i pay for my
cheap dopamine
in blurry thoughts
and weak knees.
it’s actually
quite expensive.
i forgot people
feel things.
ever since you left
the world looks
like a ‘70’s movie
where everything moves
s l o w
and the colors
are dull.
i hope you come back
for me
to make me smile
again
tuck my hair
behind my ear
but i hope you don’t
because i will fly
and then be buried
six feet under.
the ground is cold
but if you lie very still
you don’t feel it.
so i stare at a screen
shove plastic in my ears
til my eyes
droop closed.
my heart probably
hurts
but i wouldn’t
know.
About the Creator
Sara
Don’t look for love.
Be love.
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A Dart at Dusk
Seconds ago, the sullen sun set on the two of us… my exuberant furry companion and me. A fresh breeze embraces us, delivering welcome relief from the day’s oppressive heat. His typical stumbling and staggering along — apace with a sloth — has turned into trip-trapping, high-stepping, almost skipping along.
By Angie the Archivist 📚🪶3 days ago in Petlife
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The imagery and emotions evoked in the poem are quite vivid and relatable. https://www.paybyplatema.ltd/
Every line of this was better than the last. The voice you spoke with was unique and powerful.
Great style!
I love the artwork for the cover! It’s so intriguing. Congratulations🎉
Your poems give me goosebumps.
Congratulations on your Top Story🎉
When you say cheap dopamine and then reference it being expensive I just felt that in my bone marrow. Extensively. The amount I've paid for that fix, I love your words and work so much, and congrats on a top story! ☺️
Stunning. Your dopamine metaphor is doing so much work; wow! Everything flows so cohesively. That 70s simile is like a spell, completely perfect use of the objective correlative. A well deserved, master-craft of a TS. 🎊💕👏😵
Oh wow Wow just wow I loved this poem! The feeling of longing, and the "wish that I knew how to quit you" vibe it gave off was incredible!
Congratulations on your Top Story🎉💖📝
struck a chord, nerve for me on this one. Great job, and congrats on your top story
Well done on getting a T.S 😁 I just had a quick scout around your page and there's several they could have picked for Top Story as well as this one 😁 Here's to many more 🥂
Congrats on a fine fine fine top story!
Damn this is good. I can’t even pick out a favorite part, because I felt every word. We are all so disconnected from one another, just plugging ourselves into the portal that is a screen. Never fully healing from a heartbreak when there’s so much entertainment at our fingertips to distract us. So we keep starting and stopping an unfinished symphony of heartbreak with new people.
Oh my goodness! This was extremely relatable! Such a beautifully written poem!
💔👏❤️✨ You have a gift for heartbreaking poetry (which is both wonderful and not!)! I do think the beauty of life is found when holding these two extreme polarities at their greatest expansion…
This is so captivatingy written
I can almost feel this one open places that have been closed for a long time. Another smashing piece!
Good job
The ending!! Wow! Great work.