Short Hollow Promises Poems

All these noises
All these voices
How close are we all
To asylum walls

I curse and I cry
I crave and I call
Out to the shallow
To the demons and dreams in my shadow

Make it go away
Make it stay
This is living hell
This is me in a cell

Empty words
Hollow promises
Sickening
Shallow souls
Searching for the same thing

Where does it end
When we're already bent
Broken and numb
You took my sun...

Read More

Eyes draped in black,  
The Scale of Justice, stark and exact,  
Struggles with truth and fairness,  
In a land where might eclipses righteousness.

Justice delayed, where should we start?  
An alchemist’s touch to mend every part.  
Government's hollow promises,  
Culprits evade without consequences.

Corruption ingrained in every root,  
A Herculean task to uproot,  
Marks the end of democracy,  
And the rise of nation's hypocrisy....

Read More