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Rachel Upton Apr 2021
Foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog. Enraged, no longer seeing reason just the hurt that you have caused.
Eyes blur as unwanted tears break like a dam overrun.
I want to hit something I have before the door can attest to that. But I refuse to lose that much control I can't, not again.
With slipping fingers I somehow hold the anger back just enough.
walk away nails pressed deep in my palms. Just trying to flee, distance I know I need.
Your daggered words follow shredding even more of my heart.
The anger begs to be let go, pleads for me to fall down the rabbit hole.  
Exhausted the blankets greet my body and the pillow absorbs the sobs.
Anger has lost the fight because I simply can't muster up the will to move.
You are beneath me, who would want you if not me? You're so alone because nobody can stand you.
Your words echo through the silence over and over. The only escape is the dark dreamless sleep that envelops me.
Rachel Upton Sep 2018
Once a heart bound and tangled
Surrounding myself to ward off anyone who might of cared
A reminder of the pain if I ever tried to leave
these protective vines and thorns of steel
Afraid and timid, but lonely and wanting
you saw this and didn't run
thought that something could be done
that what was done could be undone
Saw that I'd lost hope
Lost hope in love and trust
lost hope and wouldn't free myself from my rusted prison
In making your way through my jumbled mess you became entangled
Entangled in these cruel wires of pain and protectiveness of mine
Once there I pushed and pulled away
only hurting us both
Wanting to love but finding it hard to do
We truly had a barbed wire love
Once giving in
I learned to trust
learned to believe in love
Easier the longer i tried
Learned to love and hold on to you
No longer pulling through these vines
No longer pushing you through
That prison now our home
Tho painful at first
We survived
Now happily entangled in our
Barbed wired love
A poem I found while packing my house to move. This is one I wrote in high school when I was just finding out what it was to love someone
Rachel Upton Jan 2020
If hurtful words were brands my whole body would be scarred with them.
Not a single part of my flesh would be clear.
But words arnt brands and you cant see the way they hurt.
Rachel Upton Apr 2018
Heart shredded by shattered fantasy
No longer bound by happy memories
The illusions no longer hide the truth
You were always selfish I just never knew
Blinded by my childlike love for you
Things I'm glad I never understood
cuz little girls shouldn't know what prison is
No one wanted to share the truth
Never knew the man you were
Just the mask you wore for me
All that love from memories gone
Saw the true man behind the mask
Through silence you said it all
As tears streamed down the face of the abandoned
What a coward you truly turned out to be
Rachel Upton Dec 2020
Not giving into the anger holding back the demons whispering in my mind..
definence.
Yell to be heard over you running over my my calm words..
Attention seeking *****.
Say I don't want to do this anymore leave me alone..
Running away like a *****.
Stop blaming me for everything your not a Saint..
Playing the victim.
Breaking dams rivers run in frustration..
Weak.
Give into the demons say those nasty things same as you..
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Say things based on past events..
Oh you know the future now?
It never changes how can I win?... leavings the only thing left.
Slipping off that band of gold and sparkle..
Done!
Rachel Upton Jul 2018
Everyday wake up with it
See it in the eyes that stare back at me
Feel it within burning away at my soul
Hate
Not for others but for the self
Those eyes the ones the mirror reflects
They show everything
All the pain the anger every little scar
Life snuffed out the light
So now it burns away a darkened soul
Hate
Soon it will consume me whole
Rachel Upton Jun 2019
Caught you twice before you caught me once
But we cant talk about that
You say you don't trust me well
That's fine I haven’t trusted you in years
You broke my heart and swept my feelings under the rug
Never allowed to talk about it
I didn't stop you from having a life
I didn’t confine you to one place with threats
But it’s OK for you to do that to me?
Lost two grandfathers in the last 4 years
Did I get to go home for their funerals?
No!
Get to see your family all the time
Don’t get me wrong I love them but its not the same
5 years and two deaths is way to long
you have kept me away
But that ends here
No more threats
No more violence
You want to be gone when I return
Go!
If thats how your acting I’m better off
Then maybe the past will get to rest where it belongs
In the past
Done nothing but walk on eggshells
Been a docile wife trying to give you the time
Time for what now I wonder
Still in the same place we were 4 years ago
You say I’m dead to you
Well then you shouldn’t stick around
Go!
Let me rest like the past
In peace without torture or pain
Rachel Upton Apr 2018
Shaky broken breaths ripped from the lungs
Soft sobs smothered by feathers and fabric
It can't be heard but the pain is overwhelming
As another piece of her heart crumbles
Lonely
The only soul in a queen size bed
Reaching out for someone but getting sheets instead
Tossing and turning trying to find comfort in dreams
But finding herself staring at the ceiling instead
So very lonely
Left broken by a love she thought was real
Left shattered by words that burn
Found comfort in arms from the past
A few moments of healing love
But out of those moments left feeling less than who she is
Lonely
Tired of this feeling
Tired of holding in words that burn her heart
She is tired but must stay quiet
Must keep the love for one and the hate for another secret
Must learn to be lonely
Must learn to live with the secrets of her heart
Lonely
Rachel Upton Aug 2020
The sky like me feels this pain
Letting the heavens rain,
Letting it pour
Light and gentle at first it falls,
Dew drops falling from a rose
Faster it falls soaking me through
Rain wash over me
Wash out this heavy heart
With healing waters repair these wounds, just leave scars
Rain wash over me
Clear the vision of these blurry eyes,
Wash away the tears
Take away this ache in me,
This piercing of my heart
Rain wash over me
Light and gentle at first it fall,
Dew drops falling from a rose
Rachel Upton Oct 2020
Her voice like an echo the tolling of a bell ringing over and over. Every flaw and doubtful moment she drones on about. She echos your words alot but locked away behind my eyes you don't see the torture that comes from within. Most days I keep her quiet I can find something to bring a smile but when times are quiet or if times are hard she flares up to bounce the same words you throw at me tell I feel near nothing anymore my only wish to be gone. No more pain and torture from life no more rotting from the inside out. Then like a blanket covering me i pass into dreamlessness nothing but darkness as I shut down.
Rachel Upton Apr 2021
Bruises cover your face and mask your eyes tears spill over broken skin.
No words escape your mouth you just shake and I watch.
Tenderly I try to wipe away the mess but the pains to great and I watch you fall apart.
With one swift move see everything come crashing to the ground  See the broken woman lying on the floor.
Not so beautiful and strong now.
Pull your hair back and slip off the robe to reveal every bruise.
Every wonder woman gets hurt only so much you can take.
Hating you for the mistakes you made. Judging you on your worst day.
No sympathy as I watch you put your shattered thoughts in place. Run my hands over every purple pink bloom despite the pain.  
Push that blade into your palm. No life is worth this.
See you press it against those old scars. A drop of crimson forms and time stops. In the beat of your heart it'll be done. Catching eyes with me you just stare...The blade drops
I was just your reflection staring back at you.
Nothing I could do no words I could speak after all they aren't my own only yours.
Watching you through identical eyes. Being the only one to see every scar every tear you spilled to see the damage no one cared to see.
Lost in the lonely your life became. I wish I could have reached through and saved you but I was just the woman in the mirror.

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