Gaia Octavia : Writing

Foreign Beast

Foreign Beast

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


With wild eyes as black as coal that seem to pierce my wounded soul Its downy coat beckons until its hackles rise like sharpened quills Fo..
Precarious Peace

Precarious Peace

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


For years I felt out of controldrawn deep within my own black holeI numbed myself with what I couldby curling in as I unrolledI walled away old memori..
Abyss

Abyss

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


At the edge of my abyss you turn around for one more kiss, scrambling as you fall and I - I've gone and left you high and dry but when it's time t..
In My Own

In My Own

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


There is a place I go that only I know where the world is far away, where the teary eye of the moon-lit sky drops its soothing rain ..
'Merica

'Merica

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


To those who say that racismonly lies in the past,I see you all hiding behindyour faulty blade of grassSo why all the frustration?'cause many don't un..
Later Much

Later Much

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


A drop to prove you even care about the times you were not there and one to show you have remorse for blowing me way off my course still one more ..
Beautiful Disaster

Beautiful Disaster

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


They say it's the journeyand not the destination, but what if the train's beenderailed at the station?Impatiently waitingto be me again-pawing through..
Catch and Release

Catch and Release

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


Notebooks filledwith words and thoughtspulled and forced upfrom my deepest seaMy pen, castinto raging currentsand the calm flowof swirling eddiesCatch..
The War Inside

The War Inside

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


How to live a life fulfilledto tear it down and then rebuildwhy must it elude me so?leaving me nowhere to goFilled with emptiness insidelessons learne..
A Murdered Life

A Murdered Life

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


Gone is the girlI used to knowreplaced by a fuseimpatient to blowBreathing through darknessto calm my distressprogrammed to fight,I must learn to supp..