Love Poetry: Dear diary.

by jessica hendy
(Kent, UK)

'Diary. Why are we
Subject to these feelings
Inside and out.

I have lied and often not,
To write in you I cannot untie the knots;
But jot down the notes I haven’t forgot.


Too many feelings I have, to keep inside and out.
Too many all wrapped up inside;
Is why I write in you day in and day out.

Too much of this feeling and that one,
And too many sums on the feelings.

The meanings are too strong to have locked inside.
So that is why I have my diary; to help my mind
Not become totally fucked.

To think inside my head and soul,
To find what I might have lost.
To look inside at what I have got,
Right into my diary –
I write the feelings of mine that
I think need helping.

I confess my mind likes circles;
Circling around and around.


The riots I can’t describe.
The undecided feelings;
Bent and casted into cement!
I cried.

Only to write a river of words about it,
About what my feelings meant.

Because I heard, that you can also bully words;
That life is so much better around hers.'

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