#twspoetry

[roody11]

Empty handed

And you return after a time empty handed, so how do you return? Those eyes glimmer, waiting for what you hid from them in your absence Is presence enough? Is it enough to simply be what you are? Those mountains wear you down, the ones you never chose to climb

The weight of expectations 🫠

[honest-inks]

Talk

A giggle is a lifeline

Though I've been shushed before

On an island of desks with

Mountains of paperwork

To laugh was to live

But I was asked to walk the plank

By the worst kind of pirate

The joy-thief captain was a

Hard lined liver

Bitter with nostalgia

Chocking on regret she

Wished to stifle our chuckle but

We dove off the deck

Made friends with the sirens and

Swam on