Marielle Symonds Poet Free verse

sweet dear soul

dear demise, how i wish you were here

how i wish you would grace my presence and set me free

i would be better off dead

up in the skies, one with the stars, friends with these dots that are strung together by invisible lines, creating pictures humans look up to and admire

around here, even crows yearn for their own deaths

strong, resilient creatures become broken, helpless, tired and done

my will to live and i are drifting apart like the stars in orion

but i won't tell my sister for a little while

and i'm tired of putting on a show to please those around me

and covering my grief with an exaggerated smile

remember those dots in the sky that somehow formed something

that were connected but not actually together

i just draw in the lines and fill everything in myself

and live with the doubt if whether

whether i am right or wrong

if i am enough or fall short

if my father really loves me

and other questions of that sort

i don't think i deserve to eat dinner this evening

maybe i'll just go to bed and starve

starve to death and be a skeleton in the morning

grab that knife off the kitchen counter to carve

carve wounds into my skin that say what orion told me last night

i fear his whisper was correct, though it still filled me with fright

for orion told me winter is soon coming

and with that, our love will go cold

you will forget me and travel elsewhere in the sky

and leave me sitting here all alone

every part of me will be replaced

by someone who is more useful, or simply better

and i'll lay on the ground, looking up to the sky

admiring orion and hating the cold weather

so now, i bid farewell to orion, and so long to life on this earth

for if i can no longer love you, i shall die with my lack of worth

i stay settled on the grassy knoll as orion stays vibrant but my life fades away

and pray that perhaps in another ending, happiness actually glanced my way

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Beata Agustin October 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM 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.