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What If He Was Never Worth It?
It's clear now: he's not worth it. Your long-suffering pain isn't worth it. Your repeated self-doubt isn't worth it. And it's certainly not worth it for you to foolishly pour such pure, passionate, and unreserved love onto someone who never intended to truly receive it.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharingabout a year ago in Poets
POEM - Rooted In Wonder
Not in the brittle certainty of stone, Nor in the rigid scaffold, cold and known, But deep within the loam where questions sprout,
By Jacky Kapadiaabout a year ago in Poets
Speechless
Noise fills the lungs, quiet fills the heart. Hesitation keeps everything in place, while confidence shrinks from fear. The voice is passionate,
By Marcus Hillabout a year ago in Poets
Eyes Closed.
If you wish to vanish... Be a strange fruit. Be unsuspecting, Always tell your truth. Exist in the balance... Living, how you can.
By Jessie Foleyabout a year ago in Poets
How to vanish
Step one: remove your name from your mouth. Step two: fold your shadow until it fits a matchbox. Breathe once. Forget you did.
By Susan Fourtané about a year ago in Poets
How The Top Leaders Collapse
We have Seen it Before... We Will See it Again. It is a Cycle that Repeats within the Business Ecosystem. A Leader Rises to the Top of their Category...
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHMabout a year ago in Poets
Disappear From Him
Okay just do what he do Read and don’t be seen Don't text first Don’t watch him at all Disappear from his DMs Then he will disappear from your mind
By L.I.Eabout a year ago in Poets
Practice in the corner
Practice in the corner dont care about crowds if You need connection with Your body and mind Practice in the corner can save Your life
By Antea Lumina Kala Matylda about a year ago in Poets
Instructions from a Child You Didn’t See
“This poem is told in the voice of a child learning how to disappear in plain sight.”1. Start by holding your breath when someone says your name. It makes you smaller, like air under a door.2. Wear the quiet clothes—the ones nobody picks on. Gray is safest. Navy hides the jelly stains. Don’t choose yellow. Yellow gets remembered.3. Sit in the back. Of the class, the bus, the photo. Make your knees touch and your hands still. Fidgeting makes noise. Noise makes you known.4. Learn how to laugh when it isn’t funny. People like that. It keeps them from asking real questions. Also: learn when not to cry.5. If you’re hungry, eat slow. If you’re full, say thank you. If you don’t like it, smile anyway. Disappearing kids never complain.6. Shrink your stories. Forget the dragons. Forget the girl who saved them. Forget the broken thing you fixed. Only talk when someone asks you. Only answer half.7. Practice being furniture. Corners are good. Closets are better. A laundry pile can make you invisible. So can the silence between arguing adults.8. If someone touches you wrong, forget it quick. Swallow it like a penny. Keep it in your belly where grownups can’t see. They never want to.9. Love everything too much. The broken doll. The stray dog. The teacher who said your name nice once. Love it so much it hurts— because hurting means you’re still here.10. Then… stop expecting anyone to notice. Even when you do the right thing. Even when you win. Even when you scream with your eyes.Final Step:Make yourself so smallthey trip over youand still don’t say sorry.
By T. E. Doorabout a year ago in Poets
Changing The Game . Top Story - August 2025.
Hey you! You say you want to get out of here, check out of Dodge and disappear?Well then, ignore that text put down the phone
By Kelli Sheckler-Amsdenabout a year ago in Poets
Steps When Entering Another Realm
**Steps When Entering Into Another Realm** When dawn breaks soft, with golden threads, I close my eyes, where silence spreads.
By Julianne Alguesevaabout a year ago in Poets
The Beauty Hack
It’s 5am. The alarm goes off. Initial thoughts: Life is tough. First things first— Put on the mask. Look in the mirror:
By Kahsia Solaireabout a year ago in Poets