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In my mind there is a voice that likes to play a game
It's quite like me but not quite the same

Every day we play tug of war
I don't know how long we've been playing it for

When it's winning I feel completely wrong
Like a singer without a song

It starts to provide explanations
And I start to feel degredation

It seems to know why I'm hopeless
And why I'll always be mired in loneliness

And just like that, the voice becomes my voice
My reality and my only choice

However, sometimes I start to feel strong
I pull, I start winning and am no longer wrong

My love is no longer just superfluous
My flaws no longer mean I'm worthless

They never are of course
It's just that these thoughts are injected daily by force

Not by a negligient mother
Or a bully who just wants someone to bother

But by a voice that just wants to play the same game
A voice with only one aim, to take over my name

And so we continue playing tug of war
I don't know how long we've been playing it for

I just wish this room had a door...
Joe Postove Aug 2017
Sensitive and Unafraid
Nestled next to God
Whom she claims to know

One day
She took in a crippled stranger
Who was blind and corrupt
Unable to live, unwilling to die

She did not smile at first
Unsure of the blind and corrupt man
Though he was as afraid of her
As she was awesome in her fearlessness

She taught God and happiness
He was an anarchist

Slowly she understood
That the stranger did not know what she knew
So they came to an accommodation

Each would grow.
Joe Postove is a writer and former radio personality living in Israel
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She was a shy, sensitive young woman with smaller hands and lean, long fingers that beautifully graced the pencil as she wrote poetry, or rather, the whispers of her heart within a small leather notebook, whenever she became curious, the dark, lustrous brown eyes would glimmer in fascination as the entire world would become you, she was not particularly beautiful though her heart was pure, remaining hidden through her poetic worlds as though listening to classical music, the streams of violins are the winds tousling her midnight hair as a dreamer of the night, her quiet demeanor and depth in thought hide her way in understanding and shaping a person or only musing about the simple beauty of the moment, she would see the stars while everyone walked past them and appreciate what others could not see at first glance, as the light once hidden among the leaves she was noticed by the one who had came closer, while placing her palm on her fair face when thick in listening, the painted portrait of the female poet always held her cup of warm tea, content in her recluse until there was a gaze upon her, opening a glimpse into her soul.
Note: A newly updated version of the poem
Ryan Holden Jul 2017
If I wisp away
Into this humid night,
Whilst my sweat drips
With my honey and
Your anguished hollows.

And as these trees calmly
Blow in this muggy fall,
For when my legs can't clamber
These piercing cliff rocks,
And my knees tremble.

Because I fear, yet anticipate
My own emotions in misty
Wind that blows between us,
That will guide me into a pool
Of my own heart shed.

''Tis not your sensitive heart
My mind will whisper,
We're all a lover deep down
Yet I'm cursed with overthinking
Like a poetry puppet.
I feel like us poets are all sensitive - or we all think way too much into emotions and love. Hopefully some of you can relate!
Jayantee Khare Jul 2017
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Dentistry:  Teeth go sensitivewhen undergo trauma.
The tooth digged and route made till the roots, nerve cut and filling done with gatta parcha and aesthetic capping is done..

Poetry: In life some people deep rooted and you are sensitive. Dig them out ..fill the emptiness with words and poetry comes out....smile is the outward capping..
Cassidy Jackson Jul 2017
such a small body
made of sand and paper

frail bones and sticky fingers
with brittle nails and thin hair

such a small body
made of clouds and cloth

shrunken brain and smooth skin
with falling lashes and peeled lips

such a small body
a body made to break
Daisy Rae Jun 2017
Her heart pounds when you scream at her
Her eyes drip and she covers her face
She didn't mean to cause a stir
Now she feels like a disgrace
She whimpers as you thrash out your violent words
You don't understand that your words hurt
She cries a river that covers her t-shirt
She stops and doesn't say a word
For fear that you might go berserk
Her eyes are red and her heart is heavy
She gently whispers out *"I'm sorry".
She is sensitive.
Lillian Harris Jun 2017
I cry and care
Too much;
My heart
Is a thing
To be left
Untouched.
Ryan Holden May 2017
Thorns give us scratches,
But not all can take insults,
With delicate skin.
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