Adversity Poems
I found my own way home
by Jupiters Angel
I made my own way home.
Long and tedious, harmful
necessary but enduring
this road didn't lead to Rome. Thank God.
Yes I found my own way home.
Faces that told an ugly story.
Thank the spirit I left them all behind
despite the horror memory that lingers.
For all that I refused to entertain their erroneous sense of glory.
My passion to survive the worst that humanity had to offer
......
79. Still Adjacent
by Kea Campbell
Pardon my bluntly put, but people won't endure your fits and pricks much too long.
Even the wolves won't bite your lies. They're not afraid—they'll blitz your prongs.
The same thought creeps around my consciousness like an intruder in my home away from home,
Because there's a con in my house; a mole next door. I fancy a safe space and peace—all alone
Contouring your entourage is a classic precocious assimilation tactic.
Polygraphs haunt you in your sleep because you worship gossip as if it’s a situational prophylactic.
Your narc addiction is narcissistic. Strangers defy perspective and get hooked into your rave,
......
The Builder’s Myth
by Kayla Mumford
For whom are dreams designed?
For what are life’s successes sculpted?
Not for minds who empty like
sordid shower streams dripping down the drain
at moment’s notice,
neither for bodies
so broad their significance is infinitesimal,
nor for skin burned
by the fiery stares of ice blue eyes.
Not for anyone like me.
......
Of Strength In Adversity
by Kayla Mumford
I try to fight you–
But my punches turn to clouds
After pressure, rain
I found my own way home
by Jupiters Angel
I made my own way home.
Long and tedious, harmful
necessary but enduring
this road didn't lead to Rome. Thank God.
Yes I found my own way home.
Faces that told an ugly story.
Thank the spirit I left them all behind
despite the horror memory that lingers.
For all that I refused to entertain their erroneous sense of glory.
My passion to survive the worst that humanity had to offer
......
79. Still Adjacent
by Kea Campbell
Pardon my bluntly put, but people won't endure your fits and pricks much too long.
Even the wolves won't bite your lies. They're not afraid—they'll blitz your prongs.
The same thought creeps around my consciousness like an intruder in my home away from home,
Because there's a con in my house; a mole next door. I fancy a safe space and peace—all alone
Contouring your entourage is a classic precocious assimilation tactic.
Polygraphs haunt you in your sleep because you worship gossip as if it’s a situational prophylactic.
Your narc addiction is narcissistic. Strangers defy perspective and get hooked into your rave,
......
The Builder’s Myth
by Kayla Mumford
For whom are dreams designed?
For what are life’s successes sculpted?
Not for minds who empty like
sordid shower streams dripping down the drain
at moment’s notice,
neither for bodies
so broad their significance is infinitesimal,
nor for skin burned
by the fiery stares of ice blue eyes.
Not for anyone like me.
......
Of Strength In Adversity
by Kayla Mumford
I try to fight you–
But my punches turn to clouds
After pressure, rain
