By Shwa Laytart Poison all water And charge us to Drink With dehydration It’s hard to Think Fattening us up With sugary Treats With malnutrition We’re easily Beat Gradually Firing up The pot Turn our planet Into a desert They like it Hot! Destroy our dreams So effectively They don’t dream So neither Should we Deplete ALL Water It’s not Our right To drink De-hy-drated... Hard To Think Hypnotized Into Defeat Soon to be The species They Eat #DarkPoetsClub

By Amelia Broome Her wails pierce The relentless tears persist Pounding against soaked floorboards Their obnoxious thuds deafening She, unmoving For a time, I had lain beside her Too, consumed in ceaseless grief Fixed on the past state Mourning those I’d met and those I hadn’t Places I’d been and would never see Mourning myself But that time has passed. The ring gripped onto her finger A tightly bound noose Choking but not killing Taunting as I thrash Bound and suspended

By Elizabeth Shanaz How silly to wash the very feet that loathed another step But Allah says walk to me and I will run to you I don’t know of a return route from the well of hopelessness Allah says I am still a believer Water pebbles down the forearm like falling dates Maryam begged to end her life, too Don’t cry so hard, you just washed out all that snot And Maryam is among those Allah loves the most Watch the runoff circle the drain Allah promises ev