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 Apr 2018 Jackie Mead
Grand Piano
Step 1: Get out of bed
Step 2: Look in the mirror
Step 3: Practice your smile
Step 4: Eyedrops to hide the red eyes
Step 5: Conceal the dark circles
Step 6: Breathe
The curtains are almost up
Step 7: Lock down the pain
Step 8: Ignore the weight on your chest
Step 9: Silence the screams inside of your mind
Step 10: Choke down the sobs
Step 11: Ignore the stinging in your eyes
Step 12: Swallow past the tightness in your throat
You’ve put on this show a million times
Step 13: Don’t let them see
Times up. Curtains up. Camera rolling
You know how when you’re not ok but you try so hard to pretend you’re ok that it becomes a ritual
 Apr 2018 Jackie Mead
Kim
We're almost touching.
we were walking side by side,
you're talking about cabs in your hometown.
I can feel the gravity of your hand, calling my fingers
whispering "it's alright."

We're touching but not quite.
you held my shoulder to protect me from the passing cars.
and for the first time in a long while, I felt so fragile.
In this world where I find it hard even to breathe,
you believed me.

I almost said it.
All I need is one ounce of strength to tell you every single thing that I have ever felt about you.

I want to find home in your collarbones.
Would you be kind enough to let a stranger in?
I want to seep in your being because I'm cold.
The world is harsh and my cracks are aching.

Almost.
Please don't ever become a stranger,
whose laugh I can recognize anywhere.
 Apr 2018 Jackie Mead
Polar
Miki
 Apr 2018 Jackie Mead
Polar
I hear the rhythmic clapping
And feel the pounding of feet on the ground
As dust swirls and dances around
While I sit facing the sun
In all her divine beauty.
Encased in the wood of the red gum tree,
I am at peace.
Burnum carves my totem outside
Surrounded by holy men,
Loved ones and ancestors.
This is my signifier and protection.
I am Miki the moon
Recently returned to my tribe
Heeding the call of the spirits.
My people mourn deeply
But know I will come again
To be at one with them,
First I must commune with the great creator
Rainbow spirit of the sky
For now is the time for dreaming.
Thank you everyone for the likes/ loves and comments, you made my day special!! :0)
 Apr 2018 Jackie Mead
King Key
My heart sometimes hurt.
I'm not truly sure if I understand my worth.
I love first,
i grind when I work  & yet
My heart sometimes Hurt.
what am I doing wrong
why don't me and the ones I love get along.
I'm alone
terrible memories haunt my brain
  I question if I'll ever be the same
friends come and go I don't remember names
but what I know for sure is
My heart sometimes hurt
that I don't understand my worth
I've always felt like nothing even at birth.
I shout I scream
I might even curse
To hell with every disappointment beyond this earth.
try to belittle me you won't enjoy this pain  
a year from now I won't be the same
Courage and strength  
the most powerful thing I gained
helped me realized I'm in the wrong  lane.
I'm over hear your over there
I chase success
I strive to be the best
I do it to be free
I do it to be me
and while I put myself first I always think the worst and remember ......
my heart sometimes hurt....and I don't know my worth.
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