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Shane Apr 24
Lonely... I'm so lonely
When the clock struck twelve on that silent night
Emotions befell me that caused quite a fright
Sadness and anger
A glimpse of the past
Regret for the days that just couldn't last
I felt like a failure, a reject, a mess
A desolate child stuck in distress
That's who I was
And that's who I'll be
A forever lonely child
Lost in misery
ki Apr 22
Trying to keep my cool knowing i'm losing my sanity.
Knowing that feeling wasn't mutual, constantly being led on by those who leave.
Knowing that those 5 minutes of fulfilment is going to turn into emptiness.
From waking up to excitement to absolutely nothing.
Looking into the mirror knowing their sweet words now has no purpose and I question "Why?" Just why...? Reminding myself everyday that I am nothing important.
Just something to fill in someone's time. Something they go to when they are bored.
My heart is tired and all it wanted was to acknowledge not ignored.
a poem for the ones who feel too much and receive too little. this is about being someone's temporary comfort while silently craving something real.
it's the exhaustion of giving your heart just to be left with silence. for anyone who's ever questioned their worth after being used, ignored, or led on... this one's for you.
How do you explain this—
When you love to be alone, yet are haunted by loneliness?
The silence becomes louder than a screaming heart.
Whispers fill the mind while the soul feels unbearably heavy.

Even when surrounded by millions of people,
The mind still feels like a vacuum.
Life becomes a useless desire, and people always exasperate me.

The ghost of silence haunts me so horribly that I lose my real self.
I long to escape this reality—
To fall out of existence.
Yet I fail so hopelessly and miserably,
And finally, I let myself wither in the emptiness of this world.
Lizzy Hamato Apr 16
This user is loosing interest in everything
like tabs left open, forgotten, buffering.
Notifications blink like dying stars,
but none are worth the effort of looking.

Conversations feel like code
written in languages I unlearned.
but mean none of them.

Even the mirror loads too slowly,
and when it does,
the face looks like someone
mid-update,
stuck.

The days autoplay.
The nights glitch.
And somewhere in the background,
I hear the soft hum
of systems shutting down.
The empty space in my head tries to dream again
When faith starts to be my friend again
Oh, I’m not the same – a careless friend

The empty space in my heart tries to love again
When the feeling of love can be felt again
Oh, I’m not the same – a heartless mate

The empty space in my hand tries to feel again
When I lost a touch with myself again
Oh, I’m not the same – a hopeless mess

These empty stars will find me once again –
As my body rests on these foreign lands
I love to sleep on this Island bed.
Damocles Apr 11
Where the silence echoes
One can hear the longing murmur,
Calling from the deepest depths below,
A haunting chill that grips the throat
A yelling scream like an eager goat,
I yearn for love in all the wrong spaces
Taking up all of my favorite places
Hoping I can escape this …
One last kiss to the maiden’s graces
Before I fade into the great abyss.
I started this wanting to rhyme "oh" sounds and then it morphed into this.
Maria Leslie Apr 3
I saw you there but when I come closer is the empty chair without you.
I remember everything about you
I saw you but those dreams it’s makes me alright.

How I wished that you will be here on my side now where I can't be lonely anymore
so that these emptiness I fill
always are fade away and replaced the real happiness in my life.

I still found you on my dreams that you are still in my heart,
I can see the distance between you and me that's why I'm still alone
that you are the only one I've been waiting for so long.

If you force me to remove you,
I keep inside my heart dying
if I see myself empty without you
You were only one for me.

Can't you see I can't find someone else to forget you if those loves has keeps me bleeding inside of me
It’s only reminds me of you.

If I find myself alone without someone else
No one makes me smile everyday and given meaning of my life

maybe it's all emptying to find something greater life than I thought with you.

I can't forget my feelings for you back then
I know you're there but I can't reach
I know you want me but you didn't come
I know I'm waiting for you but you didn't come back
I know you love me but you love someone else
I know that we will be back together again but it’s going run away

No matter how many years have passed between us
and how many times we've been hurt with shed tears
The distance between us is leaving me and you're gone

You came into my life like a wind that I can't avoid and stop.

Like a fire that I can't stop the amount of heat burning in my body and chest.

And a ray of sunshine, A hope that I can't let go and follow you.

I can't stop myself and my feelings from loving you because I want you
and I choose you to be with me forever
but It's like a storm that destroyed everything, you've been swept away from me.
You've also disappeared from me like a bubble
I didn't know you were gone.

It’s was so yesterday that we’ve been together
But it’s now years later away from you

Finally, when I opened my eyes,
when I looked back,
I was left alone,
all of us were gone.

I don’t even hear the voice again,
but nothing else is missing one
I only heard is farewell and goodbyes to an empty nest.

I was left in the ground but I was alone with myself
God left me alone
so that I could see something greater than the one who used to hurt my heart

Where is it?
Why it’s empty?
There is always emptiness.


