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#unspokenpain
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.
A burden sits heavy. A secret runs deep. It lives in the heart’s dark corners, where shadows quietly seep in. There’s no ache quite like the story you never tell— a ship of sorrow caught and lost in its own storm. Inside, it presses against the ribs, wanting out. In the fire of silence, it smoulders. A door never opened. A road never walked. A book left closed— pages full of words that were never spoken.
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Mar 3
Mar 3, 2026 at 7:22 AM UTC
The Weight of What I Never Said
Resentment(noun)- a bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly. A feeling of anger due to being forced to accept something that is not to your liking. An emotion. Resentment- hatred, anger, like a bile of hot molten lava tearing through the flesh of my heart, splitting it apart trying to break the confinement of my ribcage; slipping as a drop of clear saline fluid from the left corner gland. I, being frustrated, trying my best to stop those salty drops, fighting a losing battle. The pain, rage, fury, sitting deep inside my mind is turning into resentment. An emotion. Sitting alone for hours, in the midst of mayhem trying to sort out every chaotic thought, trying not to feel miserable, that helplessness of not being useful, of not being able to do anything; is what makes me feel resentment. My home turning into a mere house is making me feel resentment. Resentment- an emotion, an emotion I would rather not feel, an emotion I wish had never learned my name.
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Feb 5
Feb 5, 2026 at 9:35 AM UTC
Neglect is Abuse
--- I wasn’t the daughter you expected. I try, though— but you know I’m not perfect. They call me a burden, and some days, I believe them. Harsh words outlive apologies; my life feels short from carrying them all. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe you were happier before me. Maybe I crossed a line simply by existing. If that’s true, then say it plainly— don’t leave me guessing in silence. Because some nights, it feels like I was born to die, nothing more than a regret that learned how to breathe. ---
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Dec 18, 2025
Dec 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM UTC
Born to Die
My heart is broken, I don’t know what to do. An empty silence follows me, I feel alone, always. Something is missing, a piece I cannot find. Tears fall without reason, leaving me incomplete.
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Sep 30, 2025
Sep 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM UTC
Incomplete
He sits on the edge of the bed; tears rolling, no reason.              Not sad —                    _just leaking_. Hand across his face, _sniffs_, straightens his back.          Deep breath —                                __Done!__ He moves on, like it never happened at all. “Never mind,” he says,                       “that’s just life.”
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Sep 1, 2025
Sep 1, 2025 at 5:57 AM UTC
Never Mind, That’s Just Life
Anxiety, do you think you love me? Oh mind, do you want to be my friend? A lonely stone in the full quarry No chance that it will begin to swim Shadow girl, with your many faces With every ash you take to sin Big voiced tropes steady unfolded A fear to never tell again
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Aug 7, 2025
Aug 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM UTC
Quarry of the Mind
Tears squeezing one by one From eyes that feign untroubled sleep Slowly flows From taut cheeks Quivering from suppression Of lips dying to scream out The words of frustrations The sentences of antagonism The paragraphs of vulnerability That is never allowed to be free And how they trickle one by one, Slowly dampening The pillow that witnesses All the defenselessness Of a lonely girl With voice that shouts Yet unheard and unsung, With eyes that implores Yet unseen and unperceived, With hands that reaches Yet untook and ungrasped, With a heart that waits Yet forgotten and abandoned.
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Jun 15, 2025
Jun 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM UTC
Peaceful Slumber
"In certain hard moments, not even your comfort food, favorite perfume, healing music, that one comforting conversation, a peaceful walk in nature, or a joyful outing can bring you back to normal."
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Jul 13, 2025
Jul 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM UTC
When Nothing Works
Don’t close your eyes on your dreams— you’ll lose sight of what you believe. The will of your work is measured by the work you’re willing to put in. As I live in a house of emotions, courting words to plead my case— bleeding through a see-through face. A quiet ache, always on trial. Knowing that the high-and-mighty Christian is the easiest target to bring down. Careers cut short— because in short, they never really knew the Lord. _And me?_ I live like the world’s greatest plot twist, my mind a tornado of thoughts— every turn unexpected, every breeze loud with questions. I’ve known the chill of a cold finger turned trigger. And felt the weight of a sharp tongue used as a silencer. As it’s easy to shoot yourself down the same way you shoot others—whether whispered or screamed out loud. But those who follow their worth, instead of searching for it in the crowd— those are the ones who stand out. __Aloud.__
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Jun 22, 2025
Jun 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM UTC
Stand Out Aloud
In a brief squeeze, my chest _wheezed_— there goes my heart, falling out of itself, into another rhyme, into another line. Queue me up for feeling less than myself, lost in being so lost. Letting go of old grievances just to make room for new ones today. “I’m not okay”— but I won’t say it, because you MAYBE won’t think of me the same. Sometimes I’m determined, other times, indulgent. I look like I’ve got it together, but beneath the surface, _I’m exhausted_— completely out of order. _Struggling. Sweating._ But short on words to explain what’s wrong. I’d be seen as too much for speaking my pain aloud— but pain is always louder when it’s silent. So I speak now for those who are just like I am. __We are We__: navigating identity crises in these stretched-out teen years of our twenties. We are plenty— and still enough to surround each other in love that counts, instead of letting life count us down or count us out. We will rise. __Together.__
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Jun 21, 2025
Jun 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM UTC
We are We
"Some things can only be carried as a responsibility throughout the life and can never be out of love."
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Jun 12, 2025
Jun 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM UTC
Burdened by Duty, Not Love
I trusted your name, So You never killed me, Never I did either. What do you have to say ? Yes, I killed you. And I made you suffer. I was 15, you were same, I watched your eyes... And mine in rain, I am sorry if You were in pain , my brother .. you felt that never, Your eyes were numb, Nothing that now , That makes me better. I killed you, my brother... I was looking at you, But you were not, I am not sure if I missed you a lot. There was no blood , No body. If you were in fear.. Waiting there, All in the woods Staring stairs, Had I come down then ..... You would not starve then, Would you have still waited , then? What do I do now? Where have you gone . You killed me ,my brother, As you made me suffer , From the pain you dealt me I will never be better.
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Mar 10, 2025
Mar 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM UTC
Never to be better
Why do you do this?   Twist my choices until they vanish,   your words, soft but cruel, carving into my flesh,   each one deeper, more suffocating than the last.   You blackmail me with your pain,   threats hanging like nooses, slowly tightening around my neck.   You said you’d end everything,   if I didn’t surrender to your darkness.   Do you even see me,   not as your shattered reflection,   but as someone slowly being erased,   drowning in a life I can’t escape?   I know you're sinking,   but why drag me down with you,   burying me beneath your weight?   I need you to hear me—   to release me before I’m lost entirely,   because if you can’t,   I’ll break, and you’ll have killed me too.
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Dec 28, 2024
Dec 28, 2024 at 10:50 AM UTC
I’ll break, and you’ll have killed me too