Submissions by Lilliputian
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Snippets of me.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
21st Aug 2024 1:35am
21st Aug 2024 1:35am
Family
such a heavy word
yet it gets uttered
thoughtlessly
carelessly
for when
love
support
warmth
and belonging all fade
what’s left is you
wandering
in the crowd
of familiar faces
unseen
in their eyes
you’re barely there
an outsider inside a house
that never
felt like
home
to you
yet it gets uttered
thoughtlessly
carelessly
for when
love
support
warmth
and belonging all fade
what’s left is you
wandering
in the crowd
of familiar faces
unseen
in their eyes
you’re barely there
an outsider inside a house
that never
felt like
home
to you
#emptiness
#family
#home
142 reads
6 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
14th Aug 2024 7:13pm
14th Aug 2024 7:13pm
Under the Same Roof
Tell me if it’s hard for you
to look my way,
to listen to the voice inside my head,
to feel the weight of words untold
when we’re sitting at the dinner table
with silence as our parasite,
while your laughter is so free
with those who barely know your truth.
Does it break your heart
when you see our faces fall awkwardly,
with smiles that don’t reach our eyes,
because we’ll remain outsiders
inside our own lives with strangers
who don’t care about you like we do?
Is it easier to stay distant?
Easier to share...
to look my way,
to listen to the voice inside my head,
to feel the weight of words untold
when we’re sitting at the dinner table
with silence as our parasite,
while your laughter is so free
with those who barely know your truth.
Does it break your heart
when you see our faces fall awkwardly,
with smiles that don’t reach our eyes,
because we’ll remain outsiders
inside our own lives with strangers
who don’t care about you like we do?
Is it easier to stay distant?
Easier to share...
#confusion
#frustration
#loneliness #sadness
#loneliness #sadness
121 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
11th Aug 2024 00:24am
11th Aug 2024 00:24am
Spell of Words
It’s almost fascinating
how you shape words, flinging
them to flatter me with disguise,
molding these pretty lies.
A masterpiece of illusion,
crafted beautifully with deception
unfolds seamlessly as it lures
whoever comes across.
Or perhaps I’m the fool,
who sinks right into the hole.
A rapture I’ve never felt,
as I let myself fall into and melt.
how you shape words, flinging
them to flatter me with disguise,
molding these pretty lies.
A masterpiece of illusion,
crafted beautifully with deception
unfolds seamlessly as it lures
whoever comes across.
Or perhaps I’m the fool,
who sinks right into the hole.
A rapture I’ve never felt,
as I let myself fall into and melt.
#deception
#grief
#PowerOfWords
169 reads
8 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
9th Aug 2024 00:14am
9th Aug 2024 00:14am
Error
feelings wail inside me
they scream and plea
peeling layers begging
to set them free
but
words baffle me
they dance and flee
leaving my head spinning
to capture them free
they scream and plea
peeling layers begging
to set them free
but
words baffle me
they dance and flee
leaving my head spinning
to capture them free
#emotions
#WritersBlock
136 reads
7 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
4th Aug 2024 1:02am
4th Aug 2024 1:02am
Be
It seems nothing is good enough,
no matter what,
you’ll have a say, always.
Test my limits,
see how much i can hold up,
until i fall apart and give up.
Toss everything away,
as it all turns into a decay
and i become a mere memory
of what i once was.
Perhaps then, you’ll realize
i was just trying
the best i can,
to be
what i wanted to be.
no matter what,
you’ll have a say, always.
Test my limits,
see how much i can hold up,
until i fall apart and give up.
Toss everything away,
as it all turns into a decay
and i become a mere memory
of what i once was.
Perhaps then, you’ll realize
i was just trying
the best i can,
to be
what i wanted to be.
