#rn
The clock ticks slow,
my chest runs… pulls.. feeling tight,
A storm is brewing in the night.
Shoes at the door, badge in my hand,
I pray for courage I don’t understand.
The halls will echo with cries and pleas,
Alarms will shatter the quiet with ease.
Faces will search me for steady light,
While I tremble inside, hiding my fright.
The ache of the day sits deep in my bones,
Every step I take feels miles from home.
I long for relief, a breath, a pause…
A moment untouched by unspoken laws.
Yet still I rise, though heavy and worn,
Through fear and fatigue, my soul is torn.
Not for glory, not for fame,
But because they need me — I bear the strain and walk through darkness once again.
Apr 3
Apr 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM UTC
how do i witness these seasons again,
without you, the one who changes them.
Oct 19, 2020
Oct 19, 2020 at 3:31 AM UTC
I am still patiently waiting
for the day to come
where I wake up
and smile
Sep 18, 2019
Sep 18, 2019 at 10:54 AM UTC
You ask me to stay young, but think maturely,
You want me to behave like an adult but treat me like a child,
You expect me to be emotional, but shut me down when I am.
You take my words as stupid and irrational,
when all my teachers listen.
Why would you even send me to school,
if you won't listen to my educated beliefs?
My friends say I'm smart and pretty and kind, responsible and fun
My family treats me like I'm rebellious and stupid.
And my sister calls me fat and mean and boring.
...
It's so hard to like what I am when everyone I love,
tells me different information.
Jun 18, 2019
Jun 18, 2019 at 6:06 PM UTC
i feel like theres
a thousand
rubber bands,
compressing my soul and
at any moment and
any wrong movement
i might bust open,
letting my tears ooze out and
my thoughts burst
away from me in a
spectacular show of force from the rubbery stress that has surrounded me.
Dec 18, 2018
Dec 18, 2018 at 10:23 AM UTC
(For All Fathers, and Nurses too.)
Dispensing meds to heal the hurt,
He never treats us like some dirt
But takes the time to laugh and joke.
And always with a gentle stroke.
Such goodness from a gallant heart.
And thus we call him King Edward.
The kindest soul who's ward, I find,
Is a kingdom (within his mind).
I pray God that your goodness goes
Around the world both to and fro
To ease the feeble, here and there,
From all the throes of life's despair.
Kudos to Father's everywhere.
And "praise" for nurses that do care.
Jun 17, 2018
Jun 17, 2018 at 8:28 PM UTC
Mirror mirror on the wall
How dare you show me that face
I am disgusted the image displayed
'Tis one I must replace.
Mirror mirror on the wall
Turn away from me
Don't highlight my eyes or the curve of my lips
I don't want to see.
Mirror mirror on the wall
You ambush me every time I come in.
There she is, glaring in glassy grey
The woman with a face of sin.
Mirror mirror on the wall
I'll drape a veil over you
Just like I do myself every day
You can be a mourner too.
Mirror mirror on the floor
Look at your warped shards of me
A fit of anger, a rage of hate
I have won, and I.
Will.
Not.
See.
Mar 22, 2018
Mar 22, 2018 at 11:29 AM UTC