Lauren M. Hancock Poetry and Prose
Where I can feel at home…
Crazed night full of backstabs and bitesand false sugar sweetness relax into this dreamthere is understanding there are laughs there is fightthere is wit pomp and circumstance to cease this inner fightshe shrieks about the hell beneath her world in which she livesshe attempts to share her knowledge and more butthe bunny rabbit only questions [...]
Wanting to make a difference, trying to be heard, I've spoken at length and, I fear I've pained some minds, eyes and ears, still, I insisted on sharing more, and more, and more. I’d apologise for being fixated, but, I am compelled, I want to share my truths, will they, have they made a [...]
I’ve painted myself into a corner, with heavy shades of red and black, crimson for the heartache, darkness for the emptiness after the fact. When I lost access to my chaotic world, a paradise I shouldn't have cherished, I felt broken, no recourse, misunderstood, essentially alone: Whom could I waltz through life with now? [...]
Where is the bite, where is the snarl, where is the slightly obnoxious nature to my scrawl? Why is – here – softness shown when all I wanted to portray was bite, snarl, bite? Isn’t it odd that revealing vulnerability can make me feel so empowered then sickly weak inside? Like reaching [...]
https://soundcloud.com/user-894707136/a-bipolars-addled-mind-spoken-word-poetry I shriek, my body flushed and covered with welts, my very first memory, my very first malady. Illness will follow me wherever I go. My violin's bow hairs tightly hug the strings, as left-hand dexterity is a-flurry, the fruits born of my first psychosis, the magic of a mind wholly scattered and broken, [...]
Turn this snow globe upside down, shake it left to right, around and ‘round, watch the glitter settle, upon a now-glistening figure, upon her nose a mere flicker, a perfectly pretty picture. Way back when, things were simpler, her angst wasn’t as present, no sense of preoccupation, when she could slide into her [...]
Lauren M. Hancock Poetry and Prose 
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