POEM STARTER
Submitted by Brynlee
'I don't want to stick out like a weed in a field of wildflowers.'
Use this sentence to inspire a poem or short scene.
Differences
They feed him these scripts since a jit
Gaslighting him to believe they’re legit
Told him not to question them a bit
though he was a skeptic since a kid
Survival instincts trauma breed
Fighting 2 diffrent voices inside his head
One started getting silenced as time advanced
World started looking bleaker from a foggy lens
He only hears the inherited scripts not the other side of him
He falls deeper into an abyss
The more he’s home the more numb he gets
Checked out off the drugs only way he can feel bliss
Though he knows it’s temporary and artificial
It felt realer than being sober living superficial
Fake smiles holding tears cuz who tf gon hand him a tissue
Lead to a cycle of misuse
Let’s be honest a cycle of abuse
Know those demons get to talking if he ain’t had a hit or 2
Like if he wasn’t high he felt out of tune
Or out of key
just knew when he was sober his heart tend to bleed
But also a stoic soldier so those scars never leaked
Took some actions just to not hear those voices speak
Demons led him to run through life at a cosmic speed
His next few steps would be what he’d soon regret
Learned some life lessons within a few hellish weeks
When released back off new drugs cuz guilt never stopped screaming
Tears never stopped streaming
Dynamics never started healing
Took a few more years of pain for changes to start revealing
Know he’s blessed cuz his angels became his inner voice and always stayed near him
Had to stay sober to gain clarity
Learned to look at life like a parody
Laugh at the absurdity’s
Don’t inherit them
Fuck all the narratives
Be your own author that’s real ownership
Create your own meaning even when the inherited scripts say it’s meaningless
Every day every breath another choice to make and later reflect
Your life is yours and the world is ours
Stay in stuck a script
“I don’t want to stick out in a field of wildflowers”
or retain your own power
“The worlds birthed with variety because differences is what built the beauty of the flower”