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Vitæ 23h
Morning light breathes
life into every flower

reflecting odd geometries
that follow me hour to hour.

Between each step scattered
on the coniferous ground

are my dreams forgotten
inside a still, dark pond.

Searching noon for new eyes
is the easiest task, I feel

when one forgets
what isn’t real.

And as I kneel at dusk
with pockets full of daylight,

uncertainty shields me
from the river trailing behind,

a devouring gush of blue moves
inside the chest of twilight

and all that I held dissolves
into a thousand new eyes;

and all that I fear becomes
what brings the night alive.

I am a fool to think
I ever walked alone,

for you are everywhere—
and you are here too.

Only a certain eye lets me sleep;
one remains open to slowly

recall where to begin; opal
veins that become like a wild sea

course with a stream of stars
from these wounds widening.

Something more real than I lives
in the abyss that pulls on all things:

and yet my soul glows brighter
when it is darker still.
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. The absurd man says yes and his efforts will henceforth be unceasing.
– Albert Camus.
josef 13h
your body will
wrinkle and shrivel
crack and deform itself
into a tapestry of frailty and age

what then, will you have?
your best feature taken away from you
no more wages paid - nobody wants elders

weep bitterly, for your life will speak for itself
a life of virtual prostitution, and for what?
notoriety? money? what for?

at the end of the day, you’ll have the light
a beacon of hope that guided you through
listen for it, and it’s still small voice
Kyla 21h
one day she was sent
to a man sprawled across the pavement
in blistering sun
he, ignored by everyone.
the nice girl instinct compelled her,
alongside Hippocratic responsibility as a doctor.
her good samaritan arc began,
he her neighbour, the collapsed man
she offers him aid,
and suggests he move to the shade.
her medical assessment deems him well
but onlooker originated pressure to do more, she cannot quell.
he asks her to buy him heavy drink
she tells him to have another think.
they compromise and she buys him food
just like a good samaritan should,
and wishes him good afternoon
but all too soon
the tale begins to muddle
as he asks her for a cuddle
her sense of unease
for once overwhelms the compulsion to people please
“I’d rather not but all the best though”!
- he snaps and his true colours show.
the nausea hits
as he starts to shout about her ****
and chips at her sense of self respect
with an accusing “you look like you like ***”
she fights irate tears
over his leers,
summons her tough
and states that’s enough.
when he spits on her feet
she backs down the street,
maintains her false front
as he yells ******* ****.
words shouldn’t cut
but she’s branded a ****
and yes, we should not give to receive
but oh how i grieve
that to help is to choose
sexist abuse
i want to follow jesus’ ways
but he did not have to contend with the male gaze
AJ 4d
At times, it feels my life’s been spent
Crawling through a tunnel, tight and bent
No room to stretch, no breath to spare
Just inch by inch through stifling air

It grips my ribs, it binds my chest,
But still, I crawl, I do my best.
It hurts, it aches, it steals my breath
But forward still, I crawl from death

There is no door, no secret track
No turning ’round, no going back
The only way is straight and true
The only way is pushing through

But I could swear this tunnel has no end
No torch, flare, curve, or bend
Just black on black, and cold like bone
I’ve called this narrow dark my own

Yet what becomes of one like me,
Who’s known the dark so constantly?
What happens when I reach the day,
And light attempts to guide my way?
What will it do to skin grown pale,
To bones that knew the dark so well?

Will sunlight scorch this shadowed flesh,
That’s only known the tunnel’s mesh?
Will open skies just make me blind,
Too much for one so far behind?

This flesh was wrapped in shadow’s arms,
It learned to see in night’s alarms
This skin knows only hush and shade,
Will warmth be more than I can take?

I dream of comfort, of golden air,
But tremble at its blistered glare.
The things I crave, the things I seek,
Are often sharp, and never meek.

To live, to heal, to see things through,
I fear the joy as much as the blue.
For pain and dark are twined in me,
And freedom stings like memory.

The dreams I hold are stitched with fright
Each hope I touch could spark or bite
For even joy can twist and sear
When light itself becomes a fear
Today I will embarrass myself
Its something I need to do
You're gonna to tell me it's done for good
I need to hear it from you.

I know I could move on just fine
Without making myself a fool
But I can't get you out of my mind
I think it'll ease these thoughts, don't you?

I know love is not definitive,
it doesn't always work that way
And when you tell me to stop pining
I promise I will be okay

Today I am going to embarrass myself
I can't keep living the way that I do
Accepting rejection I have to learn
Even with fear I'm seeing this through
Thursday is a good a day as any for a little rejection therapy, no?
1DNA 5d
~
When light falls
To horizon’s brink,
Brave legacies rise
From the darkest ink.

When all is dark,
And gold weeps bleak,
Abysmal words
Reflect what we seek.

~
I finally got it in italics!
I deserve love and laughter and joy,
I know how to get it I don't have to be coy
I can give love and friendship and kindness, without even thinking of it, so ingrained it's mindless
I can trust my intuition and the thoughts in my brain, I don't have to have someone else double check my every play
I can be successful and support myself
I don't have to dim my light and hide on the middle shelf
I get to choose how I live this life that is mine, and I'm choosing to indulge in everything divine
I can make moonwater on my window sill,
I have many intentions and dreams to fill
alex 5d
Oh, my sweet
summer child,
with your golden smile
and that glimmer in your eyes.

I admire you,
maybe even envy
your blinding sun,
that hurts my tired eyes.

Your sun-kissed
picture frame face
exudes such joviality
but at a pace

With undulating curls
that unfurl around
your shimmering face,
yet still hold place.

How does it feel
to be God’s favorite?
I wonder,
how you smile with such grace.
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