The Uprooted Souls Poems: Girl With a Void

Artist: Anwar Zadi

By: Sara Zadi

Girl with a void

Nothing to gain, all to lose

Lost is the mind, wonders like a parakeet flies

Forever longing, barely gaining

Broken meter of bare forced joy

There's music in me, like tension in you

The neck hurts, my soul demands and I could starve

You don't need to exist to others

As long as you burn from within something should grow

Maybe you feel it, feed it too

You're fading away, though faith has never done

Bless be the hopeful self

Damned be the imposter man

Thriving in an overly fed muscle, never an atrophied heart

Make it stop, please

I can't bare the weights, the lifting, the carrying, the living