Mortality

That supposed inevitability that

We are asked to accept as canon

With our purposes served we

Are to be discarded.

But are we so meaningless

Fibers in the cosmic tapestry

Forgotten soon after last breath

Footnotes in other lives

Half-remembered moments?

No.

We are so much more.

#poetry #writing #death

In this, a timeline darkened by despair

I see a people, not bound by threat of violence

But addicted to thier oppressors' chains

And I wonder; would they celebrate their freedom

Or beg those from who they've been freed

To make them into slaves once more?

#poetry #writing #despair

One does not make a deal with the devil

And expect to come out unscathed

But with the light of this world guttering

Perhaps it is time to arm myself

With the knowledge that she can provide

I do not turn away from the light

I embrace darker measures for darkest times.

#writing #poetry

I remember my younger self

Knowing that I could never be enough

Perpetually dissatisfied, despairing

My unworthiness writ in every failure.

To she who struggled with despair

Who sought unattainable perfection

Trapped in a cycle of self-hatred

Looking for peace that would never arrive:

Listen

You have ALWAYS been enough

And you ARE worthy of love

Perhaps if I tell you then

Someday, I'll believe me too.

#writing #poetry #selfcare

What I write, invisible

Or mostly so

Poetry

Prose

Diatribes

Sex

Unseen, unread

These truths

Ephemeral monuments

Fading fast

Disappearing

Fragments in time

Glimpses of me

Lost

#poetry #writing

Viral, that's what I am

Words shifting perspective

Reason as a cancerous growth

Poison, seeping into your system

Truth, that deadliest of toxins

Operating from the shadow you cast

And taking you down, cell by cell.

#writing #poetry #revolution

It is impossible, they say

Denying the results

Telling us we are mistaken

Ridiculing us to our peers

And then

When they can no longer deny

They steal the work

And call it their own.

#writing #poetry