John Salvetti

poem by John Salvetti

Sometimes I feel like my sanity is fleeting. Like a robber from a bank, getaway car speeding. But I'm already behind bars in solitary confinement. Everyone thinks they're my teacher, always giving me assignments. If I just do what... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

It's so hard to wrap my head around the pin drop deafening silent sound. It’s embrace is cold, yet warm somehow. I shiver at the thought. Please give me a jacket, a blanket, a towel? Anything to soak up the pity - or cov... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

The skies are blue, but I am too. I can only tell you half of those facts. If I tell you the whole of this hole in my soul, you may run away and that would be that. I am thin on the outside but inside I am fat. The stairs make me... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

You love me, but you fear what I might be. I might be the nightmare - not the dream. But how can something be so far from what it seems? ..you once thought - then you saw answers you didn't want to see. You say, “hold me clo... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

I lie awake. Haunted by a life that is not what I dreamt it to be. Haunted by a past that I wish was not etched in the stone of my memory. Haunted by an emptiness that creaks louder than any haunted house could hope to. Haunted be... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

I don't know where I am; I've forgotten how to stand. There's a deafening ring, but there's no ring in hand. No one, nothing I recognize in sight until I find the familiar, paralyzing fright. It is the plight of depression with a ... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

Her mind is sharp; shown by precision cut lyrics from her lips. I've been searching for something sharp, with which to cut through this loneliness. It is she who holds the dagger and can wield it as she wills. Will she shove it th... Read more

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What’s the proper medium for a medium mind like mine? Shall I paint like Pablo Picasso, or do science like Einstein? Maybe pick up garbage like the garbage that I am. Clear the clutter Oscar; make some space in that can. I ... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

How can one be numb but feel pain at the same time? How can you say you're ok, yet you're not fine? How can what I'm feeling make no sense, yet it all rhymes? They say the world is yours for the taking, but it's not mine. Working ... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

Precipitation on my window pane - winter is how here You think your perception of my pains correct. You say, now dear - Eat well, get up, go for a run Before you know it, you'll be having fun! It's clear now you don't get it and n... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

The hope - it saved me Then it took away what it gave me. I can’t believe that it played me. I thought I knew better. I saw colors I’d forgotten. I smelled things that weren’t rotten. I enjoyed the world I... Read more

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The Universe is unimaginable in it’s entirety. Like a swarm of bees, these thoughts sting nightly. It’s not a thing that I can seem to take lightly. The unknown is exponential while the known is so tiny. It’s ... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

Body ceases to walk, Heart ceases to toc. Did it ever talk - if there was no one there to listen? Skin no longer glistens. Body is not risen, as all ideas of god go missing; along with years of hugs and kissing. But there's no ... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

Programmed by DNA after years of evolution. Free will is nothing but a conscious delusion. Micro reprogramming from every event From a laugh with a loved one to their untimely end. Your next decision programmed by the code of your... Read more

poem by John Salvetti

The light of day appears, and so does your face. You might say otherwise, but I find, each hair in its place. You look in my eyes and I know that i..am home. The whole world is silent as we occupy our dome. We are safe here - as s... Read more