Hello < Poetry
Classics
Words
Blog
F.A.Q.
About
Contact
Guidelines
© 2024 HePo
by
Eliot
Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads.
Become a member
William de klerk
Poems
Nov 2019
Ashes
The last of my self-poisoning Burns away,
and as the cigarette shortens
so does the noose from which I swing
leaving a locked door for an open window
on the second storey floor
Im in a free-fall while smiling
because I don't care anymore.
So if I hit the ground half as hard
as the harmful thoughts in my head
I know I'd be better off dead
but instead
here I stand over a buried body
reading a eulogy for the memory
of the part of me I let die
before a newborn Phoenix learns to fly
From the ashes of a cigarette rises the part of me that has been freed from what I felt
#freedom
#phoenix
#new
#pain
#escape
#ashes
#cigarette
Written by
William de klerk
19/M/South Africa
(19/M/South Africa)
Follow
😀
😂
😍
😊
😌
🤯
🤓
💪
🤔
😕
😨
🤤
🙁
😢
😭
🤬
0
357
Bogdan Dragos
and
---
Please
log in
to view and add comments on poems