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Mikko Mar 2021
The hubris of Man, to think we matter,
that our acts or life have any worth
I proclaim it rotten like so much mirth
The poor get poorer, the rats grow fatter
so spread not your lies, for I know better
The Void left our values a still-birth
We're cells further growing this cancer's girth
climbing higher on a failing ladder

Thus let us burn, we don't deserve a knife
let roam the terrors I dream of nightly,
open Pandora's box now, loosen its clasp
Let the End come now, there's no after-life
it'd change nothing, most just stare on blankly
And talk not of Love, it's out of my grasp
Spat this out onto my phone's memo on the bus about a year ago. Haven't written a full new sonnet in 15 months. Fear of blank paper or some ****.
Loreah Mar 2021
Under a mask and some ripples
An ocean of sky and foam of clouds
Wind wanderer, you and your tides
Must have been where nothing remains
Guy H Fisher III Mar 2021
When we cuddled,
I could feel the
loneliness
in your bones.
So I held you a little tighter,
caressed you a little longer,
and I felt it shiver out of you like the cold.
Coleen Mzarriz Mar 2021
How long will these enigma of misfortune can be carried out by
my hands—laid and lewd
shining with mud and uncertainty.

How long will the stones be put into pressure
to become the diamonds in the city—where known is familiar
and the unknown is discreet and mystical.

My head throbs with excruciating pain—it can be called as emptiness, a glass without water,
whom the sound shrieks like death is coming.

Into broken pieces of the diamond city—I have felt the pressure, the innate madness of forsaking the world and the world knowing my limits and the little shadow that keeps me company beneath my bed.

How long, oh, how long will these enigma of misfortune be laid out in my grumpy hands—in between secrets and opportunities.

How long, to be an artist?
Another crisis, another piece.
Parker Vance Feb 2021
There are holes in my brain          and I shovel words to bury
                                       that emptiness

I look for laughter                                          that's not my own

I search my hometown graveyard
                     the spaces of your affection

I'm flipping through the oldest books
                     ******* in the autumn air;

I cannot find the thing                                                  I lost

There are holes in my brain but I kept you,
                                       Heart,

                    perhaps a different way of craving
                                     wholeness
TO the lady who's heart's so empty,
this piece aims to give her clarity
of what to feel or how to see
her situation that's adorably messy.

TO the girl who once had her heart
broken from the most miserable art.
Art of rejection and one-sided love,
She's grown an expert, a wingless dove.

TO the maiden who exists but not lives,
as she's unaware of her reason to believe
that one day, she might actually be
as genuinely happy as she wants to be.

Please look after yourself more
And neglect what's keeping your pleasure.
Allow leisure to aglow you with ecstasy
to make you see your true beauty.

You are not born to rely on anyone's view
You are yourself and you are brand new.
He made you strong, and strong you will be
For this emptiness is test for bliss that's timely.
birdy Feb 2021
My emotions feel synthetic
Fake feelings from a fake persona that I crafted to please you
If only I could live for myself
But I'm acting in a play
One without an audience
So who am acting for?
In those moments alone where I wail Who am I doing this for?
Constantly reinventing myself
But why?
I wish I could be free of this theatre
I hunger for the curtains to close
For the blazing lights to dim
And to sense the silent applause
Die out.
Void Feb 2021
Sometimes
I want to break
So that I can pull myself together
So that I can rebuild my strength

Sometimes
I want to scream
So that I won't have to
feel a thing

Sometimes
I want to cry
So that I'm reminded I'm still human
But nothing comes although I try

Sometimes
I want to hurt
So that I can forget my pain

But instead
I do nothing
Because sometimes
Doing nothing
Hurts more than anything
Psychonaute Feb 2021
Rickie shotguns
Nattys in the shower,
Cade vomits pink
on the couch,
Nick hits his nic
"only when he's drunk"
And I look on
in a stupor of my own.
Is this it?
roz Feb 2021
i wish i can flow out my emotions
and have a taste of it
maybe with a bourbon glass
anything, without complications

just to see if it hints bitterness
a glint of sadness
see if it dances with joy
i hope not for sorrow

mundane aims blandness
and i dont know anymore
seems like i cant feel anything
are they bottled like Jim Beam?
i just feel empty most of the time
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