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Zoe Mae Apr 20
You still look like you, minus the fire
With your non-skid socks
Arms attached to barb wires

A robe drenched in dead skin
Eyes sunkin in
Slept for a year, but still tired

When you speak, it's eratic
Others hear it as static
I always know what you mean

You long to go home
Where you weren't so alone
But it's disappeared it would seem

For now, they still visit
But they'll drift and won't miss it
As it's all too depressing to see

You will disappear
No one gets better here
The next stop is eternity
Zoe Mae Aug 2024
I have to get to the Moon, just to clean the bathroom
I'll give Mount Everest a nudge on my way back
Zoe Mae Jun 2024
My head is a paper weight again
Anchoring my pen
I can't write anymore
My poems now folklore
Though no one remembers them

There was a time when words cluttered my mind
Now, they're hard to find
I never know what to say
Besides, words hold no sway when others mold them like clay
and then toss them away
It seems like a waste of time

I keep it all now
I eat it and breathe it
I've been forced to believe it
So I just shut myself down
Although I still walk around
Zoe Mae Jan 2024
Some lies are best kept under your pillow
Most truths are better left unsaid
I once had a spine, but it's now just a willow
Long after the willow's will is dead
Zoe Mae Jan 2024
Next to an old brown tree
Under a new pink sky
I found a younger version of me
The one who used to fly

Next to new concrete
Under an old pocked moon
I found an older version of me
The one who'll falter soon

Next to you right now
Under a peach fuzz sun
I found peace somehow
And for a moment didn't run
Zoe Mae Jan 2024
As I try to write a poem Someone's lost their home

As I try to be witty
Bombs destroy a city

As I try to create
Death is their only fate

Makes this seem so silly
Because it is
Zoe Mae Dec 2023
'Twas fireflies who lit the spark  
That slowly roasted Joan of Arc
Should I expect the same, my love
Will blazing blades reign from above
Or perhaps a different fate
Where Sunrise sparks incinerate
All that we promised to create
When moonlight splashes at our feet
Will you wade in shades of what could be
Would you promise at least that to me
Or is ash the only guarantee
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