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 Aug 2024 Aslam M
Rebekah Webb
Do you really know me?
Or do you know the self
You created
Out of clay
And paper mache?
Forming a joke?
A caricature?
That's so beaten down
They're afraid
To rip apart
The lies
And come forth
Like a babe
Anew?
Fresh and gleaming
And free?
 Aug 2024 Aslam M
Traveler
What shall we take away from this,
pockets full of integrity?
Doing the right thing is a stressful path
of righteousness…
Directing our feeble footsteps
into a sea of madness.
Awaken to the waves
or you will sink into eternity….
Traveler Tim
fail softly with a sloping line
tapering off into dots repeated
the fall is abrupt and possibly dramatic
 Aug 2024 Aslam M
Jeremy Betts
I'd rather be alone
Than to be this lonely
With someone beside me
I'd much rather be
Just me only
Till it's just me and my headstone

©2024
 Aug 2024 Aslam M
Chloe Haas
Alive
 Aug 2024 Aslam M
Chloe Haas
My periods turn to semicolons
My suicide notes to poetry
My goodbyes became hellos
The blades turn to sunflowers
And the bullets, a rose
My heart still is broken
But the pieces have been found
Death isn’t for me anymore
What is, in the here and now
I still don’t feel enough
But I am alive
And that’s enough to say
Today is not the day I die.
 Aug 2024 Aslam M
Arpita Hore
It was a cold winter night,
You lit candles all over the room
The room was full of roses
Still I can sense your perfume.
The tune that you played
In your grand old piano,
That was exciting me more,
Like a rising volcano.
You were pouring the wine
As red as blood
Did you offer me the drink?
Or offered your heart?
I was standing on the rostrum,
And enjoying the city light,
Thinking about your perfect date,
And this never ending night.
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