And this time, let's just pass like two black holes,
without gulping each other's peace,
like other species,
unknown, abandoned two souls.
And if we ever meet,
let's not argue about defeat,
we shall not recreate any view.
If eyes meet, we will just look through.
Each time I had sipped mirage
thinking it was water
and I made my mind understand
that it had quenched my thirst.
Now neither mirage nor water
can make me feel thirsty again.
I am cohabiting with my thirst
in a perfect equilibrium:
neither does my thirst lure me,
nor do I try to evoke my thirst.
We have compromised with each other
for the sake of peace.
Because it's better to be thirsty
than to be falsely hopeful.
Did you find me
Did you forget me
Was I to you a passing glance
A step you lost in mystic dance
I hear your voice in echoes deep
Your face a card my mind won't skip
Your lips have shaped my line with grace
My mind keeps heed your words your face
Is out of Sight
Your out of mind
Do I Twi your Light
Do I tweak your mind
Was I to you a passing glance
A step you lost in mystic dance
Did you forget me
Did you try to find me
Sacrified everything she had, yet it remained the same.
Ceased expecting anything, indifferent she became.
Ceased expressing preferences, feeling it is pointless.
Silence born from exhaustion and hopelesness.
Unaware of what was evil.
His tainted soul being deceitful.
Destroying everything alive, planting seeds of grief.
As she became someone she barely recognizes, a reflection of his needs.
Never ending feeling of emptiness.
Fate whispering to loneliness.
Dreams abandoned, laughter, flowers fade.
Remembering who she is, knowing she will never be the same.
Detachment turning into contempt.
Finally allowing her to recognize his true scent.
*S.Ü*
In a game of love, shadows loom,
A crush that turns my heart to gloom.
I walk a path of silent pain,
Where love's sweet whispers turn to rain.
In dreams, your smile lights the way,
But reality brings a disarray.
A crush, a weight upon my chest,
Love's bitter game, a harsh jest.
Your smile, a ray in the dark,
Yet it conceals a painful spark.
In this dance, I'm just a pawn,
Crushed by love that lingers on.
Each beat, a melody of sorrow,
Love's song with a bitter tomorrow.
In your presence, a storm takes flight,
Leaving shattered dreams in the night.
Oh, unreturned, love's bitter taste,
A silent scream, a soul laid to waste.
In shadows deep, my heart does cry,
A wounded love that won't say goodbye.
So here I stand, love's chance denied,
A heart shattered, feelings set aside.
A crush, a storm that won't depart,
Love's painful symphony, crushing my heart.
In the realm of dreams, where feelings reside,
You're the rainbow I can't touch, my heart's guide.
For seven years and more, my love has grown,
A love so deep, in my heart, it's sown.
Though you may not love me in return,
My heart still longs for the love I yearn.
A rainbow only I can see, it's true,
A love that's endless, forever for you.
These eyes watch the path where you might tread,
Hoping one day, our love will be widespread.
Even if it takes a lifetime to endure,
My love for you, forever pure and sure.
I want to cry,
But I don't know the reason why,
Am I in love or is it a lie?
"a dagger of pain, a tear of grief"
~ Constance La France
"A dagger of pain, a tear of grief"
I stagger again in sheer disbelief
A lifetime of ache, a twinge of hurt
A prime heartbreak, I cringe in discomfort
A sting of distress, a twist in fate
I sing to suppress dismissed hope's dictate
A lament of woe, a prick of stress
This torment slow, a trick of love's caress
A drop of sorrow, a pang of throes
It'll stop tomorrow, this clang of shadows
16th May 2023
You do not care and now I can't feel.
How unlike the situation between us,
we both have changed but we do not reveal.
Under social esteem, we both are dealing
with no emotions left perhaps and less appealing.
How unknown we have become
but we hardly reveal.
Perhaps that's how emotions breathe their last breath!
Born by the adrenaline finally into the hands of psychiatrists a clinical death.
Now medicine calms my nerves and brain cells,
but these used to be calmed by long-distance kisses and your essence.
Once the vows we had taken for eternity
are now the prisoner of maturity.
We have become the perfect social component:
that we like each other on social sites
but the conversation never starts again!
Now medicines give me that relief
that I used to get from long conversations and fell asleep.
But you had to die a premature death
as you were becoming heavy in my mind and I couldn't breathe.
Therefore I buried you alive in the core of my heart,
but my feelings were not fallen apart.
At last, my emotions breathe their last breath
in the hands of psychiatrists, a clinical death.
Struggling with sorrow
Time she had to borrow
Her mind filled with pity
Her position wasn’t pretty
She had the name of Paulette
God knows she couldn’t forget
How he’d kissed away her pain
Left her without cloud or rain
Then someone new he’d met
And she was left here to fret
Paulette - 1 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward
November 10, 2021
A touch, a dance,
a smile, a joke.
I’ll take any kind of human connection.
A grope, a sordid hand fishing for pink,
come home with me.
A mouth bent into a snarl, a hastily thrown obscenity.
I’d be so grateful.
Just give me something to talk about,
think about
that isn’t him.
Colors of sorrow
Black, gray – faithless
Melancholy
Breaking through my
Deepest thoughts
Into my heart’s
Haven of hope
Drifting in and out
Like the beating
Echoed through my veins
Bleeding, flowing in rich
Crimson drops
Feelings rearranged
Within me
Revealing the way
To breathe in
Blankets
Of
Dark angst
Fear and mourning
Regret that weeps
With grief for – not only
What has been in yesterday
But what is to come again
With the rising of the sun
And the longing within
By soul
A teardrop flows
Cheerlessly
Expressing the way
Toward despair
Where my feelings
Know only the aching
Pain that lives
To cut through my
Feelings for him
The one who did me in
With his selfishness
And greed for
My tears
The light dims down
The heart beats slower
All that was, is gone
Salty water slides down the side of my cheeks
Wiping them away as if wiping the past away
Unfathomable emotions strikes at my heart
Feelings of loss that was once love
Grasping at memories
Only to feel the pain is real
You made sure there was nothing I could do,
feeling so shaky and powerless I just stood there
tears ran down my cheeks and I felt so weak
at that moment I wished I was someone who didn't feel,
that feeling that I can't bring back someone who is gone forever.
Do you ever give us a choice,
At times you give us a warning through sickness, but at times you just ambush us, sudden death
Question, do we have an expiry date?
If so, what is it then?
I don't mean to be so rude but I'm just trying to understand.
You left his body and cold began to take over,
I felt so afraid and pain ran me over
A second look at him and he was no more,
No more talk, no more laugh, no more crazy pointless jokes
At one point we were laughing and all of a sudden it was just cry
He had so much hope for life, hope to do bigger things
But when you came you just shattered it all in a matter of a second.
© Brian Chasara
One, from time to time,
may feel that love is just like
the butterfly room;
one may like the way
enter into its softness
first, for the tiny,
unfurling wings' touch
fondles tenderly, gently.
But there comes a time,
when one may find that
these wings are made of razors;
circling, whirling one
all over engraved
by both the sin of the flesh
and the crime of heart,
writing into one's
helpless skin, that cannot be
shed ever again.
With engraved letters,
scribing meticulously,
and bathes every page
in the ink of love,
giving birth to the story
of pain, the story of us.
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