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RueSE 20h
At His mercy
Reanimated to climb again
Pushing out your hip, languid reaches or your arms, curving your spine to exude grace you expect to accompany knowing repetition.
Art maker you have no art
Your pile of creations reach deeply for the core of this world.
You destroy yourself for the motions
The feeling of barely surviving
Brings you warmth
But why must the flame come from burning you?
...
Why are you timber for your own blaze?
Downward
Can you remember who you were,
Before the world told you who you are.

Before all the whispers turned to screams,
In your own mind.

Who were you?
Before everything changed you,
Before you “fixed yourself”

You’re mother will say
“Where did my darling go?
The one with the heart to big for her body,
The one whose purity was that of gold,
The one who’s justice was louder than doubt,
The one who had no doubt
The one who always loved,
The one who always forgave,
The one who bore like the sun.”

And you will be confused,
Because all you were,
Is what you are now.
Confused,
Broken,
Hurt,
And changed.

A hypocrite,
For you’ve always hated change.
For you’ve always hated hypocrites
K Dec 2024
A gift of emergency.
A harsh reminder of how stuck I am.
This feeling comes and goes.
Just like our relationship, for a moment you are proud.
Then an insult washes it down. Flushes it out of mind.
Suspicions rise of why you still try.
Why do I?
Even the flies on the wall know of the anger you possess.
Of the tight rope I walk, but I’m losing my footing.
You dislike the change in my being.
I speak and act a little too similar to you.
And you dislike it.
Hypocrite.
dec 3 2024
Hebert Logerie Nov 2024
Don’t smile with me if you don’t want to
Because I am not a mirror
Don’t be like a bluffer who gives me a black smile
In a strange, nervous and abnormal style
Because I am not a josher
Show me the genuine emotions of you
Give me something normal or natural
I am not asking for anything special
Just be yourself and I will appreciate it
Don’t give something unusual and vile
Flash me a normal, sweet and beautiful smile
Don’t give me a lot. I’ll be satisfied with a small bit
Because I want neither a black nor a blank smile
In a strange, white, hypocritical and unusual style
But smile, smile with me, if you mean it
And please don’t, if your smile does not fit.

Copyright © June 2020, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry.
Zed Jun 2023
What a web
Of clever widows.
The venom burns,
Acid lapped wounds,
Too early for the pain to subsist.
And of what I know,
She has yet to confess
And likely never remit.
Don't you worry for me.
I'm alive.

Words pour out of me
like the rivers of thrill
that gushed from deep within me
and rushed away in silent screaming,
in-between the glorious thighs
you missed out on.

Maybe I was only ever there
to prepare you for her.

Maybe I hung by a thread
so you don't hang your head.

Don't you feel sorry for me.
I survived.

With my heart in my hands
at the gates of a shrine
I swore to never forget how your face lit
when you said that I was
your favourite hypocrite.
spacewtchhh Aug 2022
Ironic as it seems:
I know someone unfaithful
longing for real love.
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