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My chest hurts
Itβs the weighted chest pain
Thatβs hardest to explain
The interwoven, the lingering
It spins a web across everyday
Itβs the fog you learn to see through
Because you canβt get away
Never the needle in your eye
The thorn in your side
Itβs the routine of soft pain
The clingy sting for life
Itβs the dull ache
Freedom but on a leash
Your mothers kiss with teeth
...Monday 11th August 2025 10:29 am
This is not a draft
I donβt want to mask my poetry
I want you to understand me
Curse your perfect rhythms, rhymes, haikus
Your lyricism, your literary
When I try to adopt it, I turn mute.
Something channels through me
(Iβve never really found the root)
A demanding stream of consciousness
That cannot stop to breathe, let alone
Wait, conceptualise, draft, redraft
I canβt!
...
Monday 7th October 2024 10:25 pm
Acknowledge me
It reaches further than "please fuck me" or "donβt touch me"
Itβs a liminal in-between
A line we like to call blurry
But I never asked you to undress me
My body abandoned me
My words went slurry
Tongue too thick to go beyond a mumble
Kind sir escorted me to save me from stumble
Four times play on my mind
One of them I even forgot
Until it accosted me during a usual d...
Friday 12th January 2024 5:07 pm
I: skeleton
Face like stone
Hard to read
I find myself taking pride
In my totem pole
Of expressions, I can hide
Masterfully deceptive
Every bit secretive
All heart without sleeves
Makes it easier to breathe
But being naked
Really stripping off
And just letting everyone watch
That is true strength
True power
Is knocking down this tower
Being bare
Just a sk...
Monday 11th September 2023 7:56 pm
Raw eggs
I tried beautiful,
I tried pristine,
I was no good at it
Iβm not neat within
Iβm not βcleanβ
Even externally, I cannot master
Clearing every bit of clutter
Iβm raw, like an egg
Itβs not pretty to have a cracked head
But if I donβt
Iβm practically dead
As inanimate and detached as my wooden bed
To be raw is
Painful,
Ugly,
Messy,
But itβs rich with fee...
Friday 8th September 2023 5:25 pm
One
Iβm sorry to disappoint you
That I can be too sweet and so weak
And yet I can be cold and cruel too
That I can completely snap to my core
And morph into a creature of different sorts
Iβm sorry that Iβm not white or black
Or immaculate
Or of any matter
For that fact
Iβm not anything
At all
Not wholly whole
You see,
Incompleteness
Has been my superpower
...Monday 8th May 2023 9:09 pm
Wounds of liberation
Imagine being totally untethered
After feeling chain linked
I feel split
That part removed
That half is trying to renew
But it hurts
To grow scab over wound
Missing you is mourning you
Leaving you is still losing you
And Iβm just as lost
As I made you
If it could be
I would make it be
Should I be chain linked again
I would make it good
Should ...
Monday 27th March 2023 3:24 pm
Leverage
Iβve peeled off my skin for you
Iβve let you crunch my bones,
Consume beyond my flesh
Beyond my visceral tissues
Beyond my beating heart
Beyond the fibres of my being
Down to my soul
Iβve let you gobble up my spirit
Iβve let you slurp up my mind
Lick the lasting crumbs
of my emotions
Everything in me
Everything making me, me
All that constructs me
All...
Monday 27th February 2023 6:22 pm
Love: The Truth
Real love is life threatening
Itβs not serene, sweet, dream love
Itβs not romantic, rainbow love
No
True love is torture
Gut wrenching pain
Hands and knees, love
Need it to breathe, love
Itβs enough to put you away, love
But never pull you away, love
Itβs masochistically addictive
It titillates and irritates
Possesses every bit
Until you have a fit
...Tuesday 23rd November 2021 11:15 am
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