Will this day ever end
for fear of waking again;
a new rise, a new day
forever a lifetime away
Thursday, 23rd September 2021
We are captured by a subconscious searching for recognition and a meaning that is found beating through everything - like the arteries and veins twisting along the ground where walks our feet.
You storm away without a backward glance
only troubled minds seek paradise
an escape to a better world
far from circumstance
you whisper to yourself at night
clearing tear-tracked eyes, a haunted sight
I see you now through the mirror glass
cursing what blocks your well-trodden path
Tuesday, 28th September 2021
My reality is shaped in colours; a painting blurred in depths of hues, brushed by a wandering silence.
Why do I keep myself hidden in layers of self-control
Afraid of the dark whilst summer lines my curtains
Choking back these haunting fears, and numb
Is the only feeling that's certain
What joy can be felt today? Frozen yet
In feigned sensibility, I ask myself...
i wish i was the birth of a newborn or an infant's first word,
so i could make you beam like a child's proud mother.
i wish i was the first day of school, or a girl's 16th birthday,
or her high school graduation and the after party.
i wish i was your first kiss, or the first time you liked a girl and thought about marriage.
i wish i was the first heartbreak or the love you'll die with,
i wish i was special, or something like it.
- i wish i was special
This is in no way a fairy transaction, I promise.
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Having an existential crisis over whether people love me or not when it's really just poor communication skills on my part due to dyspraxia and low self-esteem gaah
I’m sat here at the kitchen countertop
my laptop on a chopping board
watching my mother's jam pot
simmer away the plums and sugar -
I’m here to stop it boiling over.
It has already done it once
the sticky pink liquid has become
stained glass on the hob cooker
it hasn’t reduced much
so I might be here just a little while longer
Historian, writer, and poet | proofreader and tarot card lover | Virgo and INTJ | dyspraxic and hypermobile | You'll find my poetry and other creative outlets stored here. Read my Substack newsletter Hidden Within These Walls. Copyright © 2016 Ruth Karan.
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