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ashes from your urn
Ashen grey is the house of remembering.
Before each portal opens,
your faceless bard swoons.
He strikes a drum of bone and brittle whispers;
With cracked powd’ry fingers,
he inscribes your name in dust.
He etches it longer than it ever was,
the curves of your urn.
You gather there your ashes and nourish my soul.
Sunday 24th November 2024 7:26 am
Black & Blue
Cry me black and blue
And black and blue
And crimson tears will fall.
Break apart this wanton fret
That consumes us all.
Broke into my heart again
To build a crumbled wall
While I waste internally
Replaying what I saw.
Cry me black and blue
And black and blue
And scarlet veins will die,
So strain ...
Saturday 23rd November 2024 6:32 pm
Archeology of Understanding
In the quiet aftermath, the word "quit" echoes,
A heavy silence in the corridors of memory.
A single word, a door to myriad pathways,
Each avenue intertwining, meandering through the fog.
Clues lie hidden in the shadows cast by our verses,
Fleeting glimpses of understanding,
Yet certainty eludes us, at every turn it seems:
Answers remain just out of reach.
...Tuesday 19th November 2024 10:45 am
Fallen Out Of Love
Agony in misery in hopeless blackened light,
Regretting all that we have said
Beyond the veil of night.
I chose the path of least remorse
And yet here I am
With your heart
So soft, so supple
In my red stained hand.
Beaten
Beating
Beatless.
Monday 18th November 2024 7:49 pm
I once had an older sister
I once had an older sister
I once had an older cousin sister;
Used to come over for summer vacations
and other auspicious occasions,
many times I cried to make you stay
for little longer,
Now you're gone for ever;
To return never.
The fun we had at beaches and seashores,
Could I ever forget?
The laughter you had in arcades and photos;
Was it all a facade...
Thursday 7th November 2024 4:48 pm
Should I Choose Myself, or Continue to Choose You?
How does one move on from betrayal and grief?
Resources swear "follow these steps to find relief".
Accept the hurt, embrace the pain,
Choose to trust your partner and learn to love again.
I'm convinced this advice comes from people who just don't know,
That being betrayed by the person you least expected to hurt you, hinders your ability to grow.
I accepted the hurt, I embra...
Thursday 24th October 2024 7:33 pm
22five22
my heart screams in echoes
and
I wish you could see
how far I've come since
you died.
how I brave the unknown
with my face in your hands.
how I leave no trace of fear
dripping from my mouth.
how every "yes"
is said with my whole chest.
this is how I love.
and every step I take
is with you
Tuesday 24th September 2024 6:39 pm
I Smile In The Face Of Death
As I wake up flat on my back
in an unfamiliar bed,
surrounded by hazy faces
and teary eyes,
and wobbly smiles,
I find that I cannot
for the life of me
remember who and why
they are here for this old guy.
A figure clad in black, too,
stands right there at the door.
I don't know why they won't come in
or why they're being ignored.
Perhaps, I think,
they...
Tuesday 20th August 2024 9:40 pm
Archer meets the Bull
to grieve is to know love intimately.
to pluck his voice from a crowd,
though I've not heard it in years.
to reminisce about my fingertips
reading his calloused hands like braille
and finding my next breath in every tactile.
to recognize any morsel of his being
in any dimension
and pledging patience to the search
in every lifetime.
to finding him.
and knowing he is ever present.
...
Tuesday 20th August 2024 5:21 pm
in the darkness, lights
I was ready made for grief.
to live an ode to a common thing,
this elegy to peace.
and on the days that I feel nothing,
I torment the stillness behind my eyes
because feeling is proof of living.
and I so badly want to be alive.
to dig deep in the scar garden,
to excavate my hollow pit,
to sow a lifetime of memories
of being just out of reach.
it is my...
Wednesday 14th August 2024 4:24 pm
Tears Of Nostalgia
When will incessant rains will stop its sorrow,
when the deadlines of late assessments deepen the thoughts flow..
Thought after thought, with flourish and flow of
One's fond memories they keep inside their soul 💘🌬️
Thursday 11th July 2024 11:50 am
The Loss
Every loss is felt
Just as a ripple is spelt in water
Ever decreasing, calming asunder
A clock ticks in a house even emptier than before
The dark lingers in a hall still and sure
The cat rules now
Wondering why and how
Water weeps from a pungent wound
Never to be cleaned but to neglect and fester
Such a thought no beautiful sight could hinder
Leaving the los...
Monday 8th April 2024 3:25 pm
Karma's Consequence
Now I’ll be like your ghost
You’ll feel me everywhere
But I’ll be nowhere to be seen
Haunted by my memories
Tortured by my presence in your heart
And I’ll miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
And as you wander in search of others
To fill the void, gain a sense of fulfilment
As your luck and name change meaning
You’ll soon begin to realise
All roads lea...
Saturday 24th February 2024 12:27 pm
meandering transfixed sans temporal landmarks (24/10/2022)
every day
it’s all
the same.
together, it blurs. coagulates.
fills furrow-trod brain grooves
like grout. experience withers
on the vine, in the leaves, leaves
little brittle dust-skeletons
decomposing on the bathroom tile
so deficient they can’t grow a garden—
only this greying grieving heaving
metastasising mass breathing
again again again
once more once more
the same the sa...
Friday 9th February 2024 11:29 am
Left behind
Gone but never forgotten, is what they love to say,
but those waves will still hit, like nuclear shit,
Since the day we parted ways.
Just like that radioactive breath, that rots us to the core,
And eats us away, day by day, until once was becomes no more.
See the peace for you becomes my pain, your dreams became my twisted reality,
For the agony that you leave behind, w...
Friday 9th February 2024 10:07 am
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