I used to hate and destroy everything I wrote and now I’m trying to embrace my writing instead. I’m 27 and I usually write in Danish so i find writing English texts (especially poems) a bit difficult but still fun 🌷
I used to hate and destroy everything I wrote and now I’m trying to embrace my writing instead. I’m 27 and I usually write in Danish so i find writing English texts (especially poems) a bit difficult but still fun 🌷
The stars smiled upon us
as if they knew we’d soon join them
as if their light reaching us
were open arms
inviting us home
home
a place we’d never known
at least not in this life
The elders used to tell me
these stories of home
a place they claimed to have known
a place with food to spare
without drones in the air
and kids with no fright in their eyes
would grow up
and grow old
and the only sou...
Everything we have always shared
As siblings so often tend to do
The seed of our father
The womb of our mother
Together we woke and together we grew
We shared the day we came to be
In screams of pain we both were birthed
Alike from the start
And yet so far apart
For my sister, she was born the first
They named her Love and what a child indeed
The name really suited her well
An angel was she
It ...
In the beginning it was all I wanted
The light I always yearned to see
For many years I had been haunted
My biggest wish was to be free
They called me sensitve but strong
When mentioning my inner pain
I didnt think that they were wrong
I just wanted to be myself again
Went to the doctor with my mother
I’ve done this more than I recall
One diagnosis after the other
Sarcasticly yelling “gotta ca...
I used to think I was a beautiful butterfly
Hanging there in it’s cocoon
I waited so long to come out and shine
Hoping it would happen soon
I had an image in my vision
A beautiful creature shining bright
Who never knew of indecision
And who always did what was right
But when I finally did come out
Ready to finally strike
I looked at myself with fear and doubt
For what I saw, I did not like
I ...
She looked at me utterly confused and yet very determined when I opened the door. As if I was the stranger who just knocked on her apartment door and not the other way around. She was very colourfully dressed in clothes that were completely soaked from top to bottom. It had been raining all week.
“Du er sgu da ikke Åse!”
She spoke loudly and looked daringly at me as if I was challenging her to a...
It was never directly frowned upon
It’s just what we grew up with
If we don’t talk about it
It’s not there
Besides
Everyone gets sad sometimes
It’s part of life
Think of it as a little scratch on your skin
It will heal
All by itself
Touching it makes it worse
Things like that will go away
If we only leave them be
Touching it will make it worse
If you pick a scratch
it’ll open up
blood will ...
Did you eat today? Yes. Are you sure? Yes. A proper meal, something other than coffee or pepsi max? You know that those aren’t actual meals, right? I know. But did you have anything else? No. I could make something, you want me to make something for you? No. I’m gonna look in your fridge, is that okay? Yes. Do you wanna keep me company in the kitchen or do you wanna stay here? I can come. Good, do...
I had never seen her cry before
My grandma
Every other time I’ve seen her
She’s always happy and eager
I had never seen her cry before
Not until now
I don’t even know if crying is the right word
I’ve seen other people cry
In the past
I do it quite often myself to be honest
When I fall on the playground
And scrape my knee
Or when I feel like no one wants to play with me
I know the feeling ver...
The green light from the smoke detector catches my eye
It seems so real yet it could all be a lie
Before I have been deceived and therefore I am wary
My own body and mind are often what I find most scary
I try to look around to find an error or a smugde
But my neck is stiff and though I try, it will not budge
I can feel my entire body becoming heavy as can be
As i hear a sound outside my ...