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Tobi May 27
God, I'm too tired
Please let me join you
God, my father
Please let me go

Mom, please don't cry
Because I want to go
Sister, do not frown
You'll be better without me

Grandma, thank you
Dad, I love you
But I'm not sure
Of my existence

God, take me now
Let me embrace
The icy grasp
As death beckons

God, comfort those
Who'll miss me
When I finally
Have my peace

God, I'm tired
God, I'm done
Let me go
Let me drown

Take me to where
I'll be accepted
Either pearly gates,
Or scorching flames

God, embrace me
Forgive me
But this life of mine
Is truly empty
Tobi May 27
I want nothing
I do nothing
I speak of nothing
I am nothing

I run myself
Ground into ash
Just to prove
I'm the one you asked

I am simply a tool
A piece in your design
The key to your light
Accentuating my shadow

A void I'm filled
Of grief and unbelief
That there's always
Someone greater

There's someone smarter
Someone stronger
Someone more charming
Or someone just better

I look in awe
How can you be so good
While I can do so little?
Why didn't I become you?

I see you
I hear you
You have life
You have a voice

For me, there's
No story on my lips
Or a flame in my heart
Just a vessel

A vessel to be felt
Filled by your goals
I'm your fool
And your the star

I am alone
I am forgotten
Not one I call
Or cherish for something

It's fine
I have many friends
Because I'm silent
Because I don't try

Well, I've tried. I've tried.
**** it! I've tried!
My twinkle was disposable
Because no one needed it

All I did
Was waste my time
Waste my joy
Waste my future

I did nothing
I see others
And I feel envy
How are you so merry?

How are you this?
How are you that?
Why go on your knees?
Why bow your heads?

I tried that as well,
But they'll never understand
They'll never know
They'll never appreciate me

Know of what you wonder?
I'm an addict
I'm a fraud
I'm a disease

A virus
That leeches off good
A soul
Trapped in an abyss

A walking corpse
A silent death
A study of void
A dirge of humanity

I want to die!
I've tried! I thought!
But didn't
I couldn't

Because I'm a coward!
Look at me!
I'm nothing
And a coward!

Death creeps for me
Calling me to where
I'll sleep, finally rest
Close my eyes to be blessed

I embrace the void
The sorrow, the pain
Please God
Let my spirit be drained

There's no bliss
There's no anguish
I hate my life
Let me vanish

Even Death
Might not want me
Please Death
Take me

Once I die
I'll smile
Then I'll know
If I was nothing
Maria Etre May 26
It's not what is left
it's what's meant to be
right?
Piyush May 24
The sun rises over a lily's field,
Early morning always brings the peace.
"Want some coffee? Add some milk,"
He wants to write—needs paper and a strong will.

The beauty of the world he knows,
Her beauty he recognises.
Yet he hides the beauty,
And always defines the pain.

"The world is hell," he says,
And somehow, he's always right.
He sees the bills,
He sees the depressed minds.

Wants some money, but
He's just a poet of the night.
How much further will he write?
How much more should he sacrifice?

Slow rain falling from her eyes,
The poet is dead inside.
He needs some rest now—
He needs a goodbye.
Sophie May 23
If you walked the same steps as me,
maybe you would understand
my dragged feet that scrape the ground.
Oxygen is the breath of my life,
but also
long hours and low pay.
Problems that cannot be solved.
Distraction and dull entertainment.
Endlessly repetitively
while civilized society applaud.
“Live, live, live, live.”
Nick May 21
I am not broken; the world is.
Every day, it’s a new trend, whether worthless or rich,
Whether Black or white, dull or bright.
Every day is a new battle, a storm in a sea of dreams.
Dreams which get lost among the crowd of mindless bees.

The unfortunate truth is, the world favours aesthetics.
Whether in your work or in your deary beak.
Each day it’s a new goal, whether money, happiness, or ******,
But I ask, where is the genuine, the giddy, and the fulfilled?
Lost in the wildfire of fleeting faces and smoke-choked dreams?

Where are the joyful, the dreamers, and the poets?
Lost in the world of the weary, the cynic, and the skeptics?
But finally, I see the truth, the infallible truth—
Hidden behind the layers, lies, buzz, and noise,
That I am not broken; the world is.
Cadmus May 22
👺

In this grand  masquerade,
We call
The real world,

No mask,
costs more than

your own true face.

🎭
To be seen as you truly are is the bravest costume and the most unforgiving stage.
Dianali May 21
Our laughter echoed in the forest.
Chill wind tangling my hair.
Good insulation in my chest.  
Knowing glances.
Someone cares.
Such a brief moment—
Fog and Fate
Humans are social animals.
Today I was reminded
—in the sweetest way.
Asher May 20
whenever i’m real,
nobody hears.
the media prefers silence
wrapped in static,
muted truths.

i speak of faith,
of laws,
of power
and watch the room
empty.

but sadness?
ah...
they lean in.
eyes soft,
nods rehearsed.
the ache is digestible.
the wound, relatable.

funny, isn’t it?
how we hush the loudest truths
yet cradle
our quiet despair
like it's holy.

we ignore the roots,
but mourn the rot.
it's funny.
almost.
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