Tag: sadness
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Parallel Lines
i am half drunk and half in love as i look at you from across a bar window. you are out there in the street in your brand new jacket but every piece of you, it is desperately clinging on to last bit of life in your flesh. your parents skipped the good groceries to…
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lonely little island
now i feel like an island crusoe stumbled upon for years and later left on a little boat for a city it’s lonely and even scarier when my own thoughts haunt me down like a blind hungry cannibal my mind is eating me up it’s either the insomnia or the denial to wake up and…
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spring blues
“i think someone april. i think someone broke somebody’s heart in spring” i have forgotten how the flavour of coffee feels like. i can only stare at a young boy on the bus stand sipping Starbucks, its coffee, i can smell it—i miss it but i gave up caffeine long ago. like how i gave…
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the walls of my room
the walls of my room don’t talkif they do, promise me you won’t break them. the walls in my room don’t talkif they ever do, they will tell you my story my stories of 3amwhen i told them my secrets. my stories of 11pmwhen i mourned myself to sleep. my stories of 7amwhen i woke…
Prena Poetry 