Published in ILLUMINATION·PinnedSummer and The RainsA poem on melancholy, depersonalization, and perception — Warmth on my eyelids sinking into my skin, My fingers start to gently tap on the desk To a melody forgotten by man: the gentle song of silence. The breaths feel lacerating but unsharp; They’re slow and heavy; And I can only hear the taps and my exhalations. It’s dark…Poetry2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Pinned‘Have confidence in my abilities, not my intentions’A poem on the cruel art of social networking — Am I allowed to keep on living- When the river of ingenuity flows harshly within me, Dyed red with blood, and keeps me alive? This thing I call a beating heart- should it rest for a moment To give others peace of mind? Is it really okay to cover a mangled corpse with white cloth To…Poetry2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·PinnedI’ll Try My BestA poem on self-loathing and ingenuity — Sinking slowly into the summer warmth, Where the days get longer and the nights grow short, And the quiet lasts for just a moment While the sky falls still And the flowers sway in the breeze, And I hold the idea of contentment I dream of in my veins, Far from within my reach So it…Poetry2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·PinnedLeave and Never Come BackA poem on contemplating suicide — I want to end it all leave and never come back Everything is draining Everything terrifies me I tell myself leave and never come back Completely worthless No one would really be at loss I find my hands holding something and they tell me end it all and never come…Poetry2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·PinnedI Know You Can’t Hear Me But-A poem on grief and spiralling into deep depression — I’ll catch you by a thread As you slip from out my reach, And hold you by your hair, When you’re pulled from under me. I’ll watch you as you try To scale walls that are so steep. I’ll see you scrambling in The well, twenty metres deep. I’ll take…Poetry2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Jun 14Voices in the backgroundA poem on noise and overstimulation — Let’s say it’s like being underwater And your ears fill with liquid- Everything around you is blurry and distorted- Your eyes are open but the scene, the florescent lights, the sounds, the voices above- The words and meanings and connotations- Are too confusing for you And you can’t think of a single one of your…Poetry2 min read
Published in New Writers Welcome·May 22Ode to a friend: A Good Thing Happened To Me Today.A poem on resilience — A good thing happened to me today. I tried to touch the sun and it burned my hand. My entire reality shifted like a seismic eruption and almost tor my mind from my soul. I shook violently for an hour. I shook and I trembled and I cried and I gasped for the air…Poetry1 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·May 17Breathing MercuryA poem on unhealthy determination to find beauty in life — Wrap myself in warped beauty of things I describe in my dreams to a vast emptiness. I’ve been trying to do it but the cloth tears upon the touch of my skin For it deems being beheld by someone unworthy of understanding it to be a disgrace upon itself Therefore I see only…Poetry2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·May 15Is This the End, Then?A poem on self-reflection and suicide — Would it have been better if I didn’t exist at all? If I had never met you all? If I had decided never to interact with anyone? If I decided never to let others be fond of me? If I decided ever to let anyone close? I think it would…Poetry2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·May 12Five Years of GrowthA poem on personal development and growth — I don’t recognise myself from a year ago. They seem foreign and unlike the person I’ve become. …Poetry3 min read
