Poems
A collection of moments, verses, and moods captured in time
15 poems found
LonelinessReflection
Act of Contrition
2025-09-27John Mortola
"I’ve wallowed in self-loathing long enough!"
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Loneliness
The Words
2025-07-17John Mortola
"The words come in an incessant flow"
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WoundedLoneliness
The Perfectionist
2025-06-27John Mortola
"I hate myself today, because I made a mistake"
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LonelinessDiscovery
How Could You?
2025-05-13John Mortola
"How could you that suggest"
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LonelinessReflection
Justified
2025-04-26John Mortola
"What need I do to justify my existence?"
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ReflectionLoneliness
Excellence
2025-04-25John Mortola
"The pressure to excel is sometimes"
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Loneliness
Momentary Insanity
2025-04-22John Mortola
"So consumed that I could barely breathe"
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WoundedLonelinessReflection
Beyond Learning
2025-03-25John Mortola
"How can I learn to live in peace"
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Enough
2025-03-14John Mortola
"When will I ever be enough?"
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WoundedLoneliness
Ease
2025-03-07John Mortola
"Its overwhelming vastness overshadowing the tiny light"
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Sliding
2024-08-14John Mortola
"When I stop to quiet the world around me And allow myself to feel"
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Choices
2019-12-11John Mortola
"what we are, these eyes will never see"
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Drifting through Time
2019-12-11John Mortola
"Halfhearted wishes, Unfulfilled dreams"
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LonelinessReflection
Empty
2017-07-11John Mortola
"Emptiness shouldn't feel like this."
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LonelinessLonging
Night
2017-05-22John Mortola
"beneath the thin veneer of doubt that kept him from returning"
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