Category: Sad poems
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I Imagine Believing In Happiness
I am not happy today, but what if I wake up excited tomorrow,mesmerized by the morning star,accepting all that’s been given,gladly alive!isn’t that all I need to be myself, anew beginning,every day and next. blast my music,erase my thoughts,let all that hurt slip away-in a surreal state,elated, delighted,victorious over an angst-infected mind!name it nonsensical or…
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SCREAM
I have had enough! Stop asking yourselfWhen did everything change?What happened to me? What made me mean? STOP. Just stop looking for that flip switch.There has never been one.Turn the camera to selfie mode, and see.That you’ve always had a dark imagination.Trauma didn’t turn you into a monster, Ice has been your truth all along.…
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Turn Off The Lights
“Hey dad, could you turn off the lights?”I could probably do it myself, you know?But maybe I just want to depend on him tonight. “Hey dad, would you exchange your donut for my apple?”Its not that I don’t like apples, they are my favorites,But maybe I just wanted him to share food with me. “Hey…
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Noise of the Night
in the shush of midnight,chandra, the stray, barks impudent. the wakeful windows hear him vex,wishing for the dawn or the silence. soon a light, (not of dawn), rushes to him,and he lies down into the street’s dark ground. the wheels and the honks, they drive elsewhere,as silence eerie follow some loner’s death. fortunate are the…
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VCR
Fear-lust-anger,Unutterable torture, Mine they trigger, Wide open shutters, Taping pedantic chronicles. Our nerves they remember, Hence every day I suffer,Nightfall makes it harder,When in my thoughts they enter-Tapes cursed under,Cassettes on a recorder, Replaying over and over, That burn might never, No ashes nor dark ember. Give me no coax, Such that I will endure,…
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