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I'm staring at the mirror
But I do not know this face
And I've got things to do
I have people on my back
Maybe another day I can come
And clean this glass
A mantra sang each new week
But never becomes real
Holding others needs
There's not much time left to feel
And maybe I don't want to
For that is when I'll crumble
The girl was raised on lightning
But the woman is now rubble
To be a casualty
In your own **** indecision
This is not the life at 13
I had envisioned
I hold a hand of uno
Not knowing this game was poker
I play all my best cards
And still I am the tables joker
I expected it to click
I thought I'd find my way
I dance around on quicksand
Mistaking it for clay
All that ever happens when I reach
Out for a hand
Is the drowning of another
I'm the siren of this land
I just wanted company
Misery knows best
I'm aiming to be happy
Yet I turn it all to mess
So I'll run the ******* vacuum
I'll wipe another spill
And I'll try again tomorrow
My head won't always be this ill
Another ranty piece
That I don't try to write
I start with a certain intention
Then run from it all night
upon reading your poem
Tremor^

and this what I think:
when reading your seamless
writing connecting of moments
of immortality,

only one question remains,
why, does our own writing
not approach the level of your exquisite precision
soul's *******?

is it our
own immorality
that permits our soon-to-be-
discontinued pretenses,
wherein, whereby,
we can still believe
our own words should be
deservedly disowned,
disinherited to the
scrap heap heated,
burned, eradicated
and
why do we even try?

sigh
>.<
dare not read it twice,
lest my inked fingertips
surrender to my
indecent indecision
Zywa Jun 24
It's too bad, that we

can't stop it, but later we --


shall commemorate.
Poem "de juiste woorden" ("the right words", 2025, Babs Gons), in the NRC of June 21st, 2025, about the destruction of the Palestinian territories

Collection "Stall"
Zywa Jun 24
We argue about

the right words for "it", which must --


stop without delay.
Poem "de juiste woorden" ("the right words", 2025, Babs Gons), in the NRC of June 21st, 2025, about the destruction of the Palestinian territories

Collection "Stall"
Who can know and thus foretell the imaginary line
Twixt everlasting doubt and certainty sublime
Once declined counts twice betrayed where constant pressure parts
The ties that bind us each to all from one to many hearts
Passions presence aching seek the solace of the grave
Heavens hand forbade ere reasons' eulogy forgave
Within the vein of separate mind where war these wedded foes of mine
Of hearts desire and reasons doubt besotted, battle locked, in time
reydmh Apr 26
Untukmu kekosongan dan kebimbangan
sudah kutulis kata demi kata
Apakah kau sudah tidur nyenyak hari ini?
apakah semua hal yang kulakukan sebanding?

Didalam istana penuh kemewahan, kemanisan
Ditawan dengan rasa kehilangan
Seolah berharap suatu hari
bagai pesawat lepas landas dan terasa lega, sebab kita telah sampai dimana
kilat sinar yang menyinarimu


2025
reydmh
Kalliope Jan 15
If I go to the left I miss out on the right,
And I'll never know what's right for me.
But I sit and feel doom, and plead with the moon to illuminate what I need to see.

The path was a fork, cut black and white
A simple 50/50 decision.
But under moon light, it's more than I thought, with unpaved paths through the grass that have risen.

A beautiful maze, all of these ways I could get to my destination,
But each road I turn too, the next one I yearn for, so I'm stuck here in purgatory station.
I don't want to be one thing,
I want to be all,
A mother, a lover, a friend, successful
But I can't shake the feeling,
That choosing a path
Puts one of my dreams to an end
Perla Dec 2024
A lifetime lost through "hems" and "haws". Condemned to a perpetual limbo where one sees, at the horizon, a receding wave that keeps pulling into itself
Stuck on the shore, we wait for it to come back only for us to realize that the sea has taken off too
You look down at the sand only to see that the kelp has wrapped itself around your feet and you're left wondering just how long it has been there and if you can still move at all
Lorraine Colon Dec 2024
Tonight I'll pour my favorite wine,  
Then set the hearth's kindling ablaze;
Countless hours will be spent pondering
The past's carefree and  blissful days

There I am!  a girl of just twenty,
With nimble step and flying hair;
Searching for love, I was confident --
As for suitors, I had my fair share

Flowers and flattery and romance
Would frequently call at my door;
Youthful days filled with Love's promise . . .
Even Heaven could offer no more!

The men were handsome, witty and fun,
Showing utmost propriety;
Strangely, I turned my back to them all --
Not one stirred Love's passion in me

But Time paid no heed to my folly,
And one by one my dreams went astray;
The shining rays of hope had grown dim --
Too often I'd turned Love away

Now each night my heart reprimands me,
Repeating "O, what have you done?"
Mistrust and indecision be ******!
I curse, and then cry for The One  

Now I watch the sun slowly descending
Deep into the Sea of Remorse;
Have I been condemned to this anguish,
Or might Fate kindly alter its course?

But the flames of hope turn to embers
As I sit alone sipping my wine,
I know somewhere there's a lonely man . . .
The One who should have been mine!
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