Category: Poems

  • at what cost

    Grief

    to render useless a life
    but for a cause
    is it justified?

    the lives left behind
    helpless and broken
    to be crucified?

    and the cause stands
    losing another soul
    with hope paralyzed

    getting on with life
    forgetting to learn
    from mistakes unrealized

  • judgements

    A photo by Julia Caesar. unsplash.com/photos/DpoMKEARZe4

    a little hair out of place
    a little longer in the bed
    a little decibel higher
    and i am judged

    there’s a finality in that guess
    no heed given to what i said
    trying to balance a high wire
    still i am judged

    that plastered smile on your face
    is that purple skirt with red
    like a hooker on hire
    yes, you are judged

    everyone judges everyone else
    but judge themselves, they see red
    and yet goes on, this quagmire
    we are all fucked

  • just listen

    A photo by Redd Angelo. unsplash.com/photos/60fa9BMxvpE

    why is it that what i say
    and what you hear
    is always out of sync

    my truths are your lies
    your darkness for my light
    wouldn’t it make you think

    and yet i stand here
    resolute and alone
    taking the road high

    and there you are
    always with a reason
    to say goodbye

  • retracted life

    he

    plans made to perfection
    only to be looked back upon
    as broken promises

    a hand extended to help
    only for a swift retraction
    to let plunge in darkness

    a heart let go for someone
    only to be crushed into pieces
    never to be one again

  • waiting for you

    waiting

    withdrawn from the world
    alone for a long quest
    inhibited and furled
    thriving on my own zest
    inundated as solitude hurled
    never felt such unrest
    geared for a life whirled
    fear thumping neath chest
    optimistic yet curled
    rational, yet with unrest
    yearning for love swirled
    one day it will attest
    until then, my world…

  • afraid

    afraid

    betrayed by my own kith
    over faces unknown
    and years of love and trust
    puff… gone

    my existence to you a ghost
    or a plane parallel
    treatment to me so silent
    shivered universe all

    the darkness in you i see
    i am not a match
    walking around you on eggshells
    can’t let those chicken hatch

  • terms

    stop

    challenging predestined place
    chosen by a stranger
    way before i was born
    why does it always comes to this

    why do i have to take on
    fights i didn’t choose
    against ruthless world
    salivating for my failure

    a destiny i want to make
    to be one with a choice
    and not one thrust upon me
    by abusive life

  • can’t help

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    anyway you look at it
    love is complicated
    you fall for it everytime
    still end up getting hated

  • radical

    radical

    up and down
    left and right
    decisions coming back
    to bite

    a false truth
    a well made lie
    out in the open
    why, god? why?

    opinions extreme
    for all the debacle
    even death can’t hide
    thus born a radical