Writing Prompt
POEM STARTER
Submitted by delilah
When all hope fails, what do we rely on?
Write a poem or story on what we turn to when we lose hope. Think about the emotions and problems that occur when this happens, and how it's dealt with.
Writings
I Will Live For As Long As I Love
I bought a one-way ticket to rock bottom again
Because I was feeling homesick
And the only cure to the virus was to lie, curled up in the fetal position, missing the warmth of my mother’s womb.
Before sentience—
Before awareness—
I was at peace.
And I didn’t know what love was.
The stinking, rotting love
That oozed from a festered wound,
The imprint of the brute’s teeth
Left to beat black and blue...
When All Hope Is Lost, What’s Next?
The metal blade
Sharp on my skin
The pain
So exhilarating
I’ve always been afraid to do this
But now…
I don’t care
The heat is satisfying all my deeper pains
By bringing them to the surface
The agony of the cuts
Encompasses the pains from below
I love the look of the blood
The “battle scars”
That nobody is allowed to see
Except me
Like
I know this is wrong
But the feeling and the urge
I nee...
Migrating
When autumn arrives,
The birds start to soar,
None as high or far,
As the geese migrating.
Miles and miles,
Their shadows stroking the ground,
The birds leaping through clouds,
Reaching for stars and touching the sun.
Yet how far can a bird fly,
Before they start to falter,
To wane and whine and wail,
As the destination never nears?
Because of this,
Geese never migrate alone,
They fly in a V,
A...
Umut Işığı 
Ağaç dala dal yaprağa muhtaçken, dal onu hiç bırakmayacakmış gibi yazın canlılığıyla sereserpe billur güzelliğiyle rüzgârla bir oraya bir buraya ahenkle dans eden yemyeşil canlı taze yapraklar misali, içimde yeşeren umutlarımla, zamansız dalın yaprağı bıraktığı gibi rüzgârlarda nereye sarrulacağını bilmeyen
acımasızca ayaklar altında ezilen toprak olmuş umutlarım. ne kadar değişkensiniz. Umut v...
Hope
Hope never truly leaves us
It is always by our side
Hope is a must
If we are to survive
We have to believe
Until our final breath
That hope will prevail
And give us success
Even when all seems loss
Hope in our chest will twist and toss
Figure out new ways
To escape our worst days
The future is one of hopes mighty tools
We use them to get us out of deadly whirl-pools
The future is a form of hop...
Who Truly Cares?
When the ones who gave you life are so over your existence,
Who is next?
The schools,
Full of fools.
They just make it worse,
If I don’t let the tears spew then the words will burst.
My palms sweat when I think whose really there,
If I end it all now, who would care?
One girl whose just there for a good joke,
Would she think it’s a giggle for the woke.
When they finally see a lifeless body,
Wil...
Family
Fledge peered over what felt like a limitless expanse. Even with how tiny Buzzy appeared, Fledge could tell what she was doing. Any time Buzzy noticed a bit of water on the ground, she would stare at it for… well… too long. Buzzy wanted to make sure that each feather was in its place. So instead of trying to find a way back to Fledge, Buzzy was obsessing over her image.
Fledge squawked loudly at ...
Try
I **try**
And I **try**
And I **try**
And I **try**
My effort stretched for **miles**
If laid out in a **line.**
Higher than **high**
My goals in the **sky**
I did everything I could
To bring them to **life**
I **tried**. I really did.
The late **nights**
Little sleep
Lost track of **time**
Forgot to eat
I pushed...
Failing Hope
Hope fades
So does the light
The waters of the sea of grief
Close in around me
Tight
I try to swim for where it was
I try to scream for there it was
And now it’s gone.
I claw desperately at salted air
Green blue and dark
And I am there
Drowning there
For there it was
And now it’s gone
When all hope fails, what do we rely on?...
It’s just a game
_it’s just a game_
_it’s just a game _
_calm down _
_your overreacting _
_overreacting _
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we played board games when we were little.
they warned us of capitalism.
we didn’t hear their words for we were too busy c̶h̶e̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ winning
_it’s just a game _
_it’s just a game_
if you said a slur in a video game would it matter?
would it matter if no one heard the wo...