POETRY | SELF-WORTH | POETIC REFLECTIONS
Your Worth Is Not To Be Questioned
Free Verse
Sometimes, there’ll be people in your life
who’ll discard you like withered flowers.
Even a crow leaves a minor mark if
it picks something from our bastions.
Humans can’t — They just don’t explain
why they’ve done what they’ve done!
Then, hurt and confusion will embitter
your emotions like yellow-green moss
sprouting from all angles and edges.
Even if so, go ahead and write about it as it is.
Don’t do verses on heartbreaks. Don’t lament.
You aren’t wretched — they are!
Discard them from your elegant essence and
write a discarded poem like this for yourself:
… discard ghosts who ghost you forever after
assurance/who degrade mental health by
pretending to have a disorder/even though
they don’t have one/and come back to you
all good and ghost you again,
… discard self-appointed celestial beings who abhor
you because you are an innocent worldly being,
… discard the moneybags who caw about items they own
and the monies they spend,
… discard enchanters who shelf their…
