Quotes and Poetry on bleak

#bleak #wod song title: she's mine pt1 by J. Cole

He's mine

I've never felt so alive
I've never felt so alive

I'm usually very good with words
Manipulating them to suit me
They flow freely without any hindrances
But when it comes to you,
I'm speechless, rightfully so
I whisper your name in the darkness and blush uncontrollably
I love you, it's pleasant
I close and open my eyes a million times,
Thinking it's just one of my day dreams
I'm hoping I wake up from this dream and face reality,
But this is reality; me and you, together in love.
Do you hear how pleasant it sounds?
For some unknown reason,
I want to try 'cause you want me to
I want to love again, be claimed by you and all your flaws
I want to be yours with careless abandon
You bring tears to my eyes and I'm bursting at the seams with joy
I'm praying my fears don't disrupt this
I'm screaming, "He's mine!"
I'm telling everyone I know I'm yours
You're mine, I'm yours, we're together
Beautiful, isn't it?

Catch me,
Don't you
Catch me,
Don't you
Catch me,
I'm falling in love for the first time...
©b_l_e_a_k

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sah_iba Its beautifully written i felt it
b_l_e_a_k @sah_iba thank you ❤️

b_l_e_a_k 32w

#bleak#

Becoming one with my insides
A mutual exchange of hearts like misplaced puzzle pieces
A clarion call of souls
A rapt attention to love's shofar
Crossing seas, manipulating seasons to feel what once was and what should've been
Ignoring the shrill screams of common sense
Deaf to the deafening cries of reason
Painting what each other's eyes see on life's canvas
A mixture of colours and emotions
Contradicting personalities chasing after each other
Contrasting passions tumbling after one another like Jill down a hill
With no way back
Trapped in each other's souls through emotion-filled eyes
Common Sense has no power here
As Love and Longing are misting the air
Just you, just me,
Peeling off each other's securities like clothes drenched with the heavy July rains
Naked under each other's scrutiny
It's all clear now as we share a lover's kiss
Nature sucks her breath in anticipation as he says in the pulsing silence,
"You'll be the death of me"
A chuckle clouded with pleasure escapes her lips as she breathes,
"You have much more hope than I, as you're already the unending death and life of me".
©b_l_e_a_k

b_l_e_a_k 32w

#bleak#

Red clayed huts' walls caked by the sun's heat
You could literally see the heat in the air
The sun is merry
Here it bears no grudges
It makes sweat to glisten on the bodies of even coward warriors,
Making them feel bold
Nna ayi comes out from his obi with his favourite wife
His rotund belly obstructs him from even seeing his cracked feet
The other wives glare at the newly acquired wife in jealousy
The continue their morning chores with 'long' mouths

The little children play contently in the compound
Oblivious of their mothers' childish feud
The cock crows signifying the coming of the evening
It stands with one leg in the air
And bobs its head from side to side with eyes wide
As if knowledgeable of the evils going on in the house

The fire is lit in the village square
The shadows make the mmanwu look other worldly as they carry out their fetish rituals
The dibia pours libations to the gods as the elders break the kola
The night is serenaded with music from drums and flutes
The full moon moves in tune with the music
Everyone shamelessly dances to the song of our home
Egwu udo
©b_l_e_a_k

_ame_30 47w

#bleak

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Pearly tears
Rolled over my cheek
Represented fears,
Of my history.

©_ame_30

b_l_e_a_k 50w

#bleak

I need to wipe that smirk off my face
Backtrack and follow his pace
Need to stop being giddy
Like really what's the big deal
Need to curb how I feel
Put my stupid heart on airplane mood
Send those funny feelings on the rocket to the moon
I'll definitely have nothing to lose
Stupid me
Making him my muse
Broadcasting my silly love all over the news
Enjoying this pleasant view
This feeling feels new
I'm going to enjoy it till I'm full
I love it here
But it won't last
I dislike love
It takes away and never replaces
All about giving and shii
My back is against the wall in my cell
Those views
Hopeless mirages
All foolish facades
Drift like fluffy clouds that I'll never reach
I'm sketching broken hearts in my dark cage
I'm be content in the silence
I don't want to see any visitors!
Lock the door
Throw the keys into the abyss
Don't light the torch
Leave me to my tears and darkness
Let me chase the dreamy facades
Leave me be!
©b_l_e_a_k

b_l_e_a_k 51w

#bleak

Thunderclouds

The storm clouds have gathered
Everybody has their goods covered
I'm safe in the shelter of her shop
But I'm disturbed and unsafe altogether
There's this thing - this sweet velvet voice coaxing me to go outside
I put all I'm doing to a stop,
Venture outside to discover that pleasant force that cajoles me

