No more for me, I say. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Please — no more. I don’t care what you say. I’m through anyway.
By Clifford Kincaidabout a year ago in Poets
Begin by apologizing for what you haven't done. - Apologize for all the noise. You shouldn't have laughed so loud, or had the audacity to breathe,
By Autumn Stewabout a year ago in Poets
Wake before your body is ready. Feed the baby. Feed the silence. Feed the despair. Forget you were hungry to begin with.
We learn quickly how to vanish from the family table when we break the mold. We learn quickly that vanishing is easiest, safest, less painful.
Drowning in a lonely sea, yielding to its power and all-consuming thirst for sacrifice, you feel your limbs buckle and soften
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Poets
I didn't step out from the home that bruised me; I clawed out of the hell that he built for me. Fingernails torn from their place on the silence that held me,
after i make things i stare at them until i hate them it doesn’t take long lately i stare at the things i’ve made and i expect to hate them, eventually
By Heather Holmesabout a year ago in Poets
I wrote with the ink of pain, not fame, But no applause ever whispered my name. A quiet corner, a weary screen, Dreams danced, but stayed unseen.
By Mahmood Afridiabout a year ago in Poets
Trying to rip words from my heart, turning dreams into reality, forging molten iron into steel, but there is something missing -
By Amanda Starksabout a year ago in Poets
Nowhere Land It’s a nowhere land, out past the noise, where the lost hang out without a choice, no signposts, no finish lines,
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk about a year ago in Poets
This is the grave of your father You never met, A blind date of people who never matched online I am told it is through knowing where he is buried,
By Isaac Ramaphalaabout a year ago in Poets
Things I keep to myself.... Although I've kept going when the going got rough I've heard pain keeps you growing though, I feel I'm not good enough
By Kelli Sheckler-Amsdenabout a year ago in Poets
