Submissions by sierraD61
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
SELF POEM
Published
20th Mar 2022 10:32pm
20th Mar 2022 10:32pm
Photo-album
Memories of polaroids
All in black and white
The home of ghosts
The haunted, the lost
To ask that only-
the screaming would stop
Zoloft, Lexapro
Gold chains, Stilletos
Sertraline, Prozac
Vices and setbacks
The film is distorted
It's soaked from the rain
The ink is faded
She’s only to blame
What is it like to have
The camera in the hand
Of someone who actually gives a damn
All in black and white
The home of ghosts
The haunted, the lost
To ask that only-
the screaming would stop
Zoloft, Lexapro
Gold chains, Stilletos
Sertraline, Prozac
Vices and setbacks
The film is distorted
It's soaked from the rain
The ink is faded
She’s only to blame
What is it like to have
The camera in the hand
Of someone who actually gives a damn
#depression
#myself
#emptiness #apathy
#emptiness #apathy
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
20th Mar 2022 5:05pm
20th Mar 2022 5:05pm
Falling
My last day on earth
My vanity holds
The last words I'll speak
Not an item’s out of place
in the house that I weeped
When my mother called,
And I said my good-bye
I dream of the funeral
Of the living and the dead
The cocktails in the mourning
Of my siblings and my dad
How strange it is
for them to turn heads
The autumn wind kisses my face
Caressing my hair
with frostbit whispers
Of the people who killed me
Made me a disgrace
Tears paint my face
Tomorrow they’ll find me ...
My vanity holds
The last words I'll speak
Not an item’s out of place
in the house that I weeped
When my mother called,
And I said my good-bye
I dream of the funeral
Of the living and the dead
The cocktails in the mourning
Of my siblings and my dad
How strange it is
for them to turn heads
The autumn wind kisses my face
Caressing my hair
with frostbit whispers
Of the people who killed me
Made me a disgrace
Tears paint my face
Tomorrow they’ll find me ...
#depression
#strength
#suicide
#narrative
#healing
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Mar 2022 2:42am
19th Mar 2022 2:42am
Resurrection
Your grace is of a dying breed
I stare into your smile and wish
I could steal your pain,
Supply your needs
To lose your right to motherhood
Before your 17th birthday
Defective mother,
If only your daughter knew
The tears you cried the night
you knew she’d never be born
The bathrooms lined with the burden
That your body couldn’t bear
Your heart seared with the daggers
That this cruel world throws at you
You died at their hands
And reborn an honorand
If only your mother knew
The light she gave you ...
I stare into your smile and wish
I could steal your pain,
Supply your needs
To lose your right to motherhood
Before your 17th birthday
Defective mother,
If only your daughter knew
The tears you cried the night
you knew she’d never be born
The bathrooms lined with the burden
That your body couldn’t bear
Your heart seared with the daggers
That this cruel world throws at you
You died at their hands
And reborn an honorand
If only your mother knew
The light she gave you ...
#motherhood
#death
#rebirth #misunderstood
#rebirth #misunderstood
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th Mar 2022 2:55am
18th Mar 2022 2:55am
Ella
As though I were a child in Disneyland
I swore she was a princess
Donning armor of baggy shirts
a crown of red box dye
The knight of the passenger seat,
Behind soft smiles and red eyes
there's a queen in disguise
Beneath thin hands and makeup
A scarred child hides
Can you slay your beast
Or die at its feet?
Stay, Ella
Slay, Ella
I swore she was a princess
Donning armor of baggy shirts
a crown of red box dye
The knight of the passenger seat,
Behind soft smiles and red eyes
there's a queen in disguise
Beneath thin hands and makeup
A scarred child hides
Can you slay your beast
Or die at its feet?
Stay, Ella
Slay, Ella
#suicide
#MentalHealth
#EatingDisorder #SelfWorth
#EatingDisorder #SelfWorth
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th Mar 2022 2:49am
18th Mar 2022 2:49am
Fallen Angel
her brown eyes glisten
like tear-stained glass
shattered and cracked
there are miles it seems
but only feet between
her truth and me
she’s a fallen angel
her shattered halo
falls to pieces to the ground
they starved your body
they stole your wings
they broke your heart
for the most beautiful girl
a goddess on earth
a diamond in the rough
Stand Tall fallen angel
the world is in your hands
like tear-stained glass
shattered and cracked
there are miles it seems
but only feet between
her truth and me
she’s a fallen angel
her shattered halo
falls to pieces to the ground
they starved your body
they stole your wings
they broke your heart
for the most beautiful girl
a goddess on earth
a diamond in the rough
Stand Tall fallen angel
the world is in your hands
#depression
#SelfHarm
#MentalHealth
#EatingDisorder
#healing
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Mar 2022 2:41am
16th Mar 2022 2:41am
Paradise
Heaven is sitting in a conference room,
Waiting for group to begin
When your knife doesn’t cut down deep enough
The pills don’t quite work alright
The dawn of the next life
Blazes while stale fluorescent lights buzz
There's an angel next to me
She is far too skittish to speak
She rocks back and forth anxiously
Her arm is embroidered with scars
I hope she doesn’t see mine
The clock reads eight thirty-five
In the distance, there are soft whispers
Quiet, to not disturb us
They speak of a new treatment plan ...
