What is friendship, I wonder

But momentary happiness bought with grief

If I were adrift among the stars

Lost to time and relativity

Would the tenor of my loneliness

Be tempered by wonder

Or would I grieve for what I could never have?

#poetry #writing

You think I’m so calm but I’m screaming

I sometimes hear rockets while dreaming

You think that I don’t care, that I don’t know how to feel

But I promise you, stranger, my emotions are real.

#poetry #ptsd #angst #writing

Thank you For making me remember That who I am isn’t defined By the slivers of time I sell you

But also

A gentle reminder That you, my most stupid adversary Will someday reap the poisoned crop Of the lies and hate you sow.

#poetry #fury #writing #bigot #discrimination

Taking expired food out of work break room fridges

Knowing the taste of baking soda and shame

Only a few days to payday but oh I'm so hungry

If they knew would they like me the same?

#poetry #lifexperience #poor #writing

I am rage

Lashing out

Needing no one

Scorning friendship

Rejecting compassion

Tears, suppressed by fury

Bleeding, but refusing all help

Despair, hidden by mocking derision

Loneliness, masked with wicked barbs

Why am I like this

(Fundamental flaws)

Why do I do this

(Unworthy soul)

#poetry #writing #rage

Places I once dwelled, razed

Or else, destroyed by violence

Houses but not homes

The concept of permanence lost on me

Not realizing, until too late

That, perhaps

I would miss them when they were gone.

#poetry #writing #loss #wanderlust

Threads of past lives, severed by choice

Memories I thought it best to forget

Adrift in the aether, untethered by bonds

The ache of loneliness tempered by wonder

But they call to me now

Purposeful

Terrifying

Telling me that it is time to remember.

#poetry #writing