Category: Daily Prompt

Control

Biko2 Comments

they say that sometimes we have to let some things go

that we can’t really do

all of this

all by ourselves

that our shells

can only hold onto

the fragments

of constituents

buried deep within the parts of us we never really want to reach

or the parts of us they expect us to keep holding onto

they tell us that sometimes

trying to

Control

everything

leaves us controlling

nothing

And maybe they’re right

Maybe all of we have left

won’t be enough

And we find ourselves buried

deep within

fragments of our constituents

Asking them to hold on to us

;

But maybe

just maybe

All we ever want to control

is nothing

And maybe

just maybe

that’s enough.

 

© Hudson Biko

 

Elixir

Biko2 Comments

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We poured it into ourselves

letting it seep

through valves

that would let it

bleed

into the parts

of us that were

always torn apart,

that would let it

feed

the parts

of us that were

always hungry for a part

of more,

for

the parts of us that we always wanted to make

whole

;

but torn things are never whole

,

their holes

are left

bleeding

and seeping

into valves

that feed

the parts of us

that were

more.

 

© Hudson Biko

Photograph by Hisu lee