A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
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I wrote these poems incrementally, but collated, edited, and recorded them collectively. A process that was at first therapeutic and then brutally revealing. A lot of the pieces touch upon regret, lost possibilities, and missed opportunities born of trauma, neglect, mental illness, and fear, as well as the desperation that comes when you find yourself searching for hope inside of darkness.
What could’ve been and what is, are not the same thing. A lot of my pain comes from an inability to reconcile those two disparate facets of my existence. I know I can’t have everything I want, no one can. But when you are broken, it can be hard to know what you want, let alone have any idea of how to attain it.
Thus, I write. I write to heal, to express the darkness within, to get it onto the page, and into the light. To understand myself and to understand my understanding of the world.
If you resonate with my words I encourage you to write some of your own - it will help.
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- Poems -
A Day Without Fear
A Moment Fragmented
A Moment That Will Never Come
a page to listen
A Requiem For What Could Have Been
A Simulacrum of Thought
A Sun Shower
A System Of Inequality
a waterfall shaping rock
Abyss
All I See
Allure
An Apology To The Future
Anger
autumn leaves
blessed with life’s baggage
Candle
Capitalistic Desire
Chaotic Beauty
Closure
Complementing The Future
crescent moon
Dad
Dark Clouds
Do You Love Me, Or Just The Idea Of Me?
Don’t Let Me Ruin You
Enlightenment
enough
escape their fate
Existing Just To Exist
Expectations
Fear
fever dreams
Flee
Fleeting
For As Long As I Have Eyes
Forever Cursed To Sing
Forgotten
Foul Mistress Of Time
He Accepts
Here Lies My Head
i drift
I Envy The Devout
I Fear Your Apology
i step off my mind
I Struggle
I Took It For Granted
I Wonder
If I Continue
If I Were
Impact
In Your Absence
Inertia
Infestation
Irony
I’ve Sold You My Soul
Just A Fiction
leave
Left Wanting
Legacy
Let Me In
Life Is Just A Costume
Life To Avoid
Life
Lifeblood
Lost To Time
Maybe
Mere Imaginings
Mere Thought
Modern Day Peasants
More Than Just… This?
Mourning Song
Need
Neurosis
Nevertheless
Nightmare
Nightmares & Fantasies
Not Safe
Notice Me
Of Myself
On The Brink
On The Field Of Failure
Once More
Panic Attack
Perhaps
Pretentious Words
Questions
Rate Me
Red Flag Chaser
Regret
release
remember
Running
Sacrifices
Sad Zac is Sad
Seed
Seen Through Their Eyes
Selfie
Silence
so why?
Sorry My Boy
spider
Suffering Without Hope
That Comes With A Question
The Agnostic’s Plea
The Artist’s Dilemma
The Candle Burns
The Death Of A Friend
The Devil Speaks
The Knife Of Hypocrisy
The Love I Feel
The Love That’s Real
The Mountain
The Point Of Trying
the silence between words
There Is No Rush
These Words
They See
This Day Is About To End
Those Few Words
To Purchase The Moon
tomorrow
Toward Eternity
Trapped & Alone
Trapped
Triggered
Uncontainable By The Bondage Of Words
Unfortunately
Verses Like Curses
Vestiges Of Civilisation
We Two, Together
What Is Truth Other Than Fiction?
What You Could Have Been
Without
Work Life Balance
Worthy
years on repeat
Your Truth
