Category: Thoughtful

Poetry, Thoughtful

relentless

by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment on relentless
relentless

doubts surface, drown me, i reach up for breathe yet you are relentless. i crawl my way to freedom but you push my head down each and every time– no matter how much i struggle. i choke, i beg, i cry, but you block out my pain and shut your eyes and i pray.

Poetry, Short Story/Prose, Thoughtful, thoughts

Pain, Love, Depression, and Joy

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Pain, Love, Depression, and Joy

  “Everyone has written about pain; what makes it unique to you?” My pain is early, unbeknownst to my psyche until I became misinformed and mislead through others ambivalence. My pain levitates in the middle of two races. My pain is centuries long, my pain is past skin, hair, features, curves. My pain flickers and [...]

Poetry, Thoughtful

Lamentable

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Lamentable

Why must my torment be lamented through song? Like a son falling from the sky with a smile as bright as the sun A constant chorus tunnels through my ears until they bleed– a trail of crimson against the swan neck of my demise, a ruby red flower plucked too early from Kore’s petulant brow. [...]

Narrative, Poetry, Thoughtful

A blip in time

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A blip in time

I stretched my neck until it protested and creaked, the cars slipping and honking by As I teetered from a perch up way high. The silhouette of bodies entwined caught my eye as I hesitated–paused before I dived. An androgynous blob embracing under the moonlight, their shadows vague and disconcerting reflected in the bleak river [...]