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Charlotte T Aug 2020
Time has generated an unfamiliarity with this space, and admittedly, I have not returned out of a diminished need. My bond with these four walls has been reduced to that of a tourist visiting foreign sacred spaces, seeking enlightenment in places where they cannot return.

The pictures painted on old white walls from light through stained glass no longer tell me a story; I only see pretty shapes, of which are reminiscent of a conventional child-like quality, where I can recognise alluring images, but do not understand what they represent just yet. This cathedral holds no new chapters for me.

I feel that my words of faith are composed by a ghostwriter. Although published under my name, they do not belong to me, and I can no longer claim them as my own. This journey was a marathon beginning at birth, and it’s time I stop running.
Norman Crane Aug 2020
we blossomed once
in the desert
two green weeds
seeking rootless pleasure
now flower bedded
horticultured—yet wistfully I miss
the *****
of cactus lips
South City Lady Aug 2020
truth leaks between words
when solitude bends
& cradles the past we are
always a child
within the recesses
of a smile  the sinner
kneeling before the altar
of our saint we are
sands of time adrift
in a storm never recollecting

each caught between
nail beds and wisps of hair
tied in ribbons of distant youth
we are mirrors cracked
& misshapen
seldom self reflecting
for fear that if we silence
the noise too long
we'll be caught
listening to sobs
of rain collecting
in gutters heaving

with resistance
an ever aching
reverberation
who have I become
who have
I
        become?
irony,
the freedom of
putting off maturity
but my regrets remain in poetry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaUKnhTVjc
Rhea Shergill Jul 2020
I close my eyes and see it
my bed, my joint, my desk
my dream can't it come true even a bit?
is it so difficult I ask?


Just a hint and I would have learnt
there wouldn't have been the need for that
it tore me up and left me burnt,
with no place left for me to fall apart

It had happened before, but not like this
which left me into tiny bits
I’m still looking for her,
she'll pull me out of the pit.

I'm trying to make things all right
jumping through big and small hoops
who will support me during this fight?
now, I’m stuck in a big loop.

My reflection refuses to be mine
it refuses and becomes blind
"where is that child who's lost in time?"
it asks searching my mind.

I found her alas, hidden inside me,
she once lost and retrieved so deep within
it took her a while to decide to be or not to be
She's now trying to live her life given.

She apologizes, she’s sorry for it
but she still can’t bring me back the time I’ve lost
No matter what she does I'll still be in bits
I’m no Supergirl to forgive and have a blast.

One chance is all she asks,
I'll give it to her we both need it.
We've made mistakes in various tasks,
And we both know now how to do it.


I close my eyes and see it,
my bed, my joint, my desk
I ask her and with our faces lit
we march together to conquer the rest.
Cox Jul 2020
I want to live in your bloom.
Like a red blood cell in your vein, forever apart of you.
watching you gracefully conquer life,
maturing into the flower you needed to be.
Mahesh Shroff Jun 2020
Pretended to be a monster
pretended to be a monk
I pretended to be a saint
I pretended to be drunk

now I live by the mountain
dropping peace bombs
for my own protection
for some misdirection

pretended to be a lover
pretended to be the savior
pretended to be a soldier
I pretended for my neighbor

now I live by the sea
collecting scrapes and stones
to build a new home
for my crippled core

now I'm stuck in a rut
wih no place to go
so I live by myself
and I pretend no more
James Rives May 2020
have you ever felt a friendship die,
gasping for its last breath between scattered texts and awkward compliments?
each wincing inhale a deliberate pause
to find the words you force
yourself to want.
you may need each other but the knife
between the ribs didn’t.
time won’t heal what’s already dead
but the memory of it may be beautiful
and kind like ocean air before your lips
are parched, a firm kiss you want to linger (and does), a lightning bolt against the ****** that reminds you of their warmth.
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