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POEM STARTER
Write a poem from the point of view of an eye who has seen too much.
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From the moment I signed
I saw things I shouldn’t have seen
Soldiers dying left and right
The weather wearer them down
The weak were left behind
The rest were starved and forced
To walk miles of unstretched land
In the hands of Japan
Iv seen some terrible things
Parents annd children being taken
And sent to god forsaken camps
The men were forced to fight
They starved them nearly t...
I have a playlist dedicated to my funeral
My favourite song is everyone dies
I think about death all the time.
Uncomfortable truths
I’ve grown comfortable with at my young age.
Ageing has never scared me, maybe death once or twice
Or a few billion times
But I have grown accustomed
To my own mortality
I lack poetic prose, in this simple phrasing
But I have to be honest
Death does not scare me
...
TW ED (more from my book lol)
The first thing I wanted to lose
was my stomach.
Get rid of the little pouch
that formed when I sat down.
But the last thing you lose
is your stomach.
You lose your happiness
long before that.
Your identity,
your life.
Maybe in another lifetime,
I could have just
lived with that little pouch.
...
I don’t make eye contact
I look to the side
Because you acknowledging my existence
Makes me anxious inside
To have a presence
A desire and will
If I don’t take up space
Will you be mean to me still?
If I don’t look at you
I can pretend I’m not real
I’ll be a ghost instead
At least they don’t have to feel...
“Are you seeing this?”
“Eye do.”
“You see those leaves?”
“Eye do.”
“You see that smile?”
“Eye do.”
“And you see the farmers?
The cows and their young.
You see the sick dying.
And the little ones grow.
You see the seasons change.
The colors swirl within.
You see a kid unwrap a gift.
The animals flit and run.
Shiny and clean.
Dirty and old…”
“Eye do.”
“But you can’t.”
“But eye do.”
“You’re blin...
Like bats in hidden caves, with eyes moon-bright.
Like flowers that bloom only at night.
Like little lost children we hope will come home.
Like people all alone.
Like the wind that blows.
Like ships hidden under waves that drowned.
Like feelings we bury deep, deep down.
Like the dreams we have when we sleep.
Like tears we weep.
Like secrets we keep....
The eye is all seeing
which sounds awful freeing
but nothing can hide
not even the fearful bride
the eyes have seen at all
even the most boring wall
it wishes for it to stop
but the eyelids are unable to drop
so many cruel things to be shown
but even after seeing it all, it’s so alone
the cruel reality of us all
not even the thought of you can stall
i would die if that’s what it took
bu...
But all I can do
is write about it;
the empty things
I’ve seen.
The blank stare
behind my smiling teeth.
They're broken
and crooked, you see.
Still I'm left choking
on the air you
refuse to let me breathe.
Cold and alone,
in this mental reality..
A roll of gypsy dice.
My lips have been
locked in a vice.
The simple words
I want to say;
conform to the neurons,
I lose everyday.
So...
Sweet glowing tangerine sky,
Grass grows greener on the other side,
And if you plan to die, do it right,
And if you plan to cry, do it at night,
In salted mango air,
From their graves, they all stare,
Their gloves you wear,
Sweet red daises,
Sweet blood red,
Bad man, you fled,
Bad man, they all bled,
Forgive us all now,
Sleigh down a hill of death,
Exist, die, nonetheless,
Eyes that have see...
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