#pandoras poems on Hello Poetry

Apachi Ram Fatal Jun 2016

Good Music and Mad hatter Beats is what you’ll find What you speak is mostly on my mind seek and ill define the Rhymes with witch you'll Find a HITch to Spine a Beast Fill it Fit it and Spit it let be Shine There is a light it’ll blind if you give yourself to the idea of what may not quite Be Mine

Pure Hearts Desire

#magic #box #pandoras

Thomas Conlan Mar 2016

The Theodicy of Man

This heart beats a miserable mythos
Daring death to bleed from my pried pithos
And you can still feel her aura
When the all-giving Pandora
Pulled out my chest and asked
How much of man is masked
Passed her teary eyed mist
She found this box with a list

Sand, clean, prep, and paint
This home with no complaint
Take care to love each other
Both your brothers and your mother
I am alone, so alone
In this prison of a home
Leave this layer to never dry
Just listen to my goodbye
Don’t look for blame
From an open flame
Left beside this pound of paint
Hoping to incinerate this taint
This is the end
For me my friend
Respect my choice
And please rejoice
Life is a wonderful adventure
Some, missing that sweet splendor
A burning ready for the blow
To put me out, to let me go

Despite all the talks, all the locks
She’s opened up Pandora’s Box
And let his evils out
Fear, shame, sorrow, and doubt
Their freedom found, they’re unconfined
Exposed a weakened man’s mind
No sun should have to see this depravity
Hidden captive in his heart’s dark cavity

#suicide #depression #sadness #death #solitude #loneliness #letter #greek #box #pandoras

Kindness Kills Aug 2015

Pandora's Box

You are just Pandora's box
Something I stumbled upon
Something I kept for too long
I wondered what I could get out of you
I thought I wanted to open you up and see what treasures you have to offer, my hopes shouldn't have been so high

7-26-15
3:33am

#love #happy #hopes #kindness #disappointment #high #upset #box #pandoras

Maya Wilson-Fernandez Apr 2015

Somewhere in between ignorance and bliss

Take me where
this fear and loathing
within me are quenched.

I do not know why
my heart has ceased to persist.
I do not know why
my aim has become so directionless.

I have nowhere to go
No one to see.
Sometimes I wish
you were next to me.

Until I remember the times
I held my tongue so long I forgot
how to release the words in my head
into the dead air.

I do know why
I cannot speak now.
I do know why
My lips refused to part
for either words or kisses
in those final days.

I took all the words I ever meant to say
and locked them up tight
for fear that releasing them
would open a Pandora's box of struggle.

I do not know why
words have such power
to throw away a love so repeated.

I do not know why
you didn't choose to gather up my words
and hand hope back to me
that you would come back and stay.

#love #silence #box #pandoras

Victoria Johnson Nov 2014

Fateful Night

You know I keep it caged,
Deep inside me.
I always did so well,
At keeping it quiet.
Nobody ever had to know,
About this monstrosity,
Right beneath the surface.

I keep my face straight.
Not a smile or a cry.
I'm constantly reminded,
To keep it well inside.
I always did so well too,
Till the night I lost control.

The monster from inside,
My own Pandora's box.
The monster's not inside,
Will never sleep again.
This monster on the inside,
Called emotion.

#society #emotion #mythology #box #dystopian #pandoras

Amber Nov 2014

Pandora's Box

I think we all know of a person who has left us;
a friend's friend, a best friend, a relative three countries away, a neighbour two houses down.
These are the people who opened Pandora's Box
and watched Hope take flight
in their black and white world,
bleached colors running away
into the last sunset they'll ever see
in our Hopeless world.

#hope #personal #box #pandoras

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