Submissions by cassc
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
SELF POEM
Published
13th Oct 2020 3:53am
13th Oct 2020 3:53am
Promise- poem 10 of 10 in 'Letter of Affliction'
To our future,
The essence of wonder,
Our prospect of pride.
The reviver of faith.
I promise to build strength.
Though my body weakened,
Diseased and defective,
I will rise.
I promise to heal my body and soul.
Though my illness lurks,
And terrors befriend deformity,
I will contend.
I promise to wait.
Though I have not met you,
My love is infinite,
I will persist.
My eyes have not seen you.
My lips have not kissed you.
My nose has not smelled your pollen.
My skin has not...
The essence of wonder,
Our prospect of pride.
The reviver of faith.
I promise to build strength.
Though my body weakened,
Diseased and defective,
I will rise.
I promise to heal my body and soul.
Though my illness lurks,
And terrors befriend deformity,
I will contend.
I promise to wait.
Though I have not met you,
My love is infinite,
I will persist.
My eyes have not seen you.
My lips have not kissed you.
My nose has not smelled your pollen.
My skin has not...
#family
#MentalHealth
#emotional #emotions
#emotional #emotions
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SELF POEM
Published
13th Oct 2020 3:52am
13th Oct 2020 3:52am
Ballad- poem 9 of 10 in 'Letters of Affliction'
To my love,
My greatest friend.
My everlasting protector.
My noble fortress.
Your laughter is my shroud,
And your kindness embraces me.
Your strength is my shield,
And your patience comforts me.
Yet my love,
I hear you.
I see you.
I feel you.
Your pain is equivalent to mine.
Your yearning is equally ravenous.
Your fears are my nightmares.
Our heart, bruised and broken.
Sorrow reigns,
But companionship defies.
Our affection immortal,
For our dynasty has just begun.
...
My greatest friend.
My everlasting protector.
My noble fortress.
Your laughter is my shroud,
And your kindness embraces me.
Your strength is my shield,
And your patience comforts me.
Yet my love,
I hear you.
I see you.
I feel you.
Your pain is equivalent to mine.
Your yearning is equally ravenous.
Your fears are my nightmares.
Our heart, bruised and broken.
Sorrow reigns,
But companionship defies.
Our affection immortal,
For our dynasty has just begun.
...
#marriage
#MentalHealth
#emotional #emotions
#emotional #emotions
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SELF POEM
Published
12th Oct 2020 10:38am
12th Oct 2020 10:38am
Surrender - poem 6 of 10 in 'Letters of Affliction'
Racing in unanswered circles,
Exhaustion labors.
I pray to Mother Moon,
Give me guidance.
Wandering among the forgotten,
Searching for true meaning.
I pray to Mother Earth,
Give me solace.
Inquiring in reflection,
The goddess within captive.
I pray to Mother Love,
Give me acceptance.
Swallowing the days,
Governed with hysteria.
I pray to Mother Serenity,
Give me patience.
Ancestral wisdom,
Caressed unto me,
Whispers of one word,
Surrender.
Surrender
Exhaustion labors.
I pray to Mother Moon,
Give me guidance.
Wandering among the forgotten,
Searching for true meaning.
I pray to Mother Earth,
Give me solace.
Inquiring in reflection,
The goddess within captive.
I pray to Mother Love,
Give me acceptance.
Swallowing the days,
Governed with hysteria.
I pray to Mother Serenity,
Give me patience.
Ancestral wisdom,
Caressed unto me,
Whispers of one word,
Surrender.
Surrender
#LifeStruggles
#rebirth
#MentalHealth
#FeelingLost
#emotions
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SELF POEM
Published
12th Oct 2020 2:08am
12th Oct 2020 2:08am
Revolutions- poem 8 of 10 in 'Letters of Affliction'
I have waited with 'Suspicion'.
Pain was the 'Diagnosis'.
I have found misery,
And decimated by 'Hope'.
