Poetry: A Crumbling Planet.

Chidera Ochuagu
1 min readNov 4, 2023
Photo by Aron Jäger on Unsplash

poetry comes to me in depression,

blank fills my brain in sadness,

panic reaches to me and holds my hands,

refusing to let me go,

I wish her hands were those of the woman I loved, but they aren't,

Panic holds me tightly, as if I'm her one true love.

I want to be free, but these demons are also a part of me,

they go with me, sometimes in complete silence,

other times, they are a raging storm and I'm out of control.

I guess that's freedom too.

I want to love, I want to hate, filled with both, I know how to freely give them.

but I smell love, I live for her, she's my lover reminding me of who I am,

she's my friend telling me to take deep breaths,

Holding my hands and sitting with me in tears.

she holds me together

that I don't fall apart when my a planet in my universe falls apart.

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Chidera Ochuagu

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