Anxiety is my 3yo niece biting her arm when she’s uncomfortable because she doesn’t know how to react Anxiety is my mom pulling her fingers through her hair until I hold her hand to stop her when she has too many things to do and not enough time Anxiety is my dad trying to close […]
The flames begin as bright rage a train wreck of rushing water through broken windpipes and out of tune voice boxes/ an endless series of darts thrown head on a fistful of promises and crushed violets an exposed wire knotting my arms into concrete force of bitter beginnings but you know what they say […]
https://apoetswork.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/a-fire-cant-burn-forever/
Flicking through the covers Piece by piece Unfolds the Sour nature Of Disease. External reveals all Or nothing Simple Cover story Disgusting. To keep it under wraps Shows it all Invisible it seems A dry wall. The millions suffer In silence As the nation marvels At more cuts. No physical features To dissect So everything […]
I was born with addicts running reckless in my family Addiction meandered up and down my veins Planning the perfect time to strike Hitting me like I’d imagine an 18-wheeler would It’s said that if you live by the sword, you die by the sword Tell that to my cousins In and out of jails, […]
https://ainslianity.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/genetics-of-addiction/
My heart throws itself against its cage in the silence so hard it rocks the car. The first time, in California, I actually thought it tremors from the drought-brown folds of San Andreas but a needle of a different kind jumps tonight. Ten winters before breath obscured everything beyond this windshield my Nana gingerly set […]
I barely remember how the hues of December cast sepia waves through her hair. Those words she first uttered: out here there be monsters, seemed a plea, not a thing to beware. A quick realisation: she sailed a maelstrom mainlining a vein named despair. Lost within dreams of heroine queens, I drew heart-shaped clouds in […]
https://daysofstone.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/queen-of-nothing/
What does the obsessive mind seek so desperately and so intensely? Certainty. The OCD mind desires to find something that is unchanging, consistent, and completely reliable; which will then clear all doubts forever. The very nature of form is that it is in a constant state of flux; as the body is decaying and thoughts […]
Come, walk into my arms, step away from that blinding light. I’ll keep you safe and sound, in the corners of the alluring night. This world is plagued by war, pestilence, violence and greed. Step into my shadow, I have everything that you’ll need. Forget everyone you know, their pitiful morals are subjective. Follow me […]
https://thevoidofnothingness.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/spectre/
Sharp slivers of words built up From years of staying silent Fill my mouth but stay trapped. My hands are dirty My knees scraped By the brush I’ve been running through Because the things that make other things Go bump in the night Chase after me and it’s still early. “Come here, pretty one,” They […]
https://thehappydepressive.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/close-your-eyes/
Love is Tiring Coalescing into an ineffable infinity of serendipity evenings of peculiarity and fiery. There have been times that I wanted to weep. Weep, angered that I ever met you. A stone, yet I am patient as I gaze into your eyes. Never understanding completely, your mind not pliable. Oh, this too, too, despoiled […]
https://ajmurphree.wordpress.com/2016/03/02/love-is-tiring-2/
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