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abyss 2d
Late nights
Car rides
Came into my life
Like the most beautiful star
In the dark sky.

Souls made of broken promises
And shattered dreams,
Trying to find a safe haven
In the arms of the other.

Will the demons that haunt us
Dance together?
Will they destroy
One another?

Souls made of scars,
Our shattered pieces
Trying to fit one another.

Is it too early,
Is it too late?

Late nights,
Car rides,
A dance of naked bodies
In the moonlight.

Shattered souls
Of broken promises.

Will this, too,
Become nothing more
Than a memory—
A story our future selves
Tell about the past?
The fear that we will become nothing more than a memory in the minds of who we cherish the most.
A lamentation carved in ancestral ash and silken wrath
I was born beneath a roof of borrowed stars, where silence was stitched into my cradlecloth, and every withheld scream became a psalm
for the Sentinel of Bloodline me.
They speak in tongues dipped in honeyed venom, those kin who wear concern like ceremonial garlands, but their rituals reek of rot their blessings, barbed.
The Bearer of Burdens my progenitor
spent his prime erecting altars for their comfort, his sweat sanctified their feasts, his spine bent into bridges they now demand
be paved with gold and guilt.
Two daughters, they hiss, as if our existence were a ledger of loss, as if his labor must be transmuted
into inheritance for those who never wept for him.
And the Matriarch of Grace my origin flame
they veil her with shame, commenting on her visage, demanding she drape herself in submission
as if dignity were theirs to dictate.
Yet she speaks to them still, with a grace that defies gravity, while I her blood’s echo
burn in silence, my fury folded into polite nods
and counterfeit smiles.
I want to unsheath my voice, etch boundaries into their bones, teach them the sacred geometry of respect.
How dare they trespass
into the sanctum of our suffering?
But I swallow my wrath for the Matriarch’s peace, for the Bearer’s dignity, for the society that weighs silence
as virtue.
Still, silence is a slow crucifixion.
So I write.
I ritualize my rage into verse, my grief into glyphs, my defiance into legacy.
Let this poem be a blade wrapped in velvet, a dirge for the betrayed, a sanctuary for Sentinels
who guard their lineage like sacred flame.
“This poem is a sanctuary for those who carry ancestral grief in silence. It speaks for the quiet rebels, the matriarchs veiled in shame, and the daughters who burn with unspoken fury. If your lineage has ever been dismissed, this verse is your velvet blade. Speak back.
Have you ever swallowed your voice for the sake of family peace? Which line felt like your own story?
Anxiety is not my enemy
She is my safety
Changed from years of turmoil.
She should have been held
And addressed properly
But she was pushed down and suppressed instead.
Anxiety is not my enemy
She is love trying to offer the protection that she never received
She is my safety betrayed.

Sorrow is not my enemy
He is my hurt
Turned inwards
Shoved aside and ignored
When his hands should have been taken
While he was told that it's okay to feel grief.
Sorrow is not my enemy.
He is my heart trying to recover from being trampled on.

Depression is not my enemy
He is my Self-awareness
Putting up decorations
That are loud and bright
Because no one noticed them last time.
He should have been seen
And hugged
And told that it's okay to not be okay.
Depression is not my enemy.
He is my soul attempting to remind me that my sorrow is real.

Anger is not my enemy
He is all of my nerves
Cut and bruised from hands and blades
That I never saw coming.
He should have been washed and bandaged
But instead, salt was poured into the wound.
Anger is not my enemy.
He is my throbbing skin trying to tell me that I've still got wounds that haven't scabbed over quite yet.

Fear is not my enemy.
He is my mind
Folded over on itself
Refusing to trust
Huddled in a corner
Because he could not trust the ones he should have been able to.
He should have been helped,
But he was ignored instead.
Fear is not my enemy.
He is the caution that I felt that everyone ignored–including me.

Trauma is not my enemy
She is a little girl
Screaming for help
Because no one listened to her before.
She should have been heard
And dealt with gently
Trauma is not my enemy.
She is the part of me that never truly healed. She is the part that no one ever listened to.
But I'm listening now.