I have been possessed with 'Anger'.
Composed an echo by 'Depression'.
I prayed for healing,
And found 'Surrender' and 'Vulnerability'.
I gaze at the stars,
While I orbit fantasy.
Waiting gravitates my path.
Encircling creation.
Three years I have circled you.
Each ended with Vulnerability.
Three Revolutions of Affliction.
Each began again with 'Suspicion'.
Today I begin, ...
Pain was the 'Diagnosis'.
I have found misery,
And decimated by 'Hope'.
I have been possessed with 'Anger'.
Composed an echo by 'Depression'.
I prayed for healing,
And found 'Surrender' and 'Vulnerability'.
I gaze at the stars,
While I orbit fantasy.
Waiting gravitates my path.
Encircling creation.
Three years I have circled you.
Each ended with Vulnerability.
Three Revolutions of Affliction.
Each began again with 'Suspicion'.
Today I begin, ...
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#emotions
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SELF POEM
Published
12th Oct 2020 1:36am
12th Oct 2020 1:36am
Vulnerability- poem 7 of 10 in 'Letters of Affliction'
I flayed the skin from my breasts.
Sternum cracked and spread,
My wings emerge.
Broken bones crowned my head.
A gown of muscle cascades.
A train of tendons shadows.
Organs adorn my body,
An ornamental vessel.
The goddess within reborn.
Displayed in my blood,
Awakened from my tears,
Manifested in my crucifixion.
Tears flowed through my body,
Blood drained from my eyes.
Words sowed the torn skin,
And mended the bones.
Crucifixion healed a broken heart.
Martyrdom returned my soul. ...
Sternum cracked and spread,
My wings emerge.
Broken bones crowned my head.
A gown of muscle cascades.
A train of tendons shadows.
Organs adorn my body,
An ornamental vessel.
The goddess within reborn.
Displayed in my blood,
Awakened from my tears,
Manifested in my crucifixion.
Tears flowed through my body,
Blood drained from my eyes.
Words sowed the torn skin,
And mended the bones.
Crucifixion healed a broken heart.
Martyrdom returned my soul. ...
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#acceptance
#healing
#emotions
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SELF POEM
Published
11th Oct 2020 4:37pm
11th Oct 2020 4:37pm
Depression- poem 5 of 10 in 'Letters of Affliction'
Ghost of my former self.
A life lost in abyss.
So inadequate,
I speak only of the past.
Apathy emanated,
The weight of an unborn soul.
Loss of something not found,
Blinded me to grace.
Paralyzed emotions,
Embedded in a loathing carcass.
Anesthetized to existence.
Mind and spirit slumbered.
Spirt burdened by absence.
Devoid of yearning.
Callously stiff,
I am relinquished to question.
Why me?
When will it end?
How do I move on?
What is next?
Depression
A life lost in abyss.
So inadequate,
I speak only of the past.
Apathy emanated,
The weight of an unborn soul.
Loss of something not found,
Blinded me to grace.
Paralyzed emotions,
Embedded in a loathing carcass.
Anesthetized to existence.
Mind and spirit slumbered.
Spirt burdened by absence.
Devoid of yearning.
Callously stiff,
I am relinquished to question.
Why me?
When will it end?
How do I move on?
What is next?
Depression
#sadness
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#emptiness
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SELF POEM
Published
10th Oct 2020 10:25pm
10th Oct 2020 10:25pm
Anger- poem 4 of 10 in 'Letters of Affliction'
In utero,
Celestial blindness becomes,
Gestating hate.
Rancid violence reaches up my throat.
Fear antagonized,
Like a bleeding tide.
Echoing silence to deafening madness.
Lulled tranquility to thunderous terror.
Anger reverberating my skeleton,
Reflecting my hollowed soul.
Envy harmonized with lunacy,
Birthing my internal cataclysm.
My mind a rival to my soul,
No reverence.
My body a traitor to my heart,
No purpose.
Obscure nightmare.
