Heavier Poems - Poems about Heavier

...I. The Hour of Approach The poem I was writing refused to end— it kept writing me. Blood didn't ink these lines— the ink bled me. Each stanza a hidden-hematoma across......

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...you were completely comfortable being miserable like pain was a roommate like the yelling was a lullaby like love was supposed to sting, and silence meant everything was fine he broke you in ch......

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...I've carried time like a coffin — an eternity. Feels heavier than dark gravity Devotion that cruel peculiarity; in me, it shattered — clarity now it's just deathly polarity. Structured, then.........

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...Reflected grief spat back at me to bear Another load, the double of my own To take and carry, this unholy pair Then tripled, multiplied, beneath I groan. A beast of burden hauling my bloated......

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...Trust ~ a mourning sparrow f o r s a k e n in the russet rush of monstrous myths, clouding the cashmere cusp of dawn’s delicate arms~ of love’s liquefied thorn. While I trace the wrinkled ra......

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...Being a mother to adult sons is wonderful and hard and everything in between I am a hard praying, hard fighting, mama when I need to be, but I am also a soft spoken, sweet encourager when it warr......

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...Civility Somewhere, along the long road, we picked it up. It was light at first, simple and unadorned. Until we added on and changed the rules. It grew heavier, as our numbers grew, among ......

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... I meet myself at the edge of mirror glass— its surface holds me like a verdict; renders me in symmetry I do not trust. Do I offer brilliance, or only repetition? Each submission a blade, ea......

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...Since I first put on the greasepaint, smooth as cream on morning toast, they said I had a gift for making people laugh. Natural as breathing. Effortless as falling. Born to perform like a bird in fli......

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...We fell in love hundreds of times and buried the remnants of each like a curse or a prayer somewhere deep in our bones These memories carved out the stones we built our walls with We wear the names......

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...You'd be wrong to assume it just affects only male And even more wrong to overlook women's plight Cause just like men, they too experience it It's just sad that they'd been left behind Maybe b......

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...Pounding at the resonant head of my chest—he of hunger latches his fangs just beneath my jaw— not to sever silence, but to pummel poison. Tissue parts with wet reluctance, he with need more th......

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...Since I was a kid, they said I was gentle as a lamb. Quiet. Kind. Smart. So I've kept that image. Or tried, at least. I didn’t fail. Not once. Grades stayed high, mouth stayed clean, cho......

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...I think I loved the you Before Isn't that awful, baby? You've worked so hard So long Clawing desperately toward a version Of yourself only you could see. I admired your efforts Fondly watched ......

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...I got attached to you so easily, like the sky clings to the fading light, like the ocean whispers to the shore, drawn to you without a fight. Attracted in ways I can’t explain, you are the fir......

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