Silent Gaze
Couples pass by
Each with the same look in their eye
They laugh and they smile
Their love seen from over a mile
Embracing the good times while they last
It leads me to think of our past
The memories we made
Before reality stomped on our parade
I wonder if you ever think about your choice
I regret not using my voice
I really miss you
And I wish you knew
But now I sit watching them from a silent gaze
Knowing we used to be the same.
They Don’t Understand
Walking at night
Boys think thats fun
They ask why we dont want to
They don’t understand
They think we just get special treatment
They call us lucky for getting a lift home
They dont understand
I was on a walk with my friends
It was only 6 o’clock
We shouldn’t be scared
They don’t understand
We walked past a pub and we heard screams
These old men saying we are the perfect age
For them
They don’t understand
We are only 16
I wish boys could understand.
Hope
Hope is a feeling,
No words can describe it.
Some find it pleasing,
While others can’t find it.
One can hope about anything,
Or nothing at all.
It’s a feeling of longing,
Waiting for the right thing to happen.
Hope happens when dreaming,
Or in a group of exemplars.
Hope makes the world keep singing,
Leading to better outcomes.
Hope gives people a reason for living,
So I hope I live a good life.
Love
Love is such a universal thing,
Everyone feels it in some way,
And yet, mine feels like something I should hide
I wish sometimes I could change it,
Make myself more “normal”,
But I can’t.
So I’ll stay here, quiet,
Loving in a way that feels beautiful to me,
And I’ll wait until you see it that way too,
That whether I love boys or girls,
My love is nothing to hide.
We Will Grow
I love life,
You can take it with a pinch of salt
And cut it with a knife
And hold it in a vault
Ups and downs come and go
It’s what life is about
Just take it slow,
And we will grow.
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I lie in the haunting silence of my bedroom,
It feels wrong in a room that used to be filled
with the familiar sounds of snoring and breathing and an occasional muttered word,
The darkness unsettles me,
The absence of the dim glow of a reading light makes it hard to drift off,
The only bed lies in the middle of the room,
Once there used to be three,
I miss the chats before bed, miss doesn’t even capture the feeling,
The giggling and whispering after the light was turned off,
Something I will never experience again.
I always knew this time would come,
I would be left behind, never able to catch up to my siblings
I dreaded change and feared moving on
I just never thought the time would come so soon
Childhood would end and the youngest will be left behind.
Discovery
A lonely seed dropped to the ground,
A flower bloomed right there I found.
Wearing the colour of a winter sky,
Roots thin yet stood upright.
I searched along the wild fields,
Matching hues on a morning dew.
Picked above their gentle thorns
And woven from a vein to vein.
Petals from a different core,
Entangled, and a chance for more.
“Beautiful,” I cried in glee,
A flower crown in a newborn spring.
A Song of Girls
They told us what to do,
But we don’t need their words.
They put us in their show,
And see us as caged birds.
From our bodies to our clothes,
Their criticism never ends.
But I don’t laugh at your silly jokes,
Nor follow your hollow trends.
I can paint, draw, and design,
I can sew, spin, and weave.
But don’t mistake my gentle hands—
I can conquer what you can never achieve.
I’m no princess waiting to be saved,
No damsel in distress, no fragile doll.
I seek no knight, no shining armor,
Just a handy sword to claim it all.
A warrior is who I am,
A fighter, a dreamer and a flame.
So take back your words and shut your month up,
And remember: I don’t need your name.
Life
Life is easy
Life is good
It isn’t hard
It isn’t tough
I got lucky
I got it’s good
But it’s not that easy for everyone
Think of others
Before you think of you
Be aware of what others go through.
Regret
The sleepless nights I’ve spent alone
Distracting myself, scrolling on my phone
You cant comprehend what you’ve caused
I wish I stopped, I wish I paused
The guilt stabs, my face turns pale,
I rue the day I stepped on that snail.
When you feel like a poet
All you can hope is you don’t screw it
Work it out like you’re not a novice
And you’ve had too much experience
Maybe you’ll have an epiphany
When you realise you can actually achieve
And your aim’s not out of reach
A stretch of hand is all you need
Run through the field of hope
Feel it in the blanket of snow
And in the sun shining brightly over you
And of the future, seeds you sow
Then you’ll finally realise
That the fruit wasn’t the prize
It was the route that made you wise
And it was your will that held the fight.
