Reality or Falsehood
is it real?
am i real?
are you real?
is anything around us real?
everything is perceived as fake.
i know it’s there.
i know it exists.
but for some odd reason,
it all feels hoaxed,
surreal,
dull,
empty,
ambiguous.
but why?
if i know people exist, objects are real, and my feelings are real,
so why does everything feel misplaced?
lost, even.
i discern as if i am fraud.
it’s a
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Categories:
confusion., conflict, confusion, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
33 Reasons
I have 33 reasons
Why I won’t go home.
I am a loyalist
Tortured by iniquity
Captive of antiquity
But the
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Categories:
confusion., bible, confusion, fear, growing
Form: Free verse
Seed of Shame
I remember staying quiet
hiding under a rock
a paralyzing fear
~ literally petrified ~
I'd lost my tongue
in shock at the injustice
my head spinning
in a whirlwind of confusion
It never occurred to me
that someone could be
found guilty and punished
for something I had done
And still I sat there numb
in my evergrowing shame
to this day guilty and unforgiven
~ I was old
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Categories:
confusion., confusion, fear, silence, youth,
Form: Free verse
RESURRECTED DEAF
RESURRECTED DEAF
God heard and answered;
We seemed not to have heard Him:
Loud justice echoed!
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Categories:
confusion., allegory, analogy, confusion, deep,
Form: Senryu
Paralyzed
In this wilderness
thought direction, no clear path
writers block prevails.
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Categories:
confusion., confusion, lost, writing,
Form: Senryu
NORMAL
Hush, Daddy's sleeping,
we don't want him to wake.
Let Mommy relax and
have a little break.
It's okay, sweetie,
don't look so sad.
No, Mommy's eye
doesn't hurt bad.
Go on outside
and get some fresh air.
Later on we'll take
a drive somewhere.
No, honey, you didn't
do anything wrong;
now go on and play,
but don't be too long.
You know daddy
didn't mean to do it.
He just gets
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Categories:
confusion., abuse, addiction, anger, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
once upon a time
What if I read to you a story Starting
once upon a time
And you realised that is was your
Life spelt out on every Line.
Would you hear my voice and Wonder as it
Brushed across each word and pray my Arms have the strength to hold the truth About your world
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Categories:
confusion., 9th grade, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Desolation
My days seem lost forever
And my nights last for eternity
I’m abandoned in this world
Where darkness has overcome me
I’m living life in the shadows
Where sunlight is forbidden to shine
I’m here with the devil who doesn’t sleep
All the while wrecking this life of mine
By most I know I’ve been
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Categories:
confusion., angst, bereavement, confusion, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Randomness part 2
Ah, that feeling of nothingness, mixed with contentment and this searching feeling; how such a feeling exists can baffle yet also leave this tantalizing desire to be found. It is almost as if I am lost in the shadowy echos of my mind aimlessly wandering around yet simultaneously every so clearly chasing and following in
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Categories:
confusion., confusion, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
External Storms
External Storms
Listen close, the winds whisper low,
A symphony of sorrow's ebb and glow.
Thunder rumbles, a beast awakening,
Heaven's own heartbeat, in warning speaking.
Pressure builds, unseen forces stir,
An invisible tempest, nature's curse.
Silhouettes dance on lightning's flash,
Echoes of laughter turn to ash.
As shadows lengthen and tempests rage outside,
Within these walls, another battle wages.
A heart laid
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Categories:
confusion., confusion, courage, encouraging, faith,
Form: Free verse
I would let him die
I would see him die, rather than saving him.
I don't know what his life could be after he dies, or if he would be saved.
If someone dies, that person is remembered, would be praised for his good deeds, or criticized for words he never meant in that way.
But I will have the thought that he
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Categories:
confusion., angst, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Free verse
Emotional Abuse
The type of abuse that happens on the inside
The victims receive inner scars they can hide
This is an abuse that can be done over and over
From someone that's angry, drunk or even sober
Suspects can vary from a mother to a friend
An emotionally abused heart isnt easy to mend
Its actually very hard for the abused to
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Categories:
confusion., abuse, conflict, emotions, mental
Form: Rhyme
They Want That Control
This is something every human wants to score
And never satisfied with a little but want more
To have control over your emotions and tears
Remote controlling your deepest inner fears
It excites them to know that they run your life
People pleasing will cause you to pay the price
Showering you with gifts so you're well pleased
Then telling you
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Categories:
confusion., abuse, conflict, confusion, deep,
Form: Rhyme
I had that stone
I was looking at a dying man who was asking me for a stone I had in my pocket. He wanted it to survive, but he was a sinner—because a book said he made fun of people and abused them. I watched him grow pale and wondered: should I help him because of his situation,
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Categories:
confusion., allusion, confusion, deep, destiny,
Form: Prose
The time I looked at god
There was a time I looked at God with sea water in my eyes, drowning in a river of problems. I asked Him, with the last piece of devotion I had, why the Bible never told us that hell is not in the darkness beneath the earth, but in the light of the earth, right
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Categories:
confusion., confusion, corruption, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse
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