An introduction, update, and new poems!

First, thank you to everyone who has read my poetry collection! From now on, I will upload a new poem every week, but today, I will upload two! There will now be poem notifications on my Instagram, so make sure to follow me if you don't want to miss new content!

Ghosts of the Past

A wraith drifting on a dim breeze.

The reaper's beckoning call.

A phantom drowning in the dark depths.

The reaper asking if it matters at all.

A ghost floating endlessly through life.

What should it matter if I fall?

Maybe I was never meant to escape them.

Maybe it was a fantasy after all.

The screams of the past draw unbearably close.

Threatening to reveal all.

All the memories scorched and burned

To ensure I never had to return.

Return to a place I once thought dead and buried.

Lying under that concrete headstone.

"Here lies the worst of it. Praise be the mind who forgets."

Bless the mind who washes it away.

If only so I see another day.

-- EV

Frayed Edges

I held myself together so tightly

So I could continue on

So I could make it to my destination.

Now that I've arrived,

I loosened my grip

and the most frayed and damaged pieces

have tumbled to the ground.

Spilling out all around me,

Are the sorrows I dare not say out loud.

--EV