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Zywa Jul 13
Everything changes

and suffers from it, I too --


am living that way.
Novel "The Good Apprentice" (1985, Iris Murdoch), chapter 1, part 5

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Sep 2020
It is not cosy
in my bodyhome, sweating
on the bed, I stretch out wide

to an X
(value unknown)
to cool down

but there is no wind
and the air is damp
with sorrow for my fate

and with fear that this is the last
I am able to sustain, that
thereafter, it will be too bad

(I'm not sure what -
  sometimes it is too dark
  then again the light shines too bright)

I need space and breath
to fight, I am a fighter
in my head and my belly

surrounded, constricted
and suffocated, plenty of air
but not for me?

Stings and cramps
for the danger, the gong rings
(for a new round)
For Maria Godschalk

Collection “On living on [1]"
Zywa May 27
My room: a waste bin,

chair, chamber ***, and myself --


tossing in my bed.
Collection "Bruises"
a feeling of numbness

suffering from a disease

too invisible for the eyes to see

a parasitic disease

in which its host

is unable to escape

the confines of this mind

no matter how hard they try

a precious body with a functioning heart and brain

but unable to use them to your gain

a body that never experiences happiness

an abnormal brain given by a God

who apparently conducts experiments on his children

a lingering heaviness in my mind

impossible to be removed

urges that I don't want

every day, hour, minute, second

always in a battle with your own mind

nobody there for you to confide

in


for i just want to be normal.
Help
Zywa Aug 2022
Snoozing, a quarter

past two is like half past two --


Rounded: three o'clock.
"Der Zauberberg" ("The Magic Mountain", 1924, Thomas Mann)

Collection "Moist glow"
Zywa Aug 2022
I'm sick, my visit

has left and is back again --


Nothing has happened.
"Der Zauberberg" ("The Magic Mountain", 1924, Thomas Mann)

Collection "Moist glow"
Zywa Aug 2022
I am sick, foggy

and incapable I am --


slurping sips of soup.
"Der Zauberberg" ("The Magic Mountain", 1924, Thomas Mann)

Collection "Moist glow"
Zywa Aug 2022
Sanatorium,

high in the mountains it is --


quite the underworld.
"Der Zauberberg" ("The Magic Mountain", 1924, Thomas Mann)

Collection "Moist glow"
Zywa May 2022
Our club is losing,

hear the little flags rustle --


like a cold shower.
Collection "PumicePieces"
Hannah May 2022
respect: earned through suffering
no food no sleep no rest
worth: deemed by usefulness
idleness is useless is worthless

a cart of ideologies
hurtling down an infinite hill
pushing on to the next poor fools
who receive and continue

maybe I need to slow it down
throw myself in front and
bump
did that work

is one made a martyr
or just a conman, the easy way out
refusing to play the game
opt out of self sacrifice with self sacrifice
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