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Paola Bodano Jun 2020
Maybe I’ll come across these words of suffering and incapacitated reasoning when I’m all too well,
when I’ve surpassed years of suffering and I’ve understood what it takes to be a warrior to push everyday,
to be happy.
Maybe one day the day will come,
maybe I’ll make it and cry all along
maybe I won’t
maybe I’ll reach the top and find myself
all alone.
For all I can say is
pain is my greatest power,
pain is a skill, pain is my fire
and it remains with desire to escape,
escape
all along these walls of cry
of laughter
of suffering
of no’s and can’t do’s
of joy and then ... more.


I am killing myself slowly.
I see my potential goal
and I see the waste,
I see myself in the past,
buried in the dust.
I am dying of distrust.
I am extremely lonely.
I am in despair.
The words run through my hands with negative thoughts in the air,
I am suffering,
I am pain,
I am fake,
I hate the love that loves me more than I’ll ever ever love myself
I feel like death.
I feel contained.
Tears are brought to my eyes.
I can no longer survive.
I am pain and my pain is the game,
my pain is the fire in her soul, with tears to the wounds.
I am pain
And no longer strong for the run.
Paola Bodano Oct 2019
I fear
       her
Steps
Bouncing back
and forth

Getting stronger as they go

Fast approaching
And no place to go

She knocks the door
1 knock
2 knock
BAMMM
the tram is back
Back to rant  

My head is there
Yet it can’t be there
No,
it shouldn’t be hers

I stand up to her
I claim not to care
While my life dares
To get threatened away

No pain, no tears, no showing fears
As my life resumes with college peers

Back I go to no place to go
With hidden doors and unlocked ******
With no love, with no one to hold

A single piece of who I’ve become,
Belongs no where near this “home”
        
          Sorry mom,
I warned you, Now I’ve got to go.

Now is my time to go
Paola Bodano Jun 2019
I see, I hear
Pain all around me

Disguised as make up masks
And multimillion dollar brands

YouTube stars,
Subways rats,

Certainly
Crawling through bars
And poisoned tars.

To end all up on my Instagram.
Paola Bodano Jun 2019
Should I follow the proper way?
Because it seems as though the proper way has yet to find me.
Should I mold myself to custom norms and standards?
To find comfort in unminingful friendships…

Should I read the bible?
Should I believe it’s verses?
Does my lack of knowledge serve
more towards their advantage
than it does harm to my personal being.

If the world is round, why have there been
juxtaposition of flat surfaces before me
since my first memory?

If abortion and perjury are deemed wrong,
Why aren’t assumptions and judgements penalized?

Will I go to hell if I die tomorrow?
If I die tomorrow would I be myself today, or would I remain as just the image of my future self,
the one no one ever met.
Paola Bodano Apr 2019
Im tired of loving you from afar
Im tired of not knowing if I’ll ever love you from up close
If I’ll ever have you
If I’ll ever think you’ll be the one
when
there’s no doubt in my mind
that
you are
Paola Bodano Apr 2019
Behind my chair sits a wall
             Behind my wall,
        there
i sit

Hand me a hammer
to break free
& sit comfortably
until i sleep
  Jan 2019 Paola Bodano
Anika Nelson
You’re still a mystery to me
Should I waste my energy to solve you?
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