It's cold but I'm not with a sweater
The wind is blowing around me,
disturbing the silly short dress I'm wearing
But wait,
you can perceive that right?
The sweetest of scents
The one that reminds me of the Nightingale's tunes
I'm looking for the source
for those coffee brown eyes
for that sunshine smile
for the reddish - brown hair
for the pink lips with beauty spots
for the moustache and beard with golden streaks

I'm turning in circles
Tears are burning my eyes 'cause I can't feel you
I'm clutching my chest
And my fragile body is rocked by heaving sobs
I'm moving backwards hoping to fall in a puddle and be officially mad
I trip and fall back on a solid body
The scent is stronger as arms are wrapped around me
I turn to face the source of this heady scent
Alas! It's my beloved's face I see
More handsome and beautiful than I remembered
The memory of his picture perfect face doesn't do justice to what I'm beholding

I'll love to kiss him
But I'm scared he'll vanish
So I'll just trace the lines of his face
I'll recommit them to memory
I'll imprint them on the pages of my mind
I'll etch them on the broken fragments of my heart
Here in his arms again
I feel safe
I feel complete - meaningfully so

Dance with me, mi amor!
Let's sing our favourite songs under the rain, mi cielito!
Don't leave just yet 'cause I've not had enough of you
But the sun's coming now
The rain is ebbing away; reducing to showers
Your perfect body is gradually becoming mist
Your heavenly smile is fading away
I'm trying to hold on but my fingers can't get a grasp

Now you're gone
I'm drenched
Obviously mentally deranged
I do not wish to dry off
I want to keep this memory

Thunderclouds!
Do come back, I beg
And bring my life with you
Don't let the sun drive you away!

I sigh
Walk back to the shelter of her shop
On your memories I'm high
My living has been put to a stop
You're gone
But your memories are not
So yes, I'm ruined by you
And you just had to go and disappear

I'll listen to our favourite songs
I'll dwell on our pleasant memories
I'll think on everything that has you
Till this broken heart of mine stops beating
Till I draw my last shuddering breath, Nkem...
©b_l_e_a_k

b_l_e_a_k 51w

#bleak

Run

The sickening odour of charred flesh staining the air
The smell of burning tyres creating dents in the atmosphere
Run

The sound of bullets wheezing past your ears
Barely missing your head and digging holes in your parlour walls
Run

"Where is Amaka?!"
"Allah kubar!"
Run

The synchronized rhythm of bathroom slippers on the blood drenched ground
The crumbling of your inheritance passed down from your fathers
The blasting of shells burning your stalls
Run

With your famished stomach and parched throat
Your cracked lips and bruised heels
A mere crunching of leaves by a passing lizard
Run

Shots fired
Bazookas on the ready for the umpteenth time
Husaini's intestines are spilled in the pothole
His blood filling up the hole the government couldn't
Before his head is blown off
To his baby sister, he mouths
"Run"

Soldiers with guns pointed
Supposed valiant men
Cower in fear when they see the cutlasses and AK-47s
Dropping their guns like babies
With high pitched voices like peevish women
They scream,
"Run!"

