Life is too short to be wasted chasing validation
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Better
How are you any better
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Purple
Raise me, praise me, paint me purple
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Follow the fear
Follow the fear to find their game
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One more taste
A mere spoonful of sugar cannot take away the bitter
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Clear skies
Problems like cloud decks, layer upon layer
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Facing the storm
Hit from all sides by random fragments of self
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Emotion is a lever
Try to fin out what it is they wish to control
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Blink
Hey. Blink. Hey you. Blink.
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Once upon too long ago
Forever overrated
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Back into you
When identities untagle and fresh ideas start to form
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Mute the melancholy
Chasing bright thoughts on dark days
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Volatile reactions
Drown out the bullshit and feel myself think
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My self-set task
#vsspoem prompt for February 24th, 2020: Complete
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The dream itself
#vsspoem prompt for February 24th, 2020: Question
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The soul’s litter box
See the half-buried lies inside
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Lost in a whole
Slip out of them, back into you
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Bright thoughts on dark days
The outside world does not exist today
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Torn pages
#vsspoem prompt for February 23rd, 2020: Censor
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Win at life
Chasing the inconsequential goals of man-made games
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Heavens ablaze
Uncertain if it’s love, lust, or rage
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Heartspeak
The heart speaks not
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Joy
This can’t be what joy is supposed to feel like.
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Escapism
I’m fine
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Morality overdose
Paper-thin plots on a film school budget
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Muted dance
This unfelt rhythm, soundless melodies
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Followed
#vsspoem prompt for February 22nd, 2020: Force
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Dear enemy
I do not care who gets the blame, your gods or mine
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Poets watch the world
How stars fall and planets collide
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The desolate heart
Moments lost, but never gone
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Songs of freedom
Obtuse we sound our songs of freedom
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Bait
#vsspoem prompt for February 21st, 2020: Bait
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Beyond awakening
#vsspoem prompt for Febryary 20th, 2020: Miracle
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Three letters
The thought that someone took the time to think of you
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Happy man
You sour the very air around you
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Attention span
#vsspoem prompt for February 19th, 2020: Span