Twitch

Failing grip, the physical
Slipping, slipping, gone.
Tell me,
Who is it that falls?
Trembling hands, fingers slick
Left to hold
Not a twitch of sanity —
Not one bit,
No, naught at all.

#vsspoem prompt for April 15th, 2023: Twitch

Have-nots

Envy and jealousy,
Games of have-nots
And should-not-haves —
Unaware the parts they play.

#vsspoem prompt for April 14th, 2023: Jealousy

Brittle

Truth hits hard where faith is weak,
Pulling at the brittle branches
Of the trembling family tree —
Father, should we
Set our children free?

#vsspoem prompt for April 13th, 2023: Brittle

Multitudes

Multitudes with single shadows,
Moving on a single sign —
Written, spoken, or implied.

#vsspoem prompt for April 12th, 2023: Multitude

Fragile Ideologies

More deadly than durable,
These fragile ideologies —
Like little soldiers
Made of mud,
Marching through the rain.

#vsspoem prompt for April 11th, 2023: Durable

Charlatans

Charlatans since dawn of time —
I'll take your tale, and make it mine,
Painting over history
With holy words and blood.

#vsspoem prompt for April 10th, 2023: Charlatan

Update Me

Soothing slumber,
Consciousness rebooting,
Auto-saved for a new day —
Erase my faults,
Update me.

#vsspoem prompt for April 9th, 2023: Reboot

On A Whim

Plan everything
Meticulously,
Then hinge it
On a whim.

#vsspoem prompt for April 8th, 2023: Hinge

Silent Nos

Raised in the land
Of silent nos and maybe laters,
Affirmation is the monster
That hides under the bed.

#vsspoem prompt for April 7th, 2023: Affirm

Worship Me

Absent gods, failed icons,
Teachers, parents, preachers, heroes —
Friend or foe,
I let them go
And worship me.

#vsspoem prompt for April 6th, 2023: Worship

Achievement From Choice

Differentiation,
Excused discrimination —
Not only privilege separates
Achievement from choice.

#vsspoem prompt for April 5th, 2023: Privilege

Hate Upon Hate

Hate upon hate —
Blackening the world
With layer upon layer
Of dark, red paint.

#vsspoem prompt for April 4th, 2023: Blacken

Square Of Sky

Dawn, a place too far away,
So distant from my square of sky —
Oh, moon of mine, reach out your light
And vanish me.

#vsspoem prompt for April 3rd, 2023: Square

The Doubt

Reluctant, grounds unknown —
Perpetual the doubt gnaws on.

#vsspoem prompt for April 2nd, 2023: Perpetual

Small Indulgences

Small indulgences allowed —
Of adult lives,
And April fools.

#vsspoem prompt for April 1st, 2023: Adult

Style Becomes Self

When self becomes style,
Or style becomes self,
Beware —
You've lost yourself.

A Little Dream

Dark shadows in the Sycamore tree
Steal a little dream of me.

#vsspoem prompt for March 30th, 2023: Steal

Belong

The sole motivation
In desire, in revulsion —
Belong.

#vsspoem prompt for March 29th, 2023: Belong

Heatmap

Using culture as a heatmap
For which traits should be display,
Is it any wonder
We have lost the will to change?

#vsspoem prompt for March 28th, 2023: Trait

The Sentiment

Celebrated art —
Recreate, auction, repeat.
Is there value in a statement
Beyond money,
If the sentiment's no longer real?

#vsspoem prompt for March 27th, 2023: Art