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"Breaking Point" by TonyTervin

Storm is over but I can still feel the thunder

Rumbling in my limbs, torso, making my heart race quicker

Ashy clouds in the sky making me feel under

Rattling unsettling thoughts give me a quiver

Unaware what the future holds

Everything seems out of space

Every feeling seems out of place

Nothing but a fuzzy blur of confusion

Air saturated with despondency

Assimilating what little I have in me

HOPE

Trying so hard to breathe a word to someone

To only end up choking in my own disappointments

Drowning in my misery

Grasping for help

Nobody seems to take notice of my cries and shouts

To relieve me of this trouble

Yet again, am in my own bubble

Disoriented,

Broken soul,

Yearning for the sunlight to wound its way in the mangled spirit

Heal the invisible scars

Wearing me down to the core

Wondering what I even live for.

About: Tony is nineteen years old. He takes poetry to be a form of spilling out what's caged inside of your mind and soul for the world to know.

"Over" by Riodejenerio

Numb I sit,

In the water so freezing,

As my lungs are lit,

For air, I'm pleading.

They burn,

They're stinging,

I swear to learn,

As my ears are ringing.

"It's over, no more pain."

About: Riona is twelve years old. She started writing poetry to empty her mind through words that aren't just words, they're magic.