I'm tired of running
My baby girl is gone missing
But you tell me not to stand because this is the battle of the 'brave'
And I'm supposed to be under palm fronds shielding my head
Tell me why a stranger can come to my land and chase me out?
Tell me why I can't carry a gun and blow their heads off?
I'm planning a burial for my mother's ghost
Burying an empty casket because I can't find her remains blown up by their hateful bombs

You talk of peace talks
But how are we meant to have peace meetings with moral illiterates ?
How do we make truces with blood thirsty demons?
How do we negotiate when all they see is red like a herd of angry bulls?
Do you have an answer yet?
I guess not

We all say, "On G"
I have nowhere to run to anymore
I swear I'll be on my way to heaven if I knew the way
It breaks me to see Yinka suffering from PTSD
When I can't do anything to help 'cause I'm choking on my own pee
I'm tired of running, and I know you are too
But can you hold on to a hope a little longer?
Please...
©b_l_e_a_k

bird_of_ink 59w

#escape #bleak

Escaping a Last Time

Sitting in the room and droning out the laughter and screams around me, I inspected the bottle of pills and juggled with the thought of taking it. Already an established escapist, either in responsibilities or life, these pills were offering me the tantalizing escape to , (hopefully) another dimension. Giving in, I took a single pill and felt my life zoom past me.....
Those childish glee and innocent escapedes , all flashing through. It felt as if I was floating in mid air in my room, and the illusions so soothing that I refused to come back and wake up to reality, for I decided to stay there, floating in the midst of daze, until a peaceful darkness engulfed me.
The pills worked, I mused as the last vestige of consciousness slowly escaped from my eyes.

©bird_of_ink

thescreechingsilence 64w

#Spring #life #love #hope #bleak #flower #bloom #positivity

Spring and I

Amidst the grey clouds,
And the ever growing graves
And lands, filling with ashes,
I see the Spring breaking.

I am breaking.

And soon,
You will see,
Beautiful flowers blooming
From dormancy.
©thescreechingsilence

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_the_nightmare Loved this
thescreechingsilence @_the_nightmare I am glad you liked it!
❤️

zephyr_of_fire 71w

#sadness #poem #rhyme #pain #apprehension #fade #bleak #gloom #depression #doubt #lyrical #emotion #fear

Apprehension

Life, it seems so far from possible to complete
I've become so ill
Sacrificing any potential hope to fill the void
Everything's gone and I'm weak
Any motivation destroyed
Constantly having to compete and compare
This just isn't fair
The light in my eyes have gone bleak
But I've gotta feel the burning sensation to understand that life's still there,
God knows I'm exhausted
But he turns a blind eye in favor of my demons
Ignoring each and every plea for help
Lacerating my tongue to silence my reasons,
I can't go on, no
Not like this
This isn't the vision I once thought I'd have
Yet I'm here to stay confined within my own burden
Never to seek, or to find a way out
Because in my heart
There's nothing but doubt.

©zephyr_of_fire

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pao_writes 77w

#Bleak

If love should bring you roses
Of red,
If hope do buds in a snowdrop,
If the chrysanthemum scents
The hymn of quietus,

I wonder
What among the blossoms
Should epitomize a heart
That perceive nothing-
Nothing but an eternity of bleak?

©pao_writes

aster_not 79w

#messy #bleak

With pain as the only familiar comfort,
Why should I try to chase it away?

Bleak

When you have felt nothing for so long,
Only pain can be able to pierce through the numbness.

A drip of blood.
Something that burns- scathing, monopolizing your attention.

©aster_not

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aster_not @fromwitchpen when you just want to feel alive again, what must it take?
fromwitchpen It will take courage and time
You have to be positive and strong

One day a new chapter of your life will start
Which each word you will love and live
After every difficulty there is a new hope my dear :))
aster_not I'll take your words to heart! I would like to extend my sincerest thanks for hearing me as well @fromwitchpen
fromwitchpen No problem my dear ❤️
thelunareclipse Wow... profound, expressed amazingly ♥️♥️

bhagyshre 79w

#bleak #present #goldenc #writesbay

.....and now it's just me
left alone
lost in my past
Imagining it as my future
.....little did I know
that bleakness , disguised as present is approaching me

.....because now I am left all alone.......
.....with the golden memories of ours.....

©the_quote_queen

bhaskar_vashishth 84w

#dark #rape #bleak #writersnetwork #mirakee

Rape of a Robot

Pipes and screws drilled into me
At such a young age
In adolescense,
In pubescence,
Some from back, some from bottom
Some by brothers, some by father.

