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[fallenpoets]

I live in fear

I fear the day when children bicker and fight and mushroom clouds illuminate perilous nights

I fear the day when the price of life should fall so low, that power starved imbeciles launch missiles into places where babies sleep, and fathers pray while mothers weep.

I fear the day I look into my child’s eye and lie and lie voice splintered whispering “We aren’t going to die”.

I fear the day the skies unfold and bombs reign. Rivers of blood flowing through the cold streets; my brothers slain.

I fear the day I look into my child’s eye and lie and lie saying “Everything is fine”.

~ZiXo// We all fall down

[justscribbledwords]

the fall

usually it is quick, it is messy, it makes your heart skip a beat, it takes away your breath and you feel high even though you know you are falling

but with you it was anything but quick or messy, it was something that i literally walked into hoping it won’t hurt as much

but baby a fall is a fall it is bound to hurt it is bound to break a few things in your house and your body like a few glasses, maybe the tv, your bones, your heart, your spirit, yourself no matter how careful you are with it

[theolivebird]

Grief

Grief sits as a stone in the depths of my soul; it sounds - emptiness/void/hollow; it rises with tides of remembrance - my love, my singular attachment; so mangled I am with self-restraint, this pure form of pretence; I deny, I curtail, I sink with my stone of grief.

[drearydaffodil]

There is a reason I Have never called This season autumn.

No gold-colored, Apple-scented Paradise for me.

The darkness Clutches fingers Around my smile.

Orion, Sirius, Polaris, Blinking brightly but The clouds are hunters.

Sunna battles bravely, A fearsome Phoenix fails, She can’t survive the fall.

[writesoftlytay]

Numb

The words teetering on the tip of my tongue never come, but I have said them a thousand times in the silence of my own mind. Even in this, I am denied satisfaction, for my voice falters even here, where I am alone, even now, when no one can here. The anger teeters, but I am what falls.

[robertjw4688]

Bad poetry gallops past my naked brain as I embrace this halcyon fall like a father’s vandalized grave.

[unknownstudent23]

Falling Apart With or Without You

It was all so quiet  before you came. After was loud noises; Curses, Screaming, Glass shattering.

After was; Slamming doors, Dogs barking, Sobbing.

After was; sitting alone, waiting for you, to come back so I could say sorry.

After was; the sound  of the vacuum to clear the buzz of my own head.

After was; the house being cleaner then it was before because cleaning was coping.

After was; waiting,  until you didn’t come back. 

[rhapsodic-evanescence]

the way down

Torment fed insanity ripping away at perfection and driving away moral Snowy-white wings Coming apart at their non-existent seams as the plummet hastened leaving nothing but a crumpled body A vulnerable body with arms wrapped around the knees pulled up to the chest that shielded her beating heart And that is how an angel fell to earth Shedding wings Halo and Heaven For a mortal girl full of demons A mortal girl who loved her despite the flaws that the mortal world gave her