We scroll past
starving children
to buy shoes we don’t need
and call it life.
Babies are born
with lungs full of poison,
their bodies warped
by toxins we dumped for profit.
Mothers wrap sons
in flags
like it softens
the sound of a coffin closing.
We skin the earth
for gold and oil
and hang it on our necks
while forests burn
and oceans bleed.
We worship Gods
but not Their creation.
Pray louder
than we love.
Animals scream in silence.
Children rot in camps.
Water is sold.
Air is dying.
Truth is filtered.
Kindness forgotten.
We kill over dirt
though we are made of stars.
We hoard
while others die thirsty.
This is not a world,
it is a graveyard
we are still digging
with our eyes wide open.
-Cyrus K.
The roofs shackled deep,
Far below the spires of the churches
That not a soul wanders into
For fear of being seen and accosted.
The roofs shackled deep,
In the pockets of the pictures
That crop up on midnight lights
Every half year or so.
The roofs shackled deep,
And then held out of reach
Because blood is thicker than water
And both are bought to let.
Reap torn bodies with a bare hand
Because we'd all do it if we can,
There are those, and there's me
And then the crop of the land.
Beautiful creature 👽
You definitely are 🖤🖤🖤
The woven silk of
Silence, petals fluttering
A delicate day
And the world is wavering
Between soft kiss and collapse
She rests in the arms
of a man who cannot feel her storm,
while I drown
in the flood she left behind.
I feel like a spider,
strung with longing,
spin webs from torn ribs
to catch the ghost of her smile.
Her laugh...
a blade I swallow each morning,
thanking it
for the pain.
I would tear the stars
from the throat of the heavens
just to watch her eyes
glimmer one more time.
My love is not gentle,
it is blood and bone and burning rope.
It is sleepless nights
stitched with screams
no one hears.
This is love,
where I am the pyre
and she,
the flame
that never stays
but never dies.
-Cyrus K.
And I will kiss every single scar on your body and soul, to remind you that love doesn't
have to hurt.
Ginnie Bale
My mind holds the weight of
Long sleepless nights.
Each night I
Wait there to be taken,
By the space between the blinks,
Into colours i can only
Hope to think
I could imagine,
Where life is more, and
Where sleep is less
Than a reprieve.
2 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov