She feels like standing in a room full of water.
Chasing bigger dreams like her windows can`t open any wider.
Failer comes when her winds blow in that quarter.
When she`s afraid of her purpose,
Success becomes the tallest order.
So she can`t imagine why we`d wish each other the same slaughter.
The knife of doubt invades passion like it has no border,
Suppose it is worse when you are the only daughter.
Alone lost in a crowd
bold silence overpowers the roar of traffic
~ the world perseveres without hesitation
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 1st place 2025
i'm at the bottom of the ocean
forty feet down
stones tied to my feet
trapped
i'm drowning
air in my lungs
can't breathe
suffocating
vision going black
i feel you
your hands grab me
pulling my up
saving me
thirty feet down
there's hope
a sliver of it
i'm almost gone but
maybe we'll make it in time
twenty feet down
you're still holding on tightly
i trust you now
you'll bring me to the surface
be my savior
ten feet down
i'm relying fully on you
you're the one to save me
i feel safe
which is hard in the ocean
one foot down
so close
almost saved
i could touch the air i crave so badly
if i tried hard enough
but i've already used all my energy
relief washes away the fear
the pain
safety is so close
and then
you let go
after i finally trusted you,
you let me go
and back down i go.
When life goes right
it somehow never fails
that something from the past
tries to return and bite you in the tail.
Try as it may
I stand strong and stay
on the path set before me
and nothing will get in the way.
I've been steadfast on this journey so far.
There is no way I can fall off the radar.
I've lived and loved and grown so much
that even the devil should shudder from my touch.
God got me here
and will get me there,
No matter what is thrown at me,
I will show no fear.
I've played in the dark.
Pain was all I knew.
Now I have been established as something new.
So shiny and warm where God has His arms
that no enemy can come against me.
No weapon will cause me harm.
So the darkness doesn't scare me.
The pain is already known.
I will not be swallowed up again
by the recesses of the dark.
I was made to swim
and I will not drown.
I was never alone.
Now look at how much I have truly gorwn.
Dawn's lullaby serenading thy soul
Tranquil waves caress the shore
Morning's golden hues ascend
Light dancing curls and bends
You softy twine the morning ebb
And drown in love in nature's bed
I love you.
More than anything I’ve ever known,
More than I can hold inside these quiet bones.
Each second of the day,
You live in my mind like breath
But sometimes I forget…
You’re not me.
You’re your own being,
And I want all of you,
Everything you are,
Even the parts that don’t belong to me.
You say you admire beauty
You notice, you look
But my eyes stopped working
For anyone but you.
We’ve been married a long time.
Yet still,
Ten years in,
Your footsteps at the door
Make my heart race like I’m sixteen again.
I see beauty in everything you do.
It terrifies me.
Because what if I love you more than you love me?
What if one day,
You see someone else’s glow
And mine feels… dim?
You’ve shown me love
So much love.
But fear is louder than logic
When love runs this deep.
How do I unlove you,
Even for a second
Just enough to breathe?
I feel like I’ve fallen into a well,
And instead of climbing out,
I just keep sinking.
And every time I look at you,
I drown a little more.
Tell me…
What do I do
With a love this heavy,
This pure,
This haunting?
I’m so tired of spendin’ nights alone
The test of time has left me like a stone
Drinkin’ time—I feel it in my bones
Feel so numb, I can’t pick up the phone
Drownin’ in sorrow, can’t find my way
Lost in the darkness, day after day
Tears fill my eyes as I silently pray
For a glimmer of hope to guide me astray
Should’ve known that fortune favors bold
Tried so hard just to go break the mold
Drinkin’ time, it got so uncontrolled
Now I’m dead, so far deep down below
Drownin’ in sorrow, can’t find my way
Lost in the darkness, day after day
Tears fill my eyes as I silently pray
For a glimmer of hope to guide me astray
Another conversation within myself.
Another riddle within the spectrum of possibility.
Wouldn't it be wise to search for someone in this
moment of desperation?
Fighting to wipe away these tears that wont keep.
Standing in the rains of despair.
The machine becomes obsolete.
How to find clarity?
Diluted fantasies?
I know somewhere my questions
cease transcending the mark that keeps them guessing.
A fallible facsimile that I'm doomed to repeat.
I only need speak it into existence,
with words that clip dirty wings.
So now no one walks alone.
Avoiding the idea that there is no escape.
Such a desperate moment. Actually, it's beautiful
in the way that I remember her smile.
Desperate when I recall the tears that ran down her face.
My head tilted to the side, trying to make sense of it all.
Trying not to feel at blame, while simultaneously trying to feel it all.
this moment cannot define me, us. I can only wade in this
pool of raw emotion for so long.
Trying to find the pain from scars that have long been healed.
Such an ironic perfection. A momentary lapse of judgement as I let myself slip
under the waterline
He stood before her—
silent,
but not unspoken in his thoughts.
Words echoed loud in his mind,
if only she could hear them,
perhaps she would understand.
Understand his faults,
the weight of missing words,
the drought of silence
that left her drowning in doubt.
But when silence breaks,
clarity cuts deep.
His chosen words—
not what she longed to hear.
He thought his silence
was in her best interest,
a message left untold.
Yet in the end,
his silence
was all she heard.
The appeal of blonde hair never spoke to me until now
I was content with the plain brown
But then your blue gaze snagged onto mine
And now it’s taking all I have not to drown.
It feels like I’m sinking,
falling deep into a mass of sadness.
I try to swim,
to get back up to the surface.
I can’t breath,
I’m suffocating.
I’m falling deeper,
and deeper,
into this depressing mass.
I try to call for help,
but nothing comes out,
as I just go deeper,
drowning in this sorrow,
to the point of no return.
It is as if cloudy eyes forecast rain
And the darkest heartache
Bleeds grief like varicose veins
All blue and distorted with pain
Hope is aborted and sadness
Is a black freight train of thoughts
Drowning my wake my sleep my faith
I try to smile through it but fail
A grimace of green slides in a wail
Finding no comfort in other widows
My grief is a powerful hurricane sucking soul
Drowning in grief stuck lamenting
No poem strong enough for venting
Every emotion a shadow of grey
Will I ever find light again in day
By Imran Ahmed
The Scent Of Her Sweat
Intoxicates Me
Pulling Me Into Her World
I Forget To Live
Lost In The Warmth Of Her Essence
Breathing Her In
Droplets Of Her Nectar Glisten
Tracing Desire Upon Her Soft Skin
They Seduce My Soul
Whispering Secrets
Only She Can Awaken
My Heart
Follows Her Rhythm
Drawn To The Music Of Her Pulse
I Long To Taste
HER LIPS
To Drink The Sweetness Of Her Breath
To Dissolve Into Her
Where Boundaries Blur
And
I Cease To Be.
this feels so natural, still, my heart is pounding -
that look in your eyes...
I feel like I'm sinking
I feel like I'm floating
drowning in your blazing image,
maybe I'm not too keen
on the whole breathing thing
after all.
maybe I'll just drink up
the entire sea.
It is easy to forget as so many memories are buried in the subconcious
Memories is what makes us whole and shape the people we become
I missed them for so long I forgot their face and shape
It is the beauty that is so remarkable it brings us peace
It is everything I need to make it in this harsh world
If I could sing, it would be memories leaving my mouth
If you could see me you would see all it took to make me
I ask you to think of the future, to think of the past and to think of me
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