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   fatherfig
   fatherfig · Jun 14, 2024

   TW: graphic poem
   
   Title: one of us
   
   

   
   
   talons drawing pretty patterns on my back
   grating scritching scratching up the scabs
   roughing up unhealed marks from the past
   
   please help me get rid of these chickens
   
   i don't think i'll be the same
   i have one pecking at my brain
   i can hardly see of late
   the dark wings cover up my face
   they built a nest in my ribcage
   
   fluttering feathers are inside my lungs
   the chickens call out 'one of us?'
   i cannot hear now past the clucks
   the chickens call out 'one of us?'
   i have no choice i have no trust
   the chickens call out 'one of us'
   
   so i'm a rooster i'm a pen
   i'm a nest and i'm a hen
   there are eggs under my skin
   there are feathers deep within
   infiltrated by my kin
   
   i'm afraid of the chickens
   if my thoughts stray to success
   to leaving this forceful nest
   i hear them still in my head
   my healed scars blazing red
   
   the chickens call out 'one of us?'
   
   
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   fatherfig
   fatherfig · Jun 14, 2024

   And it's submission two for me
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   Coffeewriter
   Coffeewriter · Jun 17, 2024

   Hidden thoughts-(Submission Four)!<3
   
   I always regretted how we ended…
   
   The starry nights where my brain kept wandering, lost even thought I was found
   The way he looked at me, his eyes revealing a whole galaxy behind them and I had the key
   I wish I had opened them
   The way he would remember all the little things and requests I had, even if they were absurd
   He shouldn’t have taken me under his wing, I was too young
   His comforting smile and the way he handled me carefully like a fragile egg
   He was more loving than my own mother hen
   
   I was just too naive
   Too surrounded by endless possibilities and pain
   Too entrapped by toxic motivation and fear
   I should have apologised
   
   Now, I’m standing under an oak tree
   Filled with guilt and sorrow
   Surrounded by weeping bystanders and sorrowful family
   I smile
   At least I’m with you today….right?
   I should have told him I loved him
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   Coffeewriter
   Coffeewriter · Jun 17, 2024

   *though
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   EllieMae Creator
   EllieMae · Jun 22, 2024

   Thanks for all of these wonderful submissions, everyone! This topic is now closed reach out to me with any questions!

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