We laugh the hardest We laugh to close our eyesTo the bombs going off around our madness We laugh the loudest We laugh to silence The pain screaming out our sadness We sing a melody To mask the threnodyOf our bones cracking to piecesIn this resplendent crescendo Of all the things we cannot change orContinue reading “We Laugh The Loudest”
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Inertia
There are so many times I wish that I could conquer inertia. I have come to realize that I am a fearful person. On the surface, I am still, as a lake. On the inside, I am a storm. A hurricane. For more than a decade, I have wanted to write a story in theContinue reading “Inertia”
Of Poets and Skies
We write in silence about soundWe write in sadness about happinessWe write in tears about laughterWe write alone about a crowdWe write of light from utter darknessWe paint stars from a dark roomWe offer insight from our confusionWe write of freedom from a cageWe pen the sky from beneath a seaWe write of love withContinue reading “Of Poets and Skies”
The Sea
Sometimes I long to belong to the sea, to be a vast, meaningful nothingness… that’s loved by a shore. I run away most times from no one but me, to be with the breeze, to be alone with the storm inside me. My smile has become a mask for a pain that has no face.Continue reading “The Sea”
The Pendulum
Like a flower
You are blossoming, you are wilting
Like a mortal
You are breathing, you are dying.
Jenim Dibie 