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fray narte Oct 2020
tw

sorry, i am running out of ribs to break
and this sorrow has grown stems and branches;
soon, they will dig their way in,
handing me flowers for a funeral.

some nights, it is a switchblade
digging deeper into my wounds —
other nights, it is an act of kindness.

some nights, my lips refuse to read aloud
the epitaphs carved in my headboard.
other nights, i recite them like poems
worth laying at a forest's doorstep —
in a worn-out dress and
with mud in my skin.
from the dark,
i cannot tell whether the offering
is this poem or me.

sorry, i am running out of ribs to break
and this sorrow has grown roots
in the gaps where all my bones used to rest —
and there is no way out of these woods
when your heart has long hanged itself —
when your feet are sinking quicker
than they move.

and soon, you'll find that the butterflies in my stomach
had been nipping on these funeral flowers —
nipping for so long on my flesh —
inside out.

sorry, i am running out of ribs to break
and this chest has become a wide-open mass graveyard.

here, their weary bodies lie —
the girls made of blackened bones and dystopia.
the girls who don't survive themselves.
here, their weary bodies lie.

here — where my weary body lies.
fray narte Sep 2020
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tw

i need a place to rot and breathe —
a place to spit out pieces of this heart
but i have fallen apart
in all the corners of this room;
each tile,
each yellow wall
reeks of the rain and burial wreaths and
there is no space left to taint,
no grave left to lay
this sorry poem on.

i need a place to rot and breathe,
but my demons have seen me
hold enough burials;
if they pick on my skin tonight
they will see layers of grief,
softly decaying under another.

i remember the first time
anubis laid kisses on my skin.
the second.
the third.
still, i wince in reflex
at the memories,
and maybe if i perfect all these staged funerals,
i will learn to kiss back, with total abandon.

i need a place to rot and breathe,
but t h e s e parts of sadness
don't get written
and my demons, they have pitied me
for holding enough burials
to last a lifetime.

tonight, they bury me.

somewhere, anubis smiles his kindest
and my name in a eulogy haunts
a church's weary walls.
AshwiniBalaGav Sep 2020
Everything Has Been ******* Up,
Our Mother Nature Is Dying,
Human Not Being Responsible,
Animals Become Victims,
Humans Become Heartless,
Global Warming Is Killing Mother Nature,
All We Do Is Destroy Mother Nature Without Sympathy,
We Can’t Crying Over Spilt Milk,
What Has Been Happened, Has Been Happened,
In The End, There’s No Human, No Animals, And No Nature,
All I See Is A Human But Not Humanity........
I repost this cause this deserves a lot :)
C Conner Sep 2020
I walked into your house.
The still air, silence,
And dust in the sunlight
Reminds me of the room
A grieving mother refuses to clean.
It's easy to see you
Didn't plan on dying.
Your grocery list waits on the counter
Amid your notes and written reminders.
You placed plates and cups in the sink
To wash later.
And the stacks of books you planned
To read cover the floor
Near a broom leaning against
The kitchen table.
Nicole Sep 2020
24
It feels like I've lived so many lives
Within these mere 24 years
I keep trying out different lifestyles
Making different choices
And yet so consistently weaved into
Each and every lifetime of mine
Are the echos of death calling out
When I'm fit and active I'm still hurting
The same as when I'm not
When I'm hydrated and eating healthily
My body feels a little lighter
But this heart weighs me down all the same
When I'm sober for almost 9 months
There are still so many days when
I want to give up and end it all
These types of reverberating emotions
Make me wonder if adults who **** themselves
Wanted to just as badly at 12
And 18
And 24
Maria Etre Sep 2020
Even the ink in my quill dried out
after they burned my muse
Alicia Moore Sep 2020
Being alive
Isn’t the same
As living,

And death
Isn’t as terrifying
As dying.
pluto Sep 2020
i left her too hastily,
she and i got along at first, but she became harsh,
i was a songbird, and though she caged me in
with cold biting seas and perilous rock outcrops
i knew i was loved by her.

it was mutually beneficial, but i was blind to that,
she gave me a home and i gave her everything,
my undivided time and attention.
i needed her, and though it hurt
i knew i was loved by her.

i left her in a rush. packed bags i could not take with me.
i had buried deep into her surface, searching for meaning
searching for a reason to stay
she gave me no answers, but held me tighter and
i knew i was loved by her.

we knew each other's patterns well.
her tides, her changing seasons were all too familiar,
she was an anchor, pulling me down but keeping me steady,
i spent years wishing to leave, mistook her harshness for hate - if only
i could have returned that love of hers
a love poem about loving, hating and leaving life behind
Sarah Strack Sep 2020
You didn't have to salt my fields
after the war
The devastation had been wrought
cowardly crops
Turn away from the bright sunlight
dying slowly
reflecting on those bitter wars of self
Still Crazy Sep 2020
the desk drawer was open, extending an invite,
cheap blue handle scissors, easy see, on top,
robbed of excuses, went around the house, all my
personal goods, mission oriented, trimming away
loose threads wherever they were hiding in my life

no expert in love, for sure, but struck by you people
linking love and dying, over and over, like they are
hyphenated, siblings, separated twin children, that
long to communicate, checking each other out on the
internet  anonymously, cause these two linked in ways
not understood, loosely tied, a threaded linkage, can you
please explain?
(mysterious)

is loved only fully realized,
when it phoenixes?
burnt, slowly agonizing,
arisen, resurrecting,
is it one cell endless
dying, re-splitting?

Paul calls,
asking:

“and you wonder why we, why you,
why I am still crazy after all these years?”





12:04am
Wed Sep 9
plague year
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