Bare annihilation vanquished before
the wind breathed her in.
First impressions clear, lasting,
only to shred the contract she composed for one.
How? Questions that have many answers;
none of which carry relief to the seeker.
Categories:
emptied, butterfly, mental health, pain,
Form: Free verse
Is it my fault why I loved you unconditionally?
Is it my punishment to live without love,
without sweet words,
without hugs,
Subjugated,
powerless to get out of these walls that love for you built
Why do I feel hopelessly lost?
Why can't I get out of this circle of suffering,
Why am I stuck in you, when you have no eyes to see that I am on ice but I am burning inside?
Why are you desolating my soul, when all I've done is to love you, unconditionally.
I keep thinking of what happened to us
Did we meet at the wrong time, or did we get lost in the traps that this journey of life raised for us.
Categories:
emptied, emotions,
Form: Free verse
My mind hungered the untimeliness
of shattered existence above all grave
battered thoughts sullen whispers quiet
hushes I employed to write to empty
oneself into an invisible crowded realm
ecstasy of the soul craving my hearts
glow the brilliant hue that send signals
down my spine as if I'd swallowed the sun
capturing necessity illuminating fields
of joy my bones cringed beneath my flesh
holding my pen I'd write of sadness madness
courage and mirth a rapture awaiting newness
fanatically so the meeting of the minds shall
gather in spite my absence an yet I invited
myself deep inside criticism once again
vaguely I'd remember a time of calm
creating prose and song shaking off
writers block like a bad poisoning
chiseling away at a masterpiece hidden
within the braising wall I'd cleverly built
around myself protecting my craft my work
exposing my scars revealing emptiness
very closely dancing with insanity uncertainty
merely unfolding leaf's binderies of truth of love
Categories:
emptied, art, beautiful, emotions, how
Form: Carpe Diem
Emptied Moon
David J Walker
And the end will come
When it comes
As the never-ending
End begins
Empty minutes measured
Against
the past
of an unknown someone
Dizzy Empty
Unassured to the last
We both were drunk on dark
and contrasting light
To study
and discuss
Emptiness
and the end will come at first flight
As another lie
unverified
occupied
another emptied life
too soon
Before we could learn to
Walk on water
Raise the dead
Or tread the moon
And what have we
Done today
She asked to soon
And anyway
I’m Blown away
By eversion to an empty
Conversation
Filled to the brim with
With the emptied moon
Categories:
emptied, allegory, moon,
Form: Rhyme
In science lab one day
they emptied out my brain
Even poked, it wouldn't say
a word about my pain
at never chancing what I knew
was beyond my comfort zone
That's why my brain just never grew
~ the reason for my brittle bones
Categories:
emptied, growth, me, sad,
Form: Rhyme
o long
*************
"My Legs Led Me To The Emptied Apartments Of My Ancestors"
/My parents/teachers/peers/
told me nowhere on earth
is as silent as a graveyard
/Even mosques/not churches/not shrines/
are fitted to be compared to its lingering silent
atmosphere.& Today, I followed a friend to a garage,
after ruiner of happiness built an /unbreakable wall/
/unjumpable bridge/& an electrified fence/
to the beginning of a journey with /no ending/no returning
/of loneliness/& unpredictable destination/.
/But I heard the peeved laments
of heirs who preceeded their heroes/
/The weird sounds of wandering
souls finding their hosts/
The noisy violent wind that,
/erupts/sweeps/&gathers dreams/
Different noises of different tones from rooms,
/Pleading/threatening/protesting.
/Give back this life to me,
'ver would I go back to it/
/& If I can hide beneath tonight's darkness,
I'd strangle my wife's concubine/
/& they said death don't accept bribes,
Why'd he leave my father's father and take me/
©®Fadairo Tesleem
Categories:
emptied, dark, death, death of
Form: Free verse
Each memory a breeze
brushed cheek of hinted fall
when in the summer grass her grace so tall
seasons: winter, spring, come one or all
Never there, without her stare.
Never saw.
Categories:
emptied, absence, bereavement, goodbye, grief,
Form: Rhyme
The drawer has emptied over time
one-thirds cleared as if to comply
with an absence that demands doom
this lack of spoons in present time
those holders of passions pressed
into realms of thriving health
growth beyond the wounded state
is then paused by lack of ready grace
there’s left behind the substitutes
each with a cold purpose set
neither an equal on their own
perhaps together life will resolve
easily fitting into a palm
poor replacement for what’s been lost
the fates continue nonetheless
even if spoons are not at hand
the first demands useful works
that poke and lift of the fork
utility of a long workday
is manifest by implement
crafting worlds without a soul
absent thought of questing hope
this allows the days to unwind
even as the will slowly die
the second cuts with an edge honed
removing meat from the bone
a knife’s edge would cease the pain
at the price of future days
separation that seems to heal
when pain is dropped from the deceased
now lack of spoons has bequeathed
that work combines with edged leave.
Categories:
emptied, depression,
Form: Free verse
Another bout of unconsciousness, disguised as a nighttime’s sleep;
Another day of broken promises that she knows she cannot keep;
Another shot to cure the loneliness inside her long, tormented soul;
Another bottle drank to emptiness with destruction as its final goal.
With words slurred and visions blurred, denial leads the race;
With emptied bottles stashed underneath the trash, in attempts to hide a trace;
With lives destroyed widening the void that the alcohol is meant to fill;
With relationships lost as too high a cost for not admitting that she is ill.
Empty bottles lead to empty hopes in an empty future with empty eyes;
She no longer is the beautiful girl that we all once recognized;
Instead of finding help for this illness dealt, people just judge and criticize;
This empty bottle I hold makes the story I’ve told, something with which I can
empathize.
Another bout of unconsciousness, disguised as a nighttime’s sleep;
I drift off into a blackness where the empty bottles make me weep.
Categories:
emptied, life, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Upon the emptied blackboards
chalkdust yet remains,
smeared, the work of a
thousand problems, minds behind each,
even the blue message of a
young lady waving goodbye.
Categories:
emptied, education, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Ode
Now I see that what has been said so many times is true
I am what they say I am I have done what they say I have done
And now I pay the price
I am trapped in a world of pain and fear
I am doomed to my own demise of twisted illusion and fading laughter
The days of happiness and contentment are gone never to return
Trapped in a place where I love so much never to feel it returned
Where I seek and never find, where I long , but am never fulfilled
Tortured by memories, emptied by tears
Categories:
emptied, life,
Form: I do not know?