Submissions by WaterWet (Stephen Mbetu)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I am an open book, but life plucked all the pages!
SELF POEM
Published
14th Feb 2021 6:24pm
14th Feb 2021 6:24pm
My future is in retrospect.!.
Lost, yet the hands I'm meant to hold for direction I'm busy cutting off
Maybe I want you to beg me to let you save me
Save me from drowning in despair, save me from drowning in hope
Truth is i don't know what i want, i never have,
Maybe i want everything, maybe nothing
Nothing is lost, yet constantly I find myself in search, for nothing
Reading empty pages is how I talk to myself, in silence and seethe
It takes bravery to let me see me cry, I'm the one ghost i can't hide from
I'm as sombre as the winter sky, and just as still
Dying to...
Maybe I want you to beg me to let you save me
Save me from drowning in despair, save me from drowning in hope
Truth is i don't know what i want, i never have,
Maybe i want everything, maybe nothing
Nothing is lost, yet constantly I find myself in search, for nothing
Reading empty pages is how I talk to myself, in silence and seethe
It takes bravery to let me see me cry, I'm the one ghost i can't hide from
I'm as sombre as the winter sky, and just as still
Dying to...
#sadness
#loneliness
#confusion
#despair
#emptiness
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SELF POEM
Published
25th Nov 2020 1:09pm
25th Nov 2020 1:09pm
UNstereotypeD
I'm not lost,
I am native to every place i never belonged
From the straying my beingness draws direction
I'm not unbound,
I'm a slave to the constraints of your prejudice and twisted sense of me
In consenting this bondage I've forged freedom to just be
I'm not broken,
I was pieced together this way
In accepting this reality I've traced wholeness within
I'm not hated,
I'm just loved to depths so bottomless some are too afraid to dive in
In embracing this blessing I spark love within myself
I'm not unfriendly, ...
I am native to every place i never belonged
From the straying my beingness draws direction
I'm not unbound,
I'm a slave to the constraints of your prejudice and twisted sense of me
In consenting this bondage I've forged freedom to just be
I'm not broken,
I was pieced together this way
In accepting this reality I've traced wholeness within
I'm not hated,
I'm just loved to depths so bottomless some are too afraid to dive in
In embracing this blessing I spark love within myself
I'm not unfriendly, ...
#happiness
#hope
#TimeHeals
#redemption
#emotions
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Oct 2020 5:10pm
14th Oct 2020 5:10pm
I've lived another Life before this one
I've lived another Life before this one
All these feelings, I've felt before
I've written these very words here before
You've read this before, i remember you
In our past lives, you were exactly two inches taller
Also, your eyebrows were a bit fuller😆
I'm living in retrospect, we all are
Life is a loop, we're entrapped in a time capsule
All our history is enlaced with our future
Everything begins at the end, everything ends at the beginning
Tomorrow died yesterday and resurrected today
We die the very moment we're born ...
All these feelings, I've felt before
I've written these very words here before
You've read this before, i remember you
In our past lives, you were exactly two inches taller
Also, your eyebrows were a bit fuller😆
I'm living in retrospect, we all are
Life is a loop, we're entrapped in a time capsule
All our history is enlaced with our future
Everything begins at the end, everything ends at the beginning
Tomorrow died yesterday and resurrected today
We die the very moment we're born ...
#fate
#TruthOfLife
#confusion
#philosophical
#bittersweet
473 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
1st Jun 2020 9:47am
1st Jun 2020 9:47am
In between feelings!
Lately it's like I'm in this weird in-between stage,
Of who I used to be and who I am becoming
There's old habits that I'm having a hard time letting go,
Old patterns that I keep falling back into
A former persona that I still write poetry about
Curiosity inside my bones that just won't let me be still
Intolerable vowels I can never take back
A sensitive artistic opinionated shy self that I'm still trying to figure out
Thoughts i gotta turn into art
Art that needs painting
Paintings that require frames
Frames...
Of who I used to be and who I am becoming
There's old habits that I'm having a hard time letting go,
Old patterns that I keep falling back into
A former persona that I still write poetry about
Curiosity inside my bones that just won't let me be still
Intolerable vowels I can never take back
A sensitive artistic opinionated shy self that I'm still trying to figure out
Thoughts i gotta turn into art
Art that needs painting
Paintings that require frames
Frames...
