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Tuesday, 28 January 2020

Poetry for Thought


Title: What do you think?

Loss is weightless, isn’t it?
Like a fictitious story.
Where is the documentation of loss?
Yes, a person died,
Yes, a person left,
But is that loss?
Isn’t loss what follows?

The weightless fog that has no colour,
No smell, no speed, no way to find it in this world.

An obituary doesn’t smell of loss,
It is at the period of the last sentence, of the obituary where the loss begins.

How do you explain voices in your head from a dead person?
How do you explain the smell of your ex-lover in your room?
How do you hear a meowing of cat that is long gone?

I carry loss with me,
Everywhere, every time,
Each loss having their own personalities.
Sometimes it’s a tea party,
Where we can laugh.
But does that last forever?
Ask anyone, it doesn’t.

Can you feel that weight on your chest?
Feet? Arms? Fingers? Eyes?
Is there someone holding you down?
Did you check under the bed? Behind the doors? Inside your memory?
Questions without answers, answers without questions
Is the loop of loss, I reckon.

Well, in the end, we can make friends with our monsters,
And all monsters are not scary,
A lot of them are heavy,
Like unwanted mosquitoes when you want to fall asleep,
But they come back every night.

So what do you think?
Why is loss weightless and heavy all at once?
Why do we have this loop?
How do you end this loop?
-the end-

Thursday, 5 September 2019

Poetry for Thought

Title: June


You didn’t send me your overly seductive birthday message.
And I find myself wondering if this is (finally) over between us,
This dance of conversation between the silences.
I found myself reading our old messages, emails – filled with promises,
“I will never stop loving you”
“You make me better”
“I’m sorry for being an asshole, but you are the best thing that happened to me, and I will never stop loving you”

You and me are a faint memory now, the relationship,
But between those blurry flashbacks,
Some stand out like a flood light, lighting up my weakest and strongest moments.

You, my love, are light and dark,
An addiction and a rehab,
I want to hurl abuses at you,
And at the same time….
Pull you close into a warm embrace.

I’m jaded now; carefully stitching words to all the new people I meet,
I didn’t say ‘I love you’ to one lover until we broke up.
I’m jaded now;
I say ‘I love you’ to everyone, afraid of losing them.

So is it finally over between us?

Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Poetry for thought

Title: Reality



I am feeling sexual today,
Also angry,
Also sad,
And mostly confused.
I want to smell your sweat,
Dripping off my forehead,
While I find that spot
Under your left breast.                           

I want to unravel this,
Erase all memory of us,
While I slowly break down
Into this pool of angry mess.
Tears well up,
Crawl through my fingertips,
While I try to find a breath
And fail.

The imagination of your left breast,

Thoughts of our tangled feet,
While I slowly wipe away the reality
Off my forehead…
Wait,
Which is real?

The anger? The tears?
The sweat that appears suddenly
On my palms,
Which is real?

I hold my face in my hands,
Not just hold, but grip,
Which is real?
And I try to grab the imagination
To blend it with this sad and angry reality.

Forms merge, order becomes chaos,
Chaos becomes breathing,
Breathing.
Breathing.
Breathing.
Is it me? Is it you?
Chaos, calm,
Earth shattering,
And then.
The shush.

Flashes of my hands shaking,
My lips searching,
My anger brewing,
Eyes closing, sunlight burning,
Moonlight calming.

Flashes, flashes,
Lines blur,
Breathing.
Breathing.
In. out. In. out.

Stay still, maybe now we’ll know
Which is real.

Wednesday, 20 July 2016

Poem

days like these when the body doesn't fit the mind,
and the mind doesn't fit the soul,
and the soul doesn't fit me,

days like these are meant to be spent in bed,
with fingers in my hair and stories in my ear.

Where are you?

Only the wind sweeps across cold floors
and lonely strands.

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Poetry for thought

Day 14

The last of the everyday writing challenge. Let me know what you think:

Title: End


It’s like a tug of war between us,
You want me to talk, spill everything,
Expect me to stay naked,
To almost discard my flesh.

Heart, blood, bones, muscles,
Exposed to you,
Thoughts, dreams, fears, tears,
Lying on the floor.

I didn’t know you then,
I don’t know you now,
But you know me, my everything,
Is this good for us, me not knowing you?

This war must end, either I stay naked,
Let the whiplash do its magic,
Or the let the silence make the decision we can't,
Whatever comes in the end, this now we have was the best.
 

Sunday, 3 April 2016

Poetry for thought



Day 10
Title: Closer
 
Wrapped in your smile,
Unwrapped in your heart.
Folded within your palm,
Unfolded in your arms.
Closer, come a little closer,
Let me breathe.

Wrapped in your imagination,
Unwrapped in your haze.
Folded in the pages of your skin,
Unfolded in the kisses you leave behind.
Closer, come a little closer,
Let me hear you one last time.