When I look up at stars, I bleed from under
Inside my pants, I am always drenched
Red, blood, thick and plenty,
Like a plumber, I am always
Stuck at fixing my pipes and nuts,
Still loose like a metallic robot, rickety.

Writhing in pain in starless nights
Is my body which aches without any motion,
Detection is rare as so much
Time has passed away even
Statue of limitations has been demolished
And they built an effigy of the mauler instead.

©bhaskar_vashishth

nehahemaraj 84w

/BLACK AND BLEAK/

Domicile, denuded of radiant pneuma,
Brimmed with greyish, desolate memories,
Blotches of pitch black traumas,
Stranded at the cosy corners of the abode.

Dints of 6-foot footprints,
Engraved on the white marble flooring,
Adorned with the fractions of pious heart,
Now, the lifeless memories, the denizens of empty house.

Pristinity I fell in love with,
Entangled in the beige drapes,
Ceased lullabies of the clocks,
Crooned in the ashen lives of the twain.

©nehahemaraj

#black
#bleak
#mirakee #pod
@mirakee @writersnetwork

Image credit to the right owner.

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love_whispererr Breathtakingly beautifull ♥️
thewritersboy
odysseus Superb
nehahemaraj Thank you so much for your constant support and appreciation ma'am ❤️❤️ @soulfulstirrings

Thank you cupcake❤️❤️ @nehadvn_7

❤️❤️✨ @my_cup_of_poetry

❤️ @samridhi_mahajan

Thank you so much ma'am ❤️❤️❤️ @lovenotes_from_carolyn
nehahemaraj Thank you so much sweetheart ❤️❤️ @love_whispererr

Thank you so much sir ❤️ @odysseus

bhagyshre 99w

#lost #ghar #winters #bleak
@mirakee @hindiwriters

Picture Credit to the rightful owner

Jab aana nahi tha toh mil hi kyu gaya ?
Jab mann lagna nahi tha...
Toh lag hi kyu gaya ?
Jab dil tootna hi tha ...
Toh jud gaya ?
Ye sawaalon ka hai ye kaise bhavar ...
Ye andhero ka hai ye kaisa nagar ...
Ki sau diye bhi kam pade ...
Dhoondhne k liye ek laapata ghar!!!

©the_quote_queen

prakriti2005 110w

#destination #journey #beautiful #life #reach #really #bleak #ignored #never

There are some destinations where we never want to reach. The journey to such destinations be however beautiful, but the reality that the destination is really bleak, can't be ignored.
©prakriti2005

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aurangrez 112w

Shinigami – “God of Death”, “Death Bringer” are Gods or supernatural spirits that invite humans toward death in certain aspects of Japanese religion and culture. Shinigami have been described as monsters, helpers, and creatures of darkness. This is an acrostic poem that talks of the world trying to downplay mental illness and depression as “something you ought to snap out of”, or “drama”, not realizing that those who live with it, feel helpless. They don’t need sympathy, or solutions. They just want to be heard, to be held, someone to be there for them. So they know they matter.

#suicide #depressionisreal #socialmythy #acrostic #writersunite #japaneselore #shinigami #death #black #bleak

Shinigami

“Shut Up! It’s not the end of the rope
Hope springs eternal, stay strong, resist
Insist, ‘tis but a bad dream, ‘tll be alright
Night’s dark, days brighter still, regale”
Impale me with your callous tirade
Grade me, mock me, the names you call
All I ever wanted, was to be heard, held
Meld in me, know my how, and my why
I can’t, I just can’t fight you alone, O Shinigami

©aurangrez

s_aurabh 123w

जीवन आपके विश्वास को बनाए रखने और कुछ चीजों को सच होने की उम्मीद के बारे में है! इसके बिना, दुनिया धूमिल दिखेगी।
#saurabhraj #miakree #tag #comment #like #share #life #placing #world #bleak #thoughts

Wake up

life is all about placing your faith and hoping some things to become true !
without it , the world would look bleak.
©s_aurabh

bearspill 123w

#thoughts #bleak #thoughts

Bleak

Thousand utterless words derived
Meaningless sounds heard from distant abyss
Distress is an endless river
Nothing can stop its form of disruption
Hatred is the result of various voices
That are only felt behind
©crimsonspill