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Best Poems Written by Roni Al

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D O D

The lights flicker on
In the room
The young girl sleeps in
Her smile widens as
She sees her mother
Come in with a book
In her hand
As she sits down
On the bed

The mother brushes
The girl’s hair off her
Face and begins 
Reading to her
Watching
As her daughter’s eyes
Softly close

She glances again
And gasps
Seeing a corpse
Replace
Her daughter’s 
Once living body

She tries to look
Away 
But her head seems
To be unable to move
Forcing the mother
To watch

She wakes up in a panicked 
State
Her heart racing
Sweat running down
Her forehead
Hand shaking
Uncontrollably

In her mind
She wishes she could stop
The hallucinations
And nightmares
Entering her mind
But she’s unable 
To accept
Her daughter’s dead

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Vogue

The girls in the Vogue magazines
Their hair’s lucious, healthy, 
Thicker than I could ever imagine
Their smiles don’t seem fake
Their clothes sit on their body
Their dream body
The type that every girl on the internet is looking for
Working out for
Fasting for
So they could achieve such body goals

I stand in the mirror, brushing my hair
It’s thin and damaged
Flat like I could never imagine
My smile seems far too fake
My clothes don’t sit on my body as they should
I don’t have the dream body
That every girl on the internet is looking for
Working out for
Fasting for
So they could achieve such body goals

While the Vogue cover girls
Like as if they’re full of life
I look as if I’m dead inside
Which I truly, truly am
And I’ve grown tired of hiding it

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Ghost

He stands behind her
His hand reaching out
To move her hair to the side
And place his hand on
Her shoulder
Yet she moves a few step forward
Before he’s able to do so

The woman glances behind her
And feels a cold sensation
When he touches her
Yet all she can see is
Air

She kneels down at the tombstone
And gently places the bouquet
Of roses on the grass
Then sits on a nearby stump
And begins to talk to the gravestone

The husband listens to every 
Word
And though he wishes
He could speak
And comfort her
He does not
He’s just a ghost after all

The figure of her vanishes
And the husband is thrust back
By invisible forces
He closes his eyes as
His body relaxes
And lands on soft clouds

He looks ahead at
The staircase leading to heaven
The golden doors ready
To welcome him in

Somewhere down below
His wife is at peace too

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Best Friend

My world is slowly falling apart
I know that there’s only one person
Who’s caused this change to happen

You’ll start sarcastically joking 
With me on the phone
I’ll read your messages
And though they feel
Like a stabbing pain entering my heart
At a fast rate
I won’t tell you anything
For fear that you’ll get sick of me
And say 
‘You don’t understand jokes at all’

In a week
You’ll call me worthless
When I begin to
Question our friendship
You’ll say it’s just a joke
Doesn’t mean anything
Just relax a little
You’ll roll your eyes and smile
I’ll smile in a fake way back
You won’t know about 
The negative thoughts that surround my head
As I cast my eyes on the floor
Very deep in thought

You’ll start to body shame me
As if I could change the body
That I was given
As if all the constant eating and gym visits
Could fix what others didn’t like
As if all the skincare and haircare products
Would make me ‘naturally beautiful’
They don’t work
Believe me, I’ve constantly tried
Tried to live up to your expectations
Yet if I body shame you 
You’ll become pissed off
What am I supposed to do
Keep quiet and never respond?

And I remember distinctly 
The repeated amount of times
I begged you not text me such things
How your words had
Negative affects on me
How I’d lay under my covers at night
Dreaming of different ways to 
Suffocate myself 
But
When I’d wear my necklace with 
A safety pin on
You’d see it
And think nothing of it
While everyone else noticed and asked
You keep sending me those awful text messages
To a point where I wish
I had blocked you before

It’s as if I knew our friendship wouldn’t last
But I’d still try to pull on the last string
To keep our already - falling friendship 
Together
You’ll grab a scissor and cut it off
Turn your back on me 
And smirk
I’d stand back up
And pull again
And again
And again

In a few weeks
When you text me once more
This time
I genuinely become annoyed
By your usual sarcastic remarks
I’ll text something in the least hurtful way
You won’t answer 
Your friends will
They’ll go on about how I’ve
Bullied all my friends away
How short and petite I am
How I can’t keep a single friend in my life
How I’m only friends with people
That will use me all over again

I’ll text you that we aren’t friends anymore
That I’m sick of your constant picking and
‘Sarcastic texting’
Do I hope you’ll respond?
I do
And you never do
Your friends will
It had come to a point in time
Where I laid my phone flat on the classroom table
And blocked you for good

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Silver

A rush of silver
Trails down my skin
Cold, yet harmful
My mind is now at ease
 
My peach-colored skin
Is covered in red paint
Hateful words cloud my mind
Swarms of regret surround my thoughts
Unable to clear
Any longer
 