#conflict
#despair
162 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Aug 2024 11:16pm
1st Aug 2024 11:16pm
Multifaceted
protean shaped
chameleon colored
jack-of-all-trades
shifting hues
mirrored personas
with twisted truths
tongue lies
and mind hides
what rests beneath
an endless disguise
chameleon colored
jack-of-all-trades
shifting hues
mirrored personas
with twisted truths
tongue lies
and mind hides
what rests beneath
an endless disguise
#deception
#humankind
#hypocrisy
169 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
27th Jul 2024 11:49pm
27th Jul 2024 11:49pm
Your Version of Me
Perhaps if I became a shadow of your will,
A puppet on a string, lifeless and still,
Let you mold me to fit your frame,
For you see me as too weak,
Unable to make my own way.
You’d finally turn to look at me,
Grant me with your praise,
Tell me of your pride.
A puppet on a string, lifeless and still,
Let you mold me to fit your frame,
For you see me as too weak,
Unable to make my own way.
You’d finally turn to look at me,
Grant me with your praise,
Tell me of your pride.
#frustration
#identity
#weakness
189 reads
9 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
27th Jul 2024 11:37pm
27th Jul 2024 11:37pm
Strangers
We exist here.
Within the same walls,
Under the same roof,
Yet, an invisible chasm divides us.
I watch silently, wondering when it all started
The way you talk to everyone
In a language, warm and inviting
Foreign only to me
Are they strangers or am i?
Within the same walls,
Under the same roof,
Yet, an invisible chasm divides us.
I watch silently, wondering when it all started
The way you talk to everyone
In a language, warm and inviting
Foreign only to me
Are they strangers or am i?
#emotions
#emptiness
#vulnerability
187 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
21st Jul 2024 9:10pm
21st Jul 2024 9:10pm
I Wonder
if a flicker of me
drifts by in your mind
as constant as yours echoes in mine
if my name is a whisper
a memory held tight
the way yours is to me
drifts by in your mind
as constant as yours echoes in mine
if my name is a whisper
a memory held tight
the way yours is to me
#confusion
#memories
175 reads
10 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
20th Jul 2024 1:09am
20th Jul 2024 1:09am
Empty
Deep within where it lingers
that shunned empty space
waiting, yearning and hoping
for that strange feeling.
It lightly gets grazed
by people flowing past me
like ships in the night
as I cling into their fleeting solace.
And when it withers
i curl into a shell of despair
with that icy hollowness, again
waiting, yearning and aching
for whatever that feeling is.
that shunned empty space
waiting, yearning and hoping
for that strange feeling.
It lightly gets grazed
by people flowing past me
like ships in the night
as I cling into their fleeting solace.
And when it withers
i curl into a shell of despair
with that icy hollowness, again
waiting, yearning and aching
for whatever that feeling is.
#despair
#emptiness
#loneliness
183 reads
6 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
17th Jun 2024 12:46pm
17th Jun 2024 12:46pm
Time, Again
just a while ago the world was a blur
a relentless race
as i tried to catch up to its speed
now the time came to a halt
the clock barely ticks and the days stretch out
as i get trapped between
pulling away from its strains to flee
and clinging desperately to sink in
all of a lather to step out
and when i hardly slip away
the world's a blur once again
while i finally gasp for air
only to scramble after
time, again
a relentless race
as i tried to catch up to its speed
now the time came to a halt
the clock barely ticks and the days stretch out
as i get trapped between
pulling away from its strains to flee
and clinging desperately to sink in
all of a lather to step out
and when i hardly slip away
the world's a blur once again
while i finally gasp for air
only to scramble after
time, again
#anxiety
#fear
#FeelingTrapped
220 reads
8 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
1st Jun 2024 1:39am
1st Jun 2024 1:39am
Time
it seems the world doesn't know
how to wait for me
it keeps surging forward
leaving me breathless
no matter how many times
i try desperately to outrun it
maybe if i stared the seconds away
time will get more gentle
and i'll finally catch up
to whatever i'm chasing for
how to wait for me
it keeps surging forward
leaving me breathless
no matter how many times
i try desperately to outrun it
maybe if i stared the seconds away
time will get more gentle
and i'll finally catch up
to whatever i'm chasing for
#anxiety
#TruthOfLife
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6 Comments
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