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olive Aug 2014
its been a year and
I still don't know w
hat to say when so
meone asks me abo
ut the scars. My fri
ends tell me I look t
he same as I did fiv
e years ago and I a
m relieved, nothing
has changed. She te
lls me she likes the
heart shape my face
akes but I feel a little
broken when I see na
rrow noses and almo
nd eyes. The song yo
u burned for me two
years ago still feels fa
miliar but our friends
hip feels like it's only
taking small baby st
eps forward and I a
m afraid we are too g
entle again, unsure. I
miss it, but I don't. I m
iss it. I don't I don't I
don't. Things are wobb
ly again. I'll be here.
Akam Aniekan Aug 2016
I speak of Friends, I speak of Foes
I bathe in circumstances with the soap of Woe
Like the pains of a woman in labour my spirit Bellows
Like a rock cast into the sea my mind is drowned in my Throes
At peace I was with myself like a gentle Dove
Like a baby I slept in my secure Abode
G‎entle like the wind was the personality I Drove
Transparently clear like the heavens Above
The 'Devils' came disguised in their Cloak
To extinguish my light with their thick suffocating Smoke
Fed me with fear till my throat began to Choke!
I was almost absorbed like Garri left to Soak
But for the love of the Father over my Soul
And the prayer of a Mother over her Own
In my whole being the seed had been Sown
There 're people i'm glad I know and some I wish I never had Known.
Syomone Aug 2021
I just wanna be loved
by one female
who’s really down
for me and only me,
only has eyes for me,
wouldn’t let ANYTHING
come between us.
I just want someone
that will never
let me fall asleep wondering
if I still matter...
I want an old fashioned
kind of love.
And I don’t mean
I want to be courted,
It’s the kind of love
that seeps
through your
every vein.
The kind of love
that is entle
and innocent.
The kind of love
that doesn’t ever
stop even when
the other person’s
heart stops..
I want the kind of love
that is just as strong
fifty years later
from the first meeting.
I want my heart
to beat out of
my chest every single
time I see this
person smile at me.
And I want to
remember all
the first times.
And all the milestones
we have gotten
through together..
and I want the kind
of love that is worth missing.
That’s so worth it,
even when you
lose this person.
I want the kind
of love that
I would never ever regret.
I want the kind of
love that breathes
even when
I can’t anymore.
Because if I ever find
this kind of love,
I won’t need anything else

— The End —