Drowning fear scares our
inner peace as humanity
shatters thoughts, screaming inside our
troubled souls, a depressive haze of
ruin weakens our spirit with
angry responses, a shameful disgrace as
chaos wrecks our worried minds and
traumatic lives distract us in fury as
instrumental thinking messes with an
offending innocence with a
nastiness to push us down.
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Denise Larkin
A writer from London writes about her experiences and shares her poetry and fictional stories on VocalMedia. The author of thriller fiction books, Time to Run and The Island of Love. Her new book Darkness is available now on Amazon.
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The wrong bus
The bus was late, always late, which was why he didn’t like riding them on the weekend. Jack sighed and took off his black cap, the one Janey always said made him look like he was in the FBI because of his black jacket. This was taking forever, and the benches were dirty and too many people were standing around, crowding him and talking too loud. All in Spanish, mostly. He could hardly hear his own thoughts.
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Oof, this hit me so hard! Extremely relatable! You nailed this one!
Splendid poem. The words connect so deeply with distraction. Really very good.
Spot on with the wording and it flows so well with Distraction.
Such a uniquely crafted piece of writing in this poem. I loved it.
Brilliantly expressed.