices.
A ghost you know exists
but don’t believe.

#hellopoetry107 #ghost

Apr 2021 Em

Elegy

Apr 2021 Em

ryn

Elegy

.
take me into
the darkest recesses
of my existence

and

stoke the cold flames
of this night’s elegy -
that burns
flickerless and black.

.

#hellopoetry107 #elegy

Apr 2021 Em

Songbird

Apr 2021 Em

ryn

Songbird

If indeed
my heart knows
every word
to this song,

why then
does my voice
argue that it
should never
be sung?

#hellopoetry107 #songbird

Apr 2021 Em

Capable of destruction

Apr 2021 Em

s

Capable of destruction

Before giving me his best smile he confesses "i think I have fallen for you"

𝘖𝘩! 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦?
𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰.
𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰?
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦,
𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧,
𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘺.

He calls out my name shaking me from my thoughts,
i reply "Just like the way i did"

Oh, the power you hold,
By making me feel these foreign emotions.
Now.
Now, its my turn.

#distance #love #time #feel #life

Apr 2021 Em

"Hello Valued Customer"

Apr 2021 Em

Jack L Martin

"Hello Valued Customer"

was uttered in a
computer generated,
non-demeaning,
gender neutral tone
by the impersonal,
unemotional,
automated,
grocery checkout machine.

"Enter your customer ID now!"
demands the artificial human.

"And... if I don't?"
I query the metallic shell
of what once was
a minimum wage employee.

There was no reply.

#fifteen #dollars #an #hour #minimum #wage #labor #replaced #by #***