Beneath all the lies of
"I'm okays!" And "I'm fine"
I can see the cracking heart.
I can hear the laughter
That she wears like armour.
Hoping it will protect her from the world that downplays her sorrows.
Her eyes, her eyes show a broken soul.
A broken soul that is not healing.
Her jokes, simplistic and stupid
Are all she has against the truth.
And her book.
Her pages and pages of writings she's been perfecting since she came up with the idea.
She is perfect and evil.
She is hurting and fine.
She wants to tell the truth, but instead decides to hind behind the lies.
She believes she is not good enough, that her pain is deserved.
So she has stopped caring about the pain.
Her emotions go into her characters.
Her emotions live through black ink.
Black like the night that is closing in on her
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Tales of a Drowning Soul
PoetryThese are poems that will be happy, sad, odd, and many other things. They might be long or they might be short. And most likely they will be free verse. Also, most of them are about feelings, thoughts, things I'm going through, etc. (Some mature...
