Paperweight Poetry

I imagine that Silence is quite loud  An infinitum of space deafening the world every day  With all of the secrets quieted and vowed  All of the countless things you were born knowing you can never say.  -anna sluder

He wished that he could be the shore for her Sands that kept her grounded and always stayed  But it couldn't be like how they once were For she rolled into his arms and then out, stayed and then swayed  But through all the years of each burst of warm waves  And then leaving him overnight, soggen with abandonment  He decided that there love wasn't worth being saved  If she was in and then out every moment  So gradually he was bulldozed away and didn't hold onto her waves Or kiss the veins of her waters and their white foam blood  Until eventually he sunk into a new beach, a new grave  And watched her from afar drowning in her own flood.  -anna sluder

I know what I think  When I place thin fingers upon the reflecting glass It is a drowning ship in my chest that makes my heart sink  As I critique my skin, pluck apart and harass  Yet I always have hope that maybe the girl on the other side Doesn't feel grief when she looks at me  That perhaps she believes it is what is on the inside That makes a person be.  -anna sluder

We are made of pieces  Words, regrets, memories, and fears We bear the worst and the least  Which is why we have our tears For waterfalls drain into rivers and streams For if there was no place for its water to go down All would be left is the echoes of our screams  As in our pieces we would drown  But don't be fooled when her pieces don't follow your river's motion This doesn't mean that she is dry  We all have pieces, and her escape leads to the same ocean For not all the pieces of your soul have to fall from your eyes.  -anna sluder 

words are teacups, fragile and thin, yet our lips are never careful, as we drink deeply from them. -anna sluder

today i drunk the stars and choked upon the moon... -anna sluder

Today I stood upon a groundless cloud  And grasped the hand of a star unnamed  Today I breathed the sea without being drowned  And tomorrow I will do the same.  -anna sluder