Emotions
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Anxiety’s Equations
Anxiety is like a Flustered mathematician A self-appointed professor Who can’t do simple addition He spends his days Scribbling complex equations But he still has yet to master The basics of calculation He stares in panic At his cluttered chalkboard He is bewildered by his own working But of one thing he is sure The Continue reading
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Frail
A lament I feel so frailLike an ancient vaseA thin sheet of iceA cracking piece of glass A tiny bit of pressurePlaced in the wrong placeAnd my mind caves inAnd the day goes to waste When I stand up for othersSacrifice myselfStrength comes from nowhereSuddenly I can help But when it is timeFor me to Continue reading
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Stolen Words
The words are snatched Before they reach the paper Ideas snuffed out Fading into vapour Visions in my mind Remain trapped inside For a moment I see wonders Then suddenly I am blind My sight spanned centuries To times unseen But now the memories melt away Like a half-remembered dream The words dissolve Before they Continue reading
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Why Must I Suffer?
Why must I suffer? Why must I hurt? Why must my mood Be dragged through the dirt? Why this intense pain In the depths of my soul? And why can’t I close This gaping, cavernous hole? What must I do For things to be made right? I have faced my trauma And put up a Continue reading
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Above the Waters
My head is pounding Weighed down by discouragement I feel like I am drowning Being swept away by a current I hear the laughs From my many enemies But I laugh at their naivety To think that they can stop me For every blow they deliver Just makes me stronger The dark clouds they swarm Continue reading
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Hello Pain
Hello Pain We’ve met before Earlier today actually Before my feet hit the floor Back so soon? You only just left You took all I had And left me bereft You made me watch Memories from my past Don’t you remember? I can still hear your laughs No, you stayed for quite awhile You always Continue reading
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Relief
Do you know what it’s like To have a knife stuck in the chest? A lump caught in the throat? Passionate words still unsaid? Do you know what it is like To live in a box? To be kept in a cage? And to be starved of love? Can you imagine the relief Of a Continue reading
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Shock
A lament Dark words In cruel script The delivering fingers Are torn and ripped The blackness of a soul That has been rent bare Gloomy whisperings The page will tear What do I do With words like this? With emotions so vast They engulf me like a mist I wrote a poem And the earth Continue reading
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Facing Fear
I didn’t see it I didn’t comprehend The fear that gripped me That hemmed me in Born from past trauma From difficult days When my mood was low And my concentration in a haze I made it through I somehow survived But that feeling of fear Left scars inside I vowed never to allow myself Continue reading
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Endless Pain
I am stuck in a loop Every day feels the same I have to fight the same battles I have to endure the same pain I have to face the same doubt About whether I will recover Then realise I have to continue Otherwise I will go under I am tired of wondering If I Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 