Waiting for group to begin
When your knife doesn’t cut down deep enough
The pills don’t quite work alright
The dawn of the next life
Blazes while stale fluorescent lights buzz
There's an angel next to me
She is far too skittish to speak
She rocks back and forth anxiously
Her arm is embroidered with scars
I hope she doesn’t see mine
The clock reads eight thirty-five
In the distance, there are soft whispers
Quiet, to not disturb us
They speak of a new treatment plan ...
#depression
#SelfHarm
#suicide
#heaven
#healing
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SELF POEM
Published
14th Mar 2022 9:57am
14th Mar 2022 9:57am
The wolf you feed
The silver on her tongue
Throws daggers as she sung
To the cage that heeds
The wolf she feeds
Neith his cloak of sheep
Her devil speaks
Darling you already know
The wolf that eats
Throws daggers as she sung
To the cage that heeds
The wolf she feeds
Neith his cloak of sheep
Her devil speaks
Darling you already know
The wolf that eats
#anxiety
#depression
#animals #SelfReflection
#animals #SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
14th Mar 2022 4:21am
14th Mar 2022 4:21am
Lost
I knew you were gone
Before we ever said goodbye
My heart had been lost
And thought of you home
But my eyes had been shut
From all the warning signs
I knew you were gone
But I thought we were lost
Distance brings clarity
Time heals the deepest wounds
I looked to you
For what she never could
But children can’t fix
What parents don’t give
I was searching for love
But my direction was lost
I moved to close to you
I exposed too much of me
You said it was suffocating
Sparks need air to...
Before we ever said goodbye
My heart had been lost
And thought of you home
But my eyes had been shut
From all the warning signs
I knew you were gone
But I thought we were lost
Distance brings clarity
Time heals the deepest wounds
I looked to you
For what she never could
But children can’t fix
What parents don’t give
I was searching for love
But my direction was lost
I moved to close to you
I exposed too much of me
You said it was suffocating
Sparks need air to...
#love
#heartbroken
#breakup
#FeelingLost
#healing
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Mar 2022 11:04pm
13th Mar 2022 11:04pm
The Monarch
In a land filled with smoke
A monarch flaps her wings
Billowing the smog
Far beyond the kingdom's walls
Embers blaze, only shadows persist
For light is a miracle
And God has no place for that
This courtyard is desecrated
once a sanctuary, now a prison
But she blazes among the grey
a prism of hope against reality
Bullet holes in paper wings,
Bombshells in flower meadows,
Ashes in bright memories
The house is annihilated
Yet her hope is untouched
In a land filled with smoke
A monarch...
A monarch flaps her wings
Billowing the smog
Far beyond the kingdom's walls
Embers blaze, only shadows persist
For light is a miracle
And God has no place for that
This courtyard is desecrated
once a sanctuary, now a prison
But she blazes among the grey
a prism of hope against reality
Bullet holes in paper wings,
Bombshells in flower meadows,
Ashes in bright memories
The house is annihilated
Yet her hope is untouched
In a land filled with smoke
A monarch...
#hope
#violence
#war
#fire
#butterfly
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SELF POEM
Published
13th Mar 2022 8:07pm
13th Mar 2022 8:07pm
The forest
Searching, seeking, asking
I’m lost in these barren meadows
A broken soul alive in my
Shattered puddle reflection
Feeling, losing, healing
Tripping on roots
Slipping on leaves
Where do you go
Where do you hide
Where do you run
When the forest’s in your mind
I’m lost in these barren meadows
A broken soul alive in my
Shattered puddle reflection
Feeling, losing, healing
Tripping on roots
Slipping on leaves
Where do you go
Where do you hide
Where do you run
When the forest’s in your mind
#anxiety
#depression
#nature #MentalHealth
#nature #MentalHealth
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