Hello everyone! So I received an envelope from Eber & Wein Publishing inviting me to submit a poem for their contest as I've done it for two years now. The only problem is I don't know which one to submit. This is where you guys come in! I'd like you to read the poems I've narrowed it down to and either tell me your favorite or rank them from favorite to least favorite.

Quarantine

i. Those nights when my tears would 

stain any and all pieces of fabric 
around me, I hated myself the most. I 
would fold into the arms of people I 
loved and hear their soothing words 
surround me, their sweet voices 
penetrating my ears through my sobs 
and hiccups.

ii. I refused to acknowledge how 
fictitious the voices were, how no 
warmth came to me despite being 
wrapped in supposedly tepid arms. 
Those who had always joined me in 
solitude were real in some universe. I 
only wished it was mine.

iii. When at last I woke up to the too-
quiet reality I had to face, my sobs 
reached their of hysteria. 
Though the thought of escaping into 
the worlds my friends came from did 
occur to me, the thought for once did 
not cheer me up. 

iv. Ultimately, I was alone, with only 
my thoughts to fill the void of 
uncertain unhappiness, and I was left 
worthless and alone, amidst a puddle 
of my own tears. Not a single 
welcoming embrace in sight.

Slaughterer

i.

Your words butcher my heart, 
clawing at it and ripping it open, 
though you never meant to hurt 
me.

ii.
I can feel the sting of the blade 
crashing desperately through my 
sternum, reaching hysterically for 
my most vital organ.

iii.
And my tears streak through the 
blood that has streamed onto my 
face as I remember the time when 
your touch was so kind, when you 
told me you’d never leave me.

All I can think now is that you lied.

Calamity

i. I longed to soar, breaking through clouds

as I danced through the skies. I wanted
to shift from galaxy to galaxy, pass
through all the heavens and walk in
Time’s shadow as you do.

ii. I aspired to experience the world
through your eyes, move as you move
and feel as you feel. I yenned to let go as
you do and observe while life goes on,
doing nothing but swaying in the breeze,
loose as a ghost when gods exhale their
chilled breath through the trees.

iii. I ached to be beside you, but all I got
were the tortured souls of those who
mourn for the dead and grieve for the
gone; and the priests who pray for the
lost they don’t care about, too drunk with
greed over the thought of afterlife to
notice that their words go unheard.

Outside Myself

I now find myself stretching in every which way,

trying to collect pieces of myself 
that were never really mine,
passing the time curled up in a ball composed of tears
and silence.

As the midnights pass, the shadows are my only friends:
whispers in the night that keep me company,
mournings and cries that ease their way to dawn.

And now say the soul dies with the body;
a strange entanglement which leaves me gasping for breath
until I lull to sleep in his arms, 
shushed by the low voice of Death.

I have now joined the shadows.

So those are the poems. Please read them and tell me your favorite ^^

Thank you lovelies!