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Austin Sessoms Sep 2024
You never said what made you heart react
That one time
When you heart reacted to that video
The video on Instagram?
You didn't interact with anything I sent for
Maybe twenty videos, y'know
I know - I send too much
But finally I got one right
I wanna get it right again
With zero context pretty much
You'll get a lot of
Like just lots of
Tons of really
Martial arts reels - exhibitions
And jokes like that one
You know the one
You double tapped it
Pull it up
In your activity
Your likes
It's really funny
But not -
No I saw that too, but it's -
No, I think -
Maybe? Wait -
No, you should check your messages
Impatiently
Your messages, uh-huh
Jeremy Betts Sep 2024
A wrong way trend setter
In my own personal time line
Can't say I didn't know better
Each decision was mostly mine
Goals for someone not a go getter
Become the shackles that bind
Having to eat my words for dinner
I fear sitting down to dine

©2024
Mark Wanless Sep 2024
i will live till
asteroid hits earth
2048
silvervi Sep 2024
Writing poems at night
I might
Dreaming subtle dreams
I would like
Diving deep into meditation
Everyday I experience pain-bration

In my left shoulder blade
And my upper back
There is no explanation
To that.

But today I had a breakthrough
Sitting still.
Breathing,
Feeling my aliveness,
Learn to feel...

Years ago
I have made a promise
I will not feel this pain,
It might **** me,
If I'm honest.

I ignored all bad feelings
Learned dissociation
Back then, I must admit,
It was a helpful creation.

But now, in adult years,
It's hard to cry those tears,
Which were suppressed,
Because of many fears

At home
In childhood years.
Painful sensations in my body. Probably physically manifested pain from experiencing trauma in childhood years. As a child when we are overwhelmed by difficult traumatic situations, we search for ways to escape. And mine was the dissociation. I remember sitting down and trying not to feel anything while bad things happened at home. It helped back then but had serious consequences for my adult life.
Mark Wanless Sep 2024
violence man to man
violence and the champion
raises the fist
Mark Wanless Sep 2024
my mind has collapsed
upon itself
here is now
Streams of colours and scents
Flow in the crevasses of my mind.
I talk in sensations,
For I experience this world
Like a newborn that’s come to life,
Except my coming has occurred
Over two decades ago.
And so I feel a bit of an alien,
Having to twist and calibrate
What comes out of my mouth,
Lest I be left hanging
On the other side of the wall,
With my thoughts and my words
Unintelligible to most…
I’ve heard someone say
That those like me better be
Careful not to talk their minds,
For they might be thought fools.
I do not care to be a fool.
I’ve got to try relentlessly
To make myself clear,
So that I may at last find
One who’d understand me,
One that is near,
One that is not dead -
One that is real.
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