Why do we do this?
There is no way to fix us
Please just walk away
All posts by May Ling B
Haiku Series #45
The thought just kills me
The before us and after
How so much can change
Haiku Series #44
Take stock of your life
Is this where you thought you’d be?
You can make it right
Haiku Series #43
I have gone adrift
Being neither here nor there
Somewhere in-between
Haiku Series #42
The sun blinds my eyes
Horizon never ending
Far away from home
Haiku Series #41
The waves are violent
Crushing bones and stealing breaths
Merciless on me
Haiku Series #40
It’s much too quiet
Alone with my thoughts again
That’s a scary place
Haiku Series #39
This pull of my heart
Broke me from my reverie
I cannot go back
Haiku Series #38
I watch the smoke swirl
Outlining you in its haze
But you are not there
One day at a time
I always hear the whispers invading my thoughts Breaking down my resolve To an inch of my sanity The way it beckons stirring memories Which then intertwine with harsh realities And I remember why I walked away that night That's the moment I have to catch my breath Chanting mantras while I break into a sweat I never knew you, did I? That's the sad, simple truth lodged in my throat It dampers the whispers into a bearable white noise Day 41, check