April Emo Poems

The constant voice
that tells me 
I’m not good enough and
life isn’t worth living 
finally made me realize—
it’s my own voice I’m hearing. 


*I wrote this...

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I’m HOWLING inside
clawing the dark walls unseen
alone…feeble…scared
do you sometimes sense my fear?
would you save me if you could?


*I wrote this poem on April 5, 2021,...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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maybe i'll play dead for a few hours
watch the trees from a safe distance
count my toes
hang my imagination out to dry.
all in an
honest days work




4/10/20...

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April sent forth a shower of riverside catkins,
In the rainy Southern town I
set sail among blooming seas of lotus deities.
Fell through the bamboo ceiling,
Calling out...

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I buried you with love in the coffin of my heart,
When I realised that it was just a graveyard 
Where people were born to take...

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(Busta Sonnetto) 



All thru the night she can hear beat of her heart 
No one to share with what she can yet just feel 
In...

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Silent whispers scatter all round me 
Crowding me in making it hard to breathe 
Making me choke on all of the sin that I have...

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Elevator Shaft
By Kevin Robey
April 9, 2013

Here he lies at the bottom of this elevator shaft
This is where he fell and snapped his shaky back
This fate...

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High Noon
By Kevin Robey
April 21, 2013

I want to run my fingers through your hair
Before my wheezing, one last breath of air
I can’t breathe anymore I...

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Drag Me Back to Hell
By Kevin Robey
April 13, 2013

Drag me back to hell, might as well
See this spirit swell, go ahead and dwell
You’re shocked you...

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The Train
By Kevin Robey
April 23, 2013

I already know what’s about to occur
Feeling like I've seen this all before
Addiction reducing time to a silent blur
Voices that...

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They say the sun shines on the skin of a goddess her hair dark filled with flowers and her skin of silk,
When you see her...

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To Never Breathe Again 


No  breeze in the night-time
The winter weather goes
The heat runs out of sunshine
nobody knows
Summer refuses
Spring is passing a different change
The...

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