This poem was written in the style of a nonet by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. It goes out to everyone who has ever stood concealed behind exclamation points and smiles, hoping for someone to break through.
A nonet poem contains nine lines, starting with nine syllables in the first line, then eight syllables, then seven, all the way down to one in the final line. If this poem touched your heart in any way, please pass it on.
I stand behind exclamation points
My false sense of enthusiasm
And smiley faces hiding
That hole of mine inside
Call it emptiness
A gaping void
Say I’m fine
I am
Not
Vulnerability is weakness
So we don’t let anything show
Yet we continue to wish
That somebody would hear
Know, notice our cry
Silent, pleading
A kind word
All we
Need?
You want to laugh and smile a second
Want the emptiness to be filled
Yet you wait, hoping, wishing
Empty wasn’t so strong
Because it will win
The empty wins
Every
Single
Time
I think of people all of the time
But I wonder if someone could
Be thinking of me also?
I don’t want to bother…
Afraid to reach out
So hot showers,
Blankets are
My warmth
Now
We are all fighters, that’s what they say
We will live, it will be alright
But someone who doesn’t say
‘It will all be alright’
But makes it alright
That’s what we want…
Too easy
Life’s
Not
Never truly know what someone else
Is going through; the outside’s fine
You don’t have thirteen reasons
Why do you feel this way?
Don’t stare at your phone
Don’t wait for it
Don’t count on
Someone
Else
It is hard making it look easy
Is it just me, or does the world
Look a little bit grayer?
Before I fly away
Penny for my thoughts?
See, here is what
I’ve realized
I just
Can’t
But we hold on, even if colors
Are not quite as bright anymore
Waiting for that needed hug
Or just a simple touch
Or that caring word
We keep looking
For that spark
Where is
It?
The problem: to admit to someone
Would be to admit to yourself
So you are fine; I am fine
And I put on a smile
And I will be fine
Maybe not yet
But I will
Be fine
Soon
Because there is always hope on the horizon
Until there isn’t anymore