A punch to the gut
And a slap in the face
Each step that I can’t retrace
How did I get here
Living within fear
Caged in the chaos
Almost saw my life lost
But at what cost
I’m free to fly now
But sometimes still forget how
I can be brave and face the day
Or I can crumble and hideaway,
Maybe play with a stray
I didn’t lose my life
But I lost my balance
It’s like I’m in Wonderland
Please, call me Alice
Kyoko WP
I’m here now
It’s time to look around
To look and see
The Earth, the ground
Look up and see
The stars i missed
Feel the air,
Taste the mist
that kiss my lips
Life, is for moments,
under the moon
..like this
Kyoko W.P.
I’ll make you a home
Inside of a poem.
It’s up to you which way the words roam.
Kyoko W.P.
The tears sting my cheek
where my face hit the floor
Collapsed in defeat
I don’t want to live like this anymore
Kyoko W.P.
Everything is so hazy
I can hardly see
Everything is moving like
Lights on a rainy street blazing
All I can see is you
And you are all that I’m craving
The twinkle in your eye,
Its captivating
Your eyes gaze at me,
My heart palpitating
Two souls,
…embracing
Kyoko W.P.
I saw clearly for the first time that day.
That was the day everything had changed.
My whole life rearranged.
The way you looked at me as I played with my hair
We couldn’t deny the energy in the atmosphere
In the blink of an eye, I fell in love
You showed me what stars are made of
And to dance floating under the moon
I believe in love because of you
Kyoko W.P.
You left to start a new life
A new baby, a new wife
You left behind the three girls you had
You left them broken, with no more dad
You left behind the shattered shards
You left me to mend three broken hearts
You left the ones you claimed to love
You left more damage than I could conceive of
Kyoko W.P.
Photos can fool
Can be used as a tool
To make you believe
To trick and deceive
That all the pain you have, forgot
That you’re happy when you’re not
Photos don’t show the tears and trauma
The damage, the drama
It’s a moment paused and face put on
No one knows that anything’s wrong
You truly never know
What’s behind … a photo
Kyoko W.P.
A flicker, a flash , a flame
A blaze of fire ignites inside
It scorches with a fierce torch
Embracing the warmth of it while it sears
Melting
Watch as it all goes up in smoke
Smoldering
Reduced to nothing
but ashes
and char
Kyoko WP
I can break
I can break and mend
Push me so far until I bend
over backwards till it ends
Does it end?
Kyoko W.P.
Diffuse the IED of dishonesty
Before we all combust from the blow you fraudulently
handled as love for me
But now I see
This disaster was always meant to be
It didn’t matter what I tried to be
Or all the love you quickly stole from me
This was always meant to be…
A tragedy
Kyoko W.P.
Music is therapy
Keep a knife, under your pillow, as you sleep…
For thats when the monsters tend to creep
They send their demons to torture; to reap
You reap what you sow, is what they say…
Be careful each day,be prepared to pay
As you sleep, under your pillow, keep a knife
It may be the one thing to save your life
Kyoko WP
a single tear drop
is a minuscule
fragment of affliction …
its a speck of vast emotions
all encapsulated
in one single splash…
imagine the pain that remains in the tears not cried
but put a side
to hide
Kyoko W.P.
Little girl, little girl
Why do you cry?
You’re far too young to know such pain
But it’s all I see in your eyes
Little girl, little girl
You don’t have to tell me who or why
You don’t have to be okay
You just have to try
Little girl, little girl
I see the fear in your eyes
You need not be afraid
I will sing you lullabies
and hold you under the nights shade
Little girl, little girl,
Don’t grow so fast…
Sometimes the world
can feel chaotic,
hard to find your place
Take your time…
find your pace
Don’t lose your firefly,
dreams and wishes
Send them way up high
Do it your own way
Light up the sky
Little girl, little girl
Keep your chinup
Don’t cry
Inside every little girl,
Is a warrior… with fire in her eye
Kyoko WP
Maybe I dance to the beat of my own drummer.. or
Maybe I am the drummer
Still looking for my beat
I feel it as it changes right under my feet
Maybe I sing to my own melody
Lost in the rhythm of life
And it’s swift changing keys
They can be sharp, haunting
Full of melancholy
I’m lost in the lyrics
that overstimulate my mind
But there are moments of clarity
Where the words just unwind
Those moments of solace
Happen time to time
Those are the times
That keep my heart alive
Kyoko W.P.
Maybe it’s not that my light
doesn’t shine bright enough
for others to care,
Maybe it’s that my light shines too bright;
hard to witness, to bear.
So the world throws its shade and its filters,
in forms of trauma and tragedy,
in attempts to dim or dull
my light capacity.
But I still glow and gleam in the dark…
Beaming dazzling light into the night sky,
like art
Kyoko WP
Even in the darkest of nights,
A flower can still bloom.
Kyoko W.P.
You picked my petals.
One
by
One.
And I let you,
thinking… I had won.
Truth be told,
before you finished with my petals…
You were already
done.
Kyoko W.P.
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