Peter Garrett

Peter Garrett Nov 2024

Goodbye

You had every right to leave
But not without saying
Goodbye

I needed some closure...

#right #leave #goodbye

Peter Garrett Nov 2024

Lebensbalance

Sometimes
Life feels like
Carrying a piano
While walking on
A tightrope

It's hard being strong without losing balance...

#life #piano #tightrope #balance

Peter Garrett Nov 2024

One

Wrap your legs around me
And let me fade into you
Until our souls
Become one

Such sweet embrace...

#legs #fade #soul #one

Peter Garrett Nov 2024

Writer's block

I'm afraid my words
Will forever rest on
This mediocrity pillow
And I shall never be
Worthy of the
Muse's kiss

A poem about writer's block is such a bad cliché... but my friend Mariya here at HP was just talking the other day about 'der Kuss der Muse', so I think it's appropriate to write about it.

#writer #block #words #mediocrity #inspiration #muse #kiss

Peter Garrett Nov 2024

Stay

You knew from
The very start how
Badly messed up I am
So you should've said no
You should've runaway
Yet I'm glad you didn't
I'm glad you chose
To stay

I can only hope that I haven't fooled you into it...

#messedup #runaway #stay

Peter Garrett Nov 2024

Bleed

I often think about
How he took you to
That filthy motel and
Made you bleed just
So that he wouldn't

One of my best friends got pregnant when she was a teenager. She was very scared, but wanted the child anyway. Yet her ******* boyfriend (the father) took her to a motel and made her do an abortion.
She never recovered and took her life within a year... no woman should be forced to do an abortion. Just as any woman should be forbidden to do one.

#bleed #abortion

Peter Garrett Oct 2024

Hell

I've given up religion
After every church said
There's a special place
For people like me
Just for trying to
Make my pain
Go away

My father beat me up pretty badly for as long as I can remember... when I was fifteen I said no more and gave him a little of what he deserved - and got kicked out of his house for it. That same week my first girlfriend dumped me.
It was just too much for a teen to handle without proper help and it seemed like that despair would stay forever. So I went to 3 different drug stores and bought every pain killer I could get my hands into... and took them all at once. I was so lucky my system rejected them and made me throw up.
So that's why I cut the cord from church... isn't God love? Isn't God forgiveness? Or am I doomed almost from the start?
I like to think not... I like to think that's no more than an earthly claim.

#religion #church #hell #pain #suicide