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Voice
The creature on my shoulder eats my words. Dips at my voice with a hummingbird sticky, sipper’s tongue. I am the one who frames my thoughts, guides them into life with my teeth and tender lips. It is the one who feasts. Snatches every notion. Gulps them, oyster-like, without tasting. Doesn’t seem to care for flavours. Words in anger, words in love. Words in pain or fear or joy. All my words, it catches. Of screaming too, it snatches, wriggling with pleasure. Gorged on my voice, it grows, and I fall silent.
By Lauren Everdell4 days ago in Poets
Don't Leave
Take me back, To the day, When you said "I LOVE YOU" When you held my hand, And I suppressed the tears weld up In my eyes... Take me back to the moment, When you held my heart in your hands... My pride smiled, When you cried... I layed my head on your shoulder, I was thinking something only you would know... I whispered "Kiss Me" And with our last smooch, I didn't want to let go... You cried and I tried to comfort your pain, when I Lifed your head, I seen the tears in your eyes... My pride was washed to the side, I didn't want to go, But I had to leave... Take me back to the day, When I couldn't breathe- When you said, You Love Me...
By HandsomelouiiThePoet (Lonzo ward)4 days ago in Poets
Press Persecution
In the near future, in a perilous state that humankind finds itself in, the weight of expectation so paper thin, it rests on the last gasp of democracy: the press. In a spade of witchunts and murder, journalism has become so sparse that only the very daring and reckless will commit themselves to its envious thrill and dubious role within the last frontiers.
By Karl McBeath4 days ago in Poets
