Rubicon Crossing
Categories:
anxiety, break up, first
Form: Narrative
A Man's DelusionsYou’re wrong.
And I wish you’d know it.
You’re not the victim,
Of some elaborate plan—
You’re just wrong.
I set my boundaries.
I set my rules,
I drew a line,
In the sand of our relationship,
And you crossed it.
Over,
And over again—
You say it was accidental,
But if that was an accident,
I don’t want to know what you think is purposeful.
Choosing delusion over reality,
Can’t...
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Categories:
anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
QUESTION EVERYTHINGIt’s the work of fate
or so we’re made to believe
that when trials fall
nature had it all planned.
But rarely do we pause
to ask ourselves
Why this?
Why me?
We make choices
and for each choice, a consequence
be it a leap or a crawl
we must brace for the fall.
Question everything.
Even nature is a question
a challenge
we were born to accept....
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Categories:
12th grade, anxiety, poems,
Form: Free verse
Sweet little liesHis sweet little lies,
Dazzling love, wool over eyes,
Loved him, I surmise........
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, betrayal, love
Form: Haiku
Where's the loo"Open door!" yells he,
"Outta way, need a wee!"
After piddle,
Timeless riddle,
"What's for tea?"
"Can't chat!' says she,.
"Need a wee!"
So you and me,
Aging bladder to you,
"Where's the loo?"
Anywhere you go,
Wait, soon you'll know!...
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Categories:
age, anxiety, future, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Yellow LightsToxic, intoxicating solitude,
With a tantalizing proclivity
To slither inch by inch, or suddenly,
Back into suffocating loneliness
When will I again see my own person
Reflected back at me from the abyss?
There is a thrill in the uncertainty
Of when yellow will finally kill me.
My jaundiced skin shivers in raw disgust,
Shivering life into dissolution.
It kills my blue...
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Categories:
anxiety, depression, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Too BrightToo Bright
The sun is shining
Yes, I see
It's shining bright
But not for me
The birds are chirping
Flowers bloom
But me, I'm staying in my room
The sun is shining
This I know
But I'm afraid of my own shadow...
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Categories:
anxiety, fear, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
But KindlingBy furnace burnished, and by flames destroyed,
A sword is tested, and a mansion razed.
Endeavours, fight, and efforts – all are void,
To quell a menacing, relentless blaze.
But in the midst of all the plaintive cries
A glimmer in the desolation glows
Ignited passion which can never die
Arise! Among the embers my love grows.
Alas, confused, to...
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Categories:
anxiety, depression, mental health,
Form: Sonnet
The Goat That Goes Into the WildernessThis rope that strangled me so mercilessly,
Frayed ends unpicked now, twisted into twine,
My Judas noose made into tapestry.
Make fruit of these dreaded labours of mine.
I could hang pallidly but now instead,
I colour this dark world the deepest hues
With emerald, amber, ruby, silken threads,
Stitched all together with shimmering blues.
A...
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Categories:
anxiety, christian, depression, god,
Form: Sonnet
We Live in DenialIn blackest halls, a phosphorescent light
Shines forth from darkest depths, a honey glow.
Enraged, ignited, I now blinding bright,
A magma burning, pyroclastic flow,
Torching golden beams to desolation.
Enveloping destruction, ash I leave
Until it’s done, my wounded heart’s cremation.
Now hushed to ember, my healing reprieve.
Returned to dormancy I hear it more,
The walls that groan after each...
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Categories:
analogy, anxiety, depression, extended
Form: Sonnet
Another's of One's OwnReflected grief spat back at me to bear
Another load, the double of my own
To take and carry, this unholy pair
Then tripled, multiplied, beneath I groan.
A beast of burden hauling my bloated
Carriage, cut into with refracted shards.
Whipped for my pain, heavier I’m loaded
Pile after pile, the crown a house of cards.
I tread...
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Categories:
anxiety, depression, extended metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
NothingNothing gets worse.
Other people.
They try to wrap me in a blanket.
I was cold.
It’s all thawing, and feels feverish and horrible.
They learned things.
Lessons which are dedicated to kindness.
Are cloying.
It hurts my lungs.
Coughing and trying to laugh through the coughing.
Eyes watering.
My eyes, their eyes, horrible eyes.
Acceptance has...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
I cannot keep upThis pace I cannot keep up
Soon we're going to call it a wrap
The more I blink the more agile it gets
Every time I breathe, it's on my life I'm placing the bets
This dirging song gets louder in my head
As I nigh the end I don't know if I'm going to be...
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Categories:
anxiety, conflict, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
DO YOU REALLY MISS YOURSELF?did you wake today as someone else
the one who hides what she can't mend?
who once ran wild toward open doors
but now just breaks and learns to bend?
do you remember how it felt
to dream without a second guess?
before the noise & before the guilt
before survival meant this mess?
when did you trade your rest for rush
your joy...
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Categories:
anxiety, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
emotional shrapnel
invincibility had been a difficult pastime
the flak vest of insecurity and coverups
had managed to inflate anxieties and fears
to the bursting point of impromptu explosion
the festering boil had to be lanced at any cost
for resentments anger hurt and self-harm to subside
a bullet proof illusion was no longer an option
to call it friendly fire...
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Categories:
anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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