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 Nov 2024 badwords
Airi Lightmoon
Reality can often be cruel
It can be unkind
As time speeds by in a blur,
I try to infer
What he means

“We won’t speak until you have remorse”
Remorse? For what?
For walking away as we screamed at each other?
For taking time to take the hard road like he often scolded me for not doing?
For what I did?

I had remorse for the betrayal and the backstabbing
So I changed.
I had remorse that I wasn’t doing well for myself
So I started working on those

Am I perfect?
No
I never will be
It’s plain to see
Only I am truly free
 Oct 2024 badwords
violet skies
to be...
something
an ache felt so deeply in my soul
I feel tethered to the yearning and desperation
a toxic dependence on the weight of the idea
that we must strive to be someone
with a career or vocation that implies the very essence of our character
that sums up our individual meaning
and is enough to simply state
who we are
what we do
all in one being
when really
in the end
you look at graves
and see words like
loving friend
dear sister
beloved daughter
and almost think that that is enough
in the end
to simply be a someone to someone special
and not what the world finds acceptable to label you as
who you are
what must you amount to
what you decide to be

in the end
being a someone
sounds more complex
than simply being
someone
to someone.
2023
 Oct 2024 badwords
Thomas W Case
I've been to the crushing
place.
It smells of death, and
spider mums.
Daisy chains dropped
when the music died.
The lake is murky now.
Clowns roam the street,
looking for carnivals
and meat.
Silly boys still believe
in love and dreams, and
girls that like opera and
giving head.
This world is strange, and
Picasso walks the lonely
avenues, feeding
seagulls' peanuts and paint.
No one blames him.
It's his blue period.
All the while,
an old bent man plays
the guitar.
He smells like camels,
and hope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur5pZxbd7hE
Link to my youtube channel where I read my poetry.
 Oct 2024 badwords
Thomas W Case
In my night
terror,
I hear the pounding
of
your wings, ripping and
tearing
at my feeble heart.
It's beating,
but
barely,
bomb-blasted by your
attack.
your love is like
a stroke;
like a bloated toad.
I'm road weary,
teary-eyed like a
sunflower.
And you scream in
the darkness like
a lamb.

I long to *** in
you.
I'm like dentures
chewed on by a stray dog;
teeth missing,
jagged like a
jack-o-lantern.

Damage control is
your best bet.
I let you way too
far in.
No turning back now.
I'm like a dumb
cow led to slaughter.

I'm miles away.
You're on a
different
island.
Here's a link to my you tube channel where I read this poem and others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur5pZxbd7hE
 Oct 2024 badwords
Airi Lightmoon
I woke up today and I thought "How can I cut my lover down?"
Reduce you to nothing, that was my goal.
I was so focused on cutting you to a nub and leaving my axe under the rug as I moved on to the next person to destroy.

I mean, who doesn't love a good betrayal?
I only did it to keep life interesting—
You know, spice things up, add a little thrill.
Your trust was just so boring, anyway.

And you? Oh, you’ll be just fine.
A little heartbreak never hurt anyone, right?
Consider it a gift from me—
A chance for you to grow, or whatever it is people say.

Putting you through so much pain was so fun!
You'll thank me one day, I mean, who else is going to teach you never to trust anyone ever again?
Such a valuable lesson...
A lesson etched deep among the scars along your arm

And don't worry about me, darling,
I'll keep on my merry way, bringing pain wherever I go
And laugh it off as the fires rose

Oh, the thrill of leaving ashes in my wake—
The shattered hearts, the twisted smiles,
It’s all just part of the game, after all.
Why settle for love when I could be a storm?

The Perfect Storm
 Oct 2024 badwords
Airi Lightmoon
You remember when you told me that if I kept believing if I was garbage, it would be true?
What about you? You teach me all these lessons yet you are an exception. just a constant stream of "Do as I say, not as I do"
Well, I'm done. I'm done fighting and gaining no ground, I'm done trying to prove to you that I'm different now just for you constantly throw my past in my face calling it "Holding me accountable"
I don't need YOU to hold me "accountable" I don't need you to tell me to fix my life while you trash yours over and over again.
I've made my mistakes and we've had our issues because I was just like you.
I hated myself for a long time, but I was awakened.
You carry the sadness of the world like Atlas without understanding the true moral of his story
Guess what?
Your constant trashing of yourself and constant pushing away became true. You'll blame me for everything going wrong like you do. Nice representation of holding yourself accountable...
I hope you are happy in your misery
Because you no longer have company, just like you wanted
 Oct 2024 badwords
Thomas W Case
In her deadly
blue eyes, I fall down the
rabbit hole.
Down
down
down I go.
I hit the
earth like a
mock turtle on its
back;
with a smack;
like a shot to the vein.
She travels through my
bloodstream with the
force of a mad tea party.
Her hair is dormouse soft.
I touch it, and feed
her tarts, as she
rides me like
a guillotine;
sharp and final,
with a purpose;
like a porpoise with a
fish hook in
its mouth.
I hold on tight
and never let go.
Because I can't scroll, this is a repost.  Here is a link to a short video on my you tube channel where I read this poem.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uQvAa0t6VDw
 Oct 2024 badwords
Thomas W Case
He wants to shake the moss off his back
and leave the tad-poles behind.
They remind him of his misspent youth
and wasted Spring.
The blackbird sings of blue skies,
far off lands,
and the bullfrog dreams of flying.
Here is a link to my youtube channel where I read my poetry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hP285EP-bo
 Sep 2024 badwords
Thomas W Case
I've lost everything I
owned more times than
I can count.
All I had left was
the clothes on my back.
In some ways, there was
a sense of relief.
What else could I lose?
That answer came hard
and fast like the night.
I could lose my health,
my sanity,
my friends,
my sense of peace
and love,
I could lose my
creativity and
the muse
She could end up at
the Deadwood, bellied-up
to the bar, tickling
some young English major.
I could lose a lot more
than I thought

Well, here I sit
in a three-bedroom
house that fell out
of the sky,
a few pieces of clothes,
some food,
coffee and cigarettes.
I have a blue and
orange cast on my
left leg.
I have the cast
because I fell and
broke my ankle
on a debauched
lonely winter
night.
I had surgery
ten days ago.
Now I have
more than I
bargained for, a plate and
screws galore,
and a nice healthy
****** addiction.
Here is a link to my you tube channel where I read my poetry and show my fishing videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hP285EP-bo
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