You are A one in four hundred trillion Possibility An almost impossible Pile of space dust Riding On a giant rock Through the infinite That is our universe Brought into existence Against all odds There is no-one And never will there ever be Another just like you You are Absolutely And unequivocally… Continue reading Miracle
Category: Poems
Out of Time
I feel Jaded And my mood Deflated The world Feels dated Or maybe That's just me Living in a time That my eyes Often fail To recognise But none of it Feels new Only old Yet unfamiliar Shit I've seen All too often before But I can't For the life of me Remember Maybe I'm… Continue reading Out of Time
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untitled – because titles are hard
Music plays Somewhere far away Inside my head And memories Reel Across the dance floor Of my mind Each one Telling a a different tale Of me the angel Of me the devil Some are real Some are fable And truth be told I don't know the difference Any more Response to the Word… Continue reading untitled – because titles are hard
Denizens
We are not citizens Only denizens Of concrete fields We toil Hands blistered Clothes soiled Handing over All we yield To our masters Seeing nothing Of the spoils But the crumbs Off their plates Response to the Word of the Day Challenge prompt: yield
Wishing On A Fading Star
Hope Feels so naive As though I'm wishing On a fading star But I believe Because I must To keep the demons And their screaming Far away My only want Is me and you To have chance Again, some day If they hurry Perhaps my dreams Might reach the star Before it… Continue reading Wishing On A Fading Star
Eulogy
I wish to write My own eulogy To tell the story Of my life As a rhapsody Of mistold memories A jagged melody Born of reverie An elegy A parody With obscenity To remedy The tragedy That my passing Will inevitably be Response to Word of the Day Challenge prompts: rhapsody & jagged
untitled – something about fate
Some call it karma While some call it fate Divine intervention - All terms that I hate We're not simply acting As a deity dictates Life is not just some ride That we cannot escape We're not stuck on a path From which we can't deviate Our lives are not set in stone The future… Continue reading untitled – something about fate
Almost
You almost had me beat Made me think I would never stand again On my own two feet You almost won this fight Had me on the ropes Cowering against the blows Landing left and right I was almost counted out Flat out on the canvas To continue would be madness The referee… Continue reading Almost
We Are But Glass
We are but glass Forged In the fires Of passion And fashioned With care We are but glass Molded Into different shapes Sizes And colours We are but glass And we all break The same Response to the Word of the Day Challenge prompt: glass
The Invisible Cage
Each year it comes; An anniversary Awakening The memory Of desperate times And misery An airless bubble Suffocating me A cage that no-one Else can see From which I still fight To be set free Invisible To all but me Response to the Word of the Day Challenge prompts: desperate, anniversary & bubble