#dark
#confusion
#denial
#boredom
#bittersweet
460 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
29th May 2020 7:35pm
29th May 2020 7:35pm
Lonely
A lonely kid,
I'm but a lonely kid from a broken home
A silent kid,
I'll always be the silent boy with a broken smile
Everything i know, I've learned in silence
Bright days come and pass,
Dark days come and stay
Everything I've seen, I've seen in darkness
Bridge after another, I burn
Trying to create some distance between humanity and i
I stare,
I stare at the Vagueness in my Chest
Layers upon layers of nothingness
There's a city in ruins living right underneath my ribcage
Foul air, this place is a cemetery ...
I'm but a lonely kid from a broken home
A silent kid,
I'll always be the silent boy with a broken smile
Everything i know, I've learned in silence
Bright days come and pass,
Dark days come and stay
Everything I've seen, I've seen in darkness
Bridge after another, I burn
Trying to create some distance between humanity and i
I stare,
I stare at the Vagueness in my Chest
Layers upon layers of nothingness
There's a city in ruins living right underneath my ribcage
Foul air, this place is a cemetery ...
#sadness
#loneliness
#rejection
#dark
#despair
668 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
30th Sep 2019 3:57am
30th Sep 2019 3:57am
There's this apocalyptic void that he left inside her
By her demons chained and caged,
Craving a feeling but her heart they maimed
Inside a closet entrapped and hidden,
By the darkness consumed and destroyed
Her dreams shuttered and into pieces scattered,
By her thoughts drowned and drenched
Amidst the ruins and the misery lost,
Relentlessly begging, screaming for death to devour her
But by her very own voice betrayed
Her garment feels like a million needle pricks,
Her entire body like a drained battery
Her eyes, what a meshwork of bitterness.!.
Can't face the world, can't...
Craving a feeling but her heart they maimed
Inside a closet entrapped and hidden,
By the darkness consumed and destroyed
Her dreams shuttered and into pieces scattered,
By her thoughts drowned and drenched
Amidst the ruins and the misery lost,
Relentlessly begging, screaming for death to devour her
But by her very own voice betrayed
Her garment feels like a million needle pricks,
Her entire body like a drained battery
Her eyes, what a meshwork of bitterness.!.
Can't face the world, can't...
#loneliness
#heartbroken
#disappointment
#denial
#emptiness
490 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
4th Aug 2019 10:26am
4th Aug 2019 10:26am
In gloom I bloom.
It's hard to not give up hope,
When all I've heard over the years is how insufficient i am
It's quite the task to keep my head up, When I've for eternity been held down, By the weight of my own thoughts
It's so easy to feel hollow and sunken and vulnerable,
When all I have is a void that rests right where all my stray thoughts yearn to be
It's like I lost touch with reality, with physicalness
Cause all I have in my mind are phrases of postcards from an imaginary universe
To my ears are whispers from a different...
When all I've heard over the years is how insufficient i am
It's quite the task to keep my head up, When I've for eternity been held down, By the weight of my own thoughts
It's so easy to feel hollow and sunken and vulnerable,
When all I have is a void that rests right where all my stray thoughts yearn to be
It's like I lost touch with reality, with physicalness
Cause all I have in my mind are phrases of postcards from an imaginary universe
To my ears are whispers from a different...
#dark
#heartbroken
#despair
#denial
#emptiness
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SELF POEM
Published
1st Aug 2019 2:55am
1st Aug 2019 2:55am
The shadows lurking in the dark of the night
3am and I'm not sure whether to sleep or soak my pillow in tears
I want to paint these bedsheets red but still remain with white as my favorite colour
I want the shadows lurking in the dark of the night to creep me out but still sing me lullabies
I'll dress myself up in facades, mask my face and hope you still see me, the real me
Wanna narrate to you my story but in such a divine way that you won't even believe it's mine
I'll tell you my truth but make it sound like a lie so that you actually know me but don't even know that you know me
Wish for...
I want to paint these bedsheets red but still remain with white as my favorite colour
I want the shadows lurking in the dark of the night to creep me out but still sing me lullabies
I'll dress myself up in facades, mask my face and hope you still see me, the real me
Wanna narrate to you my story but in such a divine way that you won't even believe it's mine
I'll tell you my truth but make it sound like a lie so that you actually know me but don't even know that you know me
Wish for...
