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Dez Apr 2020
Tomorrow will never be today, but we learned that yesterday.
Zack Ripley Jan 2020
congratulations. you made it through today.
that's something not everyone got a chance to say.
tomorrow, I hope you stop staying silent
just because the words keep getting lost along the way.
but for now, congratulations. you made it through another day.
Laura Mar 2020
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"Stop" you said. Not a nice tone. Bossy and elitist straight down to your bone. Peppering your eggs to perfection, not a thank you in my direction. Who did you think you were? When you woke up next to me, did you know? That if you kept up the ******* I would go?"

" **and I went to this show" Oh cool, another punch and blow. Every time we hang out, I hear that name. Stabs sharper than a knife. I started to make a tally in my phone, to make myself feel less crazy. I'm starting to realize.

The day you asked me why I was smiling. We were out to breakfast and I was just happy to have this moment with you. Happy to see you. Happy to be with you. Was I not allowed to be happy?

Affectionately scratching your hair after your show. "What are you doing?" You were happy to show me off to your friends, saying I'm your "groupie". But not in private.
sept. 2018
Zack Ripley Apr 2019
I don't know what to say when I look at the people of today. We acknowledge the world's gotten worse and still act like it's ok. The people of today fight in wars for reasons it seems they don't understand and ask that we support them while they invade a foreign land. Yes I know the people of yesterday did this as well when they killed innocent people in America before they burned in hell but what the people of today don't seem to understand is that the best way to heal is to take each other by the hand. It's been 18 years since that day in 2001. Now it's time to stop fighting so we can take care of everyone. People of today, please keep something in mind. The people of tomorrow are coming and we need to ensure they won't be blind. If we don't tell them how to learn from the past, the people of tomorrow might be the last. People of today, carpe diem. Seize the day. Come home so we can sing, heal and be gay.
This is my first poem I wrote. I wrote it in 2014.
Amanda Kay Burke Mar 2020
Today you are turning 51
Hope your birthday is lots of fun
May have more wrinkles than you did at the start
Don't care if you're old
You're young at heart
My dad's birthday is next month so I started his card today
Eli Juniper Mar 2020
The view from the highest point of the bridge depicts a clutch of melancholy; it stretches into the mind as a melody. Like a blue cobalt mirror, tainted with dead stars, the horizon is luring me into the abysses of softness. I blow on my pains in its drafts. Air begins to be music, when it sings to my heart. I become this music; the tune I try to **** out of my cold breath, through these silly instruments. Never using my own voice. The keys of the piano are seemingly breaking this river, quietly; In haste followed by a cello which, as a silk voice, caresses my skin of woe. Both share the confusion and tune with one another into my round tears.
I dance, proud, on the notes of suffering, dragging on the sidewalk these astonished, irrelevant voices. No, I won't be careful…no, I'm not suicidal…I don't want to go down.
I would like to turn around and notice those absurd questions asked to me. But I know that when I start shouting, no one will be behind my scary and scared back. I will gaze upon the absence behind me. I will be tempted to make this starting gesture, the conductor's sign to begin: I will close my fists and fall into the masses. In a drumroll of applause.
Suddenly, the silence of my loneliness reached my heart, and as I behold this cobalt blue shower, I climbed down. Thinking, feeling, in me, "Not today".
Hafsa Mar 2020
If I give up today
I did it for me

Maybe because
It was too much to handle
Something other than me

And bed become
A friend to depend on and on
Maria Etre Mar 2020
He asked me to stop asking him about loving me.
André Morrison Feb 2020
I always have to face away from the sun
Her light; I betray
Can't face the shadow of what I've become
Out of sight, out of disarray
The number of days I spare to pray
Is only rivalled by the days I don't fare well; like today
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