Ceased to Be Seen

A grieving man kneels on a bridge surrounded by scattered chess pieces, while ghostly figures speak behind him and a glowing silhouette waits in the distance

Have you ever grieved someone so deeply the world stopped seeing you too?

I watch my options die under sadness
and I’m unsure that I have enough time.
I ache to travel to you through the veil
while the woke West works to weaken my mind.

The ache of knowing you’re the only one;
you left me here to exist with the herd.
None notice the pain gushing from my pores;
they just parrot the expected false words.

Without you, this pariah is lonely;
to others, my words are false and obscene.
The coldness of knowing that no one cares,
when your eyes closed, I ceased to be seen.

—H, a shadow still waiting to be named

Whispers from the Wound: More Grief Poems to Mourn…

Gothic oil painting of three sorrowful men in a desolate moonlit landscape, symbolizing heartbreak and despair.

Tearful Eyes

Tearful eyes searched the horizon for a mistake that never existed. Love was replaced, dreams scattered, and a heart ensnared by silence and cold retreat.

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A shadowed child crouched in a rain-soaked forest, surrounded by mud and fading light.

When No One Saw and No One Heard

Buried beneath silence, a boy’s cries fade into the earth: unheard, unseen and unhealed.

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Dark figure cloaked in storm light stands among wilted flowers as crows circle overhead.

In His Embrace, I Slowly Died

He gave me what my father never could—then tore it away in the night. Beneath his caress, bruises bloomed. His words bewitched the ghosts of my heart. In his embrace, I withered, unseen by the world.

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Whispers of Emotion: More Lyric Poems to Feel…

Hooded figure stands in a moonlit forest clearing, cloaked in shadows

Murderous Seduction

Beneath the moon’s deceitful glow, love coils around its prey — a dark waltz between devotion and the knife.

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A solemn man wearing a rainbow badge stands in the ruins of a gothic cathedral, as ravens circle beneath a moonlit sky

Denied the Queer

A lyrical battle cry from centuries of gay oppression. Through violence, exile and shame, this poem stands tall — a tribute to those who were denied and those who still rise in colour and truth.

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A shadowy figure looms over a child's empty bed on Christmas Eve, with a faintly glowing tree in the corner

The Night Everything Broke

A quiet, devastating lyric poem about a boy witnessing the moment his family began to fall apart. Christmas Eve brings not comfort, but the first tremor of lifelong grief.

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