A Poem for Tilly
We met each other on the green
a pretty, kind, expressive teen
“I’m fine”, she says, what could that mean?
never letting her insides be seen.
I saw her once, her brown eyes were red
but ‘help me’ was something she never said
how was I to know what went through her head?
the day she decided she’d like to be dead.
The day i saw her she smiled at me
I thought she healed, but i failed to see
her scars still fresh from hip to knee
in seven days, she will be free.
I had only seen her once before
but now I wished i’d seen her more
she held up the flag to end her war
Tilly’s the one I’m living for.
Blackpink
No one expected that four beauties that sing and dance would emerge
From little known South Korea
They emerged like a morning star that outshone every artist
They became known as a group
And even though they are all pretty and sing very well,
Each one outshines one another at different spectre
The first one that comes up in my mind is
Known as a Thai princess whose eyes penetrate like those of a tiger
The second one known as a Blondie, but the appearance is like of an angle
The third one is known as the prettiest and more related to a “Korean Princess”
The fourth one both sings really well and raps
and album her own has that her solo debut highlights
As everybody knows who they are
Because it’s Blackpink in your area.
Healing
Walking down the street
I can feel my feet
I saw the wind pass me by
And felt it as it tried
To push me away
And tempt me to stray
Although I didn’t feel
I stood so real
For instead of feeling
I was finally healing.
Fantasies
What is reality?
What is fantasy?
How do you know if this is not a fantasy?
A big fantasy that’s made up of millions of small fantasies.
When all was nothing but a child’s dream,
Boiling imagination.
Delirious for delusions,
Prodigious flow of convictions and ambitions.
A clueless mindset,
Concealed for eternity.
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I put my faith in her,
But she let me down badly.
I put my trust in her,
But she left me sitting sadly.
In an ideal world,
This wouldn’t have happened.
Yet here I am,
Sitting in sadness.
I left her house,
Head in my hands.
Wondering what,
Had led this to happen.
If only I could change the past,
This horrible feeling would no longer last.
Life
Life is like a bright big sky,
with sunny days and stars up high,
each day is special full of fun,
with friends and laughter and lots of sun,
Sometimes we’re happy, sometimes we’re sad,
but life is still the best we’ve had,
every moment is a chance to see,
how beautiful life can really be.
When We Stand Up
When the winds blow, the leaves will fall
When the clouds arrive, rain will come
When the light turns on, darkness will fade
When we stand up, everyone will too.
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I know I am not very clever
But one thing I know is I hate bad weather
Grey skies and lots of rain
Makes me sad and rattles my brain
Long warm days in the middle of summer
January is such a bummer
Shorts and t shirt and being tan
I can safely say I am a big fan
Freezing weather is just depressing
And on top is school it is quite stressing
The middle of summer is where I should be
Breathing and living happily.
Running Along the Beach
Running along the beach,
Chasing things just out of reach.
The wind through my hair
Reminds me why I’m there.
The people all around,
Laughter is the sound
Gracing my pierced ears
Fading away my fears.
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No matter how hard I study or what I read from a book,
Focus will never shift off the way that I look,
From the way I do my makeup or perhaps my hair,
Like my achievements don’t exist,
They aren’t even there.
Being a Girl
Being a girl is tough,
Life can be so rough.
Boys, girls, everything,
Every time the phone pings
She checks to see what’s happening.
Girls support each other,
And help one another.
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Everyday I walk down streets,
Smiling to all the girls I greet,
But as the day turns into night,
And a cloudy cover takes the light,
These streets begin to pose a threat,
To all who skip and lightly tred,
There’s shadows hiding in the dark,
And strangers lurking in the park,
As morning light comes shining through,
Relief and calm come with it too,
And all the memories of the last,
Slowly mould into the past,
But forever in the back of my brain,
That creepy nightmare will remain.
Under the Tree
Under the tree
Lay the limp bee
Eyes like hawks
As it talks
It tried to hustle
But couldn’t move a muscle
I bent over to peek
The world seemed so bleak
Goodbye little bee
We miss you already
We will meet again soon
Just keep singing your tune.
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I don’t like poetry
All I do is try
I want to break free
But I can’t say bye
I want to inspire
Because no one gets me
So I’m gonna light a fire
So leave me be free.