How much more will you bow down?
+18 by Aysha Afkar Instagram: @ayshaafkar._ They just look at, you. Judge you. Their words making you drown. To make an impact, you change a life avenue, just to achieve their fake crown. What is more important, is it fitting into their “view” or is it about standing on...
An Ode to Forgotten Dreamers
+10 by Abilash Kalupahanage Instagram: @poetryfortheinsane Clicking through the night, The keys trace ink across a blank screen. It means nothing. Nothing other than itself. It holds no connection To cold Pain That traces its way across life, Nor to the moving fingers Of Grandfather Time, Kronos. ...
Empty
+108 by Pabasara Jayakody Instagram:@pretaesara_ There is something in nothingness And nothing in everything How does it feel to be hollow inside? To feel nothing in everything To feel the lack of something beneath To be void of emotions? Is it a gift or curse to feel nothing...
The Other Side
+62 by Sheruni Boteju Will I see you on the other side? Cause you up and left leaving me behind All the roses they withered up and died Following you to the other side The cruellest mistress who lives is time She’s old but bold and knows...
Wasteland
0 15 by Abilash Kalupahanage Instagram: @poetryfortheinsane Rotting branches weep Sap frozen, feeding pale worms. Dryads died long ago. Leviathan floats Belly up, fed on plastic death. No gulls claim the prize. Poseidon, trash crowned, Laments the death of wild Pan. But he has lost far...
Let go
+6 77 By Pabasara Jayakody Instagram: @pretaesara_ Looking at my gallery and can’t help the tears that blur my vision Looking here, looking there, only fragments of us Our memories Our wishes Our plans Our future Together Until there’s nothing but particles left of us Shattered under the...
A lonely black butterfly
+2 18 by Anushi Kalhari Instagram: @anushi_kalhari_ A lonely black butterfly Dropped in to a group of white butterflies She enjoyed her childhood with her friends but, With age, others started to notice her difference They insulted her and broke her heart She cried alone for countless nights...
Because of my pills
+2 22 Dash the glass on the floor, All of them to the ground, Let them crack to make the noise And resemble my silenced sound Angrily, I bite my teeth, The same ones I smile at them with, Too mad to take a second and breath My...
Fairy Lights
+2 39 by Fathima Salihah Instagram: @fathima_salihah_ LinkedIn: Fathima Salihah Purple, green and glittering white, Making the sky look unbelievable and bright I will finally feel the romance of that night When I stand with my joys under the Northern lights So evenly spread, But together all the stars...