Poetry and Written Work Exploring Emotion, Identity, And The Human Experience…

Silence Me - A Poem by Erin Coole

I am no good, a defect broken to the world

A total loss

So kill me now

Let me pass

There’s no use now

I’ve nothing left

So lay me down

Fill my mouth with dirt

Watch me sink beneath the earth

And let us speak no more of it

For I was never here

But the earth shall silence me

And silent it will remain

A World that Doesn’t Want Me - A Poem by Erin Coole

I’m trying to fit in

in a world that doesn’t want me

It’s exhausting, I don’t know why I try

I carve out my insides and lay them out

a feast for the hungry wolves

I shed my skin and bare myself

a view for prying eyes

Yet here I stand trying to fit in

in a world that doesn’t want me

Excerpt from Nostalgia | Written by Erin Coole for the Listless Lounge

…But amidst this joy, there lies a profound truth. The person we once knew, the child we once were, no longer exists, and that's the part that causes the ache. In accepting this truth, we are, in lack of a better sentence, we are liberated from the shackles of nostalgia, free to embrace the ever-changing flow of life.

So we revel in the beauty of nostalgia. We sit in it for a moment, feel what we need to feel, but try not to be ensnared by it. We remember the bittersweet joy of childhood, but also embrace the person we've become.

It's that sensation of knowing that the person that existed in those nostalgic memories is a completely different person, existing only in the moment that you remember it, and not a second more.

Publications

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But it’s something I’m very passionate about, and I am currently working on a project I hope to have published soon! Check back later for more details as they arrive!

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Year
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