"unrecovered" poems
I know I have messed up,
that my apologies are empty and placid,
I know sorry is not enough,
for the pain that I have visibly caused.
my reasoning is obscure,
for nothing within me is simple,
fleeting hearts are broken into fragments,
as my words were spoken.
I truly am in love with you,
weather you believe that this is true,
I know that the way it looks,
is that I have been unfaithful to you.
I know that I have lied,
my reasoning unrecovered,
I am sorry, for hurting you,
let me make amends?
allow me to explain my love,
to me this was no game...
I loved you whole heartedly,
without a glance or question.
so allow me to explain to you,
where my heart does truly lie,
because with you I am madly
truly
deeply...
in love...
Jan 7, 2014
Jan 7, 2014 at 8:09 AM UTC
Dare I disturb the image of your beauty?
Though I fear such torment, I strike at memory
Shattering beliefs and scattering them haphazardly
Across a pool of my own lucidity.
You are now only a product of past tragedy
Never in the foreground to hurt me
Always sinking deeper into the water we’ve wasted
Nourishing black roses hardly blooming.
Nay, still you smile in amusement
Knowing you have evaded deployment
Shielding yourself with a layer of plasticity
That returns to haunt the subtle elasticity
Of minds superficially moulded into belief
Now brandishing nothing against an enemy
Elated in the minute lapse of reality
They’ve made ripple in your vanity.
Dare I shelter a deadly renegade?
With arms shaking, I open doors to your shadows
Watching them slither back into their corners
Forming warm cloaks of comfort
In the crevices of a vessel unrecovered
Safe in its weak kindness and susceptibility.
I close my eyes to the feeling
Of your presence within my soul
Roping in the acceptance I had always evaded
Locking it into the vacant basement
Of self-acceptance, as you sigh out resentment
Removing it from the dying voices in my lungs
Tasting copper dissipating on my tongue.
Dare I accept my demons?
You are already a part of me.
Jan 28, 2016
Jan 28, 2016 at 10:42 PM UTC
We shelter in caves
Beneath a man-made steel sky
Once reflective of our soul
Now corroded, its reflection a reminder of our great lie
That the Earth could be tamed
Exploited and submitted in the name
Of the human race
Now it is we who must abase ourselves
Deep underground
As above the megastorms tear apart the heavens
Grinding all the atmospheric rust
into vicious orange clouds
Which fall upon us: a forever-rain of dust
Blue oceans smothered
Forests choked
Fields unrecovered
Fires infinitely stoked
We dreamed once of going to Mars
But see instead it's Mars that's come to us
Descended people of a dead planet
We reap the fallen dust
We weep
the falling dust
Sep 9, 2020
Sep 9, 2020 at 3:12 PM UTC
there are girls with red panels
down their arms as if they have
been bolted with puncturing plastic,
as if they are robots who whine
in binary code.
"if you have scratched yourself
a few times, you have not cut"
and she lived in a shed,
floorboards pressed to her cheek,
nuts and bolts in her ****** hallows,
pumped with drugs for a white throat.
she should know. i do not deserve
to feel free. i should have never
pushed my razors under paper
wads in my trashcan. i should have
kept them and drag silver over
my skin for shaving, leave me ready
for the next boy with rose hair
and wide, chlorined smile eyes.
there are girls who do not romanticize
romantic illness, like depression isn't
a rose in a jar in your throat, black
and bottle borne and biting at the flesh,
but never talk about recovery. "it's good,"
i am about to say, but i do not know
what it is like to bleed out my body,
spoon out my insides and throw
them away, shudder at lit streetlights
and let tears slink towards bathroom tiles.
Jul 29, 2015
Jul 29, 2015 at 12:23 AM UTC
My very own words
I prayed & entreated
"Don't leave me, my love"
Yet again & again
I pointed blunt knives
At our chests
Leaving a trail of pain
In my wake
Like soldiers unrecovered
Rushing back in
Pushing both to our limits
Breaking our necks
Our battlefields forever alive
Restless as children
Drowning in compunction
An unending dirge
Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 10:45 AM UTC
Poor and pity, somehow fallen
From the purity surrounded
That I meant to mean.
Either sorrow in silence
Or vengeance I must seek
These are the options for recovery
My illegitimate soul weeps.
My heart is stomping, creating storm,
Ghostly fear discovers
A nauseating essence of human form.
Time limit for trauma
Is accepted to cease
In the absence of hurt
Not a minute more, please.
Curtains pulled to cover
The heinous crimes of all
Society’s trauma blindness
Is in woman’s unrecovered core.
Moving stillness in a sitting traffic,
I am speaking
But my lips don’t move at all.
Mar 15, 2021
Mar 15, 2021 at 12:28 PM UTC
sitting at a corner
being filled with anxieties
trying to put up borders
just to unsee the reality
it's not that I fear what is there for me
it's just that I fear what will be the outcome of me being there
i fear the unknown
the unknown that can also set me free
but only if i choose to undergo the pain it is with
i'm scared
i'm scared to take a step
guided by a rope that i, maybe can lose a grip
that after that i fall and wounds and scars are back again
unrecovered from the alleviating pain
scars that are made, that will forever stay
but after all it's just acceptance
having the confidence to put resistance on hand
maybe, just maybe, i will experience happiness
i will experience the fullness of life
and maybe after all, it could be worth it
Apr 14, 2019
Apr 14, 2019 at 11:54 AM UTC
It’s crazy love has many varieties
like the seasons that come and go
Spring Surprises
Sunny Summer heat
Autumn mixes things up
arrives and leaves
Winter time freeze
Then again it’s cold
I been more chill than anyone can tell.
I never heard the day, it would be cool in hell.
I rather play in hail
Over here praying for rain
When elements all reminds me of
what I could not release from unrecovered pain
Claim you were solid
Held it down like number one
always getting the prize and bringing home gold!
But then you go ghost and decided to fold
Your love was fake
Was it real enough?
Because it had my heart on hold
Winter breeze by the way you speak
Sharp as a knife
Delightful and sweet as honey
Sour as citrus
Winter harvest on my heart I’m embedded
You're the coldest
Still the only one that makes me feel warm
I used to get you wet like grass
When the morning brings the dew
Autumn arrives and leaves
Never did I want to switch up
like the seasons on you.
I’m now the storm in the Spring
Butterflies in my stomach
Nothing else replaces the emotional numbness
My heart is torn
Your love is like the seasons that come and go
Winter freeze
Summer hot
You once kept me warm
Now you're the one whom became cold.
Dec 30, 2021
Dec 30, 2021 at 10:31 AM UTC