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It wasn’t the two of us at the start.
Day turned to night,
and suddenly we couldn’t part.
From one of the many faces,
To one I could pick out from the crowd.
We weren’t sure of ourselves before,
But one thing’s for sure now.
We’re caught in the torrent —
We found ourselves headed to the deep end.
to those who’ve given it a chance
and the fruition of that given chance
Lizzie Bevis Nov 2024
There is a Kojack  
holding a Kodak  
down Ferry Lane.
Smile for the camera!

The driver tries with their all,  
to brake but their bravado falls.
The camera flash initiates
detaining a parade of number plates,
in a spectacle of haste,  
each capturing a moment
of transient taste.

Their reward -
a pricey speeding fine
as they cross the finish line.

©️Lizzie Bevis
Jeremy Betts Sep 2024
I mess up a lot
For example;
I got off the ***
And then I ****t
Believe it or not
But that was after this thought,
"I don't have a shot
At the life I want
The break I need
Will never be caught
It must be written into the plot
So wether I like it or not
This is my spot"
And that matches up
With what I've been told
And what I was taught
You get what you get
I got what I got

©2024
UH OH!!
you were
TAKEN BY SUPRISE.
We can't BELIEVE
our EARS,
or WHAT we
just seen with
our own EYES.
We know WHAT
they SAID, and
WE know
what we HEARD.
YOU were
CAUGHT WITH
YOUR PANTS DOWN,
and we didn't
hear this from
NO LITTLE BIRD.
You were
CAUGHT WITH
YOUR PANTS DOWN,
don't try to DUCK AND HIDE,
We know ALL about you so,
don't act ALL SUPRISED!!
WE KNOW ALL OF YOUR SECRETS,
Your BUSINESS is
OUT THERE NOW!!
SO, DON'T TRY TO COVER UP,
Just stand there,
and TAKE A BOW!!
Your PERSONAL BUSINESS is
like a BIG SHOW!!!
You are known
ALL AROUND, and
everywhere YOU GO!!!
People be KNOWING
WHO YOU ARE!!
your PERSONAL BUSINESS
just made you
a  🌟BIG STAR!!!🌟
You are SO BIG,
Like in ENTERTAINMENT,
POPPERAZZI is
CHASING YOU,
Even your HOME is
NO CONTAINMENT!!!
Its like YOU'RE in the
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY,
You are no longer a MYSTERY,
IT'S BEEN SOLVED,
your LIFE is DISSOLVED.
ALL BECAUSE YOU WERE
CAUGHT WITH YOUR PANTS DOWN!!!


B.R.
Date: 07/9/2023
Jeremy Betts Aug 2024
More times than not,
The hero in me
Trips over the zero in me
I get caught,
Tangled up in the calamity
Of this often-overlooked emergency
A played-out plot,
So there's no urgency
I already know the worst in me
I don't pick my spot,
Never holding back what I let people see
Keeping me under wraps was getting especially tricky
I don't know what I wanted, or what I thought
But this is what I got,
Me,
My own worst enemy

©2024
Jeremy Betts May 2024
I've fought a lot to get it out, tried to keep it out, but I can not
I scream and shout,
"WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?"
Even post realization that it's all for nought
Had an ill advised, never properly revised, recurring thought
Form an in home gym enterprise to exercise demons on the spot
More issues to stack like russian dolls is all I ever got
Caught each slow kiiller by keepin' it in house to follow the origin plot
Scrip changes happen often regardless of what me, myself or I want
Zero red yarn supplied, can't attempt a connection with any new dot
I play my part in my story as the man forgiveness forgot
Both what I keep in and what spills out identified as the source of the rot

©2024
Nyx Apr 2024
I run.

I always seem to run away.

I felt the urge rise up again,

I ******* my sneakers,

Started to stretch,

As I walked to the starting line, I realised.

This time, I want to be caught.
I always panic and run away when things begin to get too real, but this time it’s different.
Jeremy Betts Apr 2024
Depths of despair
Hang thick in the air
Almost daring me to care
And step into it's crosshair
Not realizing I'm aware
I've lived that nightmare
Been caught up in that snare
Somehow pushed past the warfare
Came through worse for wear
But it no longer has power
Over someone who can't care
Forcing it to find it's next victim elsewhere

©2024
A M Ryder Apr 2024
You scramble amid
The shattered
Jagged facets
Of yourself
A circus show
Of a hollow soul

Dreamshards
Timepieces
You caught a
Falling star
In a dead field
And it twisted
Life-like
In your grip
Josie Mar 2024
I've been caught
In a spider's web
Guilty as charged
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