Contest: Oxymoron
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
,Date of submission: 4th September, 2025
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My heart screams silently in pain,
Dry tears still drown my fragile soul,
My grief is small yet vast as rain,
My cheeks stay parched though hot tears roll.
My throat cries out in voiceless will,
I’m crushed by love too dark to care,
Your gentle hand was made to kill—
You broke my heart beyond repair.
When a mishap takes place...
I ignored it, and pressed on.
What else to do?
Grace is not always polished.
But I can smile between the screams.
If I stumble, that's how we grow---
and if luck feels absurd,
I'll chuckle all the way under...
Because every problem has a resolution
in its own time.
No matter how long it will takes---
I'm sure it won't last forever.
Life is simple, and full of beauty.
Do not complicate the gentle things
We never knew what comes next.
So live, and live fully.
loud screams
inaudible to the human ear
I wonder if to God.
Sneaking through the graveyard
in the dead of night
to a hidden garden
in full moonlight
you want to be careful better beware
the fiery eyes
of the scarecrow's stare
if the spell is broken
you open Pandora's Box
and it's lights out
for the jack-o-lanterns
they're in for a nasty shock
you have to be careful better beware
the Halloween screams
of your worst nightmare
'cause something's jumping in the pumpkin patch
it's goblins going trick or treat
they're a-getting hungry
for something good to eat
Aware
I do not stand still much
Mostly I wait in silence
Known gardener
Roses adorn my cape
Wavy chips and a cake
Timid chirps
Only quiet trust
She screams in silence
Her voice is still
Major energy report
Holy Holy Holy
Echoes of stone
Unaware of her anger
We walk toward the edge
Waves smash into our nets
Our catch is rare
It screams in silence
Screams taking up all I own
Screams making me believe I am no one
Screams enchanting him over my sorrow
Cause his joy only lies on my failed tomorrow.
They try and try
To ensure I give up
My eyes cry
For they never give up.
They take my beauty
They take my time
They take my energy
To I can never recognize whats mine
But my beauty was never limited to time
And my energy recharges from the harmony of shallowest chime.
Whats mine will be what I am
And a little scream
Cannot prevent my yell.
The day started, but little did I know it would be an end to my dreams,
That what was about to happen would end up with a long gut-wrenching scream,
The weather was grey, the dark sky was threatening rain,
I was nearing a world of excruciating pain.
When we met it was with a smile, a hug and a looking forward stare,
Neither of us knowing what was to come so we continued without any care.
We sat side by side holding hands and waiting,
We talked, planning our future both happily innovating,
Then the call came, we were next into the room,
The room was dark, it felt as if it was full of gloom.
We sat together, still holding each other’s hand,
The man behind the desk looked sad, his skin was milky, sort of bland.
He looked up and said he had bad news,
He just said we have run out of options, there’s nothing more to choose,
He said the woman I loved was going to die,
I just went blank, I couldn’t even cry.
He said she had days, days not even a week,
We knew we had lost everything we had wanted to seek.
But this day was done, it certainly was not I had dreamed,
It was the day to abandon everything inside I just screamed.
Two lips so busy yet so little to say
so little,
with a voice so
far, far away.
Yet hear your heart scream
maybe it's better this way.
Not that you seduced anything innocent,
as you'd have them believe.
Yet believing came easily
enough for you..
and much too easy for me.
Like the tire swing not always shared
with tenderness.
Turned your back once or twice,
when asked for another ride..
though it doesn't mean you loved me less.
No, even a silent heart grows in absence,
and mine still so eager
to touch.
Tho' I couldn't always hear, never meant I didn't care.
Guess I just listened a little, too little
too much.
I
cannot
imagine
future living
without eyes tearing
while screams chest develop -
no acceptance views sooth me -
wanting release for inner peace
seems a futile painful endeavor
I hear heaven's precious angels crying -
relationships worship purpose tainted
truth will be lost as dysfunctions grow -
artificial intelligence
violates all hearts minds souls -
it is not progressive
but sick aggressive
to rape visions
choke mankind
undo
us
Do you ever feel
that no matter how hard you try,
no matter what you achieve,
it will never be enough?
Like each mistake
is a stone,
a weight
that pulls you deeper,
one more heavy thing
to carry,
to measure against yourself.
Sometimes,
I wonder if I were to disappear,
if anyone would notice,
if in a year,
or two,
my name would be
a distant thought,
lost in the shuffle,
a whisper on the wind.
Would it matter?
Would anyone care?
Would the echo of my laughter
still ring in someone’s ear?
Would the words I spoke
become fading memories,
dust in a room no one visits anymore?
Eventually,
everyone is forgotten,
aren’t they?
A brief flame
that fades
into the dark.
So I keep moving,
burying the doubts,
pretending they don’t weigh me down,
because what else is there to do?
The world turns,
and we turn with it,
but for how long?
Will the marks I leave
be only footprints in sand,
washed away by time’s relentless tide?
I see the lines, I trace the skin,
I swear this time won’t start again.
The pain fades fast, but not for long,
The ache remains, the pull too strong.
I see the lines, I hide them well,
A silent scream, A private hell.
If only I could yell,
Help,
But if I reach, if I let go,
Maybe someone else will know.
Maybe, It's my time to go
I guess we’ll never know…
Tonight, there's a secret I planned,
Fly me once more to fairyland,
In our quiet bed and in dreams,
As you have done through moans and screams.
Take me there and let me lie bare,
Till my eyes have wept their last tear,
So my love may restore lost beams,
As you have done through moans and screams.
Let your touch send me to the moon,
Let our love lift us like balloons,
And our hearts will flow in cool streams,
As you have done through moans and screams.
By the time our secret is known,
To all eyes, our love will have shone,
And my face will glow in soft gleams,
As you have done through moans and screams.
In the abyss of gazes, where silence screams mute and deep,
The chasm stares back, a vortex gathering abstract emotions,
I offer it my fears, aspirations, and unspoken truths,
It swallows them all, leaving an unyielding void in my chest.
There exists a lexicon of despair, with sharp, cutting phonemes,
With discordant cadence, yet solace in graceful harmonies,
An elegy reminding me that I am both wound and witness,
Exiled and at home, in a universe that knows no harbor.
On the edge of the abyss, where light entwines with shadow,
I lose and find myself, a traveler wandering without aim,
In the stream of consciousness, I wonder who I am without it all,
An echo of unfulfilled dreams, a longing that does not struggle.
In the soliloquy of the abyss, where silence becomes the heart's language,
I find melancholic beauty, the poetry of falling and rising,
In the dance between void and fullness, eternal and profound,
I am both creator and creation, in the infinite that binds us all, round.
A fleeting vision and aura
Hidden
Deep in the recess of my mind
Under the cover of darkness
Toying with my psyche
Reading my mind
Undisclosed thoughts
Inner monologues
Coaching
Guiding
Escaping reality for a fleeting moment
Feeling my soul spirit
Whispering
Softly,
So softly.
Words escaping from my lips,
Echoing,
Bouncing around like an electric current—
The jumble of my brain,
Like a jigsaw puzzle,
Searching desperately for a missing piece.
A link—
Broken.
The silence screams.
Empty.
A hole where my heart used to be.
A ghost is walking
in the room
behind the curtain
me and you
hearing screams
nothing to do
I'm scared to death
of this truth...
When you see me now
you see his face
you think I am
the one to blame
you never grew
you simply fled
you are the wall
where I smack my head.
Jessica
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