I hate how the blame
Comes round back to my mind
I hate the inevitable feeling
To see the red paint
On my peach – colored skin
I hate how I have to lie
When someone asks how I am
And I reply
I’m fine
 
I hate the guilt that
Spreads through my body
Unable to speak
The truth
Of what I can and can’t do

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Cheater

She sits across
The dinner table
Watching as her husband
Slowly eats the dinner
She had prepared him
For hours
There’s not even a
Thank you
Escape from his mouth

She mentions the name
Ruth
And watches as he chokes 
On his dinner
Gulps down nearby water
So he doesn’t choke to death


Late at night
He attempts to reassure
His wife that
Ruth and him are friends
And nothing more
Yet his late night texting
Raises her suspicion 


She lives in denial
For a little while
Then begins to 
Regret
She’d ever married him

While she lays in bed
And worries
He’s filled with carelessness
Closes his eyes
And
Dreams about Ruth

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Two Kinds of Love

When I look at a mirror
It will look back at me
When I talk to my friends
They talk to me back
If I sing to a cave
It’ll sing back to me
Yet when I say I love you
Do you ever say it back?
 
In my dreams all I can dream of
Is of you
Your bedazzling eyes
Your perfect smile
How your hair can fall to the side
Yet still look perfect
But I doubt that I was ever once in your dreams
Or once in your mind

Sometimes at night
I’ll glance at my phone
Hoping for a message from you
Even a simple hello would do
To know you felt the same about me
The way I do about you
Sometimes I have the desire
To think that you’d look at me
The way I look at you

You bring joy to me
When you choose to notice me
Yet an even stronger feeling
Of sorrow overpowers that joy
As I realize I will never be yours
And you will never been mine

There’s two kinds of love
The kind where both love one another
And the other
Where only one loves
And the other doesn’t feel anything for her
Just as a friend

And even with the world as one
The stars don’t collide
The universe still as large as I can remember
We could never coexist because
You’d never look at me the way you look at her

I can dream for as long as I want
Wishing for a happy ever after
But when the sun rises and the truth sets in
There’s no future for us

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Him

At night I stayed awake
Wondering what I had done wrong
To make you hate me
When all I had ever felt was love between us

My mind insists that I’m over you
Every feeling now gone
The pain dulled away
Yet my heart feels otherwise
Without you I’m alone
Sad, in a cold world
Missing your presence with every step I take

How can I forget all the memories we ever shared
That’s the only thing I can think of at night
When will my feelings for you shatter
So I could forget what we had
Why can I not get over you
When you have gotten over me a while ago

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Calm Down

The plates break in
The dishwasher
The sound extremely
Loud in her ears
‘Dad, please calm down’
She’d say yet he’d ignore her
And carry on

She’s standing in his office
Paint splattered on carpet
While he refuses to make her
A new room
‘Dad, what is wrong with you’

When she learns how
To ignore him in the future
He starts talking
‘Dad, could you please be quiet’
He replies
‘Watch your tone’
And she goes silent and stiff

When the screaming and yelling
Gets too loud in her ears
She screams back at him
‘Dad, calm down’
‘Dad, what is wrong with you’
And over time she just says
‘What is wrong with you’
And
‘Leave me alone’
For the first time he’s silent
For the first time she sees
Regret in his eyes
For the first time he sees no
Tears in hers

She doesn’t have to ask 
Will I ever be good enough for you
She knows the obvious answer

After while, she’ll return to him
And he’ll say the usual to her
His eyes turn cold and distant

The tears will return to hers
When will she ever learn
She’s better off without him
He’s better off without her

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Relapse

They say you can change
Overnight
With a snap of your fingers
I’d be lying if I said I believed that
They said your emotions
Can rise and fall like you’re in a non-stop
Roller coaster
The doctors tell some of us to take pills to feel human
Yet I’d relapse faster than
Feel any change at all
 
There’s a constant war and struggle
In my head and mind
Trying to forget my past
And focus on the future
But I happen to zone out
Every time
 
Am I Prometheus
Chained to all the burdens in life
Unable to unwind and look
To the bright side
Even if there isn’t one
 
Will I be Icarus
Falling to my death
With only a few who’d care about me
While the rest have turned their
Backs on me
 
Wouldn’t it be better
To be able to hibernate like a bear
Going unwatched, unnoticed
As life slowly drifts on
 
Haven’t you ever been asked
Who are you
And you just don’t know
What to reply
Because
You haven’t found your purpose
In life
Like I haven’t found mine
Either
 
Maybe I ought to take those pills
And see if I stopped fighting
See if I could relapse
And be where I wanna be