Monday, March 13, 2023

Something to Believe

 

Dressing for that 

Sunny disposition

That always seems 

To escape me

I will find a cloud 

To get lost in and 

Dig up all

My painful memories 

How do others move on

While I stand still?

Analyzing the wreckage 

Has gotten me nowhere 

How does a heart

That’s been betrayed 

Heal?

How can you 

Reach inside to find 

The wound

Whispering 

I promise

You’ll be safe here.

💫Amber Comber

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Monday, February 20, 2023

Wounds

 

These wounds they say

That make us stronger

What do they do 

In between 

The rawness &

The scar tissue 

How do we carry

Around

This aching flesh

Protecting it

From a world

That wants 

To tear it apart

How do some of us    

Recover 

And others get 

Consumed

What does survival

Look like to you?

💫Amber Comber

#words #healing #poetry #poetrycommunity #hihowareyou #clt #trains

Monday, January 30, 2023

Static

 I have never 

Had a winter

So surrounded

By death

I should be 

Thankful 

For each 

And every 

Fucking

Breath 


Still

I’m frozen

In memories 

Of the past

Afraid to hold on

To anything too

Tightly 

As the waves of grief 

Ebb and flow

I feel tied

To an anchor

Unable to 

Let go.

💫Amber Comber

Friday, November 11, 2022

Is that all there is:

 I’m filing a nail that has been 

Jagged for over 2 weeks now

I’m choosing to ride my bike 

In the sunshine 

Instead of doing the 

Laundry and vacuuming 

Like I should

Because

I leave for work in the dark

I come home in the dark

And I feel my life

Painfully

Passing me by

As I am just trying

To fucking

Survive

Winter always 

Brings a heavy

Blanket of grief

And no time to 

Process and rest

My aching bones 

Beneath.

💫Amber Comber

Monday, September 12, 2022

Love Surreal

 I don’t remember 

Much about that night

I do recall the tiles of light

That adorned my hips

Moving and stretching 

With each frantic breath

Professing earnestly 

That

I’ll love you harder

I promise

Dissolve you 

Under my tongue

Like a sugar-cube

With the vow

Of sacred visions

In a jaded world

The past is dust

Let us create

For one another 

What we never 

Have before.


💫Amber Comber

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Thursday, July 21, 2022

A hue of orange that lulls you home

 Sometimes 

The sunset is a

Beautiful blur

Illuminated in your

Rearview mirror

And you know it’s not

The destination

But the one beside

You

That makes everything 

Clearer

The haze of the day

Slowly fades away

As you unfurl

Into this moment

Taking snapshots

In your mind 

Filling pages

With lines

Hoping

It will

Be enough 

To always 

Hold it.


💫Amber Comber

Thursday, June 23, 2022

180 Miles

White as bone 
Carried by sea foam 
Left like offerings 
In the sun 
Leaving me 
With fevered dreams 
That can never be 
Washed clean 
In this city 
Where the ocean 
Is far from home. 
💫Amber Comber
 #poetry #poetrycommunity #healing #sunrise #ocean #words #poem #northcarolina #clt