Poems

Individual poems

Teeth Clenched Around Silence

Teeth Clenched Around Silence Fingers freeze above the screenWords trapped in the spaces betweenPride builds walls I can’t break throughHolding back everything I wish I knew.Teeth clenched around silence tightDrowning in the fear of the fightWanting to reach but choking slow Caught in a war that won’t let go.Memories flicker, the dark keeps comingThe ringing

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Teeth In The Applause

Teeth In The Applause You stand center front, Eat their noise like sugarSmile wide, Bow low, I am in the back holding cablesKnuckles numb from the weight of your gigYou call me “part of the team” when you need me to haul your gearYou forget my face the second the crowd drags you near. You

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Sunshine On The Wrong Side

Sunshine On The Wrong Side You were born with daylight leaking out of your eyes in a family that only trusted gloomCracked little jokes at funeralsdrew smiley faces in the dust on caskets just to make space in the roomTeachers said you talked too much in classlaughed at the wrong momentsturned quiet drills into strange

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Switch in the Dark

Switch in the Dark Verse 1 I woke up on a mattress, not the one I knowThe plaster on the ceiling has a different flow. Suitcase in the cornerhalf-unpacked and grayNoises from the street sound miles away. No photos on the drywallno scuff marks on the floorJust the smell of latex and a locking door.

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Steel in the Dusk

Steel in the Dusk Verse 1 As evening falls, the fighter waitsher eyes like hardened steelWith scars of old and brutal warsa strength that is real. Beneath the moonshe stands apart, in armor she is cladHer history in the marks of skinthrough times both good and bad. Chorus Within the dim and fading lightwhere darkness

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