GILLIAN D'SOUZA

HEALTHCARE, SCIENCE & CREATIVE WRITER

Same language

Same language Home > Poetry > This poem Let’s rid the world of all language Find unsaid code in the stillness So love can drape gently you and I Where we hint hello but never goodbye

Homecoming

Homecoming Home > Poetry > This poem They never teach you  that a homecoming can go either way Seeing why you left, yet yearning to stay That not every hello must end in goodbye Holding back, letting go is a dance till you die

Thank you from the future

Thank you from the future Home > Poetry > This poem Not too long ago that I  stopped looking back tears for my younger self Now I look ahead, instead drier eyes to the future “Thank you,” a whisper It’s almost….carefree “Thank you,” an echo “For taking care of me” 

Double standards

Double standards Home > Poetry > This poem When it’s 2 am and leaves lie still and “What Ifs” plague my mind Easy to forgive them, not myself  Some things don’t mend with time    “Because they’re human,” fallible, But me? I should’ve known better Arrogance to think I’m not like them Life is an […]

Hope blooms

Hope blooms Home > Poetry > This poem May roses bloom sans their thorns in the parts of you once scarred May lilies befriend your old soul reminding of love never too far   And when you think you’ve seen it all, may new buds bloom in the cracks Reminding of miracles yet to come […]

Lessons from sea

Lessons from sea Home > Poetry > This poem Could it really be the great vast sea was once my home? Her calming blues, the way she moves, caressing the sand. And yet her wrath crashes against rock While despite myself I can never know her, not fully, not ever. And maybe that’s why she […]

More

More Home > Poetry > This poem Will you tell me the times you wanted to cry But then decided you maybe shouldn’t   Or the time you laughed aloud in a crowd While they looked on, but didn’t join in   I’d rather know what breaks your bones Than talk for hours about the […]

War next door

War next door Home > Poetry > This poem When the world gets too dark And the silence of my home feels like an onerous privilege, And calm feels out of reach, I switch off from the noise And I can do it all with ease.   When people around me pray for a glimpse […]

I’m everyone

I’m everyone Home > Poetry > This poem I’m a little bit of everyone. And so when they leave, they take parts from me that belong to them. But somewhere along I began to sing their song, forgetting my own tune Left with scattered parts And no one to sing to.

Rift

Rift Home > Poetry > This poem A broken window we look through You and me on either side As mist fogs the glass between us, We use it for our hearts to hide To you the glass was never broken It’s only a crack, you insist But the wind hammers loud and hard As […]