"DEAR BLANK CHALLENGE" PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS AND REPOST TRY TO KEEP IT GOING:  HELLOPOETRY "DEAR BLANK" CHALLENGE SECRET SANTA POEMS EXCEPT NOT SECRET AND NOT SANTA RANDOM ACT/POEM OF KINDNESS STRANGER POETRY APPRECIATION

I thought it might be nice to do like a secret santa thingy on hellopoetry only not secret and not santa… what I mean is, find a random stranger you literally have never met and do NOT know at all whose poetry you like and spend actual time genuinely reading their work, picking out your favorite lines and responding to them, pondering them, etc. Write something positive to them and post it as a poem with their name in the title. The “DEAR BLANK” challenge only you put their name instead of “blank”. I think we could all use a little recognition that we exist and are worth something since everyone seems a little depressed on here (including myself) which is fine, it’s a great outlet but it would be nice for people to just spontaneously find that a random stranger spent time in their life just to recognize you and care about your poetry. To write a kind poem/letter to them responding to lines in their poetry. If you need an example I just posted DEAR IMALRIGHT which was exactly what I meant. Check out imalright's poetry btw it is amazing.
I plan on doing for more than one person and I'd love for you to do the same. Spread a little kindness, we could all use a little.
Also message me if you are going to do the challenge and message the stranger you do the DEAR BLANK challenge for so they know to look for and read your poem.
I just thought that Imalright who was a perfect stranger to me seemed like a wonderful poet and a wonderful person based on her poetry so I chose her.
You do that too if you accept the DEAR BLANK challenge.
INCLUDE DEARBLANKCHALLENGE AS A HASHTAG IF YOU DO THE CHALLENGE SO EVERYONE CAN FIND THEM
please repost this over and over so we can get as many people involved as possible and try and make a difference in a couple people's lives because I just want to make everyone feel loved but I'm just one girl, I can't do it alone. Please help me with this and join me in the DEAR BLANK challenge. Take time out of your day to properly appreciate someone's poetry who you do not know.

PLEASE REPOST LET'S GET EVERYONE INVOLVED!!! ;D
THANKS!

-EMBER EVANESCENT

Está a ficar tarde, e tu atrasaste-te outra vez
Já respirei fundo e contei até três.
Mas de nada me serviu.

Nós caminhamos numa ténue linha
E ela está a começar a romper
Ainda nem tivemos tempo para nos conhecer.

Sei que é ingénuo da minha parte pensar em algo mais
Quando de mim só dou o que quero
Mas de ti tudo espero.

Estamos a chegar ao fim.
Tens mais alguma coisa a dizer?

Talvez deveríamos ter escrito um parágrafo
E acabámos a meio de uma frase.

There is always someone else.
Someone who can make your eyes sparkle more than I do.

So don't even think about starting something we won't finish
Because she'll make you regret it.

I don't know who she is
But I'm sure she'll know you.

Life goes by without you even noticing it
One day you have it all
The next one you lose it all.
It's less than a minute
But more than a second
And there's no stop button.
There's no life watch
No way to say when it ends
Nor when it began.
Sometimes it feels as good as 4 o'clock
On a sunny Saturday afternoon
Sometimes it feels as bad as 2 o'clock
On a dark Friday night.
Everyone is rushing and running
Everyone wants to stop the clock
But they often forget
That there is no clock to stop.

I was born in a generation where I'm told self-hatred is no issue
I was born in a generation that says girls are pink and boys are blue
I was born in a generation where I'm told I can think by myself
But only if I think like everyone else
I was born in a generation that prefers a mirror over a book
I was born in a generation that only cares about how I look
They tell me body over soul
And popularity is your highest goal.

Well,
I was born in a world with seven oceans and five continents.
I was born part of a species that searches for answers.
I was born alongside people who fight for those who can't.
I was born with a voice and no fear to use it.
I was born with a mind of my own
And I refuse to submit myself to dull standards.

Every step I take towards you
Is another step to damnation
You're such a sweet temptation
But it's gonna be your hell too.

if you want to drown, let yourself drown
but only if you feel so down
that nothing seems more appealing
than that bittersweet feeling
of letting go and letting in
all your drunk sins
of yesterday's night.

let yourself go
so you can get so low
that no man can ever reach
nor hear any screech
that may of your soul come out;
not even if you shout
can you bring yourself back to light.

but, once in a lifetime
you get to survive
this endless pit we throw ourselves in to;
you get to come back from the blue.
only to enter a whole different world
in which you find something worthwhile
that keeps you above the waterline.