IN SILENCENot sure when it started at 6 staying
out of a brutally violent household
taking to the unforgiving streets.
The streets became my teacher and
family albeit dangerous life lessons
learned from a merciless source.
Spiritual and corporal sorrow from father’s
beatings, his cruel degradation too much to
bear, as everyone stood by watching me bleed.
At 13, befriending teens from troubled homes,...
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Categories:
health, abuse, anti bullying, child
Form: Free verse
FreedomI lace my shoes as morning breaks,
The hush of dawn, the route I take.
With every step, the world fades out , the sunrise is motivating, no room for doubt.
The rhythm builds, my breath in sync,
Pacing Past sleeping streets ,and my skin flushes pink.
My thoughts untangle, calm and clear,
Each footfalll is bliss , my heartbeat...
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Categories:
health, body, boyfriend, care, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
The Bees of Denial
The world drones on, beyond
this lacquered, amber membrane
I recline within the waxen chambers—
a sovereign of nectar
enthroned in illusion
Muffled voices leak through resin walls
distorted—like speech submerged in molasses:
“Gone… her mind distills itself…
hallucinations… delusional constructs…”
I attempt to see—
but the hum begins, low
as a beast dreaming in its burrow.
My votaries rise,
spilling gold into my gaze
Sweet venom varnishes my...
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Categories:
mental health, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
StrainedAlways concerned with mental strain
Anxiously hiding it to numb the pain
Not quite living more like a mode
However life will always prod and goad
Dragging you out from behind your cloak
Whether or not you’re positioned to cope
Dropping the ball is nearly a certainty
When every minute is a storm at sea
Difficult to...
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Categories:
mental health,
Form: Free verse
Judgement's High WayJudgement’s High Way
My smug satisfaction drives in narrow lanes
Deep with pitfalls of intentional ignorance
“Righteous” reads my personal license plate
Sentenced to loud lane-splitting intolerance.
My bias trips on truth at tangled crossroads,
Blinded to orgies in my house of thin glass,
Cuts off compassion, in condescending tongues,
Detours grace to side roads, a one-way bypass.
But, grace stills my hands, determined...
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Categories:
health, journey, life,
Form: Sonnet
We shall be speaking Physics by the end of todayThis is a problem growing in direct proportion
To the papers that we face very soon
In everyone’s speech a pronounced distortion
And half the class sleepwalking at noon
I’m here chiefly to bring to your attention
You may soon not understand us
Because I for one, others by extension
Shall be speaking nothing but Physics because
James is moving about too excited
Gerald...
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Categories:
mental health, school, science,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
naked gunThere once was a man who loved guns
With women he hit no home runs
He'd whip out his round
And shoot it outbound
While wishing to target their buns...
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Categories:
health, anxiety, fantasy, identity, men,
Form: Limerick
THE TOMB OF MIRRORSThere’s this voice that echoes inside of me,in the pit of my soul
He has long sharp nails, with which he tears down the walls of my heart,peice by piece
Every time my foot steps on the grass, greener than the day before
He pulls me down into the Earth
And I am submerged into the sea
Filled with...
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Categories:
health, anxiety, bereavement, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Broken GirlAlcohol to numb the pains.
Cigarettes to taste something other than hate.
Sex to escape the constant loud voices in my head.
Makeup to hide the broken girl inside.
So put together, so stylish, so grown up and mature. Little did they know that girl was always manic, depressed, and anxious....
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Categories:
health, anxiety, childhood, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
My Eye, the Grave of WordsTo keep my words from falling apart,
I need the blood that leaves my heart.
I chose to stay and face the pain,
so it won’t feel so strange again.
I wrote the will to still remain,
to give my empty words a name.
I gave my body, left it bare—
was that enough to make them care?
I closed my throat, I...
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Categories:
health, dark, depression, introspection, mental
Form: Free verse
Question for the Day
Categories:
health, silly, sports,
Form: Epigram
Emily UnityWe met where souls go to whisper—
in the quiet halls of the Children’s Campus,
Melbourne sun kissing the windows,
and sorrow folding into silence.
I was just a patient,
a tangle of thoughts,
a shadow of myself.
She—
she was the light.
Holding a broken child
like she held the sky—
soft hands, steady heart.
Compassion wasn’t a word in her—
it was a presence.
I never spoke...
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Categories:
health, anxiety, happiness, heartbroken, heaven,
Form: Free verse
A Sly Stealthy Disease
Paranoia, a sly stealthy disease
Fells men as tall and as massive as trees
Tiny fears in their minds
Unravel, leave behind
The...
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Categories:
death, fear, mental health,
Form: Limerick
A Qualitative Report on a Single Subject Ego DeathHypothesis:
What is an ego anyways
Are we born with it
And from the moment we have the willpower
we’re tasked with muting it
Or does it grow from experiences of rejection
Fed by whom?
Is it intrinsically preserving,
Extrinsically repelling…
For the sake of avoiding philosophical debate
Let’s say we have an agreed upon theory
Experiment:
I’d like to think my ego dissolved
The moment...
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Categories:
change, death, mental health,
Form: Free verse
How bad can Health food beNutritious food, how bad can it be?
I stood in the organic section, wanting to pee.
Aren’t you glad you came with me?
This was my healthy cousin, Little Lulu Lee
I will meet you in the park said her brother Gore
I watched him sneak into the bakery next door
Have to potty, I’ll see you in the park too...
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Categories:
health, food,
Form: Rhyme
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