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#fourwalls
they call it home. i learned to call it something else. the same four walls, the same silence that never helped, the same nights that strecthed too long with nowhere to hide. and i remember, how the room would watch like it always does, holding its breath while everything broke. i was small, small enough to think someone would stop it, then someone would choose me. but the silence stayed. so i learned early, how to survive inside a place that was never meant to hurt me, how to carry something invisible that still feels like it's there— like red that never really washed away. and even now, when the night comes back and the walls feel closer, i realize i never left that room. i just grew around it.
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May 12
May 12, 2026 at 9:42 PM UTC
the silence stayed.
little window up there clouds glide past in the spring air floating down, maybe to you perhaps we both noticed if only you knew day brings rays that filter in familiar course along the walls and antique tin night's starlight brings wonder and dread perhaps we both noticed is he asleep, or is she dead little window way up there the show you give is not to share vivarium's view of life in lieu perhaps we both noticed youth's magic will never be felt anew
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Feb 11
Feb 11, 2026 at 2:17 AM UTC
Little Window
I saw her in the bazaar after so many days. As always, her face was layered with makeup— not to beautify, but to mask the bruises. Time had worn her down, yet she stood tall, a quiet victory in her eyes. She had finally severed the knot of an abusive past, and for the first time, she looked free.
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Feb 21, 2025
Feb 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM UTC
Breaking Free
These four walls, they talk to me Reminding me that time is temporary And everyone will leave eventually These four walls are the same four walls That scare me, they close in without actually moving These four walls, they are watching me They wait till I’m asleep so they can shout What a waste of space I’ve been These four walls are the same four walls That haunt me, they hold memories of things I don’t ever want to see But these four walls know the real me They know me better than anybody They know everything about my story And they will keep it between themselves for eternity
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Apr 11, 2020
Apr 11, 2020 at 4:07 PM UTC
The Four Wall Syndrome
I find comfort in darkness where i am most comfortable with myself sitting in the dark no windows open everything starts to feel okay nothing is there to get me no one there to see me cry just these four walls surrounding me and they've become my best friends.
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Jul 24, 2014
Jul 24, 2014 at 11:42 AM UTC
four walls
Here we are, 7 days till my birthday. 7 days to count another year on this Earth. Another year of... Everything i'm trying to run away from. The world is sick. Humanity is low. And I am shrinking inside. Shrinking everything but the baddest things, those are growing. The insecurities. The thoughts. My insanity. It's all growing. and me? What am i doing about it? Nothing. What could i do? It's controlling me. It's captured my feelings and controls my thoughts. It's holding me down, knowing I am getting weaker; knowing it has me locked up inside myself.
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Jul 22, 2014
Jul 22, 2014 at 9:02 PM UTC
Count Down...