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
Pandemic, they said
This world, interrupted
Mere weeks after we met
Lockdown, across the globe
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
In 2nd in extraplanar space
The tieflings they did dwell
With visage mostly human
Links to abyss or the hells
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
The discordant cacophony of this place
Shards of finest glass, piercing my soul
Making me less than I would be
Under the whispering sway of pines
Faint smell of the sea, embracing
Awakening a self I’ve long thought lost
#poetry #writing #homesick