OUR ORIGINAL POETRY: Share It Here

Everyone heard of the fairy tale
Where Ariel lost her voice
Exchanged it for something big
When the chance arose

In a way, she

Girls like me

Can't put emotions into words

We hold on to our syllables

Until they tear up our tongues

We keep words

Written on the palms of our hands

On the inside of our eyelids

For no one to see

Girls like me are

Always too shy to speak a little louder

And project our minds

We are silent

We don't voice our opinions

Out of fear of being wrong

Girls like me

Make fists instead of wings

So we can fight instead of

Fly

Girls like me

Express thoughts in stanzas

Because sentences are never enough

Girls like me

Don't understand your feelings

Because we are always

Trying to sort out our own

We keep

Our logic locked in jars

By our bedside tables

And punch holes in the top

To let it breathe

Girls like me

Can't understand the concept of love

Because we have never been close enough

To grasp it

We chase contradictions around our heads

Count the laps

Until the number's too large to remember

Girls like me

Apologize for things that we can't control

Because it always seems to be our fault

Girls like me can't

Girls like me don't

Girls like me are

Silence
nothing but the silence
peaceful and timeless
enchanting filled with compliance

Silence wraps around him
a pure blanket of stillness
come closer you will witness
a beautiful gem

Silence a rare delicate purity
one that deserves love like no other
one that doesn't deserve to suffer
their lies on its shoulder too much maturity

Silence
nothing but the silence
peaceful and timeless
enchanting filled with compliance

Silence
what is the silence
it is not a what but a he
he is more than what the silence can be

Bipolar Depression

My depression is like bipolar disorder
I have two people inside me fighting to rule
My depression rears its ugly head at the worst of times,
Says the worst things ... yet I love it?
BECAUSE!

I know when its thoughts race through my head I will win!
These thought will not seduce me
"No one will ever love you," it says
"No one wants you," it says
"You're worthless," it says
But it's not myself thinking,
It's the depression rearing is terrible head, shouting at me, trying to win a war that it
Can not and will NOT win.

If you were to ask me what love was I'd simply say I don't know, but if you asked me what love looked like, I'd say love has two brown eyes with a sparkle that has galaxies in them and well they hold my heart. Love knew all of my favorite things and played all of my favorite sounds. Only I found out that love doesn't know a single thing about the sounds it made for me and the things that made me happy. You see, love loved me ever so dearly that even though it didn't know any of these things, love would do anything to see the crooked smile on my face. That is when I knew love loved me.

‪#‎Politics‬:
It's that moment that you did your end of the contract but they won't pay you because of a minuscule detail that THEY failed to specify in a written document.
It's that moment that the middle man is obviously making a personal attack on you because you bashed him for being a pervert on your page three years ago.
It's that moment that you'll be forced into a waiting game of patigasan ng mukha. Because you, being assertive as a woman, will be pegged to a "raging woman on PMS category."
It's that moment you realize you're an adult in the Philippines.
It's that moment that they'll make you break out of desperation to do what's not morally right in your system because you're depressed, and you need to pay your bills, debt and fees, so you bend over to their perverted system just for a mere 2,500 Pesos. A mere 10% of what you're gonna pay for a treatment that you're not even sure will help you stop being so damn depressed.
It's that moment you have to settle in convincing yourself it's a test of character that you'll do your best NOT FOR [disgusting people] like these, BUT RATHER FOR YOURSELF.
It's that moment you have to make up yourself the idea of God and do it for Him, because the real world is riddled with these sorts of people.
It's that moment that not stooping to their level feels so wrong.
It's that moment that I feel like I give up on myself for peace's sake.

I want to fight for myself. But I'll never win in Philippine Politics and the many lizards that walk this town.

[I did the edit - Annie]

Having depression is no easy ride

while you're out in public I hide inside

confidence beaten by the thoughts and opinions of others

until it becomes overwhelming and you start to feel smothered

ask yourself this do we do it on purpose

or is it just our minds that are out there to hurt us.

to lose friends through life without exchange of goodbyes

and know that the pain is not seen through their eyes

it destroys your desires and makes you become

that negative void person with emotions so numb

one day will come as it has for so many

these dark days will go when the mind is ready

when this chapter is over and I have had some rest

I will no longer be treated as second best

but those who have left in the hour of need

for what ever reason you did not see

the pain was real not for sympathy.

1.

That night
Demons danced a hopak
Inside the inkwell
Of my darkest fears

I took my quill-saber
Piercing the surface
Of the sleepy waters
Once again

Thus the wraiths
Became rusalki
And with their blood
I am to write

Can you think of a family in literature that's so cool you'd love to be part of it?

Conversely, can you think of a fictional family so scary awful that the protagonist had to be strong to overcome it?

Lets talk about families! (It's Family Week at 7 Cups of Tea)

Please come join a discussion in the Forum (link).

Society

There was once an earthling named Human
Human was an innocent, carefree, and loving being
Human did not fear anything nor any man
Human felt like a butterfly- what a marvelous feeling

But then something horrible went into scenery
With its cryptic grin, people found a mystery
Little did they know it was a monster
Whose intention was to destroy, corrupt, and conquer

The discreet monster went by the name Society
Everyone seemed to treat Society as a beauty
But to Human, Society was just a notoriety
Unfortunately for Human, Society was being a commodity

Human started getting these horrible moments of anxiety
Human was losing his sanity oh so silently
Society's social constructs were getting out of control
It was slowly sucking out Human's precious soul

And then Human just suddenly lost it all
Human drowned within the monster in its head
All things good suddenly went to a fall
The Human everyone knew was now everlastingly dead

Just because of rude words and bullshit expectations
Humanity would abruptly go down with no hesitation