You make me feel like a burden,
Wire my mouth shut so I can’t speak,
So you don’t have to hear my pain,
You want me to be the strong one,
To carry the mistakes for the both of us.
Category: Writing
Hidden Meanings
I thought you understood,
We were on the same page,
Or were all the words I said-
Devoid of all meaning to you?
It’s almost funny really,
You say you love me,
And yet you still continue to hurt me.
The Stories We Tell
Make it convincing,
I want to believe-
The story you weave,
The lies you tell,
How could you hurt me?
If I pretend not to see.
Beware of Friends hiding knives
I really thought you were different,
But when it came down to it,
You still stuck the knife in me anyway.
Heatwaves are People
You feel oppressive,
A heatwave caught on my skin,
Sizzling across me with words,
You’re suffocating me,
Yet a storm is brewing,
Soon it’ll wash you away.
Guide
If there were no stars,
I wonder if I’d look to you,
To guide me.
Biting My Tongue
I’m biting my tongue,
Enough to make me bleed,
Holding back all the words,
I should have said,
For you to understand,
The hurt you inflict.
A Storm Inside
I admire a storm,
The power it holds,
To settle the one,
I hold in my chest,
My own hurricane.
Ancestral Ruins
I wonder what our ancestors would say,
If they stood before us,
Would they be proud of all we’ve built,
Or disappointed, that despite all this,
We are still ruined as people.
A Bruised Heart
Be still my heart,
It breaks too easily,
Upon the words,
Softly spoken,
All our promises broken,
By a lover that-
Has fallen out of love.
Bohotea 