Wednesday Whispers

Poetry

One Candle

by Serena Mossgraves

is it too much 
to light a single candle,
to illuminate the world
one small light at a time?

One Candle to fight the darkness,
one Candle to push the dreary away.
I am not trying to rid the world
of all the darkness,
That is too much for me to try,
I just want to push some light
into the world so that I might see.
One Candle is enough for me.

Pad challenge Day 2

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2024-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-2

Wednesday whisper

Wednesday whisper
Poetry

What the Dead Know

By

Serena Mossgraves

Regrets add weight 
To the soul,
Leaving knowledge
Of what life has been
Stripped away
From all that was
Worthwhile.

Instead of fighting with
What the Dead know,
The living should be
Thinking about how
To live instead.

Wednesday whisper

Poetry

Hell

By

Serena Mossgraves

I read somewhere
That Hell was a place
Of fire and suffering,
I think not.

Hell is familiar,
That place you go
over and over again.

Hell is repetition,
and unending.

Hell is the moment
where the pain feels
the most like home.

Perhaps there might
be suffering,
but in the moment
would you see it so?
Or would you merely accept
that this is all you have
ever really known?

Wednesday whisper

Poetry

Dead Inside

By

Serena Mossgraves

The problem with life
Is expectations are so high
So much drama and the cost of pride.

It leaves everyone feeling
Like they might just be
Dead inside.

It drills holes in the soul
For emotion to crawl into
To hide.

Monday Poetry

Poetry

Grief

By

Serena Mossgraves

Wallowing,
in the darkness
allowing the weight
to hold you down…

Perchance it is death
in the moment,
only you have forgotten
how to drown?

when even the breath
is more than you know
how to release,
How is it possible to
find peace in grief?

Pad challenge Day 28

Poetry

Dead Inside

By Serena Mossgraves

The problem with life
Is expectations are so high
So much drama and the cost of pride.

It leaves everyone feeling
Like they might just be
Dead inside.

It drills holes in the soul
For emotion to crawl into
To hide.

Monday poetry

One from Serena And One from Me.

Monday poetry

Monday poetry

one from me and one from Serena Mossgraves