And I am not my enemy.
I'm still learning to trust myself again, but I hope that this will serve as a reminder that these things are not my enemies. They are abused parts of me that wanted to help.
They were born of glass four shards in bloom,
A boy, two girls, then dusk’s last plume.
A house once held their laughter tight,
Till fate collided wrong with right.
Steel kissed steel, and silence screamed,
Two souls erased, two dreams unseamed.
The cradle cracked, the walls grew thin,
And strangers bought the blood within.
One sold to silk, one sold to shame,
One wore a badge, one lost his name.
They wandered near, yet knew not kin,
Their roots erased beneath their skin.
A mother’s love, a borrowed lie,
A party mask, a hollow eye.
She danced for men who broke her grace,
While daughters drowned in silent space.
One touched by hands that should not dare,
One blamed for truth too raw to bear.
One drove the wheel, one wore the crown,
Yet none could see the blood run down.
The eldest searched with fractured breath,
To stitch the seams of scattered death.
But destiny, that cruel disguise,
Kept every answer veiled in lies.
They should have grown in garden light,
But bloomed in shadow, out of sight.
One moment tore their world apart
A crash, a cry, a shattered heart.
So let us hold what time can break,
Each breath, each bond, for memory’s sake.
For life’s a thread, not iron-spun
And glassborn souls can still outrun
The silence.
This poem traces the aftermath of a family torn apart by tragedy — a crash that shattered not just bodies, but identities, futures, and the fragile threads of belonging. It explores how trauma disperses lives into roles, masks, and silence, while one soul searches to stitch the scattered pieces. A meditation on memory, loss, and the quiet rebellion of glassborn resilience.
You brought me into this world
To punish me for your mistake.
You could have terminated the misery;
Maybe you would have, in retrospect,
If only you reflected on anything
Other than the pain of your self-possession.
Maybe you’d see that I was born to lose,
Find myself worthy of every bruise.

You stripped me of my autonomy.
I’ll never find a way to make you sorry.
You’re a stranger to apology,
Too infatuated with commiseration
To hear me choke on the guilt,
Gasp through tempered oxygen,
A vessel knotted in tension.

A clenched fish of crushed hope.
A tightrope of flashbacks and fear.

Every slammed door
Echoes the silence you dragged me under.
Because it was your right
To raise me through spite,
To dim every light I find.
To push me towards the familiarity
Of cruelty in the vein of your malicious misery.

I never asked for this:
To be forced to kneel on eggshells
To someone so beneath me.
I’m proud to be antithetical to you,
A fragile ego void of empathy
And your bitterness you taught to never cease.
Shattered glass on the side of a road.
Thrown out of a car window.
By a drunk.
On a highway.

Was once filled.
Once used and useful.
A bottle of *****.
Chilled.
And bought when needed.

When one needs to forget.
When one's mind has become their worst enemy.
Their own mind.
And it plays their worst memories.
Like a sick and twisted *** tape.
Haunting.

Like those nights.
Words, screams, shouts.
Glass breaking, doors slamming, knives slicing.
Sweat dripping, tears dropping, blood spilling.

Then the silence.

And the recovery.
Though that's not what it really is...

Shattered glass on the side of the road.
Not from a bottle.
From a car window
A car with its bonnet a tree.
And a smiling dead body in the driver seat.
And their last thought being 'finally'
Ashby 5d
I know you don't wanna talk to me and that's fine.

I've just been wondering if you're finally okay after all this time.

But you have to believe me I was always on your side.

When I finally got him to confess, a part of me died inside.

And that day I left you as you cried.

I was late for the case worker who brushed what I said aside.

I wanted to apologise, but you have every right to cut me out of your life.

But I want you to know I was always on your side.
All rapists must die
The world is a sick place
I say as my fingers begin to trace
The scars are unfortunately showing
And the blood has stopped flowing

I try to cover them,
Try to hide from where my problems stem
But its only a matter of time till someone sees,
Will they treat it like a disease?

Who knows, who cares
Maybe I'll "accidentally" trip down the stairs
Will anyone actually give a ****?
Will they see I've 'taken a hit?'

I'm done caring I tell my reflection in the mirror
As the knife traces over my skin but I don't see myself any clearer
But just like clockwork I feel the slice
And I still wonder if hiding my pain will suffice.
Rudo Sep 25
I can't speak the truth that feeds on my wounds
I can't say because I survive on his provision
My voice doesn't matter, who will value me
I weep inwards, salting this bitterness
I go crazy because I can never be truly free

I loop in his betrayal
To my heart
my mind
my soul
...
my body
I was evicted out of the only safe harbour I had

Grandma said no grandpa!
Our bodies and voices are being harvested by our own!
They are yours, for your pleasure only
At our expense you've found your glory
Inherited this suffering because you did anyway

To survive, we gaslight ourselves

I can't bare to continue to live with this truth
So I breathe from lies
I put on my glasses to bypass this irk
My kids need me
My kids need to survive this monster
Let me be brave
Let me be brave just enough to live on these lies
Because their lives depend on it!
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