Three Poems by Yuu Ikeda

 

December 2nd, The Last Game 

 

 

today is the last game that 

i may be able to win. 

today is the last game that 

i should win. 

today is the last game that 

i must win. 

after the last game, 

i will fall on the ground of a nightmare, 

or, 

i will fall asleep in wings of an angel. 

 

 

 

 

Hope 

 

 

i'm stronger alone than i'm with this world. 

i'm the strongest person 

whenever i'm free from this world. 

i'm just a human. 

i can be just a human, 

whenever i'm free from this world. 

nobody judges me. 

my face, color of hair and skin, 

what i wear, age, gender, nationality, 

personality, past, and, 

life. 

nobody can dominate me. 

nobody can ridicule me. 

i'm the sole free person, 

whenever i'm free from this world. 

 

 

 

 

“A R E Y O U M E?” 

 

 

the more scars i carve, 

the freer i can be. 

the more pain i feel, 

the more comfortable my mind can be. 

i'm drunk on violent me. 

i'm addicted to destructive me.

 

Yuu Ikeda (she/they) is a Japan based poet and writer. She loves mystery novels, western art, sugary coffee, and japanese comic “呪術廻戦 (Jujutsu Kaisen)”. She writes poetry on her website.
https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/

She is the author of poetry collections; “The Palette of Words”, “Seasons Echoing Around Me”, “Phantasmal Flowers in The Eden Where Only I Know”, “A Chain-Smoker at Midnight”, and more.

One of her big dreams is to write while travelling around the world. Her Twitter and Instagram :
@yuunnnn77