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 Jun 2018
z
don't gain weight, they say
do you want to look like a pig?
but it's ugly if you're too skinny,
no ***** and no ***, what are you so proud of?

society's standards, everchanging and everflowing
from the desireableness of being just bone and skin to having ******* and an ***
our society that can't decide what it wants
our society that thinks it can control what is perfect

perhaps i shouldn't conform to society's standards after all
 Jun 2018
sarah grace
isn't it funny
how one day you're here
but the next you're gone
how one day you're my rock
but the next you're like sand
isn't it funny
people are fun
 Jun 2018
Victor
Indecisive yet boastful 
How much longer must I suffer
For your mistakes 
No amount of words
Can justify why
I'm surrounded by fakes 

How quickly do I forget 
Like dust swept in the wind
No answer just silence 

It is knowledge that opens the door
Yet others follow in their misery
An unachievable dream
With chance never taken 
Into consideration 
Here I lay in my own company
 Jun 2018
Nomathemba
Sometimes he will be unkind to you;
Say painful words
Make a fool out of you
Promise you heaven on earth

And when you think you have just had enough

He will come with pretty flowers
And kiss your beautiful lips
The moment will taste of
All the sweet things you have
Been longing for.
Sometimes he will put his hands on you
Say painful words
Make a fool out of you

And when you think you just had enough

He will buy you a pretty dress
And take you out on dinner.
The moment will be so bliss that
You will not want it to end

But he will treat you like a pretty flower today
And tomorrow; he will forget to water you.
Hold on they say
Do what's right
Even in the blackest of night
Be the mother
The lover
The father to all
To care for hatred
To those who fall
Nurture your heart to give to mine
Healing the self can redefine
You grow your worth and ground if others
do cross the line
You are a lion
A lioness
An eagle in full flight
A bat sensing the cave without eyes sight
A tiger
Tigress
A dragon of fire
Breathing hard and full with will to fly higher
Though you feel the dirt beneath your feet
You sympathise to the troubled
Struggling merchant
Beggar on the street
You know your strength and where you stumble weak
You are tender to touch
but
your bold folds
Deep
 Jun 2018
oliver o
man in the bathroom
why are you staring at me
i’m meant to be here
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