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Indra L Sep 22
My root country hits number 1 in poverty
My adopted land feeds on misogyny
I worry -
Will anyone ever fancy me?

Emitting excessive carbon dioxide
We overhear yet choose to hide
Can’t utter the word genocide.

I’m terrified.
Never mind the political divide
I'm just spiralling - my job's rather boring and public speaking is frightening.

Also, the US’s worryingly embarrassing
Ukraine can’t seem to win and Yemen’s endlessly starving
It’s wildly concerning -
the acne growing on my skin.

As for my third country, we defy regularly
the French are praised for protesting
‘Collective dispute for systemic integrity.’

It all sounds empowering -
but I gained 10 kilos and it’s dismorphing.
If only depression made me slim
Quantum Poet Sep 15
I can't tell you I know why
I think I know the things I know.
But somehow, I think I know,
Some Things I probably shouldn't know.

And I know how not “knowing”
Things you think you're supposed to know,
Can Keep you from ever knowing—
ego’s like to lie and say we know.

We all know we'll never know,
Everything with all there is to know. .
And Not knowing what or when to know,
Ensures that we might never know.

There's one thing I'm sure we know,
Its Most of all we'll ever know,
Are things we'll never really know,
Believing we already know.

I know there's things that I don't know,
And you might think you actually know,
But you know something? I think we both know
Neither can know what the other knows.

Though we both know of things That
we, as people, thought we'd never know.
Until that moment hits us hard
To let us know. “Well, now you know.”

But I know there's a higher knowing,
That knows think I know, but don't.
I think it knows the way my “knowing”
Seems to know but can't and won't.

And it's not like I even know
you don't know what I know. You know?
I just know there's something that knows it all
That we'd never want to know

But If you really think you know,
This thing I think that no one knows.
Then that would mean I didn't know.
Something I would've sworn I know

And I don't know just how to tell you
Of things I hope you'll never know,
Cause I'm not sure I know
If either one of us can even know.
Knife - strains
In mockery of water - a knocked glass
Revealing spots
A raving whisper
Splashing cold
A crowbar smashing collarbone
"You surely do not need
Those useless hands"
Improper - unclasped collar
And after droplet - choke
Inflation of the soul
Scarce lines of obit
"Place cloth of white" - the shroud
"Pour to the guests" - caprice
"And play a marriage" - wake
In dance - do smile
Not daring to gaze down
To knife - a pledge of the forgiveness
Listen to the poem recitation:
https://youtube.com/shorts/su0APQM9He8
I just invented condescending way
A spiraling - rendition -
In thoughts of give away - do jeopardise
Tight murmur - catchy breath
And warmth of words - neglectful
Icarus - has faced the fall
Demanding for the sun
To follow

"Do give me hope" -
Waves shudder - cries
Collateral is trust -
Uneven debt - to sea
Through lust for gods
To favour - self-aware kin
"I will eat lies"
And drowning frame of wings
Makes yet another prophet

Cast - the spirits' smelting
"Farce!" - for being captive
Dull is the spark to lit
Azure for blinded
"I close my eyes" - a torment
Is benign - "Betrayal!" -
With fools - to play
In helpless shade of sun
"Be a good match"
Spent to emblaze the star
"I bet he fades"

Dismissive is calm laughter
"It's in your head" -
World - empathetic
"You do like humanizing" - stalls
When reaches out a hand
For burned
And now is lit a candle
Coax thins the fumes
"Do feel accepted"
Listen to the poem recitation:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KyFF25qTrSQ
After  years  of  you  giving me the silent treatment                                                        ­                                          if  no  one  calls  I  think  it's because  of a disagreement                                                     ­                             Because  of  your consistent  lack  of communication                                                    ­                  sometimes  when  I talk, I forget people are listening                                                        ­         Convinced I am never enough or  I'm too  much                                                        ­                                                I overdo for others in hopes of earning their love                                                             ­                                                     Under your  sense of grandiose entitlement                                                      ­                                                      I've  put myself last and under your judgement                                                        ­                                                    With persistent efforts to  disrespect me                                                                                                                          I  over explain and apologize habitually                                          I've  accepted bread crumbs of your affection                                                        ­                                             a love  concocted of toxin and poisonous venom
This is what a loving a narcissist's does to you.
What if I told you I dreamed too high,
But you always wanted me low?

My head clearly belongs in the clouds
While your face is upside down, in the ground.

My feet on the very edge of the chair.
Too busy in my fabricated daydreams, unaware.

Do I miss you? Not really.
Thanks for all the times you treated me painfully.

If only you could see me now,
I could take you to those clouds.

But I know one day you’ll visit me
Bothered by the disgusting feelings.

I loved when your hands were on me,
But now all I feel is the weight of rope tightening.
I know you only want to talk                                                  because you  know  I'm  going to walk                                                                I  met  your childish silence                                                          ­ with  strength  and defiance                                                         ­  You  thought that I would cave                                                             ­ Stand  back while you misbehaved                                                       ­    Now  that  your  tower moment is here                                                         all  that ego has disappeared                                                      ­    While  you  gathered stones to throw                                                     I  was growing on my own                                                              ­          You  were full of foolish pride                                                trying  to  conquer and divide                                                           ­  You  always knew I dealt in truth                                                           and  that's something you can't do                                                           This  is your consequence                                                      ­                     This  is your tower moment
Limes Carma Aug 16
I’ve seen how fast
A life can pass
Yet I’m too tired for life’s dance
Too worried about the egos
of the worlds cast
And too stressed to pick up the trash of my own little worlds past
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