******


"𝕎𝕒𝕝𝕒 ℕ𝕒"

Nakita kita doon
pero paglapit ko ay ang bakanteng upuan na wala ka.
Naaalala ko ang lahat tungkol sa iyo
Pero ang lahat ay naging panaginip nalang na nagpapasaya sa akin

Sana nandito ka sa tabi ko ngayon
kung saan hindi na ako mag iisa
upang ang mga kawalan na ito ay pinupunan mo

Lagi nalang nawawala at napapalitan ang tunay na kaligayahan sa buhay ko
pero ikaw hindi ko kaya

Natatagpuan pa rin kita sa aking mga pangarap na ikaw ay narito sa puso ko,

Nakikita ko parin ang distansya sa pagitan mo
Kaya nga mag-isa pa rin ako
Dahil ikaw lang ang matagal ko ng hinihintay.

Kung pipilitin mo akong alisin ka,
Kung patuloy ang paglisan ng kisap mata
Mamatay sa loob ko ang aking puso

kung mawawala ka
makikita ko ang aking sarili na walang laman
Dahil ikaw lamang ang nag iisa para sa akin

Hindi mo lang alam na hindi ako makakahanap ng iba na makakalimot sa iyo
At kung ang pag-ibig ay nanatili sa akin na nagdurugo
sa loob nito nagpapaalala sa akin tungkol sa iyo.

Kung ang aking sarili ay nag-iisa araw araw
At walang taong nagpapangiti sa akin
ikaw lang kasi ang nagbibigay kahulugan ng aking buhay,

marahil walang laman ang lahat sakin
upang makahanap ng bago sa buhay
kaysa sa ninanais ko na makasama ka.

Hindi ko makalimutan ang feelings ko sayo noon

Alam ko nanjan ka Lang pero wala ka sa tabi ko
Alam ko na gusto mo ako pero hindi ka dumating
Alam ko na hinihintay kita pero hindi ka bumalik
Alam ko na mahal mo ako pero may mahal ka na palang iba
alam ko na magkakabalikan pa tayo pero wala ng makitang pag asa at makakapitan

kahit ilang taon pa ang nagdaan sa atin
Ilang beses man nasaktan at lumuha
ang pagitan ng nakalipas ay nawawala ka na pala

Dumating ka sa buhay ko na parang hangin na hindi ko kayang iwasan at pigilin.
Parang apoy na hindi ko mapigilan ang dami ng liyab ng init sa katawan at dibdib.
At isang liwanag ng araw at pag asa na hindi ko kayang bitawan at sundan ka.

Hindi ko mapigilan ang sarili at damdamin na mahalin ka
dahil gusto kita at pinili kita na makasama habang buhay pero
Parang bagyo na nasira ang lahat tinangay ka na sakin palayo.

Parang kahapon lang kita kasama
Pero tila ang ngayon na sandali ay mga taon na wala ka sa piling ko

Nawala ka na rin sakin na parang bula hindi ko alam na wala ka na pala.
Sa huli pag dilat ko
pag lingon ko naiwan nako mag isang wala na ang lahat sa atin.

Hindi ko man lang narinig ang awit ng paglisan ngunit wala akong narinig kahit paalam ay naiwan na walang laman na pugad.

Siguro ang pagkawala na ito ay ang paghahanap ng iba.
Baka nilagay ako sa blangkong espasyong ito para maghanap ng iba
Pagpalain ng Diyos ang walang laman na lugar para sa isang bagay na mahusay.

Naiwan ako sa kawalan pero kasama ko lang ang sarili
Iniwanan ako ng Diyos mag isa para makita ko pa ang hihigit sa dati na sumusugat sa puso

Nasaan na ba?
Bakit may kawalan?
Mayroon parating walang laman.
Written: 7.19.2024
Izan Almira Apr 3
We are so fragile.
We could break at any moment.
God could leave us scattered on the ground
like broken, old, used toys.

God is like a child:
Tsunamis his tantrums.
Humans his marionettes.
Humans    
      are          
             God’s
         voodoo
    dolls.

And he plays with us;
He stitches red needles into our bodies.

I think there is nothing left in mine.
No filling.
No nothing.
I am empty inside.
I'm sorry if you are religious, really.
Syafie R Mar 14
The plate sits before me, brimming with light,
Yet I cannot partake in this feast of life.
The hunger is not born of flesh,
But a deep, gnawing void that swallows the soul.

It’s not that I lack—
But I recoil from the feast,
For each bite is a confrontation,
A war within my own skin,
An agonizing surrender to the unknown.

The world, a banquet of joy and color,
Serves me courses of hope and grace,
But I cannot consume what is offered.
Each morsel of love, each chance for joy,
I push away,
As if to touch it would fracture me further,
Unravel what little control I still feign to hold.

I starve not for food,
But for the courage to feast on life,
To swallow what is real,
Without fear that it will choke me,
Without fear that it will swallow me whole.

In the quiet spaces of my mind,
I am a ghost,
Floating above this world I once craved.
I am too numb to reach,
Too paralyzed to feel the warmth of the sun,
And so I exist—
Not living, not dying,
But simply suspended in this vast, unyielding void,
Where every dream is a phantom,
Every hope a cruel illusion,
And I am forever starving,
Yet unable to taste the life I’ve lost.
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