Thanks Tazz...the poems in this community are raw and true

Good going!

You don't wanna know
What's deep down there
There're screams filling dreams
Can't rid or share

Popping pill splashing face
To stand up today
Walls closing all around
Need to get away

In the town of Pygmalions
Pretty faces echo laughter
Words lost in buzzing murmurs
Toes wiggling in deep water

They say it doesn't matter
What you're stuck in all day long
A brave new world to count you in
How can anything go wrong?

It's a cool blue moonlit night
In the silver silhouette you may bask
Nothing concealed nothing known
I love this love in mask

Some of my favourites (still digging :) )

The Catcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger
English August: Upamanyu Chatterji
The Illicit Happiness of Other People: Manu Joseph
On Chesil Beach: Ian McEwan (of Atonement fame though I'm yet to try it)
To Build a Fire (short story): Jack London

Mornings and nights
Of hazy lights
Many eyes as wide as a crescent moon
My tide of thoughts
All lost across
Flashes of nothings all too soon

Where oh where to find you love
Nothing to break the ice
The dreams so blind with no colors
Tell me how to wake alive

(may be any of you could add on?)