Aura O'Brien Poet Free verse

Bubbles

Bubbles live in sorrow,
   brief lives, bursting
      move, and they're gone
         gone—
            as if they never
            existed before

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We wash our sorrows, 
   scrub again and again, erasing
      soap and sin that seeps into our skin
         our touch destroying what barely was

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I draw air; they vanish silently
   in and out—

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Sinking silhouette,
      dragging deeper down into the depths of despair
      nothing left to rise, nothing left to vanish

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Beata Agustin November 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Welcome to Poetry Soup. I welcome you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.