An invasion of seethe.
Unbenevolent,
I am...
Celestial blindness becomes,
Gestating hate.
Rancid violence reaches up my throat.
Fear antagonized,
Like a bleeding tide.
Echoing silence to deafening madness.
Lulled tranquility to thunderous terror.
Anger reverberating my skeleton,
Reflecting my hollowed soul.
Envy harmonized with lunacy,
Birthing my internal cataclysm.
My mind a rival to my soul,
No reverence.
My body a traitor to my heart,
No purpose.
Obscure nightmare.
An invasion of seethe.
Unbenevolent,
I am...
#anger
#depression
#MentalHealth
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SELF POEM
Published
10th Oct 2020 10:10pm
10th Oct 2020 10:10pm
Hope- poem 3 of 10 in 'Letters of Affliction'
I slip on despair,
How easily contained.
A polished deja vu,
We share a kinship.
I found peace in my reconciled misery,
After all, I was raised immune.
My companion comforted me,
As words spelled a muted tongue.
The calamitous remedy,
The regimen of anguish.
More arduous than despair,
Torrential hope.
It infiltrated my intellect.
Flowing from my mouth,
The only symptom,
Hopeful lies.
My brain floated to the top of the cage.
My heart overworked from endless percussion.
My spine is...
How easily contained.
A polished deja vu,
We share a kinship.
I found peace in my reconciled misery,
After all, I was raised immune.
My companion comforted me,
As words spelled a muted tongue.
The calamitous remedy,
The regimen of anguish.
More arduous than despair,
Torrential hope.
It infiltrated my intellect.
Flowing from my mouth,
The only symptom,
Hopeful lies.
My brain floated to the top of the cage.
My heart overworked from endless percussion.
My spine is...
#depression
#MentalHealth
#despair
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SELF POEM
Published
10th Oct 2020 6:14am
10th Oct 2020 6:14am
Diagnosis- poem 2 of 10 in my collection 'Letters of Affliction'
Humor disguised,
The sad red eyes,
While wordsmiths tongue,
Revealed all doubt.
The cold.
The pressure.
The vulnerability.
The evidence on screen.
Discourse unveiled,
The poison within.
Water,
Polluted by greed.
Weightlessly drowning,
Unheard.
Gasping for breath,
Unanswered.
Trapped by fear,
Choking on awareness.
Too breathless for belief,
Eyes dried open.
Diagnosis
The sad red eyes,
While wordsmiths tongue,
Revealed all doubt.
The cold.
The pressure.
The vulnerability.
The evidence on screen.
Discourse unveiled,
The poison within.
Water,
Polluted by greed.
Weightlessly drowning,
Unheard.
Gasping for breath,
Unanswered.
Trapped by fear,
Choking on awareness.
Too breathless for belief,
Eyes dried open.
Diagnosis
#depression
#grief
#MentalHealth
#despair
#fear
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SELF POEM
Published
10th Oct 2020 6:05am
10th Oct 2020 6:05am
Suspicion - Poem 1 of 10 in my collection 'Letters of Affliction'
Naive and elated,
I waited.
Ignoring the symptoms,
Of pain.
Contained with love,
For a person unknown.
More beauty than known.
Perfect.
Patiently waiting turns,
365 excuses.
365 redirections.
Effortless continuity.
Yet the only conception,
Was the idea,
Unknowingly enduring,
Waiting for you.
My whole world fabricated,
With positivity.
Only hiding,
The darkness creeping in.
Suspicion
I waited.
Ignoring the symptoms,
Of pain.
Contained with love,
For a person unknown.
More beauty than known.
Perfect.
Patiently waiting turns,
365 excuses.
365 redirections.
Effortless continuity.
Yet the only conception,
Was the idea,
Unknowingly enduring,
Waiting for you.
My whole world fabricated,
With positivity.
Only hiding,
The darkness creeping in.
Suspicion
#depression
#grief
#MentalHealth
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