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CJ Aug 2022
Loving yourself
is not always easy;
because you’re human
with innate familiar aches
born out of
wanting
and needing

But not everybody
deserves
to hold your hand,
feel your soul,
breathe your skin,
and reap the blessing
that is your loving

-c.s.
New words that part my lips are vast and wide
Still sometimes spilling sweetness, shame and spit.
A pattern simply changing with the times,
So I can't say that you're to blame for it.

New insights, clouds, dark lakes where pebbles drop.
Ideas float around that serve me well.
The light with shadow, night with glowing dots.
Sweet intricacies dance while we repel.

I've learned to ebb and flow beside my lungs,
To hold the space, despite the urge to run.
This burning flame needs fuel to elevate,
To learn the lesson. Protect me, I'll wait.
It's been a while! Hello again 🦋
Eve Jul 2022
Living was easier when we thought that pain was only given to us by criminals, vile humans & enemies.

-fir.m
Elena Jul 2022
People are like newfound plants in the nature
They can be so beautiful
Yet so poisonous
Sometimes they are dull
Yet so productive and kind
Kind in a plant world
And people in human world
But you will never know who they really are
Unless you come close
And touch them
Unless you take a big risk
And spill your thoughts to a stranger
Elena Jul 2022
I breath in and out
That is what makes me alive, huh?
And my flesh
My bones
My blood
My pumping heart makes me human
But what is m soul made of?
It is not colorful like it used to be
It is not bright like others
Indeed it is barely alive with bleeding holes
It has all my pain
All my suffering
And every new knife that stabs my back
Makes a new hole
Mark Wanless Jul 2022
this poet is built
on a barn of human ****
one of many ways
Yousra Amatullah Jul 2022
They fell asleep to the sound of rattling chains
And dream to sell its lullaby
I think it's time to wake up..
Mark Wanless Jul 2022
the human body
and mind is reflex unless
told other by you
spacewtchhh Jul 2022
These phrases refer to no one unless I have your eyes

She squeezed out,
Like me.

But it's hard to make someone endure what you endure

We are all born to pretend
That's what makes humans connected
I see
the roses
in you, the
delicate
petals of
of being
human,
the thorns
of us have
broken
the chains,
our feathers
glide when
darkness
once
wished
to down
the soar
of our
wings,
feathers
glide from
loud howls,
floating
up to the
place we
call truth.
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