Congrats, Luna-Starr! Your poem is amazing <3 
and everyone who has entered so far (Celine, Wildwolf, Moon Wolf) your poems are super good! I really liked reading those especially for some reason :)

-Chains

The day that you broke my heart

Made me sad and made me cry

That was also the day that i

Wrapped my heart in chains.

They made it heavy and the iron weighed me down 

It turned soft love into steel

The links on my necklaces strangled me

Only hurt words were choked out

The chains on my wrists bit my skin

Left marks that no other could see

Heavy metal chains wound up my legs

Pinning my hands to my sides

Covering my mouth and making it cold

Covering my eyes in ice

Only hateful whispers reached my ears

And the chains locked and stayed

The weight dragging me down into the earth

Nothing could change the fact

That i would never love again

Nothing, that is, except for a kind face

And open loyalty in the smile

And shining sun eyes that melted the chains

Away from my face, my body, my hands

i could hear faint whispers of hope

Even though a small part of my heart

Was still wrapped in chains. 

it's been a really long time since ivve posted anything much less poetry but it's worth a shot I geuss 

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im so scared

sometimes

that ill never make it out of this small town

full of small minds

a small town im not even from

and dont belong in

im so scared

that

heaven forbid

i cant go to college

and ill be stuck in this house forever 

that ill never get work

and ill just shrivel up and die alone in the dark

im so scared

when i feel my emotions

slipping away like 

theres a spider sipping on my innards 

but who would want all the things

i keep inside anyway 

im so scared

that someday something will happen

to him

and i will have no reason

to struggle to make it out of this small town

im even more scared that maybe

somedaybu

i wont be the one protecting him 

that ill be on the other side 

that i already am 

and hes just too nice to say anything

or maybe even realise it

himself

im scared

i live in fear 

im bound by the chains

that bound my grandfather

long ago

across the sea 

in a land where color still matters

and im scared that one day

theyll get so heavy

that ill just fall apart

firebird

a reflection on Prometheus

every day a reminder of mistakes

past wounds cut too deep to heal, shallow scars torn open by harsh eagle talons

was the pain a reminder of previous lifetimes

did it make him remember he was alive?

or did he only spiral deeper into—blurry—shades of gray graphite hell

tear-tracks carving a path down the rainy windowpane in a never-ending tidal wave of loss;

good intentions are never enough

like blazing golden leaves trapped in free-fall

tumbling towards the lifeless winter graveyard, spinning out of control

(anxiety hurricane.)

the firebird couldn't spread his wings

just around the labyrinthine corner, too far to crawl

i wasn't strong enough

sometimes mental chains are enough to keep from flying

May I join? I have a few poems to share.

Waiting

There was once a lonely boy

Sitting by a winding road

Bathed in moonlight

Cloaked in darkness

Waiting

Waiting for another

Leaves fall

Flowers bloom

'Til one day

He can slumber

Under

A blanket of soil

Still waiting

Still waiting

For another

But they never come

So he waits

Alone

Beneath a willow tree

Under a blanket of soil

Always

Waiting

Forever 

I used to be a bird,

With fearless freefall,

Confidence and

Sunlit smiles.

(I barely remember

And yet I rembember it all)

But my golden life changed suddenly

And I'd tell you how

but it's complicated.

(So impossibly complicated)

I'm not who I was.

Instead of the daredevil,

(I wanted to climb the highest mountain,

Skydive–I was a bird, you know)

There's a frightened girl

Who's too scared to do something new,

Chained down by fear.

I'm only free when

I dance.

(When I dance I'm a bird again)