Showcasing student poetry #2

alone again

the past months have been drowned in swarming clouds of chatter,

rushing

rushing

rushing

urgently dancing between fears

and conclusions,

pulled through paranoia and revelation; consumed by mind not moment.

 

i haven’t been happy, despite it all;

a shrunken shell

waiting to be picked up and taken home.

 

i thought it was you.

 

embrace that i sink in;

smile that ignites me into life.

i pinned my world on your shoulders,

like you were the sun i’d

shrivel without.

 

and now you’re gone.

 

and i’m trying to dig myself up

where i buried it

so long ago,

tarnished and caved in

by the fist of another.

 

i am trying to remember

how i existed,

confidently

alone.

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