Fret not
...Fret not by Adejola Joseph
Fret not
Fear is a beast
It invades you if you allow it
It conquers you if you succumb to it
But fear is powerless
On its own it cannot bite
So, fret not
I se...
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Categories:
unkillable, faith,
Form: Free verse
like you, my heart rots
...How much
can one give before they crumble under the
weight of what could have been and never will be?
How many times
can one tear themselves into tiny, bloody pieces, rip out their soul,
mutil...
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Categories:
unkillable, 8th grade, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
This Is a Funeral
...This is a funeral
Why don't you accept
This is a funeral
And this is the death
The candles are burning
The red curtains drawn
The oak casket glittering
Like a pistil of dawn
Nobody knew...
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Categories:
unkillable, death,
Form: Lyric
Conversation With a Young Person, Part Ii
...“Engineers, surgeons…all the high stress jobs,
would anybody do that for twenty thousand?
They won’t, and society needs those people,
how would you even survive without them?”
I again hoped he ...
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Categories:
unkillable, age, confusion, how i
Form: Narrative
Let the Drum Speak
...LET THE DRUM SPEAK
Go to heaven before the heavens goes to hell,
Going home from home is dangerous with a child.
To the cold virgin earth shall woven sleep be
Taken out from the children' eyes ...
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Categories:
unkillable, africa, art,
Form: Blank verse
Exterminator's Lament
...People and mice
live together
forever. Mice don't
care. They just know
what they like.
.
Caveman-like
tenant warm squats
food hubs,
babies' buvettes.
They navigate
with poor eye...
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Categories:
unkillable, animal, cute love, death,
Form: Free verse
Pink and Grey
...And today your life begins
From the womb burst forth
With the violent spasms of new life
We come, pink, screaming
Into a cold world smogged over
With the gasses of our indifference
We grow tall and s...
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Categories:
unkillable, abuse, angst,
Form: Free verse
Realisation of Self (War Child)
...it's all for you
nightmares
mental anguish
imagined heartache
the worthlessness of me
Something
I'm not
another realisation of self
first to know
last to be told
in denial
always shoul...
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Categories:
unkillable, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Selfless Killers of the April Fool Armageddon
...buying my own suicide
the devil on my shoulder spoiling me rotten
knowing what's best for you
april fool's day armageddon
the movie about the book that inspired the movement
april fool's day...
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Categories:
unkillable, peace, visionaryday, world, day,
Form: Free verse