The following poem was selected as the 2nd place winner of 2021’s Refuat Hanefesh Creative Expression Contest.
Age Group: Adult
When you livin my life, you turn to God regardless of your faith.
When you livin my life, you cry out desperate from the pain.
When you livin my life, you await for sleep that ain’t no came
When you livin my life, you cry each morn that you awake.
.
Tu those people in ma life I known fa years,
Been close fa years, been tied together through life measures They slowly drift away pick up the pace
continue on their way.
.
Heart Racin head ain’t runnin
Out of order bright flashy sign
Y’all can’t see y’all don’t know ya expect the same ain’t understand ma brain
.
You say ya know pain adults say they know what real you kid yaself ain’t know what’s up
Just a child of fifteen shipped off to battle
Nah it wasn’t sea
No choice in da matter I was sent away
Because they found out I was different
A secret to be held
.
I can’t go down that memory lane
I pushed so far down
You’d need a crane
But I learnt humans are terrible
Life can be worse than hell
You can be livin
But nah that’s not livin that’s not livin
.
But ya heart beating ya breathin
Oh Lord to you They Praise
.
But that big little girl
Heart broken in pain
.
Years gone by
Same words I hear
It will get better smiling ear to ear
.
NOOOO stop!
Hope is the blindness of the world
It keeps people going
And tears others apart
Hope
Is not Reality
Time comes when you gotta face The truth the time stopin deafening truth
.
Head plays a continuous beat
Tylenol Advil repeat
My heart is hurting
It aches
It’s pain
Not dull
Real
Like a knife
Going through and through
I feel it physically in my chest
I don’t know why but it spreads. Torn apart
Confusion
When it’s light you awaken
But the dark you pray
The truth had been
Maybe still is
You want
Desire
A life
Full of passion
Where one can breathe
And feel the sun
Not just crushin and crumbling Under the weight of something Smiling, joy
Does that exist in me
Is it an option I’ll ever be free
.
I want dreams
I want to be allowed
Not restricted limited
.
Tossin, turnin
No where to go, no where to hide Layin in the dark
But it isn’t night
Shut off the light
Turn down the sound
But my heart keeps thudding Silent it won’t become
.
Sweating out the drugs
Pain envelops me
The substance that failed to help me Didn’t do no good
Didn’t do notin
.
For the darkness came
And held me captive
Sinking, drowning
Death awaited with open doors Smiling it beckoned
.
Drained of the substances
He had me put
In my body
.
Addicted but no addiction
Had a prescription
That ain’t matter
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- Poetry: My Journey of Perpetual Darkness - April 18, 2021