#sadness
#hate
#frustration
#disappointment
#emptiness
496 reads
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
20th Jun 2019 7:57am
20th Jun 2019 7:57am
.. our unborn dreams to one day live here..
We take night strolls along dark abandoned corridors yet expect our feet not to stumble over the gravel and the dead leaves,
We stand in front of our mirrors and stare into these haunted skeletons of former self,
All our hopes and dreams we have buried in places where no one looks because they're places that tell stories about ourselves we just don't wanna hear,
We break apart in the company of our own selves yet expect to not feel lonely in the arms of strangers
We walk barefoot on colded concrete with pieces of broken glass scattered all over,
Probably wishing...
We stand in front of our mirrors and stare into these haunted skeletons of former self,
All our hopes and dreams we have buried in places where no one looks because they're places that tell stories about ourselves we just don't wanna hear,
We break apart in the company of our own selves yet expect to not feel lonely in the arms of strangers
We walk barefoot on colded concrete with pieces of broken glass scattered all over,
Probably wishing...
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#CallToAction
#tragedy
#ignorance
479 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Jun 2019 7:38am
20th Jun 2019 7:38am
Cheers to never.!.
I wait then ache,
Then wait and wait before the next ache
Glad I'm healing
I owe it to myself to fix me,
And I'm not the type to live comfortably in debt
Memories of you like a time capsule,
I lose one with every second that passes
I'm beginning to feel whole again,
Cause what i never said is a part of me died the very second we met
At some point I wanted to put up sad poetry about this
But no,
I'm already half past the point of no return,
This time I'm putting my pieces back together differently
I'm letting myself...
Then wait and wait before the next ache
Glad I'm healing
I owe it to myself to fix me,
And I'm not the type to live comfortably in debt
Memories of you like a time capsule,
I lose one with every second that passes
I'm beginning to feel whole again,
Cause what i never said is a part of me died the very second we met
At some point I wanted to put up sad poetry about this
But no,
I'm already half past the point of no return,
This time I'm putting my pieces back together differently
I'm letting myself...
#love
#strength
#forgiveness
#TimeHeals
#redemption
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LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Feb 2019 4:57am
22nd Feb 2019 4:57am
Nostalgic
You freed me and i didn't ask you to,
I didn't want you to
You made me forget you when I wasn't even ready,
I didn't want me to
I know i know you but still I know i don't,
I hope I do
You left no traces of human emotion,
I did want you to
You let me drown in all this nostalgia,
Still trying not to
And now I can't go home,
Cause home wasn't a place
Home was a person,
Home was you,
So now for you I search everywhere,
Which is exactly where you are;:
EVERYWHERE!!
I didn't want you to
You made me forget you when I wasn't even ready,
I didn't want me to
I know i know you but still I know i don't,
I hope I do
You left no traces of human emotion,
I did want you to
You let me drown in all this nostalgia,
Still trying not to
And now I can't go home,
Cause home wasn't a place
Home was a person,
Home was you,
So now for you I search everywhere,
Which is exactly where you are;:
EVERYWHERE!!
#jealousy
#loneliness
#heartbroken
#despair
#emptiness
517 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
24th Jan 2019 11:19am
24th Jan 2019 11:19am
I'm burying you somewhere dark and scary
Why then do I feel for you,
When I can't have you?
Why should I invest my feelings
Where I clearly can't harvest?
When you never look at me,
Why do I keep stealing glances?
Do you even know i exist?
When we share a classroom January to January,
Do you not see the signs,
When we say greetings?
I'm burying you somewhere deep down
Somewhere dark and scary
A place in my heart
Set aside for all the wishes I never can get
For those close yet so far beyond my fetch
For the loves i never get a reciprocal for ...
When I can't have you?
Why should I invest my feelings
Where I clearly can't harvest?
When you never look at me,
Why do I keep stealing glances?
Do you even know i exist?
When we share a classroom January to January,
Do you not see the signs,
When we say greetings?
I'm burying you somewhere deep down
Somewhere dark and scary
A place in my heart
Set aside for all the wishes I never can get
For those close yet so far beyond my fetch
For the loves i never get a reciprocal for ...
#sadness
#loneliness
#heartbroken
#despair
#emptiness
560 reads
4 Comments
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