Teen angst Poems
[Untitled (5)]
by Markiya Franklin
No.
You can't leave me.
I won't let you.
I need you.
Not more than air - that's what love-blind people say
But I need you and that's got to mean something, right
You take your short trip.
Or break.
Whatever you call it.
I fall into depression.
......
To Whom It May Concern
by Markiya Franklin
Who do you think you are
To touch me that way
To use me the way you did
To bring it upon yourself to destroy my innocence
To break this family
To imprint on it as branded cattle
To pity us
To stuff us in a cell resembling your own
To cause pains and mock other hurts
To abandon us in this world
......
[Untitled (2)]
by Markiya Franklin
I'm only afraid because what
Is inside me, holding this limp flesh in one piece
Is what consumes us all in the end, one way or another
Is inexplicably soothing and frightening
Is nothing but everything we've come to know
Is something we'll never fully know
Is what makes us human, prideful and weak
Is the difference between me and the next guy
Is the fundamental factor of us all
Is what shakes my steady mind
......
[Untitled (6)]
by Markiya Franklin
What is there to do
When I can't find the words
When I have these inexplicable feelings
When I can't relate to reality
What is there to do
When I don't want to write
just a crush
by Markiya Franklin
the trace of his bony fingers, each of the ten
i'd kiss them if given the chance
the way his eyes squint and his face wrinkles when he smiles
if i could follow those lines with my fingers or even
my lips
such simple pleasures
so unattainable
just a crush
by Markiya Franklin
the trace of his bony fingers, each of the ten
i'd kiss them if given the chance
the way his eyes squint and his face wrinkles when he smiles
if i could follow those lines with my fingers or even
my lips
such simple pleasures
so unattainable
[Untitled (6)]
by Markiya Franklin
What is there to do
When I can't find the words
When I have these inexplicable feelings
When I can't relate to reality
What is there to do
When I don't want to write
[Untitled (5)]
by Markiya Franklin
No.
You can't leave me.
I won't let you.
I need you.
Not more than air - that's what love-blind people say
But I need you and that's got to mean something, right
You take your short trip.
Or break.
Whatever you call it.
I fall into depression.
......
[Untitled (3)]
by Markiya Franklin
What if we're not the only ones here
What if there's someone above us
Above all else
The questions that started it all
But what if we just want someone to hear
What if that's behind all the fuss
To placate ourselves
Prolonging the eventual fall
......
To Whom It May Concern
by Markiya Franklin
Who do you think you are
To touch me that way
To use me the way you did
To bring it upon yourself to destroy my innocence
To break this family
To imprint on it as branded cattle
To pity us
To stuff us in a cell resembling your own
To cause pains and mock other hurts
To abandon us in this world
......
