Hewo everyone!!!
I hope this is the ninth poetry comp, someone pls lmk if it isn’t
I hope you’ve all had a great week, and this week’s poetry comp was Dear Sadness.
Last week’s poetry comp winner was @brayslay !
Congrats, and here is her poem if you would like to read it!
Ink-Filled Veins
My blood was never only read.
There’s darker ink inside instead.
A single thought can bloom inside my brain,
Then fall in lines like quiet silver rain.
A character might whisper in my head,
Asking for the life I haven’t said.
Their voices wind like rivers through my veins.
Whole worlds appear in corners of my mind,
With hidden roads and secrets left behind.
The pen becomes the door they travel through,
The page the sky where all their stories grew.
Each sentence beats like thunder on the page,
Each story something I cannot cage,
Each world a spark that sets a world ablaze.
Because to me a blank page isn’t bare,
It’s filled with lives just waiting to be there.
So when I write until the night is late,
It isn’t just a hobby or a trait.
It’s something deeper pulsing in my brain,
A restless tide I never can contain-
My heart was made for ink-filled veins.
And here are the ones for this week!
Pls make sure to read all of the poems before voting!
Tysm everyone and happy writing! -Yani, Alora
#1
Dear Sadness,
You arrived without knocking.
Some would say you broke and entered.
I’d say you came in with a smile.
You were never invited,
But you said you were cold.
I let you stay.
We remodeled my home
To give you a room
But you took the whole house.
And when that wasn’t enough to keep you warm,
You burned it down and watched the flames grow higher.
Even without my home,
You followed me.
You convinced me I wasn’t enough.
That I hadn’t given enough.
So I gave you the clothes off my back
To keep you warm once the fire turned to smoke.
I fall to my knees and beg.
I beg for you to tell me what more you need.
I beg you to tell me how to feel better.
I beg just to feel okay.
Please, please just let me be okay.
And now all my friends have left me,
And there is nothing left I love.
Sometimes I wonder
If I fell in love with you, Sadness,
Would you leave me too?
I am lost.
I grasp for anything,
Anything at all,
To distract me
From wanting it all to end.
I try to take life one day at a time,
But the days begin to crumble.
Soon, I can’t tell today from tomorrow.
My skin drips red
Like candle wax,
And my pretty words
Burn across empty pages,
Like the fire you built to engulf my home.
All that’s left
Is that constant weight on my shoulder…
I am alone with you,
Sadness.
And yet you still complain of the cold,
But you incinerated my flesh.
You need someone to keep you warm,
But my eyes still water from the ash.
What more can I give?
Haven’t I given enough?
G_DD_MN_T HAVEN’T I GIVEN ENOUGH?
How long until all of this gets old
And I’m actually ready to d*e
When I’m no longer saying it
To pass the time?
The clock is ticking fast.
I know I’ll be gone soon.
And it’s really f_ck*ng hard
To look forward to tomorrow
When every d_mn day
Is the same.
Sadness,
I gave you everything I had.
You took everything
I had ever tried to keep.
Tell me, dear Sadness,
When will my life
Be next?
#2
Dear Sadness,
I was so young when we met,
Just a girl at her grandmother’s bedside,
Scared and alone.
I didn’t know you, and you scared me.
But you made me a promise.
A promise to be my friend.
A promise to never leave.
You told me I didn’t have to be alone anymore.
You told me beautiful lies,
What I thought I wanted to hear.
So I let you in.
But that friendship, it was awfully one-sided.
You took and you took,
Leaving nothing in return.
Well, I guess you left something:
This infinite blackness.
These dangerous whispers.
You told me I wouldn’t be alone,
But you made me push everyone away.
You took the ones who tried to stay.
And when I told you I was done,
When I couldn’t lose anymore,
You threatened to leave too.
So I begged you to stay,
Because I was too afraid to be alone.
I has been so many years.
I have given you everything.
But grief is a greedy b@stard,
And you still crave more.
You took my family.
You took my friends.
You took my pets.
You took my tears.
You took my future.
You took my dreams.
You took my love.
You took my ability to feel anything at all.
But it’s still not enough.
When will you be done?!
I have nothing left.
I am numb.
I can barely feel you there.
You’re curled around my heart.
You’re burrowed in my brain.
You steal every emotion, every thought.
I tried to cut you out.
The bl*od drained away.
The world, it grew gray.
But I suppose you’ve kept your promise,
Because you refuse to go away.
I suppose I should thank you,
Even though I almost hate you.
You did what you were meant to,
But I tried to make you something more.
I fed you after midnight.
No one ever warned me.
I guess it is my fault.
I gave you too much room to grow.
I tried to hold you even as you hurt me.
I clung even as I pushed you away.
But I am done now.
I am done with you.
You can let go now.
I won’t hold you to your word.
I’m not afraid to be alone now,
Because I already am.
I don’t need you anymore.
I am ready for my heart to beat free.
Farewell, old friend.
#3
Dear Sadness
Last night
I fell into your arms
Today
I broke myself for you
Tomorrow
I’ll cry myself to sleep
I want you to leave
But you keep coming back
I want you to disappear
But I keep seeing you here
I wish you goodbye
Then welcome you again
I can’t go away
And you can’t stay
Because you
Grabbed me by my throat
Sucked all the air out
Made me cry
So please
Would you stop
For once
Only once
So I can finally
Hear myself laugh
- #1
- #2
- #3