Delicate wisps of clouds drift across the striking yet gentle ether
Light as feathers shed from angels' wings, lining the heavens so deftly
As if God himself took his finest brush, making deliberately haphazard strokes
Across the great blue expanse of canvas He draped over our world.
Evening...
The blue-green hue of the future
washes over everything in sight,
meeting the past's warm glow
at a boundary of blinding white.
The amber sky of past, however,
drops off into pitch-black nothingness
where the memories obscured by time
are drawn in and forgotten;
while the clear blue sky of...
Raindrops fall, melting everything away
like the dripping remains of a wax doll.
The candlelight flickers, a lost soul echoes
bathing the night in their amber glow.
A drop of blood from the tip of a silver knife
stains the petals of a rose from the purest white
to a maddening crimson bright as...
I can feel it in my heart;
a quiet voice,
a dying flame.
And yet as these days go on
everything remains
the same.
I’m not asking for happiness,
acceptance,
nor your praise.
I only want my voice
to be heard:
this silent scream.
Echoing through the night,
sirens blaring
under a bloodred sky...
Emotions - basic, essential human emotions! -
shouldn't feel so alien.
But now that my heart is flooded with them,
they begin to overtake logic.
Logic, without which
I have never before been able to function.
Feeling things from still images,
or words that have no meaning
besides those we...
"Everyone should be shown respect, excepting only he who challenges others' humanity with bias as his sole proof, or defends his own with preconceived delusions of superiority in status, race, sex, wealth, or otherwise; he who shows no respect towards those different from himself." - Kuro, 2020
The identity we choose for ourselves
should not be a burden,
nor a subject of unnecessary conflict.
However, if society so chooses or evolves
to perceive certain forms of self-expression
as unnatural, unholy, or untrustworthy,
those defiantly labelling themselves
will gladly carry that...
This isn't going to be only poetry; the thread will contain any and all short writings Kuro needs a place to post. The next post will contain the first of them.
Weather Empathy
Clouds cover the sky and block out the sun,
making the world below dark and cold.
But it's a welcome darkness,
a long-awaited break from the glowing light
of my newfound smile and bright attitude.
I am who you perceive me to be,
though I must say,
most people see me as crazy...
Atypical War
Somewhere over the horizon,
I witnessed the spectacle of a nuclear explosion.
A once-perfect world-turned-wasteland,
ravaged by war of epic proportions.
Modern life’s reflection in a river of tears
lit by a full moon overhead,
memories I once held so dear
scattered violently like...
The Road to Solitude
So many times I’ve reached a dead end
or ended up at the bottom of a cul-de-sac,
but every time you were there to take my hand
and show me a new road around the bend.
I stood on a street corner and looked both ways.
Either direction seemed to lead into nothingness.
At the...