Now I lay me down to sleep I pray to snore, To dream, Not weep. Not watch the clock All through the night, To stop worrying
By C. Carlson7 months ago in Poets
I was eight years old. But I knew too much. I knew how hunger felt. How gas runs out. How silence between parents sounds like shouting.
By Hazrat Usman Usman7 months ago in Poets
I want to walk with you hand in hand, I want to sing songs by the sea, I want to be free to be with you, But I must take my time,
By Carol Ann Townend7 months ago in Poets
It seems I bruise everything I touch. Even the air around me feels colder once I speak. Still, there’s a softness in me
By Natasha Collazo7 months ago in Poets
I crawl into my skin, letting my soul sink behind a barricade of my bones, folding my sleeve-worn heart into origami cranes
By Ellie Hoovs7 months ago in Poets
I have walked with my hands behind my back and none have seen what I carried within them the ache for closeness I could not title
By Tim Carmichael7 months ago in Poets
I wasn’t looking for a fairytale. I wasn’t even looking for romance. I just wanted to feel safe somewhere. I wanted someone whose presence softened the volume of the world—
By Lashonda7 months ago in Poets
There’s a kind of darkness that doesn’t look like darkness from the outside. It looks like going to work. It looks like laughing at the right moments.
By Stephanie Jarrell7 months ago in Poets
I’m a human just like you See you’re stuck…. Like a glue See the problem that you’re having…. Work It out I’ll give a clue
By Haychie_Artist7 months ago in Poets
When someone as ugly as you walks — besides me, something releases. The felts, the embedded policing from my past affects me no more.
By K.A. Smith7 months ago in Poets
In Indian marriages, there are lots of calculations, love is not the criteria. The main aim, is to improve social hierarchy.
By Seema Patel7 months ago in Poets
First, wake before the sun remembers your name. Open the window. Let the wind rearrange your thoughts. Take nothing with you—
By The Arlee7 months ago in Poets
