power in neons

The Longest Day of the Year Malina Seenarine

The headlights hit the front of my house I’m alone again as the car drives off Tomorrow I’ll be back at work and it’ll be normal

No one will expect anything was out of sorts

How could they? My brain is numb and I have no words

Most times the emotions creep in from every direction

And slowly steep into my pores

I could be getting on the train or drinking a cup of tea at a cafe

I don’t feel it as it is

It is the weight on my shoulders, the pain on the balls of my feet

The feeling of being three seconds behind all the damn time

Checking out and trying so hard to check back in but reality wouldn’t let you

Feeling like the darkness my organs experienced all their lives is a reflection of how I feel on the outside

I can come up with generalities on why I feel this way but when someone asks me what is wrong the words do not connect in my brain.

My voice has been silenced because I never found my time to talk

The meek are supposed to be blessed but I scream into obscurity

The longer I stay quiet the easier it is to forget to speak

Unforgettable Siddrah

Alhindi

You’re like an old song

A familiar melody that is stored deep in my memory

I thought I forgot the sound of you

I haven’t heard your tune in so long

Yet sometimes during the chilling silence of the night

I could hear you flowing through my head

I remember every rhythm and pause

I hum the parts of you I once memorized by heart

I sing the words you serenaded me with

I thought that I wouldn’t be able to recollect your composition

Yet I realized that your chorus was permanently etched into my mind

A track on repeat that I couldn’t remove from the playlist of my thoughts

From the moment you whispered your music into me

I sensed that your harmony was going to be unforgettable