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True Loves Don't Kiss

If this is all a glimpse of the future then sing me asleep and forever forget to kiss me awake originally written circa 2016

Hold That Thought

Hold that thought That one right there And that one And that one And all of those Hold all those thoughts Tie a string to each one and...

What if?

What if one day I was dying and you couldn't save me, would they find you crying because you were finally free? originally written 18th...

Not Now

sorry dear friend dying isn't meant for right now (hold on just a while longer, please) originally written circa late 2017 - 2018

Simply Colour Inside The Lines

On sober nights when sleep won't arrive I sit up awake, eyes open wide, noticing tiny patches of empty fabric in the Inidan wall hanging...

"How Are You?"

I often wonder if you appreciate my lies if you are glad for the falsehoods I devise to keep the lights on in your eyes when you look at...

I Want (part 2)

I want to stay all day in bed eating gone off bread until I am sick Until the very fabric of my being begins to fray at the edges Until...

The Net

Sometimes we fall through the net And sometimes there is even no net to fall through originally written October 2017

why would you assume

I think everyday social life would be much more inviting if people were allowed to be not okay in public without the assumption that a)...

I Want

I want to stand too close to the edge of the road with my toes hanging over the pavement and scare drivers into thinking. I am about to...

Intercostal Void

Everything is wrong I am wrong I am 20 years too late for life Somewhere between waking and breathing I get lost My pen moves in slow...

someday, soon

I think myself falling and I feel myself crying I never do and never will but someday, soon originally written September 2017

one day you will understand

I wish that one day I will explode and all my insides will come out Every thought I've ever moulded in my mind Every feeling I've ever...

Save It For A Rainy Day

Here's the bullet you shot that never did kill. I hid it in my veins for a rainy day. Choke on it. originally written 27th September 2017

Marlboro Smoke

Sit with me a while on this cold concrete floor Let me watch Marlboro smoke and curly hair stream across your moonlit face Let me imprint...

'You Had One Job'

Nobody gets more than one poem But you You lucky bitch you You made me give up two That was all for you I poured myself out when our eyes...

Beautiful, Monstrous

All you Albanian guys have eyes that look like you've stared into the abyss your entire life. Like you see right through to a person's...

The Summit of Desire

My kind of love? Trust me, you do not want it. Let lust be the be all and end all of your love for me. Step down from the summit of...

Recoil

Two guns and they both go off. And yours is without ammunition, only loaded with a bullet of my imagination, that I know I put there...

I, Mess

You once asked me How could one girl make such a mess? Well, could I make anything else? I am a mess, so mess is what I make, trailing...

Why do planes fly

Yesterday i made a plane explode i watched it for too long Oh, i knew it was wrong to will it to leave stains on the sky And as we drove...

Ten Thousand Bubbles

Ten thousand bubbles in my bathtub late last night carried the weight of all that I deemed to be wrong and right They kept me afloat but...

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