you said i was too lucky to never have to walk until my heels bleed, hear the sounds of fighter planes going above my roof, run against the bombs drizzling down the woods and pray to God that “don’t take me away today”. i was not you so i wouldn’t know how to say sorryContinue reading “just for you”
Author Archives: Tammy Le
Sensitive and passionate writer who needs to write more.
Intense
i had the best dream today someone was telling me my poetry, they are intense i asked, is that good? they said, without being so intense how else could you let yourself know these are the realest thing you could feel. so, i kept telling myself that being intense doesn’t mean bad being sentimental doesn’tContinue reading “Intense”
The dog
today I learned that a mother who was petting the little dog on her lap can also hit her son at the same time, calling him, the dog, instead. t.l.
prisoner
Is it a gift or a prison i wanna feel everything but nothing makes me feel a thing i wanna escape, tired legs stumping over rocks “Don’t cry alone. Be strong” what is wrong with crying alone? a leaf will fall even when you told it not to i really wanna run away but hereContinue reading “prisoner”
No is the hardest word that you must learn to say
every day you drove around town stopping the wind with bare hands trying to hold sand but they always manage to leave you empty, in the end. your name is precious, say it with pride why do you live for others and not yourself? don’t you know unhappiness is toxic yet addicting please, learn toContinue reading “No is the hardest word that you must learn to say”
1am
“1h rồi, Thanh ngủ đi” – it’s 1am, go to sleep Thanh. sometimes a simple sentence can give you all the emotions at once it makes your body melt, scatter around in pieces waiting to be put together again. when your emotional train has left the station and the depressive thoughts came crushing down likeContinue reading “1am”
accepting
someone said i am the accepting type it’s better to be quiet and stare at the tiles agreeing with what they said than to challenge them with heated words to tell them things you didn’t mean to be angry, and lose it before the glass hits the floor i’m good like that accepting my fateContinue reading “accepting”
quiet
your body shaken when you sleep everything is still, like a piece of exam paper, i feel the air moving around me, so intensely so thick, it could swallow me people are laughing on the streets the ones staying on the upper level are home i turn to kiss you goodnight you were right, there’sContinue reading “quiet”
happy fucking new year
i feel like my time is near every year, when the fireworks shot up across the dark sky and people were cheering drinking, kissing, wishing, hoping “New year. New me” and once again, i felt like my time is running out. i felt a deeper misery a subtle emptiness, a desire to disappear it’s likeContinue reading “happy fucking new year”
tiny rocks
unfinished poem i don’t know what to say when i wanted to die it’s so easy to fake a smile practice it until you perfected it i smiled behind my mask so i could do the same in front of them the sky is on fire i wanted to jump out of the moving carContinue reading “tiny rocks”
Tsunami of Words 