Submissions by Thyn_Bandwagon (Drew Jenkins)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
SELF POEM
Published
12th Dec 2020 5:37am
12th Dec 2020 5:37am
Back in Seventh Grade
I’m sitting on my phone
Thinking I should text you
I want to
So badly
I want to make things work
But
Even more
I want YOU
To text me
I want YOU
to make things work
And I’m back in seventh grade
Sitting on the bleachers
Alone
Waiting to see if anybody will notice
As they skate around the gym
To see if anyone will reach out
And ask me to skate again
The ice breaks
Someone reaches out
(and if memory serves, it was probably me)
(or is that just my demons)
(the crows that...
Thinking I should text you
I want to
So badly
I want to make things work
But
Even more
I want YOU
To text me
I want YOU
to make things work
And I’m back in seventh grade
Sitting on the bleachers
Alone
Waiting to see if anybody will notice
As they skate around the gym
To see if anyone will reach out
And ask me to skate again
The ice breaks
Someone reaches out
(and if memory serves, it was probably me)
(or is that just my demons)
(the crows that...
#rejection
#relationships
#heartbroken
#betrayal
#disappointment
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Dec 2020 7:38pm
1st Dec 2020 7:38pm
Perception
I’ve always found it strange
How we all act the same
Yet are always surprised to realize it
How so often we speak with actions
Acting out what we want most
Yet so few understand it
The language of the silent
How we all act the same
Yet are always surprised to realize it
How so often we speak with actions
Acting out what we want most
Yet so few understand it
The language of the silent
#misunderstood
#philosophical
#culture
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Dec 2020 7:31pm
1st Dec 2020 7:31pm
Ikeya Zhang
I visit again this far away land
Its creatures spread far and wide
Only a glance, and I am gone
Come back and have barely scanned
They cross the great blue tide
One submitting to the others brawn
I come again a place so grand
A species so starry eyed
But so poorly their path is drawn
Sand
Everything dyed
Spent on a con
Its creatures spread far and wide
Only a glance, and I am gone
Come back and have barely scanned
They cross the great blue tide
One submitting to the others brawn
I come again a place so grand
A species so starry eyed
But so poorly their path is drawn
Sand
Everything dyed
Spent on a con
#earth
#pollution
#stars
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SELF POEM
Published
19th Nov 2020 3:54pm
19th Nov 2020 3:54pm
Old Friend Go
Never have I had
Many friends to call my own
And fewer stayed long
It has left its scars
Like names engraved in the trunks
Of trees far too young
But each is a coin
And like a dragon I horde
My only treasure
I struggled to tell
Which of those are mine to keep
Not just another's
And struggle to know
When to keep fighting for them
And when to let go
Many friends to call my own
And fewer stayed long
It has left its scars
Like names engraved in the trunks
Of trees far too young
But each is a coin
And like a dragon I horde
My only treasure
I struggled to tell
Which of those are mine to keep
Not just another's
And struggle to know
When to keep fighting for them
And when to let go
#relationships
#breakup
#friendship
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SELF POEM
Published
19th Nov 2020 3:51pm
19th Nov 2020 3:51pm
Adrift at Home
Coming home to people so familiar
And yet I have never met these people before
Everything has changed
I am trapped within my own home
A prison of my own creation
My entire life I had to pack
Into 2 suitcases and a bag
A weight y'all made me carry alone
I didn’t bring much
And yet I still left so much behind
I was coming home in the worst possible way
I’m adrift on the sea
Floating from the only shore I see
And I really need you to be
There to drag me back
My room has all changed
Everything is...
And yet I have never met these people before
Everything has changed
I am trapped within my own home
A prison of my own creation
My entire life I had to pack
Into 2 suitcases and a bag
A weight y'all made me carry alone
I didn’t bring much
And yet I still left so much behind
I was coming home in the worst possible way
I’m adrift on the sea
Floating from the only shore I see
And I really need you to be
There to drag me back
My room has all changed
Everything is...
#loneliness
#confusion
#emptiness
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SELF POEM
Published
14th Oct 2020 3:23pm
14th Oct 2020 3:23pm
I am
I battled through the darkness
And made it to the light
I’m better now
Right?
I made it through
I’m still here
But I can’t help notice
That I’m not quite clear
The traumas still stuck to me
Building to a pyre
They all said they cared
And turned into liars
I kept myself here
But I still feel the scars
Of breaking bones with their sticks and stones
That I might ever know love again
And when I was done
I’d barely stand the sight
Of what I’d become
In this horrible rite ...
And made it to the light
I’m better now
Right?
I made it through
I’m still here
But I can’t help notice
That I’m not quite clear
The traumas still stuck to me
Building to a pyre
They all said they cared
And turned into liars
I kept myself here
But I still feel the scars
Of breaking bones with their sticks and stones
That I might ever know love again
And when I was done
I’d barely stand the sight
Of what I’d become
In this horrible rite ...
#grief
#relationships
#frustration
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SELF POEM
Published
10th Oct 2020 5:21pm
10th Oct 2020 5:21pm
Moved On Before Starting
Up front
Right now
I’m sorry
I’ve moved on
But don’t worry
I’m still here
Dressed in black
Mourning over something not yet over
I treasure the times
The good and the bad
The look on your face
And all the fun we had
I’m in the present
The future is gone
These are the good old days
They won’t last long
But it’s not yet over
So please don’t ghost
But if you do
Don’t feel bad
I've already moved on
Moved on before starting
Right now
I’m sorry
I’ve moved on
But don’t worry
I’m still here
Dressed in black
Mourning over something not yet over
I treasure the times
The good and the bad
The look on your face
And all the fun we had
I’m in the present
The future is gone
These are the good old days
They won’t last long
But it’s not yet over
So please don’t ghost
But if you do
Don’t feel bad
I've already moved on
Moved on before starting
#relationships
#forgiveness
#honesty
#gratitude
#MovingOn
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SELF POEM
Published
10th Oct 2020 2:02am
10th Oct 2020 2:02am
Begging
I’m sorry, I dont know what came over me
Except, I guess in some ways I do
I know together on this race we slew
But so anxious was I that I never knew
How little I appreciated all that you do
I need you back
For without you I lack
The spark that made it all true
I know I did you wrong
And forgiveness is all I ask of you
Except, I guess in some ways I do
I know together on this race we slew
But so anxious was I that I never knew
How little I appreciated all that you do
I need you back
For without you I lack
The spark that made it all true
I know I did you wrong
And forgiveness is all I ask of you
#ImSorry
#shame
#disappointment
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SELF POEM
Published
10th Oct 2020 1:59am
10th Oct 2020 1:59am
What is Love
#love
#escape
#bittersweet
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