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MSunspoken Apr 2020
My toes keep curling
when I walk into the yard-
It's warmer here
Amanda Pringle Apr 2020
The shape of the sun; circle
The shape of a city block, square
The shape of a baseball field, rhombus
The shape of a house, pentagon.

But the shape of a home
Is based on what lives inside.

A pyramid proves a simple structure can still succeed
All lines involved
Connect to complete a common goal.

An octagon interludes
So all sides can solidify
A promising whole.

So what is to happen
To a house with
No shape?

When the lines are misconstrued
And the corners are mismatched.
A splatter on a plane
Lacking effort to be real.

A shape is not a shape
If there are breaks within the lines.

A shape is not a shape
If everyone neglects the vertices.

Geometry should have been priority
while planning a family.
Sally A Bayan Apr 2020
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The plague is actively claiming precious lives
with its deadly droplets...sadly, not all survive
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we are holed up in our own homes
eager to feel back, airs of our known norms
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not easy to be without human interaction
though distantly, we fulfill human obligations
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quara­ntine, or isolation isn't only a solution
it's a path to meditation and self-evaluation
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refuge in solitude, is what we seek,
it's when we hear our inner voices speak.
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this is one
unprecedented lenten season
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there's no end yet, for sickness, and death
in fear, we anticipate.....we hold our breath
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Sally

©Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
   April 8, 2020
When I asked you what I should do. you told me...
"Yeah, I guess it would make sense to end it now."
I could feel a crippling cold in my lungs mid summer
my heart is no stranger to a strangers lack of care.
It's just a summer ******.

At least when left alone, let alone the thought of being lonely, I never consider taking my own life before its meant to be taken from me.

At least when I talk to you, you remind me like your reliquary for lost tears, you tear through me unraveling my armor to all my inner most fears.

Giving myself a gift of agony inside of antagonizing images of my self.
Ambition and bravery give way to craven humility. disguising howls towards the moon as laughter laughed to soon. I dug my grave today just to give prayer to the future,

I piece myself back together with my words like a surgeon who's done this a thousand times.

He who is practiced in the way of emotion suture

His hands never getting steadier operating on the child inside him with his rhymes.

It never gets any easier
it only gets worse.
After all,
how can you do your job,
when you run out of thread
and there's a thundering in your head.

When you've got twenty-five to thirty for life to become death.
You kind of want to be in control of your last breath
Self reflection
Taylor Mar 2020
a wandering soul
among the shattered bones of dreams
picking through the piles
just another thought while we are all in covid19 isolation
Jay Mar 2020
It’s funny that I can keep songs on repeat
But I can’t listen to you anymore
Meaningful positive messages. Meaningful positive vibes.
Oliver Mar 2020
I don’t like feeling things.
I dream of happiness, and I feel.
My heart aches for what could be,
what will never be.
I see people, far away
and the isolation creeps up my neck.
The loneliness is suffocating me.
I want to stop feeling things.
I look into a pair of pretty eyes
and receive a smile in return.
Hope reaches its burning tendrils
into the depths of my soul.
It starts crushing and squeezing.
Hoping for the impossible hurts.
Everything hurts.
I don’t want to feel.
Andrew Watson Mar 2020
hold me
in the dead of night
when no one else will

wear me
a rusted red bangle
choke my freedom

spare me
when angels are around
consume me when
they fly

float from
the mouths of those
who say they
love me

i trust no other voice
but your shrieking
whisper

they tell me they
love me
they tell me
you tell me
tell me
love me
a poem about needing constant reassurance - and how loneliness can make you doubt the legitimacy of even those who love you the most
Tess M Apr 2020
why do i feel so sad?
nothing happened
least not really
but i am wrong
i am always wrong

that is what
they said

I believed them
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