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
ptsd
Break
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.
4am; never late
A Single Tear Drop
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.
Pardon Me
strength with an iron will
doesn’t make this pill
any easier to swallow
down, even with water
it’s still stuck in the gut
-ter of my thoughts
that I can’t wash out
so pardon me,
while I scream and shout
this is not what I want
Kyoko W.P.
once was war
just like all the debris,
left from the storm.
it’s up to you
to clear that path,
and make a way-
where there once
was war.
Kyoko W.P.
Liquid Gold
I don’t want to fall to pieces
I don’t want to come unglued
I’ll keep my breaks and scars bonded:
Liquid gold tattooed
And when the scars begin to bleed
I’ll try to think less of you
The gold in place to remind me that,
I
am
free…
That, I have been renewed
Kyoko W.P.
Big Feels Book on Amazon
Tomorrow my book will officially been on the market a full month. I’d love to sell a few more before then!
Big Feels: I feel too much
Stillness
Standing in stillness
I observe the world
Spiral around me
Faster and faster
I behold life moving
I’m just a witness
Motion sickness
Hit me with a quickness
But I’m still …
standing in the stillness
Kyoko W.P.
Piece of Art ( Kinsugi)
Every word is a memory.
Each a punch in the gut,
a crack in the heart.
But these wounds
somehow craft me
into a new piece of art.
Kyoko W.P.
Predator
It doesn’t matter
how many years have passed
I can still feel you choke me
I can still feel your grasp
your grabs and your grip
Fighting my screams
by biting my lip
You tossed and threw me
like rag doll
You behaved like a predator
ready to maul
I closed my eyes until it was over
The shame and the pain,
the full – body exposure
I’ll never forget
but I’ll always long for
closure
Kyoko WP
Book available on Amazon
I’m too excited to share that my first Poetry collection is available on Amazon and is currently #1 new release in Asian American poetry and American Poetry and #33 in women’s Poetry! I could cry🥺😭♥️♥️
Ebook now available!
Big Feels: I feel too much
Available at link above🖤
Blanket Fort
The chaos inside
I just want to hide
From the world and myself
Close the book
Put it on a shelf
Hide under the covers
Until the chaos calms and I feel safe
A blanket fort is my closest escape
Still
The pain in my skin
I still feel it
The sound of his voice
I still hear it
The cigarettes and alcohol
I can still taste it
The panic inside
I still drown in it
I close my eyes
I still see you
What will it take to heal and rid you
Why Am I Awake?
Why am I awake?
I want to sleep
And yet here I am
Sitting in bed as I weep
Something robbing
Me, I can’t control
And I am sobbing
From deep within my soul
I want to rest
I want to dream
I hold my breath
Try not to scream
My brain is wired
My emotions, on fire
My body, tired
Why am I awake?
Open Book
I’m an open book
Turn the page and take a look
Inside you’ll find every emotion and feeling
The trauma and pain that still needs healing
The once frightened child
My thoughts gone wild
The tears that I’ve cried
All the times that I’ve tried
The love in my soul
Things I can’t control
Every page, every chapter
Will have you wonder
How life hasn’t snapped her
I am majestic
I lived in hell for many years
Living in a constant state of panic and fear
Increasing everytime the devil drew near
He drew more power with every tear
Questioning my thoughts, made my own memories disappear
I didn’t even recognize myself in the mirror
Until I found my strength, my spear
Now his screams I can’t even hear
He has no power, and I have no fear
I am majestic and he is mere
Edge of a Cliff
Feel like I’m on edge of a cliff
This is certainly no way to live
It’s not that I want to die
I just don’t want to hurt and cry
Pathless
It’s hard to avoid the sadness
When you’re surrounded by constant madness
All of the ugly and the badness
It puts me at a disadvantage
It’s hard to see the light in pitch blackness
I think of what life would be I didn’t have this
Would it just be plain and blandness
For now I’m still finding my way out of the vastness
Wish I could take the trauma m; compact it
My brain likes to replay,; reenact it.
Every moment in exactness
Just trying to get past this
Make my pain past tense
But I often feel pathless
Venomous
I’m feeling quite tremulous
The pain in my heart is strenuous
I fear it may be continuous
It’s where my hurt has made a venue of
It’s shattered quite tremendous
I don’t know if I can live with this
Something spreading; venomous
I’m feeling breathlessness
Just endless
Helplessness
Where there once was
Preciousness
And I am weaponless
Kyoko W.P. POETRY 